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rightfully so, but you need to note what type of government compulsory voting has made in Australia. An inept, dysfunctional, scandal ridden Labor government which has more than its fair share of cheats and outright criminals as MP (congressman). some even make it to be minister.

Sherrie,

"This is simple economics and Obama doesn't understand it."

You are correct about one thing -- it is *simple minded. The facts show otherwise, but Rush and Hannity won't tell you that.

Look up economic growth AND stock market statistics covering both republican and democratic administrations. You'll find that stocks, jobs, wealth and everything else economy-related has consistently faired better under Democratic administrations.

Obama/Biden 08!

I can't wait until Tuesday when Palin takes her rootin' tootin' gosh darnit butt back up to Alaska!

Obama-Biden '08!

I don't know, Eric - I don't care. I've cast my vote already. For Obama. YES WE CAN! Obama 08.

Whatever happened to common sense in politics? The federal government was not designed to manage social affairs. It attempted to assist elderly with Medicare and social security and failed! It attempted to reform American schooling and failed! It attempted to provide welfare and again failed! Each of these “entitlement” programs is wasting millions of dollars each year. Most are projected to run out of money within 25 years and all need to be overhauled. The federal government is NOT the right solution for social problems! Do we really want to incur more tax burdens and trust the federal government with managing our health system?

Obama wants to take more of our money and redistribute it to more programs. The problem is, our existing programs are not properly funded and poorly implemented. We expect this inexperienced senator and 535 congress members to get all these new programs right? They couldn’t even pass an economic rescue plan without attaching more pork spending to it! We cannot manage our current Medicare, social security, education, and welfare programs – do we really want our federal government to take on more programs?

How did we ever survive in the past without federal government intervention?? =) The best solutions for helping our poor and needy come through local charity and community and state organizations. These are focused on relief of their people and they do not suffer as much from the excessive waste and mismanagement problems ($$) of our national government.

I cannot vote for a team that irresponsibly throws around free-bees the way Obama is. He wants to throw more money at everything. It’s easy to make promises like that, but impossible to finance them – or to implement them effectively in the federal government. Quit dreaming. I cannot vote for Obama.

Obama is already backpedaling. He is now saying that people are expecting too much from him, and he can't possibly deliver on all his promises for HOPE and CHANGE that he has been promising, because of the economy. LOL..
The economy didn't get this way overnight, and he has been making these promises for months now, so why the sudden change. He knows that if he gets in office all of his LIES will be exposed.

The "likely" voters that are being polled havent even made up their minds.. get real VOTE..
McCain-Palin 2008.
Inexperienced Islamic Celebrity or an experienced POW who has and will put YOUR Country First.
Obama voters you will be sorry you voted for inexperience and his lies of "change".
If he wins, we'll talk in about a year when we are in World War 3.

DonM - the only true thing in your post is this fact: Barack Obama is a black man. Yes, oooooOOOOOooooo, big deal. So what. Who cares? MOST OF US DON'T. THE REST OF YOU HAVE A LOT OF GROWING UP TO DO.

Sherrie...thank God there are still a few of us with our eyes open. The Christian people in this country will not vote Obama. Not unless they are trying to usher in the End Times.

CANNOT WAIT FOR TUESDAY ----CANNOT STAND ANY MORE OF THE MCCAIN FREAK SHOW--LIKE A CARTOON FOR OLDER PEOPLE.
OBAMA--BIDEN

oooooooOOOOOOooooooo now its the End Times scare. Wow - I thought you evangelicals looked FORWARD to the 'End Times'? Must be a drag waking up every morning - and finding out you're still here huh?

Funny - I'm a christian. When I go to church 2+ times a week for various reasons - we don't talk about depressing "End Times". Wow what a drag! Maybe you should look around because real church is fun! A place to renew faith and renew spirit. As it should be!

Stock facts 1901 to 2005:

Republicans = 6.9% gain over 56 years
Democrats = 13.3% gain over 48 years

Obama/Biden 08!

LILY
you have to admit these mccain people are entertaining---a little nutty but entertaining--palins minister could help them.

Many in Ohio including my husband and I are voting McCain. I was a Hillary supporter and we strongly feel that the democratic party did whatever possible to ensure her defeat. We all forget Michigan and Florida and Howard Deans rules that penalized these states. This secured Obama's noimination. The dems did not want Hillary so they stacked what they could against her. That is where they lost me and many others. I also voted democratically since I've been a registerd voter. (not because of pro-choice either) My party thinks I don't pay attention to ALL that has gone on in the last two years. I see another attempt to push women out and stiffle us. I will not tolerate it. Vote McCain!

Damon: "The federal government was not designed to manage social affairs." Federal Governments can and do manage health care and education programs in other countries and does it very well. If you have a concern re: poor facilitation and management, well that's another matter. But it can be done very well. Vote for who you want, more money has been thrown away under Bush administration than any other administration than I can remember. He inherited a sizeable surplus and is leaving us with historic levels of debt. Our "social affairs" as you call them have been mismanaged. Our education, health care and social security have all gone backwards. We can either vote to change the situation or vote to keep going along the same disastrous road that has brought us to this point. And No, it couldn't get worse under Obama. I can see what lies at the end of the road we are on - most of us can - ANY attempt at change would be better than continuing along on this path. As it happens, Obama will be a great and welcome change.

So reviewing the two types of commenter’s here really say’s it all

First group - You have the Obama supporters – full of hope and promise – a bright new day for America – something new

Second group - You have the McCain supporters – full of bland ideology with no real substance – but a lot of negative emotion, mostly fear, anger, worry – pretty much what we have had the last 8 years.

So if you look at it you don’t have to judge the poor choice or zero message from McCain, the fact that Joe the unlicensed tax owing, never earned $250K but I am token worker guy – and now am part of the McCain inner circle – giving Mr. Experience advice. How many more Joe the Plumber decisions can we afford?

So you don’t have to think about the fact that McSame has no real plan except to attack Obama (and God knows who else he’ll attack)

All you really have to do is ask yourself do you want a bright new future in America? Or do you want to extend this dark chapter in our history with more of the McSame –

Vote for a bright new future – Vote for Obama

McCain is a good man. However, he has a reputation as a maverick. He seems to be proud of it. But he is known as a maverick because of his tendency to go against common wisdom. His military career, his personal life, his political life and this presidential campaign are marred by his impulsive decisions that cause him to be known as a maverick. His traits that cause him to be known as a maverick have worked against him in campaigning and would work against the country if he became president. He is trying to sell the country a large pile of horse hockey, by claiming being a maverick is a desirable characteristic. I have a bunch of mavericks in my family . They cause trouble.

If anybody says to me the polls are biased or the news is biased? It's code for "I think we're losing and my candidates suck."

So Amanda - you don't really have any ideals - you're just voting to punish someone because Hillary didn't win the primary? Wow, real smart. And you think putting someone like Palin in office is doing Hillary any favors? Hillary would slap you silly. Geeeeesh. Think with your HEAD.