Let's prove my brother wrong
Got this from my brother last night:
I am sick to death of the Dems' campaign this year. Throw Edwards in there at the get-go and Dems win hands-down in the general election. No contest. How can the Dems leave it hanging against a regime like we've had for 8 years? Shoot in foot again Dems...... They had a perfect setup to win - they may still yet........I do agree with him - and I hope he's wrong about Obama's chances. (We haven't lost him yet; he ended with this: "I voted for Kerry, I may vote any ticket the Dems have up - but I have to bite my tongue on this one...") But now is the time to remember that whoever you supported in the primaries (and neither of my top picks lasted long and I'm not crazy about Obama for all I'm giving him money), the prize is not "Obama for President". It wasn't "Clinton for President", either. No, the prize is "A Democrat in the White House".
Or, if you prefer, "not a Republican in the White House".
If you can't support that, if you really are hung up on the personalities of those running and those talking, then by whatever you value most, at least turn out in November and vote in a veto-proof majority in House and Senate.
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I'm optimistic and quite energized after last night. It was great to see the contrast between McCain's speech and Obama's. I thought Obama was very adult-like and seemed ready to take the mantle as the party's standard-bearer. I think he can do this.
My voting strategy this time around is ABAR: Anyone But A Republican.
With heavy heart I'm taking down the Hillary sticker from my blog, but you've given me something to put in its place: "Not a Republican in the White House".
Absolutely!
See, I can't jump on the "A Democrat in the White House" or "not a Republican in the White House" ticket.
I'm more for a "take seriously the issues of civil liberties, the environment, foreign policy, and scientific funding and research, immigration reform, the economy, and health care" ticket. The party doesn't matter. The person matters. I want to hear about the issues, not fighting about party affiliation.
That would be wonderful in a world where one party wasn't as bad as it is. The Democrats aren't perfect, but if the last eight years didn't tell you we need to get the Republicans out of the government, there's nothing I can imagine saying that would change your mind. Only when this current generation of GOP politicians have gone and the sane ones are back in charge of their party can we afford to ignore affiliation. Otherwise, we get people voting for "decent moderate" people like Chafee and then watching them vote to kill the mininum wage, put Hastert in charge, back Bush in "national security" issues and civil rights, and cheerlead for the war - all the while crying about how much they hate it all.
At the moment, one party is insane. It must be cured - and kicking it out of office is the only way to do that.
Come back and talk "vote the person not the party" when the people don't back that party all the way.
It will be intersting when President Obama is first tested by one of the many tyrants of the world.
It will happen shortly after inauguration.
Happened to George Bush when Chinese forced a US surveillance plane to land in China.
Based on history, Obama will take his white flag and declare pre-emptive surrender.
Things will really get interesting for U.S. after that.
Oh? What "history" are you basing that on - your dimension's?
Sigh. With all due respect to your extradimensional visitor, most of the world's 'many' 'tyrants' don't have any interest in yanking the US chain (gets in the way of a good day's kleptocracy, for one thing)
The problem isn't tyrants per se (pros and amateurs alike have been able to deal with tyrants). The problem is autocratic systems with a bad grasp of exactly whose writ runs how far. But that risks getting into history and related issues that seem to be in short supply on the guest's home planet.
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