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Text Box: holds as expressed above, and one can only conclude this man is not fit to be President of the United States of America. He is not fit to be an elected official. But, enough of Obama, for McCain is just as bad or almost just as bad in his own way. McCain: With McCain the problem is not a lack of practicality. He was against offshore drilling until the current oil price increases began. Now, faced with the need for more oil immediately, he supports drilling for offshore and in Alaska. He also apparently would attempt to do away with “earmarks”, un-debated spending measures amended to legislation. He has what appears to be a practical and viable approach to the Iraq situation. There also is no question as to his valor nor is there any question as to his war time honor. It is the honor of McCain the politician which is in question. McCain calls his campaign the Straight Talk Express. It is anything but. McCain has proclaimed himself to be pro-life, anti-abortion. He is not. He has stated he would allow abortions in situations involving incest, rape, and for the health of the pregnant woman. He has stated he desires Roe v. Wade be overturned, but not immediately because women who seek abortion in a clinic setting would have to seek “back alley” abortions which would be unsafe for them. One who is pro-life, anti-abortion, can have no reservations wherein an abortion may be permitted. One who is pro-life, anti-abortion, knows one can not kill a person because they were conceived through rape or incest, nor

Text Box: can a person be killed to alleviate the medical needs of another. If a person can be killed to alleviate the medical needs of another, then, if you need a heart transplant it would be proper for you to find a healthy person who was a match for you and to kill them and take their heart for transplant into you. If McCain is against Roe v. Wade and desires it to be overturned, why also desire a delay? Women who will only be able to kill their children through “back alley” abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned, will have only that source of abortion without regard as to when Roe v. Wade is overturned. Why delay overturning Roe v. Wade? The longer Roe v. Wade is in effect, the greater the number of babies who will be murdered by abortion. McCain has been proven to be a liar by his stance on abortion. Can he be trusted to stand firm on his other stated positions? Perhaps he can be trusted to remain firm on his position regarding protection of the USA from terrorist. But it doubtful he can be trusted to remain firm on his promise to appoint strict constructionists to federal courts and the Supreme Court. The Three Stooges (probably trade mark registered): It probably is a disservice to The Three Stooges to lump the remaining presidential candidates under their heading. In the characters they portrayed, and in their personal lives, the Stooges, while not exactly exemplary, and while in their personal lives some of them experienced domestic tribulation, in many ways defined the concept of what you see was what you get. This is not always true for the non-major presidential candidates. Our Choices: Our choices for president are in many ways are similar to the choices the citizens of Louisiana had in the governor’s race of many years ago,

Text Box: when the candidates were Edwin Edwards, now a convicted criminal, then believed to be involved in dishonest “deals”, and David Duke, former head of the Ku Klux Klan. If you limit yourself to the major candidates and then attempt to decide which is the least of two evils, you will have a very difficult decision. If you attempt to decide which of the major candidates is less likely to inflict severe or permanent harm upon the USA, you may be able to choose between the two. If you just can not vote for either of the major candidates, and vote for what you perceive or believe to be the best of the minor candidates, are you throwing your vote away? Will such votes allow the worst of the two major candidates to be elected? For those who desire to vote in a moral manner the current election is a moral dilemma. At least in the Edwards - Duke election, there was a clear moral difference, a choice which could be based on morality even though it required holding one’s nose closed while the voting lever was pulled. If the current presidential candidate field were limited to the major candidates the same means of resolving the problem of for whom to vote could be made. Perhaps, because the next president will in all probability be one of the major candidates, that is in actuality the reality of the choice. For those who desire to vote in a moral manner the current situation is not only difficult, it also is disgusting. +

Text Box: There also is no question as to his valor nor is there any question as to his war time honor. It is the honor of McCain the politician which is in question. McCain calls his campaign the Straight Talk Express. It is anything but.

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