Why Senator Obama is the best candidate for Korean Americans:1. IMMIGRATION REFORM -- Obama supports immigration reform that will reduce immigration application fees, increase the speed of background checks, and emphasize keeping immigrant families together.
2. ECONOMY and SMALL BUSINESSES -- Obama will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families and eliminate all capital gains taxes on start-up and small businesses to encourage innovation and job creation.
3. SENIOR CITIZENS -- Obama will eliminate income taxes for all seniors making less than $50,000.
4. EDUCATION -- Obama supports giving a tax credit so that the first $4,000 of a college education is free for most Americans. He has also supported the DREAM Act, which would allow high-achieving high school students who are long-term undocumented immigrants, and who wish to serve in the armed forces or attend college, to be able to gain legal status.
5. FAITH -- Obama possesses a strong Christian faith and delivered in June 2006 what Washington Post writer E.J. Dionne called the most important speech on faith and politics in the last 40 years.
6. KOREAN PENINSULA -- Obama is committed to engaging aggressively with North Korea to eliminate verifiably its nuclear weapons program. He also supports establishing a permanent security framework in Northeast Asia that will go beyond the 6-party talks.
7. HONORARY ASIAN AMERICAN -- Obama intuitively understands the cultural values of Asian Americans. He spent four early years in Indonesia, grew up in the majority Asian state of Hawaii, his sister Maya is Indonesian American, his brother-in-law is Chinese Canadian, and when Obama is elected, it will represent the first time that Asian Americans are a part of the White House family. At the Juy 29, 2008 fundraiser in Washington DC at the Mayflower Hotel, Senator Obama proclaimed himself an "honorary AAPI member".
8. SUPPORT OF KOREAN AMERICAN LEADERS -- Many Korean American leaders have endorsed Obama, including civil rights activist and attorney Angela Oh, Boston City Councilor Sam Yoon, Edison NJ Mayor Jun Choi, SF Board of Education Commissioner Jane Kim, and Susan Ahn Cuddy, the daughter of Korean independence fighter Dosan Ahn Chang Ho and the first female gunnery officer in the U.S. Navy.
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