Reply #65: A fantastic post! I agree with every last word.

[IndieLeft]

The last sentence is loaded and there are people who don't like it. They don't like it because it attaches Obama to the truth. If we don't look at who he is but we look at the substance of his actions then we can see what H20 is saying. We must look deep inside both of these candidates' hearts.

Erase the visual image of Obama and Clinton for this exercise. Look at their actions. We don't seem to remember what 7 years under the current administration has done.

Here is the frame. Take away the imagery and look at the actions.

One candidate has held meetings in private; meetings that should have been public.
One has held meetings in secret. This candidate actively advocates transparency.

Which candidate shows a better sense of transparency?

One candidate authorized war.
One candidate did not vote for this war because this candidate was not yet in the senate. But this candidate did give a major address vehemently speaking out against this war.

One candidate voted against the Levin amendment and lied about why they voted against it in the last debate.
One candidate was never for the Iraq war.

One candidate voted for a bankruptcy bill that increased hardship on poor people and gave a break to thieving credit card companies.

One candidate did not vote for this bankruptcy bill.

One candidate voted to assign the label of terrorist to Iran's national guard so that the current president could back into a war with what he deemed an axis of evil.
One did not vote for this amendment.

Both candidates voted to fund this war but they did it because they really were powerless to determine what the current president would do in retaliation.


When you strip away the identity of these candidates, you can look at the substance and actions that point to who they really are. How quickly we forget... how quickly we forget the last seven years.

You can't just simply say someone looks untrustworthy. You have to look at their actions. We've all seen dumb asses with a college degree and well dressed bums. You can try to judge a book by it's cover but really it is encumbered upon everyone to open the book and look inside. There is where the real story lies.