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You only find Obama's positions agreeable, because he supports both sides of a situation.
http://www.bothwaysbarack.com/documentation.html
McCain is no different. Take a look at his stance on the Bush Tax Cuts, off-shore oil drilling, his "criticisms" of the Iraq war, and hell,
McCain is even trying to deny the FACT that he has been against MLK Day for a long, long time.
I'm not going to say that Obama has never changed his position on something, because quite clearly, he has. His mediation of his position on FISA was a bit disappointing, and now that he is using slightly different rhetoric against Iran, I'm a bit befuddled as well. But as far as that link there is concerned, these are already well-known issues with the mediation of his positions. Its something hes taken a lot of heat for already by far-left folks, and to be honest, I don't think there are many people in the middle who are completely happy either.
As for the underlined part, c'mon off it man. You claim you go to sleep crying after hearing McCain talk about economics? I must go to sleep cutting myself then after hearing Obama. Seriously bro, the candidate you're supporting doesn't sound like he ever passed a 12th grade Economics class.
You're forgetting that McCain has admitted openly that
he doesn't know anything about economics, so whats the difference? For that matter,
his economic adviser thinks we're a "nation of whiners" for believing that there is a recession on hand. Please. The Republicans are far more out of touch when it comes to economics than the Democrats are. When this is coming from someone who
IS a Republican, that's a problem.
Omnis
I can't believe you're upset with McCain without being equally as upset with Obama.
Lets put it this way at the very least, Obama has done a good job of not pressing my buttons. McCain is doing a damn-good job right now with his oil-drilling issue that he is trying to push (all while looking like an idiot, its a State's Rights issue and he knows it, Florida and California don't want to do it). I'll admit that Obama has been a bit too "secure" in his notion that he will likely win, and that is a bit of a put-off, particularly when you look at the political history of the country in a race like Truman v Dewey.
...But, there is still a while to go...
Danoff
Understandable? I wish I didn't
I think you could say both of their positions are understandable, politically speaking you have to. As for being
rational at the moment, I believe Obama has the upper hand. That of course depends on your politics and what you see fit at the moment.
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As for Republicans like myself "selling-out" and voting for Obama, here is an article from Salon.com
Robert Caron
Good evening, everyone.
Work and family issues have kept me away for the last seven weeks.
I work in the insurance industry in downtown Boston. People are staying off the roads in droves thanks to high energy prices and our business is down 40 percent from last year. Since my company has not chosen to diversify its geographic base and since I'm the newest employee in my department and both single and childless, I'm out of a job.
As you might imagine, I'm more than a little annoyed. (Thank God, I refinanced my mortgage before the rates climbed.) I left a stable, albeit lower paying, job early this year to take the position in Boston. I'm eligible for unemployment benefits, I got a decent severance package and my company has informed me I'm eligible for rehire.
In other words, you can officially mark me down as an Obamacon or Obamalican, or whatever you call those of us on the Republican side who are fed up with Bush and the current Republican Party and who will support the Democratic nominee this November.
While I admired Senator Obama's Clinton slaying prowess and respected his skills as an orator and politician, I had no serious plans to vote for him. But things have become worse in the last two months for both myself and the country as a whole.
Yeah, I don't agree with Barack Obama on the Iraq war or on 65-70 percent of his policy positions, but something's got to give. As much as I respect Senator McCain, he just doesn't get it.
John McCain's idiotic attacks on Obama's patriotism, taken together with his reversals of his previous (and admirable) positions on major issues (the Bush tax cuts, offshore drilling, etc.) and his willingness to associate with pond scum like Karl Rove and Company, have pushed me out of his camp. The John McCain of eight years ago is no more. The so called "Maverick" is an establishment tool who, if elected, will owe plenty of favors to the kind of corporatists and party hacks -- the defense industry, the oil companies, [poop]heads like King Karl -- who've helped make such a mess of things in the last seven and a half years.
We, the Republican Party, are not worthy and do not deserve another four years. Under President Bush we've betrayed every principle we've stood for as a national party -- fiscal responsibility and discipline, limited government and a foreign policy guided by realism and coalition building.
Competence and integrity have no ideology. Obama in '08.
I'm seeing a lot of the same stuff happening here in "conservative central" Grand Rapids, MI. Its not about you, its about the country. Also, punishing the party for the idiots we've all been in the past eight years.
