Clinton versus McCain, Obama, the Democrats, and Common Sense…
I wouldn’t call myself anything… not a Democrat, not a Republican… not really anything. I vote for the person I (in my opinion) has the best chance of making the best impact on the nation. I do tend to lean toward the Democrats, and have voted with them in my short voting history.
This time around, I will be leaning toward Barack Obama, and Democrats in general. It’s probably important for me to establish that bias.
I’ve been watching the whole Democratic nomination process with a mix of fascination and horror. Mostly horror. I’ve heard it said numerous times before that the Democrats are the best when it comes to shooting themselves in the foot and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I never thought I would actually see it.
Now, I do actually like John McCain. I think he’s a good man. And I would have been perfectly fine with him winning the election in 2000. But this is a different time and place than 2000 was, and he seems to have almost sold his soul for the Presidency… something that I cannot back in good conscious. So to see Hillary Clinton practical give the Presidency to McCain is just apalling.
Her run for the White House currently reeks of a need to fulfill some sort of entitled position. She reeks of it. It’s hard to say that because prior to this year, I really did like her, and come November, there’s still a good chance I’ll vote for her. But to watch her current strategy of fear-mongering and negativity… it puts some doubts into my mind.
And therein lays the problem. By grasping for a win against Obama, she is now being seen as dragging the entire party’s chances down just because she feels she is entitled to the White House. I look over and watch as Romney and eventually Huckabee gave up their fights to allow McCain more time to mount his presidential campaign and I wonder why the Democrats have yet to do that.
By this point, it’s a statistical guarantee that Obama has this in the bag (at least from the view of the normal, everyday voters and not the super-delegates). But if she keeps this up, and actually manages to coral the super-delegates to change the will of the voters, I fear that the Democrats’ chances will implode and they’ll lose their best chance at the office in years.
After that point, my only hope will be that somewhere in McCain 2008 is a vestige of McCain 2000, and that all of his pandering was just to keep his chances alive.
Mr. Obama scares the crap out of me. For many reasons. He was the child of parents that were not financially well off. Just like millions of us, myself included. Obviously a very intelligent person because he graduated from Colombia and Harvard, with honors. Well done!
Now, in his 3rd year of service as a US Senator, the Democratic Party offers him as one of two possible candidates for the POTUS. What did he do between graduating Law School in 1991 and running for President in 2007?
In that 16 years he was an Illinois Senator for eight years, a US Senator for three years, he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago’s Roseland community and the Altgeld Gardens public housing development on the city’s South Side, and a short stint as a Civil Right Attorney.
His ties to a radical minister cannot be overlooked. He, by his own admission, was not raised in any religious faith as a child or young adult. So, it seems that Islam and his attendance at the Trinity United Church of Christ pretty well sums it up, religiously. Islam and a loony anti-American minister that he continues to send his two children to each week. Hummm…
In my humble opinion, he is entirely unqualified to run for the Presidency. His job experience is sorely lacking in the “Real World.” If people want change in Washington I hope they want positive change. This gentleman is a full-blown, life-long politician. More of the same. Yea, he scares the crap out of me.
I’m very glad that in the end, blind fear and a lack of research did not rule in this election cycle. After eight years of having fear shoved down our throats and used to make us accept a poor and morally/ethically absent administration, November 4th was a breath of fresh air.
Try to be less scared Mr. Parker, and try to do more research and have a more open mind. If anyone should scare you, it should be Mrs. Palin. Thankfully, we won’t have to deal with her, at least for four years.
And, to cover the religious aspects, while I believe in God and have faith, it is NOT a requirement under the Constitution of the United States. Further, there is no law that states that a person has to be of a specific religious background. He has proven himself to be a calm and steady hand under pressure. That’s what I require for my leader of my country.