posted on October 4, 2008 06:28:46 PM new
I am not a dyed-in-the-wool democrat. I have usually voted for a third party libertarian candidate. This year, because of the debacle of Bush's and McCain's war, I decided early on that my vote has to count NOW, and I support Obama to end this mess. Other than the war, McCain was a sympathetic fellow, until his choice for the person who is to replace him in the 1/6 chance he will die in office. She is a Libertarian's worst nightmare, uneducated on global issues, driven by religious "givens", unrelenting to personal freedom. It's not surprising that the polls show a number of the undecided moving to the Obama camp. Oh yeah, let's also consider Palin's understanding of global warming.
[ edited by pixiamom on Oct 4, 2008 06:31 PM ]
posted on October 5, 2008 07:04:29 AM new
I am beginning to get very worried about this election. You have many people like my friend, Ken, that will vote for McCain simply because they believe the retoric about Obama (ex. he's a Muslim, he's anti-American, he's never done anything good or bad, etc.). I don't have the energy to fight with Ken over it anymore. He's misinformed and doesn't look like he intends to become informed (I'm too busy, he says). My fear is that there are enough of these people out there that they'll hand McCain the presidency. Let's hope (and pray) that I'm wrong!!
Cheryl
Whitman said she and McCain share a philosophy of scaling back the role of government. a point of view partly shaped by her EBay experience. "The EBay model is very Republican in its essence -- it's about making a small number of rules and getting out of the way while not overtaxing the community," she said.
posted on October 5, 2008 07:17:40 AM new
I agree, Cheryl. I talked to my husband's Aunt yesterday. She is 82 and starting to get VERY forgetful etc.. She asked me who I was going to vote for. I replied "that is a hot topic and I am not sure we should get into it". She asked again and I said Obama. You would have thought I had just admitted to a murder. She went on about his upbringing, faith, etc... Of course, I am sure she does not know how to get on the internet and so she believes all of this stuff in her closed in little world. My sister (who is a Republican) but had said she didn't like McCain at all, is so ga-ga over Palin that it makes me sick.
A poll is not a prediction. It is a snapshot of how people are thinking right now.
posted on October 5, 2008 07:24:54 AM new
What people seem to fail in understanding is that it's the House and Senate that wield all the actual power.
Cheryl
Whitman said she and McCain share a philosophy of scaling back the role of government. a point of view partly shaped by her EBay experience. "The EBay model is very Republican in its essence -- it's about making a small number of rules and getting out of the way while not overtaxing the community," she said.
posted on October 5, 2008 07:33:55 AM new
I think McCain made a pact with the Devil when he let Karl Rove in on his campaign. He has been involved in every single bit of Republican nastiness since he came of age :
"Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean, who was implicated in the Watergate break-in and became the star witness for the prosecution, has been quoted as saying that "Based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove's activities in 1972, but because they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him"
"Rove has been accused of using the push poll technique to call voters to ask such things as whether people would be "more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if [they] knew her staff is dominated by lesbians." Rove has denied having been involved in circulating these rumors about Richards during the campaign,[31] although many critics nonetheless identify this technique, particularly as utilized in this instance against Richards, as a hallmark of his career."
"During the 2000 Republican primary, a South Carolina push poll used racist innuendo intended to undermine the support of then-Bush rival John McCain: "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" [36] The authors of the 2003 book and subsequent film Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, [37] allege that Rove was involved."
posted on October 5, 2008 07:36:09 AM new
"What people seem to fail in understanding is that it's the House and Senate that wield all the actual power."
Yes and no. It doesn't hold true if they are lied to and disregarded (illegally, btw). As to whether they should believe lies that are transparent, well, that's another matter.
posted on October 5, 2008 07:45:58 AM new
So much of the conservative movement is based on the quest to overturn Roe VS Wade and to do this they need the "right" Supreme Court Appointments. The President, not the Congress, makes those appointments. It's part of the deal - vote for our man and the appointees will be sympathetic to right to life. I am so sick of this! How many of our sons, brothers, nephews must die while we continue to elect these warrior presidents in order to overturn Roe VS Wade?
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posted on October 5, 2008 07:45:59 AM new
Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, when asked about Cheney's assertion that his office is part of the legislative branch, quipped, "I always thought that he was president of this administration."
