Conservative activist Phil Burress recently confessed to a strong dislike for John McCain. But after meeting with the presidential candidate face to face, he's now committed to working for the Republican nominee's White House bid.
'"We don’t like him and he doesn’t like us," said Burress just a month ago of McCain’s relationship with "values voters." But Burress, the president of Cincinnati-based Citizens for Community Values, was among six Ohio conservative activists McCain met with privately last week. He says McCain was courteous and took detailed notes on what the six had to say about issues such as the sanctity of life, marriage, and judges. "It was so refreshing to me because he was so different than any other politician that I have ever met," describes Burress. He says McCain is not swayed like other politicians. "...[I] don’t care whether you threaten this man, whether you offer him money, however you try to approach him -- [whatever] sways most politicians, he won’t have any of it," said Burress. "He believes what he believes and his mind can be changed if you have the facts..." Burress says it is refreshing to see a candidate who is not swayed because of the polls or the direction of the political wind. "...[I] left there a changed man," he admits. Dr. Jack Wilke so thoroughly explained to McCain the moral and ethical dangers surrounding human embryonic stem-cell research, says Burress, that he believes it would be virtually impossible for the Arizona senator to justify continuing to support federal funding of embryo-destructive research. Burress calls McCain's opponent Barack Obama a "borderline idiot" with a "scary" political record. And he says "the best thing McCain can do is to let Obama talk."
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