Political Discussion Thread

[Pink Monkey #16]

MajorMajorMajor, I have to agree, you sister is ignorant. (Though McCain dying and being replaced by Palin was the hope of many conservatives who voted for he. Kinda sad for him isn’t it lol?)

 

And Youwingameover, no one here said that you voted for Obama because he was black, but so many people did. In exit polling conducted by CNN (not my favorite source by any means so take this with a grain of salt) 80% of those who said race was a factor in their descision said that they voted for Barak Obama. And if you want to talk about ignorant, check out this Obama voter:

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I’m not going to lie, I honestly believe the average american voter, democrat or republican is ignorant. I mean check out the campaign ads, does a 30 second or 1 minute advertisement honestly change your mind? You and I would probably answer “no”, but the average american voter unfortunately would not answer that way. I mean honestly all McCain had to do to win was run a bunch of ads that claimed Obama was a muslim. It’s not true, but if it’s on TV it must be true! And most people do not do their own research. But let us forget the average American voter, since I doubt any of us here really fall into that category.

 

I will assume that you voted for Obama because of some of his policies that you like, not because of the platitudes of “Hope” and “Change” so would any Obama voters on here tell me exactly which policies of Obama made you vote for him?

 

Me, I voted for McCain and here is why:

 

It was hard for me to vote for McCain, because honestly if there is a Republican I hate, it is him. His absolute betrayal of the values of conservatism on so many issues (Amnesty, McCain-Feigngold, Gang of 14, etc.) made me want to vote for Bob Barr, the libertarian. I’m not saying that I disagreed with him on everything, but I felt I really couldn’t trust him. Then he added Palin to the ticket. There was so much speculation about if he would add a moderate as his vp or even go outside his party and choose Joe Lieberman, I knew if that happened, he would lose in a landslide and I most definitely could not vote for him. But he choose Palin. Now love her or hate her, she is a conservative, so I figured I could trust McCain to follow through on most of his policy decisions that I did like. (Foreign Policy, Taxes, Abortion, Judicial Nominees, etc.) I will reiterate, I did not like McCain, he was at the bottom of the list of presidents for me, just above Hillary and Obama, but conservatives got shafted in this race and Palin was the only close we had to a candidate we wanted. I am a conservative far before I am a Republican. So anyways that is why I voted for John McCain. Oh and because Obama is the most liberal candidate to ever be nominated to run for president.

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I wanted to vote for Ron Paul. He is mah hero.

[MajorMajorMajor]

Pink Monkey #16 said:

Obama is the most liberal candidate to ever be nominated to run for president.

i would say that FDR was a little more liberal back in the hey-day

 

 

I decided i can’t really talk about ignorance because imma tell everyone how i vote.

 

First off, I rarely vote on principles or on sides of current issues. The problem with voting for president is that all he really does in his position is represent the country and run the army. “Oh he influences policy making”…bull*edited*. Yea he can veto but all the real policy making is in Congress. You want Change…. research your Senators and Representatives and vote accordingly. If you want change, don’t expect the president to do it.

 

When i vote, I actually mainly vote on the character of the person running. People who have terrible character and say everything you want to hear are not people I want in office. People who have good character and may not want exactly everything i want is a person that would be great in office. it gets rid of all the *edited*ing corruption and the old politicians who think we are still in a cold war.

 

I honestly wanted to vote for Rudy Giuliani. Say what you like about how shady he is or whatever, but as a person when he said he will do something he does it. Not only that but he refuses to take *edited* from anyone. He would have been a good guy to have in office and i nearly did a write in for him.

 

In actuality i ended up voting for Obama after 4 days of internal debate. It actually had nothing to do with Obama actually, just that his running mate was Joe Biden. This is gonna be the kicker for all you people out there. I watched the VP debates vs. Palin and while i thought she did really well in the debates, that debate actually made me want to vote Biden. I felt that in the end he was the better choice as i felt he not only could fulfill what he wanted to accomplish but also was pretty straight forward with what he wanted to do.

 

 

guess im just ignorant. woohooo!

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