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Originally Posted by cynic
...because, Grimm, as bad as Bush is.......I believe that things can be a lot worse....I know, I know....it IS hard to imagine.....but I can get NO feel for Obama at all.....I don't know what he feels strongly about....I get the feeling that he says whatever is the best thing to say at that time.....he's got some great writers.....I NEED to know what a candidate feels his priorities are....Obama seems to want to do all things for all people immediately at great cost to someone, but he isn't going to say where the money will all come from.....his health care plan doesn't go far enough.....he has said nothing that tells me in detail how he is getting us out of Iraq....he has no great words on how to fix the economy, other than "Yes, I will do that"......Bill Clinton went by polls and advisors, but at least I knew that was how he made his decisions.....I'm a cynic....when I don't have enough information, I assume the worst.
.....for better or worse, I DO know what McCain feels strongly about....and he's been around long enough that you can find out how he has voted over the long haul and what he REALLY believes in and not have to listen to his political writers to try to find out....
...and bluntly, most of the "social issues" of Democrats versus Republicans don't concern me.....I'm not gay and I'm not planning on having an abortion any time soon.....neither party wants to support atheists.....
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I agree with most of your points above and it scares me because the thought of even remotely possibly voting for McCain is shocking to me. I just don't get a good sense of who Obama really is and even though he is radically different than what we have now (which is awful), it is not a reason to vote for him. I wish he would've spent more time in the Senate and come back in 4 or 8 years with more of a history. The people of Illinois should be annoyed that they elected him Senator and he has spent much of his first term running for President. I feel like I always vote against the person I don't want more, than for a candidate. In this country of 300+ million - we can't do better?