How can anyone seriously consider McCain for president?  That’s like voting for four more years of Bush. Remember McCain once boasted in an ad that he supported Bush 90% of the time. Palin ilustrated McCain’s lack of judgement.  According to the Associated Press, a video has surfaced of a speech she made in her church in June in which she declared that US troops had been sent to Irag “on a task from God”. She also once said that anyone who did not support the war in Irag will go to hell. I guess I and many other folks are going to hell!

My biggest fear with McCain is his embedded belief and I’m afraid tendency to solve world troubles with a bomb. His family has a long history of military service and this is an honorable thing and something McCain should be proud of, but this legacy also raised a young man with military life as his wanted future. A North Vietnamese prison cell changed that, not a peace loving change of heart. Upon his return to the US from his captivity, McCain spent some time at the War College. His thesis being the affect of the Vietnam experience on America. In actuality, it was the affect of the Vietnam experience on John McCain. In this paper, he spoke continually of the importance of diplomacy. If you stop there he sounds like the man for President. But as you continue through the paper, he clarifies that diplomacy is only effective when preceded by extreme military force. His prefered method of diplomacy is an air strike, followed by another and then another and then maybe, just maybe we can talk. This is how John McCain was raised and how he spent his young adult years in the Navy. To those that believe the US should return to the big bully years, McCain fits perfectly. To those that believe Soft Power is America’s real chance of preventing conflicts, McCain is not the man. I personally believe killing Marines, soldiers and airman, not to mention the horrifying numbers of civilians killed in military conflicts, so we can march around the world pounding our chest is nothing short of criminal. Especially when the party of “core values” is placing the man that will take this country and possibly the world to edge of the abyss, if not over the edge, on a pedestal. Not bombing is not a sign of cowardice, it is a sign of maturity and understanding that this is not the same planet Earth of 100 years or 50 years ago. It is only a neighborhood now and our deepest enemies are only hours away. It is the understanding, acceptance and use of America’s inherent Soft Power that will keep us safe. Not the bomb.
JP

Another approach for the Obama campaign in PA would be to expose the fact that the McCain campaign is being run by a convicted Felon – Bob Asher. So much for Palin’s and McCains bosts about stopping “Business as usual.”

It may suppress voting and entheusiasm by already dissafected Republicans.

What’s wrong with bribery, perjury, racketeering, conspiracy? There are good people out there, but this kind of trash always make their way back into top jobs. With PA being such an important state this time around, it is Obama’s duty to the Democratic Party to expose this guy make the Republicans answer.