Comments on: Change You Can’t Believe In

By: patriot

patriot — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:15:21 +0000

Yes you can…. what? Pull troops out of Iraq, handing that country over to Al Qaeda, so you can invade Pakistan, one of our *allies* in the war on terror? Increase taxes across the board so that he can increase entitlement programs? Sign away our tax dollars and sovereignty to the UN? Take away our guns and our parental rights? Sit down and talk with dictators and thugs who will brutally behead our citizens and strap bombs to their children, while dismantling our ability to pour water up prisoners’ noses for 30 seconds at a time?

Yes you can vote for a man who won’t put his hand on his heart while the national anthem is playing and who won’t wear a U.S. flag pin on his lapel. And in so doing, you’ll be voting for someone who endangers the lives and liberties of every person in this nation.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:39:23 +0000

Well… I did not vote for him because I foolishly believed that he could actually achieve everything he sets out to; that would be utter lunacy. The same is true for Hillary, McCain, and every other presidential candidate in history. Everyone makes more promises than they can keep…but I agree with Obama’s ideals and I trust his judgment; and for me, that’s enough. If 1/5 of what he promises happens, we will be one step closer. Checks and balances hopefully keep the powers of any one person limited. But who would have thought that Bush could have been SO successfully destructive?! If you were to tell any level-headed person before he stepped in that he would: set the worst budget deficit in history by entering a war on false pretenses, have judicial attorneys fired for political reasons, roll back taxes to the top 1%, use illegal wiretapping, endorse torture, refuse to acknowledge global warming, dismantle a laundry list of environmental legislation, pass laws to remove personal freedoms, and get re-elected… that person would say you were crazy. Well, Bush proved that with political inexperience, a bad track record as a governor, failed business management skills, horrible public speaking abilities, and a below-average post-graduate G.P.A., one can still manage to push through an idealist agenda with amazing success. All he needed was the right moment in history, a brilliant yet narrow minded cabinet of sycophants and the majority in congress. so who is to say that it can’t be done in the opposite direction?

YES WE CAN!

By: Avlacs

Avlacs — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:40:41 +0000

Obama-mania is another fine example of how most Americans are guided by (almost) solely style with little regard for much else. Being privileged, self-indulgent and bread to the core in capitalism, most want more than anything to feel good with as little exertion as possible. This same group wants for themselves . . . more and more and more. The lives of Americans will never improve qualitatively until the country sinks to its depths, pocket books are empty and the working poor and working middle class finally get tired enough of the disparity that they actually do something substantive about it.