McCain versus Obama
There is a very fundamental difference between McCain and Obama when it comes to dealing with terrorists. One says power and strength, the other says negotiate and dialogue. This could very well become the issue that most defines the difference between the left and the right in the upcoming election. Personally, I don't quite understand why this is even an issue. It should be a no-brainer.
When Obama talks about having dialogue with the enemy, he is not ruling out the use of force. When McCain talks about using force, he seems to be ruling out the use of dialogue. Why not do both? Isn't that how Kennedy got us thru the Cuban Missile crisis?....dialogue with a back up of force if needed?
We have tried the cowboy mentality. If George Bush had ever done anything right, if any of his policies proved to work, I could understand McCain saying that we need to stay on the same track, to give it more time. We need a president who realizes that the course we have been on has been a failed course and it's time we try something different. We need a change of direction, to say the least.
Personally, I don't think John McCain is going to be four more years of George Bush. I think he would be a much better president, but he would only be better at administering the same basic policies that have gotten where we are today economically and with this war in Iraq. More trickle down economics, same borrow and spend policies, ignoring the infrastructure, weak on education, weak on the environment, policies that encourage the outsourcing of jobs, no head way in promoting oil independence (other than to drill in our parks), and no new ideas to get us out of Iraq. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe he would be four more years of George Bush.