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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
This is my first ever post in the political forum (unless the admins move some of my posts here) but I wanted to state my view even if some of this has been mentioned before.
I have only voted for a democrat for office once, Jimmy Carter. I was young and impressionable and he came to an Allman Brother's concert I was at. Stupid reason I know. Since then I have always like the conservative ideas expressed by the Rep. party.
In this election I sense that this country needs a change. Obama may not have the experience, he may not have the proper vision for the country but I think many people will have confidence in him and sometimes a psychological change is better than an actual change. You see this type of thing all the time in the stock market. Everything looks bleak but something happens that boosts confidence and BOOM we have a new bull market. It's time for a new bull market in Washington and for that reason, this conservative Republican, is hoping that Obama gets the nod. But 4 years from now...
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I feel the same as you, as I've always voted as an Indepedent until 2000 and I stupidly believed Bush's promise to be the "uniter of Washington". (Boy,did I get conned) Well, this time I'm voting for Obama!! And, I cannot BELIEVE how McCain is just using this woman from Alaska to help him w/the Hillary women voters (which WON'T work) AND to try to get back the Christian voters that he insulted & condemned back in 2000 when he was running then for President!! If people can't see through his manipulating of these groups of voters that he NEEDS to win the election, then I'm afraid we're in for another 4 yrs of the same type of government as GWBush. And another major issue that's been bothering me about McCain's pick for VP is the fact that he KNOWS he's had 2 bouts with Melanoma (the most deadly form of skin cancer than can kill a person in a few months) and the fact that he's 73 and he picks a woman that was a Mayor of a town about the size of Wildwood before being elected as Gov. of Alaska!! She could very conceivably be our President during the next 4 yrs if McCain died!!!!!!!!!!! Why isn't anyone bringing up her background AND EDUCATION???? I need to know more about her and McCain has said he's wants a VP that he knows and feels comfortable with, WELL, it's been stated that he's only met her ONCE!!!! And, we want him to be our next President??? What a PHONEY he is! As a country we should be asking MORE tough questions about this "potential" President (if McCain died). In the kind of world we live in NOW we don't need a woman as VP :
who boasts that her husband is a "snowmobiler champion"!!!! ???