I voted for Barack Obama. His commitment to transparency and willingness to reach across the aisle appealed to me. I viewed him as a pragmatist, not an ideologue. I loved the way his candidacy energized minorities. My grandson, who is half black and half Asian, proudly planted an Obama sign in his front yard. On a cold January day, he attended Obama's inauguration.Unfortunately, Barack the candidate and Barack the President are two different things. He rammed Obamacare down the throats of an unwilling American public. While sparring over that issue, he and Congress have both allowed our economy to deteriorate to its worst state since the Great Depression.
And don't get me started on Israel. Obama has managed to alienate our closest ally.
I'd vote for someone else, but Mitt Romney is an embarrassment. Not just as a GOP candidate, but as an American. His attempt to politicize the tragic murder of America's Ambassador to Libya tells me all I need to know about him. There comes a point when we should stop being Democrats or Republicans and start being Americans.
This is certainly no ringing endorsement of Obama or his policies. But Romney? In a country of 300 million people, is this the best we can do? If anything, this Hobson's choice tells me something is seriously wrong with our Presidential election process.
Updated 11 AM: Non-partisan FactCheck.Org makes clear that Romney's foreign policy criticisms are factually flawed. In addition to being unnecessarily divisive, he also happens to be just plain wrong.
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