<p>pmrlcomm:</p>
<p>You and your step-father need to catch up with reality. These political labels hardly matter anymore.</p>
<p>pmrlcomm: Posts #97 and #100 – Are you for real? Surely you jest…</p>
<p>Not angry at all. Tired of people making excuses for the poor. Now they can’t vote because they are poor??? </p>
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<p>Why would I be joking. Race has nothing to do with my vote. I likely won’t vote for Obama because he is a liberal (I may have to reconsider if McCain continues to act like a moron), not because he is black. I will painted as a racist because I am white and won’t vote for him but oh well… I don’t see either of you calling out jjllc for his statement even though it is completely inflammatory and wrong but you’ll get on me because I state that I’m not voting for him because of his politics? I don’t get it. </p>
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<p>Political labels still mean plenty. I’m not naive enough to vote for someone based on what they say during a campaign. They will say or do anything to get elected and then return to their core beliefs once elected. Look how far to the center Obama has moved. Look how McCain is now playing nice with the conservative power base.</p>
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<p>pmrlcomm is far more reasonable than those posts would indicate. I think he IS jesting us … maybe just a little? Or not …</p>
<p>A tad bit of sarcasm perhaps… I notice it’s ok when people say stupid things but it is dismissed when you agree with their politics. When something is posted, equally stupid, from the other side people are quick to call them out. Call a spade a spade both ways…at least I try to do that. Some don’t bother.</p>
<p>Moi? If I agree with something, it couldn’t possibly be stupid!</p>
<p>I’m sure you don’t agree with the fact that people can’t vote because they are poor…</p>
<p>I do agree with that, pmrlcomm, though I wonder if some very low-income people are just too distracted, depressed, and tired to even care–or if they think about it at all, simply can’t see how one candidate or another would magically make their lives better. It’s probably harder to get fired up about voting when you have more pressing and immediate needs,like putting food on the table. …</p>
<p>I’m a paycheck or two away from a total meltdown…probably like a lot of folks. I don’t know how KY does it by in OH you can call the board of elections and they will send you a ballot by mail and you can vote through the mail. Anyone who doesn’t vote does so because they don’t care enough to. I’m still happy those folks don’t vote.</p>
<p>You’re being hard-headed, pmrlcomm. My college-aged girls are excited to vote because my husband and I have raised them to see this as a privilege, indeed, a duty as an American citizen. We’ve discussed politics in our home since they were very young, and long before they could vote they accompanied us to the polls. They’ve grown up believing that their vote matters, that their voices can be heard, as I assume your own children have. Not everyone is so fortunate. … You’re pretty savvy and educated to even KNOW that you can call the board of elections and get a ballot by mail. Plenty of people out there wouldn’t have a clue.</p>
<p>The quote that was referenced talked about them being too lazy to get to the polls. There is no excuse for being too lazy to vote. Sorry. You and I will have to disagree on this. They don’t care about voting…plain and simple.</p>
<p>Of course there are some people too lazy to vote. Not all of them are poor!</p>
<p>I agree but what I was referring to specifically identified the poor.</p>