Pros & Cons of Obama & McCain

PRO's & CON's of Pres. Barack Obama

PRO
1. Instant slight improvement in world standing with most countries.
2. A president who can speak, and speak well.
3. Definite change from the past eight years.
4. Middle-class tax breaks.
5. The first White House since Carter with no Bush or Clinton in there.
6. Pres. Hillary Clinton will never happen.
7. Not a baby boomer.

CON
1. Democratic president and Democratic congress. When is the last time it was a good thing to have the White House and Congress be of the same party? 1964?
2. Taxing US oil companies while refusing to let them drill is not going to result in cheaper gas.
3. If he didn't like John Roberts, what kind of judges would he nominate for the Supreme Court?
4. Left his church over political pressure. Can you picture Joe Biden or Mitt Romney doing that? (If you can, you're more cynical than me.)
5. What will MSNBC (aka The Anti-McCain Channel) do with their time?

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PRO's & CON's of Pres. John McCain

PRO
1. A war hero in the White House.
2. Presidents with wartime experience (George HW Bush, Dwight Eisenhower) are less likely to get us into long, protracted wars.
3. McCain has a real record of willingness to work with Democrats, which really does give him stuff in common with Reagan besides age.
4. McCain's determined to cut spending, whereas Bush got the GOP-led Congress to help him set records on increased spending and an increased deficit.
5. Bush tax-cuts won't expire.
6. Even though he can't raise his arms above his shoulders, Hugo Chavez would not want to be left alone in a room with him.
7. Experience.

CON
1. McCain's bought into Al Gore's global warming scare, which means America won't be emerging from the energy crisis anytime soon.
2. His age essentially makes him a lame duck president from the get-go.
3. He can do town-hall meetings but he can't read a speech to save his life.
4. His campaign-finance reform only gave birth to the 527's and made money even more important to political campaigns.
5. What will Fox News (aka The Anti-Obama Channel) do with their time?

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PRO's & CON's of Either One

PRO
1. They'll both turn the page on the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove view of the world.
2. No preemptive-strike happy VP being the secret string-puller.
3. Both expressed desire for bipartisan compromise and cooperation.

CON
1. Neither has a good solution for the energy crisis.
2. Neither one has the authority to bring back Celebrity Boxing and make the talking heads of cable news be the contestants. (O'Reilly vs. Olbermann! Greta vs. Gloria! Anderson Cooper vs. Shepard Smith!)