Jack3213 WROTE: "WHO [EVER] FAVORS INTELLIGENCE, CREDIBILITY, AND EXPERIANCE? --THOSE WHO FAVOR MCCAIN.... FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THINGS WILL "CHANGE" --DAY ONE-- IF A DEMOCRAT WERE ELECTED SHOULD KNOW THAT WITH A DEMOCRAT DAY ONE MIGHT CHANGE SOMETHING AND THAT SOMETHING IS: HIGHER TAXES, GREATER SECURITY RISK, UNACCEPTABLE HEALTH INSURANCE, AND A WEAKER ECONOMY"
Dear Jack3213,
It's obvious that Change in the economy, health care coverage, homeland security and the tax code will not happen on day one. That's indisputable. What is also indisputable is that Senator McCain is intelligent and experienced; he is, and so are his democratic opponents, Senators Clinton and Obama, alike. The credibility of anyone running for office, however, including John McCain, is speculative, at best. If a democrat is elected (and Senator McCain is not allowed to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor), your drawn conclusion that a weaker economy will follow is rash and reflects your own insecurity. No economist, Milton Friedman, included, can augur or foretell this from an election. That nearly 50 million Americans have no health care coverage is already unacceptable. Voters are not privy to Homeland Security, so your prediction, on that matter is weak and of little or no practical value. Any drawn conclusions, humble or immodest, are burdened by misanthropic musings and made obscured by character assassination
In Politics, It’s All About Who You Know
Comparing Obama and the Rev. Wright with McCain and Charles Keating.
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History repeats itself, but not without a few wrinkles. We make the comparison — then pick it apart.
The Comparison
The controversy over Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., calls to mind another personal association that nearly clipped a rising-star politician. In 1987, John McCain intervened in the investigation of a savings and loan run by his friend and patron Charles Keating, whose company later headlined the S&L crisis.
Why It Works
Both inconvenient friends undercut the public image of their pals in office, and both candidates made politically tin-eared choices by consorting with them. The Reverend Wright is hot and divisive, while Obama's message is cool and inclusive. And Keating served four years for fraud, while McCain campaigns as an ethics crusader.
Why It Doesn't
McCain's favor to a well-heeled friend and Obama's allegiance to a fiery black minister raise very different questions of character. Also, while McCain faced down expulsion from the Senate and jail for corruption—since Keating had given $114,000 to McCain's campaigns— Obama's worst case is a lost election.
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