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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1299)	6/5/2008 11:17:41 AM
From: tonto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6579

After Obama flip flopped on Iran last week, nothing surprises me...these guys are something else.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1299)	6/5/2008 11:49:52 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 6579

The presumptive nominee: Is he making sense as well as history? Politics ain't beanbag, as someone once said, and we hope that attacks on Obama's leftist and quasi-Marxist positions and associations will not be deflected as racist criticisms. The heat he will face in this campaign is nothing compared with what he would face on the world stage. After the last balloon is popped, what we have is a 46-year-old freshman senator who has spent three years in the U.S. Senate, two of them running for president. As we have noted, his policy is basically to raise taxes at home and to surrender to our enemies abroad. His choice of friends, associates, pastors and churches bespeaks a lack of judgment that gives us pause as to who will fill important positions in the government and his cabinet. We'd prefer that the next secretaries of defense, energy and state, as well as the next Supreme Court justices be appointed by a President McCain. Some will say the nation has finally accepted the idea of a black American running for president. So far, the only thing certain is that it's OK for a black Democrat to run for president. We wonder, for example, if the press would swoon if it were a Condoleezza Rice running as a Republican. There's much to criticize about Obama. He promised a post-racial candidacy, but he brought race to the fore with his associations with a church that embraces black liberation theology and one preacher who said the U.S. government invented AIDS to kill black people and another who said Obama's opponent, Hillary Clinton, was the embodiment of white entitlement. It was out of political expediency, not principle, that he renounced them and the church that gave them standing ovations. His other associations — from influence peddler Tony Rezko to terrorist bombers William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — cannot be dismissed as people from the neighborhood.