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@verycold - let's remember who got us where we are
[Read the article: Who is the real John McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Corruption does abound. There is no purity or perfection anywhere.
What we need is someone who can do the best job - and refusing to take action until a perfect person comes along, basically means not being able to take action ever.
Picture that we are all of us, as one nation, in a bus, going down a very bumpy road. Among all of us and our families, there are only two people we can pick from to drive the bus - but they both want to drive it in different directions.
And while we're making our choice, our bus' driver is asleep and the bus is heading towards a cliff.
Neither of the other drivers drive perfectly, and both of them may be unethically influenced by other passengers. But we don't have the option of picking a perfect driver who we know won't ever be so influenced - that guy isn't on the bus.
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Zoltan is moltin'
[Read the article: Who is the real John McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Same style as Lotus Feet
The snake shows his skin
Astroturf feels neat?
But let us begin:
Obama had a pastor, McCain had a choice
Obama rejected Wright, McCain sought Pat's Voice
Robertson's Jesus calls for assassinations
And said 9/11 was God's wrath 'cause of gays in our nation
But McCain hugs the loon, while Obama denounces
And you right-wingers ignore the white pounds for black ounces
As for Obama having money - who gives a f**k?
Who says any good man can't make an honest buck?
You seem to think liberals heart poverty
But what we really is shared opportunity for prosperity
Obama made it from scratch - by his own bootstraps
From poor origins to top of his Harvard law class
While McCain dumps his wife to nail the hot heiress
And calls from his private jet to say Obama's elitist
Keating 5 is on the plate, you blame it on the 4 Democrats
But last I checked, none of them are the candidates
You better wake up and smell the real flavor
'Cause 9/11 McCain is a fake lifesaver
Word.
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@ Linda Mae - not quite
[Read the article: Who is the real John McCain?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would expect to see a politician grow with wisdom during the years spent in Congress and change his mind a few times. I question the changes Obama has made from the begging of his campaign to the present.
OK. So all of McCain's "changes of mind" have nothing to do with polls, they are all evidence of growing wisdom. But all of Obama's "changes of mind" can't be in the same category.
Please explain what Obama's changes of mind over the last 18 months are, since you think they are so extreme. Then we can compare them to the changes McCain has made over the last 18 months.
I think now we need to review McCain's warning and proposed bill (2005) to change the way houses were mortgaged and look at our current economic crisis.
OK, let's.
But remember that the reason the mortgage crisis is threatening the whole economy, is because of the deregulation that made it possible for banks to invest in these mortgages.
Otherwise this crisis, while bad, would still only be affecting the housing sector - and not potentially the entire world's economy.
And McCain has throughout his career - like many Republicans - been a stalwart champion for deregulation, deregulation, and some more deregulation. It's like they forgot the 1929 stock market crash ever happened. And so here we are now apparently repeating it, and hoping to change the ending.
(So was Bush and Greenspan who also warned that there was a mortgage crisis looming in the future) McCain has been consistent in his warnings. Obama's financial adviser plus his party have not recognized the dangers they created.
I'm sorry - you're saying this was McCain's statement in 2005.
Who was in power at that time? Why, it was the GOP controlling the White House, the Senate and the House. So I don't see how you can say this is the Democrats fault, when they weren't even in charge, and were basically shut out of all policy planning in both houses since Gingrich's house takeover.
McCain's flip flopping over his 26 years is as bad as Obama's flip flopping these 18 months.
How about McCain's flip-flopping over the past 18 months then?
Once again, please list Obama's flip-flopping, and we'll do a side-by-side comparison. That's reasonable, right? Especially if McCain's objectively better as you think.
As the Rev. said, Obama is a politician and he will say anything to get elected.
And as McCain said the public in 2000, Pat Robertson is an agent of intolerance. But of course, McCain cozying up to Pat is surely not an example of saying anything to get elected, right?
Because the economy is vital to our national security, I believe McCain is the better candidate.
OK.
It is a fact that, for the past 7 years, McCain has supported the Bush economic plan and voted with the President over 90% of the time. So, please explain how, as the past 7 years of Bush policies have been disastrous to the economy, how McCain is now going to pursue different policies that will be better for the economy.