Reginald Williams
Violin Expert
The prospect of an Obama presidency is at once frightening and sobering. His answer to most every pertinent social and economic problem facing the country seems to be to spend more, meaning to tax more and/or borrow more. This is how we have gotten ourselves into the mess we are currently in--borrowing beyond our means and increasingly socializing ourselves to the detriment of incentive for the individual or business to get ahead or succeed by merit of hard work, rather depending on government to bail individuals and companies out that didn't work hard enough or make good decisions, while taxing those that did to pay for the mistakes and laziness of the others.
I am further frightened at the prospect of having a president who is deomcratic, a House and a Senate who are all democrats. I would be equally frightened to have an all republican executive and legislative administration, thus obviating most of the checks and balances in our system.
Finally, I am frightened to think of a president who, judging from his track record has only had the courage to disagree with the "party line" 3% of the time throughout his career to date.
While I am certainly not thrilled with John McCain and all of his policies it seems clear, based on his record, that he has the courage (though not as consistently as I had dared hope) to stand by his convictions, to cross party lines where necessary to achieve bipartisan concensus, and overall better good sense and good policies with respect to not spending what we don't have to spend, and certainly not "taking from the successful to pay for the frailties
I am further frightened at the prospect of having a president who is deomcratic, a House and a Senate who are all democrats. I would be equally frightened to have an all republican executive and legislative administration, thus obviating most of the checks and balances in our system.
Finally, I am frightened to think of a president who, judging from his track record has only had the courage to disagree with the "party line" 3% of the time throughout his career to date.
While I am certainly not thrilled with John McCain and all of his policies it seems clear, based on his record, that he has the courage (though not as consistently as I had dared hope) to stand by his convictions, to cross party lines where necessary to achieve bipartisan concensus, and overall better good sense and good policies with respect to not spending what we don't have to spend, and certainly not "taking from the successful to pay for the frailties
