McCain Walks Freely. Sure!

Senator McCain is blasting Senator Obama now because the Democrat has not gone to Iraq in the last two years and, according to McCain’s theory, that makes Obama out of touch with the reality on the ground.
Well, none of us, common folks, has gone to Iraq either and yet seventy five percent of the population wants this war ended regardless.

The problem with McCain’s attack on Obama is that the majority of our citizenry believes that we shouldn’t sacrifice more of our troops and resources in that part of the World. We have enough problems of our own right here at home.

Besides, let’s say that the situation really has improved in Iraq even though is difficult to see how. Why then can’t we plan a removal of our soldiers in an orderly manner? If the Iraqi people can take care of their country there’s no reason for a longer stay.

On the other hand, if the situation continues to be volatile because of our presence and the perceived image of our troops as foreigner invaders there is no end in sight, making the premise of staying even for one hundred years more believable.

If the leader of our country has to physically go to every place on earth, where we are involved, to understand what’s going on, the White House would be a very lonely building. That’s why presidents have advisors and support staff to help them on their difficult decisions.

Theatrics don’t count here. Donning a flak jacket and walking in Iraq for a few hours, at selected places and surrounded by heavy security, makes the news, but as far as understanding the overall problem is, to put it mildly, naïve.

Most of us have given up on the reasons for this unwarranted war by now and our main concern is to put an end to the sacrifice of our young people. Five years is more than enough and far more than other previous and more meaningful wars. Wasting more lives and money hoping that something will change, when very little has in these past five years, is asking too much from our service man and from all of us at home.

Only the will of the people of Iraq can make peace work in that country. As long as they continue battling each other, the best our presence can do is to contain their own sectarian violence. A sectarian violence that’s much older than our own country. And we’re going to solve this in a few more months or perhaps years?

If we stay, some of the people of Iraq will use our presence as a shield while others will fight our soldiers as invaders. If we leave, they may battle among themselves to decide by force who holds the power.
If it comes to that, I’d rather have the later. At least we’ll have another soldier coming home alive and another billion dollars that we can spend in our own battered economy.

Obama/Edwards- Is this the ideal ticket?

Possibly.

After the endorsement of Sen. John Edwards the path to the White House for Obama could be cleared once and for all. While I personally don’t consider Barack Obama to be an African-American (he’s after all half/white half/black) many in this country still hanging on to the theory that “white blue collar” workers are with Hillary Clinton.

Well, guess what? Edwards is the one candidate that, before he dropped out of the race, was supported by many of the same voters. If a ticket includes Edwards as VP he surely have the same or perhaps better appeal to those WBCV.
I don’t even want to think what Hillary’s reaction will be to the newly declared supported of Sen. Obama.
Let’s wait and see.

What’s Hillary waiting for?

Perhaps a miracle. Because however she wants to jumble the present figures, there’s no chance she’ll have enough number of delegates to win this contest.

With Obama having at present 1,865 pledged delegates and Hillary only 1,697 and leaving just 217 unpledged delegates out there, chances are very strong that this race should be over any moment now.

If we split the unpledged delegates in half (217) that will give Obama 1,865 + 108 making a total of 1,973. Hillary would wind up with 1697+109= 1,806

With 2,025 needed to win neither candidate will reach the mark.

Now, anyone in the Democratic Party knows that this scenario won’t happen, simply because the party needs to consolidate behind one person and one person only. Doing it otherwise could signify a suicidal move for all Democrats.

That said, Most of the Super delegates, if not all, will rush to support Obama, among other reasons, besides the numbers stated, because he received the most popular vote so far.

Hillary should face-off her campaign and concede with honor instead of trying to draw blood from the party. If she does that and concentrates on moving all those voters who supported her to back Obama, the next general election in November should be a walk in the park for the Democratic Party.