Posted on 07/24/2008 7:09:18 AM PDT by Uncledave
Lesser of Two Evils vs. Riskier [Byron York]
From the new NBC/WSJ poll:
When it comes to your vote for [president], would you say that you are excited to be voting for him, you are satisfied to be voting for him, or you are voting for him as the lesser of two evils?
McCain Voters Obama Voters
Excited 14 33
Satisfied 42 33
Lesser of
two evils 43 22
Regardless of who you may be supporting for president, as you think about the presidential race and the direction in which the next president will take the country, who do you think would be the riskier choice for president — John McCain or Barack Obama?
McCain 35
Obama 55
Obama is risky, will raise taxes, and won't develop energy. That's McCain's winning formula.
Pretty concise analysis, and I agree.
As I recall, “risky” used to be a favorite DEM buzzword. Everything was a “risky scheme.” Now the risky scheme is the Obama campaign.
Title should be: Obama is Evil and Risky.
Obama will lose in Iraq in order to keep his anti-American base happy. He us pro-abortion, pro-healthcare entitlement in spite of the fact that socialized medicine everywhere else is disaster. O-bama (as in Alabama) will appoint the unqualified and un-American to run an already broken Washington, D.C. The man is a Marxist as is his militant wife...they are beyond “Risky”...
For what its worth here’s a letter to the editor of our local news paper they peblished on this topic. Will be writing many more on the dangers of an Obama administration.
The Lesser of Two Incompetents
Published in NWFDNews July 23,2008 as Two Incompetents
Once more we’re, faced with choosing the lesser of two incompetents for President. One candidate says he doesn’t know much about economics. The other routinely proves he doesn’t know anything about economics, or about the economic damage created by the unintended consequences of his proposals.
Take Barak Obama’s plan to raise the payroll tax pay cap to save Social Security. Social Security is in surplus now. That surplus is debited to the Social Security Trust Fund and is rolled over into the General Fund to pay for the earmarks Congress treasures so they can buy votes from their constituents. In short the proposal doesn’t save Social Security at all, it just adds to the national Debt.
Or consider any income redistribution proposal to raise income and capital gains taxes on the ”rich,” transferring it to the poor and middle-class after the government takes its cut. It’s assumed that this will level the playing field and reduce the wealth gap, and that it won’t have a negative effect on the behavior of the “rich” or the economy.
Taxing the “rich” causes them to shield their income, transferring it to less profitable investments for themselves and for the economy as a whole. The taxed income is taken out of circulation. It’s no longer available for purchasing consumer goods and investments, funding growth and the creation of new jobs resulting in a declining economy and increased unemployment. As Abraham Lincoln wisely observed, “You don’t help the wage earner by punishing the wage payer.”
To use an NFL analogy I thought the Dems picking Obama over Hillary was like a team drafting a flashy RB over a left tackle (come to think of it the Hillary-left tackle comparison works in other ways as well).
Sick of the whole bunch of the worthless scum in DC. Either traitors, stalinists or spineless RINO’s are way too numerous and turn their backs on the productive Americans who make this country! That we have to even cry out on the issue of energy is a travesty. We need to do something a bit radical...how about a massive trip to DC and clog up the
roadways so the elites get a little discomforted should do the trick!
I am not sure they helped her. They spawned jokes about the call be for or from Bill.
Obama is inexperienced, a muslim sympathizer, a marxist and a racist.
Anyone who denies any of the above is less than objective.
My head spins when I realize a man like that is likely to be our next president. I am deeply concerned about the America my children will live in.
This should be in every McLame ad. He could even sub the words, oil producers and gasoline consumers.
tflabo,
Something I suggested a few weeks ago. But massive has to be millions...10-20 million people literally removing Senators and Congressmen from the capitol building, the Marxists from the Supreme Court, Bush’s thieves from the Fed and the SEC and declaring all of them unemployed. Unfortunately, some very good people will be thrown out as well, but they can be replaced. Will the left send the natl guard to fire on 10 million citizens? It would be very interesting to find out. But nothing short of this sort of extreme act will get it done. It’s far too late for voting and hoping things somehow work out. MAybe a good American revolution every 200+ years will become the norm. This one is long overdue.
Sorry I totally disagree.
Obama is not risky. He is a typical predictable socialist. We know he will push for more welfare more taxes, amnesty. etc.
The risk is John McCain. We simply have no clue what he will do. The only bone he gives conservatives is Iraq.
One second he is against tax cuts, now he is for them. He is now the eco warrior, the green warrior. Now he is gonna continue more global AIDS funding, more money for African, push for Amnesty, Cap on trade, Global Warming. etc.
How is the GOP gonna rally to McCain if he is President if he pushes that crap? Not gonna happen.
The GOP acts like conservatives when there is a rat President. Secondly, McCain is gonna splinter the GOP into the Wilderness when he pushes ‘Immigration Reform’. It's his ‘top’ priority.
McCain might win the Presidency, but the GOP will lose in the long run.
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CORRECTION: A reader points out that 44 percent of Obama’s voters, not the 33 percent that I originally wrote,
are excited about voting for him, so the enthusiasm gap is even bigger than first appeared.
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