(Palm Beach Post) Why Obama? His record, judgment, temperament

Source: Palm Beach Post

Sunday, October 19, 2008

During Wednesday night's final presidential debate, John McCain said to Barack Obama: "I am not President Bush." It was one last failed attempt to convince enough voters that a McCain administration would be much different from the Bush administration.

In June 2005, Sen. McCain said on Meet the Press that "on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush." Indeed, Sen. McCain advocated the invasion of Iraq just weeks after 9/11. After opposing the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts on the principled grounds that they would give too much to the wealthy and too little to most Americans, Sen. McCain has made extending those tax cuts the centerpiece of his ideological economic policy. Based on his own words, Sen. McCain would appoint the same anti-consumer Supreme Court justices Mr. Bush chose. Based on his own actions, Sen. McCain favors the Bush-style, hands-off attitude toward financial companies that contributed to the current crisis.

Sarah Palin recently criticized the Obama-Biden ticket for looking back, not ahead. But past performance is the best indicator of future behavior, and the country is in a ditch because of policies that John McCain favored and Sen. Obama opposed.

Before he even got to Washington, Sen. Obama not only criticized the Iraq invasion as a distraction from the fight against terrorism but predicted the potential problems that President Bush and Sen. McCain dismissed. In March 2007, when Mr. Bush and Sen. McCain saw a blue-sky economy, Sen. Obama wrote this in a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke:

"We cannot sit on the sidelines while ... families face the risk of losing their homes. And while neither the government nor the private sector acting alone is capable of quickly balancing the important interests in widespread access to credit and responsible lending, both must act and act quickly. Please don't let this opportunity pass us by."



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Very well done, Palm Beach Post.

Tell Limbaugh (who lives there) to stuff it.

I'm listening for the sound of her head exploding.................