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Originally Posted by ace1914
JoninGA,
1. How do you feel a McCain administration differ with the Bush administration?
2. Do you feel an Obama administration is less able to deal with challenges and why?
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Oops. Tried to answer this earlier, browser crashed while posting & it looks like it didn't go through before the fritz. So let me try again.
re: how differs -- I'm almost certain to be unhappier with McCain than I've been with Bush. There are several key points I disagree w/ McCain on thoroughly & have no love lost for the man because of it. Worth noting here is that the majority of unhappiness I have with Bush's second term is from things he didn't do and/or things he wanted to do rather than things he did.
re: Obama -- Not only less able, but less likely to deal with them in a fashion I find acceptable. That distinction can't be overlooked & I'll get to it in a minute. As to capability itself, which is what I believe your original question mostly concerned, I don't believe he has remotely sufficient experience
nor judgmental ability to make the right call in difficult situations.
(FTR, the experience factor also concerns me about Palin).
He's a relative babe in the woods, particularly where realpolitik is concerned, and that's generally not something I find appealing in regard to having their finger on the button. While I'm most likely fairly described as an ideologue when it comes to internal affairs (and some external as well) there's also an element of realism that I value with regard to foreign policy particularly.
I don't believe Obama has sufficient real world experience to recognize instances when practical reality is something that cannot be avoided.
And that brings us the judgment factor I mentioned earlier. You don't know me as well as some of the others here (as far as I can figure at least) so what they might take for granted I'll spell out here briefly as part of this reply. Be forewarned however, you aren't likely to like it or agree with it but neither of those is necessary for it to be a part of my answer.
I believe that he has shown a lack of appropriate judgmental ability based upon a number of the positions he has taken. I find some of his positions to be incompatible with good sense, reason, or good judgment. Doesn't really matter which ones for the purposes of this discussion because that isn't the point, what they boil down to is that I don't find being dead wrong or even downright destructive a virtue that I'm looking for in a President
nor is it something that I can avoid considering when I assess someone's ability to make good decisions (aka their judgmental ability).
Hopefully that answered what seemed like a reasonable question in a reasonable way. If it didn't, it wasn't for the lack of trying.