The unfortunate thing about the "lesser of two evils" mantra is that evil -- at least political evil -- seems to be cumulative. Anyway, in the end, voting for lesser evil means one is still voting for evil.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos
How about if we call the choice the greater of two goods?
Although I disagree with McCain on many issues, I am not convinced that he is Satan incarnate.
And as far as Obama is concerned.... what I see is a guy who graduated from Harvard Law School after heading the Law review. A guy who could have leveraged this background to achieve a high level of wealth and acclaim, but instead went to work trying to help ordinary people.
When I look at Biden, I see a guy who has never moved to Washington DC and spends 3 hours per day returning to spend the night with his wife (and children when they were home). I am sure Biden is not a perfect person. But again, I have a hard time visualizing him as Satan. And, to tell you the truth, if Biden were really so very interested in being the consummate Washington insider... I think his 3 hour commute would be pretty much of a waste of time.
Now, returning to the issue of lesser of two evils. You see, many people have observed that there is a real scarcity of completely perfect people. I venture to say that if we looked closely enough, even Cynthia McKinney would also turn our not to be a perfect person.
When you get down to choosing any imperfect person vis a vie any other imperfect person... you wind up having a choice of the lesser of two evils... if you choose to phrase it that way.
You do not have to be a particularly religious person to recognize that this world rarely offers a zero evil choice.
When a zero evil choice is offered, it is likely a fraud.
Unless a candidate dies first, either John McCain or Barak Obama will be elected president. Simply put, it does make a difference.
John McCain has publicly announced his commitment to rid the world of evil. John McCain has proclaimed his commitment to nominate Supreme court Judges like Scalia.
In politics there is no escape from making lesser of two evils choices. To believe otherwise is quaint; it is, perhaps, even admirably innocent; and in this case, I think it is dangerously foolish.
