Sam Purtill

The only thing this election season has done is deepened my belief in a society where government has three roles:

- protect people from the outside (army)
- protect people from each other inside (police)
- protect the rights of all citizens (judges)

A flat tax of 3-5%, even up to 10% is all I’m asking for.

An excerpt from one of those liberal magazines interviewing McCain:

You were a very enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq and, in the early stages, of the Bush Administration’s handling of the war. Are those judgments you’d like to revisit?

Well, my record is clear. I believe that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. I believe it’s clear that he had every intention to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. I can only imagine what Saddam Hussein would be doing with the wealth he would acquire with oil at $110 and $120 a barrel. I was one of the first to point out the failure of strategy in Iraq under [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld. I was criticized for being disloyal to the Republicans and the President. I was the first to say I would lose a campaign rather than lose a war. I supported the surge. No observer over the last two years would say the surge hasn’t succeeded. I believe we did the right thing.

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The man stands up for what he believes in, he has my vote.

Reading these interviews has got me thinking the last few weeks. Does bad PR really matter when you’re running for president? Or is any PR good PR? I can’t go two feet in San Francisco without seeing someone holding a CHANGE sign up with the face of Obama on it. I don’t care what these people think, McCain is going to lessen taxes on the rich which is my primary concern. Plus when we go to war with Iran and (most likely) Russia he won’t be afraid of using nukes.

Not that I am in that tax bracket, but when I join it I won’t have to throw as much money down the black hole US Government.