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25 Oct 2008 06:10 pm
Why He Endorsed
Ken Adelman further explains why he is voting for Obama:
I've considered myself less of a partisan than an ideologue. I cared about conservative principles, and still do, instead of caring about the GOP.
Granted, McCain's views are closer to mine than Obama's. But I've learned over this Bush era to value competence along with ideology. Otherwise, our ideology gets discredited, as it has so disastrously over the past eight years.
McCain's temperament -- leading him to bizarre behavior during the week
the economic crisis broke -- and his judgment -- leading him to Wasilla
-- depressed me into thinking that "our guy" would be a(nother) lousy
conservative president. Been there, done that.
I'd rather a competent moderate president. Even at a risk, since Obama
lacks lots of executive experience displaying competence (though his
presidential campaign has been spot-on). And since his Senate voting
record is not moderate, but depressingly liberal. Looming in the
background, Pelosi and Reid really scare me.
Nonetheless, I concluded that McCain would not -- could not -- be a good president. Obama just might be.
That's become good enough for me -- however much of a triumph (as Dr.
Johnson said about second marriages) of hope over experience.
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