Did that as soon as the polls
opened, 11 hours ago.
All the rest of you, I hope you have done so as well, please!
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Did that as soon as the polls
opened, 11 hours ago.
All the rest of you, I hope you have done so as well, please!
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
The best part is now all those
annoying TV ads, phone calls, and door flyers WILL GO AWAY after today...
Hmmm... an idea. If there was some way
to tie in "early voting" to having all that go away immediately after you voted... We'd probably have 100% turnout
the first day early voting was offered...
But then again I always like to wait till the official day just in
case I change my mind... if I've managed to make my mind up by then that is. The poll workers get annoyed at me
with all that coin flipping I do in the voting booth...
The opposite of love isn't hate.
It's apathy.
This year I used a new policy.
Anybody I got a robo-call from was voted against. And, as always, anything that increased taxes, debt or government
power got voted against.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
We have 100% mail-in/drop-off
balloting here in Oregon now. I always wait until the very last second, which is always a hoot as a crowd gathers
around the drop-off box minutes before the shut it down.
So, who was it said Obama was "unelectable" anyway?
:-)
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha
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Fair Trade crafts from Peru
Joe the Dog Catcher could have beat McCain, lol
There is a cure for electile dysfuntion!!!!
I'll say this about the Bush
administration. Our county had a 73.64% voter turnout. I think people were annoyed...
The opposite of love isn't hate.
It's apathy.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha
Yoga in Eugene
Fair Trade crafts from Peru
But you have to consider that
just about every election in this country comes down to a choice between the "lesser of the evils." To you, Obama
may have seen "unelectable," but when paired against someone even more unelectable... (or, in this case, represents
a party that faced a very major uphill battle).
McCain IMO is indeed probably better qualified to be Presidient,
but at least for me, the philosophy of the Republican party and it's attempts to dismantle the 1st Ammendment
(especially concerning freedom from/of religion) forced me to go for a Democratic Party Executive branch this time
around (primary concern is Supreme Court nominations). But I also supported our Republican Senators and
Representatives as a check and balance.
We've had good Presidents and disasterous Presidents, but so far we are
still here...
I remember comments that the world was about to end when JFK was elected... (We'll be ruled by
the Pope!)
Didn't happen.
Could be worse.
PS: We had something like 24 cadididates for President
nationwide, including in some states a "none of the above" option. Not all candidates made it on all the state's
ballots.
Pity poor Bradford Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party who got a whopping 98 votes *nationwide.*
http://news.aol.com/elections/2008/p...emplate_test.M
The opposite of love isn't hate.
It's apathy.
Very good points Rbt, and I'll both agree and
disagree.
I suppose we can count on America's strength and resiliency to see us through a bad President, maybe
even a very bad one.
OTOH Obama is pretty questionable in terms of character, experience and ideology. We'll
see how "moderate" his self-claims turn out to be. I'm very suspicious. One of my fears is that he'll actually
DO some of the things he's said he'll do. His tax plan, for example, would be ruinous.
98 votes?!? Even Belgareth got more than that!
I can't disagree there. I too feel he's not quite up to
snuff. Fortunately no one man can do it alone, either in terms of running the country or ruining the country. It
will be a combination of the rest of the staff in the Executive Branch, as well as getting through the Legislative
Branch as well. Again, fortunately, there were enough Republican hold-ons and victories to keep a reign on things
going through Congress. Plus even then programs need to be implimented. It could take years before anything actually
happens. Witness how well things are going in Louisiana with the Katrina clean up.
As usual, I just make sure I
cover my ass as well as I can DESPITE Washington DC. So far so good. Just need to stay adaptable (and have places to
hide).
The opposite of love isn't hate.
It's apathy.
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