Simple Question..Who will you vote for and why?
By thickchic
@thickchic (41)
United States
September 17, 2008 8:59am CST
I will vote for Obama/Biden as I am in agreement with about 75% of his campaign. I need health care, I could use a tax break because I have a working family, I could also use college help for my children if they provide community service. We also could use our jobs back that were shipped overseas so we as americans can stop scrambling for work. the list goes on...
next?
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@carolscash (9492)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I will vote for Obama/Biden too. I was hoping that he chose Evan Bahye as his running mate as I know that he was an excellent govenor. Howwever, I trust Obama and I believe that he is truly going to change the way that Americans are living. I believe that he seems to know more about the working class than McCain does.
If someone doesn't get in office and change our economy fast, we are in a big danger of going into another depression that I believe will take years to come out of. We have dedicated too much money to other countries and taking care of their citizens and we have let our own people suffer. The war in Iraq has cost way too much and we need to recover some of that money.
Most kids can't afford to go to college but with his plan I think that some will be able to that normally wouldn't. I believe that all Americans should be given health care and I think that we need our jobs back in this country.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I'm a former Hilary supporter now committed to Obama/Biden. We have to do something about the mess we're in and I don't trust the Republicans to do any better than more of the same.
We have a deficit in the trillions and the Repblicans are still promising to reduce taxes. Taxes are the time honored way to reduce a deficit but somebody told the Republicans they can win any election if they promise tax relief and they just go on sounding like a broken record.
I also agree that something has to be done about healthcare. Truth is that most small and medium size American businesses cannot afford to insure their employees. I think we should take the tax credits being given to huge corporations for outsourcing jobs and give those credits to smaller businesses who are keeping jobs here. Why should Bill Gates have money to build cricket fields for his Indian emplyees when Americans work full time without healthcare? Unfortunately, the Republicans are very kind to large corporations and not so kind to the America's smaller businesses. Democrats have at least recognized the problem here and will at lest attempt to address it. That's more than I've heard from any Republican. They seem to still believe in "trickle down" economics and I do not.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I'll also vote for Obama/Biden because I'm also in agreement with the vast majority of what they propose and stand for. We sure don't need Bush 44, do we? All McCain seems to be able to say is that, first, our economy is fundamentally strong, then when questioned about that he says he meant that because of the American workers being the best in the world. Huh??? He has no plan to get many of these "best workers in the world" BACK to work, does he? Or in jobs that actually pay enough to keep them in their homes and allow them to afford to put gas in their vehicles to GET to work! Much of the trouble we're in right now with the banking industry is due, at least in part, to people like McCain who believed in deregulating everything and having no oversight for these companies. Now, all he can talk about is more tax cuts, mostly for the rich AGAIN, with the middle again left out in the cold - since winter will soon be upon us, that could be quite literally!
We have a health care crisis, but the McCain camp can only talk about tax credits which doesn't address the cost of health care and wouldn't help the vast majority of the lower income people who have no insurance. We need to find a way for more of our young people to get an education that will enable them to get a good job in today's economy, but I don't see that happening if we have another Republican Administration doing the same old thing.
I could go on much longer but I won't. Don't even get me started about the Iraq War! I would like to add that it's often said a Presidential nominee's first major decision, one which is an indication of his or her judgment abilities or lack thereof. Obama impressed me immensely by choosing Joe Biden, a long time Senator with a wealth of experience in both domestic and foreign affairs but someone who couldn't really be called a "Washington insider" because he's never, ever lived in Washington. He IS family values and he is the voice of the working man and woman. McCain, on the other hand, chose a woman who met the other requirements - far right, to cater to the Evangelist wing of the Republican party and young, so young that she makes him look even older, in my opinion.
Annie
@sirnose (2436)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Plz, Obama isn't going to do anything its all hot-air neither one of these candidate isn't going to make a bit of different to our lives...I will not be voting for neither one of these bozos...if Obama would have chose Hillary then i could have held my nose and voted for the bum.All we going to get from Obama is higher taxes something this country doesn't need right now.
@thickchic (41)
• United States
17 Sep 08
sirnose dont be so damn ignorant in only picking and choosing only half of what Obama has said about taxes...he will provide tax cuts for 95% of working class citizens, does that not include you? If you're voting republican the fine but dont tell half truths...
just ignorant i tell ya...
@thickchic (41)
• United States
17 Sep 08
I forgot to add that yall same fools that voted for Buch see where it got us right?
yeah I thought so...
@sirnose (2436)
• United States
18 Sep 08
you must not of read my reply correctly i said that neither one of these candidates will do us a bit of good. Obama is your typical tax and spend liberal yes he says that he going to cut some taxes for some but, in the end we all pay in higher prices for goods in other words it's pass on to the consumer come on get your head out of the sand you are the one been ignorant and i never ever vote republican for president,so where you get that impression from...
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Sep 08
I will vote for Obama and if my stargoes down from this I am informing mylot, it is my right to vote for whom I chose and your right not to minus me at all,it is none of your business. I like his platform and what he stands for, and I am not arguing politics
'here at all.