Why do Republicans insist on giving us bad leadership.

I thought after eight years of George Bush, America would have had enough of this single issue insanity and was ready forsome comprehensive leadership on all fronts. We had two solid candidates whose policies were in the middle, you may not agree with everything they may say but you understood the logic behind it. For those who have read my musings before I would have been happy with having either of these two candidates as the President.

Obama may be short on experience but he has some solid ideas, and team capable of delivering those. He gained my respect when he took a stand against the so called gas-tax holiday whileeverybody else pandered. I didn’t agree with him on demand for a timelinefor troop withdrawal from Iraq as I believe we need to solve the mess we created but then again the cynic in me saw it as a pander to the left wing. I hoped that he has enough smart people around him to make him see the logic against such a move and his position evolved with time.

John McCain is a true American hero, with policies and ideas enough to the center to lead atleast 80% of Americans. At the end of the day Americans don’t care about just one issue(or atleast I hope).He has the capability and the experience to once again raise America’s credibility in the world after eight years of George Bush, and show the leadership to resolve the issues facing us at home. He may have his shortcomings on the economy but hey that is why you have advisers.

But during the past few months John McCain has taken a sharp turn to the right. He has given up on unifying the country and decided to consolidate his base. John McCain has all of sudden decided that it is more important for America to worry about issues like abortion and gun control then worry about jobs and food. He went ahead and picked a moose hunter from Alaska as his running mate.

He decided that it was more important for people to pay less in taxes, then for their money to mean anything. So while you may have more dollars in your paycheck they don’t go as far as they used to when its time to put food on the table. What good is the tax cut I got under Bush when all it did is increase our debt, and decreased the value of the US Dollar. I may be taking more money in terms of dollars but it sure isn’t buying a lot.

He decided that it was more important to have a women as his running mate just for the sake of it while taking away their right to choose. What good are the children when you don’t have a job to raise them and food to feed them? For them it is important only to give birth to human life but once you are born you are screwed. What kind of logic is that?

He decided that it was important to scare people that the other party would take away their guns.What good are the guns when you don’t have healthcare when you fall sick? Is the 2nd amendment going to pay for your medical bills? An equal number of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured as compared to gunowners. What about their rights? I am for your right to 2nd amendment if you are for a women’s right to chose.

John McCain has decided that it is more important for Americans to fill their Hummers then leave behind a world that is inhabitable for the next generation. Why is it, that the party of life is also the first one to deny that we are destroying the planet?

Why is it that the party that is for free trade, then turns around and doesn’t want anybody to come in and live in their country. We will take your cheap labour and your cheap products but we don’t want you coming in no matter what you have to contribute. They keep forgetting that this is a nation of immigrants.

He decided that it is time to bash government, a government he surely has been part of for the last eight years. We just went through eight years of government watchdogs being systematically neutralised in the name of smaller government to the point where we have nobody inspecting the food that is being imported into the country, we have toys being imported with toxic levels of lead, we have tyres being imported which don’t meet safety standards, we have crumbling infrastructure all across the country with crumbling bridges. We have a government which wasn’t able to provide emergency services to a whole city during hurricane Katrina.

I am just venting because I was listening to the speeches from the RNC last night, listening to them yell and scream, how big government is bad for us. I kept wondering where these people were during the last eight years because they didn’t seem to realize that they were the ones in power during six out those eight years and the remaining two they will not let anybody else do anything. They are the government.

They keep screaming how they have protected us from any terrorist attacks during the last 6 years, but I guess it is OK if you die in a hurricane or when a bridge gives way underneath you. We will not allow any foreign terrorists to kill you, we will kill you ourselves, that seems to be their motto.

I am just venting.

Why Obama should not attack John Mccain

Surprisingly almost thirty percent of American still support George W Bush. For these people Bush could do no wrong. That is almost 90 million Americans and they are a vast majority of the Republican party. Comparing John McCain to George Bush just endears him more to this group of people, who any other day would not give him the time of day because he is too liberal for them. I feel by attacking McCain and comparing him repeatedly to George Bush, the Democrats are simply raising his stock among conservatives, who otherwise would never vote for him or his policies.

John McCain of ‘08 is nothing compared to John McCain of ‘00. The John McCain who is considered a maverick does no longer exist, and has been replaced by John McCain who is so lock step with the Bush policies that you would think that George Bush was running for a third term. What they should do is let John McCain of ‘00 attack John McCain of ‘08. McCain of ‘00 is anathema to the base of the Republican party which believes it is taking a chance by nominating him. The best way to discourage that base from turning out to vote for him is by embracing McCain ‘00 and highlighting his maverick streak.

McCain has flip flopped enough this time around that nobody know anymore what he really is. He has sold out his convictions and his principles to get the nomination of the Republican party. The characteristics that endeared him to so many independents earlier have been sold off to get the vote of the conservative base. Can independents really trust him either to follow the middle path and work in a bipartisan manner. I don’t think so.

Let John McCain of ‘00 attack John McCain of ‘08.

McCain – Bloomberg Ticket

If Obama-Hillary or Hillary-Obama ticket was considered a dream ticket at one time for the Democrats, I believe if Senator McCain really wanted to bring it on to Senator Obama he would pick the New York mayor as his running mate. I don’t think any republican ticket would have more appeal to independents, moderate Republicans and Democrats as these two.

Mayor Bloomberg brings decades of experience running a very successful business and that experience would go a long way in burnishing McCain’s credentials on economy. You would have two independently viable candidates with vast experience in economy and foreign policy

I think that would be something to get excited about.