Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and Reed not a moderate amongst them; this will be who is running the American government if Senator Obama is elected in November. This shouldn’t only concern conservatives and Republicans, but should be on the minds of moderates and independents too. There frequently is a desire to answer lopsided power on one side with an imbalanced push for lopsided power on the other side. However, a stable sound government is often best achieved from the middle. Swings left or right are normal and to be expected, but a far left or far right government doesn’t truly serve or reflect the American people. The beauty of a McCain presidency is that the government would be balanced. Even the most optimistic Republican doesn’t think Democrats will lose control of the Congress. That means the executive branch would be controlled by a Republican who has a history of working in a bipartisan manner with the Democrats who would control the legislative branch. This is the sort of practical reasonable government that turns down the volume on the bitterly partisan rhetoric of the last couple decades, and gives America a government more reflective of the mixed red, blue, and purple worlds most of us live in.
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I agree with this position 100%. The American public should develop the stomach to replace the Congress on a regular basis until we get real leaders who can put the country before their party. The Republicans messed things up with people like Mark Foley and Tom Delay. Now Pelosi is on a power kick and won’t tolerate honest discussions of policy. If the White house goes to Obama it will be difficult to see him with the backbone or the inclination to buck the Congress on any liberal legislation.
I would like to offer a suggestion on the VP pick, Carly Fiorina. She is articulate, knowledgeable in economics and business, and doesn’t bring the idealoge baggage with her.
She was removed from HP by the board over a disagreement in policy, not performance.
“I would like to offer a suggestion on the VP pick, Carly Fiorina. She is articulate, knowledgeable in economics and business, and doesn’t bring the idealoge baggage with her.”
Why are republicans always confusing Business with Economics? The two are as different as night and day. One is concerned with public policy and the other with running a corporation. Last I checked the United States was a democratic republic and not a corporation. Fiorina has an MBA in marketing. Her background in Economics is almost certainly limited to elementary courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Ditto for Mitt Romney.
P.S. I have a PhD in Economics and have tutored MBAsand so ought to know. They should stick to what they know best: trying to make their businesses profitable by putting corporate assets on the chopping block and sending our jobs overseas.
If I have a choice of a professor of any skill or knowledge set and someone who actually does it for a living and does it well, I’ll take the do-er everytime. Give me people who do things & make things happen, –not those who study ad nauseaum, talk & pontificate. Its like choosing between natural talent in a sport and learned talent–natural talent trumps learned talent nearly every time. And that last statement reveals an ignorance beyond what even a socialist PhD in Economics would say. Anybody with real knowledge of corporations and business knows better. I’m calling BS on the writer.
I’d argue that there is a basic nuts and bolts element of business that could be of great use in the government. Also, reducing the corporate income tax as McCain recommends will help keep jobs in America and help small businesses which is where most new jobs come from.
I’m VP neutral, but don’t see any reason for eliminating business people from the selection when they could bring an extremely useful skill set to the table.