Is there really that big a difference between our choices for president?

I'd say yes. They are about as differnt ideologicly as one can get. I think though That Obama's naive world view scares me more though, and Biden, as much repsect as I have for him, still is oposite from me on a philisophical and governatorial level. I was looking at Chuck Baldwin, until I saw the 'new world order" rant on the constitution partie's website. Ron paul, was almost there for me. A good old school federalist. His problem was a seemingly head in the sand world policy and the conspiricy nuts he couldn't seem to get away from killed him in the primaries. Fred Thompson, another good federlaist candidate, had hopes, but he just couldn't survive the primaries. McCain's the guy it looks like, unless another party apears or a good independant. It's not like we don't have choices, with 75 + parties to choose from.

I don't get why "liberal" is so often used as a "bad word" in politics. The very definition of the word is "broad-minded"...compared to closed minded, why is that bad? Besides..."new conservative" is not what I'd define as liberal..*referring to McCain* Anyway, I feel more hazard wafting offa McCain than Obama (who's in his mid-forties for goodness sakes and not that young when you consider him being a constitutional lawyer before that. WASHINGTON was around that age, dangit). Obama's quest for "compromise" does not, reassure me however. McCain's not being very knowledgeable about most things pleases me even less. I don't like choosing between the lesser of two evils, so I'm not going to. I'm too young to vote, therefore people should have no problem with my being neutral. However, since I am a betting girl I'd say Obama would be less of an evil than McCain. Though, compared to McCain's going for the 'most absent record', versus what ills Obama might actively do... So maybe they come out fifty-fifty...just two different kinds of evil? I'm still not convinced that Obama IS an evil, he's that slippery, lmao. McCain throws a hissy fit when the media or people pay more attention to Obama, so I'm half-tempted to be vindictive and just say they should pay more attention to Obama 'cause when someone's upset, their reactions tell you more about them than when they're trying to woo an audience. Plus, it'd give me more to write about in my blog...and McCain gives me so much amusing material daily anyways...

Not really. At first it looked like the war put a huge space between them there.. but Obama has waffled so much that he's pretty much lost that issue. A lot of republicans say that they don't like McCain but will vote for him because of Supreme Court nominees, but while we know Obama will nominate activist judges, we don't know if McCain will make good on his promise to nominate strict constructionist judges or "reach across the aisle" and appease Reid and Pelosi. They do differ on most issues, but when it comes down to it, both are spineless.

Yes, I think there is. There is no way at all I would vote for John McCain. I used to like him. He used to be a good guy who was okay with me on most political discussions although we differed on cultural issues such as gay marriage and the like. However, I didn't think John McCain was actually dangerous to myself or anyone I cared about. I'm disabled and require community services to live independently. The state pays for my personal care assistant, my health insurance (because all other plans say I have a pre-existing condition and exclude me), and they also help with my rent. Now, John McCain is just another George W. Bush. He's dangerous to people that I care about and myself. He wishes to not allow the passage of a new bill which would let disabled people move wherever they wanted to and still keep their personal care services, unlike me who had to move to get such services. Never mind that he used to be a co-sponsor of the bill and has since flip-flopped on the issue. Also, he used to favor universal health care, and has now once again gone of the Bush administration. No sane disabled person would ever vote for this man. No person who actually wants to get out of Iraq in this decade would vote for this man. I don't understand how someone I so respected (and I did despite my not agreeing with him all the time) has become a complete turncoat. He was the only Republican I could ever see voting for, ever. Now, I wouldn't vote for the man if he paid me a million dollars unless of course I could use the million dollars to fund Barack Obama's campaign.

Well, I think Obama and McCain are oceans apart on pretty much everything. To me, this is going to be such a decisive race to determine if our country will move forward or if we'll be stuck exactly where we have been for the past 8 years.

there is no doubt, that our political choices are not the best ones we have had in the past, but in my opinion anyone who would vote for osama(whoops) obama is not the brightest person in the world. people like that should have their voting right taken away. obama=JOKE

The biggest differences between the two candidates, besides the obvious two of race and age, are their stance on the Iraq war, healthcare, foreign policy, abortion, and energy. Obama wants equalized government healthcare - which sounds good at first, but really means more government control into our daily lives. McCain's healthcare plan will be more of the failed Bush policies - probably not a good choice either. McCain supports the Iraq war and our continued presence in Iraq (at least he does unless he flip flops on it, LOL), and Obama wants us to move into Afghanistan instead and out of Iraq. Obama has very little foreign policy experience, but does want to talk to known enemies and even terrorists to try to negotiate - though I have my doubts that anything good will come of it. And McCain repeats Bush's litany that we must stop terror and secure our homeland - great, but how are we going to do that? We will never stop the terrorist factions completely. McCain and Palin are both extremely pro-life and anti abortion candidates, while Obama is extremely pro-choice. The interesting thing about McCain on this issue, however, is that he is also pro-stem cell research; now how can these two issues go together? I could see being pro-choice and pro-stem cell research, but a pro-life stance and pro-stem cell research just don't seem to belong together! Go figure. And as far as energy goes, McCain does not want to drill in ANWAR, but Palin does - and they are on the same ticket and should be on the same side, right?? - and Obama is all for clean, renewable sources of energy to get us away from our dependence upon foreign oil ( I have to agree with this - we really do need to develop some renewable, clean, dependable sources of energy besides petroleum based ones!) So to answer your question, yes there are several big differences between the Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates.