I Am Voting For John McCain

I am voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
The US. faces some trying times ahead. We need a team with integrity, judgement, character, and experience. McCain has proven himself over the years to embody all the above. Obama is lacking in all the above.

On Energy, McCain recognizes our national security depends on energy independence. He has proposed an energy plan akin to the one put forth by T. Boone Pickens. It involves Clean Coal technology, Nuclear Power (which is much safer today than in previous years), Wind, Solar, Hydro, Natural Gas, and increased Domestic drilling. Our national security is tied to our self sufficiency.

On the Economy, McCain has proposed a corporate tax cut, just as Obama said. Think about it for a moment. Obama wants to increase the corporate tax rate. Folks, we have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world! Companies are in business to make a profit, and their stockholders demand it, investing accordingly. If we increase the corporate tax rate, we will only drive more of these companies to overseas locations where the tax rates & labor costs are lower. This will cost us the loss of more jobs. Lower tax rates will help keep those companies and jobs in the US. The bailout bill has addressed corporate greed and executive compensation. So that should be more fair. Americans can not be so naive as to believe that companies that stay in the US. will just eat the tax increase. Obamas corporate tax rate increase will hit the American consumer, just as if it was a direct income tax increase. The companies remaining in the US. are going to pass the increase onto all of us. This will hit us in the form of higher prices, and increased inflation. You think that a gallon of milk is expensive now? Just wait. This is a poorly thought out plan, and goes directly to Obama’s judgement.

National Security, Veterans & Military, Listening to the debates has exposed Obama’s naivety. He speaks well, but has nothing beyond a handful of memorized lines. His idea of holding ‘Presidential Level’ talks with Iran, is dangerous. It is no secret Iran wants a Nuclear arsenal. They have the missles to carry them to Israel. They have said they want to ‘wipe Israel off the face of the map’. Eventually Iran will have missles that can reach Europe, and then finally the US. Radical Muslims have all said they want to kill all westerners. Obama claimed that Henry Kissinger agreed with him on Presidential Level talks with Iran.

Kissinger came right out and said Obama had mischaracterized Kissinger's statement. Kissinger had said direct talks would be fine at the Secretary level, not at the Presidential level. The reason we do not want to talk at the Presidential level without preconditions, is to do so, will lend the Iranian leader equal gravitas. This would allow Ahmadinejad to show up, make a statement, and walk out claiming he had stood up to the ‘Great Satan’. It would undermine our American leadership. McCain would not hold direct talks, to do otherwise is poor judgement, arising from a lack of experience.

McCain, at the beginning of the Iraq War, disagreed with the strategy Bush chose to follow. McCain wanted to go in with a stronger, more prepared force. He finally got his way 3 1/2 years later in the form of the ‘Surge’. Had we followed his advice in the beginning, we could have saved many lives, and money.

Obama says he would fight Pakistan unilaterally if he thought we could get members of Al Qaeda. McCain correctly pointed out that it is not wise to “announce” this in advance, as we need cooperation from the Pakistanis’. Both men agree we will have to send more troops into Afghanistan. I trust McCain’s judgement and experience to lead this endeavor. Americas security depends on its success. McCain worked to increase pay scales for servicemen and women during both the Persian Gulf War and the current War on Terror and to increase enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for reservists and guardsmen. He also sponsored bills to give special tax relief to deployed service members and to set up overseas savings programs for the men and women fighting in the Gulf War.

McCain has supported legislation to expand retirement benefits for reservists, supported provisions to expand eligibility for health care benefits for reservists and their families, and sponsored legislation to grant survivor benefit payments to the spouses of reservists who die during or as the result of training. He is committed to ensuring that veterans’ health care programs receive the funding necessary to provide the quality health care our veterans need and deserve. He has worked to ensure that the Veteran’s Affairs provides care for all eligible veterans, no matter where they live or what they need. In addition, John McCain has fought to ensure that retired servicemen and women have meaningful access to affordable health care.

McCain strongly believes that it is our duty as a nation to provide our veterans, who dedicated their careers, risked their personal safety, and sometimes sacrificed their lives in order to protect us, with the benefits that we have promised them and that they have earned. John McCain has voted consistently to increase funding for veterans’ benefits, recognizing that the people who serve our country should get priority over the disgraceful amounts of spending on corporate subsidies and wasteful pork barrel spending. He also pushed for various initiatives to ensure that veterans who are eligible for benefits know what they are entitled to and have the resources to obtain their benefits.

I am old fashioned and do believe character counts. I believe McCain is the man with better character. Obama made a conscious decision to surround himself with Slumlord felon Tony Rezko, and Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers, and racist Rev. Wright. Obama sat in that church 20 yrs! Google; ‘Black Liberation Theology’.

As a State Senator, Obama directed tax dollars to Tony Rezko's company to maintain low income housing in Chicago. Rezko took the money, but did not fulfill his obligation. The Federal Government had to step in, and seize the properties. Many of the buildings were in such disrepair that they had to be razed. Rezko upon receiving the tax money, suddenly was able to donate over $150,000 to Obama's campaign coffers. To me it looks like Rezko simply took his cut, and "donated" Obamas cut to his campaign.

Obama held his first campaign meeting when starting out in the living room of Domestic Terrorist, Bill Ayers. How could Obama not know of Ayers radical past. They were both on the board of the Woods Fund, and The Chicago Annenberg Challenge. In addition to this they were neighbors. Obama directed funding to Ayers. Ayers wanted the funding to push his radical education initiatives. The education initiative failed, and over $100 million dollars were gone.

As for Reverend Wright. Here is a man who holds the white population in disdain. How could Obama sit in a church that many years and not hear the sermon. What if he wins and does not hear that emergency 3am. call? This church has an education unit within the church that follows Black Liberation Theology. Again, I ask that everyone take a moment and google that. Obama is not a "post-racial" candidate, but embodies some deep seeded suspicions of whites. I come to this conclusion from Obamas own words:

” I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”

“The emotion between the races could never be pure….. the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”

“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

"never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself..".

I could go on, but I think you get the point. Obama has defended these remarks. He said they were taken out of context. The people at "factcheck.org", stepped in on his behalf. Basically factcheck.org implored readers, "Don't believe your lying eyes."

After Law School, he worked as an executive trainer for an organization that has been in the news lately. He trained on 'tactics'. It's name is ACORN. ACORN is being investigated throughout several states for voter registration fraud. The ACORN volunteers have been indicted and convicted in several cases. It is a naked attempt to steal this election. The real kicker is that the Democrats tried to put funding for ACORN into the financial bailout package that was just passed and signed into law. The House Republicans voted down the first package, and the wording was removed.

No one can say these things about McCain. His biggest "scandal" was the Keating 5 back in the '80's. The Democrats lead investigator, Robert Bennett, recommended that John McCain and John Glenn should have been exonerated. According to Bennett, the Democrats did not want to exonerate McCain, as it would leave only Democratic Senators in trouble.

Sarah Palin, is a lady I can relate to. She connects with Middle America. She is one of us. She knows what it is to shop in WalMart, to have her family's health care cut off, and the need to adhere to a tight family budget. She does not merely 'talk the talk', she 'walks the walk'.

She does not interview well, as we have all watched. She is not a Washington insider that has spent a lifetime doing daily interviews. We have seen her do great at speaking and debating.

As a Mayor and Governor she has taken on "the good old boys network", and won. She had the chutzpah to take on the incumbant Republican Governor and knocked him off in the Alaska GOP primary. Palin has built a reputation for reforming the Wasilla and Alaska government. She ended personal property taxes, and took on big oil.

McCain and Palin are the Mavericks in this election that will bring the governmental change needed at this time.

I must confess. McCain was not my first choice. However, we have only two choices. With the research I have done, I have concluded that McCain is the best choice.