Why I despise McCain, Palin, Biden, and Obama

McCain is old. There's a 50% chance of him dying in office. And he has a temper. In 2000, he almost left the Republican party for the Democrat party. He was a member of the Keating 5, the 5 Senators who intervened on behalf of Charles Keating, Jr. who had defrauded Americans during the Lincoln Savings and Loan collapse. He urged the Reagan administration to meet RENAMO, a Mozambique terrorist group - without precondition.

But most of all, I just don't like him. I think he's a hypocrite and a huge won at that. Any faults that he finds with Obama can easily be seen with himself or Palin. He has changed his mind drastically in the past year on many issues. A year ago he said that he would have attacked Iraq before 911 and would be there for a hundred years. He is a warmonger. He said in January that he has no knowledge of economics.

He supports a major tax change that would affect the lower class more drastically then "socialism". Your employer provided health care would be taxed. That would throw good health care out the window. Many people will opt not to have health care rather than pay higher taxes.

And he chose Palin. President Bush tried to appoint Harriett Myers to the Supreme court when no one knew anything about her - except that she had been his personal lawyer for decades. I would be afraid that McCain would chose members of his administration like Palin chose members of her governship's administration - close friends and allies who are not necessarily qualified for any job.

Palin is the biggest example of poor judgement. Nevermind the $150,000 that was her fall wardrobe. Or the million+ a year that she earns. She's just like the rest of us, except, if the current mayor of Wasilla, AK is any indication, lazier. Her background includes winning a beauty pageant, dropping out of four colleges, being a sports reporter, being a mayor of Wasilla for 6 years, and being a governor for a year. An interview with the current mayor of Wasilla, AK reveals that the mayor doesn't manage any departments, services, other then signing checks on Thursdays. A demanding job, I'm sure. As mayor, she supported the "Bridge to Nowhere" only to claim that she never did later. She put friends from high school in office. She was found guilty of firing a State Trooper because he had divorced her sister. Her husband was part of the party that wanted to succeed from the USA. Her campaign manager says she has gone rogue. She cannot say a cogent sentence without queue cards.

Next is Biden. He hates the internet as we know it. His bills have been strictly anti-current day internet. He wants emails to never be encrypted. He supports internet taxes. He wants all the music on your computer to have DMCA - even past songs that you may own (you would have to repurchase your music). He supports "net-neutrality" - a misnomer that really means the opposite of what it infers.

And then Obama. I actually don't care about him supposedly "not being an American citizen" - the Democrat party would not take that gamble this late in the game. It doesn't bother me that he won't say the pledge of allegiance - the words were changed in 1960 anyway and I'm pretty sure that there are phrases in it that the founders did not intend (and what's so special about the flag? I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America - not its flag.) It doesn't bother me that his middle name is Osama - it's only a name and a famous one at that. (What does bother me isn't him but the racist comments that many people make about him.)

My gripes with Obama are exactly my gripes with all the other four previous contenders. They are all the same when it comes down to the nitty-gritty. None of them are different.

(Note: In the following, "they all" does not refer to Palin, who does not have the experience to have actually have voted for the following.)

They have all supported the economic sell-out, I mean bail-out package. They were ardent on getting it done quickly, even though time obviously was not needed (the stock market dropped 700 points the Monday after it passed).

They have all supported Acts that ruin our Constitution, particularly the the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, which do away with half of the Bill of Rights and give the President dictatorial powers in "a national emergency".

They have all called for more war. McCain is belligerent towards the Russians. Obama has called for US military action crossing the border into Pakistan. They all haved called for military threats against Iran.

They are all members of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose most notable accomplishment is NAFTA, the trade agreement that many in Midwest would claim has caused lost jobs. NAFTA is also why our foods are currently unlabelled with the country of origin. NAFTA has quite possibly been responsible for lost jobs in Mexico - who import many of their fruits from other countries, despite plenty of them being homegrown. If CFR has anything to do with it, expect an international government sponsored bank soon here in America - similar to Europe's move to a centralized European bank.

I'm pretty sure both candidates would continue to "fight terrorism" with one hand and with the other and give money to terrorist groups, or future terrorist groups. We give billions to people like Musharraf and then we go to war with them.

To me, the choice for President is between war and socialism. Since war leads to economic depression (pouring money into another country that doesn't raise any revenues is pretty bad for the economy) and depression leads to socialism, I cannot support McCain. Since socialism leads to a lack of competition (so do capitalistic monopolies) I cannot support Obama. Since both candidates support similar policies that degrade civil liberties, that support war, that swipe more money from poor hands, that continue our failed economic policies, I cannot