Originally posted by KidRock
YouTube videoGo Obama!
BUT BUT BUT..this is just a smalllll minority of people, 99% of people know why they are voting and not based on race!
I disagree.
Originally posted by KidRock
YouTube videoGo Obama!
BUT BUT BUT..this is just a smalllll minority of people, 99% of people know why they are voting and not based on race!
I disagree.
Originally posted by KidRock
BUT BUT BUT..this is just a smalllll minority of people, 99% of people know why they are voting and not based on race!
So I take it you've never seen Jaywalking and thought "Christ, there are some stupid people in this world. If I'd been asked who the president was, I'd be able to answer the question!"?
Originally posted by BackFire
Colin Powell endorses Obama: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/colin.powell/index.html
The race card was slowly slipping in here and there, this is going to make the next two weeks a solid racial-race.
Originally posted by KidRock
Colin Powell endorses Obama?! Great, another Bush CRONY siding with Obama.
Should make you happy then, he sold the war for Bush, i.e., he did something right.
Though calling Powell a "crony" of Bush's is faulty, he's been a moderate Republican/sliding into Democrat territory his whole career and he had the sense to realize when enough was enough and bailed out of Bush's sinking ship when he realized the Bush cabinet was going to extremes.
more conservatives show their true underlying socialist nature
Why I'm Backing Obama - Susan Eisenhower
Feb 2, 2008 - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102621.html
I am not alone in worrying that my generation will fail to do what my grandfather's did so well: Leave America a better, stronger place than the one it found....
The biggest barrier to rolling up our sleeves and preparing for a better future is our own apathy, fear or immobility. We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists. I am convinced that Barack Obama is the one presidential candidate today who can encourage ordinary Americans to stand straight again; he is a man who can salve our national wounds and both inspire and pursue genuine bipartisan cooperation. Just as important, Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation's impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded.
Former governor Milliken backs away from McCain - Pat Shellenbarger
Oct 10, 2008 - The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grpress/news/index.ssf/2008/10/former_governor_milliken_backs.html
-former Republican Gov. William Milliken:
"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me."I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."
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Milliken stopped short of saying he will vote for Obama, but said he differs with McCain on the Iraq war and his choice of Palin.
"I know John McCain is 72. In my book, that's quite young," said Milliken, 86, Michigan's longest-serving governor. But he added, "What if she were to become president of the United States? The idea, to me, is quite disturbing, if not appalling.
-Lincoln Chafee, former Republican U.S. senator from Rhode Island:
McCain campaigned for Chafee's unsuccessful re-election bid in 2006, but Chafee said he is concerned McCain has swung to the right, a divisive strategy that could make it difficult for him to govern."That's not my kind of Republicanism," said Chafee, who now calls himself an independent. "I saw what Bush and Cheney did. They came in with a (budget) surplus and a stable world, and look what's happened now. In eight short years they've taken one peaceful and prosperous world, and they've torn it into tatters."
As for McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for his running mate, "there's no question she's totally unqualified," Chafee said.
He had similar reservations about Obama's lack of experience, but said the Democrat's handling of the campaign convinced him he's ready to lead.
Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama - Christopher Buckley (son of William F Buckley)
Oct 10, 2008 - The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama/1/
McCain rose to power on his personality and biography. He was authentic. He spoke truth to power. He told the media they were “jerks” (a sure sign of authenticity, to say nothing of good taste; we are jerks). He was real. He was unconventional. He embraced former anti-war leaders. He brought resolution to the awful missing-POW business. He brought about normalization with Vietnam—his former torturers! Yes, he erred in accepting plane rides and vacations from Charles Keating, but then, having been cleared on technicalities, groveled in apology before the nation. He told me across a lunch table, “The Keating business was much worse than my five and a half years in Hanoi, because I at least walked away from that with my honor.” Your heart went out to the guy. I thought at the time, God, this guy should be president someday.A year ago, when everyone, including the man I’m about to endorse, was caterwauling to get out of Iraq on the next available flight, John McCain, practically alone, said no, no—bad move. Surge. It seemed a suicidal position to take, an act of political bravery of the kind you don’t see a whole lot of anymore.
But that was—sigh—then. John McCain has changed. He said, famously, apropos the Republican debacle post-1994, “We came to Washington to change it, and Washington changed us.” This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?
All this is genuinely saddening, and for the country is perhaps even tragic, for America ought, really, to be governed by men like John McCain—who have spent their entire lives in its service, even willing to give the last full measure of their devotion to it. If he goes out losing ugly, it will be beyond tragic, graffiti on a marble bust.
For this, Buckley recieved so much hate mail to the National Review, he was forced to resign:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-14/sorry-dad-i-was-fired/
Vote for Obama - Christopher Hitchens
Oct 13, 2008 - Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2202163/
On "the issues" in these closing weeks, there really isn't a very sharp or highly noticeable distinction to be made between the two nominees, and their "debates" have been cramped and boring affairs as a result. But the difference in character and temperament has become plainer by the day, and there is no decent way of avoiding the fact. Last week's so-called town-hall event showed Sen. John McCain to be someone suffering from an increasingly obvious and embarrassing deficit, both cognitive and physical. And the only public events that have so far featured his absurd choice of running mate have shown her to be a deceiving and unscrupulous woman utterly unversed in any of the needful political discourses but easily trained to utter preposterous lies and to appeal to the basest element of her audience. McCain occasionally remembers to stress matters like honor and to disown innuendoes and slanders, but this only makes him look both more senile and more cynical, since it cannot (can it?) be other than his wish and design that he has engaged a deputy who does the innuendoes and slanders for him....
The most insulting thing that a politician can do is to compel you to ask yourself: "What does he take me for?" Precisely this question is provoked by the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin. I wrote not long ago that it was not right to condescend to her just because of her provincial roots or her piety, let alone her slight flirtatiousness, but really her conduct since then has been a national disgrace. It turns out that none of her early claims to political courage was founded in fact, and it further turns out that some of the untested rumors about her—her vindictiveness in local quarrels, her bizarre religious and political affiliations—were very well-founded, indeed. Moreover, given the nasty and lowly task of stirring up the whack-job fringe of the party's right wing and of recycling patent falsehoods about Obama's position on Afghanistan, she has drawn upon the only talent that she apparently possesses.
I know he talks a lot about being a former marxist, so I'm not entirely sure.
In the article he calls himself a single issue voter (national defense being the issue) and I've seen him distance himself from Marxism.
At the very least, he spends a good deal of his time denouncing democrats and supporting seemingly republican positions.
Originally posted by inimalist
I know he talks a lot about being a former marxist, so I'm not entirely sure.In the article he calls himself a single issue voter (national defense being the issue) and I've seen him distance himself from Marxism.
At the very least, he spends a good deal of his time denouncing democrats and supporting seemingly republican positions.
Hmm, yeah I heard of him distancing himself from his former positions. Dunno, really.