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It's May 2009 and John McCain is President. What's the difference?

It's now a bit more than 100 days into the Obama Administration. During this period, the Republicans in Washington have fought almost everything Obama has favored. And the Fox News conservatives that oppose anything related to Obama started forming Tea Parties a few weeks into the administration (after a rehearsed, televised rant by some rich guy on CNBC yelling at some other rich guys at a Chicago stock exchange about the government bailing out people other than their rich friends).

Many conservatives oppose Obama because they say he weakens America. However, conservatives should remember that in the 100 and some days since Barack Obama was inaugurated as President, America has not been attacked, we have not retreated from Iraq (a/k/a "The War on Terror"), we are not paying $10/gal for gas, abortion rates are not skyrocketing, people are not losing their guns, etc.

I don't think anyone in modern history could have handled the presidency during this most recent period any better than Obama. Therefore, my question is specifically what would be better now or in the future if McCain won?

What are your thoughts?

Best regards,
Jay

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Posted by Jay Allen - MovieVoice on 05/02/2009 01:11 AM

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25 Comments on It's May 2009 and John McCain is President. What's the difference?

MAY

There's nothing to say Jay .... apart from the fact that President Obama is doing a superb job!!

Jay, O'bama is doing fine. He has a long way to go to clean up the mess he inherited but he may be able to get the full support of congress behind him. If everyone works together, we may get out of this intact.

Jay: I cannot think of one thing that would be better if John McCain were president. In fact... I would be so tired of hearing Sarah Palin whining all the time. But... with the two of them as appropriate subjects for the late night guys... Leno and Letterman... I am sure that would be fun.

But... oh, there's a positive. Sean, Bill and that other jerk... the new guy... they would hopefully be much quieter... less carping. But... who cares. Obama is President... and yes, he is doing a fabulous job. I think if the election were to be held again today... he would win by an even larger margin. Thanks for the post, Jay.

Jay,

I do.

We would have been several trillion dollars richer and this is not a small fete. If you missed the shere amount in trillions then ... nothing to add.

Did you really expected him to do even more harm in just 100 days? You gotta be kidding me. This has never been done before, but does it qualify as envious achievement?

When you say that "I don't think anyone in modern history could have handled the presidency during this most recent period any better than Obama" it will be true if you mean wasting so much money, as no president in the history of the United States has ever done that.

He should have been in the book of records already. A modern era Herostratus

You asked, "what would be better now or in the future if McCain won"

Answer: Most likely we wouldn't have received the report that this past month saw the most Americans killed in Iraq in the past 7 months. We wouldn't be seeing the war against islamic terrorists turning into another Vietnam disaster. Most likely we wouldn't be quite as far in debt as we now are, although I don't believe McCain would have been all that much better on the economic front. We also wouldn't have seen the radical increase in governmental meddling/control.

You, along with most of those who've already responded to your question, seem to be of the mind that America is great because of Government and the more governmental control, the better off we'll be.

I disagree with that perspective. McCain was far from my ideal, however, he was closer to my ideal than what we've got to cope with now.

100 days is not very long. Let's see what he does his first year in office.

www.HomesByVanna.com

How would it have been different.....where do I begin?

For starters, I am pretty confident we would not now have a tax cheat overseeing the IRS.

Fewer cabinet members would either be current serving or had to withdraw due to questionable ethics regarding AGAIN paying taxes. Amazing they only found their oversights when they were vying on a position on the Obama cabinet.

We'd be FAR less in debt (that's huge). I wonder if, when the Obama family would someday find themselves in financial dire straits, if Barack would go to Michelle and say "Honey, I know we are deeply in debt and our credit cards are maxed out.....but lets go borrow some money".

We would NOT have had a President McCain be in ANY way involved in a completely wreckless (not to mention thoughtless) photoshoot 3-4 days ago (which cost the taxpayers approx. $300k) over the site of the World Trade Center, without letting anyone in NY know in advance (like the Mayor, for starters). Did you see all the panicked people running from the buildings??? Then Mr. Obama comes back and has the audacity to say "I found out about it when you did" (referring to the public)....he is a liar and must think we are a stupid people.

Mind you, McCain would not have been my choice, but he would have been a FAR better one. That "change" we were promised and have only gotten a taste of up to this point is a very scary thing.

How 'bout that line by line veto he promised on the budget?

Out healthcare system is far from perfect, but when I see how well our government has done running the Post Office & the IRS, letting them get their hands on another system is a scary proposition.

David (Meridian Financial, above) hit the nail on the head - the less govt. control over our lives, the better.

Edith Schreiber - Dallas, Texas

Jay, I do agree Obama has done more because he is interested in the little person. I like John McCain a lot but I think he would have been slower to react and there would have been even more good ole boy legislation that paid back supporters.

We would not have crippled the CIA or prostrated ourselves in front of every foreign leader we have met and even if abortions have not skyrocketed i doubt we are continuing the 7 year downwood trend we had been enjoying.

Jay, I like this one "We wouldn't be seeing the war against islamic terrorists turning into another Vietnam disaster", although there are many other comments that were quite amusing also. Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't this already turning into another Vietnam BEFORE Obama took office? Regardless of how good a job he does, the sore losers are going to keep listening to their "prophets." I'm gearing up for his selection for the Supreme Court. I can't wait to hear the comments.

Only time will tell. After all it has only been 100 days. Besides the President doesn't run the show. The wealthy elite are in control. Believe it or not.

Jay ~ You would be too confused if you had the facts, but you libs are too blind to see what has happened in just 100 days. CIA operatives are quiting, he has put our nation in danger of pre 9/11 mentality concerning counter intelligence, in fact worse than under Clinton. North Korea and Russia are now flexing their muscles and testing more nuclear balistic missiles, read the facts...don't just babble your liberal garbage. Russia just said they will test six ballistic missile in the next few months with over 6,000 miles capabilities.

That would not of hapened under Bush or McCain, and that is a fact.

They are not afraid of a man who apologizes for America, he is weak and they know it.

In fact, now we are 10 trillion dollars more in debt, more than any president in history and you say he's doing a great job.

You and every liberal who just commented on such a great job Obama is doing have now in fact proven that you all have no clue what is actually happening in America. You have gotten your way, but at what price?

Weakening America both on the foreign field and domestically, one day you'll open your eyes, but now you all are collectively hiding your heads in the sand.

Nicholas, "That would not of hapened under Bush or McCain, and that is a fact." Why don't you tell us where you get your information? Seems to me I remember Putin being just a little hard to get along with, invading Georgia for example, after the past president "looked into his eyes and saw his soul", and North Korea was constantly flexing its muscle. CIA operatives are quitting? Certainly you can't be serious? Or are you just having memory problems?

MAY

Sore winners.

David wrote: Most likely we wouldn't have received the report that this past month saw the most Americans killed in Iraq in the past 7 months.

Because we would have received that report earlier?

David: We wouldn't be seeing the war against islamic terrorists turning into another Vietnam disaster.

Haven't we been seeing that since 2006?

David: Most likely we wouldn't be quite as far in debt as we now are

True.

David: You, along with most of those who've already responded to your question, seem to be of the mind that America is great because of Government and the more governmental control, the better off we'll be. I disagree with that perspective.

I agree with you on that perspective. However, I disagree that that perspective is the norm for many of us. Most of us feel government control is good for straightening out the mess we've been doled. And not much more.

Good evening.....

According to Tchaka Owen, "most of us feel government control is good for straightening out the mess we've been doled". Not sure who "us" is.....but it is definitely not me.

As I wrote earlier, would you say the gov't. has done a "good" job with overseeing the post office and the IRS???? Not on their best day.

There is not one right or wrong answer to any of the messes we are facing - one of the biggest problems we face as a society is that our value system has so significantly changed (not in a good way) so that personal accountability is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. It is far easier to blame someone/anyone for our troubles, rather than looking in the mirror.

Our political system is sooooooooooooooo broken down and SO completely corrupt - I would not mind if every one of those elected people on both sides of the aisle got run out of office, instead of the mess it is now.

I am typically an optimistic person, but I fear that this ship we call the United States of America has gotten so far off course that it will sadly not be made right in our lifetime.

Edith Schreiber - Dallas, Texas

MAY

Edith - You were never part of the "us".

David's comment was aimed at comments by those who support our current leader - that excludes you - and my response to him was in reference to said subset.

My apologies....there was no specific name it was directed to. One person had written to Nicholas and the rest to Jay, so I never "assume".

Best regards,

Edith

MAY

Edith,

Great response to all of this. I agree with you totally.

Sandra,

Thanks for your response & support....I knew I would be outnumbered, since Jay posted the blog....and that's ok.

It's differing opinions & the ability to speak them that make our country the most incredible country in the world...even if our current President feels compelled to apologize for us.

We are a blessed & wonderful country.

Edith Schreiber

Let's see... the President of France wouldn't have called McCain a wimp... That is a start.

Maybe the pirates would have been dealt with earlier, rather than the reports coming out that the Captian of the ship was ordered to only act peacefully toward the pirates... the conclusion was pretty peaceful, they are at peace.

Perhaps McCain wouldn't have signed a $400B pork bill and a trillion dollar "stimulus" package that his own OMB said wouldn't stimulate.

I don't think that we would have the President making decisions as to which executives would get to keep their jobs (BTW, you DO know that Fascism is government control of private business, right?)

McCain likely wouldn't tell the lenders to Chrysler that were first in line that they would have to ILLEGALLY put their debt behind other lenders picked by the government... (that would be the unions... and they had junior debt)... and then threaten them if they didn't fall in line.

MAY

We'll never know if McCain's plan of doing nothing would have completed the tanking of the economy and we would be well on our way to depression.

We would have delayed the recent total destruction of the Republican party by four years.

We would have not seen the rise of sore losers on the right wanting to "take their ball and go home" (secession).

We would not be on the brink of revolutionizing health care.

We would not be on the brink of starting our own energy revolution- creating the economy of the future.

95% of Americans would still be paying higher taxes.

MAY

Nogul - The Congressional Budget Office stated pretty flatly that the "Stimulus Bill" wouldn't actually stimulate the economy, but rather bring long term damage. And they aren't exactly a conservative bunch... In fact, they are supposed to be non-partisan, but they have to work for the Democrat leadership.

I think that the GOP will actually recover FASTER because of the election of ineffectual leadership. Had the GOP been rewarded with a Presidential victory it would have been harder to change the direction of the party toward actually being conservative again.

Sorry, but if I am on a bus headed for a cliff, getting off seems like a good strategy if the other riders want to go over the cliff...

Yep, if Obama gets his way, health care will be revolting. We too can have systems like Canada or Great Britain... Not enough doctors for everyone to have a primary care physician. Of course, I'm sure that since you are on top of the issue you already know that a larger percentage of Canadians are unable to visit a primary care physician (and have to resort to emergency care...) than Americans that lack insurance (and have to resort to emergency care...) I'm sure that you are also are well aware of the higher rates of cancer death among Europeans with socialized health care... despite lower rates of the actual cancer. Yep... revolting is the right word.

We could be out of the woods reasonably soon if we were able to build nuke plants... not on the Obama agenda. But, environmentalists are fighting AGAINST solar, hydro, bio-fuels and other Obama plans... Yep... revolting again...

EVERY American is and will continue to pay higher taxes. Raising corporate taxes increases costs to consumers... not just 5%, either. And now Obama is talking about having to allow increased taxes to a majority of taxpayers in order to pay for his record setting budgets...

100 days is a microcosm in politics. Sure he is popular. Even an ugly guy who spends a lot of money very freely is popular! I want to see what the next several years bring!

OCT

I shudder to imagine just where this country would be if McCain and Sarah the Quitter were in office. That's all I'm going to say because every time I think about King Bush, Prince Cheney, and all the other Republican Royalty, I get sick.

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