[PlainOleAmerican]

This writer has it exactly right, no matter how much I'd love to cast a vote against McCain in the general election, just as I did in the primaries.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Obama is the only reason that I’m voting for McCain.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I am glad to see that people are waking up to who Obama really is. I was looking at the FR Poll and couldn’t believe that 3.3% of Members said they would vote for Obama. That’s not much, but one (1) is too many.

[xjcsa]

I can understand conservatives who will vote for McCain to stop the Marxist Ubama, but I can’t do it. Every time I start to think about voting for McCain, he opens his mouth again, and I just don’t think we’re any better of with him. I’m just hoping and praying that somehow he ends up not being the nominee in the fall.

[TomGuy]

Well, this is McCain (from This Week, February 17, 2008) [emphasis added]:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.

MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.

MCCAIN: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?

MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.

It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.

No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpyer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees?

[freekitty]

Words mean something and these people have yet to understand that.

[shortstop]

It will be hard for me to vote for McCain when I’m holding my nose with both hands.

[SE Mom]

I agree with most of the piece. I am holding out on a “decision” to vote for McC til November...but I’m not as closed as I was 2-3 weeks ago..for the reason- the writer states- Obama.

We all need to understand this is NOT remotely like it was when Carter ws elected, ushering in the Reagan era. The times truly are DIFFERENT and the stakes higher than we even know.

Obamania is sweeping, enormous and should give us ALL cause for sober reflection.

[2harddrive]

Osama! Obama! He’ll make Big Gov yo’ Mama!

[TomGuy]

But in exchange for my vote for McCain, I want something in return. I want McCain's solemn oath to the American people that if elected, he will:

And that is what he has, thus far, refused to do -- sign on to a series of committments.

IIRC, he has yet to sign Senator Sessions' pledge regarding illegal immigration and borders.

The only 'comittal' is he acknowledgement that 'we must secure the borders'. Well 'secure the borders' is a rhetorical nothing phrase, unless it is place in context with 'how' and 'when'. Notice that McCain has never really said 'how' or 'when'. So, his admission that we need to 'secure the borders' is a lame political stunt.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

McCain will sell the U.S. down the river, maybe not as fast as Obama will, but it'll be a slow, agonizing death rather than a clean quick death under Obama.

It all depends on McCain's VP pick. If he chooses Mark Sanford or SD Governor Rounds, yeah, I'll hold my fricking nose again. But if he chooses Jeb Bush or Crist or another RINO, forget it.

[Grunthor]

I can understand your point of voting AGAINST the other guy, not for the Repub but ponder this; After 4 years of McCain rule we are still in Iraq, the 1st amendment is even further eroded perhaps even with things like government spies on FR, one or two American cities have gone up in nuclear flames because the President refused to waterboard a known terrorist in order to stop it in time and the Mexican-United States border no longer exists for any intents and/or purposes.

A conservative decides to challenge President McCain in 2012 for the nomination.

What is the liklihood of folks just like yourself coming out for that conservative? Or (more likely) would you people be telling us to stfu and sit down, we already have the Presidency, don’t rock the boat.

[Jackknife]

I must say that I agree.

[org.whodat]

The writer is saying a vote for mccain is an endorsement for the leftward movement of the republicans. You need to improve your reading. But if you are really a lefty then I understand your approval.

[Vision]

Great piece.

[tueffelhunden]

If people think they will get anything different from McCain, then all I can say is, if he gets elected, I can’t wait to hear the wails and see the gnashing of teeth.

Ever heard of McCain Feingold.

Clue

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Politics is not the art of the possible. Often it consists in choosing between the unpalatable and the disastrous.

[John Semmens]

Obama Proposes “Labor Battalions” [semi-satire]

In a move the candidate characterized as having the dual purpose of restoring “a sense of community” and “combating obesity,” Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill) said one of his first policy initiatives if he is elected president will be to ask for legislation establishing government-run “labor battalions” wherein people will be called upon to “toil for the collective benefit of society.”

“Americans have become too self-centered, too greedy,” Obama said. “This isn’t their fault. Our society doesn’t insist that they put aside their petty personal concerns for the good of the whole. As president I will be giving Americans the opportunity to do just that.”

While all the details of this proposal haven’t been laid out, the gist of the plan calls for every working American to contribute one month a year to community projects. “People will get their hands dirty investing their sweat for a better America,” Obama rhapsodized. “They’ll be out in the fresh air getting exercise, too.”

Those reluctant to contribute to the effort “will be asked to attend special education sessions to try to help them overcome their selfish aversion to work for the common good,” Obama continued. “We will change America, one soul at a time if that’s what it takes.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[TXnMA]

See tagline...

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"What he was proposing was pure socialism, correction - communism, straight out of the teachings of Saul Alinsky and Karl Marx. It all centered around government control over everything from the energy industry, to home mortgages subsidized with our tax money, to government run healthcare."

Obammunism.

A demagogue running as a Third World dictator.

[The_Macallan]

"We have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. Barack Obama is the only person in this race who understands that. That before we work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken, in this nation. If we can't see ourselves in one another we will never make those sacrifices. So I am here right now because I am married to the only person in this race who has a chance of healing this nation.

Barack is more than ready. He will be ready today. He will be ready on day one, a year from now, five years from now, he is ready. That is not the question. The question is what are we ready for? Wait Wait Wait! Because we say we are ready for change. We say we are ready for change, but see, change is hard. Change will always be hard...

And Barack Obama, will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your division. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone. That you push yourself to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved and uninformed."
~ Michelle Obama.
Audio here
Video here

Obama knows your soul is broken...

Obama will REQUIRE you to work.

Obama will DEMAND that you do what he says.

YOU are cynical...

YOU are uninvolved...

YOU are uninformed...

Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual.