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Can the nation afford making the wrong choice at this point in time?


What is abuse of power? Is it not violating a set of standard rules set forward to regulate wrongdoing in society? How many times did the 8 years of the current Administration go against these standard rules? (Iraq war(which many turned a blind eye on but not forgotten by the world nor the UN), Guantamo prison, waretapping citizens without notice(before turning it into an official law). Why do they feel that is necessary to create animosity towards individuals by making generalizations? Why is it necessary to instill negative feelings towards an individual just because it has a name that is of a different ethnicity? Shouldn’t a potential leader be offering fundamental changes to the current crisisis facing one’s nation? But instead they are offering more of the antagonism that can create violence(perhaps because of the lack of understanding of how to make these fundamentals strong). There is a financial/economic crisis in the US and an effect domino around the world. Shouldn’t a potential leader be focusing on concrete solutions and offer reassurance to alleviate the nation and the world from this crisis? However, they are creating and instilling more of the same fear that has overshadowed the nation for the last 8 years. One that imposed a war that has had a costly effect on the nation’s economy, whether it is taken into account or not. Offering diplomacy instead of offering more costly wars is NOT being on the side of the ill-minded. Isn’t focusing on the current crisis and offering feasible solutions, what a candidate pretending to take the reigns of the most powerful nation in the world should be doing? Shouldn't a potential leader have the expertise to be able to solve major crisis as the economic crisis that has an overcast over the nation and world. What would the nation do, if a leader of 72 years old is unable to finish his time in the Administration and his right hand (with even less expertise in economy or foreign affairs) has to take over? Can the nation afford making the wrong choice at this point in time?


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geoffbeneze
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GIVE a man a fish and you feed him for a day. TEACH a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

SADLY, most fishermen are afraid to touch the worm.

Because most of the citizens of this country, and the world suffer from a view that is erroneous. No single "leader" (in the United States) has the power to do what people and the media say. 

Our Power Structure, our TRUE "leader" consists of 435 congress people and one president and (occasionally) 9 Supreme Court Justices. 

Another mistake is made when humans (as humans do) choose sides and vilify the OTHER side. Both sides are guilty of the same trespasses and have been, pretty much, throughout the history of our country. 

I wish I knew how to make it better, but I suspect that as long as there are humans who believe they have power over OTHER humans, such problems and abuses will continue no matter WHO is in power. 
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My opinions are mine.  If you don't like them, live with it! Surprised

I am 65 years old and voted in every election since I legally could.  I have seen shabby elections but this one is the shabbiest.  It's one thing to rag on someone about what they truthfully did and quite another to tell downright lies.

You've never seen Obama's camp even mention McCain's time on the Advisory Board for Iran-Contra Affairs or him mention McCain's ties to mobster Kemper Marley or Joe Bonanno.  The only reason Keating was mentioned was Obama finally wanting to fight back the smears he had taken.

There's no talk of The Alaskan Independence party and how Todd Palin was a member of that radical group, Sarah Palin's support of it nor her speaking at their convention.

There's no mention of how Todd Palin had to sit in on every meeting Sarah Palin had as Mayor and Governor.  She was a paid public official and he was an outside civilian and had no business at those meetings nor did he have any right in his Troopergate involvement.  Can't the woman go to work without her husband there to hold her hand and why should he be privy to government business?

No.  We will not talk of that.  But we will call Obama a Muslin when it's well known he went to church and is Christian.  We will call him an Arab because he has a funny name.  We will call him a terrorist because he met William Ayers 25 years after Ayers had been part of the Weathermen Underground.  We will say he didn't put his hand on his heart while resisting the Pledge of Allegiance when it was the Star Spangled Banner instead.  We will say he does not run an honest campaign because of ACORNS illegal actions when Obama himself started the Motor Voter registrations during Bill Clintons days.  We will call him slick because he accepted a donation from Tony Rezko that Obama gave to charity.

Sarah Palin and John McCain, instead of talking about their own skeletons would rather stir their crowds up like rabied dogs screaming slurs, death threats and insults.

After all this, John McCain says yesterday "Obama is a decent person, a family man and is not an Arab! after telling the crowds he was for weeks.  I used to consider John McCain an honorable man but he lost his honor long ago, if he ever was.

 
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Carol O. got it right. It's the whole point of my question: you don't see Obama instilling hatred towards his opponent or his party. He is just focusing on presenting the solutions to the problems but his opponent doesn't seem to have a strong grasp over the crisis facing America and the world and instead is creating an atmosphere full of animosity towards the Democrat candidate that is already resulting with messages of violence. Violence is not the way to resolve problems. Arms are not the only way to sort out conflicts and it is this mantra that has created such a negative reaction around the world. It is time to try to exhaust diplomacy instead of increasing foreign debt with costly wars and trying to cause animosity towards people who just happen to be different. There has always been evil but you can't impose wars to try to get financial benefit from them and instead get an unbalanced economy.
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GIVE a man a fish and you feed him for a day. TEACH a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

SADLY, most fishermen are afraid to touch the worm.

The momentum of the country is such that, in the big picture, ONE election cycle is near meaningless. 

We survived Jimmy Carter despite his continued (and ongoing) efforts to destroy the country. 

While it may make for an uncomfortable four to eight years, McCain or Obama won't matter in the long view of history. 

EXCEPT, Obama is an out and out socialist and we've seen what's happened to all the other communist/socialist countries in the past century. 
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Wow, I clearly remember my Social Studies teacher pointing out the differences between Socialist and Communism. Some would consider the 700 billion bailout for the US economy a socialist move and has this whole financial/economic crisis happened under a Socialist regimen? Amazing, how some people STILL are in denial and seeing the current situation through rose-tinted glasses! It's just so wicked!
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