Comments on: Obama and the election http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:58:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John Couzin http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154582 John Couzin Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:35:25 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154582 I am 74 years old and have never voted in my entire life, During all my adult life I have been politically active and still am, but have always considered the party political system to the home of crooks and liars, hypocrites and parasites, and in the pay of the corporate world, to support any of them would give them the stamp of legitimacy and would make me guilty by association. Therefore I never evaluate on one as being in any way shape or form superior to the other, this is an encouragement to others to vote in that direction. Believing that voting for one or the other will make a difference is no more than an illusion and I believe that historic evidence supports this view. I am 74 years old and have never voted in my entire life, During all my adult life I have been politically active and still am, but have always considered the party political system to the home of crooks and liars, hypocrites and parasites, and in the pay of the corporate world, to support any of them would give them the stamp of legitimacy and would make me guilty by association. Therefore I never evaluate on one as being in any way shape or form superior to the other, this is an encouragement to others to vote in that direction. Believing that voting for one or the other will make a difference is no more than an illusion and I believe that historic evidence supports this view.

]]> By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154568 DJ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:28:45 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154568 John: Welcome to our world. That's why most Americans don't vote at all. John: Welcome to our world. That’s why most Americans don’t vote at all.

]]> By: John Couzin http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154567 John Couzin Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:12 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154567 Are you saying that the voters choice for president of America has to be between the lesser of two insanities????? Some choice, and quite scarry as America is the largest arsenal in the world. Rather than back one over the other, why not tell it like it is, at presnet you seem to be pushing and voting for insanity!! But a lesser insanity, so that makes it all right!! Are you saying that the voters choice for president of America has to be between the lesser of two insanities????? Some choice, and quite scarry as America is the largest arsenal in the world. Rather than back one over the other, why not tell it like it is, at presnet you seem to be pushing and voting for insanity!! But a lesser insanity, so that makes it all right!!

]]> By: Bob Morris http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154541 Bob Morris Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:51:17 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154541 Eli: I hope you're right and I'm wrong. But I'll be surprised if the campaigns don't turn strongly negative because they always do. Ten Bears: Might be, but I think Obama is demonstrably less insane than McCain. DJ: The Christianist Right has never liked McCain and he needs their votes. So now he's trying to appeal to them. Good luck with that. Eli: I hope you’re right and I’m wrong. But I’ll be surprised if the campaigns don’t turn strongly negative because they always do.

Ten Bears: Might be, but I think Obama is demonstrably less insane than McCain.

DJ: The Christianist Right has never liked McCain and he needs their votes. So now he’s trying to appeal to them. Good luck with that.

]]> By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154538 DJ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:55:58 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154538 BTW, McCain did the opposite of the norm: he sang to the center during the primary, and is now busily moving as far to the Right as possible. BTW, McCain did the opposite of the norm: he sang to the center during the primary, and is now busily moving as far to the Right as possible.

]]> By: Ten Bears http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154517 Ten Bears Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:14:12 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154517 Constantly choosing the lessor of two evils is still <b>choosing evil</b>. Constantly choosing the lessor of two evils is still choosing evil.

]]> By: Eli Stephens http://polizeros.com/2008/08/05/obama-and-the-election/#comment-154512 Eli Stephens Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:51:01 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=12310#comment-154512 <i>So now presumably Obama will be getting negative on McCain, as will McCain on him, and the final months of the campaign will be one enormous mud-sling.</i> As everyone knows, I'm no fan of Obama, but strictly on the basis of politics. This statement is totally unfair and sounds like the nonsense that I hear on the corporate media. Obama has <i>not</i> been slinging mud, unlike McCain, and I see little or no likelihood he'll be doing so. He has been criticizing McCain's <i>positions</i>, which is not, as the corporate media like to portray it when they're playing the "they both do it" game, "going negative." So now presumably Obama will be getting negative on McCain, as will McCain on him, and the final months of the campaign will be one enormous mud-sling.

As everyone knows, I’m no fan of Obama, but strictly on the basis of politics. This statement is totally unfair and sounds like the nonsense that I hear on the corporate media. Obama has not been slinging mud, unlike McCain, and I see little or no likelihood he’ll be doing so. He has been criticizing McCain’s positions, which is not, as the corporate media like to portray it when they’re playing the “they both do it” game, “going negative.”

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