Regret: I Voted for Obama
BOO HOO, I VOTED FOR OBAMA
An Independent laments: Why I Regret Voting For President Obama.
In her regret-filled missive about why she chose to cast her ballot for Obama, Jill Dorson explains that one deciding factor was the naming of Sarah Palin to run alongside of John McCain.
But as soon as Palin climbed out of her igloo and onto the national scene, well, there was no turning back for me.
You see, I felt my choice was to risk McCain dropping dead and letting the world’s most well-known hockey mom run this country, or to believe that Obama would surround himself with educated people and that he was smart enough to take their advice.
I was right. He is smart enough to seek counsel. I’m just outraged at the counsel he’s seeking these days.
Ms. Dorson has discovered a few political facts of life, one of which is that political leaders will surround themselves with people who think as they do.
One huge fact that Dorson overlooks in her boo-hoo piece: that character and beliefs count for something. Does Dorson believe that Palin would have surrounded herself with the same types of people that Obama did? Of course not: she was more moved by the fact that Palin was a “hockey mom” coming from out of an “igloo”.
Which explains how Obama and his lapdog media cheerleaders were so easily able to persuade Dorson and her compatriots that Obama, who had much less experience at anything, was to be favored over Palin, who had experiences that Dorson couldn’t relate to–regardless of whether they were relevant or not.
Ms. Dorson got the president she deserved.
The unfortunate part is: so did the rest of us.
NOTE: There will be many more of these type of pieces. We’re still waiting for Kathleen Parker and Christopher Buckley to send in their regrets. Chris Brundage has already seen the light.
Doug Ross started keeping track of people who sent their photo regrets on their Obama vote early in 2009.
UPDATE:
Don Surber’s take: Jill Dorson joins Obamaniacs Anonymous.
Dorson is listed as “a freelance writer and small business owner who lives in a blue state but is surrounded by a family of reds.”
Sarah Palin pushed her into Obama’s camp, she said, writing: “But as soon as Palin climbed out of her igloo and onto the national scene, well, there was no turning back for me.”
So we’re not talking about a deep political thinker. Most people aren’t and I respect that. The vast majority of people are citizen-soldiers in the political wars, reporting for duty a month before an election and after the election, reporting once a month to watch a State of the Union address or summit meeting.
When they pay a lot of attention, the country is in trouble.
That is what those Tea Parties and town hall meetings represented.
Count on more people paying closer attention in 2010 and 2011 and 2012–when not only the country, but Obama will be in trouble.
The article is a side-stepped hit-piece on Mrs. Palin.
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Mondo Reply:
January 24th, 2010 at 19:13
I agree.
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stay away from left right paradeigns
the republstupids and the democrappers are not the answer
they use the same jargon to mislead and mis with peoples head
ms palin i would not vote for and not for satan mccain or this commie nazie obama they are so misleading the people i am a republican but i will not vote for the party or the maligingering garbage
for which the constitutional party only these days
the only true colored man i would have voted for if he was alive and that would be martin luther king he was more intelligent then this bozo the clown obama who is nothing but a uncle tom or tomahawk just llke mccaine
so wake up stop the diatribe so screwing with peoples minds
the answer is the constitutional party and not glenn puke i dispise that creature he another token for his massah rupert murdock got that
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Mondo Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 20:19
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the satiric from the sincere.
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I’m not sorry for voting for Obama and I’ll tell you why: McCain was not going to be any better than Bush, and knowing full well that Obama was going to take us down a path just as bad, I frankly preferred to see a black man get the blame for once rather than another white man. I’m sick of whites being blamed for everything, so go one, take your black and jewish administration and show us what you can do. Then we’ll talk about blame.
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Mondo Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 23:14
Incompetence knows no gender or racial boundaries.
By the way: what’s with the attribution to race in this post? I don’t think of Obama as anything but a big-government Progressive. The same as I didn’t think of Bush as anything but a big-government faux-conservative poser–although I did agree with most–not all– of his thrust in foreign policy.
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