Anecdotally when I lived in LA my power bill (run by the municipality) was ALWAYS cheaper than that delivered by private companies. At times mine was HALF what they were paying and no it wasn’t government subsidized. I will look at making an in-depth post on this in the future.

I thought your post went a little off track when you started throwing around accusation about who Obama associates with or how he has been funded. I was a little offended because I am one of the donors who has never given to a political campaign before and has anteed up for his. Just because you don’t want to believe he has more popular support financially than any other candidate in history doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

Obama wants Change alright. He wants to change capitalism into socialism. Why is Obams’s political path so full of people who hate the USA and hate it’s capitalist system? Maybe the money is coming from people like billionaire George Soras divided up into $200 chucks for which there is no accountability. Maybe its coming from the Middle East where the Muslims would like to see Obama win. Why did Obama choose to escape the scrutiny of Federal election funding?

There’s an old saying “A garden owned by many will soon be choked by weeds”. Socialism dosen’t work long term. Russia is the largest example of it. The possibility that; the most Left leaning candidate to ever run for President, may be elected; scares me to death!

I find it interesting people are still talking about the redistribution of wealth as a concern about Obama. We are seeing the greatest redistribution of wealth we have seen in the history of this nation…from private citizens to corporate banks.

After FISA, neither gets my vote because neither has proven themselves to be the kind of person to uphold and defend the Constitution.

You are correct to note that he is from military aristocracy. What I should have made clear is I believe when you reach the upper echelons of the military the line between military and politics blurs. At the very least you have access to the political establishment and the benefits that accompanies that. I never implied that McCain grew up with the wealth he enjoys now, just that his roots are from what could be considered a, ‘ruling class’.

I plan to address differences in policy and why I think Obama’s are superior in later posts. The point I was trying to make here is that expectations Obama brings to the office will empower him to achieve more than he could on his own. McCain doesn’t carry similar expectations into the Office with him. In fact his own party doesn’t even have high expectations for him.

“A Slap in the face to the American Dream”??

Has there ever been such an abused phrase as “The American Dream”???… i think not.

I read into it as simply the opportunity to lead a successful and satisfying life.

Government exists purely out of the need for public works/programs. Public works require funding. Funding requires taxation of the people.

Be careful Anthony - Voting with selfish intentions will have long term side effects for your children.

As yourself, I agree that both candidates have the American Dream and best interests of the country at heart. I’d argue however that McCain hasn’t been born into the political aristocracy, but rather, the military aristocracy, as I’m unaware of any of his ancestors that held any important political position outside of the military. He also wasn’t very rich, and only became so through marriage.

In any event, I’m not a huge fan of the McCain nomination, but feel the policies he has will do less damage to the country than Obama’s. This is simply due to the nature of Obama’s policies being a redistribution of wealth, which is a slap in the face to the American Dream in my mind as it basically says that “We’re for the American dream until you succeed, then we’ll tax the heck out of you” which, from my perspective, takes away incentives to succeed if the government will reward you for failure.