Canadian states the obvious

[[DvT]UY]

Snopes verified

This guy is not in the forest, so he can truly see the forest from the outside. Interesting observation!

Democrat or Republican? The question is shockingly easy!
Theo Caldwell, National Post ( Canada )

An obvious choice can be unnerving. When the apparent perfection of one option or the unspeakable awfulness of another makes a decision seem too easy, it is human nature to become suspicious.

This instinct intensifies as the stakes of the given choice are raised. American voters know no greater responsibility to their country and to the world than to select their president wisely.

While we do not yet know who the Democrat and Republican nominees will be, any combination of the leading candidates from either party will make for the most obvious choice put to American voters in a generation. To wit, none of the Democrats has any business being president.

This pronouncement has less to do with any apparent perfection among the Republican candidates than with the intellectual and experiential paucity evinced by the Democratic field. "Not ready for prime time," goes the vernacular, but this does not suffice to describe how bad things are.

Alongside Hillary Clinton, add Barack Obama's kindergarten essays to an already confused conversation about Dennis Kucinich's UFO sightings, dueling celebrity endorsements and who can be quickest to retreat from America 's global conflict and raise taxes on the American people, and it becomes clear that these are profoundly unserious individuals.

To be sure, there has been a fair amount of rubbish and rhubarb on the Republican side (Ron Paul, call your office), but even a cursory review of the legislative and professional records of the leading contenders from each party reveals a disparity akin to adults competing with children.

For the Republicans, Rudy Giuliani served as a two-term mayor of New York City , turning a budget deficit into a surplus and taming what was thought to be an ungovernable metropolis. Prior to that, he held the third-highest rank in the Reagan Justice Department, obtaining over 4,000 convictions.

Mitt Romney, before serving as governor of Massachusetts , founded a venture capital firm that created billions of dollars in shareholder value, and he then went on to save the Salt Lake City Olympics.

While much is made of Mike Huckabee's history as a Baptist minister, he was also a governor for more than a decade and, while Arkansas is hardly a "cradle of presidents," it has launched at least one previous chief
executive to national office.

John McCain's legislative and military career spans five decades, with half that time having been spent in the Congress.
Even Fred Thompson, whose excess of nonchalance has transformed his once-promising campaign into nothing more than a theoretical possibility, has more experience in the U.S. Senate than any of the leading Democratic candidates.
With just over one term as a Senator to her credit, Hillary Clinton boasts the most extensive record of the potential Democratic nominees. In that time, Senator Clinton cannot claim a single legislative accomplishment of note, and she is best known lately for requesting $1-million from Congress for a museum to commemorate Woodstock .

Barack Obama is nearing the halfway point of his first term in the Senate, having previously served as an Illinois state legislator and, as Clinton has correctly pointed out, has done nothing but run for president since he first arrived in Washington. Between calling for the invasion of Pakistan and fumbling a simple question on driver's licenses for illegal aliens, Obama has shown that he is not the fellow to whom the nation ought to hike the nuclear football.

John Edwards, meanwhile, embodies the adage that the American people will elect anyone to Congress -- once. From his $1,200 haircuts to his personal war on poverty, proclaimed from the porch of his 28,000-square-foot home,
purchased with the proceeds of preposterous lawsuits exploiting infant cerebral palsy, Edwards is living proof that history can play out as tragedy and farce simultaneously.

Forget for a moment all that you believe about public policy. Discard your notions about taxes and Iraq , free trade and crime, and consider solely the experience of these two sets of candidates. Is there any serious issue that you would prefer to entrust to a person with the Democrats' experience, rather than that of any of the Republicans?

Now consider the state of debate in each party. While the Republicans compare tax proposals and the best way to prosecute the War on Terror, Democrats are divining the patterns and meaning of the glitter and dried macaroni glued to the page of one of their leading candidate's kindergarten projects.

Does this decision not become unsettlingly simple?

[{DvT}JonahHex]

Yes, it is unsettlingly simple. After 8 years of Bush, 6 years of a Republican Congress, and 2 additional years of a Republican minority blocking the sorts of changes the American electorate demanded during the last election, the decision is unsettlingly simple:

Throw the bastards out.

[{OF}Flying_Dutchman]

yup I agree.

Time for Bush to leave and McCain to get in there

[{DvT}JonahHex]

IOW...

"The new boss is the same as the old boss."

[[DvT]UY]

Originally Posted by {DvT}JonahHex

IOW...

"The new boss is the same as the old boss."

You've been fooled again...before the election

[[DvT]UY]

Originally Posted by {OF}Flying_Dutchman

yup I agree.

Time for Bush to leave and McCain to get in there

Agreed.

Oh this just in....the BS Shrillary - NY Times machine has been started and despite the period of relative inaction seems to be running just fine. On the first pass we find where McCain had had an affair back in 2000. The fact that it just now surfaced doesn't warrant any suspicion

In other breaking news, Obama and his support staff, when questioned directly and repeatedly still cannot think one even one legislative accomplishment

Stay tuned...

[{DvT}JonahHex]

Originally Posted by [DvT]UY

I've been fooled AGAIN!...before the election

Fixed.

[[DvT]UY]

Originally Posted by {DvT}JonahHex

Fixed.

When you start changing my posts you have hit the bottom of the debate barrel. Time to respawn and try again.

gg's

[ChemicalWarrior]

Didn't you just a couple of threads ego do the same thing to a news article Snipes posted?

[[DvT]UY]

Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

Didn't you just a couple of threads ego do the same thing to a news article Snipes posted?

I dunno Chem...maybe I did. Why don't you post it here and we'll know for sure.