Now just because of the title, don’t take me as a bleeding heart liberal, because I’m not, but I’m also no arch-conservative. And also await the next post of Obama’s flaws, because yes, he has some too.
One of the tendencies that McCain has that honestly scares me the most is his emphasis on “experience,” but has no real evidence to show that it has been experience that will be effective to his presidency. I am aware of his long military history (which I greatly respect), and his political past, but neither of these proves he will be a better Commander in Cheif. The main point I am getting at is his mistakes when speaking about the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds, and can’t seem to factually keep a damn thing straight. If his experience is such an assett to his campaign, then he should at least have a much higher intellect when discussing foreign affairs, which he has not proven yet. The Iraq situation is very delicate and needs a critical and constructive eye to handle; but this doesn’t necessarily mean the candidate who happens to have lived longer, or the one who has lent more support to President Bush’s policies.
One of the attractions of McCain, as well as many Repub’s is their economic stance and fierce backing of the capitalist system through a free market approach. Now I am no foe of this ideology, but I want someone intelligent to be running the show. What I mean is someone who doesn’t blatantly say they don’t fully understand economics; namely McCain. So it comes down to whether we want an under-informed free marketeer, or an intelligent supporter of a government interventionist system.
And all of these points don’t even address his seemingly out of control temper. Please do not take any of this as an endorsement for Obama, just a hard eye on what seems to be the candidate who has taken less heat thus far.
McCain has taken less heat because he wasn’t in a long, drawn out primary battle like Hillary and Barack were. Obama is dodging him on debates – particularly town hall meetings – so, until the two start going at it head to head, very little is going to be said about McCain. He has been enjoying the anonymity and is trying to stay out of the fray as much as possible.
Agreed, and I don’t see that as a bad move for Obama dodging him, because McCain’s territory is in the smaller town-hall setting, and Obama enjoys the large arena setting, so he doesn’t want to start the debates with a disadvantage. And McCain’s pastor problem seemed to go unnoticed, most probably because of his quick denunciation of him, which was an excellent move in my opinion and something Obama should have done much earlier.
He wasn’t McCain’s Pastor!