As I said a few days ago, the upcoming presidential election is the most important in decades. After eight years that began with a stolen election and got worse from there, we are being asked to make a choice between a war-hero, long-time alleged "maverick" Republican and a new to the scene, charismatic Democrat.
John McCain claims to be a "maverick", but voted with his president 90% of the time. He claims to be a reformer, but wants to continue the Bush administration's war and tax policies. He claims to know how to run America, but then picked as his running mate Sarah Palin, AKA "Caribou Barbie", a relatively unknown, scandal-plagued Governor of the only state in the Union that gives oil money to its' residents. The "Oil Dividend" came to just over $3,200 to every man, woman and child in Alaska in 2008.
Barack Obama is the most charismatic figure in American politics since JFK. Like Kennedy, he backs up his image with one of the sharpest minds in the arena today. He wants us out of Iraq as quickly as is safe and to focus on the REAL target of Afghanistan and Pakistan to dig bin-Laden out of his hiding place. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would be allowed to expire and tax relief would be focused on the lower tax brackets in an Obama administration. To fill in the gap in his foreign-policy experience, Obama selected Joe Biden (Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) to be his VP candidate.
As the campaign has progressed, the "maverick" has proposed plans that sound more and more like the Republican party line and has tried to use that party's "slime and sleaze" tactics of attack ads, character assassination and distraction with petty sniping over discussion of the real issues. The "celebrity" has been hammering home the problems facing our country, his plans to fix them and pointing out the other party's lack of ideas that will help anyone other than corporate America and the very wealthy.
Folks, if the last eight years have taught us nothing else, it has taught us that the office of President of the United States is far too important to fill with a "fishin' buddy". It should go to the brightest bulb on the string, the sharpest knife in the drawer and the one with ALL the sandwiches for the picnic. Please cast your vote for the candidate BEST able to lead this country out of the mess it has gotten itself into. Vote for Barack Obama.
I fear for this nation's survival if we don't.
5 comments:
BS Obama voted 97% of the time with the democrat majority. The same congress that has brought us to a 13% approval rating.
I am no McCain fan, but Obama is not an option! I want no part of "spreading the wealth" taxes that he is proposing.
As your profile states, being a CEO and all, you are one of the folks affected most by the rollback of the Bush tax cuts. That makes your opinion understandable. As a former hourly employee that was laid off because my job was moved out-of-state so the company I spent 17 years with could save a buck (I couldn't relocate because I'm upside-down in a mortgage), I disagree. Please tell me what it is about 100 years in Iraq, massive deficits and having your healthcare TAXED that is so appealing to you...
One more thing, a closer look at Congressional approval ratings show that most folks are cheesed at Congress becase they can't get anything through the minority in the Senate... Who's the minority there? Oh, yeah... Mr. McCain's party.
Mark Ford,
I have a suggestion, [b]THROW ALL THE BUMS OUT... I CHOSE NONE OF THE ABOVE[/b]
If you want to pick on certain points of either side, you will find issues.
Neither side is clean. You picking on Palin because she's a "unknown" shows just how willfully blind you can be.
BHO, when running against Jack Ryan, disclosed SEALED Court documents information. Yet he's running on "CHANGE you can believe in".
What change? Do anything to get elected?
Neither candidate can claim to be clean.
If Barrack Hussein Obama has nothing to hide, why won't he come clean on his association with William Ayres, who as recently as 9/11/2001 said the Weather Underground hadn't done enough. He was referring to direct terrorism attacks on the USA. Yet if you bring it up to BHO he either gives you a bullshit response or labels you a bigot.
(On the bigot note, why is it off limits to mention his middle name?)
You claim that John McCain is a G.W. Bush wannabe, and I agree he's no peach, but unfortunately the stupid Republicans couldn't pick a better choice!
Blaming Palin for playing with oil money is just obfuscation, as she hasn't had ANYTHING to do with the Oil Trust Fund. That money was placed in the state coffers when the pipeline was built. This predates her attending Junior High School! Why is it her issue? Is the best you can come up with is the firing of a member of the state staff, who serves at the discretion of the governor, and the RNC spending $150K on her clothes? You guys must be DESPERATE to find something that will stick.
How about the SNL ridiculing her every Saturday night? If that show pulled that stunt on Michelle "I am just now proud of my country" Obama, we would see an uproar like you wouldn't believe! It would make Imus look like a sideshow!
You want to rant political, then you had better come to the table with better cards! Or be willing to accept having your low pair bluff get called!
And after all the rich take their money and hide it, or better yet use the same methods the wackos in Hollyweird use to avoid paying "their fair share", what are we supposed to do with for money?
California is rife with examples where taxes were raised and the rich simply up and moved!
You want to tax someone? Go get some of Soros's money, maybe some of John Kerry's or the Kennedy fortune? Better yet, the Rockafellers have a lot of money, make them pay their fair share. If the death tax is so proper, why did they even have what they have after the old man died?
You want to tax the rich, apply the term equally.
You want a real debate, then lets actually present issues and drop the BS smokescreens.
[SIGH] The best you can sling is Ayers, the "washed-out terrorist" (McCain's words)? The sum total of the "relationship" between Ayers and Obama was their membership on the board of the Woods Fund (source: Fox News) at the same time. How about McCain's fundraiser hosted by G. Gordon Liddy, convicted in the Watergate scandal?
As for Palin, I don't care where she buys her clothes, I just think that her calling Obama elitist while buying a Louis Vuitton handbag for a 7-year old sounds like the old adage about the pot and the kettle... I just want a president and VP that can put together several unscripted sentences without looking like a jackass.
BTW, the best kicker for a pair of fours is the other pair of fours. :)
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