As our Founders gifted us with a Republic, in which we elect men and women to represent us, it is appropriate on the eve of an election to consider the character of the men who would be President.
 You can choose a man who sacrificed for his country, putting his life on the line fighting for freedom, suffering years of harsh imprisonment and torture, and sustaining injuries that leave him still unable to raise one arm above the shoulder, or you can choose instead a man who spent much of his time associating with radicals and terrorists.
You can vote for a man who accepted public financing limits, or a man who broke his word to do the same and instead took the most money in election history, much of it donated illegally because he chose to make it very easy to do so by disabling standard credit card checking mechanisms.
You can choose a man who went against his party when he thought it right, or a man who was the most extreme in his party for the few brief years he served in the Senate, on the rare occasions he showed up to vote.
You can vote for a man who refused earmarks, or a man who gladly played along with pork in Washington and patronage in Chicago, and purchased a home in a shady deal with a convicted felon political fixer.
You can vote for the man who warned us Fannie and Freddie were making risky loans, or the man who took the most money from them.Â
You can vote for a man who will keep the lights on and utility bills down the next four years, or a man who promised to make electricity rates skyrocket and to bankrupt new coal plants, and who opposes new nuclear plants.Â
 You can vote for a man who believes in American values of faith, self-determination and self-defense, or a man who says Americans in small towns cling to religion and guns out of bitterness, and that we must spread the wealth around.
You can choose a man who backed a deeply unpopular surge in Iraq that has brought us victory and honor, and given peace, security, democracy, freedom and hope to 25 million Iraqis, or a man whose plan would have by now abandoned a country with trillions in oil wealth to the Sunni extremists who bombed the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iranian-backed Shia extremists that regard Western freedoms as terrible sins.
You can vote for a man who adopted a child from a Third World country, or a man who abandoned his own relatives in a Third World country.
You can vote for character and integrity, or you can vote for hope and change.
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I think this post accurately portrays the McCain campaign.
Will be interesting to see the reaction of the losing side.
I mean, if you truly believe what is written above, what does it say if the public goes for Obama?
Dave, that was excellent. I hope you don’t mind if I post it, in full, on my little piss-ant blog (with citation of course).
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Thats about the best summation of all of McCain’s talking points, misrepresentations, mischaracterizations, and guilt by tenous associations as I’ve seen anywhere. Bravo! Its also exactly why Obama will win tomorrow. People are just tired of this kind of crap and this kind of politics.
A Letter to the Editor.
No one disputes either the military record of senator John McCain or the rare ocassions when he rose to oppose egregious policies advocated by his own party. But he failed to show independence at a crucial vote and sheepishly supported president Bush’s adventure in invading Iraq.
On the other hand, I dispute the allegations made in this thread against the persidential candidate of the democratic party, senator Barack Obama. In the initial debate vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq, he had the courage to say no when everyone said "yes". Just think how much blood, grief, and money would have been spared and saved if the majority of congress had followed senator Obama in his principled stand and THE INVASION OF IRAQ HAD NEVER TAKEN PLACE!Â
The Iraq war, despite the republican claims of success, is far from over and whose final outcome defies any prediction. It is still far too early to open the champagne to celebrate victory.
Osama Bin Laden would have never been able to evade justice had we concentrated all our resources in Afghanistan!
Senator McCain has shown his mettle in his spirited campaign for the presidency. That is a good thing. But he has exhibited poor judgment in multiple ocassions. Back in September 2008, when both the economy and the finacial system rolled toward the crisis, he declared that "our economy was sound". His choice for VP candidate was both myopic and precipitous; as some republican endorsing Obama said: "even applicants to McDonalds are interviewed 3 times". Senator McCain can be reckless.
The fact that senator McCain has run a 100% negative campaign shows that he is out of ideas. No president can run a country by sowing fear and smearing its oponents. That type of negative leadership is precisely what has brought us to the present situation.
Mr. Obama is running a much more organized effective campaign and that fact solely speaks abundantly about the difference in organization skills between the two men; Obviously Mr. Obama is a superior organizer and crisis manager. To sort out the economic mess that the new administration will inherit, we need a wholesome leader; not a fighter pilot.
Aziz,
They’re all true, though. Many are from Obama’s own words. And the associations to Rezko, Khalidi and Ayers are not tenuous, they are legion. We are finding more connections to them every day.
If people are sick of the truth and want to vote for a fantasy of "hope and change," from an unscrupulous and unprincipled politician, then Obama will indeed win.
If people actually care about character, then McCain will win.
Of course, it’s always amusing to hear the left complain about “this kind of politics” whenever their candidates are found to be terribly flawed. Oddly, they never seem outraged about character attacks when it’s a Republican with ethical trouble. Funny how that works.
Andrea,
The initial debate vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq was in 2002.
Barack Obama didn’t become U.S. Senator until 2005.
MK: He was still opposed to the war
That pretty much sums up my feelings and beliefs. Â
Dismissing truth as “McCain Talking Points†is ridiculous.Â
Just because they are McCain talking points doesn’t make them wrong.   Oh well, (or should that be Orwell?) politics as usual…..Â
One quibble with the last point, though: It is possible to vote for character and integrity AND for hope and change…
This is my last entry. As I have said earlier, I am not into politics and just took to respond to some of the opinions expressed here because of the distortions I perceived and the importance of the moment. The moment is tomorrow and my "mission" ends now
If McCain wins, as many here wish, we’ll see the continuation of the wars, the continuation of unilateralism in foreign policy, the dismantling of social security, the universal tax cut where the rich obviously will get the lion’s share, greater budget deficits, the appointment of conservative judges to the supreme court, the revocation of Roe VS Wade, and the social polarization – rich richer, poor poorer, and a smaller real middle class (a family of 4 making 50000 is poor; not middle class). I dread that future.
If Obama wins, the country will still go through a difficult period but the tax tables will become fairer, there will be, most likely, universal health care, steps will be taken to reform and fund social security, we’ll move toward balancing the budget, we will act more in coordination with other countries/UN, and at least one war – Iraq – will end within 2 years. It is not going to be easy but it is a future which I can await with confidence.
The first is more darkness; the second is light at the end of an 8 year long tunnel.
It’s been a pleasure
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!!!
Will you choose a man who can only campaign on fabricated flaws, base pandering, and false innuendo? Or, will you vote for the guy who actually speaks about the issues?
Wow, Andrea…
Someone’s sold you a whole world of paranoia about how eeeeeeevil Republicans are.
I think we’ve been over that before, though.
I’m voting for McCain, because I actually like crotchedy old men to run important things, as opposed to smooth-talking, attractive, inexperienced lightweights.
But, alas, my wife (who reluctantly voted for Bush twice) will likely vote Obama tomorrow (despite my efforts to wine and dine her). This surely means Obama will win — my wife is like the State of Missouri, she always picks the winner.Â
HB
People like andrea will lead Obama to victory.
I will be interested to hear what they think of Obama in four years.
Some, whose ideology is borderline socialist as well, may well still support him.
Others, who are suffering the likely economic consequences of Obama’s naive and ideologically driven policies, may well be voting against him next time.
We’ll see.
What is clear is that Obama has created a myth of himself that has sold people like andrea, and I guess that’s all politics is these days. Dave’s message is pretty well crafted and accurate. The choice is pretty clear.
And I love the accusations that McCain ran a "negative" campaign while the Obama camp stayed above it. Tell that to Bristol Palin and the rest of Palin’s family.
Sheessh what a partisan hack…
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