Great Response to this-Obama's Bitterness........

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Posted by Easter 1916 at 4/18/08 5:30 p.m.

What I want and don't want has nothing to do with my recognizing that the author does what I believe is a good job of concisely presenting pertinent information about the Obama campaign.

When I heard Obama make his small town comment I, as one who came from "small town" America, knew right away that he had shot himself in both of his political feet. Ignoring the impact of Rev Wright and the "bitter" comment would be whistling past the graveyard, as it were. Believe me, discussions about those two comments are already bouncing in the nation's echo chambers and falling like Niagara in the cyber cascades. They aren't going away.

McCain presents the Democrats plenty to bring to the public view, but so did George Walker Bush and he still managed to get elected twice, regardless of his questionable military record, cocaine use, alcohol problem, and quite shaky corporate history. That should be a warning to those who want to wish a candidate into the White House. The national political scene doesn't work that way.

I know I'll vote for whichever Dem gets nominated, unimportant issues such as Wright and the "bitter comment" not withstanding, and assuming nothing really material happens between now and November. But as Nicolas Kristof pointed out in Divided We Fall not everyone approaches the world in a purely "rational" manner. To me it comes down to the Republican record of the last 8 years which is abysmal.

The result:
1... the biggest run up of the Nation's debt in history (in fact, the last three Republican presidents, the "fiscal conservatives" are responsible for 80% of the existing national debt! go figure!)
A Graph of the History of the National Debt
2...They didn't produce a balanced budget and continue, laughingly, after proving themselves wrong again and again to employ supply side economics
A Discussion of Supply Side Economics
3...They launched a war that was totally unnecessary and built on a foundation of lies that have since washed away
The Center for Public Integrity
4...They've left us with just the war, unending, and not against terrorism but against sects, cliques, and groups of Iraqis, the people we were supposedly making war FOR.
5...They turned over the keys to corporate America who proceeded to destroy the nations liquidity and had to subsequently be bailed out by the citizens
6...They destroyed the dollar
7 ...

McCain promises me more of the same. There are those who celebrate that. I see that as the embodiment of Einstein's definition of insanity: "Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results."
Einstein's Definition of Insanity

Hillary and Obama are flawed, granted, but they aren't Republicans and they promise they can make a change. That's the right direction for me. Whichever democrat wins that party's nomination gets my vote. If they don't work out, well, there are always people looking for that job.


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