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Originally Posted by Professor S
To be honest, if at this point you don't unbderstand why I'm for McCain, you haven't listened to me, McCain or both of us. Its been quite clear for some time. Now add to the that the fact that he's running against Obama, who I view as a borderline marxist, and it's a no-brainer.
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Honestly outside of this and the other two threads open here, I have been listening to you. The thing is though, I've found it to be clear that you dislike Obama more than you like Mccain. Even in your above post I asked for you to leave out Obama in your explanation if possible, which it does look like 'compared to your other posts' you tried. (/salute)
I was just looking for a clear viewpoint from a Mccain supporter. :P I am conservitive by my own beliefs, but I do not claim a party since what it implies is that I'd support them no matter what. I will openly admit that I did vote for bush in 2004, and I feel like at the time I voted for him that he was misleading about what he hoped to do in his second term.. And the events of his second term showed that he was misleading in his first to. So as it stands now I'm strongly against Mr. President.
I do have some comments though... For #1, your opinion on Iraq. In your personal opinion what would you define as the job being "finished" in Iraq? And do you honestly think we're going to reach this goal realistically with how we're handling the war out there now?
In my opinion, I don't see a resolution there anymore, I just see Americans endlessly babysitting the people there and endlessly causing a distraction for the rest of the middle east. I think eventually we just need to pull out and let them handle their own social issues. I think in time if we were to ever reach this so called "peace" in Iraq, that the other countries around them will simply turn on them and start killing them off again anyway.
As for the economy (only drawing references to Obama because you did), I don't think myself or my kids stand to benifit more from what Mccain wants to do. Obama seems to want big changes, but a lot of his changes are rooted in what America stood for in the first place. Being the true land of oppertunity, and being strongly in the interest of the middle/lower class people instead of trying to once again spread the gap between the middle and upper class.
As for experience, there's no denying that he has a lot of experience, but judging off of all the slip ups he's done and all the flip flopping on forgien policy.. And given the fact that I've seen him outright paint false pictures, or show lack of understanding for what is going on overseas.. I don't think that his experience is helping him much. I think he has good advisors for speeches, but when it comes to live answers he sounds very clueless and I can't respect him at all for that.
As for Mccain's "independence", I think that's proven to be a bad quality for him, because his independent stances (that I have seen) go against what most americans think/want. That reminds me a lot of some other bad president we recently, or maybe even still have. As for him voting with bush 90% of the time, that's not shocking to me, nor is Obama voting with him 60%.
The way things stand, I did vote for bush to begin with for a reason, so I'm not completly against all his views either. Like I said, I am conservitive. But sadly in today's world, the bad is going to over shadow the good. Mccain openly supports bush on things I strongly disagree with, which is bad. In fact, hearing obama voted with him 60% of the time shows that Obama is reasonable and knowing that makes me more comfortable with my decision as it stands now.