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 Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin
546 Votes - Start Date:
9-9-2008 - Last Vote:
10-20-2009
Description:It's that time again folks... the American Presidential race is on! Now that the official tickets are stamped and the signs and shirts are printed, Americans will be watching the campaign trails and hearing what each candidate promises to do if elected into office. The Democrats have nominated Barack Obama and Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate. To see where they stand on the issues, head over to their official website: http://www.barackobama.com/. Sen. John McCain chose Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate and the Republicans nominated them for the 2008 ticket. You can see where they stand by visiting their website here: http://www.johnmccain.com/ YouChoose wants to know what you think. Who do you think will make the best president? Who will make the change that America so desperately needs? After you vote, be sure to join in on the discussion. And, please, keep it clean. We all know how heated politics can become.
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Nicole, I am sure you must be sweet, but your vacancy of knowledge and inability to present solid arguments demonstrating the reasoning behind your bold statements is exhausting.
Well said!!
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Here is a definition of socialism:
"Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy."
Unless McCain decides NO TAXES at all, he is socialist too.
Today, the United States is the leader in a number of shameful statistics: the highest percentage and total numbers of its population in prison, the highest consumption of the world's natural resources, the only industrialized nation without universal health care, the biggest military budget. It seems that the greatest product that the United States is capable of producing today is war, and this makes us a very dangerous country. Our primary role in the global community is as a mercenary army in the interests of big business.
First of all we americans are partly responsible for the housing problem. Everyone who knew they could not afford the loans they got but were offered jumped on them. It is time we stop looking for something for nothing and then blame the big wigs and the government for your own stupidity. Responsibility starts with us. As far as Obama is concerned I don't trust him any further than I can throw him. Yes John McCain has his faults but we know what they are. Don't know if any of you Obama voters know this but Joe Biden made the comment that if obama took office within 6 months some crisis would happen and he didn't think he would be able to handle it. But in an interview with the media when questioned about it he refused to answer his own quoted words. Then shortly after that the media station was told by an obama member of his campaign told them they would never grant them another interview. WHO gives a s***. Why is it they protect him but McCain and Palin are open targets. I'm tired of all this the ones who won't vote for obama have to be racist or rednecks. Why can't we just be free to vote for McCain because he is who we need. All you who believe obama is the man need to really think hard and make sure you will be able to live with yourselves after we lose our country. And I'm sorry but I am tired of taking care of people who refuse to help themselves. He is for helping these people who live off the government and taxpayers and then pass it down to their children generation after generation. And if all you obama voters think the people who are voting for McCain are because he is white how many of you are honestly voting for him because he is half black. My guess would be 50-60%. The registered voters have been at an all time high this year and the majority of the rise has come from the black americans half of which has never voted before. Vote for McCain/Palin
I agree about the housing issue! Alot of Americans got their own selves into that problem - agreed! We Americans should be grateful and thankful for what we have instead of trying to keep up with that Jones Family! Also, I didn't agree w/ that bail-out....shame we couldn't have voted on that bail-out! But, America will survive! We've got to have that faith and make sure of it! We don't trust Obama as a leader for our country, either. We have prayed, prayed, and are still praying about our decision. Regardless of name, race, religion, association, when it comes to him as a politician, we just don't trust him and have seen too many negatives just the same as if we don't trust McCain on some issues, either. We just have way more issues that are negativ, in our opinion, when it comes to Obama. ( I don't trust any of them really, but we've gotta pick the one we feel is right! ) Our reasons for not trusting Obama are mainly based on our beliefs, morals, and values.....where he has stated he stands on certain issues such as abortion ( we are pro-life ), being compared to the Messiah, those children shown to us on the news singing praises to him as instructed by their school ( that's how the news portrayed it , proclaims of being racists against whites ( no one, including the whites, should be looked down upon, regardless of ethnicity) his association with a certain group of Muslims ( not all Muslims in general,however, I respect their choice of worship......), and just seeming to be very cocky and arrogant towards certain individuals that have asked him concerned questions ( for ex: Joe the Plummer! I feel sorry for how he's getting trashed by the Media as this result! , the "spread the wealth" concept is one thing that we don't agree with, either. If Obama does win and the way it's looking, he does stand a good chance, we will pray for Obama daily and repsect him as our leader. That's our Christian duty as law-abiding citizens of America. American needs to stand together! We DO VERY-WELL realize that McCain has his issues .... as most all politicians do! They're human like us, too! But, we dont' feel comfortable voting for Obama as a result of our strong beliefs on certain issues. I didn't mean to get into an exhausted list here, but that's how we feel about voting for this election! TO OBAMA/BIDEN VOTERS: Please, don't get ticked off and go off on us just because we're voting for McCain. We're only exercising our rights and beliefs as those of you who are supporting Obama and Biden. We should all be grateful that we all have the right and freedom to go vote for who we want! It's really an honor and privelege and we should remember that when we go cast our vote! We support McCain/Palin, too! Happy Voting to all and God bless! :)
EXCELLANT RESPONSE!!
right on!!!
For once i agree with you on the issue of housing we are all responsible. but i do recall that it was palin who refused interviews. THe voting for him because he is half black, you said that is why your husband is voting for him, did you not? and no i don't think youare racist because of who you are voting for, that is your choice. My only problem with you was the fact that you attacked people because of their choice. GO OBAMA
Biden did not say he didn't think Obama could handle it. He said they would see that he has a spine of steel.
Whatever works for you and your party. It is time to be honest with yourselves. But then again obama is perfect forgot...NOT!!! Can any of you even fathom the thought that he isn't this saint you all praise him to be. I would like to hear one honest thing from him. When asked any questions that may hurt them a little they side step the answer or twist the words to make them sound better. I don't recall that reply but then again I don't have a weak mind and haven't bought in to their lies.
Biden said......“We’re going to face a major international challenge. Because they’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine,”
If so it will be because the democratic congress will be that steel. They are the very reason we are in this mess. Like I have said if you democratic voters would learn more about Obama you would run like hell. I have never seen a candidate that has brainwashed people so much. You claim not to want another eight years of Bush but fail to realize it was the democrats that caused the mess. But hey freedom of choice but don't start crying when you find out Obama is not for the right kind of change. Do you ever come up with your own stands? You always comment on others but you don't have your own view?
Please, give examples to support your theory that the democratic party is the reason we are in this mess. Support your argument with facts. You should re-read my many postings....I have been VERY specific and direct, with examples and facts, to support my views. You just spew words and jargon without demonstrating that you even have an understanding of them. Please, support your argument here with facts and examples.
BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS TOOK OVER, HERE IS WHAT THE PICTURE OF AMERICAN ECONOMY WAS. Please feel free to research the numbers!!!
Famly Debt Was Rising: By September 2006, household debt rose to an unprecedented 130.9% of disposable income. From March 2001 to September 2006, personal debt relative to disposable income grew each quarter by 1.6 percentage points—almost five times faster than in the 1990s. In the second quarter of 2006, families had to spend 14.4% of their disposable income to service their debt—the largest share since 1980.
The Housing Market Had Slowed: The supply of homes for sale each month averaged 6.9 months of supply for the six months ending in October 2006—the largest supply since 1991.
Savings Had Plummeted: The personal saving rate of -1.3% in the third quarter of 2006 marked the sixth quarter in a row with a negative personal saving rate.
EXPLAIN TO US WHERE THE DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. DURING THIS TIME IT WAS A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AND WHITE HOUSE.
Sally P. Thank you for saying your piece, it sums up what is happening all over North America, and please accept my sincere wish that your brother gets to Michigan so that you are able to provide shelter from the failed economic policies that allow multi-millionaire bankers not to go to jail and hard working actual victims of bad voodoo economics to lose everything through no fault of their own. It's time for a P & VP who are really looking out for the middle class and if they don't turf them in 2012.
Levetta F's, attempt at comedy is if true mean spirited, both the people she belittles could be victims of what is occurring in the current economic climate. Not hard to know what her political party of choice is, "the if you're not rich you're nothing party". With what's going on in the market's and the economy it could be the owner of a failed business and or a banker (except the banker should be in jail) that you were getting your jolly's off about. That includes the server you slighted and the homeless person you insulted with your $10.00 joke. Shameful
I didn't do it read the post again and for your information I make 20,00.00 a year, but I work for it no one hands it to me. If by chance my hard work ever pays off and I do become successful I don't want the government taking it from me. It is not smart to punish hard work it is not AMERICAN. Socialism is nothing but envy. I want what you have because I deserve it even though I didn't work for it. Get a life. Work hard and quit B*tching about not being able to keep up with the Jones
Levetta - That is a tragic injustice...You worked your booty off to get through college and you can only make just above poverty level. That is awful. Why do you think that is? What do you think is the cause?
I think everyone has to start at the bottom and work their way up. With hard work comes experience and success. I didn't go to school thinking I would be rich after I graduated I went to school for knowledge in the field I chose. I believe in the AMERICAN DREAM hard honest work will pay off in the end. Not everyone chooses fields to become rich they choose fields they love and enjoy. Teachers are good examples of this. I do not blame others who chose more lucrative fields, more power to them. Please answer this: if you take away incentives for people to be successful do you believe you take away their desire to try?
Levetta - You answered the question yourself...YOU said "I didn't go to school thinking I would be rich after I graduated I went to school for knowledge in the field I chose". Either you go to college to gain knowledge and do what you love, or you go to college to be rich...BOTH are incentives for success!!! On the one hand you say money is not the reason you went to college, and imply it is not something you need to feel successful. On the other hand, you imply that MONEY is the incentive for success. It is a big contradiction. If, as you say, "not everyone chooses a field to become rich they choose fields they love and enjoy", then WHERE is the loss of incentive to be successful by asking the rich to pay a little more in taxes?
Here's the thing: I am in the highest tax bracket and I support giving more to the system. It is YOU who would benefit from that kind of system. YOU would save money by paying less in taxes and would be better able to thrive. YOU would have greater access to healthcare benefits, education opportunities, community services, etc. I ALREADY have access to all that!! I don't need more. What I NEED is for others to be able to thrive, because when they don't, it effects me directly. It effects ME when you can't get health insurance because I pay MORE when you get sick but can't pay for it. I pay MORE for people who end up not being able to make it because they haven't been properly educated. We ALL pay MORE in the long run when people are imprisoned because of their lack of education and the lack of community services they needed to get through childhood. We ALL pay MORE when crime is high because people can't thrive within the system.
Levetta - The American dream is not to be rich...It is to THRIVE. It is to be able to keep a job and feed your family, and provide the basic needs for that family. The American dream is about being able to send our kids to college, so they can be even more successful as each generation progresses. THESE are the kinds of things that brought people here from other countries. Not "striking it rich" and living a life of greed afterward. Somehow people are trying to redefine the American dream to mean striking it rich and living a life of selfishness and greed once that happens.
McCain/Palin need to campaign against socialism and raising taxes. Obviously, the stupid liberals don't understand the consequences. Raising corporate taxes only gets passed on to the consumer in goods and services. Prices will go up, workers will get laid off because small businesses won't be able to afford the taxes. And, why should people who worked hard to get an education so that they could support themselves and their families pay higher taxes so that the people who don't want to work hard can get a hand out? What ever happened to a hand up? It's anti-American. That is not what our country stands for and that is not what I stand for. These liberals don't represent me or my beliefs. My father was a NYC fireman working overtime to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table and these people want to sit back and collect. They should be ashamed of themselves. We all know who they are. Our country is in for the shock of its life. We will no longer be free. Just remember Ronald Reagan. "A country that can do anything for you, can do anything to you."
Barbara, please, for everyone's sake, learn the meaning of the word socialism.
Instead of a system owned collectively by the people, our system is owned privately but taxed by the government for WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION for our collective social good. I.E. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Education, Corporate Bailouts and buying bad mortgages. This results in the American socialism model, better known as our social (ism) programs. If socialism is what you're SO against, then McCain is no good either because he is a socialist as well (at 72, he is a Medicare card holder after all).
Sen. McCain was one of only two Republican senators to oppose the 2001 tax cuts and one of only three GOP senators to oppose the 2003 reductions.
Furthermore, his reason for opposing the cuts was taken straight from the playbook of the most radical left-wing Democrats. In 2001, Sen. McCain argued, "I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief."
His outspoken pursuit of anti-growth and anti-free market policies in the realms of regulation, entitlement reform and campaign finance reveal a philosophical ambivalence, if not hostility, toward limited government and personal freedom.
The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2007
Levetta - Palin has only been a governor 5 months longer than Obama has been running for president.
Palin took office as Governor Dec. 4, 2006
Obama announced he was running for President, May 2, 2007
True, but she has held two executive positions how many has Obama held?
Fact - McCain voted AGAINST both sets of Bush tax cuts, in 2001 and in 2003. And on NBC's "Meet the Press" in 2004, McCain stated that he did not support extending all the cuts, though he did go on to say that he would make the so-called "middle class" tax cuts permanent. - On "Hardball" with Chris Matthews several years ago, he said, and I'm paraphrasing, that HE believes that when you have become successful and are doing well that it's good to give more to the system. He said this to a student. I'll try to find the exact quote later.
-McCain: Global Economy Results in Outsourcing. “I’m not going to bring back a lot of these jobs. I can’t because with a global economy they’re headed the other way,” McCain said. [Technology Daily, 12/4/07]
McCain Supported Bush Administration’s Plan to Privatize and Outsource Federal Jobs. McCain voted to SUPPORT Bush’s efforts to privatize federal jobs. The Bush administration has led a major effort to outsource and privatize hundreds of thousands of federal jobs, including those of 350 workers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. [H.R. 5631, Vote# 234, 9/6/06].
- McCain: Global Economy Results in Outsourcing. “I’m not going to bring back a lot of these jobs. I can’t because with a global economy they’re headed the other way,” McCain said. [Technology Daily, 12/4/07] . McCain Supported Bush Administration’s Plan to Privatize and Outsource Federal Jobs. McCain voted to support Bush’s efforts to privatize federal jobs. The Bush administration has led a major effort to outsource and privatize hundreds of thousands of federal jobs, including those of 350 workers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. [H.R. 5631, Vote# 234, 9/6/06]
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This is great!!!
Here is a creative approach to redistribution of wealth as offered in a local newspaper...
"Today on my way to lunch I passed a young homeless guy with a sign that read "Vote Obama, I need the money." I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my 30 something server had on a "Obama 08" tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference--just imagine the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he thought he deserved even though the actual recipient was in need of money more.
But it made me think. Who was in more need? They both would have had opportunity if they had taken it. Why was the one homeless? He seemed able bodied. Why was the other still just a server at a restaurant? America has the advantage for each of these people to get an education and pursue a higher course of employment if they apply themselves and work at it. Oh right!! The last thought. Work at it. That is the missing ingredient. It is much easier to complain and hold out your hand as both were doing to get their income.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.
OR IS IT.........REDISTRIBUTION OF SOMEONE ELSE'S WEALTH, IS IT A GREAT IDEA..............or just a fools game !! "
I loved that newspaper article. I just hope the homeless man was my brother. He has been homeless for most of George Bush's presidency. After 4 layoffs from 4 different companies in Oregon and using up all his savings and letting the house go back to the bank, he took to the car and then as I said it went too. Happily he has no wife or children. Now at 59 he does odd jobs and washes dishes when he can and sleeps at a Salvation Army shelter. Of course when Obama gets in and you who must make more than 250,000 pay a little higher tax, and I as a very middle class person get a small tax cut, perhaps I can spread the wealth from your tax increase and my tax cut to send him bus fare to come to Michigan. Of course we have the worst unemployment here and everyone has lost or is losing their homes, but at least living with us will be better than a shelter or under a bush. Thanks in advance.
Sallie Palin