If I get another e-mail...
Offline ...about how Barack Obama must somehow be either A) a terrorist sympathizer or B) somehow related to Saddam Hussein (since his middle name is Hussein) or C) somehow related to Osama bin Laden, because "Osama" sounds like "Obama", I'm going to have to go on a little jihad of my own.
Have you seen these e-mails? Damn, do they piss me off. It saddens me how people so willingly forward them to EVERYONE in their bloody address books without checking a SINGLE fact.
Does anyone here, especially theists, really think that Barack Obama is a terrorist sympathizer? And everyone knows his mother was white, yes? So it's not like he waltzed out of the mountains of Afghanistan to become a U.S. senator.
Gaaaah!
The stupidity of the many outweighs the intelligence of the few.
Nobody I know was brainwashed into being an atheist.
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He's a politician during election what do you expect? If the dirt isn't good enough they just make shit up.
On a lighter note:
Cool vid Cpt, I always wanted Hillary in my bed ! Wild Brains !
I hope Obama wins, yicks that talented McCain. Hillary for vise pres would insure a dem win. Hillary does Obama ..... leaves Bill ! WILD Sex at the White House ! Read all about it ....
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No, but I'm still not voting for him.
Why not? (Jmm)
You know, I don't get into politics very much on here, but this does beg the question: Knowing that McCain voted Bush's party line on virtually all votes, do you really believe he's interested in anything other than continuing the status quo?
Do you intend to vote for McCain, or a third party, or abstain?
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Sorry, but I have been itching to post this: http://begthequestion.info/cards/btq-card-sheet.pdf
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
I have to go to work soon, so I'm not going to get too in-depth at the moment, but:
I've avoided the two-party game in both presidential elections I've been eligible for. I voted for Nader in 2000 and Badnarik in 2004. I told myself that this year would be the year I stopped voting 3rd party (for reasons I won't go into right now), but McCain and Obama make it really hard. I'm registered with the Libertarian party, but Bob Barr is frighteningly conservative--even more so than McCain, who, to be fair, really isn't that conservative by Reagan standards.
In short, I'll probably just sit this one out, unless I stumble upon another 3rd party candidate that interests me.
Shit. This is a bad attitude, theist or not. What we don't need right now is more apathy from the 18-35 demographic.
I voted 3rd party in the first 3 elections I was eligible for - Perot in '92 & '96, Nader in 2000. That is, of course, when our electoral system went to hell in a handbasket. After that election I vowed never again to vote 3rd party.
Nobody I know was brainwashed into being an atheist.
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Yep, voting 3rd party is a bad idea as the system presently is. Fix the stupid voting system. The liberal majority ended up with Bush instead of Gore for this very reason.
Talking about leaders .... this is worth seeing. I might re-post this elsewhere later.
"Power of Nightmares" - 3 hrs start at part one,
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=power+of+nightmeres&hl=en&sitesearch=#
OR, in many small sections,
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=power+of+nightmares&search_type=
BTW, The current FCC is the enemy of the people .....
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I should have learned my lesson after the 2000 debacle, but I still had a bit of lingering idealism when 2004 rolled around. I mean, I guess to a certain extent we're all hoping for an ideal candidate to emerge every 4 years, but that's just now how things work.
McCain talks a (relatively) liberal talk, but walks a Bush-conservative walk. He's also a stick-to-the-guns-at-all-costs type of guy like Bush, but I've never been impressed with that type of numb-nutted "resolve", or whatever the conservative rhetoric machine is calling it these days.
As for Obama, his stance runs counter to almost everything I believe in concerning the size of the government--I mean, of course I would love for health care to be at least cheap and available to everyone, but I just don't think you can take one of (if not the) biggest privatized industry in the country and successfully turn it into a government program even in 8 years, let alone 4. It just sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
As for the main 2 issues that guide the votes of most Christians--gay rights and abortion--they don't concern me much. I support same-sex marriage and gay rights 100%. The only thing that gets under my skin is Obama's support of partial-birth abortion, but that's admittedly just a knee-jerk reaction, and I know that people are generally going to do as they see fit, law or not.
I really wish I could get behind either McCain or Obama, but I just can't at this point. I've got 5 more months of political homework to do though, so you never know.