From the transcript of the final presidential debate:
Barack Obama: “When President Bush came into office, we had a budget surplus and the national debt was a little over $5 trillion. It has doubled over the last eight years … And, frankly, Senator McCain voted for four out of five of President Bush’s budgets.”
No, Obama is not running against Bush. I think the senator knows a thing or two about term limits. But, Obama is running against the last eight years of disastrous Republican economic policy that was made real by Bush and supported by John McCain. All Obama is doing is looking to the record, which is all we have to go on at this point, isn’t it? America cannot afford more of the same, not even after it has donned lipstick in the form of The Maverick and The Sundance Kid (or whatever it is they call themselves now).
Never forget August 29, 2005:
I had an interesting chat with my basically moderate father, who says he’s voted for Democrats and Republicans in equal numbers over the years. One the one hand he thinks Bush has been a disaster. But he sees McCain as a better potential president. He would probably be planning to vote for him (and he lives in a major swing state!).
But he says he’s just been so appalled by how negative his campaign is, not to mention his cozying up with the far right, that he’s going to vote for Obama. I suspect that he’s concerned about Obama’s youth and not really comfortable with the messiah-ish tone his campaign has sometimes taken (I’m with him on that one). But McCain, who four years ago appealed to him, has completely driven him away.
I hope there’s a lot of that going around.
Bravo Maitri. In this case 13 pictures are better than 13,000 words. One in particular.