A Political Discussion,

Obama vs. McCain

The latest arguments over the kitchen table with family and friends is over Barrack Obama vs. John McCain and who can win and why. Assuming Obama can beat Hillary Clinton and it seems he has the momentum to do just that.

The hope at the table for most is that McCain can win but we have our concerns over the oratory skills of Barrack Obama. Obama can sure rouse up a crowd to a frenzy. He says the things many of my Democratic friends want to hear. He offers them change and new direction. Meaning I guess, that; let’s get our troops home and let’s provide health care for everyone, let’s move forward.

Obama leaves us with a lot of cloudy and semi-cloudy issues like not continuing the tax cuts, the border, illegals, immigration, the Patriot Act, Iraq, Iran and most importantly, appointing Appeals and Supreme Court Justices, one of the most important jobs of a President. Bringing troops home for Obama and raising taxes are not cloudy. Both are on his early agenda.

He also talks about regaining respect for America around the world. Has anyone seriously analyzed what that means? It’s a great sound bite but what amount of security must we give up to be touchy, feely with the French, Germans and Russians and do they really care how much we appease them? In the end will it change anything if we buy more wine, Vodka, and Schnapps to make the French, et .al., really like us? Will they rally to support us against Iran gaining a nuclear bomb or shouldn’t we as be concerned as George Bush is?

Does Obama see the threat to world peace from radical Muslims that most Republicans see or are the Republicans simply overreacting ? What will he do if we have another 9/11? You see, I just don’t know, he’s cloudy.

Experience in dealing with problems like that does count for something, doesn’t it? Hillary and McCain have their points with that argument. Obama does not have experience but then neither did G. Bush. I just hope that if Obama wins that he surrounds himself with good, experienced people and he listens to them. So far some of his pacifist supporters actually scare me with their naivety. Listening to his generals would be his first duty, of course that’s exactly where he proposes change.

McCain stresses security, and the War. I’m not clear on his other concerns, although I would like to be. I’m not sure he’s fiscally conservative, for smaller government and lower taxes and I’m not sure of the kind of judges he would appoint to the lower federal courts and Supreme Court. I would hope that he would not be liberal. But because McCain has, so far, kept me guessing on how he would choose, qualified hope is all I have.

I’ve avoided the moral issues like abortion and religion so far because I don’t happen to believe that the executive or congressional branches of government should be in the bedroom. Abortion is a very personal issue and the Supreme Court should stay the arena for that subject, for it or against it, Roe vs. Wade is the law of the land.

Democracy is the best, but still flawed form of government. For the most part democracy decides issues that the whole usually can live with on a fifty one percent versus forty nine basis. Abortion is such a divisive issue that fifty one percent of the people for it is not enough, so nine wise people must decide, for now, until the issue resolves itself over time. Trying to regulate abortion enters into trying to regulate religion, not a good area to enter into with out stirring a lot of angry emotions. Politics is best left out of religion and abortion is a religious subject.

The last time the government tried to constitutionally abolish something it was booze. Government will not make that mistake again.

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