Great summation, Tracy. As P.J.O'Rourke once put it:

"Republicans are those who say that government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it."

>There are things I like about Obama. Heck, there are things I like about Clinton. The problem is that the things I don't like tend to overshadow the things I do like. To really over-generalize:
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>Obama: too much socialism and wrong view on Iraq
>Clinton: too much socialism and wrong view on Iraq (but not as wrong as Obama)
>McCain: too liberal in his immigration views (and others as well)
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>The whole church issue and land issue concerns me with Obama. Personally, if I attended a church and the paster spoke in a bigoted manner, let alone like his paster, I would walk out on the spot. I'd expect no less from someone with political aspirations. He appears to be as dishonest as Hillary (neither very high on the ethics scale)
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>We've gotten to the point here in this country where the choice appears to be:
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>Democrat: spend and tax
>Republican: spend and don't tax
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>It's amazing we have so many running but so few we can vote for:
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>http://www.votesmart.org/election_president_search.php?party=Other&go.x=10&go.y=11
>http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm
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>>For a time I thought I could support Obama. Early on it seemed that maybe he was the next JFK; an idealist with a fresh perspective.
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>>But, here we go again, the injection of race into the process.
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>>I am sick and tired of race being an issue as if we hadn't grown since the 1960's. Obama attends church for decades with a firebrand preacher who talks as if it's 1963 and Mississippi. He claims that the sermons never bothered or impacted him. I call BS on that.
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>>I repeat: I am sick of hearing about race. And gender. The media orgasmed when Pelosi became first woman Speaker and, to a lesser degree, when Rice became Secretary of State. Why?? Why do they constantly point out the things were not supposed to pay attention to anymore?
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>>I want a candidate who's American. I don't want to hear black and white or male and female. Obama has slid into the trap the media sets with compartmentalizing based on color or gender. Whoops.
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>>Guess I'm voting for McCain. Or the Libertarian.
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>>>Well worth the read:
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>>>http://www.drudgereport.com/flashos.htm