Choice made - vote cast

I voted Barack Obama today. By casting my absentee ballot I have decided that no matter what kind of October surprise occurs, at least one vote will be in the bank for my candidate.

I am convinced that the times are too perilous to entrust our most important office to someone too rash, impulsive, and angry and who despite his self proclamation of being a maverick has been in almost lock step with the leaders who brought us to the edge of the abyss in both foreign and domestic arenas.

John McCain’s two heroes, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, do not fit the mold of the types that give great comfort in what could be the desperate hours that face us today. T.R. was as impulsive and reckless as McCain and Reagan was the most important American leader who set us on the course that brought us to where we are today.

During the campaign, Obama has exhibited the qualities of my political hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt; he has been cool, calm and resolute in the face of the problems he will inherit from what has been an incompetent and reckless administration headed by President ****** *. **** and Vice President ^^^^ ^^^^^^. Barack Obama is the man of this hour, our hour. The times look bad and we need an intelligent and resolute hand on the tiller. The Civil War made Lincoln. The Great Depression and World War II gave FDR his stage. Barack Obama is the man for this crisis.

**** attacked Iraq based on poor intelligence. More importantly, the information used to justify the preventive war was controversial even within his intelligence community. Almost six years later, we find our selves with more than 4,000 army, navy, air force and marine dead and 30,000 wounded, many disabled to the point of damaging their ability to lead productive and happy lives when they return to civilian life.

The economic and financial situation that has become obvious to all over the last few weeks can be traced directly to the philosophy, policies, actions and inactions of the **** administration, directly aided, abetted and championed by John McCain. Even today, McCain’s most important message harkens back to Reagan’s view that the government should be moved aside and let the markets bring us unlimited bounty.

Yesterday, I listened to the radio as conservatives swore that the prosperity of the past twenty-five years was unprecedented in human history and that we should stay the course with Reaganism. That the house of cards on which that prosperity was created, deficit spending and a deregulation policy that virtually assured abuse by clever and overly greedy people is now crumbling about us and that the measures of prosperity – using the market as indexes – have given back virtually all of the gains of the years of the **** administration.

Our housing values are retreating and will soon have given up virtually all recent gains – with millions of American destroyed in the process. Retirement plans of millions have been altered, postponed and many millions will die before they can recover anything like what has escaped their desperate clutches.

All of this was enabled by John McCain. His self proclamation of being a maverick is completely unconvincing. The Republican Party has been captured by fools. They must be turned out in droves to lick their wounds and to contemplate what they have done to the nation. Only when they can demonstrate that they are true conservatives – fiscally and in foreign affairs – can they be worthy of our trust again. And it is going to take many years.

Be gone, you fools!

And I ain’t b.sn’ya.