the human abstract said:

love2shpongleIRL said:

In my opinion, the goal of writing in candidates is not to win, it is to delegitmize the two prominate parties. To show washington we are collectivley tired of their bullshit. In my opinion, things would be no different under McCain, the only difference would be in rhetoric.

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Things would be different.  I could tell a black dude to "Keep the change."

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love2shpongleIRL said:

In my opinion, there are so many problems and cost with Obama's health care bill,  that it is not worth it. I am glad that some folks who did not have insurance before are now elligible, but there are better ways to go about providing that. For example, vouchers for private care.

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Lynnch said:

Only idiots thought he was going to be a miracle worker.
I voted for him because he could speak fucking english. As far as figure heads go I think he's done alright, the rest of the world more or less takes us seriously again.

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The world was relieved when McCain wasn't elected,

love2shpongleIRL said:

If not, I will either write in Johnson, or find someone else who is even closer to my views.

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dont write in a candidate that isnt on the ballot, if 10 million voters did
that in the last election for ron paul that's 10million 'wasted' votes
because the votes for mickey mouse and ron paul are not counted. the votes
for registered, qualifying candidates are so voting Ron Paul would yield
nothing while voting Cynthia McKinney would give her a vote because she
qualified under the green party

Lynnch said:

Only idiots thought he was going to be a miracle worker.
I voted for him because he could speak fucking english. As far as figure heads go I think he's done alright, the rest of the world more or less takes us seriously again.
The country is putting itself back together, slowly, instead of rapidly destroying itself.

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ifoundwaldo said:

love2shpongleIRL said:

In my opinion, there are so many problems and cost with Obama's health care bill,  that it is not worth it. I am glad that some folks who did not have insurance before are now elligible, but there are better ways to go about providing that. For example, vouchers for private care.

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Right. But you weren't asking only for policy changes that YOU support. Also, the change in question is very UNLIKE bush.

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I think Obama did good on the health bill. The government has been letting the health companies run wild on people and something had to be done. The bill came out a pale shadow of its intended self, but it actually got through. This makes him nothing less than a miracle worker by presidential standards.

The idea that Obama's running the show the same way McCain would is just .

Prisoner#1 said:

voting Cynthia McKinney would give her a vote because she
qualified under the green party

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love2shpongleIRL said:

Bailouts, wars, telling congress to go fuck themselves, etc. In my opinion, I see quite a few similarites. Obama seems like a nicer guy than Bush, but when it comes to policy, almost nothing has changed. Yeah, there are some differences,but as a whole they really are not all that different.

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Tchan909 said:

I think Obama did good on the health bill.

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The government has been letting the health companies run wild on people and something had to be done.

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The bill came out a pale shadow of its intended self, but it actually got through. This makes him nothing less than a miracle worker by presidential standards.

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MelloRed said:

I do hope the youth out there that were all giddy over him in 2008 learn a lesson from this.  I don't regret the vote because he's still better than McCain.  The worse of two evils is the best we're going to get.  Writing in a person is a waste of gas and time unless there's a chance millions of others will do the same and that's not likely to happen.  We'll continue to get our worthless candidates from both of the parties unless some rich person funds his entire campaign similar to Perot in 92.

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Sorry, here we vote by mail, no waste of gas and precious resources. I will not vote for who i don't beleive in. I felt McCain and Obama where truly just a choice of political parties. Both equally a waist of time to vote for.

POTUS can't change that much in such a short time. One promised to much and was a wow factor and the other.... I still don't know how he became the republican choice. Which leads me to beleive.....

Tchan909 said:

Bailouts - not really his say, there was no way he could have talked congress out of bailouts. Which leads me to...

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