There are less than eight months until the election, an election that will decide the next President of the United States. The person elected will be the president of all Americans, not just the Democrats or the Republicans. To show our solidarity as Americans, let's all get together and show each other our support for the candidate of our choice. It's time that we all came together, Democrats and Republicans alike.
If you support the policies and character of John McCain, please drive with your headlights on during the day. If you support Obama or Hillary, please drive with your headlights off at night.
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40 comments:
A vote for McCain would be like another four years of Bush!!! We sure can't stand that!!Something has got to change!
I agree with 8:36. However, niether on the Dems is acceptable from a finacial standpoint. Both want to be Robin Hood candidates. Tax the rich and give to the poor. Problem is most of us are poor so it will be tax the poor and give to the poorer(word?). While McCain is not the perfect candidate,he is the best of the three and at least he will pledge allegiance to the flag!!
A vote for Clinton would be like another four years of Bush!!! We sure can't stand that!!Something has got to change!
I'll just ride with my flashers on, day or night.
bob.p
Ugh, here we go again with the nonsense that Obama does not say the Pledge of Allegience. This has been proven time and time again to be false. Please, before you vote, take the time to do a little research about the candidates, and vote for the one you think best reflects your own political views. Do not fall for the simple-minded smear campaigns (did you hear that McCain eats babies for breakfast? Really, I got an email about it earlier, so it must be true). For me, either Democrat is a better choice than McCain. He seems like a decent enough guy, but is far too conservative for my taste. How do I know that? I look at his actual voting record, not some dumb propaganda about flags and pins, and pledges. Spend 30 minutes between now and November doing a little research, and then vote based on something substantive! By all means, vote for McCain if you agree with his policies, but first you should know what his policies are!
Just a little rant this morning from,
Final Frontier
Ron Paul?
What do you mean 9:12? Clinton would be just like another year of Clinton!
UGH!
8:58
I'm assuming you're referring to the picture that circulated of him not having his hand on his heart. It was during the National Anthem, not the Pledge of Allegiance, and if you watch the video he was only one singing along. Reporters haven't been able to dig up another instance before or after this one.
If you're that worried about it a quick search will find dozens of videos of him saying the Pledge or holding his hand over is heart during the Anthem.
Final Frontier,
I have done research and have yet to find proof that Obama does not shun the flag or the pledge. Please prove me wrong.
You did not address the finacial idiocy of either Dem as applies to health care and social programs. How are we going to pay for it. Please do not confuse me with those that believe in this war because I do not. We are spending far too much on this boondoggle. We are wasting too many soldiers lives.The main disagreement I have with McCain is the continuation of the war. I do however see that immediate pullout would be a mistake. I feel that Iraq oil funds could replace our tax dollars in rebuilding that country.
At very best, it is a push any way you slice it for America. McCain is Bush without all the sound fiscal knowledge and responsibility. Also, who really needs to know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites?
Clinton is the worst of both Bush and her husband. "Im gonna nuke Iran!" What??!?? And that is before we all would have to suffer through the another round of the horrific media bringing up Bill's indiscretions again and again and again.
I do like Obama, honestly, but the media, the GOP, and the Clintons know how to handle the rather dim-witted American electorate. I do not think he has ever gotten a fair shake, and I don't think he will. Just look at comments on this blog and others, and the general attitude toward him in our area and in select places in the country. It seems like a lot of people will not take off their Klan hoods long enough to actually make informed decisions. (But HIllary will probably destroy the party before it comes to that anyway.)
It is sad, but the best I can hope for at this point is to drink a lot on election day in November and not feel so bad about the choice I make. Come hell or highwater, it will be Clinton v McCain, and then we are truly screwed.
Seriously, there is NO ONE better than these guys to choose from? Really?
Having a choice of rhetoric or a smear campaign isn't much of a choice. Then again who would want to inherit this mess we are experiencing? All three have to be stupid. Enee, miny, moe
yeah. right. vote for hillary. and then we get to see HER inna oval office with stains on HER blue dress? NO THANKS!!!!!! AND WHO WOULD LET HER GEEEEEEEEZZ.....
obama? yeah he's got LOTS of experience........
VOTE REPUBLICAN........ YA JUST GOTTA.........
MAN, IF ANN COULTER RAN, SHE'D KICK HILLARY'S ASS
10:01,
I think Krich gave you your answer--now will you acknowledge that this nonsense is not a reason to vote against Obama? Again, there are legitimate differences in political philosophy that can be used to justify voting for or against any of these candidates--the pledge thing and the pin thing are simply incorrect. Now the healthcare issue is a legitimate point of debate! I don't think anyone has come up with a perfect solution yet, but I am of the political philosophy that believes health care is a human right (I know others disagree). A good place to start financing it would be to stop the boondoggle in the Middle East, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. I'm not saying to get rid of the military, obviously, but it is pretty hard to argue that this has been a well run war. I also think it is ok to raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, particularly those who use loopholes in U.S tax law to hide their profits and give massive bonuses to CEOs who bankrupt the company, and thus bankrupt the middle class shareholders. Trickle down economics, as the first Bush said, is "voodoo economics." FF for president!
FF
Could we remove 10:24 from the proceedings? I don't know what is worse: his/her asinine semi-comment, or the fact that he/she is going to be able to vote (and breed for that matter...)
Though, I think comments like that answer my question to why we get horrible candidates: most of the peopel voting would not know the difference anyway.
I'm actually anxious to hear who these candidates would have as running mates. If all is the same with the actual candidates then the deciding factor might be who they choose to be their VP.....
AND, in support of our country as a whole, I'll drive with my lights on all the time!
To vote Dem. is to vote for MORE Gov., more gov. means more taxes. If you think they'll only make the rich pay more..your sadly mistaken.As for campaign promises, seldom ever do they remember what they promise, every campaign is simple "who can lie the most to win". The tax monster has been way too big for way too long. We need to strive for less gov and less waste and less taxes.
Once you go Barack, you never go back!
Joe, for someone who constantly complains about "the good ole boys", I'm surprised you would support McCain. Seriously.
Anonymous said...
Ugh, here we go again with the nonsense that Obama does not say the Pledge of Allegience. This has been proven time and time again to be false. Please, before you vote, take the time to do a little research about the candidates, and vote for the one you think best reflects your own political views. Do not fall for the simple-minded smear campaigns (did you hear that McCain eats babies for breakfast? Really, I got an email about it earlier, so it must be true). For me, either Democrat is a better choice than McCain. He seems like a decent enough guy, but is far too conservative for my taste. How do I know that? I look at his actual voting record, not some dumb propaganda about flags and pins, and pledges. Spend 30 minutes between now and November doing a little research, and then vote based on something substantive! By all means, vote for McCain if you agree with his policies, but first you should know what his policies are!
Just a little rant this morning from,
Final Frontier
9:25 AM
Ugh!! Anyone that would defend Obama Bin Laden is nothing but a moronic idiot. I have read your posts numerous times and you are just as dangerous as that terrorist candidate for president.
Obama's full name--as by now you have probably heard--is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Hussein is a Muslim name, which comes from the name of Ali's son--Hussein Ibn Ali. And Obama is named after his late Kenyan father, the late Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., apparently a Muslim. And while Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that's not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he's a Christian, but they do not. Then, there are the other items in his background. As best-selling author Scott Turow wrote in Salon, Obama went to a Muslim school for two years in Indonesia. His mother, Anna, married an Indonesian man (likely another Muslim, as Indonesia is Muslim-dominated and has the largest Islamic population in the world).
And Obama has a "born-again" affinity for the nation of his Muslim father, Kenya, and his Kenyan sister. (Although Kenya is largely Christian, it has a fast-growing Muslim population that has engaged in a good deal of religious violence and riots against Christians. And Kenyan courts will apply Sharia law, when the participants are Muslim.) Wrote Turow:
Obama's father died in a traffic accident in Nairobi in 1982, but while Obama was working in Chicago, he met his Kenyan sister, Auma, a linguist educated in Germany who was visiting the United States. When she returned to Kenya in 1986 to teach for a year at the University of Nairobi, Obama finally made the trip to his father's homeland he had long promised himself. There, he managed to fully embrace a heritage and a family he'd never fully known and come to terms with his father, whom he'd long regarded as an august foreign prince, but now realized was a human being burdened by his own illusions and vulnerabilities.
So, even if he identifies strongly as a Christian, and even if he despised the behavior of his father (as Obama said on Oprah); is a man who Muslims think is a Muslim, who feels some sort of psychological need to prove himself to his absent Muslim father, and who is now moving in the direction of his father's heritage, a man we want as President when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam? Where will his loyalties be?
Dole/Kemp in 08 Baby!
WOW! anon12:32 you are so wrong! We are not fighting Islam, if so we wouldnt have to leave our soil to do that, we have plenty of Muslims in this country. We ARE fighting fundamentalist extremism...big difference! Even everyday Muslims are against this. And it is not isolated to one certain religion either. Correct me if I am wrong but we do have the freedom to choose our religion in this country do we not? Come on man...WWJD? He certainaly wouldn't make prejudicial stereotypes like you are doing.
ps. I am voting McCain.
I say Rodney Carrington for President!!
1:32 PM
Great points. And don't worry the person that posted that is as mindless as you would think because they just copy and pasted it from somewhere else. It's so easy to believe everything you read and not think critically.
12:22
Thanks for the compliments! Go back to listening to Rush, so you can learn what else to think.
FF
Anonymous said...
WOW! anon12:32 you are so wrong! We are not fighting Islam, We ARE fighting fundamentalist extremism...big difference! Even everyday Muslims are against this.
1:32 PM
I think the commentor made a good point, Islam and muslim, not fundamentlist, extremist are the same thing. You naive morons need to crawl back under your rock.
P.S. I'm voting for McCain.
1:41,
Thanks,
1:32
i will not vote for obama and it has absolutely nothing to do with his skin color,it has to do with his heart. He has No patience, he has no clue as to how to run things, he has no clue on finances unless it has to do with land deals for himself. he wants to repeal the bush tax cuts, he wants to raise taxes on the rich which we all know that translates to raising taxes on the poor and middle class, he wants to raise the capitol gaines tax which will slow the economy more, and back off the dollar against the euro more and fuel costs and everything based around it will go higher, we will be in all actualality be taxed the hardest in Americain history. By the way democrats where is the plan that was promised over a year ago? what will he do if an Iranian were to say something about his big ears? Barrock Obama and His wife Do NOT care about this country. They in fact hate this country. They are also in fact ashamed of this country. If he cannot handle the fact of a comment about his ears how will he handle facing all of those UN leaders around the world? He is a whining little clown that is already using the race card to get himn what he wants. There are already threats out there that if he does not get the nomination that there will be riots and demenstrations ( per the rev Al Sharpton and the rev Jessie Jackson) What kind of mess is this. If you cannot win on your own merits then what good is it? Just another whining over spoiled crybaby just like he threw his grandmother under the bus when the story about his pastor came out. There are many reasons not to vote for Obama. I dont like Hilarey either however i would vote for her before i would him at least we know as to where she is coming from. ie we know what to expect. Obama will come out of left field somewhere and catch you with your pants down around your ankles. I dont like any of the candidates really but i have been forced to give my vote to John Mccain unless a Lib or independent chooses to go into the running. I do have to say on his part he is no George Bush. He is to liberal to be. He knows more than most how war is hell. He is the only one that hasnt mentioned raising taxes. Noone likes war but we must stay the course in Iraq and Hillary and Obama know this and are just blowing smoke up the butts of their followers to get the votes and will tell you people what ever you want to hear. Think long an hard before going to the polls in Novermer. Think about whats good for our country, our economy, and our own personal lives. Whom will do the best job? The lesser of the 2 evils? Just pray that the superdelegates will put the right person in without using skin color or gender. What will matter the most is the house of delegates the president wont be able to do much depending on the house. The state reps will be what matters. So choose wisely.
Does it occur to anyone that we have no real choices? All of the candidates are hand picked by the corporate interests in this Country. What we have already, and will have more of in the future is Corporatism . . . Socialism. The corporations run our Country by using money and media against us. Most Americans know nothing about Islam or Judaism. We believe what we are told. What is Islamic Fundamental Extremism? Really, does any one know? Did it exist prior to 911?
At least we shall all have health insurance - maybe we wont have "tax paid health care" but we will have health insurance. Why? Because it will soon become illegal to NOT HAVE IT! Corporatism at its finest.
World banks finance both sides of a war, they can't lose that way. They have a big influence on our economy as well.
I have no problem with voting for a black person or a woman, I just don't think either of the two are the right selections at this time.
I see McCain as another Bush and can we really survive eight more years of running up the national debt without causing the value of the American dollar to drop to fifty cents? Hell, people won't be able to even afford stuff made in China.
I'm not going to vote for someone because it seems the politically correct thing to do, and I'm not going to vote for someone just because they are republican.
I have to live with whom I vote for, if I vote for myself and all goes to hell in a hand basket I can live with making the right decision. The vote for myself would merely be a message that I don't like any of them. I will vote!
Anonymous said...
Does it occur to anyone that we have no real choices? All of the candidates are hand picked by the corporate interests in this Country. What we have already, and will have more of in the future is Corporatism . . . Socialism. The corporations run our Country by using money and media against us. Most Americans know nothing about Islam or Judaism. We believe what we are told. What is Islamic Fundamental Extremism? Really, does any one know? Did it exist prior to 911?
At least we shall all have health insurance - maybe we wont have "tax paid health care" but we will have health insurance. Why? Because it will soon become illegal to NOT HAVE IT! Corporatism at its finest.
9:09 PM
Change a few of the terms and you could be talking about the city of Salisbury.
Anonymous 11:02 said...
What is Islamic Fundamental Extremism? Really, does any one know? Did it exist prior to 911?
Same folks that tried to drop the Twin Towers in 1993? With truck bombs. Same people that want to see Israel wiped off of the map.
Islamic Fundamental Extremism also wants to kill all western infidels
Well this is the way it is whether you like it or not. If you want to vote for Hillary or Obama be prepared to say good-bye to your guns and hello to more taxes. The record shows the Democrats have always been gun grabbers. Bill Clinton was one of the biggest gun grabbers. So you can forget hunting
because they will take your guns.
I never understood why they don't ban kitchen knives or baseball bats. And then there are the taxes.
A democrat never gave you a tax rebate. All they want to do is take your hard earned money and give it to the illegal aliens and crackheads who could work if they weren't on drugs. If you don't believe me just look at what your
Democratic governor did for you. Yes he raised every bit of tax he could. So if you vote for Obama or Hillary be ready for the increased taxes and I hate to be the one that said I told you so because that means I will be sitting right next to you in the poor house. So what is wrong with voting for a real war hero and a republican. I would rather vote for McCain than lose my house and car because of the increase in taxes I would have to pay if the democrats win. We already work from January to May just to pay taxes before we ever start earning a dime for ourselves.
Well that all truth whether you can stand it or not. Just Vote the way you want to but be prepared to face the music after it is all over. you want more taxes fine but I sure don't.
The reason people are losing their houses, by and large, is because corporate idiots, assisted by Republican-led initiatives to deregulate loans (why? to help the fat cats get richer) gave out unbacked loans with variable rates to people who could not afford them. Then the CEO of Countrywide mortgage, who has made more people homeless than any Democratic tax imposition, gets fired, but not beofre taking $10 million+ in a severance package for all of his good work. That story can be multiplied many times. When you talk about Bush's tax cut, remember that it doesn't really go to most of us, it goes to people making 6 figures, and the owners of large corporations, and then it is supposed to trickle down to us. The "rebate" we are getting is a nice surprise, but more of a diversion from the economic mess in this country. If Bush's administration and Republicans are so darn good at managing the economy, if their "tax cuts" are really so important, why is our economy tanking? Must be Obama's fault, I guess.
FF
By the way, McCain voted AGAINST the Bush tax cuts, and now he is for them. Is he a "flip-flopper?" Flip-flop, flip-flop! I thought that was a really bad thing, based on Republican strategy in the last election, right?
FF
FF, after reading so many of your post for several months, I cant believe you dont know better than what you just posted. You cant name another Pres. that gave tax cuts for that many years. Those cuts went to families no mater what their income, just as this one will. As for McCain flip-floping...statistics change, the recession is much more entense than anyone anticapated, anybody with sound mind would change their vote. Lay aside your Demacratic Pride for a bit, we're not voting for a football team, we're trying to turn the country around with the best choice we have to do that.
Republican's greatest pitch "If you vote for them they will take your guns away." I'm not voting for either two, however like Charlton Heston said, "They will have to pry it out of my cold dead hands." I don't buy the great republican scare tactic, vote for whom you want, and go out and buy more guns to guarantee our freedom under the Bill of Rights.
Too bad Colin Powell didn't run, I would have most likely voted for him.
Islamic Fundamental Extremism . . . what we think we know, has been learned from the media. If IFE exists, then so be it. However, I am suggesting that we cannot trust our media. There is a tremendous financial benefit for the corporations who are prosecuting the "war". If the "war" is fake, then our citizens are making sacrifices to a lie. There is a possibility that everything we know about Iraq and IFE is a lie. We should not be so quick to wave the flag.
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