Politics 2008:The Caucuses and The Dem/Rep Conventions

AKA2D '91 · #1 01-30-2008, 10:12 AM

Edwards to drop out?

This is going to make the race for the Demo nod very interesting.

mccoyred · #2 01-30-2008, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AKA2D '91

Edwards to drop out?

This is going to make the race for the Demo nod very interesting.

Frankly, I think that he will end up as the running mate of the eventual winner. They both need someone like him - young, white, male, southern. Why not choose a familiar face?

AKA2D '91 · #3 01-30-2008, 11:18 AM

True, but although, I still don't have a candidate, I thought he would have stuck it out.

For those of you who still don't have a candidate, this may help you to choose...

http://www.votechooser.com/

SummerChild · #4 01-31-2008, 11:51 AM

I've had my candidate for awhile. Barack Obama all the way!
I think that he's smart, got a good vision, is a straight talker (not the typical equivocating and lying politician) whose not afraid to stand up for what he believes in.

Heck, he has been against the Iraq war and was outwardly opposing it from his positions in IL before we even went to war.

Hillary, on the other hand (and Edwards too for that matter), thought it appropriate for us to go to war. I questioned her judgment then and I question it now. Besides, she gives me the impression of someone who will change her tune just to get votes and I don't trust her. Heck, she's already co-opting Barack Obama's change message after he won in Iowa. Then she somehow all of a sudden for the first time ever started to cry in NH before the big race where women were predicted to turn out in droves. I just don't trust her.

Further, I think that there is something to a politics of change that Barack Obama is putting forth and I think that we need someone who is not afraid to go against what has been the status quo in Washington and someone who is relatively young but smart enought to make the change happen. I'm tired of old politicians who are so tied to lobbyists that they can't do anything - I think that Hillary Clinton may fit into that category - heck, look at all of the money her husband gets from "philanthropists" each year for his "foundation." They have literally become **millionaires**. I just don't believe that she won't have her hands tied a little with all of her ties to her and her husband's friends. Here is one article just from today where her husband received 31 million from a friend for his foundation - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22926743.

I'm tired and ready for a change. If we could trust the country to a babbling, egotistical fool who couldn't spell, think long-term and who, whenever anything happened in the country (Sept. 11th included), wasn't even in D.C., he was out on the ranch in TX taking a vacation, I think that we can trust the country to a smart, straight shooting man with good ideas and a plan who is not afraid to take positions that may be, in some cases, somewhat revolutionary.

I.am.ready.for.a.change. I'm going with Barack all the way.

SC