This Post Was Sent In By One Of Our Conservatively Minded Readers... It is always a good idea to look at both sides of an issue, no matter the size or importance.I have never been a McCain supporter. Most of the positions he has held I do not agree with,particularly on domestic policy. I believed him to be ignorant, untrustworthy, and dangerous from the get go. The lies, the dismemberment of our regulatory system, the war and its immediate aftermath cost America dearly and finally brought the electorate to see what was clear to many that first election night. The cost, not only in lives and treasure but the cost to the nation's standing, going forward, is inestimable.
It started with Reagan who said," Government is not the solution but the problem." This allowed his successors to erode those activities essential to a nation of our size, culminating in the Katrina tragedy of New Orleans and now our entire banking system.
Subsequently, I have come to realize that integrity, not legislation alone is most important, that a Trumanesque approach that emits courage and righteousness is more important than government programs or giveaways. A willingness to stand for something, to lead boldly and to tell the truth are the ingredients for a successful presidency; policies without guts to move ahead and take on the entrenched powers of DC aren't worth a damn.
We are entering a prolonged recession with ensuing inflation as the Fed must eventually move by raising rates to salvage what will be left of the value of our currency. The recession will be exacerbated by a significant cut in white collar salaries. Some big commercial banks were compelled to pay exorbitant salaries to compete with smaller investment banks for the top people. Now since they own those banks, they will gleefully return to " bankers salaries."
As to the election, any chance McCain had went up in smoke with the wreckage of the last few weeks. And so we are stuck with another over-educated, all things, to all people candidate. A wonk who has achieved almost nothing in terms of his political efficacy in his brief tenure as a US senator. He is a man who has fought and led for passage of not a single piece of substantive legislation. A man who has flip-flopped on campaign finance reform, who spent over 9 million dollars on an appalling Greco-Roman background acceptance speech, a man who has pandered to the turkeys in the Democrat congress, a man who incessantly talks about tax fairness yet never seeming to understand that aside from a small percentage of people employed by Govt, all jobs are created by private companies and further tax levies through redistribution will add, over the next few years particularly, few jobs on which to tax, a man who, despite disclaimers sat in a pew and listened to preaching that in effect insulted most Americans by damning America and blaming whitey for all its ills.
And here is the best of all. After 5000 plus American deaths.over 20,000 maimed American soldiers, two hundred thousand Iraqi deaths and two million displaced Iraqis, he now wants to leave. Oh yes, most recently with an adjusted time line (another flip-flop) that tells the terrorists:"sit tight, we'll be leaving shortly." No one raillied against this war more than I. But now that there is a modicum of stability (thanks to Obama's opponent), he wants to leave under a time line. Doesn't this turkey understand that for scores of reasons a time line is stupid? The major reason is, you guessed it: oil, and with it an important leverage against mother Russia who seeks to destabilize America and western Europe with their "oil card." Ultimately, until we can achieve energy independence, developing the second largest oil fields known to man is a security must.
Just maybe, when and if Obama takes office, he might develop the guts that may alienate the supporters who helped him get there and become a president that all Americans can be proud of My guess is he will be a one term president and and leave us paraphrasing Louis the 14th's comment: "apres vous le deluge."
