Reasons to support the McCain-Palin ticket! by Skywalken

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Reasons to support the McCain-Palin ticket!

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UPDATED: Monday, September 8, 2008 08:58
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Monday, September 8, 2008 4:37 AM

The New York Post lays some of them out:

* National security: The differences between McCain and Obama are especially stark.

McCain says 9/11 represented a two-decade "failure . . . to respond to . . . a [growing] global terror network." He understood that Iraq is a critical front in the war on terror - and he urged perseverance even in the dark days that preceded the success of "the surge."

Obama backed policies that would have abandoned Iraq to its fate, he bitterly opposed the surge, and once insisted that US forces invade Pakistan in search of Osama bin Laden - seemingly without regard for the potential consequences of attacking a nuclear-armed nation, ally or not.

Regarding a nuclear Iran, McCain has pushed for the strongest possible international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Obama opposes sanctions.

And, when Russia invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia, threatening a return to the Cold War, McCain reacted with stern disapprobation: "We must remind Russia's leaders that the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world require their respect for the values, stability and peace of that world."

Obama called for UN action - unaware, apparently, that Russia's Security Council veto would have prevented any.

* Taxes: McCain knows that when government absorbs ever-larger shares of national income, the economy suffers.

High tax rates diminish investment, killing jobs and stunting growth.

And while Obama promises tax cuts for "95 percent" of Americans, what he actually is proposing is some $650 billion in tax-credit-driven hikes in entitlement and other spending, to be paid for with heavier imposts across the board, but especially on investment - like a sharply higher capital-gains tax.

This is bad news for the millions of ordinary Americans who own stocks, either personally or through pension funds or who plan someday to sell their homes or other real property.

McCain, wisely, vows to keep capital-gains taxes at 15 percent and to keep the Bush-era tax cuts in place - understanding that new growth will boost revenue, and promising to make up the rest with spending restraint.

And he's called for a one-year freeze on most discretionary spending and an end to pork-barrel giveaways.

* Trade: "I object when Senator Obama and others preach the false virtues of economic isolationism," says McCain - noting that "globalization is an opportunity" for US workers. He adds that while emerging economies like those of China and India are worrisome, the answer is competition informed by education and innovation - not protectionism.

* Energy: On the economic issue most vexing Americans today - energy prices - McCain is aggressive

He is a strong convert to offshore drilling: "We have trillions of dollars' worth of oil and gas reserves in the US at a time we are exporting hundreds of billions of dollars a year overseas to buy energy."

He also strongly backs nuclear power - a carbon-free form of energy that America can produce relatively cheaply.

Obama, meanwhile, hews to the Democratic Party line on energy: no nukes, no drilling and no comprehension of the consequences of such policies.

None of this implies an iota of disrespect toward Obama. It took a formidable candidacy to defeat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton - a candidacy, by the way, which we strongly supported earlier this year.

And the intelligence, the organizational skills and the ability to communicate that Obama demonstrated from the beginning dramatically underscore the history that is being made by the first African-American to head a major-party presidential ticket.

He should be around for a long time, and we hope that he is.

In the end, though, sound security, economic and energy policies - plus allegiance to principle - are critical to keeping America safe and strong.

On all counts, John McCain and Sarah Palin understand this.

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Monday, September 8, 2008 8:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Too much here to address all at once, but I found this one particularly humorous:

Quote:
McCain, wisely, vows to keep capital-gains taxes at 15 percent and to keep the Bush-era tax cuts in place - understanding that new growth will boost revenue, and promising to make up the rest with spending restraint.

How's that growth working out for ya right about now? And how 'bout that spending restraint? Man, you guys have restrained us straight from a balanced budget and a budget SURPLUS to the highest deficits in history and a national debt clock that's in danger of spinning itself into a new dimension.

And that restrained spending just tacked on ANOTHER $5 trillion by taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and assuming all of their bad debts.

Gawd-DAMN, that's some wise economic policies you've got there!

If I follow your economic model, I can spend myself into a billionaire in just three short weeks!

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

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Monday, September 8, 2008 8:58 AM

FREMDFIRMA

The greatest threat to our national security, is our National Security.

Tell me, folks - where and how did those assholes in 1993 get the bomb plans, materials and expert they needed to wire it up and set it off, hmm ?

Tell me, folks - what DID most of the damage to the Oklahoma Federal Building, hmm ?

Tell me, folks - does the TSA feeling up your wife at the airport, and the NSA diggin into your personal life make you feel SAFE, or angry ?

And finally, when have they ever caught any of these guys, they never really do, in spite of the massive budget, in spite of the stolen freedoms, they still can't manage to do their job, instead preferring to harrass, annoy, and even outright murder the very people they're supposed to be protecting.

Dunno about you, but a guard dog that growls at your children while showing bad guys where the valuables are....

Belongs in the fucking pound, not the front yard.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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