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I think as time progresses we are seeing more and more of the real Barack Obama and learning a little more about this change he has in his plans for our country over the next four years. His position on the war in Iraq doesn’t stray too far from that of John McCain’s. They both will follow a plan put together by our military in command. They both know that we cannot just pull out and head home, but will have to maintain a presence there for years. We have invested more than 4,000 American lives to get where we are, right or wrong, and that investment can’t just be thrown away.
Once you get by the war, the differences between candidates widens, I think. McCain will keep the Bush tax cuts in place while promising a balanced budget in what seems to me to be a record-setting time for such a feat. Obama, on the other hand, will eliminate those tax breaks and levy a higher rate on the upper portion of the economic scale. This, of course, will be welcomed by all those not in that bracket but expecting some benefit from the wealth distribution that follows.
I still don’t hear much from either candidate regarding the country’s need for a long-range energy solution that was needed yesterday. This election could set the trend for politics from the left that will carry us as a nation into total socialism, be that good or bad.
We’ve never been there so we really don’t know just how we will play our cards in this game of who’s on top. We as voters just have to wait and watch the action unfold and in the end vote our conscience.
While all this takes place, hard times will visit many people as a result of the lack of dedication and planning from our elected officials in Washington. How can so few wreak havoc on so many?
Weldon McGaw       
Virginia Beach, Va.