McCain can travel where he likes.

These are the most stupid, idiotic people I have ever seen in my entire life. They are brain dead, extremists, and they have humiliated the American people, and they deserve to be thrown out, I don't care if Mickey Mouse is running.

candoxx:

McCain can travel where he likes.

These are the most stupid, idiotic people I have ever seen in my entire life. They are brain dead, extremists, and they have humiliated the American people, and they deserve to be thrown out, I don't care if Mickey Mouse is running.

Interesting. I'm an independent who usually votes Republican. I voted D for the first time in 2006, thinking they'd stop the war. They didn't. I will never vote Democrat again.

I was a registered R, happy to have voted my first time for Reagan's second term in office, even though the first time around, I though GWH Bush was the better man (I was only 16 at the time, couldn't vote yet). But for Bush I's second term, I couldn't see voting for him, and voted for Perot, twice (not in the same year of course). But then, in 2000, when the Rs picked a spoiled rotten dumb frat boy over McCain, I had had it, and for the first time changed my registration and voted Democratic. After the congressional republicans rolled over to vote for anything, anything! the idiot boy wanted, I realized I could never ever respect or vote for someone affiliated with that party again. Ever. In the unlikely chance that the better candidate is a Repub, I will just not vote in that race.

I hear you guys. People on both sides are pretty fed up. When Pelosi took impeachment off the table I was disgusted as it doesn't appear as though she had the political savvy to make sure Bush knew it would be back on the table if he didn't behave.

Still, I'm not sure the resulting chaos that would have resulted if we'd simply walked away from Iraq would have yielded good results in the long term. I agree that an incremental approach is the way to go. The ideal thing would have been to focus on Afghanistan and the root causes of terrorism in the first place instead of using it all as an excuse to follow historically negligent Neo Con theory.

I believe that the root causes of this mess are a lack of transparency in regards to motives on the part of our elected administration as well as an overindulgence of special interests and cynicism disguised as "practical politicking" of both the system and the people that it's supposed to represent.

Obama may be relatively unknown on the national scene and McCain may have stumbled on his post-Keating Five shame-inspired ethics a few times but I do believe both recognize that these issues are priorities. I would urge you guys to consider that the landscape is changing. We've got to get over this national malaise problem.

We've got to acknowledge that both parties have been pandering far too much to the extremes and that our candidates need to start representing ideas to be debated rather than images and spin that a bunch PR marketing hacks think will win over voters. Most importantly we need the national dialog to return. We've been throwing rotten tomatoes at each other over a wall that's too high to even see the other guy for far too long and I think the internet is finally putting some holes in it.

Conservatism and Liberalism work best when they force compromise and that happens when moderates are respected as being reasonable rather than being chastised for failing to commit to principles that are framed as being morally right or wrong to get people to stay on their sides of the party line when they're really just ideas for how to get things done.

We need skeptics of excess change to keep us from leaping before we look just as much as we need people to drag those skeptics kicking and screaming in the general direction of progress.

Most of all we need to start seeing each other as fellow Americans again.

That's why I support Obama and don't think McCaine would be such a horrible candidate.

I voted for Ron Paul. He is the way Republicans USED TO BE before the neocons took over the party! Try to vote for the best candidate running for the job. Sometimes that's the Democrat, other times it would be the Republican. Other than Ron Paul, I don't see much that's encouraging to vote for. It looks like it will be a 'big spending neocon' vs a 'big spending nanny-stater' running. Government has gotten way too big for it's own good. Ron Paul is the only candidate that's intelligent enough to have noticed this problem. The rest seem intent on making it worse than it already is. Many of us don't want for healthcare insurance to be 'mandatory' so that leaves Hillary out. Obama loses points for lack of judgement attending a church with such as Reverend Wright preaching his 'anti-America' rants. You can be sure the neocons won't let that slide! They'd smeared Paul because a 'white supremacist' allegedly contributed to his campaign & wanted their money back! Turned out to be some Jewish guy who wanted to get a neocon elected... Those neocons won't be running a decent campaign against the eventual Democrat nominee. Thought Democrats should get some warning about this situation.

Obama argued eloquently against the PATRIOT Act and voted for it. He denies being a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and conveniently fails to mention that his wife Michelle is.

McCain, meanwhile, violates the McCain-Feingold law. Not just above the law, above his own law. In the process, he commits fraud by taking a bank loan using collateral he doesn't have and doesn't get. Keating Five type ethics a thing of his past? Apparently not.

The lesser of evils is the same old evil. No solutions here--none at all.

If we don't get ourselves out of this rut and start voting for candidates of integrity, we won't have a republic left to save. Will we?

I don't like to say "never", but the last time I was happy with the republican party was when Fred Thompson gave the republican rebuttal to Clinton's state of the union address. This was right after gaining control of both houses during the so-called republican revolution. Anyone remember that? And what did they accomplish with their majority? Its been all downhill since then. Even with a republican president, from 2000 up until '06, they have behaved almost the same as dems--larger, bigger government, no border control, run away spending, stupid McCain/Feingold, I could go on and on.

I fail to see a meaningful difference between McCain/Obama/Hillary. Its all more of the same, and it disgusts me.

End Rant.

bobills:

I fail to see a meaningful difference between McCain/Obama/Hillary. Its all more of the same, and it disgusts me.

There is no "lesser" of these evils. Never thought I'd be quoting Nancy Reagan, but I say clear your head and just say no.