McCain today said something to the effect that Obama would be another Carter. Would this be a bad thing? To have a president that has some concern for the countries future, rather than selling us up the river for short term gain? Reagan was no miracle worker. He bribed Iran to release the hostages. He canceled alternative energy programs started by Carter, cancellations that have put us thirty years behind the curve.
We could be off of oil right now. Instead thanks to thirty years of short cited policies, we are entering peak oil with no plans what so ever, heads still buried firmly in the sand.
History will remember Carter fondly, a president who suffered for having the courage to ask Americans to make short term sacrifice for long term benefits. It will remember Reagan as the president who like a demented sea captain fed his sailors all of the ships stores to remain popular, yet left them starving in the end.
P.S. Atleast even McCain is now forced to talk about energy other than oil!
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