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alliancesjr...so be warned.
I was having a conversation with my mother this weekend. It was Friday, in fact, since I remember it was sparked by us watching Sarah Palin being chosen the Vice President slot on the Republican ticket. She was completely dumbfounded hearing that I still wasn't sure who I was going to vote for in November. I believe her exact words were "You'd seriously consider putting another Republican in office after the last eight years?"
It's an interesting thing. My mother is very liberal and my father is very conservative. I registered Independant. As Robin put it, "we should have our own wacky theme song."
The conversation surprised me, though, because she could actually tell me why she was voting for Obama. And while I know she's a very intelligent person with a lot of common sense, I had pretty much previously been seeing first-hand the proof of a comment I had read in the Sun-Times a while back. I don't remember who wrote it, it was about a month ago, but it was said that the average person is "hard-pressed to find an Obama supporter that can actually give a reason why, other than peer-pressure or guilt."
And that's pretty much true. I've only seen first-hand a handful of people who can actually tell me why they're voting for Obama. The ones who can, however, can give me pretty damn good reasons.
So why am I still on the fence? Two main reasons. One, I recently spent a week in a strongly Republican household, and one with similarly well-reasoned and intelligent explanations. And two, Obama's done things that I don't agree with, which I won't get into here.
It got me thinking, though. I know people, currently on my friendslist, who are strongly one way or the other. So here's a chance for you to persuade someone who's still a swing voter! Tell me why you're voting for your favored nominee. Give as detailed reasons as you wish! But keep in mind that I will not pay attention to anyone saying "I'm voting for Obama/McCain because I hate the other guy more", "I'm voting Republican/Democratic because I don't want another Democrat/Republican in office", or "I'm voting for Obama/McCain because that's what all the cool people are doing". If you're planning on saying something along any of those lines, don't even bother.
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I was having a conversation with my mother this weekend. It was Friday, in fact, since I remember it was sparked by us watching Sarah Palin being chosen the Vice President slot on the Republican ticket. She was completely dumbfounded hearing that I still wasn't sure who I was going to vote for in November. I believe her exact words were "You'd seriously consider putting another Republican in office after the last eight years?"
It's an interesting thing. My mother is very liberal and my father is very conservative. I registered Independant. As Robin put it, "we should have our own wacky theme song."
The conversation surprised me, though, because she could actually tell me why she was voting for Obama. And while I know she's a very intelligent person with a lot of common sense, I had pretty much previously been seeing first-hand the proof of a comment I had read in the Sun-Times a while back. I don't remember who wrote it, it was about a month ago, but it was said that the average person is "hard-pressed to find an Obama supporter that can actually give a reason why, other than peer-pressure or guilt."
And that's pretty much true. I've only seen first-hand a handful of people who can actually tell me why they're voting for Obama. The ones who can, however, can give me pretty damn good reasons.
So why am I still on the fence? Two main reasons. One, I recently spent a week in a strongly Republican household, and one with similarly well-reasoned and intelligent explanations. And two, Obama's done things that I don't agree with, which I won't get into here.
It got me thinking, though. I know people, currently on my friendslist, who are strongly one way or the other. So here's a chance for you to persuade someone who's still a swing voter! Tell me why you're voting for your favored nominee. Give as detailed reasons as you wish! But keep in mind that I will not pay attention to anyone saying "I'm voting for Obama/McCain because I hate the other guy more", "I'm voting Republican/Democratic because I don't want another Democrat/Republican in office", or "I'm voting for Obama/McCain because that's what all the cool people are doing". If you're planning on saying something along any of those lines, don't even bother.
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Date: 2008-09-09 01:43 am (UTC)Frankly, neither candidate has greatly impressed me, but Obama does a better job of making me want to vote for him. I could give you all the reasons other people have given below, but I'll give you the basic and main one.
McCain believes NCLB is perfect the way it is.
Obama believes NCLB is perfect the way it is, but thinks it needs more funding and teachers should get paid more.
They're both morons, but Obama wants to pay me more to put up with this worthless crap. Frankly, what we really need is to put more responsibility on students and (especially) parents, but since our society prefers scapegoats, give me more money for being your scapegoat! I'm going to need that money to pay for the ulcer surgery and mental institution when I have a breakdown from the stress.
Thank you Mr. Clinton for letting one of your aides come up with NCLB. I hope that aide gets to spend an eternity in hell teaching high schoolers in a school that is not passing NCLB. You have so many options to choose from across the nation...