Federico B. Santa Cruz

- Posted by Federico B. Santa Cruz

My biggest problem with this bilge is that other people like yourself who have never picked up a history book will assume what you wrote was accurate. Where do I even begin?

FDR was first elected president in 1932, seven years before the start of WWII and nine years before the U.S. got involved.
He was elected to his third term in 1940, a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed.
He was NEVER in the military.
He died while in office shortly after being elected to his fourth term.
SIX YEARS after the end of WWII, the 22nd amendment established presidential term limits (1951).

Snidely implying that McCain’s military service was that he got shot down shows even more just how deeply pathetic your knowledge of history is.

Nobody is saying Obama’s lack of military experience disqualifies him. It’s the fact that he, like FDR, who was as socialist as they come, would nearly bring unemployment rates back up to the 10% or so they were with FDR, promises to redistribute wealth from earners to non-earners, promises to slash our military, promises to kowtow to terrorist leaders, that fact that he is friends with people who have bombed government buildings and expressed no remorse and has as a spiritual leader someone who hates this country…that is of course until it becomes politically expedient to ditch him.

- Posted by Thoren

Really? No presidents have died in military service before or after serving as the president? What are the odds?

It is interesting you match Bertrand Russell to a subject concerning Obama.

Bertrand desired using nuclear weapons to force all sovereign nations into one global empire so as to affect a singular socialist governing body. When this idea failed, he adopted the idea of wide scale genocide to reduce the population of the earth, also to more easily affect a control over the citizens of independent nations. As this is strikingly in contrast to the harmony amongst all living creatures that he also preached, I find it quite interesting that a man willing to cause destruction to affect what he believed to be harmony(a socialist empire) would be acquainted with a quote that speaks of dying for a cause and the subsequent triviality of said death. A man willing to go to extremes for something he believed in. This man was full of contradictions. His life and works are a testament to his eloquence of word and his obviously deep and progressive thought. Interesting enough, Obama’s public persona stresses a similar eloquence with an equally contradictory notion of reality.

Barack’s objective to “fix” the country is based on a doctrine so starkly divergent from the principles that this country was founded and has prospered on, that it is no surprise in an era and generation based on material possessions, desire of wealth, dissatisfaction with social standing, increasingly lethargic lifestyles, and an ever increasing attitude to blame personal weakness on anyone or anything other than oneself, that a leader offering a government fix to personal problems can be heralded as the messenger of change. A messenger offering a collection of indoctrinated liberal and socialist principles believes that further incentives to blame the government, the corporations, and capitalism are the answer. Barack’s ability to champion over the claimed setbacks and hardships in his personal life and his continued ambitions is so absolutely in contradiction to his mantra of capitalism being an evil and upper class sensative system, that there is nothing this man can say that will convince me that his thoughts and dreams for America are based on a desire for continued American properity or that his ambitions are grounded in reality. Without a sense of what is a positive path of continued freedoms and properity in America coupled with a desire to affect a path for which America will follow if the man is to be elected, there is no way to conclude that the man is patriotic.

To desire a path for America starkly divergent with tha of the founding father’s is not only unpatriotic but is so completely irreverent to the citizens of America that there is no doubt in my mind you will be subject to reality on November 4th. Patriotism is the largest voting block in America. Your opposition to America’s kfounding principles has lost you this group’s vote.

Texas, one of America’s most patriotic states.

John McCain is a hero because he was able to physically survive being a prisoner of war. That unfortunate status does not necessarily make him a leader. McCain is a follower. His career in the Navy proves and he had a lot of high-ranking help along the way.

John McCain’s education is no more elitist than Barack Obama’s. John McCain had leg up at the Naval Academy whether he wants to admit it or not. Barack Obama had better produce good grades because there was no parent or grandparent to get him in the University’s legacy program.

i agree with “dianne”. both canididates are ambitiouse american polititians after all, they might genuinely care about their country when crisis comes but most of the rest of the times, they are just serving self.