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PaPaPeng wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:13:44 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

nick hull wrote:
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"Bob" wrote:

election or vote third party. I know know who will win the
Democratic
nomination, but whomever it turns out to be will surely be our
next
president.
Personally, I couldn't agree more - As a Republican who first voted
for Ike in 1956, I will not vote for McCain. Won't vote Libertarian
because of their stance on Iraq. Will probably skip voting for a
prez for the first time in my life.
Bob-tx

I really hate to say this, but a Democrat (even Hillary!) might be
better than McCain for the 2nd amendment. The NRA will fight a
democratic president tooth and nail, but would compromise our rights
away with a republican ;(

Even if Hillary 'Lady Macbeth' Clinton WAS qualified, I wouldn't vote
for her. 2 families have held the White House for 20 years- time for
somebody else. It isn't supposed to be an inherited office, by blood or
marriage.

(BTW- I have NO trouble with a woman for POTUS- just not THAT woman.)

aem sends...


I am not American so we live with whomever you elect as President.
But please do consider the message you are sending to Americans and to
the rest of the world by not voting. If the American President takes
office on a minority popular vote, of say 30 percent turnout of
eligible voters, then he or she does not have a mandate to do
anything. No mandate to change the direction America is on. No
credibility on the world stage that he or she has the support of the
people.

To vote is a very important civic duty.

Paraphrasing Jim Hightower, "If God wanted us to vote, she would have
given us candidates.", CANDIDATES, not PACs and corporate bribes. As
long as the corporations control the campaign money and the media in the
US, there will be no elections based on merit. Obama has been in
politics the shortest time, so he probably has less mud on him but he
supports ethanol from corn (uses almost as much oil to produce as it
replaces and, reduces food supplies) and his wife makes $316,000 a year
as director of the University of Chicago Hospitals public outreach
program ($316,000 ? What's up with that?).

Not to take away from Ron Paul but Americans, basically, now have four
choices now for president. Our duty is to pick the "least bad" of these
four choices. The long and the short of it is that the corporation buy
the election and then they own the winner. Voting is just a formality.

As Will Rodgers used to say,"Politics is like baseball. It is very
complicated to understand but you have to remember, it doesn't mean
anything."
--

Billy

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