Election - One week

[kathih]

So I'm 32 years old and FINALLY registered to vote. Don't ask me why I finally did but I'm trying to grow up maybe??? So yeah, I registered as an Independent (because my birthday is Independence Day of course!). Ok not really but it sounded good right? I registered as an independent because I have NO IDEA what party I want to be in. The "religious

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[daniidebrabant]

This article covers the religious angle better than I think I ever could.

And why I voted (yay absentee ballots!) for Obama really comes down to this:

1. Sarah Palin's behavior in ignoring violent, racist, and truly hateful speech from her supporters, shouted clearly at her rallies, go unchallenged does not make me believe that she has the integrity to be a heartbeat away from the White House. In fact, it honestly terrifies me.

2. Sarah Palin's record in her previous duties (building a sports center instead of a sewage refinery like her constituents wanted, firing a man just because of a family relation) and in her personal affairs (billing the state of Alaska for personal trips, for nights spent at home, for her childrens wants and needs) does not show her to be a fiscal conservative or to have her priorities in order for her constituents.

3. McCain, to be perfectly honest, has not run a campaign which has been convincing, clean, or in any way honorable. When Karl Rove says that you've gone too far, you've gone too far

[newredshoes]

I voted for Obama because I want intelligence and conversation to be valued in government again. I voted for Obama because he wants to form an Artists Corps and promote the arts, and science, and learning, and because he's classy, and we desperately need someone who can help the United States regain the stature that we've lost in the past eight years.

I voted for Obama because he doesn't believe that some Americans are more American than others. I voted for Obama because the way McCain and Palin have run their campaign, and the vision of the United States they're selling, horrifies me to the very core. I voted for Obama because he picked Joe Biden as his vice president, which means he wants an equal partner who will challenge him and make him be a better president, not a yes-man. I voted for Obama because he knows poverty firsthand, because he was the eldest child of a single-parent home, and because he never, ever threw away any chance life handed him. I voted for Obama because he understands and values complexity, which is not a

[ppyajunebug]

Here from Ladybug as well

[draickinphoenix]

Hi! I'm yet another that wandered over from ladybug218's post, and after reading the comments there isn't a lot I can say that hasn't already been said by ladybug218 and kajivarHowever

[danamulder]

She's a strong, working mother of five. I still don't know how people think that's not being supportive of her own gender. She does it all, and she gets no support for it, at least not from the other side.

Being against infanticide is not bailing out on your gender, just for the record.

[tinylegacies]

Being against infanticide is not bailing out on your gender, just for the record.

You are being DELIBERATELY obtuse by continuing to insist that being pro-choice means someone is a baby-killer.

No one I know is pro-abortion. But women deserve the right to decide what they want to do with their own bodies - ESPECIALLY if they are raped. And Palin doesn't even want to give them that option. That, to me and many others, is an anti-woman attitude.

Please stop being inflammatory and insisting that people who believe in choice go around killing babies. It's simply untrue.

[draickinphoenix]

No one I know is pro-abortion. But women deserve the right to decide what they want to do with their own bodies - ESPECIALLY if they are raped. And Palin doesn't even want to give them that option. That, to me and many others, is an anti-woman attitude.

Thank you. You've said it better than I ever could.

[laliatk]

I was going to write up my own reply, but this one says it all for me.