Live Breathe and Die

Some people are principled. Some people are extremely principled. For John McCain, taking the high road and principles are very important. I have a message for him; STOP !!!

There are certain things about Barack Obama’s background, character, judgment and associations that have to be called onto the carpet. These things HAVE to be confronted in a venue like a national debate. They deserve a very large audience. It is no time to fall back on principle, a need to always take the high road, and let these important issues fall by the wayside. Barack Obama is running ads about the Keating Five, for crying out loud, something McCain was exonerated for long, long ago.

Barack Obama has a list of questionable associates, questionable positions and limited experience and these things need to be part of a formal debate. Leaving them on the back shelf is just plain stupid. We’re talking about the position of leader of the free world here. Can Obama’s true doctrine and ideology get a pass?

If a Republican won his or her party’s nomination for the presidency, and they had a Reverend Wright or William Ayers or Father Flager or Tony Rezko in their lives, they would be excoriated. They would never be the nominee in the first place.  The newspapers would run daily front-page articles chastising the Republican and calling for their head.

A Republican who had four months experience in national politics, no executive experience at all and no major accomplishments would never see the light of day as a presidential candidate and especially their party’s nominee.

Why then, do we give Barack Obama a pass?  And an equally important question; why didn’t John McCain go after him on these important issues? It’s all good and fine to have a set of personal principles that one lives by; but let’s get real.  In this second presidential debate, I would have been all over Barack Obama like a lion on a gazelle and that’s what Senator McCain really needed to do.

I don’t care if you are an Obama supporter or a McCain supporter.  Do you really think that the playing field would be the same if an inexperienced Republican with ties to questionable characters was running for president?  Be honest with yourself. There is a double-standard that is simply unreal in this election and you Obama supporters have to start thinking about the decisions that presidents have to make. There is no time to learn on the job like a vice president can.

Someone who is sympathetic to terrorists or terrorist nations endangers every American. Does anyone want to put any member of their own family in harm’s way because we elected a president who doesn’t take terrorism seriously? What may be worse; a president who buys into the extremist thinking of those terrorists?

My message to John McCain is simple; call this guy to task. Make Obama explain to the American people, in front of a massive audience, why he has such close ties to a convicted felon.  Why did he spend twenty years, TWENTY YEARS attending a church run by a separatist; an avowed racist. Why does he refer to this guy as his spiritual advisor? I guarantee you that they are still the best of friends. There is simply no vetting of Barack Obama and Senator McCain could have engaged some serious vetting in this debate.

We have just seen more evidence of voter fraud by Barack Obama’s former employer. We have heard first-hand stories from people around the country of Obama operatives engaging in voter fraud, signing up under-age voters, and people with no verifiable address or evidence of national citizenship. He needs to be called out on all of this.

This election is being rammed down the throats of 40% of Americans and the other 60% have been lulled into a delusional state, forgetting the impact of the office in question and looking the other way on the questionable, little-known background of their candidate. Obama refuses to release health and prior political records that John McCain released and no one is questioning his refusal.

Senator McCain, you have to go after this guy in a big way in the next debate. It may already be too late. There has been enough propaganda, enough one-sided television and newspaper coverage to have brainwashed a sufficient number of voters. Then, what are we left with? It only takes one terrorist attack of an enormous magnitude to leave the few survivors asking; what did we do?