For President
- Monday, June 09 2008 @ 07:01 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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I'm going to try to get away from political stuff for a while. But first, where my current thinking is at:
I've been pretty harsh on Obama the past few days. I don't really mean to be. It's just that, as I write this post this morning, I think he's completely unqualified for the job. I don't think he has the kind of experience that will make a good chief executive of the Federal Government.
He wants to surrender in Iraq. His supporters will be spinning like tops to say "no, that's not what he's saying" but yes, indeed, that is what "immediate withdrawal" means.
That's like folding in poker when you're holding a straight flush. Sure, we had garbage when the hand was originally dealt, but the Surge was like asking the dealer for four cards.
It Worked.
To ignore that is simply stupid. We can't afford to elect somebody who so willfully ignores the obvious improvement in Iraq.
To be true to the vision of Martin Luther King ("not the color of the skin but the content of character") you have to look past the melanin to what the guy says, who he has (and continues to) associate with, in order to get an idea what the guy is.
His inability to see the huge character flaws in some of his closest associates and advisers in Chicago is a big, huge red flag. Does Obama have the ability to choose the kind of people we can trust to run the Federal Government? The evidence we have right now indicates that no, he doesn't.
The fact is that he's as far left as any major-party U.S. Presidential candidate has ever been. The cold fact of history is that leftist economics and politics simply don't work. They do not create the greatest good for the greatest number, although they sure sound good. They sound good for folks at the lower rungs of the economic ladder--"tax the rich" always resonates with those who aren't rich.
Finally, there is the troubling tendency for Obama to get lost and say dumb things when he strays too far from the teleprompter. This is why McCain can't wait to get Obama into a town hall type setting. That's McCain's best venue, and apparently Obama's worst.
None of the above, by the way, makes me any happier about McCain. His policies are somewhat to the right of Obama for the most part, but he's still the guy responsible for the dreadful McCain-Feingold speech limitation law.
McCain's not my guy. Like almost everyone, I honor and respect his long service to his country. But apart from national defense, I think he's going to take the country in basically the same direction as Obama wants to--albeit maybe not quite as fast, and not quite as far. Going more slowly in the wrong direction is, however, still going in the wrong direction.
But, paraphrasing a much-maligned Secretary of Defense, you go into an election with the candidates you have, not the ones you wish you had.
Somebody, somewhere, will ignite a revival of liberty. It may not be in my lifetime, though.
I've been pretty harsh on Obama the past few days. I don't really mean to be. It's just that, as I write this post this morning, I think he's completely unqualified for the job. I don't think he has the kind of experience that will make a good chief executive of the Federal Government.
He wants to surrender in Iraq. His supporters will be spinning like tops to say "no, that's not what he's saying" but yes, indeed, that is what "immediate withdrawal" means.
That's like folding in poker when you're holding a straight flush. Sure, we had garbage when the hand was originally dealt, but the Surge was like asking the dealer for four cards.
It Worked.
To ignore that is simply stupid. We can't afford to elect somebody who so willfully ignores the obvious improvement in Iraq.
To be true to the vision of Martin Luther King ("not the color of the skin but the content of character") you have to look past the melanin to what the guy says, who he has (and continues to) associate with, in order to get an idea what the guy is.
His inability to see the huge character flaws in some of his closest associates and advisers in Chicago is a big, huge red flag. Does Obama have the ability to choose the kind of people we can trust to run the Federal Government? The evidence we have right now indicates that no, he doesn't.
The fact is that he's as far left as any major-party U.S. Presidential candidate has ever been. The cold fact of history is that leftist economics and politics simply don't work. They do not create the greatest good for the greatest number, although they sure sound good. They sound good for folks at the lower rungs of the economic ladder--"tax the rich" always resonates with those who aren't rich.
Finally, there is the troubling tendency for Obama to get lost and say dumb things when he strays too far from the teleprompter. This is why McCain can't wait to get Obama into a town hall type setting. That's McCain's best venue, and apparently Obama's worst.
None of the above, by the way, makes me any happier about McCain. His policies are somewhat to the right of Obama for the most part, but he's still the guy responsible for the dreadful McCain-Feingold speech limitation law.
McCain's not my guy. Like almost everyone, I honor and respect his long service to his country. But apart from national defense, I think he's going to take the country in basically the same direction as Obama wants to--albeit maybe not quite as fast, and not quite as far. Going more slowly in the wrong direction is, however, still going in the wrong direction.
But, paraphrasing a much-maligned Secretary of Defense, you go into an election with the candidates you have, not the ones you wish you had.
Somebody, somewhere, will ignite a revival of liberty. It may not be in my lifetime, though.