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[cassandraleo]

I may have been wrong about the al-Qaeda story being this election's October Surprise. The Beltway types mostly seem to be ignoring it, despite the McCain camp's tremendously feeble response to it. There's acutally another story which is drawing even more outrage, from Republicans, because it cuts through Sarah Palin's Everywoman persona and

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[aexoden]

I already know they're both politicians in search of power, so the fact that McCain would violate a law when it suited his purposes is not surprising in the least. I fully expect Obama would do the same thing. Such minutiae are not important enough for me to even spend the time researching.

If we plotted Obama and McCain on a chart relative to my supposed "ideal" candidate, they would very likely be so close as to merge. Let's look briefly as the issues you mentioned.

Economics: They both support a central bank, they both support taxes, they both support massive government intervention in the economy. (I wish not to argue the merits of such positions, but from my perspective, they merely offer two sides of the same coin.)

Foreign policy: They both think it's okay to send our military forces around the world. The fact that they have different pet interventionist projects is of no major concern.

I do think Obama is probably saner, but with a Democratic house and senate, he'll likely be able to do more damage (from my perspective). In the end, it's like arguing about the difference between dark meat and white meat chicken when what you want is a bowl of ice cream.