http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20081026

McCain says he’s “pro-life” (ie anti-abortion), yet he supported a war that has killed approximately 4,200 US soldiers and approx 97,000 Iraqi civilians. He sings mockingly about bombing other countries (Iran) and about staying in Iraq “for 100 years and more”?

…and don’t even get me started on the environmental policies (or lack thereof) that have damaged our planet for all living creatures, born and unborn.

Is that really “pro-life”? Not in my book.

And this, even after the initial link between Bin Laden and Iraq/Iran was tenuous at best?

What about the unborn children that could’ve been born to those dead soldiers had they not been killed in the war on terror in Iraq?

What about the unborn children that could’ve been born to the 97k (and rising) civilians who were killed?

What about the lives of the children orphaned by the war that McCain so willingly supports? What about the lives of the people cut short by war, disease and poverty?

What about the lives of the children (born and unborn) that would be affected were he to launch pre-emptive strikes (a la Bush-Cheney against Saddam’s yet-to-be-found WMDs) against other Anti-America, Anti-Bush countries like Venezuela, Russia, Syria or Iran?

YES, being able to support someone who preserves the life of the unborn child is important, and I agree with you there. To me, that’s necessary, but NOT SUFFICIENT.

If he ONLY supports the preservation of THOSE lives, while creating policies that condemn those already living to die or to live very difficult or very short lives, then if I could vote, I certainly wouldn’t for John McCain…

Simply put, he’ll be putting the future of any potential children I may have at serious risk.

Thanks for commenting, man. Please feel free to do so again.

McCain is pro-choice himself…but if he elected there is a chance that he will select a pro-life judge to the supreme court (and there is a good chance at least one will need to be repaced within the next four years)….which is what I would want if I were American.

Obama named Scalia, Thomas and Roberts as three judges he would not have selected; all three are pro-life judges. So, although it has not come up as a major topic in this election…I would not be able to cast a vote for Obama, if I could vote.

Wednesday November 5th will be an interesting day indeed.

It’ll be “Guy Fawkes/Bonfire Night”, too.

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.”

I sincerely hope that we don’t have any additional reasons to remember 5-11.

Anyone who claims to be a proud and patriotic American like your visiting ghoul…let them nail their own jaws shut after Tuesday: after all, as they were wont to say so often, dissent and criticism is treason.

I look forward to seeing how these fools manage to work the name “Hussein” into “Mr. President, sir.” In the meantime, I look forward to the end of that man’s world, as he seems to think it will come crashing down on his head because the next president may be slightly less blood thirsty than the savages that have been propped up so far in the U.S.

So, you think the link I posted was irrelevant… alright…

Sitting in a room with someone and/or politely applauding or listening to a *”poem”* is a cause for serious and grave concern as that proves that Obama is a terrorist!!!

… but actually spending and sending over US$ 500,000 to the organisation responsible for sponsoring the man who wrote the “terrorist” poem does not?

And, lest you forget, America deals and works with both Israel and Palestine, and has been working to broker a true peace accord between the two for years. That’s one of the reasons why McCain and his committee spent the money on that “terrorist-sponsoring” organization. That’s another reason why other senators and other congressmen sat in the room and listened to (and applauded) the same poem of which you speak!

Never forget that Obama voted to NOT go to war. McSame voted for the war, when he was busy trying to support G.W. Bush 90% of the time. Stopping or finishing a war that someone else started (which was proven to be a big lie as no WMDs have been found to date) is NOT the issue. The issue here is which candidate had the right judgement to not take the country into war in the FIRST PLACE.

The only people who should feel guilty are those responsible for starting the war in the first place, not those who are left with the ugly mess to clean up after the responsible parties have been voted out of office. You should also remember (or take note of) the fact that the democratically installed and elected government of Iraq actually agrees with Obama’s timeline proposal for the US forces’ eventual departure… (see http://preview.tinyurl.com/6n5jtw).

This “resulting terrorist attack” (that you seem to see *so clearly* in the pipeline) won’t be Obama’s doing, kind sir. You have the failed foreign and domestic policies of G.W. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Ashcroft, Gonzales, and Rove to thank for that. They had a *direct* hand in implementing and carrying out the Bush Doctrine and the war against Iraq, if you really want to be truthful, logical and reasonable about it…

…which I don’t think you would, because after 8 years of seeing and living with the effects of those policies, you seem to want… more of the same!

I tip my hat to you, kind sir. Its your right to vote for whomever you choose, just as much as it is my right to support whoever I choose.

Oh, and I did write the post. This is my blog after all. What I *didn’t write* was the letter you so soundly criticized me for. There’s a substantial difference between the two things, just in case you didn’t know or realise. In your rush to criticize, you probably just glossed over that fact.

Thanks for commenting, and again, have a nice life… regardless of who wins on November 4th.