Speaking of scumbags, ever heard of the Keating Five?
Yep. I'm pretty sure I was born then, but I'm not really sure, because that was a hell of a long time ago. Decades, really.
Unlike, say, a guy who attended a racist church 6 months ago or who just flip-flopped 2 days ago on the wisdom of FISA regulations that authorize the President to wiretap phones w/o judicial oversight. Very strange to get a pass on that last one, seeing as how the crazies in his party have been calling Bush the second coming of Hitler for doing the very same thing for the past 6 years.
That said, I'm not one to sing the praises or carry water of John McCain.
I think Obama will be a very weak President who will get steamrolled by powerful leaders and forces from his own party. A vote for Obama is a vote for Pelosi, Reid, Dean, Shurmer, Murtha, and their ilk.
These are the same people who have been running this country for the past 2 years (they pass the laws and authorize all funds, remember), and have been very effective at stopping every legislative proposal from the President for the past 6.
Yet they've managed to increase earmark spending, increase the national deficit, lead us into our current energy crisis, and a fair number have their hands in the cookie jar with the usual ethics problems.
If that's what you want, more power to you. But I'm getting a little sick of "a vote for McCain is a vote for more of the same". A vote for EITHER is for more of the same, only it's gonna be a HELL of a lot more of "the same" with Obama.
Obama has no track record on leading anything, much less a party full of prima donnas. He'll have to buy their loyalty with handouts, not unlike Bush did with his own party for years.
That worked out really well, didn't it?