Come in to the light, darlin'. Ron Paul will not be on the final ballot come November. :yelwink2: Again, I wouldn't call myself a fan of Billary but her experience far outweighs Obama both in terms of first hand observation and foreign travel/exposure. Obama is greener than a fresh sprouted lawn on the first day of spring. Good analogy about the gut but make sure you don't confuse it for a bit of gas. :hihi:
ive decided to vote for mccain because he has the most experience. maybe i'll write in robert byrd instead---if they dig up strom i'll write him in.
but arent voters now considered shallow if they dont allow politicians to change their views, errr, i mean "grow". but really, i guess the question is--how much of a record is enough of a record, and how much longer does a bad record have to be to trump a shorter and better one? yes, extremely underpaid and extremely over-educated scientist. new developments every day in science. its amazing how many people dont trust new approaches. guess this doesnt really apply to politics.
I don't think too many Americans who voted for Senator Obama on Super Tuesday did so just because he is black (not saying there aren't those who did). A friend and I were talking about Senator Obama, and my friend pointed out that if Senator Obama's skin color was 100% black, he wouldn't stand a chance. Senator Obama is biracial--not a direct descendant of West African slaves--so I think he escapes most of the racism many in America have for 100% black people.
Teddy Roosevelt became President at age 42. JFK became President at age 43. Bill Clinton became President at age 46. If elected President, Barack Obama would become President at age 47.
Why would he not be on the final ballot? He obviously has more money than McCain to sustain the rest of the year. He may not win but spreading his message is the important part.
Neither do I. I think they vote for him because he's charismatic. Charisma just isn't particularly high on my qualifications chart. Jimmy Carter was charismatic, too, but he didn't have the right stuff for the job. Obama talks the talk, but we just don't know if he can walk the walk.
To me, his spreading of his message IS his problem. He may have thoughts but in watching him debate, he is horrible in getting that message across. His message is nothing new either IMO. It's a straight libertarian viewpoint which has been heard now for 20 years. People have heard it and don't want it. That's the problem. An isolationist viewpoint doesn't make a person revolutionary. The world is much more complicated than, "let's worry about our problems at home."
I agree with this 100%, but you gotta fix your problems at home first and then the world's. If we can't fix our problems at home then how are we gonna fix the world's problems.
I agree. We can do both at the same time. But as we all know, no one wants to talk about the real problems. Those problems are tough to fix at home. It takes bold ideas and moves and no one wants to do those things which are tough. Example: people have come up with innovative ideas for fixing public education in this country. But none of it will be done or tried. Those ideas will take a huge effort and step on too many toes....so we'll just act like we're doing something and throw more money at it to shut everyone up. That goes for every issue our country has......we can't talk about issues without someone throwing out the race card, or the bigotry card or the union card. So EVERYONE avoids the a discussion of the real issues facing our country. That's the reason I get very selfish about my political ideals.....I want 2 things: LOWER TAXES to keep more of my own money that I earn and to get government out of my life in every way. If we're not going to actually fix anything anyway, then let me get more of money to do with as I please. All of these candidates talking about "change." I listened to a democratic debate one night and I counted them using the word "change" thousands of times....it got really funny actually. "I'm for change." "No, I'm more for change than her." "I'm more for change than all these people." Silly. Silly when all of them know they are not going to do anything to actually solve any problem at home. They are intellectually dishonest and they know it......but as long as they win, they don't care.
