Sorry to keep posting about politics...

[whisperingstorm]

But at this point, I'm sorry. I can't be objective any longer. Voting for McCain is pure folly. Foolish. He has NO clue what he's talking about. Sound familiar... like the current president we have? How is McCain going to help anyone when he doesn't understand basic economic principles? Leave a comment

Comments

[darthsarah]

Dude, I am scared the way my grandfather agrees with everything that guy is saying and it scares me how he keeps telling me how much I remind him of Sarah Palin.
"If you piled your hair on your head and wore glasses, you'd look like her. You're both so smart and pretty..."
TERRIFYING.
I don't want them. They will hold the country back. We need to move up and forward and they just want us to stay stagnant!

IT'S SCARY!

[brieabrasive]

If you dun like amurika, the youcn' get ouuutttt.
;)

[whisperingstorm]

So because I disagree with the political tactics of one of our Senators, that equates to not liking this country?

[brieabrasive]

Well, considering that I was completely kidding...
I would have thought it was apparent from the extreme misspellings and the 'winky' face.
Oh well. *shrug*

[whisperingstorm]

Hmmmm. It sounded to me like one of those "kidding but not really" statements.

Ooooh well. =P

[cheyinka]

I don't expect that McCain will do much that is good and I do expect he'll want to maintain the status quo. Meanwhile, I am very seriously worried about the negative consequences if Obama keeps his campaign promises - i.e. the only way I'd vote for him is if I knew he didn't actually intend to do anything he wanted to do.

So, as I have too much lingering respect for the process of voting to vote for Cthulhu, it looks like I'm going to be doing what you consider pure folly.

[whisperingstorm]

My point is that Obama knows what he's doing and what he's talking about. He's intelligent and understands the situation.

McCain, quite obviously, speaks about matters that he has no clue on in order to present a demeanor of experience and "know how". He speaks with confidence about matters that he CLEARLY does not understand, and that, in my opinion, is the mark of a fool.

I was pretty 50/50 when Obama won the democratic nominee between Obama and McCain. Since then, I have seen NOTHING from McCain that leads me to believe he's ready to lead this country. His incredibly low cheap shots, his ability to talk about issues he's clueless on, and his ridiculous choice of Sarah Palin as the VP in order to buy the female vote is nothing short of insulting. Politics are about helping the country. Not "doing whatever it takes to win."

I would have a lot more respect for Mr. McCain if he weren't such a hypocrite and could actually admit that he doesn't have all the answers.

[cheyinka]

Or Obama knows enough and speaks well enough to speak intelligently, which is my opinion of him. My problem is that assuming that McCain doesn't understand anything he claims to understand and Obama understands everything he claims to understand (a more extreme position than I think you're taking), I would still not at all in any way for any possible reason want Obama elected.

That said, I don't think McCain's choice of Palin was "to buy the female vote" - I know of almost no women who would have voted for Hillary Clinton despite disagreeing with her, and she was actually the candidate, not the vp candidate. I think it was a calculated pick, to the tune of, "Okay, which of these governors best matches my Maverick(tm) image? look, it's a woman who defied the corrupt Alaska Republican party machine!" (Governors consistently do better than congresscritters; Obama picked another congresscritter as his running mate; ergo McCain was almost certain to pick a governor.)

[chaosgoose]

I'm curious - which of the campaign promises that Obama has made are you concerned about?

[bumdlonde]

When did being a good public speaker and an intellectual become negatives for a presidential candidate? Apparently now we only should vote for people we, "feel comfortable with." I guess that means to vote for the candidate who finished like 4th from the bottom in his Naval Academy graduating class and knows dick about the economy.

[cheyinka]

Honestly, I haven't encountered anybody saying that Obama being an intellectual is a negative - I've encountered people saying he isn't intelligent, or isn't as intelligent as he makes himself appear, or is only "an intellectual", but that's different.

(As far as class rank - you've heard the joke that runs "What do you call someone who graduated last in his class at law school?", right?)