Who I am Voting for

[DemonD]

President/Vice - Obama/Biden.

I actually looked at all of the 3rd party candidates. Ron Paul is very popular, and I would probably vote for him if he was running on any ticket. But he is not. And Bob Barr is to the right W, as is Chuck Baldwin. Nader and McKinney are extreme left wingers. McCain is actually a better candidate by my reasoning than all of the major 3rd party candidates.

Obama, however, has shown decorum, reason, and has sensible policies that I can see myself agreeing with on many levels, and the fact that he has Volcker and Buffett as economic confidants, seals the deal.

Representative - I am writing myself in. I emailed Waxman that I would not vote for him if he voted for the bailout package, and I will keep my word.

Prop 8 - I'm voting no on this one (and all of them), but this one especially makes me sick that we even have to vote on it. I will be even more sick if this bigoted, segregationist, unconstitutional state constitutional amendment passes. (How can a state constitutional amendment be unconstitutional? It can if it violates the US constitution, and this amendment is in clear violation of article 1 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.)

God help us all if McCain wins.

[D-Mack]

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Obama, however, has shown decorum, reason, and has sensible policies that I can see myself agreeing with on many levels, and the fact that he has Volcker and Buffett as economic confidants, seals the deal.

Representative - I am writing myself in. I emailed Waxman that I would not vote for him if he voted for the bailout package, and I will keep my word.

I can't vote, because I'm not not in the US or a US citizen, but that makes no sense to me

Obama was instrumental in getting the bailout passed, but Waxman can't vote for the bailout ?

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Thanks in part to personal calls from presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, several Congressional Black Caucus members Oct. 3 flipped their votes and helped pass a Wall Street bailout plan, known as the Emergency Stabilization Act of 2008.

Fourteen of 21 CBC members who helped defeat the bill in the House of Representatives Sept. 29, joined the lawmakers who voted 263-171, a margin of 90 votes, in support of the $850 billion package.

Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said, despite misgivings, he decided to change his vote after he “received assurances from Sen. Obama that, as president, they ‘would aggressively regulate predatory lending and force mortgage modifications to prevent foreclosures.’”

“Sen. Obama and I agree that our financial foundation needs reinforcing. We also agree that homeowners need protections. (But) first things first. Congress must stabilize the economy or we’ll see more Americans facing foreclosures, layoffs, and bankruptcy,” said Rep. Jackson, one of the Obama campaign’s 10 national co-chairs.
Among the three CBC members from the Washington, D.C.-Maryland-Virginia metropolitan area who can vote, Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia was the only holdout, with Maryland lawmakers Elijah Cummings and Donna Edwards changing their votes to the affirmative column.

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http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publ...cle_5322.shtml

[DemonD]

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Both McCain and Obama voted for the bailout. Both are far better than any other candidates. Obama also has a lot of platforms I agree with. I emailed Waxman directly and told him if he voted yay on the bailout I would not vote for him. I made no such email to Obama as he is not my senator or rep. Waxman is my local Representative. It is a symbolic protest vote. He is running unopposed (which I have never seen before - a US House of Representative position running unopposed, not even a 3rd party on the ballot). This also means that I believe I am more qualified than Waxman. I cannot say the same about the presidential position. I believe Obama would be a better president than me, as well as everyone else mentioned.

Make more sense now?

[tombat1913]

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President/Vice - Obama/Biden.

I actually looked at all of the 3rd party candidates. Ron Paul is very popular, and I would probably vote for him if he was running on any ticket. But he is not. And Bob Barr is to the right W, as is Chuck Baldwin. Nader and McKinney are extreme left wingers. McCain is actually a better candidate by my reasoning than all of the major 3rd party candidates.

Obama, however, has shown decorum, reason, and has sensible policies that I can see myself agreeing with on many levels, and the fact that he has Volcker and Buffett as economic confidants, seals the deal.

Representative - I am writing myself in. I emailed Waxman that I would not vote for him if he voted for the bailout package, and I will keep my word.

Prop 8 - I'm voting no on this one (and all of them), but this one especially makes me sick that we even have to vote on it. I will be even more sick if this bigoted, segregationist, unconstitutional state constitutional amendment passes. (How can a state constitutional amendment be unconstitutional? It can if it violates the US constitution, and this amendment is in clear violation of article 1 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.)

God help us all if McCain wins.

God help us if either of them wins.

I don't like McCain in the least, but Obama? Come on man. The guy has been in the Senate for how long? He hardly shows up to vote on any legislation, but since you seem to care about the constitution I'll point out that when he does bother to vote it's a whopping 18% in adherence to the constitution! That means he does his job 18% correct when he even bothers to do it at all! For you to go on about the constitution and then say you're voting for Obama is so completely illogical it hurts my brain.

Nader a leftwinger, okay fine. Obama the sensible middle of the road kind of guy, no freakin' way. His policies are on the cusp of communist, extremely socialistic at best.

His enegy policy is to tax the energy producers, specifically coal, which is supposed to a.) put the coal companies out of business to counter global warming and b.) pass production costs on to consumers and encourage less usage to counter global warming. Recipe for disaster! The coal industry is one of the few solid productive industries remaining to provide employment to lot's of people and add to GDP. Deliberately raising energy costs during a massive recession in which fixed income retirees have lost 40% of their wealth and unemployement is rising is not just stupid, it's evil. If they're really crazy enough to impliment this lunacy retirees in midwestern states dependent of coal are going to be freezing to death in their homes, I'm not exaggerating. Many of these people already have to choose between food and medicine, and now heating their house. All for what? Because "it's unarguable that the world is heating up".

Over the past year China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees it's first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snow cover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Austrailia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

He's looking to establish some severe ecomonic policies on some pseudoscientific theory that can't reasonably be considered conclusive.

Now that we have established huge military bases in Iraq, he wants to end that war and go into Afghanistan to kill a few hundred thousand of their people. Spread the empire. If you think a Democrat is more likely to bring our troops home out of harms way guess again. More American soldiers died during Clintons administration than Bush Senior or Junior, and Carter killed even more than Clinton. So which party is really antiwar? Answer-neither.

By the way, starbucks will give you a free coffee after you vote! Yay democracy :mad:

[grapejelly]

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much better NOT to validate the system and NOT vote. Voting just encourages them. I am exercising my right to not vote. The presidency should be abolished.

[D-Mack]

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better hold your breath

Obama to Declare Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Pollutant (Update1)

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated should he win the presidential election on Nov. 4, opening the way for new rules on greenhouse gas emissions.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...4&refer=canada

[tombat1913]

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How could I possibly forget!

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”

What the hell this means I can't even speculate, probably habeas corpus goes out the window on a technicality that they're not the military.

What is not speculation is the MASSIVE $711,000,000,000 we already waste on an expansive military empire every year. "Just as well funded" means we spend twice the amount we already spend, and what we're spending right now is more than China, Russia, Japan, Europe, the entire middle east, and Australia COMBINED. To say something like this the man is either extremely ignorant or recklessly insane.

[we_are_toast]

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Predicitons:

Popular vote; Obama 52.1 McCain 46.6

Electoral Obama 338


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