McCain's great if you can afford him

For a long time I was a little torn as to where to place my vote in the Presidential election.

I consider myself a life-long Liberal (with clandestine conservative tendencies at times). My personal political philosophies tend to lie a little more in line with Liberals than with Conservatives.

But being a vet and a Vietnam vet like McCain, I do have a lot of respect for him, what he went through as a POW, and how it shaped his politics.

One big area where I keep have difficulty is, how can McCain, a guy with 11 houses and 16 cars, understand what it is like to make less than what most of this country calls middle class income? He stumbled when he tried to describe middle class, calling it people who make less than 2 million dollars a year. If that is the case, I belong in the abject poor classification.

Something that falls in line with the rich vs poor is health care. McCain’s solution is to make more and varied policies available for people to purchase. That’s great IF you can afford to purchase them. The crux of the problem is the great number of people who cannot AFFORD the insurance. Creating more policies won’t cure that problem.

Maybe this is important because I have reached an age where I see docs on a more regular basis than when I was younger.

I’ve heard all the arguments about the “terrible” Canadian system, or the problems with British health programs. But who says we can’t do better? Why do we have to model it after something that already exists and doesn’t work?

The simple answer is, we don’t.

Got little off the track here.

I do agree with Dane’s concept of voting principle over expediency, but I have to balk at Barr. He’s just a little too much off the deep end, and there seems to little substance there and a lot of rhetorical posturing.

So it looks like one of two choices: either Obama, or the old standby (you want to talk about principle over expediency)...Mickey Mouse.

It wouldn’t be the first time Mickey got a write-in from me.