Posted by
Bevster on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:51:52 PM
The main talking point, a weak one in my opinion, for Obama and the Democrats is that John McCain represents a third Bush term. First of all, John McCain is John McCain and George Bush is George Bush. Answer me this are Democrats are hiding some scientific discovery somewhere proving that two different men born from two different parents and grew up in two different backgrounds are going to make the same exact decisions on the same exact issues under the same exact circumstances? Are the Democrats able to look into the future and see what a John McCain Presidency is going to look like? During the first six years of his Presidency George Bush allowed his party to spend and spend while John McCain railed against it then and is railing against it now, vowing to not let out of control spending from either party. Just from the simple fact John McCain has experience in the Armed Forces gives better credibility and judgement in military situations than President Bush and the good example of this is McCain's push for the surge in Iraq to fix Bush's failed military policy in Iraq in the beginning. John McCain will push for more Accountability and Transperancy than what President Bush has imposed, in addition McCain looks to be more open to other points of view and not stick with the decision he initially wants i.e. his VP selection of Sarah Palin over Joe Lieberman. Then there are the people that John McCain is going to surround himself with. There is going to be Mark Salter, not Karl Rove. There is going to be Sarah Palin, not Dick Cheney. Say what you will about being similar on policy; the fact is with a different decision making process, different people advising him, different circumstances, and a different view of the country and the world, John McCain as President will be very different than George Bush. After all, if John McCain representing a third Bush term is such the horrible, crippling thing the Obama and the Democrats are making it out to be, then why is John McCain averaging around 47% in the polls and George Bush is around 32% job approval? Would not conventional wisdom suggest that McCain be getting the same amount of support as George Bush's job approval rating if he truly did represent a Bush third term?