My first blog post. Oh, boy, this is exciting! It might be a bit better if it did not come on a note of anger.
John McCain has gone missing. The so-called "maverick" that has worked throughout his career trying to create an image of non-partisan collaborations for the good of the country is completely AWOL. In his place, we have the New John McCain. This new McCain seems to be a bastardization of George Bush, echoing Republican talking points, and yet using his speech on Thursday night and his VP pick of Sarah Palin as his idea of "change" in Washington. Is it me, or did someone else already promise change in this election?
McCain has gone back on everything he once believed in. He spoke out against Bush's tax cuts before, but now he wants to keep them in place. He is a former prisoner of war (in case you somehow forgot), and yet he has been indifferent at best to the activities going on in Guantanamo Bay.
Don't get me wrong; Barack Obama is not a saint either. He failed to take a strong stand on the FISA issue a few months back. Then just this week in an interview with Bill O'Reilly, he claimed that the very surge in Iraq he fought against had been successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Apparently no one has dreams any more, because it seems fairly imaginable for it to have gone better.
But the fact is, John McCain needs to get his story straight. Some of his flip-flopping can be outdone only by the astonishingly terrible campaign of Sen. John Kerry in 2004. Full disclosure (something I'm sure no one is used to): I support Barack Obama for president. That said, I think both candidates would be an improvement after eight years under the Bush administration.
Original source: http://politicrazy.wordpress.com/?p=5
