Comments | levendus: Why I won't be voting for Obama.

levendus

Why I won't be voting for Obama.

Nov 01, 2008 22:54

Last week, I shocked a friend of mine on facebook when stated in my ( Read more... )

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thefriediceman November 4 2008, 03:49:29 UTC

First of all, this is refreshing - calm, reasoned talk about why someone prefers a candidate. I may not agree with everything you said, but I completely respect how you said it ( ... )

thefriediceman November 4 2008, 03:57:35 UTC

One more thing that wouldn't fit in LJ's character limit. Aside from the reasons stated above, I believe that Obama's foreign policy ideas are more sound than McCain's, particularly regarding Iraq. Despite the questionable decisions made during the invasion of Iraq, our young men and women have fought well and sacrificed much. The best way to honor their sacrifice is to bring them home safely, as quickly as reasonably possible.

These are my arguments as well as I can present them. It's good to have a calm and reasonable discussion of ideas.

If you don't beleive me and levendus, believe Orson Scott Card... gazingatthesea November 4 2008, 04:25:11 UTC

http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2008-10-26-1.html... )

Re: If you don't beleive me and levendus, believe Orson Scott Card... thefriediceman November 4 2008, 05:12:20 UTC

Well, we haven't seen someone like Obama running for president as a major party's nominee before. Yes, of course Powell, Rice, and others have represented America abroad in the past ( ... )

Re: If you don't beleive me and levendus, believe Orson Scott Card... thefriediceman November 4 2008, 11:56:04 UTC

"Well, we haven't seen someone like Obama running for president as a major party's nominee before."-so? why does that give him the right to use his race to guilt people into voting for him? I would think I would be offended (and you, too) if someone in a different position (Sarah Palin perhaps Palin in 16'...clearly this was written in the morning of nov 4 if that makes no sense...) but say she did run for President and said, whne someone criticized her, or rather before someone did, that well people are going to criticize me for being a Christian, you just wait and see...and thne someone says well what do you think of this...oh look there they go criticizing me...bigoted left coast liberals, that's how they are dontyaknow...anyway this country needs change and I'm going to give it to them...we don't need what we had the last 8 years...no notice she sad nothing, but that's what Obama does all the time...uses race (someone else could use religion, for instance) to deflect criticism...do you think that is a good thing, or acceptable... ( ... )

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