The great war hero condemns the terrorist lover
I have made up my mind. I'm going to volunteer this year for the Obama Campaign. I don't care if it's extra time I may not have. I've just been reading the political analysis of the campagin and while Obama is still in the lead in the overall polls, I can see the warning signs of quite possibly a very disastorous ending.
First of all, while Obama has a semi slim margin in the popular poll, if you look at the electoral college polls. There are TONS of red states with Mc Cain in the lead. FLASHBACKS TO 2000 ANYONE?! I'm sorry but I will not have this. Obama may not be the ideal Democratic candidate but he sure is a hell of a lot better than a once supposedly "free-thinking" Republican that had much appeal to us Independents. Mc Cain has miraculously turned himself into the party lap-dog overnight and everyone in his party seems to have all but forgotten those times.
You can hear it in Mc Cains election rhetoric. The same old fear-mongering that has been used for years by the Republicans to win elections. Painting Obama as unpatriotic. Or saying that he will fall to terrorists and that we should be afraid of his hippie extreme liberal agenda. In every single speech I hear from Mc Cain it's the same old dead horse that was beaten in the 2000 and the 2004 election. And it's working. Mc Cain has gained two points in the past week and Clinton supporters are still whinning like bitches.
So you see my concern. We're at an election year where this election should have been in the bag for the Democrats and it's looking to be very close, and I cannot stand to have another Republican in the office. At least not now. I am an Independent and I always will be, but I have always tended to lean more to the liberal side. After the past eight years and seeing how Mc Cain has also handled himself, I cannot in good conscience vote for a Republican. Plus I agree much with what Obama is saying. He's the first candidate I think I've been really excited about. I never was too pumped up for Kerry. Al Gore was kind of exciting but I didn't pay as much attention because I couldn't vote for him at that time.
This is why I am volunteering for Obama's camp. I may not be able to win the election for him, but I will do my best to make sure that Michigan will be another blue state on that map. I want him in office badly, and I take this election seriously. I just wish people took politics as seriously as I do.
First of all, while Obama has a semi slim margin in the popular poll, if you look at the electoral college polls. There are TONS of red states with Mc Cain in the lead. FLASHBACKS TO 2000 ANYONE?! I'm sorry but I will not have this. Obama may not be the ideal Democratic candidate but he sure is a hell of a lot better than a once supposedly "free-thinking" Republican that had much appeal to us Independents. Mc Cain has miraculously turned himself into the party lap-dog overnight and everyone in his party seems to have all but forgotten those times.
You can hear it in Mc Cains election rhetoric. The same old fear-mongering that has been used for years by the Republicans to win elections. Painting Obama as unpatriotic. Or saying that he will fall to terrorists and that we should be afraid of his hippie extreme liberal agenda. In every single speech I hear from Mc Cain it's the same old dead horse that was beaten in the 2000 and the 2004 election. And it's working. Mc Cain has gained two points in the past week and Clinton supporters are still whinning like bitches.
So you see my concern. We're at an election year where this election should have been in the bag for the Democrats and it's looking to be very close, and I cannot stand to have another Republican in the office. At least not now. I am an Independent and I always will be, but I have always tended to lean more to the liberal side. After the past eight years and seeing how Mc Cain has also handled himself, I cannot in good conscience vote for a Republican. Plus I agree much with what Obama is saying. He's the first candidate I think I've been really excited about. I never was too pumped up for Kerry. Al Gore was kind of exciting but I didn't pay as much attention because I couldn't vote for him at that time.
This is why I am volunteering for Obama's camp. I may not be able to win the election for him, but I will do my best to make sure that Michigan will be another blue state on that map. I want him in office badly, and I take this election seriously. I just wish people took politics as seriously as I do.