Why do so many people fear an Obama presidency?

Because those are McCain supporters, not McCain himself.

Just like Jesus can't control that his church is crazy.

He got sick of people saying he was a terrorist. I remember him correcting someone who asked about him being a terrorist and was very proud that John corrected her. I'm still voting Obama, but both candidates are good people.

Good question!

John McCain and other decent Republicans are against a presidency of Obama and his ideas. That's their right and this competition is the essence of democracy.

However, there is a great number of people in the U.S. who don't accept this basic rule. These people are actually not Republicans or McCain supporters. They are just anti-Obama. The problem of that position is that being anti-Obama is not a program. This is not politics and it has nothing to do with democracy.

These particular people are against Obama because he's an African American. They don't even understand what he's talking about. As said, I'm not talking about the real supporters of McCain who think that he would be a better president. I accept such an opinion although I don't agree with it. However, this unseen hostility has its grounds in racism and nothing else.

I think for some that fear is genuine, and based on the soundbites that the Republican party spews out.... he's a terrorist friend, a radical faith guy, a PLO buddy, hates the US, a socialist.

I think a lot of people have this 10 second attentionspan so they only take in the short headlines without really getting into the whole story.. its the scare tactics used by party officials that 'normal' people see as yet another 'blown out of proportion' campaign tool but some actually believe its true.

In my opinion it's one of two reasons, they are either purposely trying to scare people into not voting for Obama, or they are people that actually believe he is a muslim terrorists because they listen to liers. Mccain is a much more open, caring and smarter man than George Bush and even though I would never vote Republican I will never understand why Republicans didn't make John their man in 2000. W. is the worst president we have ever had, EVER.

It's just like all of Nixon's campaigns. It didn't matter that none of his opponents were actually communists, but the suggestion that they might have been worked like a charm to get him elected.

I think some people believe it, but they were already more open to the ideas because they're hard-line republicans looking for a reason to be against Obama.

If you want to sound cool at cocktail parties, you can refer to it as "swiftboating," a reference to the smear campaign against Kerry last election. It annoys me how quickly SOME republicans skip over the issues and start using "arguments" like "his middle name is 'hussien,'" or, "he associates with terrorists;" little sound-byte smears.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that this annoys.

Cheers.

Senator McCain may have said some things to indicate no fearing of Obama, but then they turn around and have advertisement (with John McCain's approval) trying to make people think that Obama is linked to shady people. Palin is out there every day saying very little about herself and her abuse of power and abuse of taxpayer dollars to take her children on fancy trips with her, but spends most of her time trying to instill hatred and poisonous false ideas about our next President. They have nothing to say except to say bad false things about Obama, when they should be looking at their own faults and what they can do for this country instead of tearing it apart with hatred and poisonous things.

to answer your question, McCain supporters are still spreading

fear, uncertainty, and doubt propaganda due to desperation.

his supporters know he is behind in the race and if things

stay the way they are McCain is likely to loose.

i feel the fear is not genuine and it is a vote-grabbing device.

Because they don't listen to McCain. They only listen to Fox News. And only what they are programmed to believe today. Who remembers how Fox News was trashing McCain during the Primaries? Nary a Republican remembers. Today's lie and smear is the only important lie and smear.

McCain made that statement because if he came down hard in the beginning of his campaign with ACORN, his radical associations, his values and morals, then it would have come across as racism.

I won't vote for obama, not because he is black, but 1.based on his lack of experience (143 days in the Senate where he voted "present" most of the time and where he was late to numerous meetings in the senate), 2. His economic plan will send us deeper into a recession or possibly a depression., 3. his ideas and views that are leading us to a socialist government, 4. His radical associations here and abroad, 5. the lies and frauds that are swirling around his campaign, 6. his radical "reform" ideas that he and Ayers want to implement here in the US....google Ayers and the education forum that he attended in Nov. 2006 in Venezuela. He agrees with Chavez's ideas on education, 7. The way that he attacked Joe the Plumber for asking a great question as to how obama's ta plan will affect him..Joe is persuing a suit against the campaign because what they did was illegal...you just can't have someone investigate. 8. His association with Ayers, "the guy just in my neighborhood," with the Annenberg Challenge 9. his stance on abortion, 10. He says that he is Christian, but he truly is a muslim....a quote from his book, Audacity of Hope, "I will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." 11. His income amount keeps going up and down like a child on a slide..all along it was $250,000, then Biden this past weekend said that it was $150,000, then last night during his boring infomercial he mentioned $200,000. 12. last night he mentioned how close he was to his mother and how proud of her he was so I will leave you with a quote from his book, From Dreams of My Father, "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

He is full of lies and deceipts...do your research.

The fear stands with what his past is like. If anyone read his book, I don't think this race would be this close or one-sided.

The biggest fear is his ideological belief in redistribution of money and his stances on an Anti-Isreal philosophy. I'm sure most of the fear is unwarrented but one must wonder if a person said these things in the past, does that person still believe in what he once stood for?

This is a capitalistic nation and liberals, like himself, seem not to understand what that means.

Finally, in 1933 there was a man who wrote a book detailing his beliefs and no one read it. The people who did made notice but were not believed because they seemed they were bringing fear. That man believed to redistribute wealth. That man believed that men of Jewish descent were unethical. That man hung out with terrorist and radical religious men. If people only listened to his speeches and stopped him before he got into power. I'm not saying he is at the level of Hitler but think about it, why does he hide his past and medical records? Why has he made numerous mistakes about his religion?

I hate playing on the fear card but what if a trace of this is true? What then?