The Nehor wrote:I think this finalizes it. I'm voting Mr. Potato Head. I don't like who Obama hangs out with, I dislike Hillary's policies, and I think McCain is too volatile. I miss Romney and to a lesser degree Huckabee. Why did my two favorites have to fall first?
because they didn't have a chance in hell. Its Darwinian, really.
Darwinian in the sense that most adaptations/mutations are to the bad. Time to cull the genetically flawed from the herd. Goodbye good old US of A.
All Empires fail. The accumulation of wealth by a select few usually initiates the downfall.
No, it's more like the empire taking on different principles and people than the ones that made it an empire.
No, that's how Empires succeed. The business model must change over time to stay current with an ever changing world.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
A few months ago I thought I was going to vote for McCain, because I think campaign finance reform is a really important issue and I don't want to screw Iraq over by pulling out prematurely. But since then I've observed some of the things you mentioned, and I'm finding him considerably less attractive. I want somebody with a spine, but I don't want another hawk. I'll be voting for Obama.
This is what I'm thinking. I really don't like all of the candidates that much. :/
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
A few months ago I thought I was going to vote for McCain, because I think campaign finance reform is a really important issue
If only it was reform.
and I don't want to screw Iraq over by pulling out prematurely. But since then I've observed some of the things you mentioned, and I'm finding him considerably less attractive. I want somebody with a spine, but I don't want another hawk. I'll be voting for Obama.
Obama is not a reformer. He's a product of the Daley machine who got a sweetheart deal on his house c/o Tony Rezko. A friend of mine interviewed Obama a decade ago for his radio show and describes him as an empty suit.
A few months ago I thought I was going to vote for McCain, because I think campaign finance reform is a really important issue and I don't want to screw Iraq over by pulling out prematurely. But since then I've observed some of the things you mentioned, and I'm finding him considerably less attractive. I want somebody with a spine, but I don't want another hawk. I'll be voting for Obama.
-Chris
Hey, Chris-
I will probably vote for Obama too. But, frankly, I think we have another election year of mediocre candidates. 'W' was a disaster of a president. It is really difficult to defend him, although I have seen a number of neo-con nut jobs who are happy to try. McCain will have a difficult time working with Congress, partly because he has so many enemies there. I fear he will be too eager to get us further militarily involved in the Middle East, and he looks poised to keep irresponsible tax cuts in place. Obama is inexperienced. What Hillary says about that is true. Finally, I don't trust the Clintons, even though she isn't the lefty shrew some make her out to be. Lefty? meh.
T
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Trevor do you think any of the politicians are campaigning on what they really believe and will do? The PBS special seemed to paint the Bush family as part of the Northeast semi liberal stock. They said he took on poor Republicans who were for segregation reluctantly. He wasn't strong right like the "Gipper."
To me Bill Clinton is very good about doing what it takes to win an election. Hillary just doesn't have it. She lets her true self shine through too much. One of Clinton's shrewd moves was criticizing President Bush for sending the Hatian boat people back where they came from. Clinton said, "What did they do to the Statue of Liberty? Did they take it down?" Yet once in office, President Clinton quiety sent them back where they came from as well. This surprised me because I didn't think he cared enough about the country to do this. Canidate Clinton would never have proposed putting up a wall like my hero Bob Dole, but once in office President Clinton pretty much told Vicente Fox to quit sending his problems our way and that yes he was going to continue to enforce the border rather than completely open it as Vicente Fox thought he should do. Granted, he did a lousy job of enforcing the border. I believe the lousy job is done on purpose.
The Clintons criticized Republican leadership for going to Iraq in Desert Storm, and yet when they got in office he took on a policy that the sole world superpower must be the world's police by entering Kosovo and Somalia. Later he talked about how he wished he had interfered in Rwanda. All of three of those had the potential to turn out like Iraq nor did America have the national security interest with those countries as we did in Iraq.
I really wouldn't worry about Obama prematurely pulling troops out of Iraq. This is all campaign talk that will not translate into action. If anything our involvement is going to escalate in the Middle East once Iran obtains nuclear weapons. Even Hillary is not stupid enough to turn her back on that. We'll probably be required to take on a lot humanitarian wars as well once the democrats enter office.
The one point I agree with is that McCain is part of the Repbulican elite, a CEO republican. This means more porous borders. The democrats will like that. But it will also mean tax cuts on the rich and fewer workers rights. Even I don't like that.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
I'm having a hard time disagreeing with you, ajax.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Trevor wrote:I'm having a hard time disagreeing with you, ajax.
Well at least you have sense of humor, even if you are a leftist.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
Dr. Shades wrote:I'll be voting for the Libertarian candidate.
What good will that do?
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.