To be honest, I'm not truly fond of Obama/Biden either but seeing as no 3rd Party candidate (the ones NOT funded by the corporations and banks that can't make good decisions at all) will have a chance for awhile at being a contender.
Are you placing a bet or voting for the person that represents you?
Take a look around this thread, you will see that a number of us are voting for 3rd party candidates despite knowing they won't win. The thing is that as long as people think like you no 3rd party candidate will ever be a contender. I know plenty of people who actually like a 3rd party candidate more than the two main guys, but they say that they are more afraid of either Obama or McCain actually getting into office and want to prevent that. Imagine if every voter who wasn't happy with either party actually did vote for a 3rd party. Sure they wouldn't win, but they would gain the number of votes necessary to grant them all the same access the two main parties have so that next time around they will be a contender.
I tell you this seeing that you cannot vote this year, so it is not as if I am trying to sway your vote, tell you that you are wrong, or call you dumb. I tell you then in hopes that when you are able to vote that you will look at that idea and perhaps begin to see it as I and others here do. Then when you have friends and acquaintances that have similar comments you may be able to make them see it that way as well. The faster that kind of thinking spreads among unhappy voters the quicker we can fix this system.
I look forward to the day when a change has to be made because a third-party candidate took enough electoral votes to prevent either of the two main parties from winning. I hope to see that in my lifetime, and as long as these two parties act like one man changing hats I will work toward that.
I don't care who you vote for, as long as you have a reason for doing so that you agree with.
The problem is that the reason he gave was fairly weak on substance, so it ring hollow and, by this time, old.
I didn't really think Picc's reason was dumb, we've had eight years of the Republicans and our country is in pretty bad shape so why not trying something else?
Because if you switch from one party to the other, based on what the current guy did you will be going back and forth forever. Democrats are leading Congress and none of the promises to change things that they all made to get there have even been attempted. Issues under Clinton's administration are often blamed on the Republican Congress by Democrats, why not accuse the Democratic Congress under Bush of, at a minimum, not even trying to fix the problems, and at a maximum, of helping create the problems.
I mean, Obama has been in the Senate since 2005 and he has not proposed anything, aside from talk, to actually try solving any of these problems. In his time as part of the Federal Government he has done nothing to show that he is actually trying to come up with a solution. And if you aren't a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.
So no, dumb is not a term I would use for his position, but uninformed is.
Just remember guys, "The lesser of two evils is still evil."
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