Obama doesn't pander to big business. He does not accept donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees whereas McCain does. McCain wants to make permanent Bush's tax cuts for the rich whereas Obama wants to put them back or above where they were to help fund universal healthcare which is something McCain or Bush would never do in a million years. McCain's policy on iraq is the same as Bush's whereas Obama wants to pull out and was one of the few against the war before it started.
this is exactly why McCain won't be laughed out as president, while Obama will. You realise EVERYTHING Obama could possibly do needs to be passed in the house, with all the people being told how to vote by those lobbyists. Obama's burned all his bridges that would let him get anything done, before he even gets in.
YOu don't seem to understand that, you HAVE TO, without question, have lobbyists support to get anything done. You either work with big business and try and get some useful stuff done on the side, and keep the economy semi strong by keeping big business going. Or you work against the lobbyists and big business, get nothing of your own passed, hurt your party, have the lobbyists hate the democrates more for the next decade, make it harder for democrates to get re-elected and make it easy for a much more hard line republican to get in power next time around.
THis is REALITY, not fantasy land where some lovely change wanting president comes in, sorts out renewable power in 5 years and makes world peace.
Obama is LYING about Iraq, 6 months ago it was "i'll pull out as soon as possible, first thing i'm in charge" his site how has his own quotes where he says he HOPES to be out be 2012.
McCain wants out of Iraq to a degree, but isn't simply lying to the public about when it will happen. Now Obama is going on about, ok, so it will probably be a scaled withdrawal so people aren't in danger, a safe slow 2-3 year long withdrawal. McCain simply didn't lie to look good and promise to leave instantly, because it would be physically impossible to pull out that quickly and now Obama seems to realise this and is not sayign anything like he was about leaving Iraq.
Obama seconded the bill to put trade embargoes on certain companies in Iran and the bill names their loyal liberation army (or whatever its called thats something along those lines) a terrorist organisation. Its fairly clear that almost any president will take the same action in the middle east it always has and most likely that force massing in Iran will be bombed the crap out of no matter who is in charge.
AT the end of the day, you either work with the rest of the government, or against it. Who do you think will get more done, Mr ridiculous changes promised where when you look at his promises simply none are even remotely possible.
25% energy to come from renewable sources or something he wants, will never in a million years happen. Wind, water, solar, you know how little power those provide right now, it would take trillions upon trillions and a massive amount of production, which is simply not possible at this time to do that.
I think the exaggerated and funny example is, solar panels are current efficiency would need to cover ARIZONA to power the USA. yet every solar panel ever made together would cover about 0.05% of Arizona and that would cost billions. That was some years ago, but you get the idea, solar/wind/water is just not doable on large scale yet as you simply need space for these things to take up and manufacturing to build the stuff of which we won't have for decades.
All his other promises for change are as pie in the ski BS aswell. He's the complete joke candidate, what he wants to happen is all very well and good, but most of its literally impossible, and what is possible he won't get done because he's already angered most of the people he needs to have any chance of doing anything.
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