People please pay attention to what is being said (or not being said) in the political arena. Obama made a comment the other day saying that McCain was more worried about talking about him (Obama) than he is talking about the issues. Hello! At what point in time has Obama ever talked about issues other than change? What kind of change? He will not talk about what kind of changes need to be made. Why? Because he doesn't know? He doesn't have enough experience to know? Obama is the one that does not want to debate with McCain on the issues! You have to ask yourself why?

Do you really think that he will not raise taxes? How is he going to do that? He wants to spend more money on welfare for illegals. He wants goverment controlled health care. How does it get paid for? With tax dollars! He said he is going to raise taxes on the rich. So he is saying that he and all his friends and cronies are willing to pay more taxes? While the rest of us pay less tax? Yeah right! Basically, if you have a job, you are rich and will pay more taxes, period!

Obama wants to be commander and chief of our military? I don’t understand how he can be when he has absolutely no patriotism for this country? He is patriotic when it is necessary and convenient for him to be! In this day and age is not the time for us to have a leader that is soft and unpatriotic! The world does not want the U.S. to be the power that it is and we are the target for every terrorist group out there. Do we really need a leader that pretty much agrees with that? Obama wants to have one-world nation. That can never happen as long as we want to remain free! He wants to disarm America! If you will go back and read history you will see that is exactly how Hitler took over Europe! Thomas Jefferson once said “No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” “And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

McCain is not perfect, a long way from it, but for me he is the obvious choice. Why, you ask? Because of things that are important to me and my family. A strong military being one of the top reasons. He will not weaken this country’s military. Because he personally knows how important our military is in this day and age! I have never been a McCain fan — in fact, I’m still not. But he is a patriot and will stand up for this country and do what it takes to defend it and that says a lot for him!

Our economy right now, well, to be blunt, “it sucks.” I have heard people say that President Bush has put us here. Well, people wake up! Our economy is down right now due to the former president. His economic plans at its best or worst. Everyone says we had a great economy when he was president. Well, folks, it wasn’t because of anything that he did. He rode the economic wave of presidents Reagan and Bush Sr. Now, President Bush is getting pounded by the wave that the former president rode and is taking all the heat. I know what you are thinking, he is the president and he is responsible for it. Well, tell you what, why don’t you listen to the next State of the Union Address. Every president says their economic plan will take effect 6 to 10 years down the road. Do you honestly think that the president, any president, can change things that quickly? If so, then you might want to go back to school and pay attention this time in democracy and economics. Nothing moves that fast, especially in our government. The next president whoever it is will have to deal with our current presidents economic plans. But of course whether it turns out good our bad that president will be praised or blamed for something that he had nothing to do with.

It is time people for you to figure out what is important to you. Don’t believe everything that is spoon fed to you from the media, wether it be TV, print or radio. Investigate the facts and then form your own opinion. Voting records are a matter of public record. Look into it. See how they voted on the issues important to you or if they voted at all and then form an opinion. Please don’t take what you are told by the media as gospel. They only feed you their corporate agenda, not necessarily the truth, the truth how they see it and want it.

I read an article from a well known columnist in San Francisco. He wrote, “McCain cannot make me vote for him, but Obama can make me vote for McCain.”

Think about it.