I didn't participate in the Iowa Caucuses. The man I wanted didn't run apparently here and will be focused on the New Hampshire primaries.
Just curious who do you want to see win the 2008 Presidential vote, come November.
I think they're all pretty much bores and douches. At least the front runners.
Now let me just say a couple of things...
I don't buy into the ******** that if you don't vote, you don't have a right to talk. I understand that there's a lot of confusion. Not everyone knows where to go to vote, not everyone has the time, and not everyone knows who to vote for so they chose not to vote.
I think that's a good idea. If I don't follow the issues, then it's better for me not to vote. I'd much rather have a country of 100,000 brilliant people who've done their research and thought about the issues to vote than 100,000,000 mindless drones in our country voting based on what moronic celebrity, i.e. Oprah or Chuck Norris is backing them. BS.
If you're too busy to follow the issues, don't understand politics, and such then I have more respect for you as a person if you don't vote. I don't buy into the whole stupidity of not voting = a bad citizen.
That said...
I don't much care for...
Obama... he seems very impersonal. I dislike his way of speaking and the way he presents himself. THere's something about him I don't trust and I don't think he has the forcefulness or even grace to be president. I know those two terms contradict each other but a president needs both, at the appropriate time. I also think he's banking on the youth vote, who wants to see a black president or something different, new, and fresh after GW.
Hillary Clinton... I don't think we need another Clinton or another Bush in office.
John Edwards... I looked at some of his old lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. Silly malpractice suits. Sure some may have justification but we wonder why health care and health costs are such a big issue. People like Edwards contribute to this. I also dislike how he's beated the drum of his wife's cancer throughout the campaign.
As for the republicans, I haven't followed them as closely.
I do know I would not want Mike Huckabee at all. He seems to be a religious fanatic to me. He's very conservative and almost reactionary. I think he's a great speaker and a very intelligent person, but he's misguided. I don't want someone like him who would not put an end to the Iraq war and would use religion as a basis of his decisions in the office.
That said the person I support has no chance of becoming president... Mike Gravel.
I've listened to him talk... not in person of course, but over the internet and he seems to be sincere and very liberal. A true liberal that uses common sense and tries to think of the good of Americans, but also remembers that we do have a place to keep in an ever "flatening world." YEt he stills respects some isolationist views and knows we have to stick out for our own as well. He's for an immediate withdrawl of troops from Iraq. Full gay marriage rights, health care vouchers (I'm already uneasy about universal health care) and the elimination of the income tax. That I'm not quite sure about.
But based on the person and their stances, he's the one that I seem to fit and mold best with. He's down to earth, has common sense, and doens't seem to play politcal games because he speaks his mind and isn't wishy washy like a Obama or Clinton.
Just curious who do you want to see win the 2008 Presidential vote, come November.
I think they're all pretty much bores and douches. At least the front runners.
Now let me just say a couple of things...
I don't buy into the ******** that if you don't vote, you don't have a right to talk. I understand that there's a lot of confusion. Not everyone knows where to go to vote, not everyone has the time, and not everyone knows who to vote for so they chose not to vote.
I think that's a good idea. If I don't follow the issues, then it's better for me not to vote. I'd much rather have a country of 100,000 brilliant people who've done their research and thought about the issues to vote than 100,000,000 mindless drones in our country voting based on what moronic celebrity, i.e. Oprah or Chuck Norris is backing them. BS.
If you're too busy to follow the issues, don't understand politics, and such then I have more respect for you as a person if you don't vote. I don't buy into the whole stupidity of not voting = a bad citizen.
That said...
I don't much care for...
Obama... he seems very impersonal. I dislike his way of speaking and the way he presents himself. THere's something about him I don't trust and I don't think he has the forcefulness or even grace to be president. I know those two terms contradict each other but a president needs both, at the appropriate time. I also think he's banking on the youth vote, who wants to see a black president or something different, new, and fresh after GW.
Hillary Clinton... I don't think we need another Clinton or another Bush in office.
John Edwards... I looked at some of his old lawsuits against doctors and hospitals. Silly malpractice suits. Sure some may have justification but we wonder why health care and health costs are such a big issue. People like Edwards contribute to this. I also dislike how he's beated the drum of his wife's cancer throughout the campaign.
As for the republicans, I haven't followed them as closely.
I do know I would not want Mike Huckabee at all. He seems to be a religious fanatic to me. He's very conservative and almost reactionary. I think he's a great speaker and a very intelligent person, but he's misguided. I don't want someone like him who would not put an end to the Iraq war and would use religion as a basis of his decisions in the office.
That said the person I support has no chance of becoming president... Mike Gravel.
I've listened to him talk... not in person of course, but over the internet and he seems to be sincere and very liberal. A true liberal that uses common sense and tries to think of the good of Americans, but also remembers that we do have a place to keep in an ever "flatening world." YEt he stills respects some isolationist views and knows we have to stick out for our own as well. He's for an immediate withdrawl of troops from Iraq. Full gay marriage rights, health care vouchers (I'm already uneasy about universal health care) and the elimination of the income tax. That I'm not quite sure about.
But based on the person and their stances, he's the one that I seem to fit and mold best with. He's down to earth, has common sense, and doens't seem to play politcal games because he speaks his mind and isn't wishy washy like a Obama or Clinton.
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