Archive for September 20th, 2008
All Along I Thought It Was Only President Bush Who Lacked Communication Skills
September 20th, 2008
If elected Senator Obama had better hope that friendly teleprompter is always nearby:
Speeches and talking points fashioned by others might sound great but as President you must also think and speak for yourself.
Is this why Senator Obama would not agree to the several Town Hall meetings suggested by the McCain campaign early on?
Obama’s Economic Team
September 20th, 2008
Note: Reines and the Obama campaign claim he is not a part of the Obama campaign.
Don’t forget Obama’s running mate Joe Biden is on the influential banking committee (chairman) and until he was picked as the VP running mate his son was a lobbyist for the banking industry. Cozy.
Consider this when you vote.
Posted in 2008 campaign, Barack Obama, Campaign ads, John McCain, Presidential candidates | 
Comments Closed
McCain is “Dishonorable”?
September 20th, 2008
This week the Obama campaign has taken a new tack in the presidential sweepstakes. He has taken to calling Sen. John McCain “dishonorable” in speeches and advertisements.
We might be able to call John McCain a lot of things, but “dishonorable” is not one of them.
While in the Hanoi Hilton for five and a half years his body was broken in so many places it’s a wonder he is able to even move now. By his own admission they finally broke him mentally when he signed a letter saying he was an air pirate. He gave up no useful information to the Viet Cong. None, zero, nada, but was ashamed because he finally “broke” under so much physical abuse.
When asked the names of his squadron members he gave the names of the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers.
When he came home, at the right time (even though he was given a chance at an early out because his father was an admiral in charge of the fleet in Viet Nam he declined because the Code of Conduct says first in, first out) he went to work to rehabilitate his knee, which had been crushed and was extended. He endured excruciating pain to get to where he could walk. He still endures excruciating pain today and is unable to move his arms above his shoulders due to the pain. He can barely comb his own hair. This will only get worse with time as the arthritis gets worse, but do we hear him complaining?
Every time someone says something about Obama he comes out whining they are lying. There must be a lot of liars in this world, according to him.
The fact of the matter is Obama has never been tested and a time of war and economic uncertainty is not the time for the new kid on the block who has a steep learning curve and has to pray he has the right advisors.
I’ve seen John McCain in action during this campaign and I cannot say he has done anything dishonorable. He may selectively quote Obama in his ads, just as Obama does, or even worse, Obama makes it up out of whole cloth, but McCain has remained civil.
People complain McCain has a notoriously bad temper. Well, it wasn’t McCain who told his supporters to get in the faces of those who oppose him. Getting in my face is a sure way to make me stand my ground. I don’t take to intimidation lightly and I will deliberately side in with the underdog if I am being intimidated to stay away from him or her. This has been my history all my life.
It didn’t make me the most popular person in school or at work, but I knew when I went to bed at night I could sleep well because I didn’t join in with those who were acting like pack animals and picking on someone who was “different”.
You see, I had family members who stood up for the underdog and didn’t care if it hurt their reputations in the community. How many times I remember my Aunt Polly or Aunt Pauline or grandmother standing up for the unpopular because they knew it was right.
This is honor and John McCain has more honor in his fingernail clippings than Barack Obama has in his entire body and campaign staff.
Call McCain anything, just don’t call him dishonorable.
