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Intresting you should mention the gay community, Justi
Both McCain and Palin, though conservative, have done more to reach out to the gay community than has Obama. The so-called crusader for minority rights has never expressed his support of LGBTs, nor has he met with them. Believe me, I have some gay friends that, even though they are fully aware of the McCain/Palin stance on homosexual unions, are voting for them because they trust them more.
posted by
NewYorker_in_Sicily
on October 25, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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Interesting that you don't give any of the reasons.
Of course, one can deduce from your list that you are a Social Conservative, and clearly Obama is not, and his position on abortion guides several of the items on your list. But i would have voted against John Roberts because of his history. He was deciding a case (Hamdan v Rumsfeld) in which the Bush administration was a principal while Bush was interviewing him for a position on the Supreme Court. And the decision, in favor of Bush, was so ridiculous it was overturned 8-0 by the Supreme Court, which calls his judgment, at least on that case, into question. Sounds more than a little like conflict of interest, if not our right corruption. I disapprove of that in the Supreme Court.
Now, why would people like Hamas prefer Obama? Perhaps because he is of mixed race and has Muslim relatives, and so they think he might have a better understanding of Middle Eastern culture. Or maybe they like his approach to internatinal relations; he says he'll talk to enemies without preconditions. McCain, like Bush, wants all our enemies to give us everything we want before he'll talk, is that it? It didn't work for Bush. And General Petraeus, McCain's hero, has endorsed talking to enemies as a way of solving problems. Go figure. Maybe what Hamas and Chavez and Ahmadinejad see in Obama is something like common sense. Now, that would be real change.
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mousehop
on October 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM
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