OT: Politics...my kinda thinking

[Bronco]

Thomas Sowell
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow
The Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305


Thomas Sowell is syndicated columnist and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Stanford, California, who wrote this past week in a column titled 'Random Thoughts' and published in newspapers nationally, the following:


'Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.


'After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. I have always voted for the person, and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.


'We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words money and special interests come to mind, amongst many others.


'Here's the way I see it:

'Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois , which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system. You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world, that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!


'But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job!

'Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend Jeremiah 'darn America ', Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.


'The good reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you, and to give a life-time achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.


'We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you hav e publicly stated that this man is your 'spiritual mentor.'


'BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting, and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And, please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a 'discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted, and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.


'Now you look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like my telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'.


'Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you. I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African-Americans, who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.


'AH YES! This brings us to MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON. 'MS. Clinton, it is just as depressing to realize that there are dozens of women who would also make great Presidents. But, fortunately, the horrible state of the selection process has selected YOU. I am not voting for you for a world of reasons, but the main one is the same as my not voting for Senator Obama. You persistently insult my intelligence. It COULD be conceivably possible that you did not know about Monica Lewinsky, extremely remote, but possible, if we stretch our imaginations a bit. But you turn around and then ask me to believe that you also did not know about Paula Jones and the legion of other women who were chewed-up and spit out by your l lecherous excuse for a husband. Puleese, turn off this broken record!!!


'But, let's set aside your hubby's flagrant peccadilloes. The real reason I will never vote for you is that I don't think the country can survive EIGHT MORE YEARS of Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Sandy Berger stuffing his socks with classified intelligence, Janet Reno's goon squad, and the myriad other corruptions that seem to stick to you. So, our former President can't keep his thingy in his pants. The REAL issue is that he committed perjury under oath when he lied about it and the pathetically-attempted cover-up that followed.


'Like you, he is totally incapable of telling the truth. He could not do it if you tortured him, and in voting for you, we would get the BOTH of you, all over again. You are the same folks who could have taken out Osama Bin Laden over 4,000-dead- Americans ago!

'And, please stop telling me that you have 'eight years of experience' to lead us. You were the first lady, not the Commander in Chief. Jeez! The sum of your 'experience' is that of the most worrisome and incompetent meddling in the history of the White House. You even cursed your pitiful staff and the Secret Service agents, who were, and still are, unfortunately charged with risking their lives to protect you, all at the expense of other people who have to work for a living.


'Your single pathetic platform is to finance the illegal drugs, alcoholism, and bad habits of the very lowest and most irresponsible free-loaders in America, and to then 'garnish the wages' (your own words) of every law-abiding and hard-working American, to pay for it. This disaster you refer to as 'Universal Health Care.' Where have you been the last thirty years? Did you not see that socialism is a failure wherever it has been tried? Did you not notice that the Soviet Union has collapsed since it gave no reward to those who worked the hardest for the fruits of their own labors to pay for those who will not?


'It is interesting to see all the dead bodies that you and your hubby have left in your wake. Suicides, mysterious deaths, and cover-ups that make Richard Nixon look like a rank amateur. The utter contempt and unbelievable arrogance of some of your strongest supporters, most notably the recently resigned and disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer, the epitome of hypocritical and malevolent arrogance gone wild, one of your most ardent, wealthy and powerful political supporters. A man the news media refuses to admit is a 'super delegate' in your own political machine, a fine example of your own 'adopted' state of New York. No wonder you moved there to run for Senator!


'Yes, I would vote for a woman; but, I will NOT vote for YOU!

'Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

'John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I WANT your trembling hand on the nuclear button. Think about it.


'We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez, and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America, and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office, and I want him to be really upset-off at all these other nut-jobs around the planet.


'John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office, and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down, and foam at the mouth a bit. And, I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want all of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night, and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America.


'I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other freaks in the sheets, the Saudis. On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise, and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he TRIED. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket t. The liberals are upset at him, and the conservatives are upset at him. Just my kinda guy.


'Finally: John McCain knows, on a most personal level, what it is to suffer horrible torture for years, and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special.' Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American, who truly loves his country, would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that; but, the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American,' and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot on election day for John McCain ----- warts and all.'










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[pshort]

Howdy,
My kind of thinking as well. I just couldn't write it that well!
Thanks for posting....

Paul

[El Chivo]

'I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand.

classic

[TCB in TN]

I am a big fan of Thomas Sewell, but I think he gives John McCain to much credit, as he does with both Obama and Clinton. I have little good to say about McCain except that he is NOT either of them. Were it not for Palin then I would be sitting this one out.

[Birdman]

I was having a hard time convincing myself to vote McCain. Notice I wrote vote McCain, not vote "for" McCain. Now I can vote for Sarah Palin and feel good about that.

[brucew44guns]

I read this column of Thomas Sowells early this morning. What a fantastic man, to speak up like this when so many of of his race would no doubt be ready to hang him for these words. But truth is truth, and it clears the air. Eloquently written by a man who is tired of phony politicians, butt full of the phony Clintons, and can see America diminishing under a phony Obama. Good post.

[Ysabel Kid]

Sowell is one of the most brilliant men in our country. Too bad 75% of Washington couldn't understand his book "Basic Economics". If they did, we wouldn't be in half the problems we're in right now!