I'm rollin' McCain
Paul in Cannon Beach
4,703 Posts
Ok, I have pretty much decided. Unless he picks Satan as his running mate, I am supporting McCain.
He is closer to me ideologically than the other two. When he talks, he strikes me as a decent person who struggles to be a politician instead of the reverse (Hillary). I like that he is an independent thinker and doesn't always take the party line.
Obama's inexperience and his views on abortion are troubling to me. Over the weekend he equated having a baby as "punishment" for a teen who makes a mistake. I think "consequence" is a better word and last time I checked there are many couples who can't have children and would resent Obama's terminology. A child is never a punishment.
So I am going with Big Mac.
He is closer to me ideologically than the other two. When he talks, he strikes me as a decent person who struggles to be a politician instead of the reverse (Hillary). I like that he is an independent thinker and doesn't always take the party line.
Obama's inexperience and his views on abortion are troubling to me. Over the weekend he equated having a baby as "punishment" for a teen who makes a mistake. I think "consequence" is a better word and last time I checked there are many couples who can't have children and would resent Obama's terminology. A child is never a punishment.
So I am going with Big Mac.
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I have the distinguished honor of being on the committee to
raise $5,000,000 for a monument of Hillary R. Clinton.
We originally wanted to put her on Mt. Rushmore until we
discovered there was not enough room for two more faces.
We then decided to erect a statue of Hillary in the Washington,
D.C. Hall Of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be
placed.
It was not proper to place it beside the statue of George Washington, who
never told a lie, or beside her husband William J. Clinton, who never told
the truth, since Hillary could never tell the difference.
We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Columbus, the
greatest Democrat of them all. He left not knowing where he was going,
and when he got there he did not know where he was. He returned not
knowing where he had been, and did it all on someone else's money.
Thank you,
Hillary R. Clinton Monument Committee
P. S. The Committee has raised $1.35 so far.
So is McCain, for that matter. Heck, so is Paul.
But don't think your ambivalent answer went unnoticed.
I think.
Just for the record, I am not mad at Q nor is she "dead" to me. That's just me being me.
Q is probably my second favorite person on this forum.
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them, it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
I am glad I am not from the Midwest. They sound like a bunch of dumb backwards angry hicks.
I am sure there are people who are just like what Obama described but you'd think the small towns of the midwest were spilling over with them to hear him talk.
Hopefully someone from the Midwest on this forum will put down their guns and Bible long enough to post a response.
Would that be a fair statement?
Far as I can tell, my friends and family in Omaha, which is pretty much dead center of the country, have not become bitter, conspiracy-clinging gun toters. They just swill more scotch and get back to work.
Alicia Keys has apparently said that "gangsta rap" was invented to encourage violence in the ghettoes.
How does the government benefit from keeping the African American community in turmoil? I dont get it.
Personally, I find our government too inept to pull of the conspiracies that are spread on the internet.
Apparently they were made at a private fundraiser in California. Perhaps he thought they would never reach the Bible thumpin, pistol packin ears of angry Midwesterners.
If I read the other comments on Obama's remarks correctly, it sounds like you and Hillary are in lockstep. I knew you would come around!
Do I sound like Hillary? Its true she is making political hay out of this. Its a fairly significant misstep on Obama's part, dont you think? Especially with the Pennsylvania primary coming up.
Personally, I think he felt like he was in a private setting talking to like minded people who would agree with sentiments like this and he let down his guard a bit. I am not sure he really believes his own statement. At the very least, he was pandering and you know how I feel about that...