Well, he has a "volunteer office" down in Houston, TX that's decorated with a Cuban flag . . . which bears an image of Che Guevara. When told about it, Obama did not suggest that his people should take down the flag. Wonder if that means he supports the individual right to keep and bear arms in the same way Fidel and Che have??

As for McCain on the Republican ticket, I look at it this way: if McCain were no worse than the Dem nominee on every other issue on the table (and I think he's better on several), I would vote for him anyhow because of his stance on the war on terror. Conservatives have chosen to throw away their votes before--like on Perot in 92, because GHW Bush committed the sin of going back on his word about not raising taxes. Just what did that get us? 8 years of Clinton, and severe cuts in the military and the intelligence community that have made it much more difficult to fight the war on terror.

I guess that makes me a national security conservative more than a fiscal or social conservative. But McCain gets my vote. He wasn't afraid to criticize Rumsfeld's strategy, and he got on board with the surge--which has worked--from the start. I vote to support the troops, and that gives McCain my vote.

Last edited by L. Brown; 02/15/08 05:40 PM.