McCain-Palin or Obama-Biden...that's the question!

My dear fellow Americans,

I am The Original New York City Free Advice Man (see The New Yorker magazine, August 17, 1987, p. 18-19), and I am here to share my insight, ideas, concerns, as well as my inspiring words. These are words you won't hear often from other people, but they will be important in bringing about the positive change we all yearn for. Read and see what I mean. By the way, you can really do a lot to help insure that The Obama-Biden Ticket for American Unity Wins Big this November, by simply copying this and pasting it in an e-mail and then sending it off to your friends, and asking them to do the same! Just remember to put your own salutation and name at the beginning! (e.g. Jennie McCollum here...thought you would like to read this inspiring piece! I was feeling a bit down but it lifted my spirits, because I know those who read it will most likely vote for good change! YES WE CAN! And so can The Free Advice Man!)

A Comparative Analysis of McCain and Obama:

McCain wants you to think that Obama is unqualified to be President for lack of substantial executive experience, except that McCain also lacks significant executive experience! Kennedy (JFK) did not have substantial executive experience, yet he was an excellent President at a time when America most needed him. Obama does not accept that his limited executive experience is an issue, because he has sufficient experience organizing people and his own Primary campaign’s success was ultimately due to his excellent ability to organize people, which means that he actually does have as much, if not more, executive organizing experience than McCain! In fact, McCain’s own Primary campaign was very poorly organized (he constantly offended his own staff!) and badly managed (especially financially!), and the only reason McCain was able to pull off a surprise victory against his fellow Republican Primary runners, was due to his ability to trick his opponents by doing what he promised he would never do, by playing very dirty politics, by falsely accusing his rivals of terrible things, and exploiting an already desperate and very angry Republican Party base! The McCain that the mass media has shown us all these years…a man willing to work across the isle with Democrats for the good of our country…is NOT the McCain we now see! But the mass media is not doing enough to show how McCain is nothing more than a desperado, who cannot be trusted to keep his word and is the worst kind of opportunist! Obama has never attacked McCain the way McCain promised not to attack Obama (this particular article is an attack written by me and not Obama...I am sure he would disagree with some of the words I am using), for Obama is really not interested in wasting our time on dirty politics, especially after the Republicans have ruined our economy, divided and weakened our nation, created many more enemies abroad, and damaged our ability to sell our products and services overseas! McCain’s most notable experience, which actually shows how unqualified he is to be President, is his voting for Bush’s agenda over 90% of the time!!!

McCain claims that it is he who is the agent of change, and not Obama, who actually was the first to run as a fresh new alternative to all the crap that goes on in Washington ! But McCain does not come across as one bit credible on being an agent of change, when not only has he voted alongside his Party and for Bush’s failed policies over and over again, but he then uses the same old, worn-out, false fear-mongering tactics that Bush used for all these long, painful and divisive years! Never mind the fact that, as the Congressional 9-11 Report proved, it was Bush’s failure to heed warnings from our fine FBI agents and other Federal Security agents, and his arrogant ‘go ahead and strike us first and see what we’ll do’ attitude which ended up with the mass murder of so many of our friends, family and fellow Americans on 9-11!!! By using the same old crap, the same old deeply offensive fear-mongering tactics McCain is not one bit an agent of change, because, when nitty comes to gritty, McCain, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney are nothing but the worst kind of nation-dividing, democracy-destroying extreme political opportunists, simply interested in filling up the pockets of their rich friends in OPEC and in the Texas Oil Billionaires Club! They have wrecked our economy, ruined our nation’s fiscal budget, adding trillions of dollars to our national debt, reversing the fiscally conservative policies of the Clinton years (we actually had a budget surplus under President Clinton, for the first time in ages!), they have spent our hard-earned tax-payer’s money on spoiling the Iraqis, who refuse to spend their own Oil billions, while our own country’s infrastructure and public service sector suffers for lack of government funding, and then, beyond all human decency, they have the gall, the utmost shameful attitude to dare suggest that they, the Republicans, are the only party of change for America! Hell, we’ve had enough of their bad change! America wants good change, change from the bad change that Bush and McCain represent! Senator Obama and Senator Biden are very much exactly the kind of change America wants and deserves, they are positive change away from the nation-weakening ultra-divisive politics of shameless fear-mongering and outright lies! Just see for yourself when the debates come! You will notice how Senators Obama and Biden will talk about the issues and give us real solutions for our very real problems that plague our country and all working-class Americans! But the other side, McCain and Palin, who want to give us an even more extreme version of the Bush years, will try to push the debates into the same old dirty politics of personal attacks, and yet Obama and Biden will be seen as way better than that! The only change McCain-Palin represent is change for the worse, at a time when we’re already suffering way too much! They will tax the working American family woman and man to death, while they continue to fill up the pockets of OPEC and The Texas Oil Billionaires Club, and they will smile at you while they are robbing you blind! NOT! Because we are not going to be fooled! We're going to do our homework and compare both sides very, very carefully and realize that one really does represent good change and the other represents more of the same old bad change!
McCain wants American women to think he is better than Obama, because whereas Obama, who just happens to be half-Black, half-White and 100% American (and a man who really could care less about color and everything about content), chose the most loyal and dedicated public servant in recent American History, Senator Joe Biden of our First State of Delaware, one of the kindest, friendliest, sincerest, most real and most polite person you’ll ever meet (what a contrast to Cheney!), McCain chose a tough-talking, intelligent but misinformed woman to be his VP running-mate! But hold on a sec! Of all the women far more qualified on the Republican side, why did he chose the one who is totally unqualified and who represents everything Bush has been about?!? Governor Palin, like Bush, though popular in Alaska, a state with a very small population, has shown over and over again that she could care less about the environment, about working class families and poor people, about your right to go to a library and pick up and read any darn book you please (it is now a known fact that she was hoping to ban all sorts of books, including several books which are considered American national treasures! Simply because she did not like the words and ideas in them, which tend to remind us of our precious freedoms and rights!), and she could care less about Separation of Church and State, which is one of the most important principles enshrined in Our Nation’s Great Constitution! Imagine that! Our great Founding Fathers and Mothers escaped the horrors of religious persecution in Europe and fought the British Monarchy in order to be able live their own lives, free from government interference and threats into their personal religious convictions and way of life, and they knew all too well that without a Constitution that guarantees Separation of Church and State our nation would soon fall into the same old horrors of civil wars in the name of one religion over another! And now McCain, desperate to pretend to be a champion of women, chose a woman who, like Bush, has no respect for our Constitution’s Separation of Church (religion) and State (government), who wants to ban those books and ideas she finds offensive, who wants to push America into a final World War Three, because she truly believes that these are the end of times and that we must have a worldwide nuclear war, because she truly believes that it is alright for mankind to deliberately cause such an Apocalyptic End! Well, she’s stark-raving nuts I tell ya! C’mon people, can we risk having a sweet-talking religious fanatic, similar to Jim Jones and David Koresh, one heartbeat away from the Presidency of Our United States of America?!? No way Jose! If there is going to be an end of times, then it must be only after we have all done all we really can to actually prevent and stop it from happening (YES WE CAN prevent World War Three), otherwise we’re not talking about G-D’s will, but about a few of our own insane fanatic zealots taking over the asylum and the rest of the world, and plunging us into a terrifyingly painful final horror beyond comprehension! Just compare the fanatic expression of Palin to that of another fanatic zealot named Ahmadinejad of Iran, or the late, sick Jim Jones who used cyanide-laced KoolAid to murder hundreds of American men, women and children, who naively trusted him! Compare their ‘shiny, glazed-over’ eyes of fanaticism, and you will agree that Palin is no different, especially when you examine her background thoroughly and discover all the scary facts that that short Republican Convention video did not want any of us to know about!!! If McCain could make such a dangerously fatal error in judgment, by picking a fanatic zealot for his VP running-mate, just because she really is a sweet-talking, friendly-looking, woman, and probably a good mother to her children (many fanatic women are good mothers to their children…up to a point…until something breaks in them!), then what other really bad decisions will McCain make if we allow him to sit in The Oval Office?? Let’s be real here; we’re all better off with people who know how to keep their religious convictions to themselves, and who understand that America belongs to all Americans, of all religions, faiths and ideologies, and not just one or the other! While McCain pretends to be a champion for American women (don’t forget that it was the Democrats who first chose a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, for the VP post), Senator Obama made a decision not based on gender, race, religion, or any a number of things that should not be at issue, but he chose the very best American foreign-policy expert in America today! And he chose Senator Joe Biden because, of all the other Democratic Party candidates who ran, Biden was the most civil, polite, well-mannered, decent, honest to the point, straightforward, and intelligent of the whole lot! After all, we Americans have learned the hard way that it is one thing to have a village idiot, fake cowboy, elected as Sheriff of a small town, useful for scaring away criminals, but it is plain stupid to have such an idiot as President! Bush was never qualified, especially given how he failed in his own private business ventures over and over again, with his father’s rich Texas Oil Billionaire friends having to bail him out over and over again! Bush was light years away from being another Ronald Reagan (not that I liked Reagan), let alone another Abraham Lincoln! In fact, McCain seemed sufficiently qualified, until his fatal mistake of choosing a fanatic zealot like Palin, but in the end McCain is nothing but a desperado who has made too many wrong decisions and taken too many wrong votes in Congress all these years! We cannot afford more of the same old crap, and the only change McCain represents is change from very bad to even worse!
McCain and Palin and the rest of the Republican gang are jubilant in claiming that the Surge in Iraq has worked, and that they were right all along, while they claim Obama and Biden were wrong on the Surge! But hold your horses here! Actually both Obama and Biden worked for the success of the Surge in Iraq by providing conditional support to our troops in Iraq ! And the Surge in Iraq is only working because the Iraqi’s have been seeing a glimmer of hope that U.S. troops will soon leave once America does the right thing and elect Senator Obama as President and Senator Biden as Vice-President! When Senators Biden and Obama attached conditions to financing the Surge in Iraq , they included provisions that meant giving our troops the right equipment they would need! In fact, it was actually Senator Biden who demanded that the government provide Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, designed to survive IED attacks and ambushes in Iraq!!! Why? Because until he and Obama can begin to carefully, gradually reduce and remove our troops presence in Iraq, we Americans are obliged to provide our fine men and women in arms the best we can afford in order to improve their safety and ability to fight off the enemy effectively! But the success of the Surge in Iraq, much thanks to Senator Joe Biden’s efforts, has been very, very costly to our nation’s budget, and is only a temporary success, because we cannot afford to forever be Iraq’s baby-sitters! It’s that simple! Our purpose in Iraq has been achieved! We got rid of the trouble-making Saddam regime, which cost us dearly in terms of all the wonderful American Marines and Army soldiers who lost their lives because Rumsfeld and Bush failed to provide them enough troops and enough of the right equipment! We have given the Iraqis enough time and way too much support, which they have squandered, while they have been pilfering their own country’s Oil Billions for their own corrupt officials, and now it is overdue that the rest of the Arab nations pay the price for Iraq’s stabilization and that we bring back our over-taxed, worn-out troops so that they can come home and be with their loved ones, even as we send the most hard-core fighters among them, meaning those who want to continue fighting, to go to where we should have already had enough troops, to Afghanistan, to wipe out the Taliban and al-Qaeda, once and for all! Imagine that, here is McCain once again trying to fool us, even as he too well knows that it actually was Senators Biden and Obama who provided our troops what they needed and who understand that our real enemies have always been hiding out in the caves and mountains of Afghanistan, and that the Arabs have enough money and resources and fancy military equipment to deal with the few terrorists left in Iraq! Why should we Americans spend more money and risk more lives in Iraq, when the Iraqis themselves can do it?? And it is the biggest of lies from McCain and his supporters when they say that al-Qaeda terrorists are all over the place in the Arab nations (Afghanistan, as you probably know, is not an Arab country and is located on the other side of Iran, which is also not an Arab country!)! The fact of the matter is that most Arab governments have been fighting any traces of al-Qaeda in their midst, because they know what a threat they represent, and other terrorist groups are also being targeted, now that almost all the Arab nations are beginning to see an historic opportunity to work with America and Europe to make peace with Israel and bring about true peace, prosperity and culturally-sensitive forms of democracy to their region! But the Arab world refuses, understandably, to do anything that would ever even appear to reward the Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Cheney effort to impose American-style democracy on them and to force them to make peace with Israel, when they would rather do so on their own terms, because they do (since the Iraq War) understand that Israel can never be destroyed without causing World War Three, and because they have begun to see the many economic trade benefits and quality of life benefits that making peace with Israel would provide! So the Arabs are patiently waiting for us Americans to elect a President who will be a strong friend to peaceful Israel and peace-seeking Arabs! The people who attacked us on 9-11 were mostly Saudis and not Iraqis, and Saddam’s regime was just as much against al-Qaeda as we did, even if for different reasons! The War in Iraq could have been waged properly, but only after we had first managed to wipe out al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which we could have done years ago had Bush not used our limited military resources and troops to fight his personal vendetta against Saddam in Iraq! If we had done the right thing, as Biden had suggested all along, and first taken care of the mess in Afghanistan, we would have been able to build a broad pan-Arab, American and European coalition to deal with Saddam, and probably even to do so without having to go to all-out war! Because we could have used that grand coalition of Arab, European and American troops to take invade vast deserted areas of Iraq first and then make a compromise deal with Saddam, in which he would have been allowed to go into comfortable exile in the country of his choice, with his Mafiosi family and relatives, and lots of money too, and we would have spared the Iraqi peoples all the horrors, death and destruction that has cost all of us so dearly all these years, and which turned the Arab world against us overnight! We could have helped set up a fairly moderate Iraqi government of peace and reconciliation between Iraq’s sectarian divide, and allowed a reformist movement of ex-Baathist to create a new and more democratic Iraq! But only if we had not done what Bush did, if we had not let Bush try to create American-style democracies with Arabs who are unable to accept and appreciate our way of life! So, for McCain to try to fool us into thinking that the success of the Surge in Iraq is a Republican partisan victory, to score political points at the expense of our nation’s unity, at the expense of our valiant troop’s blood and sacrifice, and at the expense of the actual truth, is scary because it is actually horribly contrary to everything that McCain used to represent!!! McCain has either lost his mind, or he has managed for decades to hide his true face and has pretended to be a moderate uniter and a Republican willing to compromise with Democrats for the good of the American people! Just do your own research and you will see that what McCain and supporters of McCain, like the all-divisive and dishonest Senator Lindsey Graham, have lied about the truth and that the real story is one of Senators Biden and Obama doing all the right things for our troops and for our country! Shame, shame, shame on McCain! No wonder he attracts people like Senator Liebermann, who have fallen for all their fear-mongering lies!Now, I could go on and on, but to be honest I’d rather use these last sentences to ask you to do your own homework and to compare Senator Obama’s fine Presidential platform, by going to www.barackobama.com, and seeing with your own eyes the truth! If we all do our homework and compare both party’s candidate’s platforms we will vote for the Obama-Biden Ticket!

Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo
Philosopher
www.infinitysociety.org