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there are profound differences between McCain and Obama on the issues. However, despite assurances to the contrary, McCain has drawn first blood repeatedly with negative advertising. Does Obama have it within himself to respond aggressively and take the initiative in exposing McCain's duplicutous statements? There is a real possibility that Obama is too gentlemanly, like Dukakis, Gore and Kerry, to accept the need to defend himself aggressively and will be slowly destroyed in the court of public opinion. In that case, America will continue down the road of the McBush usurpation of federal authority through "dirty tricks". Yet, even if Obama does prove equal to the taskmaster of rough politics, there are still doubts he would actually bring substantial change, given the entrenched interests in our national polity. An example is Obama's subservience to the AIPAC line of slavish devotion to Israel, even at the sacrifice of American national interests.

The various areas of similarity between McBush and Obama is why the election choice requires expansion to the minor party candidates. Since it is inevitable that one of the 2 major party
candidates will win the presidency and there are apparently vast policy differences between them, those who live in contestable states should vote between them. However, where it is a foregone conclusion which will prevail in a given state, your vote should be used to promote one of the many minor parties for the sake of a more pluralistic democracy, where office holders keep their electioneering commitments. It is shameful that despite the litany of obvious high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the Bush Administration, the Democratic leadership refuses to even hold hearings on it, when the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton over sex. As the bumper sticker says "No one died, when Clinton lied." Our country needs profound changes for prosperity to revisit the many and electing Obama would only be an installment on that. The choice could not be much clear, despite some attempts by both major candidates to obscure many of the differences. Clarity of choice requires cutting through the propaganda and nonesense.

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