Don't fall for Obama's marketing pitch

Have you ever bought a used car or fallen for a marketing scam, only to regret the choice? Do you remember how it felt being lied to? For the most part, politicians are one step below hucksters in the honesty scale. They will say whatever they need to, in order to close the sale — in this case the vote.

Why do we seem to blindly trust politicians more than we would a salesman pitching an MLM? Just like with a salesman, to know if he is being honest, you have to judge his record, either that look to see if his mouth is moving. Sen. Barack Obama is promising to cut taxes on everyone who makes less than $250,000 per year. All well and good, nice populist message there — but is it honest? The only way to judge this promise is to look at this record. Obama has never proposed a bill to reduce taxes, even though he is in the branch of government that writes this type of bill. His voting record shows he has voted to raise taxes on everyone making more $40,000 per year. He also voted "NAY" To pay down the Federal debt and eliminate government waste by reducing spending 5 percent on programs rated ineffective. These are his actions, not just the words he uses to try to buy a vote. Sen. John McCain, on the other hand, has a long record of tax-cutting and reducing government waste to show his words have meaning behind them. McCain isn't the perfect conservative, but he has a record. Obama has empty promises. We should judge both candidate's promises on their actual record, not just the pretty marketing slogans.
Why not give our politicians the same scrutiny we would give someone selling us a used car?