A comparison of the websites of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain makes clear which candidate has thoughtfully considered the issues of our times and is offering plausible solutions. One website has a well-defined 33-page plan; the other has a hunt-and-peck feature that leads to anecdotal paragraphs explaining some possible options.
We owe it to ourselves as voters to be educated and fact filled, to use logic and good sense in deciding this election. So, read, study, and learn. I promise you, the Republican Party is not the same as it was when grandpa was a Republican. Likewise, the Democratic Party is not the same as when you volunteered for it in high school. In 2008, the Republican Party stands steeped in and poised to continue its reckless behavior of deficit spending. The Democratic Party is ready to lead the way back to balanced budgets and treasury surpluses.
The common definition of maverick in the U.S. and Canada is “an unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.” If indeed this definition is what Senator McCain and Governor Palin refer to in their use of the term, then we should most absolutely fear McCain. Although he astonishingly asserts the untrue notion that Senator Obama got his political start in the living room of a terrorist, we can say that McCain was branded early in his own career by none other than the American financial terrorist, Charles Keating. Unfortunately, I believe his inability to focus on current problems with our economy and the world economy as a whole is substantially due to two points: McCain has little to no conceptualization of economic forecasting or implementation, and I sadly guess that somewhere on his hide is branded CK, not meaning Calvin Klein.
