Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Interesting article positing that Obama is a new born babe, a tabula raza, incapable of anything yet on his own.

Just a few minor sticking points to this view:

He has 47 years of experience as an American. More than a decade of experience as a Congress person. A professor of Constitutional law. A man whose experience with Americans is based on helping as a community organizer and representative. A person less tainted by the corruption in the U.S. Congress, by far, than John McCain. A man who has rejected corporate lobbyist money and campaign donations. A man who isn't afraid to get his mind dirty with some economics textbooks, unlike McCain who voted to spend trillions of tax dollars in his Senate career without ever opening an economics text book or learning even the basics of this topic or computer skills, or internet, or anything else that has arrived new on the American scene since his war days in Viet Nam.

McCain has no shame taking big Oil money through the RNC and in his many past Senatorial races. And is out there banging the Oil Company's message on the campaign trail, to give them carte blanche to lease and drill where ever they wish to despite the fact that these oil companies are NOT investing profits in new drilling in areas of leases twice the size of Texas on land an in the Gulf of Mexico.

T. Boone Pickens said the solution to our oil dependence CANNOT be solved by more drilling. I will take his experience on the issue over McCain's in a heartbeat.

McCain is out there just like GW Bush was, saying what his puppeteers are telling him to say to sucker the voters into his camp. And McCain's presidency will be as disastrous as the current puppet president playing step n' fetch it for the big Oil, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, and Banking industries, even as these industries ruin our nation's economy and future with abject greed and lobbying in Congress.

For someone who has been involved in politics for sometime he has accomplished remarkably little. His record in the Illinois state senate is abysmal. Bring on the amateurs, and if the Democrats aren't careful, put them in the white house. The polls show a remarkable 'buyers remorse' for a party that should have had this race sewn up by double digits by now.

It's possible what hurt Obama was Obama himself.
Obama's comments about "Oh by the way, did I say he was black", "he doesn't look like those other presidents on the dollar bill", and other comments are playing the race card. We don't need Barack to tell us these things. By the way, Barack is half white too. But who cares? Why continue to play the race card?

Again, the two front-runner choices in this presidential election stink.

That's why it is more important than ever that voters not forget about Congress.
Regardless of who the next president is, do the voters want to sabotage their president by saddle with the same corrupt, do-nothing Congress?

David R. Remer,
DITTO what you said too.

David wrote: Obama is not above speaking unscripted and making occasional gaffes. McCain this last week has abandoned contemporaneous speech. His handlers now have him strictly scripted unless it is before small gatherings with few to no video cameras and sound. Smart move on McCain's handlers.