I assume by several of your posts, that you don't support Obama.. If so does that mean you support McCain? If so why? What do you think he will do for this country? What makes you think he will be any different than Bush, given his voting record?
It's very simple for me. I know first hand socialism that's even worse than any yet reached in the USA. I know that all but very very few politicians are dirty crooks. Even among those few are most likely no completely clean politicians.. It's most likely (from all I've seen) impossible not to get yourself dirty over the years, if for no other reason because the dirtier will want to have some dirt on you for leverage.. So they just shovel it at you till it sticks.
But there are some things you can still do as a politician, even if you've got dirt on you.. You follow the Constitution. Not call it a 'living document' up for constant re-interpretation, not just blindly follow its word, but understand what it means in its full context, with the rest of its related literature.
I don't particularily like McCain. His VN experience is part of him.. But politicaly, I'm pretty sure that when I was back in Phx, at least a dozen people mentionned some things that he'd done that were enough to scratch him off the clean/trustworthy list. I don't remember the specifics, but at least one problem was him waffling and more or less betraying his state, or something like that.
The only politicians I'd vote for (rather than against their opposition) are the libertarians.. They're often (relatively) a bit odd, but they follow the constitution and stand for individualism. I'm not gonna repeat Lazs' rap about that. All you need to know is that I have the exact same position.
Anything left of center is evil. And pretty much the whole left-right spectrum is slowly but surely shifting leftwards, and toward bigger government, etc etc. That toejam needs to stop. So, no, I'm not supporting Obama. Obama and his party hack team, the Clintons, etc, can eat my nuggets after I squat em out. I couldn't possibly pretend to one day swear myself citizen if I voted for those guys. I don't see any reason to believe that they're closer to a constitutional rule with individualists' interests than Republicans.. Even given all the bad about the Reps; their drift away from the earlier days around Goldwater's time, etc.
Obama reminds me of French politicians.. They're professional politicians, they go thru political science schools etc, they're like academics. Analogous would be a preference for an engineer to do something, rather than a theorist. An experienced war veteran to lead a military op, rather than a green graduate, no matter his curiculum back in school.
