My take on the two mainstream candidates before the election:
Also, for further discussion:
Oregonlive.com’s version: Right on taxes, judges
Right on taxes, judges
There are two game-changers in the march to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: taxes and judges.Similarities: John McCain and Barack Obama advocate an interventionist foreign policy in some form. (See Afghanistan.) Joe Biden advocated intervention in Darfur during his debate. This nonsense is not our concern or our mandate. Wilsonianism has bemused these two, though history is clear about its failure.
The 44th president will continue this interventionism — ramped up by President Clinton in Yugoslavia and put into high gear by President Bush in Iraq.
Taxes: McCain stands for reducing taxes and cutting spending — not enough, but he heads in the right direction. Obama is a tax-and-spender believing that the feds are our money’s best steward.
Judges: McCain is Reagan. Obama is left of Clinton. Considering both candidates support needless, perpetual foreign intervention and neither leads during the current economic fiasco, is being right on taxes and judges so bad?
BRIAN D. O’LEARY
Southwest Portland
