Peggy Noonan is exactly correct in everything she wrote here. McCain has a distinct advantage that Obama does not, and he ought to use it like a weapon: “we all know him”. Obama does not have the luxury of having an established record in the government, or even and established record overall. Instead of being able to touch base with the people of America, Obama is constantly on the defensive as he tries to make excuses for his poor choices he has made in the past; both in the government and in life.
Now, do not misconstrue what I am trying to say. McCain cannot, at this point, sit back and catch a few Z’s. However, McCain should just ease up a bit, crack off a few jokes, and let America see the real McCain. The McCaind that we all know is buried underneath all of that pressure as the race continues for the presidency. In this year of 2008, I must believe that the word is not “formal”, but instead normal.
There is only one way to describe the whole Barack situation. Simply put, Barack is no more than a fad, a fashion. People like him for the simple reason that people like him. Everyone wants to try him on for size. I mean who wouldn’t? He’s young, he’s hip, and he is black and therefore trying to make history.
However, it all comes down to one thing: fads go in and out. Fashions are constantly dropped as were bellbottoms and spandex. But when push comes to shove and America needs to choose a president that will lead us to a better tomorrow, we need only remember one thing: it is time to wake up and mature. It is time for America to realize that we need to stick with what is sensible and what works, and not succumb to what sounds good and looks the coolest.
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Arizonans do know, and distrust McCain. We used to appreciate that he could make up his mind on individual legislation. Like Barry Goldwater, he was Conservative when that used to be an honorable designation. But McCain changed since the 2000 election. We could tell almost to the day when he sold his soul the the Party. He used to be an independent thinker, now he toes the GOP line. And I don't respect him when he makes rape jokes (about a woman wanting to get more from the "gorilla" who raped her. Do you know that the local reporters here heard him call his wife a C..t? Does McCain being a POW buy him a "hold- blameless" ticket for life? I witnessed McCain, who was brought up Episcopalian, pander to a conservative Lutheran gathering at his daughter Bridget's graduation in Phoenix. Shameless, how he called wars in the Middle East "crusades against Godless Muslims."
Obama is a bit of an unknown quantity, but it is clear that he has intelligence, and a rational way of describing the issues. He worked as a community organizer helping people to stand up for themselves. He taught Constitutional Law at U of Chicago.
I just hear more of the same fear tactics from McCain.
I have lived through and read history from many perspectives. I have spoken with people from other countries and have also read their take on world events.
Did you know that George Kennan, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, came to realize that the USSR was bankrupt and unable to "bury" us, and that the whole Arms Race was unnecessary. Even Eisenhower, the former Supreme Commander of the Alied Forces in WWII warned against the Military Industrial Complex in his Farewell Speech.
What kind of an economy is it when we build things that just blow up?
And also sell arms to Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.? "Whosoever lives by the sword shall die by the sword." What a waste of American--- Human-- intelligence and ingenuity!
Please read up on the history of our involvement in the Middle East, starting around WW II. Also read up on Project for a New American Century (what the Neo-Cons planned to do in lieu of the Peace Dividend), also read what Zbigniew Brzinski has to say in his book The Grand Chessboard, published in 1997, where he laid out the geo-strategic importance of the Middle East and Central Asia as being the regions where the next major global conflict(s) would take place. In this book Brzezinski says the “imperial mobilization” necessary to commandeer the world’s remaining hydrocarbon reserves would be hard to embark upon without a catastrophic and catalyzing event on par with Pearl Harbor.
Now are we imperialists or are we Americans?
I'm glad we finally have two candidates for the presidency who have sharply defined positions. I'm tired of rule by poll.
I'm also tired of the secrets, the erosion of the structure of government, the move to privatize everything except losses! We pay taxes for the highways, and other infrastructure,and Republicans sell them to a private concern over which taxpayers have NO control, then we have to pay to bail them out. Some free market!
Peggy Noonan is a speech writer for Republican causes. They hired her to come up with a little phrase that would harm Obama, that he is just a "fad." Well, Peggy, Just because you can say something so "clever" does not mean it is true. This kind of trivia does not equal deep thought, to me. I refused to just go shopping & not "worry my pretty little head" after 9/11, I refused to not question the Iraq wars, and I refuse to be bought off so easily with cheap verbal tricks. It really isn't that clever to call Obama a fad.
The spokesmen for the neo-con vision of reality aren't trying very hard because they have so much contempt for the intelligence of Americans. They just continue to dial in their performances.
What we need to decide is the direction we need to take now. If Obama is elected, we will continue to make sure he doesn't mess up, too. I am not a "true believer" in anyone.
Remember, traditional conservatives are not happy with the Bush-McCain vision, and their fiscal irresponsiblity.
Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, warned of civil war in the Republican Party,the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion.
''Just in the past few months,'' Bartlett said, ''I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.'' Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and self-described libertarian Republican who has lately been a champion for traditional Republicans concerned about Bush's governance, went on to say: ''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . .
''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.''
I personally found Peggy Noonan's article to be very imature. I think she best stated her advice and opinion when Peggy said.."It is time for America to realize that we need to stick with what is sensible and what works, and not succumb to what sounds good and looks the coolest." Now my question to her is: what has worked in the pass eight years? It sounds like to me she is affraid of something new. Is there anything positive she can say about Barack Obama? I say to all Americans, if you want the same thing, then vote for McCain. He has voted 97% with Pres. Bush. But if you want someone who knows what it is to have it hard in life, one whom after graduating from Harvard went back to his neighborhood to help out as a
community organizer verses going to wallstreet to make money, someone who will restore dignity around the world verses hate and bulling, a president who will come to the people and ask: what do you think? -then please vote for Barack Obama.
Your responce to Peggy's article "let McCain be McCain," is imature.-rgftown1
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