Why John McCain?

Because it's John McCain's time...

...and because he's an American hero and war veteran, a former POW and a U.S. Senator with years of public service and experience in dealing with numerous administrations in the White House. He's a man who has known the horrors of war and thus is less likely to be reckless with the lives of others and less likely than a younger man as President who might think he has to flex his masculinity in order to prove something...like his lack of military experience. In short - John McCain can be trusted. Post finalized on 24/02/2008 at 2252hrs

Jim Carder (see 'About the Author')

A Democrat from the State of Oregon

USA

It's a race for the highest office in our land.

The problems that the nation will be confronted with in the near future will require a seasoned, experienced, steady hand, not a young rapper nor a beauty queen.

I will agree that 'Black is Beautiful' but for the life of me, I don't see why I should feel compelled to vote for someone just because he has a brown face.

There has to be 'substance'.

I sincerely hope that things will not go with Barrack as it went during the invasion of Iraq where some called others 'unpatriotic' just because he or she did not go along with the White House on Iraq.

I just hope that it won't come to a point where people are calling others 'racist' just because they won't vote for Barrack Obama or  refuse to support him once he's elected.

Personally, I don't think that America is ready for Obama.

I also think that just because people think a certain way today doesn't mean that they'll still be thinking the same way tomorrow.

Look what happened with Iraq?

Quite a revelation, huh?

How many Americans support it now?

 ...trillions of dollars later.

The election of Barrack Obama to the Presidency could prove exactly as devisive in the end.

How can we take this kind of a chance with our national security?
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...and, no matter how much the Democratic candidates tell everyone how much they're going to change the world after they've been elected, nothing magically will happen once they assume office.

Any abrupt change in the status-quo could send the world into chaos.

Now, I'm not saying that I agree with how we got to where we are in this place in time. In fact, I believe that George W. Bush probably should've been impeached for dragging us into Iraq the way he did.

But the fact is, we're where we're at and we can't just roll back the clock to a favorable place in time that's convenient for us.

We have to do with matters as they are, with current realities and current concerns for the future, not sit around and cry over spilt milk.

Even though I'm no longer a Republican and I hate to have to say it, but at this point in the electoral process, I sincerely believe that John McCain is the only candidate up to the job.

I also believe that John McCain is the only candidate acceptable to the powers-that-be...the powers which control the very resources that America is still so dependent upon.

The Democrats may tout that they represent the future...but as I see it, the future they're talking about is at least 30-40 years in front of us.

What is needed right now is a strong steady hand...

...And my belief is that the steady hand I'm talking about is John McCain.

Yes, I know...he's the man who's admitted that he doesn't fully understand how the economy works.

But, for whatever it's worth, there are plenty of Americans outside of Washington, D.C. who do know how the economy works and John McCain, as President of the United States, will just have to tap into that expertise. Post finalized on 17/02/2008 at 2035hrs

Do you know that there are Gulf countries and oil companies out there that want to build pipelines across Asia to port cities in the Arabian Sea?

Those countries would like to rely on the United States to help them secure those pipelines from destruction by terror groups such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda. 

The United States is the only country in the world that is independently capable of taking this on and we do have an interest at stake; we need  oil to drive the machine back home because we don't have enough of it to meet our own domestic demand.

And, this situation will continue into the future until our country can finally make the technological leap from dependence on fossil fuels to alternate fuels and energy technology - not only for the production of electricity, but also to power its motor transportation.

'Rome wasn't built in a day'... and until America makes the transition to something other than reliance on fossil fuels, it's going to need all the oil it can find and right now that oil lies beneath Iraq, Iran and other regions of the Near East and South Asia.

What's important, as far as national security is concerned, is that access to those resources be preserved into the future for as long as needed to meet the energy demand of the American people.

That means for as long as we are dependent on oil.

And, this is the reality of our dilemma...and unless the American people want to see their foreign policy held hostage to foreign countries already held hostage to terror insurgency operating within their borders...just abandon the interests of 'big oil'.

This is a problem that's not going to go away. Not with any political candidate. No matter who gets elected. Post finalized on 16/02/2008 at 1510hrs

Whatever happened to 'George Washington and the cherry tree'?

Does anyone think that solutions from any of these people running for President will make things better in the long run?

Has anyone bothered to think of what the tax rebate might mean if we accept it right now?

What does it mean to each one of us, personally?

A few dollars more for savings?

A few more bucks to spend on the kids?

A few more gallons of gas to put in the car?

A few more shekels to put down on bills?

But what might this money represent to the folks in Washington, D.C?

A political payoff?

Are the rebates just a way for those in Washington, D.C. (who have been spending money like a 'drunken sailor') to  put the onus for the fate of the economy back on the heads of the American people for what will inevitably happen in the future due to government overspending?

Or, are the rebates just another way to detract the American people from asking too many questions about the 'real' issues of the election year that are critical of both the Democratic and Republican parties?

I must remind you that both sides of the political aisle have signed-off on the rebate idea.  Few, if any, town hall meetings on the issue have been held at the grassroots level with the nation's citizens to discuss the merits of the idea.

And, here we go again, with candidates offering us 'hope' and making 'promises' about what they'll do for us after they get elected...but they know, as well as you and I, that about all that's required of them as a candidate for President is a willingness to lie as much as necessary to get elected knowing (like we all do) that it still takes approval from both sides of the political aisle to get anything done in Washington, D.C.

And, the politicians know as well as you and I that candidates are not beholden to anything they say while running for office.

It has become obvious that 'honesty' is not a prerequisite for the job of President anymore.

Ask Bill Clinton about that.

'Believability', however, still is. Post finalized on 16/02/2008, 0300hrs

Our American economy is floundering and whatever economic measures are being used today by the current administration to stave off recession are like a little Dutch boy feverishly trying to stop a series of massive leaks in a dam with only ten fingers and ten toes.

But, I guess the little Dutch boy could have used his head.

Or, maybe that's what we ought to be doing?

Why do Americans continue to accept economic solutions from the very people who got them into this mess in the first place?- post finalized on 15/02/2008

Jim Carder

A Democrat from the State of Oregon

USA