52 Days Until the Election

After eight long years, we’re going to be free of the Bush administration which has been disastrous for the United States. The only question is whether we will also be free of the Bush administration’s policies. Obama represents, Change, Hope, and The Future. McCain represents Stagnation, Fear, and The Past. If you like the way the country has been going the last eight years, vote McCain. If not, vote Obama.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was in Terre Haute yesterday stumping for Barack Obama. She stressed that current tax policy mostly benefits the wealthiest 1% (or, as I like to say, those on Barbara Bush’s Christmas card list) and that Obama planned a return to the Clinton tax structure. (Lots of folks like to respond to this with, “Eek! Tax Increases!” If you’re making more than $250,000 per year, then maybe ‘yes,’ but by fixing it to recent history, folks can remember how heavy their tax burden actually was or wasn’t during the Clinton administration when folks were, by and large, doing reasonably well financially; and the country wasn’t running up enormous deficits.)

She also stressed Obama’s plan to focus on the country’s infrastructure. Building up the infrastructure provides good jobs for the present, and, more importantly, lays the foundation for a strong economy in the future. Sebelius said:

The United States is the only nation that doesn’t have a major infrastructure investment project going on, she said, “and not only is [having one] good for our country, it’s good for our future. Moving goods and people and services in and out of market is essential.”

Obama will also be much more focused on repairing frayed alliances and using diplomacy as a major tool of international relations. Look at their styles. Obama is inquisitive, engaging, and persuasive. McCain goes more with the “HULK SMASH!” approach to foreign policy. John “Bomb, Bomb Iran” McCain can’t be counted upon to use diplomacy effectively.

Sebelius concluded:

The race is about two things: restoring the economy and securing allies and the United States’ position in the world, which starts with “getting out of Iraq, a war we should have never been in in the first place,” she said as the audience applauded loudly.