Best McCain ad yet

[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

How anyone could still be an apologist for Bush and co. is beyond the scope of my imagining ..People voted out of fear,nationalism and xenophobia and look where it has gotten us..a ruinous imbecile in the White House and now someone who used to consider himself a "maverick" apparently intent on continuing many of those myopic policies even praising his former nemesis Karl Rove and his odious smear tactics.I for one am happy to vote for someone that offers a promise of healing our wrecked international reputation ..The quality that made America great was it's ability to embrace change and to take chances and an opportunity to embrace those ideals again are why I will be voting for Barack Obama in November.

I'm not sure how you can blame him for everything either. Most of what goes wrong is our own fault, but we blame the president because we blame him for not saving us from our own stupidity. WE are responsible for inflation and rising costs, WE are responsbile for rising gas prices, WE are responsible for our own economy, yet we blame someone because we don't understand that our own problems are the net sum of our own personal decisions. Take some responsibility for yourself. If you vote for Obama because of a "promise of change" a promise is all you will get. He reverses himself on some key position every week because he finds out that it isn't popular.

He has reversed himself on:
Drilling
Troop Withdrawal
Campaign Funding
Debates

and God knows what else. He is now FOR drilling and continuing the war and even going back if we're needed further. How is that change?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

. . . He is now FOR drilling and continuing the war and even going back if we're needed further. How is that change?

No, you are not quoting him truthfully.

He said he is against drilling but would vote for it in a limited capacity as a compromise, to wit:

If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage -- I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080103199.html

That is wildly different than your statement that he if for drilling.

As for the war -- Obama has always said the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability. If you can find any quotes to the contrary, I'd like to see them.