Do you really think Obama is the answer?

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  • callen wrote:
    over his head???

    So dubya's pretty much running things from hell then.....

    and freakin Palin...absolute joke.

    Obama's smart, he understands the common American more than McCain or Dubya would ever dream of. Oh yea and again...Palins a freakin joke..oh and sooo scary.

    If Obama were actually running against Bush, he'd be better off. Too bad he's not. McCain has been doing a pretty decent job of distancing himself from the "McSame" tag.

    As for the experience factor:

    If you had told me on 9/11 that two elections later we'd possibly be electing a person for president who was a friggin' state senator on 9.11 ... I probably would have bought a whole helluva a lot of life insurance.

    The guy has never been in charge of so much as a boy-scout troop ... and we want to give him the keys to the country? Forget the "well, at least he'd better than Bush" stuff ... I'm not arguing that.

    Would he be better than John McCain? I'm no huge McCain fan, but I'd trust him with the keys to the country before I'd trust Bambi.

    That "3 a.m." ad Hillary ran with devastating effect during the primaries isn't that far off from the truth.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    It's nice to see others can see through the bullshit from both parties, too instead of picking a team and excusing their failures. You can't expect change by supporting the same old problems and the same old people that create them decade after decade. Change will come when we as a nation become bold enough to break the cycle and try something new instead of settling for mediocre politicians who have been bought out from under us already anyways.

    Wow - I agree with you for one of the rare times.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    Uncle Leo wrote:

    This thing is over. McCain will win easily. And when we look back, we'll look back on the campaigns. McCain smarter? No. But his campaign staff is.
    Agree....regrettably.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    If Obama were actually running against Bush, he'd be better off. Too bad he's not. McCain has been doing a pretty decent job of distancing himself from the "McSame" tag.

    As for the experience factor:

    If you had told me on 9/11 that two elections later we'd possibly be electing a person for president who was a friggin' state senator on 9.11 ... I probably would have bought a whole helluva a lot of life insurance.

    The guy has never been in charge of so much as a boy-scout troop ... and we want to give him the keys to the country? Forget the "well, at least he'd better than Bush" stuff ... I'm not arguing that.

    Would he be better than John McCain? I'm no huge McCain fan, but I'd trust him with the keys to the country before I'd trust Bambi.

    That "3 a.m." ad Hillary ran with devastating effect during the primaries isn't that far off from the truth.

    No Bambi is McCains running mate not Obama's.

    If I had a large company to run, I'd take Obama over McCain any day. Add to it that Bambi has a goog chance of becoming president sends shivers down my spine.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • callen wrote:
    No Bambi is McCains running mate not Obama's.

    If I had a large company to run, I'd take Obama over McCain any day. Add to it that Bambi has a goog chance of becoming president sends shivers down my spine.

    You'd take Obama? He'd tax himself right out of business ...

    As for shivers ... the fact that someone with even less experience than Palin has a better than 50-50 shot of becoming president sends them down MY spine.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • You'd take Obama? He'd tax himself right out of business ...

    I doubt it ...
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Looking for a politician to save you is the same as going to a psychic for advice on how to get rich.
    Both will lie to you in order to better their position.
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  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    You'd take Obama? He'd tax himself right out of business ...

    As for shivers ... the fact that someone with even less experience than Palin has a better than 50-50 shot of becoming president sends them down MY spine.
    Your kidding right? Palin over Obama? Wow.

    Someone that in anyway gives any credibiltiy to people that speak in Gods tongue!

    Someone that's against teaching kids sex education.

    Someone that's against embrionic stem cell research.

    Someone that bought into the lie...or rather perpetuating it that going into a national preserve to drill will in anyway make any differnence in the supply/demand equation on oil.

    Someone that doesn't understand the US consumes 11 % of the worlds oil and since oil is a global economy 89% of that alaskan oil will go to the French.

    Someone that thinks the word Victory can be used in the same sentence as Iraq after our current administration said we were going in to protect us from WMD's, and Iraq being an immenent threat.

    Yea okay...fellow Texan. :)
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • callen wrote:
    Your kidding right? Palin over Obama? Wow.

    Someone that in anyway gives any credibiltiy to people that speak in Gods tongue!

    Someone that's against teaching kids sex education.

    Someone that's against embrionic stem cell research.

    Someone that bought into the lie...or rather perpetuating it that going into a national preserve to drill will in anyway make any differnence in the supply/demand equation on oil.

    Someone that doesn't understand the US consumes 11 % of the worlds oil and since oil is a global economy 89% of that alaskan oil will go to the French.

    Someone that thinks the word Victory can be used in the same sentence as Iraq after our current administration said we were going in to protect us from WMD's, and Iraq being an immenent threat.

    Yea okay...fellow Texan. :)

    I was talking purely in terms of experience, which admittedly is not the only factor to take into account.

    However, as a pretty solid conservative, I could never cast a vote for Obama. Hell, Obama's presence on the other side of the ticket all but forced me to cast a vote for (gulp) McCain ... who has not always been a solid conservative.

    If forced into a hypothetical showdown between Obama and Palin, with a gun to my head, yeah I guess I'd have to take Palin.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    I was talking purely in terms of experience, which admittedly is not the only factor to take into account.

    However, as a pretty solid conservative, I could never cast a vote for Obama. Hell, Obama's presence on the other side of the ticket all but forced me to cast a vote for (gulp) McCain ... who has not always been a solid conservative.

    If forced into a hypothetical showdown between Obama and Palin, with a gun to my head, yeah I guess I'd have to take Palin.
    If only the repubs would stop pandering to the social conservatives. I like McCain...have always liked him..he was my choice from the repub side...he's been to war...knows how it sucks...if he'da just kept to his guns when it came to religious fundementalists. Oh well.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
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