John McCain Picks Sarah Palin as Running Mate

Today John McCain announced his pick for his running mate as Sarah Palin. She is currently the governor of the great state of Alaska, and has over an 80% approval rating for the two years she has led that state. She has stood against special interest groups, corruption, and pork-barrel spending, which was a big problem in Alaska. You may remember the “Bridge to Nowhere” Congress approve to build there, which she stopped and once again took a stand to stop foolish spending of our tax dollars on a project that was worthless. This is exactly the kind of person we need in Washington.

If you are truly looking for a President and Vice President that will change our government for the better, then you need to support and vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin this November. They offer us experience, as well as a long record of standing against the status quo of the politics of the past, unlike the inexperience and long record of being a major part of that status quo offer by the Obama-Biden ticket. Joe Biden has had a long record of partisan politics, and has always been part of the problem, not part of the solution our country needs. Even in the thin record offered by Barack Obama, he has always taken the party line above doing what was right for the country. On the one thing he offered during the Saddleback Forum as something he did against party politics, he noted siding with John McCain on Ethics Reform. What he failed to mention was after working on the bill with John McCain, when it came time to vote on it, he switched sides and voted against it after other Democrats pressured him not to support it. He always has shown himself as a person the Democrats could count on to support the party line, and certainly not a maverick or an independent thinker like John McCain or Joe Lieberman.

Can we really believe the lies and half-truths spewed by the Obama team as something we can count on, or should we instead look to the long record of independent thinking shown by both John McCain and Sarah Palin? I believe we can’t afford to take such a major risk as to believe the words of someone that has rarely kept his word in the short past we can look back on. This is the most important election in the history of our country, and we can’t afford to roll the dice on a team that has shown little dedication to independent thought, and instead chooses party politics as usual, continuing to be part of the problem, not part of the solution.

If you want a President and Vice President you can count on to be there for the American people, vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. We have a lot facing us in the future, and we need a strong leader that will stand firm and make solid decision based on what is right, not what is best for their political future, or get their names in the history books. We need bold thinkers, strong leadership, not inexperienced, party politics.

Is Our Government Broken?

So many times these days, we hear from people such as Barack Obama, that our government is broken. That it has left the average American behind. Personally, I find that assessment incorrect. I have spent the last twelve years or so fighting a battle with the state of Florida over an error that was made and in short would have cost me over thirty thousand dollars, if it weren’t corrected. I tried everything to fix this on my own, with no success. So I reached out to my state Senators and to President George W. Bush to ask for help. I received a personal reply from the President, and he directed the head of the Social Services to help correct the error. This single action brought the amount the state was seeking down to under $4,000. But there was still more to be done. With the help of my state Senator Jeff Miller, I was finally able to close this chapter of my life without costing me a single dime. They recognized the court order I had obtained a couple of years ago, which they had been ignoring, and they finally followed it and zeroed out my balance and ended more than a decade of fighting to restore my life to normal.

Had it not been for the actions of President Bush and Senator Miller, I would still be fighting that battle. They came to my aid when I needed them most, and they didn’t just give some excuse, they took action and helped me find justice once and for all. They were the only officials to extend a helping hand, with all that they have to deal with in their job, they took the time to help someone that isn’t rich, and doesn’t have a major standing in the world. I am just a regular guy, and they took the time to help me fix something that was wrong.

While the press and the Democrats tell us the economy is bad and getting worse, my wife and I have been seeing our lives changing for the better. We are making more money today than we did in days passed, and are on track to open our first major business. I have run a small business before, and the business we are planning now far exceeds those opportunities. Our current outlook is bright, and the only thing that might cause a problem, is if we get a President that raises taxes on our income, which will happen under Barack Obama. While we still should survive and do well, we will be forced to give away more of our hard earned dollars to give away programs that we should never support, and do no one any long term good. Instead of being able to invest that money into building our business further, and creating more jobs, we will be forced to give it to the government to fund wasteful programs.

This is the most important time, not only for Melissa and I, but for this country. We have a choice in the direction we will go. Will we choose a man that will keep our taxes low and trim the government, or a man who will decrease military support, and increase wasteful spending while increasing the taxes we all pay, cutting jobs in the process? How will you choose? Will we choose a man with real experience, or a man who requires on the job training in the most important job in the country. Maybe in the early days of this country we could afford inexperience, but at this stage, we can’t afford a President with training wheels. We need someone ready to lead on day one, not someone that needs to surround himself with people with real experience to make a simple decision. A good example is how Obama answered the question concerning the situation in Georgia. He changed his answer THREE DIFFERENT TIMES! I can just see him in office as President, making a decision with one of our allies, or worse yet one of our enemies, and then calling them back to tell them he changed his mind and wants to change his response. We would be a joke around the world, and we would have an even bigger target on our collective backs with a President who hesitates.

If our government isn’t broken today, it will be under an Obama Presidency. We simply can’t afford to take the chance on what will happen. We need to know more about what we can expect, and we don’t get that with Obama. He is too inexperienced, and we have no clue about how he will do. We do know he will raise taxes. We do know that small businesses will pay a higher cost to do business, running the prices everyone pays up even more. If you don’t think the extra taxes on higher incomes will effect you, think about who actually owns the businesses you do business with everyday. Do you think they will pay more without increasing the amount you pay to offset the amount they are paying out? If you don’t think it will hit you in the pocket, you are just fooling yourself. In the end, the middle and lower income people will ultimately pay the cost.

Barack Obama vs. Free Speech

I have conducted an experiment with both the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama, in which I created a presence on each of their web sites, and raised concerns that I have with both candidates. I wanted to test their commitment to our Constitutional free speech rights on their own sites. I made sure I stuck to the facts, and merely questioned if either candidate was prepared to lead us as President. From the start there was significant differences in the reactions of both sides. On the McCain side, they simply answered my questions with points about his experience as a Senator, and on the Obama side I was viciously attacked by supporters, who decided cussing me out was better than convincing me their man was the right man for the job.

After three or four months, the response of the campaigns made the difference. John McCain’s campaign allowed me to continue to question him, and were polite in their reaction. But Barack Obama’s campaign decided yesterday to kick me off the web site for making “false claims” and “fear-mongering”, their words, not mine. Now remember, I made it a point to post only things I knew were factual and merely questioned each candidate’s abilities to be President. It became very obvious that they have no desire for real opinions or questions, that they only want positive praises or nothing at all. In my view, this is a serious matter, and really must raise the question:

Do we want or need a President that is willing to shut down the voices that question, instead of answering those voices? Can the rights we hold dear, our Constitutional rights, survive such a Presidency?

I have since decided to support John McCain, as I could never support a person that would crush my Constitutional rights without batting an eye. I hope many of you who want to protect these same rights will join me in supporting McCain for President.