but instead of boycotting election day (which is just stupid, btw) I decided to do some research on the top candidates, it's down to Obama & Clinton for the Democratic nominee (Obama leading) and McCain has clinched the Republican. I've never voted Republican and I thought I was going to...but I think I'm going the route of Obama myself. and that's what I never thought i'd say. I figured that I'd go with Hillary since I liked Bill so much in office. But some of her plans and her ideas, I don't know, just doesn't sound right. I mean, her and Obama have the same stands pretty much on most of the issues but thier METHODs are different. And his methods that he proposes I seem to like alot better and so I guess if I'm gonna vote this year I'm going with a black man. I thought i'd rather see a woman in the office. I know I don't want to see McCain in office he seems just like another GWB to me.
So my whole point is: I'm gonna stay Democratic. And If Obama wins the Democratic Nominee I will vote for him. I think the reason why I was so reluctant to do so before is because he's black. (ok, mixed) and I really wanted Hillary to do better than she has but I've changed my mind.
So there you have it, the one and only comment I'm gonna make on this Presidential Election.
Back to our reguarly shcedule program...
I am a little bit stunned. I didn't take you as a hard core old fashioned liberal (as is Obama). He talks nice and looks good and has plenty of charisma - but no real content.
ReplyDeleteHe had a chance to make some headway on all of the stuff he says we ought to "believe" that we can "hope" to "change" and did essentially nothing in all his time in the Illinois legislature - except, of course, vote "present" on most of the controvesial stuff so as to obscure his leanings from the innattentive.
And he built absolutely no bridges across the aisle either (so much for the "uniter" crap he's floating). Bush was a better "uniter" back as GOvernor of Texas, and we all saw how that went in DC.
i am not liberal nor am i conservative. i'm a fence straddler. i'm only going to vote for Obama because he seems like the lesser of the evils.
ReplyDeletei'd perfer not to vote for any of em. and i may still go that route.
It seems strange, as a fence straddler, to pivk the further out on the spectrum candidate available.
ReplyDeleteObama is very hard left. Clinton is fuzzy left (she tends to be pretty left, but her overarching self-interest and focus keep her frequently tacking to the center left).
McCain's early career was fairly strongly right, but the last several years have found hom pretty center right. So much so tha the hard right can't stand him.
The other benefit to McCain is that with Congress firmly controled by the Democrats, McCaon would serve as a check and balance against them - while they would keep him from tacking back to the right. In other words, we would then be guaranteed a fairly middle of the road course.
we'll see. i might just choose not to do anything. i know that seems to be the cowards way out but if there doesn't seem to be a "right"/"correct" decision, I try and get out of the situation if possible.
ReplyDeleteI've never voted Republican in my life. The last election was for Dennis Kucinich and the one before that was Al Gore. See, I've only voted twice. So I have pretty varried track record here.
your right the only reason to vote for McCain is because you believe GWB has done a great job the last 7 years and think another 4 of the same would be good for America. Obama or Clinton either one would have to struggle to do as poor as job as GWB. It will be task to try to undo the damage to our Armed Forces, the economy, and most importantly to the Supreme Court.
ReplyDeletei don't think either bushes did a very good job at all during thier times as president. altho i am saddened by 9-11 i think it could have been handled a better way. but then again, i am not president. i do not run this country and i don't make those decisions. for all those people who have died incocently i feel that more where sent off on suicide missions to die needlessly as well.
ReplyDeletei love and support my soldiers. many family members and my close friends are in the military. some we have lost to the war(s) and some thankfully are home with us. i know they knew when they signed up to be in the military the possibility of them going to war and even dying the process. but that doesn't mean we have to like it and i'd prefer a much more nonviolent way to handle matters if possible.
Anonymous doesn't say why McCain should be viewed as an extension of the Bush presidency.
ReplyDeleteMcCain certainly has enough of the far right folk unhappy with him, and enough cross the aisle forays of late, to make one think he is not the typical GOP guy. Neither Obama or Hilary do anything to distance themselves from the hard left (although Hilary sometimes talks centrist, she never does anythign particularly centrist).
I find it odd that you have such a reflexive problem with the thought of voting GOP. It isn't like it entails selling your soul or anything (one might even argue the opposite).
i don't want to make the wrong choice. i don't want to be one of those people saying "omigod i can't believe our president is doing this and i voted for him, man that makes me such an asshole"
ReplyDeleteso i think i might not vote, but that's worse than voting for the wrong person. that's the cowards way out and i'm trying hard not to be coward. i want to be brave and sure of my decision. and i havn't decided as of yet who is getting this little gal's vote.
what started this whole thing was i was reading a bunch of websites and watching interviews the other day and the one who *sounded* the best seemed to be Obama. I don't agree with everything, but he has the most of the stuff that I feel a little better about. Hilary does too but she, i don't know...something stinky there... and McCain just seems too much like Bush for my taste.
These are only impressions that I got after sitting here at my computer for 6 hours researching as many candidates that are officially on the ballots as possible. With most concentration placed on Clinton, Obama and McCain as they seem to be the 3 most popular and the ones to beat.
PS, so far I've been able to say "Well I didn't vote for him" and that's made me feel *REALLY* good about the past 2 elections. I feel I made the right choice.
ReplyDeleteI just get irritated by the major media people being so crazily enamored of Obama - with not credible basis for it.
ReplyDeleteEverybody "hopes" for "change" and would like to "believe" in it. This guy offers zero reason to think he is the one who can pull it off. Nor does he tell us specifically what he actually plans to change (I can see from his entire public service history to date that I'm unlikely to like any of it though).