I'm seriously considering voting for Obama...

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  1. LSUAthletics

    LSUAthletics Founding Member

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    You've told us what you think. You think the top tax rate should be 50%. You are for redistribution of wealth. You might be registered as an independent but you are way left of center on the single most important fiscal policy.
     
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  2. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    Obama isn't (all) white. The sickle cell remark was in response to your idiotic position that, since McCain had cancer, he's somehow doomed to die shortly. Then you said Obama has no medical problems. The point I took was that Obama is just as likely to contract that disease as McCain is to die from a disease from which he's recovered. Obama is black. Sickle Cell is a predominately black disease. Get it?
     
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  3. Lil Jules

    Lil Jules Founding Member

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    Wow. :dis:

    If only all voters were as rational and thoughtful in making such an important decision...
     
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  4. SabanFan

    SabanFan The voice of reason

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    Context. He was responding to an equally untenable position.
     
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  5. lsu-i-like

    lsu-i-like Playoff advocate

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    I wonder who would pay more on an insurance policy. Well, I have a good idea, I'm just trying to beat around the bush.
     
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  6. PURPLE TIGER

    PURPLE TIGER HOPE is not a strategy!

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    Like I said...you're a Democrat! :wink:
     
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  7. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Show me any post that I have advocated redistribution of wealth. Go ahead. Returning taxation back to rates that keep the rich from continuing to pull away from the middle class due to low taxes is not redistributing anybody's wealth.

    In your highly biased opinion. Look, I've been voting for 35 years and I've voted on both sides of the aisle many times because there just ain't a moderate party. The last time I voted Republican was a year ago for Jindal. So don't imagine that you know my political stance based on one issue in one election, because you don't know squat.

    Why don't you just tell us what you think instead of wasting time trying to tell me what I think.
     
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  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    The republicans need to wake up and smell the coffee. This time they have lost the liberals, the moderates, and even the moderate republicans. Lost's of people are voting aginst the party of George Bush for very good reason. We've had enough.
     
    red55, Sep 27, 2008
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  9. PURPLE TIGER

    PURPLE TIGER HOPE is not a strategy!

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    That's one of the more sensible comments you've ever made. I agree many people are tired of the Bush administration.

    The democrats also need to wake up and realize this vote is against Bush more than it is for the liberal poilicies of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, etc.

    People aren't voting democrat because they have any better ideas or policies...they're voting against Bush because they want something different.

    Obama has capitalized on this by declaring CHANGE. He can't give any good explanation to how he plans to do that but people don't care because they just want something different.

    That's why I don't see either candidate serving more than four years. As you mentioned...McCain is on his death bed and Obama is just a flash in the pan.
     
    PURPLE TIGER, Sep 27, 2008
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  10. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Oh, I get it. You think apples and oranges are just the same. Here you have a guy in his 40's in perfectly good health--no Sickle Cell anemia at all. Over here you have a guy in his 70's with cancer. You must realize that the survival rates for melanoma victims is among the lowest of any type of cancer.

    So you are trying to say that Obama is as likely to die in office as McCain! Why? Because he might get sickle cell anemia! Hell, why not melanoma? You know, McCain might get hit by a meteor, too!

    Considering whether a candidate is likely to die in office is a legitimate concern, especially considering what the vice president could be, Heaven help us. Due to age and existing seriou smedical issues, the answer is obvious. I know you don't like it, but I really don't care.
     
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