September 05, 2008 09:17 AM UTC

Fear, Lies and Cover-ups is no way to run a country - McCain's Speech

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• by: gouko787

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John MCCain is Beholden to the GOP Agenda

I think John McCain gave one of the best speeches of his life tonight.  He was able to walk that thin line between playing to the Republican base in the room and presenting a case for change in the United States.  I respect his service and am inspired by his story.  But when it comes down to it, he was selected by the people in that room tonight and is obliged to promote their agenda.  Sarah Palin is going to be the Mouth of McCain because she is much easier to look at, and he does not whole-heartedly believe in the same policies put on the party platform by the delegates at his own speech.  He is an honest man and does not want to lie.  But McCain is still beholden to the agenda he knows we have to accept.

What the Republican Party wants you to forget is that the very same people applauding Bush’s speeches, are telling us McCain is the right man to clean up after the mess they made.  They didn’t just admire the ones Bush gave 8 years ago when he was seen as everybody’s buddy, but the ones 4 years ago as well when many of us knew he was corrupt.  They were the ones screaming, “FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS!”  

Thanks, but no thanks.

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I think if John McCain was a Democrat, he would not be labeled a Maverick, but just one of the pack. He would most likely already been nominated for Presidency because the Democrats don’t pick their candidates based on their name(Bush Jr.), but their ideals.  Too bad he has had the chain of the Republican Party around his neck and the burden of convincing rural America that the agenda of the wealthiest Republicans is their own.  John McCain is wrong in two major areas.  The War in Iraq, and his Republican Economic Strategy are his shortcomings when compared to Barack Obama.

Regarding the idea of the surge bringing victory, what he fails to address is the fact that America never should have invaded and occupied a sovereign nation for oil while letting the true terrorists rebuild.  I respect his service in the Armed Forces and admire his courage while in a POW prison, but I see the same flaw in what he has learned since that time.  We should have never been in Vietnam, and he is lucky he was not killed by the people whose family’s he killed while on his bombing missions.  He is a hero and I respect him for that but it is not honorable to claim victory in a fight you had no business starting.

I found it belittling to watch the Republican Delegates applaud McCain as condemned the very same platform they had approved four years earlier.  Fox News Flash:  You can’t be the party of reform if you are the party in control.  Regardless of how he tries to distance himself from George Bush, McCain is still beholden to the people in that room who selected them both to lead.  We cannot afford to trust their judgment this time.  The Republican agenda has destroyed this country.

I support Barack Obama because he is truly beholder to the platform of the Democratic Party which was put forth by the very people seen knocking on doors and talking to their neighbors about the issues we are all concerned about.  The people who write the platform of the Democratic Party are the ones who the hardest in their community, not the ones who donate the most.  He laid out some of the actual changes he would bring to the system in Washington and listed the ways which he plans to fund those changes while cutting the taxes of 95% of American.  That is change you can take to the bank.  He has a degree in Constitutional Law from Harvard and is exactly the man we need to restore the true intent of checks and balances.  Barack is not afraid of those who would attack us because he knows that our fear would be their motivation.  Obama has already earned the respect of foreign leaders across the globe and even McCain will tell you that isolating yourselves is no way to defeat your enemies.  Crazy as it sounds; Barack will try to eliminate our enemies, not by killing them, but by gaining their trust.

In the end, if America select McCain, we will still be better of then we are now, but we will also be fighting the same battles 1 year, 10 years and 100 years from now.  If Obama wins and delivers on half his promises we will have started on the path to recovering from the Presidency of George W. Bush, the forgotten golden boy of John McCain and the Republican Party.

Thank you.

-We need to achieve independence from not just foreign oil, but ALL oil.

-Trickle down economics is like giving a new computer to rich child and hoping they will give their old one to a poor child without one.

-Country First, People Second is the same as Government First.

-Under Republican control the government gets bigger, abortions increase and middle class taxes go up, despite what they tell you.

-Jesus was a liberal, Middle Eastern man who stood up as an insurgent against Roman control and yet still preached giving all you could to those who needed most, regardless of the reason for need.  (WWJD?  Denounce Christianity)

-Nuclear power seems like a great idea till they want to build a plant or a dump next to your child’s school.

-Sarah Palin should be ashamed of herself for running on a platform that would destroy the beauty of her state and for supporting the ideal that women should not have the Right to choose what happens in their own bodies.

-The very idea of a Unitary Executive is unconstitutional.

-Fear, Lies and Cover ups in no way to run a country.

“Drill Baby Drill!” will echo through out history as the moment the GOP jumped the shark.

The road to Iraq is paved with lies.

The road to New Orleans was flooded with incompetence.

The road to Crawford, TX is free of brush.

The road to Nowhere will ruin a campaign.

The King of the Moonbats

Matt