I appreciate John McCain for sticking to an overall positive campaign and not going for the low blows we’ve seen in previous years. I hope both sides can stick to it.
I also like McCain’s humor, and he’s obviously a man of good character and considerable bravery.
I like that Obama is not sucking up to the likes of Jackson and Sharpton. Their time has passed and Obama knows it. I’ll still vote republican maybe, shit I don’t know yet.
I forgot to say something nice. Obama seems like a reallly nice guy.
I love you, Mom.
Kang is a perfectly cromulent space monster.
Thanks, Paultard 9/11 tinhatters, for providing me with lots of laughs and hours of entertainment at the expense of your stupidity.
I really like McCain’s proposal of offering free or low cost “continuing education” to adult Americans through community colleges and other facilities. This is a much needed thing that I’ve long hoped will happen (especially courses for computer literacy for the tens of millions of Americans who grew up without computers in the homes or in the schools desperately need this- I see them in college sometimes and it’s pitiful [and many are embarassed to ask for help]). It’s a program that I hope Obama will launch if elected.
And generally I think he’s a decent guy compared to most politicians. I don’t think he’s anywhere near as bad as Cheney/Bush or with the ultra Christian Right nutjobs like Huckabee (who had me terrified for a moment before he petered out).
In my home state, thank you Republican governor Riley for proposing increased property taxes (AL property taxes are ridiculously low) to help schools and continuing to champion them even after the outcry. (Measure was soundly stomped and schools here continue to be on par with those in Sally Struthers countries.)
This program was “launched” back in the '50s and '60s and Republicans have been sabotaging and eroding it ever since. The college I attend was free until the early 1980s.
Republican campaigns usually seem more tight and invulnerable, compared to Democrats. Republicans run much stronger campaigns.
Republicans also seem much more focused and united than my party. Whatever problems McCain had uniting his party pale in comparison to the Hillary/Obama debacle.
As a Democrat, I would like to take this opportunity to absolve Ralph Nader concerning the 2000 election. It was not Ralph’s fault Bush was elected. Nader was an innocent bystander, really, speaking the truth as he saw it. The blame for Bush’s election rests with Gore and his inept campaign, (including President Clinton), and with Bush, Rove, Jim Baker, Rhenquist, Scalia, Katherine Harris, et al.
Nader’s main point during the campaign was that there was no real difference between Gore and Bush, in that both were suckups to the large corporations that contributed to their campaigns. In hindsight Nader was wrong of course. President Gore’s administration would have been quite different from how Bush’s turned out to be, however, hindsight is 20/20. Nader was clearly not at fault for Gore’s loss and Bush’s election.
Obama is very clean.
OK - I believe Obama means well, and he has not run a particularly negative campaign, at least so far. He’s a very good speaker, and while I don’t agree with most of his positions, I believe they are honestly held.
Regards,
Shodan
I think McCain is fundamentally a good man, and I wouldn’t mind a McCain presidency for that reason. I can respect him as a person. I also thought Bob Dole was a good man. I’d be happy to have dinner with either of them.
This is true. Much as I like Obama and want him to win, I’m not going to be physically ill if McCain wins like I was when Bush got re-elected in 2004.
One of my new year’s resolutions was to not stress out over the elections this year, and with these two running I won’t have to.