Quote Originally Posted by EJ25RUN
I stand by what makes sense and Obama just seems as if he is all talk.
Alright, let's talk about McCain and sensibility. I'll relate some major policy positions championed by McCain to the appropriate logic.

1)Offshore drilling will help us become more energy independent immediately - a position now held by both candidates, it will certainly be helpful but not appreciably. It will take a long time to put the offshore rigs up and the amount of petroleum they produce isn't going to be anything to get overly excited about. That and a strong hurricane could easily render the rigs inoperable or destroy them. There's also a good chance of an accidental yet disastrous oil spill which will damage already vulnerable ecosystem. The short version: it will definitely allow us to produce more oil domestically, but not nearly enough to make an appreciable difference - especially when one considers increasing foreign demand in the coming years before additional rigs even become operational. When you couple that with the risk of environmental damage, its not anything to get all that excited about.

Offshore drilling has more to do with allowing oil companies to find more revenue and making voters think you're going to make a difference than actually impacting energy prices in any significant way.

2)Gas-tax holiday - would have saved $.18 on every gallon of gas for a short period of time, would have cost the national government, already in a deficit, nearly 10 billion dollars. Pure political pandering and nothing more.

3) Iran - bomb it, maybe invade it and maybe bomb it some more. There's really no need for elaboration here.

4)Taxes - tax cuts (we're already in a deficit).

5)Veteran's affairs/Military affairs -

9/07 Voted against Webb Amendment calling for adequate troop rest time between deployments

05/06 Voted against providing $20,000,000 to the Department of Veteran's Affairs for health care facilities.

04/06 Voted against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran's Affairs for outpatient care and treatment of veterans

03/06 Voted against increasing Veteran's medical service funding by $1.5 billion, to be paid for in full by closing corporate tax loopholes.

03/04 Voted against $1.8 billion dollar increase for Veterans' medical care, to be paid for in full by the closing of corporate tax loopholes.
10/03 Voted to table (basically, kill before bringing to a general vote) a funding bill that would have provided $322,000,000 in safety equipment for U.S. forces in Iraq.

4/03 Compelled other Senators to table a vote to provide $1 billion to the National Guard to make up for a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts and tactical vests.

8/01 Voted against increasing the amount available for Veteran's Health Care by $650,000,000.

Remember, these are the same troops fighting the awesome war he voted for. I guess life is too easy as an Admiral's son (who, if I'm not mistaken, was also an Admiral's son) for him to care what the veterans without the silver spoons in their mouths have to deal with after the war.