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Hey! How did that get on here?

It's an interesting time and what a race!

Yeah, it feels good these days.

I am not real excited about these candidates. In fact, I may be registered in one of the parties (from back when I first was old enough to vote) but as I get older, the less I identify with it (trying not to give away too much info). I don't like either party and the things that I care enough about to vote on are so fubared that I don't think anyone can solve them, so I am just not real motivated to go to the polls. Next November, I will go down and cast a vote and play the game and act like it matters, but right now i am thinking that the person I would have voted for GAVE UP and I can't get excited about the rest of them.

Between McCain, Obama, and Hillary, I think Obama has the best sounding voice (listening to them on the radio). I know that is completely stupid, but the tone of his voice is the least grating to me. I wouldn't base my vote on that of course, but it's just one of the things I have observed and it's not really touching on politics so I feel I can say it.

*hugs her Hillary pin*

Tsk B, such the rebel XD

McCain. Ugh.

I had a conversation with a Vietnam Vet, and he is afraid to vote for McCain, but I would vote for Hillary, Barrack, or McCain. McCain is a warrior, but voting is really hard, lets change the topic.

I have and will vote for McCain.

Obama is popular, I recognize his popularity. But I can sum up his campaign in one simple sentence. "Yes, we can hope for change."

In other words, he is all slogan, and no substance. Ask any Obama supporter if they can name three policies he has that differentiates himself from Hillary, you'll probably be met by blank expressions.

He also has almost no experience on the federal level. He is only ~3 years removed from state politics, and for half that time has been campaigning, missing more senate votes than any other current sitting senator AFAIK.

He also wants to destroy the economy by raising the capital gains tax rate (the rate at which investment returns are taxed). That would cause the stock market to plunge, would curtail business investment drastically, would result in stagnation, recession, and gross unemployment.

Hillary is easier to pin down policy wise and I won't vote for her because I don't like her policies. I don't want higher taxes, no country with high taxes has ever matched the growth and innovation of countries with low taxes. Every other major country in the world right now is cutting taxes, including most of Europe, and she wants to raise ours? Doesn't she get it?

I don't want mandated government controlled healthcare. It doesn't work. Statistically if you get diagnosed with cancer you're better off living in the US than in any other country if you don't want to die. It may be expensive, but it works. She also doesn't realize that to make it cheaper we need less government intervention (and tort reform) and not more.

With all the administrative and legal costs involved in healthcare and pharmaceuticals it is no wonder it gets so expensive, and what Hillary and others do not realize is changing who pays the bill doesn't fix the overall problem of double digit annual cost increases. They just want to expand the size of the federal government.

Then, once costs get out of control and they need to ration it they start treating doctors like slaves, ordering them where and how to practice, and make it illegal for private citizens to seek private healthcare. The government forces everyone to swallow their own healthcare monopoly. That, my friends, is taken away our freedoms and it is a very slippery slope until we're all living on Air Strip One.

John McCain on the other hand understands all this, and believes in free markets. Maybe not as much as some other republicans, but more than Hillary or Barack. McCain is the most honorable man you'll ever meet. Did you know that when he was in a POW camp in Vietnam he was offered early release because his dad was an admiral. He declined because the Navy had a rule about first-in/first-out and so spent 4 more years being tortured. That, is character, that is integrity.

He stood up for a realistic and pragmatic approach to illegal immigration this summer and it almost cost him his campaign. He didn't pander or flip flop.

He was critical of Rumsfeld and the Iraq strategy, before it was cool, before most Democrats. He pushed for the change in strategy in Iraq that is now working. This also almost cost him his campaign and made him very unpopular last summer.

Of all the candidates, he is the most moderate, the most willing to compromise. You may think Barack is, but he was rated the most liberal senator for 2007, by voting record. Which means he isn't a moderate, despite what he tries to portray on TV. McCain has co-authored countless pieces of legislation with Democrats. He has the endorsement of Joe Lieberman, whom you will recall was Gore's running mate in 2000. There were rumors Kerry was going to ask him to be VP in 2004.

This willingness to compromise has made him hated by the extreme right, and that is okay with me. Washington has too much partisanship and this nation is too polarized. We need a moderate president who can, has, and will make compromises and work to get things done, and that is John McCain.

He is also right on Iraq. People think that just because they disagree with the reasons for going there in the first place, that it means we should leave. They are not the same issue. I don't think we should have invaded, in hindsight, I'm sure most don't, but we're there, it is our mess, we have to clean it up.

People who want us to get out now, I always ask, okay, what next? Iraq decends into civil war, drawing the region (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Kuwait) into a larger regional struggle. Maybe Iran and Israel go at it. Israel which is nuclear and surrounded by enemies. Iran is crazy enough to bomb Israel if they think we won't intervene. Do we want to see nuclear war? What? Doesn't affect us over here in the US? Not our problem? Well, we don't get much mideast oil, truthfully, we get more oil from our own hemisphere, but it is a global marketplace. Such a regional war would push the price of oil up to $300 a barrel or more. This would destroy the world economy, a global depression, 30-40% unemployment. That would affect everyone in this country.

We need to leave Iraq, but we need to leave a stable Iraq, it is far too dangerous to leave Iraq unstable.

So ya, vote McCain.

"U know, no politics, but..."--unfortunately, there has been some confusion and misunderstanding about this B, but as you can see by Admin posting here, you *are* allowed to discuss current politricks in your blog

Dear Admin, Logos and other ones dear to my heart, I totally concur about McCain...this is a very serious topic. Please, understand that I've been a soldier for 21 years now, 1/2 of my life, I live on borrowed time, and men of War understand that more than anyone else...I have been shot twice, and tortured for 7 years, by people I thought were my friends...This entry becomes private in 3 hours... I will not fight again! PJB Amen.

I've been to hell and back, and way too many people have died before my eyes... Drinking and driving is the worst crime committed by man, and I also support Mc Cain, Kerry or whom so ever is a more non-violent solution.
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