"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I’ve been betting this for weeks. Especially in times of financial crisis which this seems to be, no one is going to roll the dice with this foreigner.
Like him or not, McCain is pretty much a “what you see is what you get” kind of guy. He has a definite track record in the Senate (for better or worse). Obama is too much like the Invisible Man. No real record in the US Senate, ties to the Chicago Machine, too many lefty connections, and barrels full of bromides to top it off. America hopefully will go with the old shoe—even though I would like a newer one that had a conservative outlook.
I have a really hippy friend (lives in SF, drives a VW microbus, along with a few much nicer rides) but he's more realistic than most.
I was talking to him about the election, assuming he was in Obama's camp, but he wasn't.
He told me that he thought if Obama was the real deal and believed and could pull off all he spouts off about, it would make the world so much better. But if he's a fraud or a boob, it could be a gigantic disaster that we might never recover from.
He's not afraid of McCain and thinks McCain will just keep the ship straight and in good shape for his term. He won't fulfill his liberal dreams, but he won't burn the ship down to the waterline through incompetence.
He's leaning towards McCain, and the more shit that gets dumped on Obama will push him more firmly to McCain. He's a pretty wealthy and happy hippy and has no desire to watch the country blow up.