ok look i wanted to stay quiet not involve anyone in my personal feeling on the election... but it's becoming increasinly harder to do. People want to make you feel like shit so they can have some pitiful sense of accomplishment... "BELIEVE LIKE ME OR YOU'RE AN IDIOT" what a ringing fucking endorsement... I'm not preaching to you why are you fucking preaching to me... this election is putting strain on families and friendships... each party hates the other for being exactly like them.
I am voting for McCain/Palin this election...
do I think they'll win... I have no clue.... will i think the world is going to end if Obama wins... NO. I am going to go with the flow, vote for the party I feel represents me best... even if we have some glaring discrepancies. but I am done... people have different beliefs and I support that... I don't think you should think like me. I'm not going to argue with you until you see my point or hate me so much you can't look at me. What is the fucking point... there isn't one. So the little jabs or links poised at an underhanded insult are uneeded because i then find myself stooping to that level as well.... degrees or not.... experience or not.... God or not.... this election has been nothing but a game of mudslinging. The reporting is bias (on both sides I might add) people run with stories that aren't completely true or paint someone with less than the facts.... No one is a terrorist... no one is a cunt.
suddenly racism and sexism are socially acceptable... but both parties preach they same ignorance they hate. I'm done. I've been undecided for most of this election and just yesterday found the party I felt most comfortable with. I don't support their stance on Gay Marriage... but no party supports it no matter how much Joe Biden alludes to that on Ellen... And Palin has no right suggesting a federal law for something that is a states decision.
Abortion... I don't agree with controlling people's actions... but Obama's stance with that and his record don't have me impressed quite frankly..... While on the other side McCain/Palin are in essence Pro-Life... so between the two evils I'd rather there be no abortions than side with someone who hestitated to vote against and 'after delivery' abortion... do i think everyone should agree with that... NO.
those social issues have been pushed back this election... more is said on the war and economy...
I don't agree with everyone who says that the hate is only projected on one side... I see it on both but i do honestly think that the media (generally) tends to favor the left... and therefore their stories tend to be poised in that fashion. Does that mean there's no good media NO. NBC's Dateline did a great interview tonight. But I also think that anything and EVERYTHING can be contradicted... because no one believes the same... because people have different morals... and that if you side with one party you are lumped into everything that party believes.
People undermine the thought that goes into the election (for those that actually look into who they are voting for) but then when you give that much thought they say you are giving your vote far too much importance... but if you don't vote or vote for a 3rd party they say you are wasting your vote... who are they to say that? If they''re life is not the carbon copy of yours then how are they in any position to say "You're this or that... for doing this or that." it kills me.
What I am for is people... being able to be people without taking that right from anyone else.
*steps off soapbox*
I am done... I don't want to hear rebuttal... this wasn't a calling for argument... it was a simple venting of emotion from a first time voter, who feels the weight of the above.
I AM YOUR FRIEND YOU ARE MINE... I DON'T CARE WHO YOU'RE VOTING FOR... OR WHAT YOUR MORALS ARE... I LOVE YOU FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR IMPACT IN MY LIFE.... NOT ON THE ISSUES
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Conflict is a part of life, but so is Conviction.
Have strength in your beliefs and trust yourself.
I love you for your truths.
Relax, its almost over.
Yeah, well I'm so fucking tired of the facts being overlooked.
Obama:
"...I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don't think that "mental distress" qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term. Otherwise, as long as there is such a medical exception in place, I think we can prohibit late-term abortions."
@zenzen then quote it all because I'm tired of the facts being convient as well...actions speak louder than words:
"In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote."
If Abortion is the issue, Obama's answers have been the same long and careful middle ground everyone wants to hear, he's playing it safe, which is fine, but Maru's right on one... His words are eloquent, but his history in office has a voice as well.
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act has nothing to do with whether Obama is for or against late-term abortion. This Act requires hospitals to care for babies who survive a late-term abortion, but does not bar the practice.
However, Obama voted "present" on that legislation, not "nay." Further, he had qualms about its wording, which is why he didn't cast the vote.
Obama said, "I would have voted for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois had it been worded the same as the federal bill. I think that’s the position the Democrats should take."
Frankly, you will be able to search out whatever right-wing christian opinion you like that describes Obama as pro-abortion, since you have already convinced yourself of this. Ergo, any rebuttal, as you call it, would be futile because you refuse to listen to another side.
You have said in the past that you don't think anyone should tell women what they can and cannot do with their bodies, but that you would not have an abortion. I agree with that statement. So to call up a half-baked rationale of partial birth and late-term abortions as motivation for voting for McCain does not jibe with what you have said before, and does not correspond with Obama's stand on issues.
And before you tell me actions speak louder than words, please look up McCain's contradictory standings on abortion.
Here is an article that touches on this matter:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200611220001
McCain 8/20/1999:
"But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
McCain 8/25/2999:
'I have always believed in the importance of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, and as president, I would work toward its repeal.'
Now that's a fast change of opinion. One wonders what a McCain presidency might actually hold. But again, you've made your decision. Don't let things you don't want to hear get in the way.
mmmmhmmmmm it's nice when you wrap it up in a neat little package and word it so it meets the middle ground eh? like i said the wording or not he did not suppport it, and in that effect he supported after birth abortion of a living child. But I highly doubt you even read my blog as in I distinctly said I don't wish to argue anymore... you can have your beliefs and I can have mine... and if it really bothers you that much then feel free not to read it. and that is all i'm saying and ending this discussion
Well actually, I did read your blog, and then read your twitter asking me for a rebuttal, which I provided. But ok, discussion over.
I tell ya it's just not even worth trying to argue anymore... it's gotten so fucking petty it just needs to be over and done with so people can just get back to being normal....
this wasn't a problem back in Feb and in up until July... we all were fine and dandy but just now we are risking all these good things on stupid ass politics...
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