Posted by
Chris on Monday, November 03, 2008 4:01:19 PM
As you make your final decision about which candidate will get your vote, I have one question to ask you:
Which one would Winston Churchill vote for?
To help solidify your thinking on this question, consider the following quotes from Neville Chamberlain and Barack Obama, and see if you can tell which ones belong to which man.
- “We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.”
- “We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.”
- It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the identically same facts are regarded from two different angles.”
- “… I do believe ... that we have to describe a new foreign policy that says, for example, I will meet not just with our friends, but with our enemies, because I remember what [a former leader of the speaker’s country] said, that we should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate. Having that kind of posture is the way we effectively debate [the opposition] on this issue. Because if we just play into the same fear-mongering that they have been engaged in … then we are playing on their battlefield, but, more importantly, we are not doing what's right …[to] make us more safe in the long term.”
Are you able to tell which ones are which, based on the sentiments of the speaker? If not, maybe that should tell you something. And if you don't know who Neville Chamberlain was, then please find out before you vote.