Here's Why

Here's ten reasons why John McCain should not be elected President. My personal favorites:

3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."

6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.

7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

Here's why, according to this DKos Diarist, "Hillary Clinton will never be President". The core argument: which Democrats are going to be enthusiastic for her should she somehow secure the nomination:

Hillary's campaign has been disorganized. Her fundraising anemic. Taking the nomination from the candidate with the money and organization needed to defeat the opposition and to do so by employing GOP tactics is not how you win friends and influence people. Certifying your Republican opponent as Commander In Chief material and making "experience" the chief reason for choosing a President pretty much insures your defeat when the Republican's credentials in that area surpass your own. By doing so, Hillary has left little reason for Democrats to support her. And by the way she has conducted her campaign in the primaries, she has given them even less reason to work for her in the GE.

More good stuff in the piece.

Here's more of how Barack Obama demonstrates in his response to attacks that he's Presidential material:

"I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that when you're raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a while when you were growing up, you went to school on scholarship," he told a town hall meeting of U.S. military veterans in western Pennsylvania...

...Neither of his wife Michelle's parents attended college, and both he and his wife financed their educations with student loans, Obama said.

"We lived for the first 13 years of our marriage up until three years ago in a three-bedroom condo without a garage so if you live in Chicago that means you're scraping ice every morning," he said in rejecting the elitist label.

"When somebody makes that argument, particularly given that I've spent my entire life working with workers in low-income communities to try to make people's lives a little bit better, that's when you know you're in political silly season," said Obama..."This is what we do politically when we start getting behind in races, and we start going on the attack," he said.

But the best is their dueling TV ads. Per Todd Beaton:

On message alone, it seems to me Obama wins since calling Obama out of touch doesn't track with a larger narrative, while accusing Clinton of being the poster child for "politics as usual" does, one that she reinforces time and time again.

You decide. You want to vote for someone who's campaign produced this:



Or this:



Watch who's advancing the semiotics.