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So - based largely on the deplorable record of a Republican who was not a conservative, a Democrat becomes President while running on a slogan of "change" - while not proposing one single new idea that hasn't been hashed and rehashed by liberal Dems since FDR. Not one.
Seriously, is the American electorate just so enamored of style over substance that we are only listening to the buzzwords and not to the details? The "change" candidate has spent his entire brief political career doing absolutely nothing productive in any real sense - he has never created a job, never run a business, never paid anyone a wage, never increased GNP by a nickel. His entire adult life has been spent preparing to become a left-wing Democratic presidential candidate.
FWIW, I don't think McCain is much better, and I voted for Bob Barr. In Minnesota, that has roughly the same impact as writing myself in. McCain has spent his entire life living off tax dollars also, and a man's ability to withstand torture do make him a hero but do not necessarily make him a good presidential choice. He differs from Obama only in the extent to which and on the issues on which he is willing to use the power of the government to control our lives. Some of those tend to be my hot-button issues; we could count on Clinton to waffle and triangulate when the opposition got spirited but he had no principles. I suspect Obama won't work that way when it comes to 2d Amendment issues, economics, and the like. If the race had been close in MN I might have held my nose and voted for McCain (or maybe not - I was pretty fed up with both of them by the end).
Wake-up call to my friends who voted for Obama: There is nothing "new" in this "change." There never has been. Bush is easy to hate, but that doesn't excuse us from the responsibility to look at the alternatives. If you can look at Obama's policy proposals (what little substance there is of them) and agree with them - then by all means, vote Obama. But if you're just caught up in the whole "change" cant, then you should be ashamed. If you believe that Obama represents a change from W, you may be right - but if you believe he really represents a fundamentally different approach to American politics, you're delusional.
Seriously, is the American electorate just so enamored of style over substance that we are only listening to the buzzwords and not to the details? The "change" candidate has spent his entire brief political career doing absolutely nothing productive in any real sense - he has never created a job, never run a business, never paid anyone a wage, never increased GNP by a nickel. His entire adult life has been spent preparing to become a left-wing Democratic presidential candidate.
FWIW, I don't think McCain is much better, and I voted for Bob Barr. In Minnesota, that has roughly the same impact as writing myself in. McCain has spent his entire life living off tax dollars also, and a man's ability to withstand torture do make him a hero but do not necessarily make him a good presidential choice. He differs from Obama only in the extent to which and on the issues on which he is willing to use the power of the government to control our lives. Some of those tend to be my hot-button issues; we could count on Clinton to waffle and triangulate when the opposition got spirited but he had no principles. I suspect Obama won't work that way when it comes to 2d Amendment issues, economics, and the like. If the race had been close in MN I might have held my nose and voted for McCain (or maybe not - I was pretty fed up with both of them by the end).
Wake-up call to my friends who voted for Obama: There is nothing "new" in this "change." There never has been. Bush is easy to hate, but that doesn't excuse us from the responsibility to look at the alternatives. If you can look at Obama's policy proposals (what little substance there is of them) and agree with them - then by all means, vote Obama. But if you're just caught up in the whole "change" cant, then you should be ashamed. If you believe that Obama represents a change from W, you may be right - but if you believe he really represents a fundamentally different approach to American politics, you're delusional.