Top 10 reasons why.

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1. Barack Obama spent 20 years sitting in church while his preacher and
others bad-mouthed the United States of America. Navy pilot John McCain
spent five years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton, and refused a chance to
walk out ahead of fellow POWs with more seniority.

2. Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq regardless of conditions on the
ground or future consequences. McCain took on the president and secretary of
defense in demanding more troops for Iraq, a policy that is inarguably
winning the war. He also has two sons who fought in Iraq.

3. McCain supports nuclear power. Obama backs wind energy.

4. Obama wants restrictive gun control because only economically depressed
middle-Americans "cling to God and guns." McCain unwaveringly supports the
Second Amendment.

5. McCain has deviated from his party's conservative base on several
occasions (McCain-Feingold Bill, Gang of 14, McCain-Kennedy Bill, opposition
to torture). Obama has voted the left-wing line every single time, and been
designated the most liberal Senator in Congress.

6. Obama is willing to meet with hostile state leaders like Ahmadinejad and
Hugo Chavez without preconditions. McCain will set conditions first, talk
later - maybe.

7. Obama is married to a bitter, angry lawyer who became "proud" of her
country for the first time this year. McCain's wife is a beer heiress who
founded an organization to provide MASH-style units to disaster-torn world
regions. Did I mention that she's a beer heiress?

8. Obama supports higher taxes for a government-run nanny state that will
coddle all Americans like babies. McCain trusts people to spend their
less-taxed money however they wish.

9. The name John McCain sounds like "John McClain," the action hero played
by Bruce Willis in the manly Die Hard series. "Barack Obama" sounds like the
kind of elitist villain John McClain has to outwit and defeat.

10. McCain is endorsed by Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Obama gets support from Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Oprah
Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and every weenie in Hollywood. Plus, Susan Sarandon has
vowed to leave the country if McCain gets elected. Case closed.

- Lou Aguilar is a fiction writer and former Washington Post video critic,
Washington Times television critic, and USA Today reporter.