I almost wish McCain would win the election

[Black Landlord]

[quote mikeylikesit]If you don't like that, roll over.
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[PeterB]

[quote (vikm)]It amazes me that anyone still would be convinced McCain is "change" and vote for him. I can promise you that if a Democrat was in office the last 8 years and things have gone to hell as they have, I'd be more than happy (ok, maybe not happy) to vote for the other team and give them a shot.

We have such a short attention span in this country and are seemingly so easily distracted, I suppose it should come as no surprise that people forget what has happened over the last 8 years.
Ain't that the truth. Let's consider the last eight years in perspective. Super-close 2000 Presidential election is decided by the Supreme Court. The President so determined, sat silent at a school for several minutes while 9/11 happened. The world (at least, most of it) has our deepest sympathies at this tragedy. We launch a near-immediate, devastating retaliatory attack against Afghanistan, which seemingly did manage to cripple the Taliban, but also managed to starve many of the Afghani people. In response, we drop-shipped them food. We did NOT get Osama bin Ladin in this process.

Fast forward a few years, we are now being convinced by the same President that a pre-emptive strike must take place against Iraq because they harbor WMDs, and because there is a direct tie-in between Iraq and Al Queda. We execute such a strike, Senator Obama is one of the few open dissenters. President wins the electoral vote but loses the popular vote in re-election. Later, it is determined that no WMDs were actually present, and that the tie-in to Al Queda was spurious.

Fast forward a few more years. We've been occupying Iraq for several years with many casualties and with no truly stable government present there. ObL is still at large. Economy is in recession. And now we have two major choices.

PeterB's Points to Ponder:

1) How did we go from receiving sympathy and being "in the right" after 9/11, to being the world's scapegoat?

2) If your employee performed at the level of our current President, would you maintain his/her employment? And for eight years?

3) Considering the above in context, what do you want to do next?

[vision63]

McCain is pocket change.