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I would like to take a little time away from our usual discussions about our culture of necromancy to talk about the Presidential Campaign of 2008. We here at the Simon Necronomicon GateWalker’s Page and Keepers of the Ancient Chaldean Tradition support Barack Obama in his endeavors to be the next President of the Untied States of America.  After a careful review of  both Presidential Candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, we hold the opinion that it is in best interests to support Senator Barack Obama to give America the best future possible for the following reasons:

1)     Senator John McCain’s has often stated that Barack Obama is not qualified to be the next President of the United States due to his lack of experience. We have found that these statements are not substantial and may show some bigotry on the part of John McCain.  American voters need to ask themselves; how far does experience play into the capability of fulfilling your responsibilities as a politician?  If we are going to question a political candidate based on their level of experience, then why didn’t we question Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? According to Senator John McCain standards, Governor Schwarzenegger is not qualified to be Governor of the State of California. Mayor Michael Bloomberg held no prior experience as an elected political official before being elected in 2001 as Mayor of New York City. I would like to remind our readers that Mayor Michael Bloomberg was elected during the greatest crisis that New York City has ever faced, the 9/11 tragedy. He was frequently mentioned as a possible independent candidate for the 2008 presidential election and fueled that speculation when he left the Republican Party in June 2007. Why didn’t the American public question Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s level of experience back in 2001? Ross Perot ran for President in 1992 and 1996 and had no prior experience as an elected political official, yet his lack of experience in the arena of politics never came into question. The ideology that a politician is capable of securing America’s future based on how long they have been involved in the political arena is somewhat idealistic, but not always valid. Our current President, George W. Bush, has quite a bit of political experience and the Bush name is well known in the field of politics and it still has a great field of influence. Yet both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have publicly expressed disdain for the Bush Administration, despite the experience that President George W. Bush has in the field of politics. Senator John McCain’s critique of Senator Barack Obama as not being qualified for the Executive Office is an appeal to those who have become complacent with the current political state of affairs and for those who are afraid of real fundamental change. Our choice of who should be the next President of the United States should be based on the candidate’s agenda and not on who has the most experience as an elected political official.

2)     Senator John McCain’s Economic Plan

Some individuals have aligned themselves with Senator John McCain due to his promise not to raise taxes. This has made me wonder if America has a good memory. Maybe this next statement might give you a clue as to what I am talking about.  

“Read my lips: no new taxes” is a now-famous phrase spoken by former American president and candidate George H. W. Bush at the 1988 Republican National Convention as he accepted the nomination on August 18. Written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan, the line was one of the most prominent soundbites from the speech. The pledge not to tax the American people further had been a consistent part of Bush’s 1988 election platform, but its prominent inclusion in his speech cemented it in the public consciousness. The impact of the election promise was considerable, and many believe it helped Bush win the 1988 presidential election.

Once he became president, however, Bush raised taxes as a way to reduce the national budget deficit. Bush refused many times but was making no progress with a Senate and House that was controlled by Democrats.

Is Senator John McCain feeding us the same broken promise twenty years later? It seems so. How can Senator John McCain rescue America’s failing economy and still engineer a $10 Billion dollar-a-month war? Maybe all his experience as a veteran might have slighted his experience in the arena of economics. Despite the fact that America’s economy is hurting badly, Senator John McCain has not put together a cohesive economical package to date. What Senator John McCain has done is to put a report together that is an alternative to Barack Obama’s plan.  This ‘wait and see what Obama  does, then get a bunch of economists together to improvise on Obama’s plan,’  indicates Senator John McCain’s lack of leadership in the arena of economics.

3)     John McCain’s chooses Sarah Palin as Vice Presidential Candidate

This is probably the worst display of judgment that I have seen in the history of politics, and it also shows us that despite all the political experience that John McCain has boasted about, he is very capable of making some big mistakes. I am sure that Senator McCain was trying to win more votes by playing off of the disappointment that some people faced when Senator Obama did not choose Hillary Clinton as a running mate. While this choice may have gave him a few percentage points in the polls, now it is hurting him quite a bit today. Senator John McCain is in his early seventies and whoever wins the Presidential Election has quite a bit of work ahead of them. Stress is the number one bringer of disease and fatality. God forbid something was to happen to Senator John McCain, if elected President, but does Sarah Palin have what it takes to be Commander and Chief of the United States? And if she does, then why didn’t she run for the Republican Nomination like Hillary Clinton did? You mean to tell me that out of the whole Republican Party Sarah Palin is most qualified Vice Presidential Candidate?

First, I must state that even when Hillary Clinton was running for the Democratic Nomination the media was making her out to be the most qualified woman in the political arena, and this is far from the truth. Actually, the most qualified woman to run for the office of President, is often over-looked, and would have secured Senator John McCain’s office for Presidency if he had chosen her. Her name is Condoleezza Rice!

Why didn’t John McCain choose Condoleezza Rice as his running mate? Not only would he have captured some of the Hillary Clinton supporters. But he would have also increased his popularity amongst the minority community. Miss Condoleezza Rice has been President George W. Bush’s backbone for the past eight years. She has the strength of a leader and the political experience that would make Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton look like girl-scout saleswomen. Bu then again this is type of decisions that a man with so much political experience and no 0n-the-job training makes?!!! How can Senator John McCain be an effective leader while he is making ineffective decisions during his campaign? Yet John McCain continues to promote the idea that Barack Obama has an agenda that is Socialist and that he associates himself with terrorists, has America forgotten about the Keating Five? I will let Wikipedia remind you:

“The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators, Alan Cranston (D-CA), Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), John Glenn (D-OH), John McCain (R-AZ), and Donald W. Riegle (D-MI), were accused of improperly intervening in 1987 on behalf of Charles H. Keating, Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, which was the target of a regulatory investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). The FHLBB subsequently backed off taking action against Lincoln.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many elderly investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions that Keating had made to each of the senators, totalling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators John Glenn and John McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised “poor judgment”.

All five of the senators involved served out their terms. Only Glenn and McCain ran for re-election, and they both succeeded.”

I will end this post with a quote from my own writings:

“If a person cannot serve as a Head of State in the country that they reside in, due to their gender, race, or religion, then that person is not a citizen in the country that the reside in.”

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