Why do I support Obama? Because he’s the better man.

Ok – My registered party affiliation is “Independent.”  I live in the DC/Northern Virginia area so I’ve gotten hit with *ALL* of the political advertising.

That being said – I’ve been watching the campaigns very carefully and have come to the conclusion that the Republicans have lost their way.  Obama’s adveritising is good, while McCain’s is VERY VERY bad.

They both have something in common:

Barack Obama is talking about Barack Obama.

John McCain is talking about Barack Obama.

I’ve not heard John McCain talking about what *HE* will do differently.  I’ve not heard a plan, an idea, even an original thought.

The only thing John McCain can talk about is why we should be afraid of Barack Obama.  I’m tired of the politics of fear.  If John McCain wants to convince people he’s going to be a “different” kind of politican, he needs to start campaiging like a different kind of politican.

All McCain has are lies.  Lies about Obama’s record, Lies about his past, Lies about what’s in store for the future.  You have nothing but lies until you prove otherwise.

To John McCain – Stop telling us why Obama is inferior to you, and start telling us why you are superior to Obama.  If you can’t do this, then be a man and admit it and step aside.

Let me qualify something.  I’m one of those people who may actually get hit with a slight increase under the new tax law.

I don’t mind it.  This election isn’t about *ME*, and it’s not about *MY MONEY* which is what the McCain campaign would like you to believe.  This is about *MY COUNTRY*.  This is about the welfare of the people around me.  Not just me.

Paying taxes is inevetable.  I keep hoping people will see that paying taxes is patriotic.  It keeps us from having to either print more money (causing runaway inflation and putting us at an economic disadvantage to the world.) or borrowing from countries like China and Japan, which is just plain not a good idea because it’s running us into a debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back.

The Ten dollar question is this.  If John McCain is going to give Billions of dollars in tax cuts to big business, big oil, and the other people who have bankrolled his campaign, who do you think is going to end up paying?  The money has to come from somewhere.  It’s going to come from us.

Basic economics states that if you want to stimulate the economy, you give the stimulus to the people who are going to spend it.  The ones who are going to put the money back into the economy.  THE ONES WHO ARE GOING TO TAKE THEIR $$$ down to target and SPEND IT.

In the grand scheme of things, someone who makes a quarter-million a year doesn’t even notice a couple-hundred-dollars in stimulus checks.  Most of them don’t even see the checks, and as such don’t change their spending habits.   Therefore, the stimulus checks don’t even make it back into circulation.

Now if you give a $500 check to someone who makes $40,000 guess what.  It’s going for diapers.  It’s going maybe for a new TV, maybe even just groceries.  It’s the money that then goes into the sales numbers of Best-Buy, or Target, or Walmart, and makes everything better.

So if you make over $250,000/year, you might end up paying a small amount more.  Only on the part of your income that is over $250,000.

But it will be worth it.