More of the Same!

The mantra of the GOP has become: "Drill, Baby, Drill." It is a mantra that seems to resonate with many facing high gas prices, but is it the way forward? Tom Friedman raises the question of why John McCain and the GOP have tossed all their eggs into the basket of a 19th century resource.
Friedman commends McCain's courage to embrace the Surge, though it might have cost him the GOP nomination, but now he raises the question of whether McCain has chosen to sell his soul to win the presidency. When the US is facing dire questions of the economy, health care, infrastructure, McCain wants to cut taxes; drill here, drill now; and ban abortions. He seems more concerned about the "media" attacking Sarah Palin (even while he's deriving all of his energy from her celebrity), and a comment about "lipstick on a pig" -- something he said about Hillary Clinton's health care plan.
So, here we are, at a critical moment in our history, when change is needed and what we have is more of the same. Friedman writes:

Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? As I have argued before, it reminds me of someone who, on the eve of the I.T. revolution — on the eve of PCs and the Internet — is pounding the table for America to make more I.B.M. typewriters and carbon paper. “Typewriters, baby, typewriters.”

Whether or not McCain has more steel in his gut than Obama is an irrelevant question. As Friedman concludes:

Sorry, but there is no sustainable political/military power without economic power, and talking about one without the other is nonsense. Unless we make America the country most able to innovate, compete and win in the age of globalization, our leverage in the world will continue to slowly erode. Those are the issues this election needs to be about, because that is what the next four years need to be about.

There is no strong leader without a strong country. And posing as one, to use the current vernacular, is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig.

John McCain and Sarah Palin have chosen to run a personality driven campaign -- one that capitalizes on his past and her celebrity. They promise to clean up Washington -- but how can they do that when they are part of the party that's currently running things? Obama-Biden at least are focusing on the economy and rebuilding a crumbling American infrastructure.
I'm going to vote for real change come November -- and that's not McCain-Palin!

Comments

Country Parson said…
The modern corporation is a fairly recent creature just approaching the young age of 150. Innovative minds that have been able to seize opportunity and build industries have always been near the edge of what society would tolerate, but they have been adept at using the Republican Party to underwrite their efforts, ethics and social acceptability. The party itself has merely been a useful and subservient tool populated by those who prefer as little innovation in life as possible. Of course I could be wrong about that, and my friend Don would assure me that I am.
Anonymous said…
Palin's a celebrity now? Its time for the world tour then!!! Next stop.. BERLIN!!

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