No More of the Same - A Wakeup Call for Republicans.

The Republickn track record is highlighted in red for your convenience.  

Oct 30th 2008
From The Economist print edition 

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The immediate focus, which has dominated the campaign, looks daunting enough: repairing America’s economy and its international reputation. The financial crisis is far from finished. The United States is at the start of a painful recession. Some form of further fiscal stimulus is needed (see article), though estimates of the budget deficit next year already spiral above $1 trillion. Some 50m Americans have negligible health-care cover. Abroad, even though troops are dying in two countries, the cack-handed way in which George Bush has prosecuted his war on terror has left America less feared by its enemies and less admired by its friends than it once was.

Yet there are also longer-term challenges, worth stressing if only because they have been so ignored on the campaign. Jump forward to 2017, when the next president will hope to relinquish office. A combination of demography and the rising costs of America’s huge entitlement programmes—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—will be starting to bankrupt the country (see article). Abroad a greater task is already evident: welding the new emerging powers to the West. That is not just a matter of handling the rise of India and China, drawing them into global efforts, such as curbs on climate change; it means reselling economic and political freedom to a world that too quickly associates American capitalism with Lehman Brothers and American justice with Guantánamo Bay. This will take patience, fortitude, salesmanship and strategy.

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Oct 30th 2008
From The Economist print edition

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ 

patience, fortitude, salesmanship and strategy  are something Barack Obama has demonstrated consistently – while John McCain has flip flopped over and over like a flap jack.  More of the same with Flap Jack McCain.    

No thanks!

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PS.  This is the last in the series.  It was meant to be posted on the eve of the election Monday night, but there was a mysterious glitch that temporarily bannished AZ Moderate, removed postings from the marquee and prevented his posting of new articles.  

Although it is now not needed, to much work was put into this to waste it.