Now that we’ve moved…
Kappamerc said:
Clearing the playing field was a smart move. I would have done the exact same thing. Also, have you ever considered that people might fake signatures or not get them through appropriate means?
Had they been fake I would agree with that but the vast majority were legitimate signatures that just weren’t cursive enough to the examiners or weren’t obtained through a licensed party official. I don’t know if you’ve ever signed a nomination petition but they are very rarely passed around by officially licensed people, at least not on the Rebublican side. I just don’t get how people believe he’s above old political tricks and games when that’s how his career started.
Kappamerc said:
He ran one of the best campaigns ever. His organizational skills are amazing, his ability to communicate is extremely effective, and the ideas himself or his aides come up with are actually good.
If McCain had been allowed to raise and spend as much money as Obama did I imagine his campaign would have been just as good. Obama cleared the playing field again when he lied about his intention to take public financing and the opt out after McCain accepted it. I’m sure you’re going to say that it was smart but he’s the first major candidate since the public financing system was created to opt out, from either party. Now we can expect both parties to completely ignore the public system in favor of not being tied down by spending limitations, good going, you just made every election in the future twice the spending fest it already was.
Kappamerc said:
The last thing we needed was for McCain to get sick or die and have Palin run the country.
From the thousand or so pages of medical information McCain disclosed, he was in great health. We knew much more about his health than we did Obama’s.
Kappamerc said:
I tried to like Bush and didn’t have a negative opinion until he made about 20 mistakes in a row.
I really hate to defend Bush but as time goes on it’s actually getting easier. It’s been really easy since they actually found WMD’s in Iraq and publicly sold off the stash of Uranium they captured from Saddam’s nuclear program that “didn’t exist”. Which mistakes in particular were you referring to because I’m sure in the next few years any of them that were major talking points will be proven wrong.