McCain: How I Differ From Bush
September 21, 2008 8:57 PM
Sen. Obama has called Sen. McCain President Bush's third term, but McCain disagrees with that and points out a number of differences.
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Obama is less of a socialist that GW Bush, now. That''s the reality.
God Bless Barack Obama.
Why? Here''s my take:
1. Republicans are all about winning, while Democrats are all about the truth, as usual. Democrats just don''t know how to fight; it%u2019s not in our blood. We tell ourselves it%u2019s the honorable thing to do, and hold on to the "high road", "the real issues", "our trust in the American people to know what''s right", etc., etc., and do little more than play defense. But, in recent memory, isn''t it strange how the candidate who takes the "low road", dwells on the "wedge issues", and makes "an outright mockery of the American people" wins the final round? Could it be because they are always on the offense and one step ahead, but couldn%u2019t care less if they actually sold their soul to the devil, just so long as they spin it right until election day? And we all know they are masters of the game. In fact, they wrote the book.
2. America is not ready for a black president. Maybe in another lifetime, but at this point in our history? We would all like to think we are, but who are we kidding?
Just one last note: I pray to God I%u2019m wrong!
The war in Iraq should have never begun. How do we get out? McCain has a plan that will work. He''s been in government during 3 wars and was a POW in the most embarrassing national conflict ever. Obama has been organizing communities.
Spending billions on a fledgling national health care plan is not the answer. Creating infrastructure to support the needs of all American people is the answer. McCain''s plan seeks to create that infrastructure. Crunch the numbers and compare best case scenarios...McCain''s plan wins.
When you compare what Palin has actually accomplished with what Biden has done, it''s clear that Palin''s career is marked with vastly more impactful successes than Biden''s. If Obama picked Palin, we''d all be doing cartwheels.
The race card is a wash. Can we stop talking about it? Obama is arrogant. McCain is thankful. Obama wants your votes for him. McCain wants your votes for his country. The presidential election is not a forum in which anyone should be airing racial laundry. Listen to McCain on the issues, then listen to Obama on the issues. The difference is McCain''s specificity of plan versus Obama''s partisan politics clouding reality in favor of rhetoric. Obama is Hollywood. Hollywood belongs on film, not in the White House.
White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges,
White privilege is being able to convince white women who don''t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the
ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."
a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.
White privilege is, in short, the problem.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay. White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.
White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has
anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being
black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it a
"light" burden. White privilege is, in short, the problem.
You know, Russia helped Vietnam to wipe him out.
HE WON''T HESITATE TO BOMB IRAN.
MCCAIN=MORE WAR
- by stealth54 September 22, 2008 12:27 AM EDT
- Excellent interviews! I applaud both men.
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