Like a carnival magician, the McCain campaign is trying to distract the voters from the truth again – attempting to focus on Obama's character with guilt by association ads and smears. But Obama has proven his calm, steady character under pressure throughout two long, tough campaigns. The McCain charges are lies, lies, nothing but lies. “Pinocchio” McCain strikes again.
His ads attempt to raise fears, asking “Who really is Barack Obama?” But the better question is “Who really is John McCain?” Or maybe “Where is the John McCain we once thought we knew?” The old McCain is certainly no where to be found in the current campaign of lies.
The Republican propaganda machine does not want folks to keep thinking about the staggering economy, job losses, home foreclosures, gasoline prices and the Bush administration's wholesale gutting of the regulatory agencies that were established to protect Americans from robber barons, health hazards and the destruction of the environment. The Republican record of the last eight years is perhaps the worst in American history. So they are trying very hard to distract the voters from thinking about it.
As Joseph Galloway wrote about the Republican complicity in the financial meltdown, in the Miami Herald; “Over most of the last eight years, a Republican president and a Republican Congress aided and abetted this shocking development. Bowing at the free market altar, Republican politicians caponized, neutered and rendered toothless the regulatory agencies that were established to protect the public from predatory capitalism -- all while accepting fat campaign contributions from the predators. In his term, Bush has made the very rich very much richer and put the bedrock of this nation, its broad middle class, very much at risk of falling through the cracks his administration has pried open in the floor beneath their feet.”
And then there is the War in Iraq, which is bleeding $10 billion or more a month away from the United States, plus all the many losses of life and limb for our soldiers. What good could this money do here at home? What good could these young men and women have done in their lives that are now lost for a war based on lies?
But here goes McCain, talking about a hundred year presence in Iraq. He promises more of the same Neo-Con, blustering foreign policy as we have seen with Bush-Cheney.
As Senator John Kerry said, “McCain "has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he's made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shia violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves.” Kerry said that McCain has proven he has poor judgment -- too poor a judgment to be president of the United States.
John McCain has showed why the American people cannot trust him to bring a new direction in Iraq. McCain continues his pattern of pandering to the right wing that is his Republican party, and misleading the public about the facts on the ground by echoing the Bush Administration's talking points on the war. He claims every credit on the “surge,” inflating its real results, but the jury is still out on its effectiveness. Other factors have been involved in the violence slowdown, but McCain does not acknowledge them.
The truth is, John McCain refuses to admit that he is wrong on Iraq. He was wrong to echo the Bush Administration's misleading case for war on Hardball in 2001, wrong to predict an "overwhelming victory in a very short period of time" on CNN Late Edition in 2002, wrong to say we "will be welcomed as liberators" on Good Moring America in 2003, wrong to say the end is "very much in sight" in 2003, wrong to let Donald Rumsfeld keep his job in 2004 and 2006, wrong to say he could safely walk down a Baghdad street on 60 Minutes in 2007, and wrong to challenge the patriotism of anyone who disagrees with him. McCain is wrong to say that keeping our troops in Iraq for 100 or 10,000 years "would be fine" with him. [McCain Town hall in Derry, NH, 1/3/2008;)
"John McCain's angry tirades and misleading attacks can't change the fact that he refuses to acknowledge his own poor judgment in backing the Bush Administration's mishandling of the war," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. "It is evident that only Senator Barack Obama, right on his judgments of the war, can be trusted to bring the change in Iraq the American people want."
The person who will bring real change is Senator Barack Obama. With Senator Joe Biden by his side, with Senator Hillary Clinton leading the way in Congress with Reid and Pelosi, Senator Obama will bring in a new administration, with fresh ideas and a calm purpose, to make America a leader the world can trust again.
Obama and Biden and the Democrats know how to govern, something that has not been done since the Clinton Administration. A vote for Obama and Biden will help give America the change we need.
DO NOT BELIEVE THE FEAR ADS, AMERICA! OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE US INTO THE FUTURE, NOT FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS!
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