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A centrist would be nice for once, none were running. McCain stood for nothing as far as I can see, and Obama stands for every liberal's wish list. The only consolation my liberal friends offer me, "he won't be able to get everything he wants," offers me little consolation. I feel like the homeowner being tied up by a bunch of robbers leaving the home with the silverware, money, guns and children for ransom, whose wife leans over and says, "don't worry honey, they can't carry the piano."
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Iraq springs to mind. I'll have to dig around for others. 2007 http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2007/09/...0171189629808/ Today http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/
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The thing that keeps me going is the knowledge that the ponderous, plodding and generally mediocre federal bureaucracy will by it's very nature keep him in check. If not in rhetoric at least in results.
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If however, something benefits them, such as do this for your huge pay increase, you'll think they'd be slow? No, they'd be like BYU coeds chasing down the the last bag of twinkies.
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I've also been somewhat persuaded by the comments of a conservative friend who has served as counsel to a major Senate committee for a couple of decades. He has said, without admiration, that McCain "is the nastiest son of a bitch on Capitol Hill." I know a lot of people may regard that as a compliment, and that we need a muy macho executive. I don't, and I think McCain is ill-suited to the Oval Office given the times. And by the way, given McCain's womanizing over the years and, by all accounts, Obama's status as a devoted family man, are such issues now regarded as passe? |
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10-28-2008, 11:22 PM | #47 | |
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He realized immediate departure may be more difficult than initially he thought. He's just clever, but I don't see anything terribly centrist about his situation. He's got some Bill Clinton in him, liberal in nature, but cover your butt so that anything you do will look like it's what you wanted in the first place. Nothing centrist about that. He is much more deft with words than McCain.
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The pork doesn't taste as bad when it is served on your own plate. I like your list, although I am surprised you left off that he was born on a military base. In other words, I don't like your list.
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As to how much or little of "McCain will be an excellent president because..." I humbly submit that the breadth of your exposure to the campaign has to have been sorely limited. I am no McCain fan, believe me, but it's not as though these arguments have not been made, and extensively. Quote:
Not passe, just not important enough to sway my vote to a leftist. By the way, McCain himself cites this part of his past as his greatest moral failure. Political posturing? Probably, but he seemed sincere.
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I also have to say that my initial reaction when I first heard McCain had chosen Palin, a woman, as his runningmate, I felt a surge of hope and thought for a moment I could be persuaded to give McCain another chance at my vote. Of course, I knew precious little about her at the time, and it didn't take me long to say "thanks but no thanks for that bridge to nowhere." |
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