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Originally Posted by ponrauil
Most of the people if not everyone agrees the last eight years have been a total disaster. McCain supported 90% of what Bush did. He has shown nothing of what he plans to do in Iraq or Afghanistan that could be different from Bush. Same about the economy. He, and he ALONE, also appointed as VP, and therefore potential first in command, someone with no experience or knowledge or support in her own party. Yet McCain is still better than Obama for some because Obama... might raise taxes even if he plans to actually cut them.
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From the Economist article you posted yourself.
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If only the real John McCain had been running
That, however, was Senator McCain; the Candidate McCain of the past six months has too often seemed the victim of political sorcery, his good features magically inverted, his bad ones exaggerated. The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them. The man who denounced the religious right as “agents of intolerance” now embraces theocratic culture warriors. The campaigner against ethanol subsidies (who had a better record on global warming than most Democrats) came out in favour of a petrol-tax holiday. It has not all disappeared: his support for free trade has never wavered. Yet rather than heading towards the centre after he won the nomination, Mr McCain moved to the right.
Meanwhile his temperament, always perhaps his weak spot, has been found wanting. Sometimes the seat-of-the-pants method still works: his gut reaction over Georgia—to warn Russia off immediately—was the right one. Yet on the great issue of the campaign, the financial crisis, he has seemed all at sea, emitting panic and indecision. Mr McCain has never been particularly interested in economics, but, unlike Mr Obama, he has made little effort to catch up or to bring in good advisers (Doug Holtz-Eakin being the impressive exception).
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McCain is better than Obama. The problem is not McCain, but freakin retarded Republican voters. McCain was not very popular with the Republican voters, as our friend Adrian has made clear so many times. He had to appeal to the ultra-conservatives so this is what his strategy focused on. People now put him in the same pot as Bush, but this is just wrong. As I said before, I am very disappointed by McCain's campaign and truly believe that Obama deserves to win (judging the campaigns alone). It's however not McCain's fault, but that of the Republican voters. And I definitely hope that Obama will open people's minds a bit. For he may not be the most capable of leaders, he surely is inspiring. And some of that "inspiration" would not hurt in certain states.