The Danger of McCain and Why Obama Must Win

I posted this in response to another poster on another thread. I would like to however extend this beyond that thread, because I think some of us might benefit from some reminders...

Here's my first reaction when I read about our candidate seemingly reversing himself on a number of issues:



Then I think to myself. Wait a minute! Take a look at the reality of the situation. John McCain is something worst than George W. Bush. John McCain is dangerous, ruthless and wholly without honor. If this man is elected president, there is no doubt in my mind that he will make George W. Bush look like a bloody Girls Scout. Yes, I am absolutely certain that while Bush was bad, at least he doesn't have moments where he almost comes completely unhinged in public. How many of us have seen that queer smile play across his lips while there is no light in his eyes? How many of us have been inwardly repulsed at his use of the term, "my friends," and wondered what thoughts lay behind the overuse of said term? How many of us here and elsewhere have read about John McCain's temper, his vengeful nature? How many of us have witnessed him -- not his campaign or surrogates -- lie outright about his opposition? How many of us here and elsewhere recoiled in abject horror when we saw the infamous "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" clip? John McCain is the monster in the closet come out in the light of day draped in the American flag all the while salivating about the next war in order to protect our freedoms -- all the while calling for the spilling of more blood. Calling John McCain a monster is hyperbole, yes. However, realize this: John McCain is a man of war -- not a man of peace. In fact, he may be something unclassifiable in the politic sense. Yes, John McCain is something different, something quite beyond monstrous because it's all so clear in his actions, his words and his mannerisms that he is dangerous.

Barack Obama may not be perfect and he may have seemingly betrayed some stances; nonetheless, I don't see a monster in him. I haven't experience the faintest bit of quiet discomfort hearing him speak and watching the way he conducts himself. I don't find myself on edge when I think about what an Obama presidency will be like. On that same token, I don't see him as a knight in shining armor, but he is what stands between a further decent into madness and political debauchery and -- at least -- the chance to pull back from the brink of the abyss. If we should fail, if we should ourselves relent, and allow John McCain to be elected and Barack Obama to lose, then we are resigning ourselves, our children, and our country to an indeterminately dark future. I might not be completely sold on Barack Obama, but I am wholly convinced, doggedly resolute, that John McCain cannot be allowed to win the presidency. Sitting back, not voting, or neglecting to fight like hell... Well, if we do that... If any one of us should choose to take that course, then we might just as soon sharpen the executioner's blade, mix the vile concoction of poison ourselves and pray for a miracle. We cannot risk another four years of an incompetent and petty little man at the helm of this ship. We must choose our own course. Right now, Barack Obama is our best choice, the only choice, to put us back on course, and at least lock away the little beasties in their cages,at least tame them, if not stripe away their power forever.