On Dec 19, 2007 5:37 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was basically a one-issue voter in 2004. I'm not totally a one-issue voter > now, though Iraq and Afghanistan remain the biggest issues for me.
Not the economy or education or crime? Shit, those are the things that keep me awake - I don't give a stuff about Iraq or Afghanistan (other that the huge amount of money the Shrub and his cronies are pissing away out there, ruining the economy). > No way in hell am I voting for Hillary Clinton or Mike Huckabee. Clinton is certainly annoying and seems very manipulative - the consummate politician. Huckabee is a right-wing fundamentalist Christian so I'm terrified of him (we've had enough right-wing fundamentalism with the current corrupt administration). > Romney rubs me the wrong way sometimes, but he isn't blacklisted yet. Another right-wing religious nut. After Huckabee took pot-shots at him, he's trying to be even more self-righteous than before over-stating his anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage position! > If the election were held today and all the major candidates were running, I > would vote for McCain. He's flip-flopped on so many issues. He used to be a refreshingly independent Republican but now he just toes the party line on everything. I just don't trust him - he has no principles and no spine. About the only Republican I'd consider is Guiliani because he's moderate - but he sure is a slimy s.o.b. > I states awhile ago that I could see myself voting for Obama under the right > circumstances, and I think that still holds. He's expressed too much "God" for me to be entirely comfortable with him but right now I think I agree with you that he is probably the best of a pretty rum bunch :( > On the last count, and I feel like this could be a very significant factor > in 2008, is that Obama would be the first President born during the Civil > Rights era and raised in the age of globalization and mass computerization. > He was in his 20's when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. > His candidancy represents a changing of the guard from the Baby Boomers to > Gen X. That's a big deal. Agreed on all of that. But is middle-America ready for a black president? Are they ready for a woman president? That worries me and I can see Obama losing votes out of "fear of a black planet" because a lot of middle-America is still terrifyingly racist :( -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:248907 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
