Hi all,

I would like to launch a discussion where everyone tries to plays the devil's advocate. Basically, i will ask you to switch completely your position for this election and explain why you would vote for that candidate instead  of the other one. Try to be constructive if you can ;)

So, i will start. 

(Since my vote will go for Obama, i will defend McCain)

The experience factor

First of all, Senator McCain is a much more experienced man than Senator Obama. You may agree or not with some of his votes or positions. That's naturally up to you. But, none can't deny that McCain has been here for a while. He has seen the world, he has travelled a lot and knows what's going on.

There is no way you can compare the experience of someone like McCain with Obama's experience. Obama seems like a decent person, but we need more than just a "decent person" to face today's challenges. He still needs to experience more what the political life is, and what it is to take hard decisions quickly. 

Think about it for a second. Obama likes to "brag" about the fact that he has judgement. For example with the Iraq war, he keeps bragging that he had the "judgement" to see that it was a wrong war.

What senator Obama doesn't understand is that when you are a president, you have to take sometimes very hard and very risky decisions with very limited informations. When you take them, you have to live with them. That's what makes a good leader.

It is easy for someone like Obama who never took a hard and risky decision to blame others of taking a bad decision. 

Yes, McCain has made some mistakes, but who didn't ? This is exactly what makes McCain a more experienced person that Obama. You can't get better if you don't do mistakes.

The economic issue

Some pleople blame McCain and/or the GOP for the situation we are living today. I sincerely believe that's an unfair conclusion to make.  

Yes, there were some abuses, yes some of the deregulations laws didn't help. But, in a crisis like this one, it isn't only a single or a group of few factors that had triggered the crisis. 

If the reasons of the crisis were that easy to identify, why the economists didn't foresee it ? Why we never heard about it before ? Everything crashed without anyone knowing what was going on exactly.

Think about it for a second, even the most eminent economists of the country couldn't foresee what would happen.

I highly believe Obama is exploiting and manipulating the public opinion on that matter. He has seen that the polls favor him when he keeps associating McCain with the economic crisis, and he is exploiting it as much as he can. But, if you look deeply at Obama's plan, he isn't giving any decent or good answers to today crisis. Again, it is easy to criticize others, but what does Obama exactly suggest to fix it ?

The obama we have seen during the campaign is someone who has just been arguing over and over the same thing. He is exploiting people's frustration of the actual government, he is associating McCain to the current gouvernment. 

I will ask a simple question to the people who wants to vote for Obama. Do you really vote for him because you think he is the best ? Or, are you voting because you are pissed off the current gouvernment and disapointed by the current president ?

If your answer is the second one, that i highly suggest you to reconsider. Because, McCain isn't Bush !

Don't let Obama brain wash you !

I will give him credit for using a smart tactic to get elected, but I am not going to vote for someone only because he is using a smart trick / tactic to get elected. 

Think about it, when he will have to take those hard decisions, is he going to say again... Oh that's not my fault, that's the GOP fault ?

Mr Obama is a good man but he needs more experience before leading a country like ours.