Ladies and Gentlemen and those of you who I would question applying either of those pleasantries to...

Its 29 days until the General Election...
Its less than that before Colorado distributes its Mail In Ballot (if you signed up for it)(and rememeber if you did you HAVE to use it - you can't skip it and go to the General Election polling places)...

That said...
I'm usually not one to call my shot on anything political because often I prefer creating the debate for the sake of debate because I LOVE to debate...

... but in this case - with so much of EVERYTHING at stake... with the fact that McCain and Palin have opted to stop talking about the issues and started launching character and personal attacks on Obama (often the last refuge of a failed campaign) I'm putting my position out there:

PLEASE - if you have value the future of this nation's prosperity, your own prosperity, your children or future children's chances of not inheriting endless debt and endless wars...
PLEASE Vote for Obama.

John McCain should scare the crap out of you if you have any sense of who this man has become comparative to who he used to be.

He is a shell of his former "maverick" self.
This is a man I used to respect, and even in some respects like as a politician....
But now --- It - no... HE has become a gimmick. He knows it. If you have any radar for lies YOU know it. Just look at how he always falls back on it whenever he's confronted with having NO plans, no issue statements he holds to, no truth to his "straight talk", no intelligible explanation for picking Palin, ANYTHING he finds difficult to answer he pulls the "Maverick" card and smiles at some ridiculously inapporpriate moment.

If that doesn't work...
He busts out with the "when I was in the Hanoi Hilton..." comment trying to gain sympathy and play on some sort of qualification card that he does not have the right to lay claim to.

Being a mediocre pilot and subsequently SHOT DOWN does not make you qualified to be Commander-in-Chief any more than any derogatory comments he makes towards Obama's supposed inexperience in preparation for that role.

Is he a hero for the ordeal that befell him in Vietnam? Yes. That is not in question. But what he is NOT is a person that should be the next President of the United States because of that experience.

Some other things about him that disturb me... besides the fact he's become a two faced Bush cronnie and a traitor to the own ideals he upheld throughout the 80s into the 90s...

Here are a few things you may or may not know about him that particularly bother me:


  1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
  2. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."2
  3. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.3
  4. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.4

Sources:
1. "The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day," ABC News, April 3, 2008

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...mplicated.html


"McCain Facts," ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008

http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts/



2. "McCain says Roe v. Wade should be overturned," MSNBC, February 18, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17222147/


3. "2007 Children's Defense Fund Action Council® Nonpartisan Congressional Scorecard," February 2008

http://www.childrensdefense.org/site..._scorecard2007


"McCain: Bush right to veto kids health insurance expansion," CNN, October 3, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/...ain.interview/



4. "John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record," Sierra Club, February 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/environment/77913/


AGAIN...

PLEASE... for your own sake... for your children's and/or future children's.... for this country you live in, work in, and hopefully love...

PLEASE....
Vote Obama