For the first time since I became old enough to vote, I'm seriously considering sitting out a Presidential election.
Obama, on the one hand, brings nothing to the Presidency other than a radical agenda that seems to have little understanding of how the real world works. There's no circumstance that I would vote for him.
But to me, McCain's actually worse. Unlike Obama, McCain actually took away our rights. His "Campaign Finance Reform" stripped a lot of my fundamental freedoms. For instance, if there's a candidate I feel passionately for, I couldn't take out an ad for them in a newpaper right before the election. My ability to support a candidate has been greatly curtailed. For that reason alone, I wouldn't vote for him.
But McCain has so many other reasons not to vote for him. His position on immigration,while not different from Obama's, has been presented far more arrogantly than anything Obama has done. I was against any kind of "path to citizenship" nonsense. I don't want "comprehensive immigration reform". I want the current laws enforced. It has nothing to do with "racism" as McCain and his minions suggested. How about this: Our company spends tens of thousands of dollars each year paying for legitimate visas and other red tape to legally employ foreign workers. For McCain to even suggest that those who break the law should get a slap on the wrist or be ignored isn't incredibly offensive. Does McCain plan to pay us back the $100k or so we've had to pay to do things by the book?
McCain's positions also often strike me as just pandering to the media. He's against drilling in ANWR? Why? He wants to push various "green positions"? Why? I'm not saying he shouldn't, I just think it's obvious he supports those positions to pander to his left-wing buddies in the media. I doubt he's very familiar on the issue.
The only argument for McCain I can really see is supreme court justice picking. But realistically, the next two court justices likely to go are on the left anyway and McCain is not likely to pick particularly conservative jurors, particularly with the Senate so far left.
Obama's position on taxes and such are largely harmless to the people he's targeting because Obama is too clueless to understand how the tax system really works. My favorite proposal was Obama's suggestion that people who make over $250k a year would continue to pay FICA. That's the kind of proposal that only someone cluessless about the tax system would come up with. All he'd do is create an incentive for people to get paid in dividends or disbursements instead of going through payroll which, in turn, would start to cut into Medicare payments (which are already uncapped).
So I say down with both of them. There's no lesser of two evils this time around.