that’s how he has you fooled. Obama IS MORE OF THE SAME! The rhetoric is designed to make you swoon, and convince you he represents a change which is what you think will make you happy, because you ain’t happy now! McCain does the same thing to the other half of our polarized thinking.
This is like a superbowl where eveyone is forced to choose up sides and then get artificially emotionated for one team, one way of thinking, or the other.
And in the meatime, from their end, they’re just playing poker, bluffing their way through the superbowl of lies. Aint either one of them gonna change much. The system rules, not the players. Washington politics is the system, and no one would have bet on Obama if they weren’t sure they were going to capitalize on him within THE SAME SYSTEM OF BUYING FAVORS FOR A CHANCE AT INFLUENCING THE GOVERNMENT TAX COFFERS.
And Obama is much more bought into that system than McCain is. He’s got ‘o’ so much money, from ‘o’ so many interest groups and individuals to repay.
And as far as your criteria go, if there’s one thing to say for Obama is that he’s definitely smarter than McCain, and has a great management system and funding sources that are very strong and very deep. And that’s the only reason that I would vote for him. All the rest of what he says is, like McCain’s, meaningless.
When you finally get the ball, you need to shut up, and do the zigzag necessary to keep the ball for 8 years. You don’t do that by fighting a war, or impeaching a past president, because his game is generally not any dirtier than yours.