Here's one interesting reason to vote Senator McCain president:



Hat tip: Chakra Hammer @ Hot Air.

Also instructive is the video being discussed there. An Obama supporter's starting to have "buyer's remorse".

Me: I'll consider the Democratic Party when they start fielding serious candidates. Right now, they're just not serious regarding my home--this country, the US. I want my country's leaders to protect and advance our interests.

In the long-term, we should find ways to show them what we did--how we did it.

That's why Senator Obama's slogan--in addition to being lifted wholesale from Bob the Builder--
is pointless: of COURSE we can--we already did, and can do it again and again. "Can-do" attitude defines Americans.

We don't need Senator Obama to do anything more than what he's already been hired to do--act in the best interests of the people of Illinois. He's not qualified for this promotion.

McCain wants the job...so that he can continue serving American citizens. He sees it as a continuation of his entire adult life. Served in the military. Served in Congress for most of MY entire life. He was in the House of Representatives when I was munching Trix during the Reagan administration. He is no saint, but neither was Winston Churchill--or Ronald Reagan, for that matter. I won't harp on former President Clinton's blatant infidelity for the same reason.

Men are just that: men. Flawed, fallible and at times, corrupt. Women, being "of man", are also flawed, fallible and at times, corrupt.

Using the God-given gifts of reason and free will, most of us strive to rise against these vices of ours.

The real danger with Obama is that he wants the job...so that he can serve as a god. No thanks. Most of the country has a god. Christians have God. Jews have G-d(the Name), who Christians believe to be their god. Hindus have a pantheon. Buddhists have no god, per se, but the philosophy of Buddha. Animists(including practicioners) believe that EVERYTHING IS GOD [/oversimplification]. The ones left who have no god are atheists ("god does not exist") or agnostics ("we can't know for sure"). Oh, and Muslims have Allah. I must not forget Allah. I hate his guts, but if a certain minority of his practitioners would at least quit killing other people for any real or perceived offense to him/Mohammed(who's just a murderous, child-molesting troll), I could tolerate him.

The reason I hate Allah is the same reason I can't elect Obama. It's not Islam that I hate, per se.

It's Tyranny. No man should rule over another. Even parents can't be brutal or negligent dictators over their children--that's why DSS actually exists.

I don't fear that Obama will become a dictator (although considering his political leanings, it is possible). I do assert that he presents himself as weak and accomodating.

He's like an older version of my brother....

No. My brother is more qualified to be President. He's a strict Jacksonian. ("We have problems here at home!") Liberal domestic policy aside, my brother at least has a plan on how to help Americans lost through the cracks to become self-sufficient. That's his goal. The rest of the world can go hang. Obama, despite being a "community organizer", doesn't have that much. (Yet my brother wants Obama in the White House.)

My problem with Jacksonian policy is that: "It has been my experience that human problems... become gargoyle problems." From Gargoyles. When Goliath said that, he was talking to a small group of English gargoyles during WW2. One of the gargoyles, Griff, wanted to help the British fight the Nazis; the other two, Leo and Una, wanted to stay out of it--it had nothing to do with the three of them. (episode: M. I. A.)

The reason I quote this cartoon (aside from being an animation fan: you were warned in the masthead) is because we have this same issue as Americans. Jacksonian policy--from President Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson--is "countries are neighbors". What others do in their home is no concern of ours.

The flaw in that is when the 'neighbor's' such an abusive jerk that most of the neighbor's family risks death to break into our home. Or when another neighbor wants to take over the neighborhood. Or when a family of cultist thugs wants to destroy other neighbors' homes, steal their stuff, forcibly wed their daughters, and force the entire neighborhood to become part of their cult.

Good fences make good neighbors, but fences aren't always enough.

My policy is the Roosevelt-Gadsden policy. Speak softly, but rattle and carry a MOAB. Those things are heavy; can we lift it?

Yes. We. Can.

[/it is a good slogan.]