Personal politics aside, I think OBAMA will win. It's not about my choices or preferences, but simply the mathematical numbers.
Making it all local to Ohio, a definite RED STATE and home of corrupt election practices, in DAYTON OHIO, when McCain came in to announce his VP, they had to charter their own buses for the republican party to get enough people there to make it look like a crowd was there and 2 days later when OBAMA was in DUBLIN OHIO, it was well over 20,000 people, driving themselves from as far away as Indianapolis Indiana just to see the guy and hear him speak.
The regular news media ain't reporting facts; they're reporting their political point of view.
Obama will win, but it won't be a "landslide", as people will vote what they always vote, conservative or liberal. I believe Obama will win, but it will be by less than 10%.
Did anyone else see McCain agreeing with a woman wanting to institute a new DRAFT for the military? That will do well for him. People like a draft. Especially parents and young people.
And I think both of these guys made terrible choices for VP. Obama's guy is so devoid of any kind of personality and charisma, it was "INSERT OLDER WHITE MALE HERE". Then McCain, thinking the overrated Hillary supporters would rather have any female ("INSERT VAGINA HERE") , picked a woman with no experience, except being mayor of a town of 8,000 people and Governor of Alaska for less than 2 years. McCain would be older than Reagan was when he took office. If anything would happen to him, like senility, SHE would become the president. We have to look at her as if she might be the next president, and I don't think a lot of people would vote for her for president. The republicans just took the whole "experience" attack angle off the table against Obama now.
Oh well. Politics remain a less fun time waster filled with sound bytes and out of context name games. All of this made worse by 24 hour news organizations desperate to keep ratings via controversy, even when it's manufactured.
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sonnyboo on September 1, 2008 - 11:36am.
Very much agree
Kinda scary I agree so much with someone, maybe I'm not special anymore :)
All I will add is: its fun to watch politics, sometimes. Like, I laughed when FOX claimed Palin has foreign policy experience because "Alaska is near Russia". Heheh. That made my morning.
And yeah, McCain basically made a naked grab for Hillary voters, except that Palin is on video dissing Hillary, and she believes almost the opposite of what Hillary does. A palin comparison. In doing so, McCain lost his only credible line of attack against Obama (the whole "experience" thing). Basically, in my opinion, it comes down to this question: are people stupid?
Will people vote on the basis of gender or race (or "character" whatever the hell that means), or will they think about actual issues for once? The next election is gonna be a referendum on American people. Let's see.
Bonus idea: I dreamed up a parallel universe where you go to the voting booth, and instead of seeing two names and being asked to pick one, you actually see policy questions, like "do you believe we should do more offshore drilling? (yes/no)" and so on. 20 binary, non-subjective questions, then the computer chooses which of the two candidates matches your preferences best. And then lets you know. After casting your vote for you automatically.
Think about it, it would FORCE the campaigns to use their considerable publicity muscle to educate people on the 20 answers that they have to provide at the booth, instead of name checking Britney or counting houses. Wow. Think of the difference that would make.
Hah. Dream on.
NAh...
WARNING... SARCASM... !
da PROPAGANDA not working on me... a woman and a black man for president in da same year? too obvious... even On The Lot did better and was less obvious wit da outcome... :)
Alaskan Vice President... we're like dat crack head, meeting dat new contact and now on a mission NORTH FOR DAT SHIT... I mean... we not slowing down and changing drivers now right?
Maybe AFTER WE PICK UP, den we can let em drive on da way Home... hAhA
PALIN IN SALEM
Palin is kinda of a cute cougar though! Imagine her with her hair down, no glasses--after a few drinks--slam bang dang!
I have no real comment on any of this except for that it all seems that it has become a big sideshow act.
The greatest nation in the world now has the greatest political circus in the world!
I'm voting for Homer Simpson! At least his show has higher ratings!
EZEQUIEL
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