Talk vs Action
Here’s what it comes down to folks.
Obama can talk real good.
He can talk about what he is going to do without explaining how he is going to do it and people melt at the sound of his sirens’ call.
He can speak hyperbole, taking you to rhetorical heights that leave you light headed and believing because it feels so good to believe.
He can draw crowds of adoring fans that would have made nSync jealous, heck he even had a “meet and greet” typical of boy bands during the DNC convention.
What he can not do is point to any accomplishments in evidence of his ability to deliver on anything he promises.
What he can not do is even point to personal acts of charity, compassion or heroism beyond his “brave” stance against the Iraq War when he wasn’t even a US Senator.
McCain doesn’t speak with the same inspirational soaring cadence of Barack Obama, but he has lived a life of service to his country; he has lived a life of charity and compassion, and he has fought for what is right no matter the consequence to himself or his political career.
Palin may be a better speaker than McCain, not likely as good as Obama, but she too has lived a life of charity and compassion, fighting for what is right without regard to political consequences, and holding to her core beliefs and principles even when an “easier path” was open to her.
Dick Morris has some interesting insight on the topic:
But it was when I looked up her biography after the meeting that I learned one of the most salient facts about Sarah Palin. She knew she was bearing a Down syndrome child but refused to have an abortion. While I am personally pro-choice, pro-choice means just that, the right to choose to have or not to have an abortion. My head bows to the integrity, guts and courage it takes to embark knowingly on such a life challenge because of one’s personal belief in the sanctity of life. When we look at McCain’s loving adoption of a child from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa and Palin’s knowing birth of a handicapped baby, we see a quality of character on this ticket worthy of the White House.
McCain may not have been my first choice from the start, but McCain/Palin is my choice and for the first time this election cycle I feel like I will be voting for a candidate I can support instead of voting against a candidate I can not tolerate.
Stumble it!