Elections 2008—My Opinion

It has been entertaining watching the candidates maneuver their way to the final selections: entertaining, but not very informative. At this point, I am not very happy with either party’s choices. From some of polls, this appears to be the case with many other folks.

I note that one candidate is a very smooth, slick professional campaigner. In my not-so-humble opinion, he has done little else in his political career than campaign and win, mostly by avoiding complicated or controversial issues. He has become the “Teflon Man” who has no bad (or good) sticking to him to have to hide or explain away. It appears he to wants to be president so that he can change things. Since he has no visible evidence of being able make any changes or even shown a desire to change things up to this point and has absolutely no executive experience, I have to wonder how, or even why, this will be accomplished. I suppose that his wife would now be a little more happy with her country if she were 1^st Lady, but that doesn’t make me any more happy.

The other candidate, a certified war hero and professional maverick, has not convinced me of much except that I would rather have him answer the White House phone at 4 AM than any of the others. He promises “change” like everyone else. But, what is to be changed and how will it be accomplished? Good luck on doing much with the Congress. They are hopelessly partisan and endlessly divided into squabbling factions. The Supreme Court is populated with unelected legislators and will remain so for some time—not much hope there either.

But, I will have to make a selection by November. Presently, I am of the McCain camp as I don’t see the alternatives as being very effective in the present world with its terrorists, extremists and powerful dictators. Much of my support for McCain is based on having lived long enough to recognize that militants, extremists, dictators and others do NOT behave in accordance with the hopes and wishes of the general population—not even left-wing liberals. Rather, they usually act only in self-interest. They often, extremists especially, march to the beat of some drummer that follows no logic or even basic human instincts.

I wish that there were other reasons besides having a “bull dog with lipstick” for a running mate to help me in my support. So far, I haven’t found many.

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