Well, look what the fear of an Obama presidency has done! It has pushed Dobson from a third party candidate to McCain!
"I never thought I would hear myself saying this," Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. "... While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might."(via)[...]
"There's nothing dishonorable in a person rethinking his or her positions, especially in a constantly changing political context," Dobson said in a statement to the AP. "Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation. His radical positions on life, marriage and national security force me to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice, John McCain."
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"If that is a flip-flop, then so be it."
After his attack on Obama, I kind of figured that he was going to be supporting McCain eventually. What other choice does he have? He can either vote for McCain or allow Obama to become president and if he's really against Obama's policies then McCain is the only way to stop him.
I'm not there yet. I know that McCain is an improvement over Obama but McCain is arrogant, abrasive, annoying and he seems like a jerk. I don't think that he has the right temperament to be president. I think he'll wind up being a pretty mediocre one (Ford comes to mind) but my fear is that Obama will be much worse (Carter comes to mind :-) and I just don't think that we can afford such an inexperienced guy who knows nothing about this war on terror running it (even though he has three hundred advisers).
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"*Yawn* Like we haven't heard that one before."
... and still can't deal with it.
"McCain is arrogant, abrasive, annoying and he seems like a jerk"
i'm going to go out on a limb here and defend mccain. it's typical that the right attacks the character of the candidate. that you find him to be an arrogant, abrasive, annoying jerk isn't the reason to disqualify him from the presidency... his wrong policies and lack of knowledge are.
An endorsement by Dobson isn't necessarily a helpful for either candidate!
"I know that McCain is an improvement over Obama"
*Yawn*. Like we haven't heard you tell us that umpteen times - without bothering to explain exactly how McCain is "an improvement" over Obama.
As for Dobson, how or why his opinion matters to Americans remains a mystery.
"You talk about hubris. There is nothing like the monumental hubris of Americans who presume to know what is a "good thing" for other countries and peoples whom they know absolutely nothing about. Americans who can casually talk about how a devastating war is a "good thing" when they have not, and likely will not ever, be forced to experience war in a personal way."
From Malki's quote in my reply to Gene, it would appear that he understands that the war was a "good thing" and he actually experienced it unlike the left who complain about the war in the abstract as they sit in the safety and freedom afforded them by the sacrifice of others. The right isn't the only ones engaging in hubris. You guys want to deny the Iraqis the freedom that you take for granted.
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