<p>“And why do people so confidently degrade Obama just because of people he is associated with? First of all, it’s an ad hominem fallacy. The election should be about the issues, the direction America is headed in. We are basically hiring a President – and since when do employers care more about the associations/race of the person over his/her abilities and solutions? Just give me someone who can get the job done properly, and I won’t care if he/she is Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, black, white, asian, whatever.
Secondly, it’s naive to assume that people merely connected to Obama have control over his character.”</p>
<p>I think I love you.</p>
<p>I personally don’t understand why, in recent elections, supporting one candidate means you have to hate the other’s guts. Elections in this country are no longer about the issues. They’ve become personality contests.</p>
<p>Honestly, think about some of the “issues” that have been raised. Obama is continually accused of being an elitist… by the Wellesley-educated Hillary Clinton. Right. I think anyone running for president has to be elitist to some degree – you have to think you’re better than everyone else if you want to govern everyone else, you know what I mean?</p>
<p>And what’s this obsession with electing people who you’d like to “have a beer with” or who would “fit in at an Applebee’s salad bar”? We’re not electing our best friend. We’re electing someone who should be capable of running this country. Beer and Applebee’s should have nothing to do with it.</p>