Why should I care.....

jhinkle1114

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

You make sense...but still...no candidate for president is "one of us". Nope, not even Obama. I'm just at the point that I find the whole system and all name-calling and finger pointing and bickering over silly crap totally and completely messed up. It's high school politics all the way around

Again, that's not the point.

The point is McCain was trying to paint himself as "one of us" and attacking Obama for not being.

This 7 houses thing just brought that hypocrisy to the forefront.

McCain is the one doing this kind of finger pointing. Obama has stayed away from it for the most part, and even this was brought up in the context I outlined above. Not to say McCain isn't one of us, but to say "who the hell does he think he is calling Obama an elitist.

Point being, if you hate the name calling and personal attacks, then you're misguided in being annoyed by this 7 house stuff and should focus your out rage on McCain's tactics. He can't win on the issue so he has to attack Obama's character, patriotism (not wearing a flag pin), call him a celebrity and elitist who isn't one of us.

Obama has spoken against this type of nonsense. You're mistaking this 7 homes stuff for an attack, when it's really a response to McCain's attacks and a call for politics to move beyond such petty attacks on people and focus on stances on issues.

From his speech last night:

These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain.

But what I will not do is suggest that the senator takes his positions for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other's character and each other's patriotism.

The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America -- they have served the United States of America.

So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.