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Originally Posted by loquitur
What does this mean? I posted that his background and temperament and pretty much everything about him is different from Bush, which means a different decision making process and a different approach. He's about as different from Bush as can be, as a person. We don't elect a slate, we elect a person.
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We vote for the decisions a candidate is going to make. While McCain is clearly his own man, I suppose, as of maybe 2006 he became a different person than he was in the previous decade. He went from a relative centrist to a neo-conservative with his votes and his rhetoric. The McCain of 2004 would have run a completely different campaign from the McCain of 2008.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
As for the 95% thing, you'd need to show me which issues you're talking about and how you got that number, because "the Bush Admin" does not have a vote in the Senate. Obviously the man is a Republican, so yes, he'll vote on the "right" side of issues more often than not. And as you know, this game can be played both ways. You can show that Obama voted some high percentage of time with some loony demagogue's positions, too, if you pick the right data to feed into the comparison.
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This was a study done by and then on the Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record. The positions of President Bush are well documented and can be verified with a look back in his public speaking and decisions in office, and those positions are in line with McCain's Senate voting record for 2007. The best (least biased) information about the 95% figure can be found at FactCheck.org.
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Originally Posted by loquitur
I'm not an apologist for McCain at all, nor for Obama, I just think this partisan crap is silly and makes smart people behave like idiots, parrotting talking points for their "team." It's one of the reasons I hate election season.
I hate the racist crap some people spout about Obama, and I hate people who put up sites like this one. Politics can make people forget their humanity, and it depresses me to no end. (I have a special needs child, and I find crap like that pretty much unforgiveable.)
Sorry, Will, I'm not unloading on you, I'm just already fed up and it's only September.
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Don't worry about it. A lot of people (myself included) end up getting frustrated by at least one aspect of the presidential election circus. Some time between the shot heard around the world and now, the presidential campaign became mostly a joke, and it's frustrating for those that know how important and wonderful an election can really be. I mean, we've all seen the West Wing. No one saw Swing Vote, though.
I think that McCain's proposed policies are absolutely insane. That's why I won't support him. It has nothing to do with his father-in-law's mob ties, the fact that he crashed like 4 planes before being captured, or the fact that he's a raging sexist. Those aren't important. He intends to continue the war in Iraq until some theoretical, unattainable victory. He intends to increase tax cuts for the rich. He supports torture (not with his words, but with his votes). He is not against using nuclear weapons on Iran. His temper has effected his Senate service. He was involved with the Keating Five. There are myriad reasons for me not to vote for him, and they're all directly related to policy, proposed policy, and his behavior that would effect his service in the office.