Obama Lost My Vote - The Undecided Voter Project (sitios de interés)
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I become a citizen of the United States only last month, and will vote for first time this year. I have followed American politics and this presidential race closely.
During the primaries I was a supporter of Mr. Obama, and thought I would support him in the general elections. That is no longer the case.
I definitely ruled out voting for Mr. McCain; his domestic policies, hegemonic-type foreign policy intentions, temperament, and pandering to the intolerant fringes of the conservatives are among the reasons.
However, the racism and bigotry coming out of both campaigns against Arabs and Muslims is the reason I will not be voting for either. Many McCain supporters have used the words "Arab" and "Muslim" as some sort of dirty words to smear Obama, while it is granted he is neither, his response was off-putting. He denied the accusation like it was a dirty word, further playing into the bigoted sentiment that an Arab or a Muslim is unqualified to be a president, untrustworthy, or un-American. His behavior brought to memory the fact that his campaign did not allow two Hijab-wearing women to stand in the background during a speech he gave in Michigan during the primaries, among other incidents in which he distanced him self from anything "Arab" or "Muslim".
Until Mr. Obama comes out forcefully against such bigotry, I am planning to write-in McKinney or Nader on my Pennsylvania ballot.
Fayyad Sbaihat
Pittsburgh, PA
During the primaries I was a supporter of Mr. Obama, and thought I would support him in the general elections. That is no longer the case.
I definitely ruled out voting for Mr. McCain; his domestic policies, hegemonic-type foreign policy intentions, temperament, and pandering to the intolerant fringes of the conservatives are among the reasons.
However, the racism and bigotry coming out of both campaigns against Arabs and Muslims is the reason I will not be voting for either. Many McCain supporters have used the words "Arab" and "Muslim" as some sort of dirty words to smear Obama, while it is granted he is neither, his response was off-putting. He denied the accusation like it was a dirty word, further playing into the bigoted sentiment that an Arab or a Muslim is unqualified to be a president, untrustworthy, or un-American. His behavior brought to memory the fact that his campaign did not allow two Hijab-wearing women to stand in the background during a speech he gave in Michigan during the primaries, among other incidents in which he distanced him self from anything "Arab" or "Muslim".
Until Mr. Obama comes out forcefully against such bigotry, I am planning to write-in McKinney or Nader on my Pennsylvania ballot.
Fayyad Sbaihat
Pittsburgh, PA