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Inkpen
Guest
if you disliked both McCain and Obama?
Who would be your choice an why?
Who would be your choice an why?
This_person
Well-Known Member
I dislike them both, and I'm voting for McCain.
Voting for anyone else is sending the message "I feel my vote doesn't count" - because no one else has a shot to win, or even have a seat at the table like Perot did. So, if I voted for anyone else, I'd have to vote for somebody who also doesn't agree with me 100% that I know won't be elected president.
I have to fight the battle before me, not the one I want to fight. I pick the one of the two that I disagree with least, to make my vote relevant to the election.
PsyOps
Pixelated
Daffy Du... errrr... I mean Ron Paul.
RareBreed
Throwing the deuces
aps45819
24/7 Single Dad
At least we know where he was born, who his friends are and that he is willing to serve his country instead of himself.
Not so. My vote counts to me. Maybe if I didn't live in MD I might consider voting along party lines. There is very little I can feel good about McCain other than he's not Obama. Do I like Sarah Palin? You betcha!
But she won't be president and McCain will still be a lefty RINO. Putting icing on a turd doesn't make it any more appetizing.I do think McCain will win but the American public still loses.
This_person
Well-Known Member
I hope you're right on this, and I agree we lose either way.
We lose by a lot less with McCain, but he's not the best choice. Just the best choice of those who have a chance
theArtistFormerlyKnownAs
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This_person
Well-Known Member
The BC thing does not reflect how he would lead, so I agree to stay away from that for the purposes of comparison.
Ayers/Wright/Rezko/Davis issues do relect the mindset of the potential leader, so they are worthwhile subjects upon which to compare and contrast the two.
All that aside, the basic difference between the two is pretty clear. While McCain is pretty non-conservative for a conservative, he's not as left as Obama.
When it comes to something as socialistic as their health care issues, for example, they're both very wrong for suggesting that I pay for someone else's health care. However, the details of their proposals tell us how they think. McCain says everybody gets a certain dollar amount in tax incentive, or can use that amount in a health care savings fund - however they see fit. Obama says you will have insurance or be fined, and you will be "allowed" to choose your doctor. One is help, the other is a government controlled mandated system.
When it comes to earmarks, decades in the legislature have left McCain with exactly zero dollars in taking bribe money to pass someone else's legislation, and Obama has demanded nearly a BBBBBBillion dollars. That's a pretty huge distinction between them. Again, earmarks are not the sole problem with our deficit, but taking or not taking them tells me something about how each man thinks.
When it comes to choosing a running mate, Obama went with a decades-long DC insider best known for being in the pocket of financial institutions, for plagerism, and for losing presidential campaigns (not to mention his horrifically disrespectful treatment of judicial nominees). McCain pandered to his base, but did so by choosing someone with executive experience and known within the Republican world as a "reformer", not a party-patsy like Obama has been himself.
There are a lot of differences. The similarities are shallow, but the depths are far apart. The worst (by far, and it's not insignificant in any way) of the similarities is this bailout fiasco. They are both very, very, very wrong.
