I'm voting for Obama based on his stances on government openness, and his plan to provide monetary benefits to people who want to go to college. I recently finished my BA and I am in debt already, so I am hoping that Obama really does push for more aid to students. I also like his plans for using the internet and modernizing government technology ifrastructure.
Let me address this whole operating from a position of strength versus weakness mythology as it applies to Iraq. We already our and look weak just by being in Iraq! Why do you think Russia felt that they could roll over Georgia like they did all while the Georgian president begged America for help? The answer is they knew that America is in no position to marshal forces against them since we can barely pacify a country the size of California! Any smart person could look at our military situation and figure out that no matter how we leave Iraq we will have to be on a rebuilding footing for some time afterwards. In other words we are wide freaking open! The whole world understands this now especially after what Russia did. The only ones who don't get this are Americans, which is sad on every possible level.
What does Mccain do when this whole Georgian thing broke? He goes on the TV and starts talking real tough................In other words like a school yard bully he tried to appear tough; except to people even dimly aware of why Russia felt they could even do this to begin with he just looked like a fool who brought a broken and rusty knife to a gun fight. He's not fooling any world leaders with his talk about Russia. I would hope that the majority of Americans are not fooled by this empty tough talk on his part either. This whole mess also illustrates how much of a blunder the war in Iraq has turned out to be for America. The man who is likely to continue this administration's policies with little to no modification should not be counted on to allow America to conduct any international business from a position of "power" period.
I watch Mccain mock Obama when he suggests that we could save some fuel if we tuned our vehicles properly then marvel as he turns around three days later and say "It's a good idea." are you kidding me? The man took three days to figure out that properly tuned vehicles use less energy?!!
Before this election Mccain said that we needed to roll back the tax cuts, which makes sense since no one to my knowledge has ever cut taxes while at war. Now he says we need to keep them in order to stimulate growth. That just begs the question if the tax cuts have been in effect for about four years why is unemployment up to 6.1%? Why did we lose about 600, 000 jobs in August? How will making the tax cuts permanent stimulate growth if they have not done so in the past four or five years of the current administration?
Mccain keeps talking about his POW experience some forty years ago, basically telling us that he is more gangsta than the other guy. The funny thing is that he voted against the G.I. bill because it was too generous What the hell man. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4652517] He's no better than Bush when it comes to supporting the troops as it were. Bush and his boys go on and on about supporting the troops then go ahead and leave the wounded to lay in their own filth at Walter Reed................Way to support the troops guys.
I have to ask anyone with or who works with children who is going to vote for Mccain how much do you hate your charges?
Let's take a look at the "Drill baby, drill!" mantra. The oil we would get from any drilling will take about ten years to have any effect, and over the long term it won't lower the price of oil; the exact opposite will happen because oil is a finite resource. As the oil itself becomes more scarce there will be a tendency to fight over any territory that posseses affordably extractable oil. In other words it's a recipe for wars that will make Iraq look like a day in the park! Drilling now may lower prices in about a decade by about a dollar or two but by then we will have already gone well on our way to exhausting almost all of the readily extractable oil in the Earth!
You would have to hate your children and grand children to knowingly buy into the kind of thinking that says "drill baby drill." Or maybe you think that technology will fix everything in the future.......Guess what that's what the oil execs said fifty years ago, when they were told that oil was indeed finite and given projections on when it would run out. They figured that it would be another generation's problem. It's not as if there wasn't existing technology for using other types of fuel back then either; when the first diesel engine was demonstrated it ran on penut oil! In fact diesel engines have always been inherently capable of running on biofuels by virtue of their design. But what do you think happened we stuck with oil with no transition plan because it was cheaper at the time to just use oil just as it is cheaper to simply use oil based fuels now rather than invest in the R&D required to make alternatives efficient enough to be put to use given our current setup.
All of a sudden Mccain is pro wind power but according to this [http://www.newsweek.com/id/151492/page/2] newsweek article he hasn't exactly been a proponent of alternative energy tax credits in the past.
All of that is just part of why I am not voting for Mccain. It's also why no one else should vote for Mccain even if they do not want to vote for Obama (He's far from perfect I assure you. His health care plan for example probably isn't the best.) instead.
I am getting the same deal with the experience bit. I'm trying to hold out until after the election to go back to school if only to keep my student loans at bay for a while longer.
Let me address this whole operating from a position of strength versus weakness mythology as it applies to Iraq. We already our and look weak just by being in Iraq! Why do you think Russia felt that they could roll over Georgia like they did all while the Georgian president begged America for help? The answer is they knew that America is in no position to marshal forces against them since we can barely pacify a country the size of California! Any smart person could look at our military situation and figure out that no matter how we leave Iraq we will have to be on a rebuilding footing for some time afterwards. In other words we are wide freaking open! The whole world understands this now especially after what Russia did. The only ones who don't get this are Americans, which is sad on every possible level.
What does Mccain do when this whole Georgian thing broke? He goes on the TV and starts talking real tough................In other words like a school yard bully he tried to appear tough; except to people even dimly aware of why Russia felt they could even do this to begin with he just looked like a fool who brought a broken and rusty knife to a gun fight. He's not fooling any world leaders with his talk about Russia. I would hope that the majority of Americans are not fooled by this empty tough talk on his part either. This whole mess also illustrates how much of a blunder the war in Iraq has turned out to be for America. The man who is likely to continue this administration's policies with little to no modification should not be counted on to allow America to conduct any international business from a position of "power" period.
I watch Mccain mock Obama when he suggests that we could save some fuel if we tuned our vehicles properly then marvel as he turns around three days later and say "It's a good idea." are you kidding me? The man took three days to figure out that properly tuned vehicles use less energy?!!
Before this election Mccain said that we needed to roll back the tax cuts, which makes sense since no one to my knowledge has ever cut taxes while at war. Now he says we need to keep them in order to stimulate growth. That just begs the question if the tax cuts have been in effect for about four years why is unemployment up to 6.1%? Why did we lose about 600, 000 jobs in August? How will making the tax cuts permanent stimulate growth if they have not done so in the past four or five years of the current administration?
Mccain keeps talking about his POW experience some forty years ago, basically telling us that he is more gangsta than the other guy. The funny thing is that he voted against the G.I. bill because it was too generous What the hell man. [http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4652517] He's no better than Bush when it comes to supporting the troops as it were. Bush and his boys go on and on about supporting the troops then go ahead and leave the wounded to lay in their own filth at Walter Reed................Way to support the troops guys.
I have to ask anyone with or who works with children who is going to vote for Mccain how much do you hate your charges?
Let's take a look at the "Drill baby, drill!" mantra. The oil we would get from any drilling will take about ten years to have any effect, and over the long term it won't lower the price of oil; the exact opposite will happen because oil is a finite resource. As the oil itself becomes more scarce there will be a tendency to fight over any territory that posseses affordably extractable oil. In other words it's a recipe for wars that will make Iraq look like a day in the park! Drilling now may lower prices in about a decade by about a dollar or two but by then we will have already gone well on our way to exhausting almost all of the readily extractable oil in the Earth!
You would have to hate your children and grand children to knowingly buy into the kind of thinking that says "drill baby drill." Or maybe you think that technology will fix everything in the future.......Guess what that's what the oil execs said fifty years ago, when they were told that oil was indeed finite and given projections on when it would run out. They figured that it would be another generation's problem. It's not as if there wasn't existing technology for using other types of fuel back then either; when the first diesel engine was demonstrated it ran on penut oil! In fact diesel engines have always been inherently capable of running on biofuels by virtue of their design. But what do you think happened we stuck with oil with no transition plan because it was cheaper at the time to just use oil just as it is cheaper to simply use oil based fuels now rather than invest in the R&D required to make alternatives efficient enough to be put to use given our current setup.
All of a sudden Mccain is pro wind power but according to this [http://www.newsweek.com/id/151492/page/2] newsweek article he hasn't exactly been a proponent of alternative energy tax credits in the past.
All of that is just part of why I am not voting for Mccain. It's also why no one else should vote for Mccain even if they do not want to vote for Obama (He's far from perfect I assure you. His health care plan for example probably isn't the best.) instead.
