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Voting is a civic right but do we have competent candidates to vote for?

posted by adventurer02 on October 7, 2015 at 12:03 AM | link to this | reply

Re: My Absentee Ballot went out this weekend...

New Yorker, this is such a travesty. One young man was interviewed today in Ohio and he had registered 73 times under pressure from Acorn to help them keep their jobs and make some money. Now if that doesn't prove my point of ignorant voters. The young man said if I had known it was wrong I would not have done it. He has no clue what is going on.

posted by Justi on October 13, 2008 at 5:05 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Obama is honest

Inkdancing I appreciate your comment and your loyalty to what you believe but I fear the cause you follow is not the case. I too am from the bottom half. I was a single mom with three children, I know what it is like to be poor. Socialism only hurts the whole economy. I never took one cent of welfare or food stamps but I worked as many as three jobs at once a few times. It is the wealthy that made it possible for me to have the jobs in order to feed my children. One who relies on the government to care for them is owned by the government and forever it's slave.

I guess you are not old enough to remember the USSR and how people wanted to get away from those they were with even with athletes etc would come here so they could be free.

There is no evidence Obama made any positive difference in Chicago and none in the Congress. If he is elected it is my honest belief that this country will never be free again. Thank you for your comment.

posted by Justi on October 13, 2008 at 5:02 PM | link to this | reply

My Absentee Ballot went out this weekend...

I wonder how it's gonna look when a registered Dem (at least until January, 2009, when the change of party affiliation takes effect) votes straight-ticket GOP. Not that it will matter in my voting district, anyway. I have to ask the ACORN people if I can still register my dead grandparents, my dog, and the stray cats that live on my street (the cats don't speak English, but ACORN is equal-opportunity, or so I've heard).

posted by NewYorker_in_Sicily on October 13, 2008 at 3:17 PM | link to this | reply

Obama is honest

He has outlined his life, all very verifiable.

Acorn... I've worked for organizations like that one. They come into a community, higher people, you know just ordinary people, to collect signatures or register people to vote. This helps the people hired who might have few other job prospects and helps the political process. The down side to it is that people are not always honest and good. Sometimes it's easier to fake work turn in something that's under quota. I'm sure we all wish for everyone to be honest and heroic. We might as well wish to be another species. People trying to keep a job and feed their kids will fudge things.

It's not always possible for managers to sort that out in the field. That's why we have fail safes, second line checks. The system is doing it's job. It's not fair to call someone an idiot if their spell checker does it's job and catches miss spelled words.

and the other side is not completely without glass windows to throw stones at. How about posting flyers threaten people with arrest if they show up to vote and have outstanding warrants or traffic tickets? That's not honest either.

Obama came from a moderate family that struggled to give him what he's got. He worked hard in school and when he graduated with a strong degree he went to work helping poor people. He has told us what he's done, what he'll do, and why.

His opposition has called him a muslin (so much for education), a Muslim, an Arab, a terrorist, and the Anti-christ. If they had legitimate concerns about him or his background they'd bring them. Confronted with his hysterical audience, even John McCain said that Obama was a good man, a family man, whom he respected and admired and that he just has ideological differences with him. Mr. McCain has served admirably in his life, but he comes from wealth and he has no real understanding of what it takes to struggle in the bottom half. So lacking that understanding, he has no plan or concern for us. He's basically offering us cake because we have no bread. His only real chance of winning is to cause fear and distrust, to create rage and hysteria.

Obama has done nothing genuine to deserve distrust. McCain nears the end of when he can hope to achieve the pinacle of the presidency and he is desparate to do so. It is a sad fact that not all of our dreams will be achieved, but with Obama more of us will have a better shot at some dreams rather than none.

posted by inkdancing on October 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM | link to this | reply

Re: LOOKS LIKE MORE THAN HALF THE VOTERS ARE FOR OBAMA

posted by Justi on October 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM | link to this | reply

LOOKS LIKE MORE THAN HALF THE VOTERS ARE FOR OBAMA

they aren't moral or reasonable or anything like that?

posted by Xeno-x on October 13, 2008 at 10:18 AM | link to this | reply

HERE'S THE TRUTH ABOUT ACORN'S REGISTRATION DRIVE IN NEVADA

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posted by Xeno-x on October 13, 2008 at 10:16 AM | link to this | reply

Fairness

I voted. Sent in my absentee ballot Friday. Despite recent reports of problems in some registrations, I have confidence that the vote will be fair, even in Ohio, where irregularities in the last two elections were troubling. Our government and elections aren't pretty, but they are, for the most part, fair enough to be considered valid, as far as I can see. If (when) McCain loses, it won't be due to voter fraud. It may be poor judgment on the part of the electorate, (a matter of opinion), but it will represent the will of the majority.

As for Senator Obama and honesty, you could look at the fact checkers, and their comments on debates and political ads. Obama scores better than McCain.