On the Revving Up Presidential Drive

This is just something I posted somewhere in response to somebody else... thought it was worth posting here.

My opinion is the Republican Party picked John McCain because they know they're going to lose no matter who they nominate and they're ready for him to go away, much like what happened with Bob Dole in 1996.

That said, Obama... eh. Anytime someone criticizes him, his stock response tends to be along the lines of "this is the kind of divisive attitude that's the biggest problem in our country. We need to be united!" Well... I don't have a hard time interpreting that to mean "you, the minority, will agree with us, the majority."

There are legitimate reasons to be concerned about what Obama's real intentions are. He and his people have done an excellent job, in my opinion, obscuring the fact that he is among the most liberal politicians in the U.S. But the problem is... you'd rather have John McCain and a continuance of the status quo? Really?

By the way, I saw a McCain ad on TV today... the first words were "John McCain stood up to the president..." I can't even remember anymore what the context of the ad was; I think something environmental. But that's exactly what the commercial was trying to accomplish; it's those first seven words. McCain's first move, now that the campaign run has really started, is to distance himself from Bush. The problem is, that isn't going to work, because Obama's going to bash his brains in with IraqWarIraqWarIraqWarIraqWarIraqWarIraqWar. That's the context in which Obama and his people are going to communicate to us, loud and clear, that McCain is just like Bush, even if it's not so (and it's not) on many issues other than the war.