Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
The Status-Quo Wins Again Here we go again, trying to figure out who is going to be the better evil to vote for in the next election.by Kipper Mathews
(libertarian)
Sunday, March 23, 2008
There is so many opinions in this country as to what direction the United States should be going in, nobody can make a logical decision on who is the best candidate for America.
Instead of standing tall and voting for a President that will stand up for the people and won't let the Government take our rights away and or has a solid plan on the economy and foreign policy, people are stooping to take sides for the meaningless propaganda issues the media has been convincing them are things of importance.
The more I hear people talk about the next election, the sadder I get.
Some of the more informed people are saying things like, "I'm voting for racial and or sexual diversity" and "John McCain deserves to be President after being a POW" or "I don't trust anybody to make decisions about Iraq that hasn't had military experience."
Some people obviously have no idea just what the wrong President is capable of accomplishing in four years in the White House.
Americans aren't aware that the decisions that they are about to take when they vote could have world changing effects and that their lives could take a dive into an inescapable abyss.
They haven't read anything regarding the important changes that the Clinton and Bush administrations have been working on for years like the NAU, National ID and the NAFTA Super-highway. If they have heard of them they believe that it is all conspiracy bull, just like our trusted officials have told them and will continue to disbelieve any of these things as fact until after it's to late to stop them.
All people seem to care about is immigration, gay rights and the ever so popular health insurance.
While these are important issues, these are inflated candidate vote-for-me promises, that they may or may not be able to get through once they get into office.
Unfortunately, many people still to this day don't have or want computers and are unable to research candidates except through their biased news papers and TV's. They are unaware that there is thousands if not millions of other opinions in the world, that could give them alternative views on what is going on in our government.
So where does that leave us?
As it stands right now, we have three candidates in the two "accepted parties" Clinton, Obama and McCain. The better evils.
Or we can try to make a statement and vote for Ralph Nader or one of the many other unheard-of third-party candidates that have raised whopping hundreds and maybe even a thousand dollars to finance their campaigns. Other than Nader no one has even heard of most of those people, sadly including Ron Paul, one of the only two Republicans still on the ticket.
Or we can join the majority of the population and just refuse to vote at all, thinking that their vote won't count and the people don't really have a say in the politics of the country anyway. Those people are fine with the status-quo. Take what they give you . . . and do the best you can to live a happy life.
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Hopefully there will be a day in this country, where more people have access to open discussions through the Internet when it comes to electing Presidents.
That is a least until Rupert Murdoch figures out how to add the Internet to his monopoly.
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I'm writing in Ron Paul. Unlike Nader (who doesn't seem to focus on the much needed economic debate) he has a Congressional seat and to the extent his campaign shines light on issues, he is right there in Congress introducing bills the public can urge their reps to support, even if they don't vote for him for President. I want him to continue, but if he doesn't, my statement will be for what he has done, consistently, for 20 years in office.
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