obama informercial gameday thread

[Dirtbag59]

I just can't believe that the American people are more then willing to give complete control of the government to a party after the debacle with the Republicans earlier in the decade. I mean what are the Democrats going to do better without someone to keep them in check? The only check they have is in 2010 when the next round of elections is set to be held.

Right now with what I'm hearing about congress and Iraq being almost over I would want McCain to win. We can't give a party complete control over the government it's political suicide but most voters seem to be Bret Farve esque when it comes to making decisions. They think that since the Republicans were in office when all this happened then putting the Democrats in office will fix everything. It's like "oh we just elected the wrong party."

Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely

In truth I would like to get rid of the Republicans and Democrats but that doesn't seem to be a very viable option.

Another thing about Obama, I know this is conservative rhetoric, but him and his party can't get his story straight when it comes to his tax cuts ($250k, $200k, $150k) and by nature politicians don't keep promises once they get elected into office (*cough* Bush, modest foreign policy*cough*) . I mean at the very least we had the Bush tax cuts extending to 2010 but with absolute power in the government the Democrats will be able to repeal them and create a tax code that probably isn't very beneficial to a struggling economy. In fact the only thing in the way of Obamas massive spending plan is the recession and the bailout, but if I'm not mistaken Clinton raised taxes on his 35th day in office after making similar promises during his campaign.

The funny thing is I like Obama. I think he can be a great leader, in some ways he'll definatley help with the countries image over in Europe and the rest of the world, but some of his proposals are on the extreme side (ie his desire for a spending spree during a recession) and without someone to keep him in check I fear the worst. With that said I don't believe he's a socialist just like I don't believe John McCain is the huge war mongerer people make him out to be.

By the way this is propoganda from both sides. Obama isn't getting rid of capitalism anytime soon and the ironic thing is socialist scoff at the idea of Obama being a "true" socialist or even a semi "socialist." McCain on the other hand might be more apt to fight but his dedication to Iraq before everything calmed down as of late was mainly because he doesn't want to have to go back (think Afghan-Soviet conflict and Japan after WWII). McCain knows what it's like on the front lines, he understands the horrors of war and he doesn't take pride in knowing that soliders are dying. Look either way we're still going to Afghanistan but at least Iraq is almost behind us.

Also for the record my political views are libertarian.