*/Dear Mr.Obama,/*
>   
> *It is **August 30, 2008**.  My name is Mark Gregg.  I am a 50 something
> conservative white male.  I have followed your campaign closely,
> including the speeches you and others made at the democratic national
> convention.  I am respectfully providing you with seven simple (probably
> shallow) reasons why I could never vote for you.  I believe my opinion
> is shared by many people.  While there may not be quite enough to
> prevent you from becoming president of this nation, I do think there is
> an awakening to the fact that you are not a (the) messiah that the media
> and liberal Hollywood entertainers are trying to portray you. *
>
> *1. I hear your mantra of change, change, change.  Yet, you picked a
> long term, liberal, **Washington insider** (Joe Biden) to be your
> running mate.  This is NOT change.  It is a move that hypocritically
> refutes the very thing you supposedly stand for.  Your campaign then
> slammed McCain for picking Sarah Palin, apparently, because she is NOT
> a **Washington** insider.  She is a maverick who cleaned-up **Alaska**'s
> quagmire of political scandals.  Which way is it, Barack?  Is it okay
> for you to pick a Washington**** insider under the mantra of 'change',
> but not okay for John McCain to pick a smart, aggressive, reformer? *
> *   *
> *2. You have the single most liberal voting record in the senate.  This
> indicates to me and others like me that you may very well be an angry
> black man seeking to punish our country for sins of a different
> generation.  I am not racist. I have some biases just like you and every
> other human alive.  Unlike the democrat party who claims to be for the
> minority (but their record heavily refutes this), I will give any person
> who truly needs help, help.  I married a 'minority' girl 35 years ago
> (she is Hispanic) and have seen the evils of prejudice first hand. 
> However, I have also seen my wife and my children and others in her
> family throw off the veil of self imposed prejudicial bondage and move
> ahead.  They love our country and do not view themselves any different
> than I view myself as a citizen of this country. Your lovely wife so
> disappointed people like me during this campaign when she stated it was
> the first time she had ever been proud of this country.  She apparently
> never noticed the massive aid we give dozens of other countries.  She
> apparently never noticed the sacrifice of literally millions of veterans
> who helped make this country a free nation and helped liberate other
> nations from brutal dictators such as Adolf Hitler.  She apparently does
> not remember that she attended ivy league universities with scholarship
> money that ultimately (at least some of it) was paid for by our taxes. 
> This troubles me more than you know.  She is an angry black woman who
> appears to not like her country very much.  I don't want her
> representing me to the rest of the world. *
> *     *
> *3. You claim Christianity but apparently do not realize that the Bible
> teaches that he who does not work, does not eat.  The Bible does not say
> or even suggest that he who CANNOT work, should not eat.  Yet, your
> liberal policies reward people who are capable of working, but choose to
> not do so.  This bothers me. I know that if you are elected our taxes
> will spiral upwards.  You should heed the words of Winston Churchill: 
> 'We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
> like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
> handle.'  If I like anything about you, it is your campaign promise to
> balance the federal budget.  Unfortunately, we have heard this a huge
> number of times from a number of different politicians and we realize
> that when you energize the very liberal Nancy Pelosi, Robert Byrd, Ted
> Kennedy, etc, etc, and the many other democrats like them, a balanced
> budget will never, ever happen on your watch. 
>    *
> *4. During your question and answer session with Rick Warren of
> Saddleback Church your answer concerning the question of where does life
> begin, stunned me:  'Above your pay grade?'  Does this mean when
> something bad happens as President of this nation that you are going to
> look at your salary to determine if you can respond?  I am sorry, but
> this was the most serious gaffe I have seen you make.  Frankly, it shows
> me that you are pandering in the most obvious manner.  You will choose
> your words not from your heart, but from an agenda that I believe is
> still hidden from the American people. *
> *   *
> *5. If anything stands out about you it is probably your appeasement
> mentality.  In this era of rampant, radical Islamic extremism and with
> the latest stunt pulled by the re-energized Russian government, I am not
> sure appeasement is healthy.  I again revert to the words of Winston
> Churchill:  'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will
> eat him last.' *
> *   *
> *6. You and your party tacitly believe that a 13 or 14 year old girl
> must have the parents approval to have the school nurse provide them
> with a Tylenol when they have a headache at school.  Yet, this same girl
> can become pregnant and the school can skirt her off to a clinic and
> abort the child in her body without the parents knowing or being
> notified.  This scares the h--- out of me.  You have two little girls. 
> Would you be upset if this happened to them and you were not informed? 
> Then why do you stand for this?  It makes no sense to me. *
> *   *
> *7. My seventh and final point (for now) is your supporters.  I have
> watched the **Hollywood entertainers** that support you, systematically
> embrace Hugo Chavez of **Venezuela** and others like him.  I see the
> continuous smut and garbage produced by **Hollywood**, the very people
> who promote you the most vigorously.  It is not a positive point to me
> and others like me to see these over-paid, bizarre, poor examples of
> human existence fawn over you and push you and your liberal agenda as
> hard as they do. The way I see it. When the devil is for you, we should
> question whether or not we should be against you.  *
> *   *
> *In closing, I just want you to know that you scare me.  I cannot vote
> for you.  It is not because of your skin color.  It is because these
> items I've listed and many, many others like them.  Do not claim that my
> dislike for you is race based.  It is because I do not feel you have the
> best interests of this nation at heart. *
> *   *
> *Respectfully, *
> *   *
> *   *
> *Mark A. Gregg*