Mark Knows It All

John McCain is an honorable man, and he will do this country no harm. For that reason, he has my support for President. I cannot say the same thing about Barack Obama. This year, if Hillary Clinton were the Democratic nominee, I may have been tempted to vote for her. John McCain was not my first choice for president, or my second, for that matter. The McCain/Feingold Bill on campaign finance reform was one of the most un-American pieces of legislation I have seen come out of Congress in many years. It is ironic that McCain, himself, is now suffering the consequences of his own folly. Money is the mother’s milk of politics. By promising John McCain that he would accept public campaign financing, then reneging, Barack Obama snookered John McCain at his own game. Unfortunately, Barack Obama is also snookering the American public. A fawning press decided a year ago this is who it wanted to be President. The biasness in the press turned from “wink-wink- nod-nod” into something much more one...