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by Daniel Mallock, September 24, 2008

The Presidential campaign of 2008 ended this afternoon with the suspension of John McCain and Sarah Palin’s campaign. Their stunning announcement is the sea-change moment of this election cycle. Now the truth and a leader emerges. The leadership we need in this time of war and crisis in our financial markets has arrived. The election of 2008 will signal not only the presidency of John McCain but the demise of the Democratic party in its current form.

The suspension today of John McCain’s presidential campaign is the turning point in the election. Of the two key moments thus far in this election season, the first at Saddleback forum and now this stunning announcement by McCain and Obama’s inability to understand and respond appropriately to it - today’s events are by far the most important.

McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and ask for a delay for the upcoming Mississippi debate is high risk and shows excellent leadership qualities. It is a demonstration of leadership to recognize a crisis, make a decision based entirely upon that crisis, understand and accept one’s duty and take action. McCain is a leader. Mr. Obama is not.

Mr. Obama says that the debate will go on - he simply cannot see that he has a duty as a US Senator, just as McCain does to return to Washington and help resolve this worst financial crisis since 1929. McCain’s slogan is “Country First” and he lives it. Suspending his campaign to get a growing crisis that could have disastrous consequences for the entire world under control is the mark of a leader. McCain can see, where Obama cannot, that this crisis could derail the economy of the world not just that of the United States. As a US Senator McCain saw his duty and acted. He is not a professional candidate. His job remains as a US Senator until the election is over and he takes his place in the Oval Office. Mr. Obama’s inability to understand the gravity of the situation and take his place in Washington where duty calls him is stunning and instructive. The contrast between these two men cannot be more stark than it is today.

The American people are waking up to the fraud that is Mr. Obama. Without any significant experience, with no accomplishments of moment, and with few intimates speaking his praises Mr. Obama is a fraud with only Lyndon Johnson perhaps on the same level. We are understood by our accomplishments and our associations. Mr. Obama has few accomplishments in comparison to McCain or Governor Palin. His associations are with radicals and extremists.

This campaign for Mr. Obama is clearly about Mr. Obama while for McCain it is about his country. The country desparately needs leadership now as the corrupt fools in Washington and Wall Street who broke the economy and walked away with millions in perks, profits, and “golden parachutes” even as the house of cards they had built collapsed around them quickly try to make a repair. But the damage is immense, almost beyond reckoning - it is time for strong and decisive leadership to get us through this astounding mess.

This disgusting scandal of corporate and government greed and incompetence has the potential to swallow the entire country and the rest of the world up in its darkness. We need leadership and solutions now. McCain saw his duty and acted. Suspending his campaign was the right thing to do. Even pulling his adds from television McCain is a serious man. His approach is bi-partisan, unlike Obama’s. Our economy is on a razor’s edge and now is the time for leadership. We need a solution that will not break the economy and ruin citizens and we need to see the criminals behind this debacle do their obligatory “perp walks” to court, then on to jail where they belong.

Today we saw McCain step up and take decisive action based upon his responsibilities as a US Senator and as an American patriot. In comparison we have seen Mr. Obama continue on with the campaign insisting that the debate scheduled for several days hence “will go on”. Mr. Obama is out of context. His followers and the entire Democratic Party are out of context. He is out of context because for him and his acolytes this race is clearly now about him and little else. He does not consider his duty to country the overriding issue in the campaign nor for himself personally. This atttitude precludes him from the presidency.

The Democratic party will never be the same after this election. The American left, self-hating and self-destructive, arrogant and aggressive and hateful must be re-tooled; its moral and ethical corruption and confusion rooted out. As demonstrated by its leaders particularly Mr. Obama the Democratic party is a self-motivated monstrosity. It is a failed political party. It must be reorganized and restructured. Only with a thorough re-assessment by the few rational voices left in the party will it ever be relevant again. Today’s events have brought clarity through the haze of the lies and manipulations from the Left. The American people can now see the truth so clearly displayed before them.

During times of war and crisis our country needs leadership built on character, decisiveness and recognition of duty to others and to country. McCain has demonstrated these things. Motivated by duty and principle McCain has put his campaign on the line and suspended it choosing his duty at the Capitol over the hustings.

This risky decision will pay off in a big way as the American people can now see who is ready to lead and which candidate puts country and duty over self, over ambition, over partisanship. Mr. Obama is the lesser candidate. Refusing to recognize the financial crisis for the critical problem that it is, Obama insists that the debates must continue without a break in the schedule. This is lunacy. During the campaign up to this turning point of today McCain had repeatedly requested that Obama debate him at TownHall style forums again and again. Every time Obama refused. This is much bigger than debates. McCain “gets it”, Obama clearly does not.

This election is not about change. It is not about Mr. Obama, regardless of his own high opinion of himself. It is rather about the very future of our country. Now is the time for leadership, and strong decisions to pull us out of this absurd fiscal corruption spiral that the greedy and the foolish have brought upon us. Now is the time for leadership in war and in peace. Now is the time to unite the country and build bridges that lead to the future and not to nowhere. We have found the bridge builder, the man driven by duty and responsibility. It is John McCain.

The people can see the truth. It is clear. The leader has emerged and that is the purpose of election cycles. In the midst of crisis and war we have found the man and the woman to lead us for the next 4 years.

The election is over - it ended this day, September 24, 2008 when John McCain suspended his campaign and headed back to Washington. It ended today when Barack Obama refused to return to Washington. It is clear now to all - Barack Obama’s campaign is about Barack Obama. John McCain’s campaign is about the future of the United States. The campaign is over, and so is the Democratic party in its current form.