surferlove007

Wow, I sure came in late on this! Where was I? Oh right...class.

Well..as I mentioned before I will be voting for my very first time in this upcoming election. I will be voting for the McCain/Palin ticket. There are a lot of things I would like to respond to. I honestly am not surprised about all the Obama supporters this board has. This is a liberal board, look at what it offers and the viewpoints expressed. I think that's great, that's why I'm on here!

I suppose one thing that really bothers me about all the comments are that people seem to personally attack Palin for her position on abstinence in schools and then criticize her parenting due to her 17 year old being pregnant. From a college students perspective who lived in Lubbock for a couple years, update guys Lubbock has an Abstinence only sex education system. That city does not teach sex education in school. Well something else to consider, I had sex education in middle school and in high school and I got pregnant. I had an abortion three weeks after I found out. I will say this, I do not believe in late term abortion. Another thing, since that happened I have been more than careful to ensure it will never happen again. I don't believe that it is feasible to blame her stance on abstinence in correlation with her pregnant daughter. Like Shani said before, it happens. Kids do stupid shit. I was in her daughters position three years ago.

I like Palin, I think she and the "Maverick" will do an amazing job in office. Like other Republicans have stated Obama scares the crap out of me. His foreign policy alone is just not my taste. I don't believe in pulling the troops out of Iraq in his "phased" policy. On his campaign website he mentions that over 1,000 Americans have died in this war and that is too many. I'm not saying its alright for Americans to die, but I do support the cause they are dying for. I believe they would die in vain if we left before the job was finished. As Palin said, victory is in sight and it will be done soon. I'm recalling the Vietnam War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, how many Americans died in those wars? More than 1,000 that's for sure. When the British were losing 1,800 men a day during WW1, I'm pretty sure that seemed pretty bad too right and they kept at the war until the job was done with help from the US. When compared to the past casualty numbers, this war hasn't been that bad.

Another thing about Obama, I was listening to one of his speeches and specifically he mentioned how Americans shouldn't be able to drive our SUVs, have our houses at 68 degrees. This sounds like a socialist if I ever saw one. I don't support Obamas tax policy. My family will be directly affected if he is elected and his supposed tax breaks make it through. He claims that families making under $250,000.00 will recieve generous tax breaks and then that families making over that amount EXCEPT 2% will have the same or lower taxes. I just don't see this happening. How can one cut the taxes for the middle and lower classes and then maintain the same taxes on the upper class and still maintain the budget?

That's all I feel like commenting on now.
Again, friendly opinions with facts stuck in.
This is the kind of board that if you are on a different side sometimes it is intimidating voicing an opinion without it being dissected for "Flawed angles" that can prove you meant something you didn't. Let us leave that for the Katie Couric. I did think her interview will Palin was one-sided and unfair. Why does Palin have to name a specific newspaper? Perhaps she wanted to be remain neutral and not place a spot light on one specifically.