Reject Obama as "Change" Candidate

Reject Obama as "Change" Candidate by Michael Gaynor

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary: "CHANGE implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another."

Change is not necessarily for the better, of course.

Change can be good, or bad, or insignificant.

Rookie United States Senator and presumptive 2008 Democrat presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has presented himself as the change candidate and spoken passionately of "the audacity of hope" and "the fierce urgency of now."

Unfortunately, his background is NOT well known and criticism of him usually is spun as racist.

Fortunately, the more than becomes known about him, the worse it is for his presidential prospects.

What America needs is NOT another white president, or a black-and-white president, or a "rock star" president, or a rhetorician president, or a skilled teleprompter reader president, or a good basketball player and bad bowler president, or a rookie United States Senator without military or executive experience president. America need an experienced champion of traditional American values who will wisely pursue important American goals instead of making changes for the sake of change as president.

Tactical flexibility is a virtue, but flip-flopping is a vice.

Flip-flopping is trying to have things both ways or switching positions based on political expediency instead of principle or changed circumstances.

Presumptive 2008 Republican presidential candidate John Sidney McCain understands the difference between changing strategy in light of changed circumstances and flip-flopping.

Whether or not the United States should have chosen to liberate Iraq from the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein, it did so and thus it became critically important for the United States to succeed in Iraq.

Recognizing "facts on the ground," McCain promoted the tactical change known as "The Surge" when it was not politically popular to do so and Obama was wrongly predicting that it would fail.

Unsurprising, the steadfast and experienced veteran who chose the United States Navy as a career, served in Vietnam and refused early release as a prisoner-of-war to deny the enemy of a propaganda coup (even though it meant his continued imprisonment and torture) got it right, while the young fellow with no military experience (or even Peace Corps service) who had pursued his own careers as a community organizer and an attorney and tied his political fortunes to Rev. Jeremiah A. "God damn America" Wright, Jr. and the likes of William "domestic terrorist" Ayers would have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, with catastrophic consequences for America and the world.

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