Saline County Democrats Gearing Up For Election

Barack Obama is scary? That's what the McCain campaign is trying to make you believe. The McCain campaign itself claims they are now "turning a page on this financial crisis" by focusing on Senator Obama as "too risky for Americans."

Too risky? Never mind that most Americans don't have the luxury to turn the page on their own economic woes, and that passage of the bailout package hasn't solved their immediate problems -- if we are going to discuss risky choices, just take a closer look at Senator McCain's past.

In the 1980s, after he was lobbied heavily by Charles Keating, the chairman of Lincoln Savings and Loan who later went to jail, McCain was instrumental in calling off federal regulators pushing for an investigation of Lincoln. This was the first time he sided with deregulation. The ensuing Savings and Loan collapse cost U.S. taxpayers $124 billion. At the time, McCain got away with a warning from the Senate Ethics Committee, but others involved in the scandal were not so lucky.

Not only does McCain's involvement with Charles Keating show a serious lack of judgment and integrity, he also seems to have learned nothing from it. He has continued to vote for more deregulation over the years, leading us again to a collapse in the financial sector. The only difference: in 2008 it is costing taxpayers $700 billion.

Why should we wait around to find out if McCain has learned the lesson this time? What will it cost us if he hasn't? A risky choice, wouldn't you agree?

Most people who say that Obama is scary have no idea why that would be true. They say he is a liberal Democrat but don't really know what that means. They say he will increase our taxes when many non-partisan sites have already stated that that is not true. He will lower taxes for 95% of Americans instead. They say he is inexperienced - well, look what decisions McCain has made during his long years collecting "experience". They say he has shady connections to former terrorists, but they don't mention McCain's own skeletons, like the Keating Five scandal I described and his connections to Gordon Liddy, whom he calls a friend and who was in jail for his involvement in Watergate (and is unrepentant to this day).

Just food for thought.

midmocat - I agree with everything you've said about Obama. But to say we democrats should be GLAD to have had George Bush to protect us? He's only about protecting his rich oil buddies, his own interests and has done nothing good for us hard-working middle-class people.

I'm a Democrat thru-and-thru, but to date, I sure can't bring myself to vote for the Obama-bin-Biden team!

You are absolutely corrected. My apology for overlooking and failing to mention Dr. Joe K. Sadeghi will be the featured guest. I encourage everyone to attend and visit with our Democratic Candidate for Senate.

Obama, cannot do it alone! We have to get the old republicans out of Congress, and the Senate! Some how, i think we need to get the old Politicians out and some new young bloods in. The young People with Character, is our Future!And we need to get our Government back to the people.The arrogant People we have in there now, thinks they are above the law, and treat us like we are their Children, this is our Government, they are our Representative . So we should treat them as such! It turns out you all most have to use your Intuition , to pick a Candidate! We have to get some credibility back in this World.And it should start with Government , from top to Bottom! So People???????? Register and Vote,to save our Country!