1) Won't wear a flag pin because he doesn't want to be seen as 'choosing sides'. If you want to lead America, shouldn't you be on OUR side? Just a thought . . .

 2) 95% of Americans will get a tax cut. 40% don't pay taxes to begin with, yet they're going to get a check. Socrates said (essentially, not verbatim) Democracy fails when the people realize that they can vote more money for themselves. Hell, if you're not paying taxes and someone offers you a check, why wouldn't you vote for them?

 3) The moving scale 'those under 250,000 get a tax cut', 'those under 200,000', 'those under 150,000', and most recently, 'those under 120,000'. Since when is it the governments responsibility to decide how much you can earn before you're penalized? People stop taking risks when you take away the reward. Without risk-takers, innovation grinds to a halt, job growth ceases, and we all lose. If you penalize people for making more, they'll stop striving for excellence.

Afterall, if I can make 119,000 and bring home 83,000 why should I bust my butt to make the extra 1,000 and bring home 72,000?

 4) Raise the minimum wage to 9.50. If 9.50 is good, 109.50 is even better, right? The notion that people have no choice but to support their families on minimum wage jobs is ludicrous. Most of those jobs are entry level fast-food, wal-mart type jobs. BTW - who do you think buys the goods and services provided by these entry level jobs? We ALL do. Now the cost of everything has to rise to keep up with the additional wage expenses. So, you get paid more (but be careful you don't get paid too much, remember the taxes!) but the cost of everything you buy is now higher! How is that a win?

 5) We'll raise the corporate tax rate. Idiot. Business do NOT pay taxes. The people who buy the goods and services from the business pay the taxes. It ends up included in the price. Businesses MUST make a profit. Anybody who thinks profit is a bad word, pay close attention to my next sentence. Unprofitable businesses go OUT of business that means people lose jobs.

 6) I'm going to bankrupt the coal companies. Clean coal currently provides a significant portion of the energy our country uses. A President who's goal is to 'bankrupt' any industry is unqualified to lead. What will happen to the coal workers in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other parts of the country? That's ok, they can use there coal mining expertise to . . . uh, to . . . uh, any help here?

 7) The Employee Free Choice Act. This bill would eliminate the SECRET ballot for Union voting. No big deal if you already are in a union or run a union business. Huge deal if you're a small business owner with any employees. What kind of pressure do you think will be brought to bear on anyone who votes against union membership? What then would happen to the small businesses, struggling to compete, who are faced with the massive restrictions unions place on growth? What about companies like Honda who build cars here in America free from union influence, and do it well? I'll tell you what happens, you go out of business or move your operations to a more friendly country. More job losses.

 8) Supporter of partial birth abortion and infanticide of those who survive abortion. If you haven't read about the practice of partial-birth abortion, I'm not going to sicken you with it here.

Anybody who understands this practice would be appalled that it's legal. Even worse is his support of killing any babies that survive an abortion. If we can agree to the slaughter of the most innocent of us humans, than who's next?

 I'm not even going to get into his questionable associations or his foreign policy, other than to say that the company you keep matters.

It speaks to your character and your ideals. And don't give me the race crap you sometimes hear. It's not the color of his skin, it's the content of his character that most are judging him by.