<p>momof2inca–I could only dream of such a situation. I’m from Kentucky, a state so red, the Obama folks wouldn’t waste their money here–but for a very different reason. Alas.</p>
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<p>Hindoo! Hindoo?? Wake up!! :)</p>
<p>Oh, bz2010, it’s all good. But I’m exhausted–have a big day of baking tomorrow! You might want to organize a “Muffins for McCain” bake sale to compete with my “Bake for Barak!”</p>
<p>Ah muffins - one of my specialties. Have you ever had sweet potato muffins?
I don’t eat carbs these days though. :(</p>
<p>BTW - I’ve done much more productive work for McCain than baking. I do like the idea tho’.</p>
<p>Hope your sale goes well - why don’t you save yourself all that hot labor & send in a donation. I hear all those nickels & dimes are really adding up for him!</p>
<p>I have sent in donations, though not all that much in the grand scheme of things. … As for the hot labor manning a bake sale, I’ll probably enjoy getting lambasted by my conservative fellow Kentuckians. I’m like a salmon swimming upstream in my beloved red state.
Without my going back to look at your earlier posts, I’m curious. Are you a real McCain fan or one of those who doesn’t care for him but likes him better than Obama? Personally, I think there’s much to like about McCain. I just disagree with him on Iraq and worry about the Supreme Court skewing farther to the right. … No, I’ve never had sweet potato muffins. Are they good? … Unfortunately, I eat–and drink–too many carbs for my own good. Not a Weight Watchers diet these days … alas.</p>
<p>Yes, I’m a pretty ardent supporter of McCain. I truly value his experience & long-term knowledge of the Middle East and other things. I respect his lifetime of service in government when he could’ve easily gone on to do many other more lucrative things. I also think that he is genuinely a “good guy” judging from what I’ve read about him adopting his first wife’s sons, the fact that he & Cindy adopted a child w/ health probs from Bangladesh, and from what others who work closely w/ him have told me. I truly believe that his years as a POW would’ve have instilled in him a love for America so deep that he would do anything in his power to preserve the ideals that he believes our country stands for. Maybe I’m a sucker, but I think it runs pretty deep w/ McCain. As a Navy family, we KNOW that you don’t choose that life unless you truly are a patriot.</p>
<p>I like that McCain has stood up against wasteful government spending, pork projects, abuse of power and corruption. It hasn’t made him any friends in the legislature, but he has done the right thing - and not the easy things.</p>
<p>I’m not too worried about the Supreme Court b/c I know he will nominate judges who are Constitutionalists - that is THEY won’t try to legislate, but will merely interpret what the legislature has already decreed to be law. It doesn’t matter whether they are pro-life. pro-choice, or whatever, because THEY won’t be making the law! SC justices are only an issue if you think they have the right to legislate from the bench. McCain’s appointees won’t do that - that’s the kind that Liberals nominate generally b/c they have a different interpretation of the role of justices.</p>
<p>Besides all that, I really feel that McCain should’ve been nominated & elected in 2000. It’s a dirty shame what happened to him in SC, and that’s why I’m doing my darndest to help make things right this time.</p>
<p>Sorry if you asked for an ounce & got a pound!</p>
<p>WHY do you favor Obama - other than he’s the “next new thing”?</p>
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<p>Right, but I would have thought that the same was true of Minnesota, but McCain is spending money on ads there.</p>
<p>bz2010–You make a compelling, intelligent argument about why you support McCain. I especially appreciated your comment about the 2000 campaign. If McCain had been elected instead of Bush, I believe we’d never have set foot, not even a toe, in Iraq. Tenacious pit-bull that he is, McCain would have kept his eye on the prize (bin Laden) and would not likely have meandered off creating other misadventures in an already volatile region. But alas, he wasn’t elected.</p>
<p>This go-around, I still like McCain the man. I appreciate his feistiness, his independence on certain issues, and his ability to laugh at himself (Saturday Night Live). But I never cared for the fact that after Bush’s folks slimed him so hideously in 2000, he eventually climbed back into a political bed with them. (Although he’s been climbing back out of it in recent months as the Bush approval numbers plummet.) Personally, after South Carolina '00, I would have avoided Bush like poison until they buried me six feet under. </p>
<p>My support for Obama–or Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Richardson–has not been so much out of undying love for a particular candidate, but because these are the people who seem to share my convictions. I want to get out of Iraq as soon as possible. The sooner, the better. I know some of you disagree with me on that point, but that’s how I feel. … And I am very concerned about the composition of the Supreme Court, which under Bush has taken some steps to the right. It’s naive to think that these judges, who are only human, after all, can effectively set aside their personal beliefs and rule as strict Constitutionalists on each and every case. They can’t, they won’t, and they never will. Thus, I want the next president to bring some balance to the court. It shouldn’t be heavily left-leaning or right-leaning, just sensible, decent, and in the middle. </p>
<p>And one more thing, which I may be drawn and quartered for. Maybe it’s time for America to be led by someone other than an older white male. We’re a great country, an amazing blend of cultures, ethnicities, religions, and (of course) genders. Why can’t we tap into some of that talent? Old white men have had their turn at the wheel, and bungled the job. How about someone else drives for awhile? </p>
<p>So, bz–you asked for an ounce and got a ton! Sorry.</p>
<p>All of the reasons you said you support Obama are the same resons I’m supporting McCain - I agree that the SCOTUS should be more centrist & balanced and MCAIN is the one who would make that happen - not Obama; as the most liberal senator, he falls into the realm of extremism, so thre’s no way he’s going to nominate justices who are “sensible, decent & in the middle”. Only McCain can achieve that goal.</p>
<p>About your comments regarding McCain’s “forgiveness” of Bush - I’ve heard McCain say his life is about “reconciliaton”. He isn’t one to hold grudges - as demonstrated also by his forgiveness of his former Vietnamese captors. I really really respect that. I think it also shows in his attitude about partisanship - what good is partisanship if you can’t get anything DONE? What good is harboring resentment against Bush if you can’t get ELECTED? McCain is a man of strong principles who wants to work hard for the good of America, but what good is that if you can’t get elected in the first place. I do think he has some principles which he will not surrender - when they involve national security for example. And I don’t believe that he would keep us in Iraq any longer than absolutely necessary - in fact MCCAIN is the one who can complete the job ASAP and get us the heck outa there!</p>
<p>Why don’t you send the proceeds from your bake sale to the McCain campaign - they would be appreciated so much more and would be put to much better use! :)</p>
<p>P.S. Hindoo - are you going to hold the fact that McCain is an old white guy against him when he is clearly the more qualified person for the job??</p>
<p>Isn’t that “racism” and “ageism”?? :)</p>
<p>Isn’t that “racism” and “ageism”??</p>
<p>Good point. Woe is me, I’m a racist and an ageist, and I didn’t even know it! … But bz, I have to respectfully disagree with you on the Supreme Court issue. We’ve had eight years of a socially conservative president who has placed two very conservative, relatively young guys on the court–one of them being our chief justice. … McCain is also a social conservative and, as such, I don’t see him providing the necessary balance. This doesn’t make him evil, but simply human.</p>
<p>And my “Baking for Barak” money will go directly to the Obama campaign. All $17.50 of it!</p>
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<p>I really wish you guys would let this go. Votes got counted. There was not some vast right winged conspiracy to steal the election. If I recall correctly (details escape me) there was one of the primaries or some other election involving two democrats and one wasn’t happy with the results so they started talking about votes not being counted, etc… It gets old. You lost, got over it. I’ll be the first to smack down any republican that whines if they lose this election and it is close.</p>
<p>I will unabashedly admit that I think McCain is too damn old to be president - I am with my 80 year old grandparents and my staunchly Republican 50 year old uncle on this one. I don’t think it is “ageism” to recognize that people start deteriorating once they get old, and I want someone with a vested interest in the future. I am tired of my generation being forced to clean up old men’s messes and pay for their dirty wars and deficits.</p>
<p>Right-to-Life cases aside, do you think it’s a good idea for justices to legislate from the bench?</p>
<p>I believe McCain will nominate justices who will merely uphold the law that congress has established. They wouldn’t be able to overturn “Roe v. Wade” or any other law if it is a well-constructed law in the first place. Furthermore, if the entire Congress is left-leaning, then the SCOTUS isn’t going to have much of an impact even if they are right-leaning. Constitutionalist justices will be more inclined (and feel duty-bound) to uphold the law as written by the Legislature (provided it is a well-written law as I said before).</p>
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<p>Wow. Not even going to go there. I hope someone from your own camp calls you out on this one. I’ll bet that McCain could whip your or my a** when it comes to mental agility. What a discriminatory thing to say.</p>
<p>whoa - unregistered. You need to find some new friends - either older or younger I don’t know which!</p>
<p>I’ve seen McCain several times in public and there’s nothing “elderly” about him. As I’ve mentioned before, some of his aides have a hard time keeping up w/ him! And have you seen his mom? she’s in her 90’s (95?) and she is spry & sharp!</p>
<p>We need to recognize that we can benefit greatly from the expertise, experience & wisdom of McCain & other more “mature” members of our society. God knows we need some WISDOM in our next President!!</p>
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<p>You believe he will, but will he? If McCain’s elected, I hope you’re right. … As for Roe v. Wade, I suspect that many social conservatives simply want that law to go away, regardless of whether it’s construction was good, bad, or indifferent. … I personally think its healthy for a changing of the political guard every so often. If one party or political philosophy holds sway for too long, you get a country “of some of the people, by some of the people, and for some of the people.” … Another four-to-eight years of a social conservative at the helm is not what we need right now, in my humble opinion. Nor do we need another four-to-eight years of war.</p>
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<p>Yes, he’s a pretty lively and feisty guy on the campaign trail and with a seemingly higher energy level than I ever had on the best day of my life.</p>
<p>“I really wish you guys would let this go. Votes got counted. There was not some vast right winged conspiracy to steal the election.”</p>
<p>I’m not a Democrat. I didn’t vote for John Kerry or for Al Gore or Bill Clinton in '96. I think you should do some research before you make blanet statements, then come back and tell us what you found.</p>
<p>Hindoo - good job w/ the quoting!</p>
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<p>Perhaps, but change just for the sake of change could be disastrous! You must be pretty certain that the changes to be made are the RIGHT changes. With Obama’s situation as being the MOST liberal senator, I absolutely cannot conclude that putting him at the helm is the right thing to do for our country. (You don’t like Bush, so you’re goona try to swing the pendulum waaaaaay way the other way?? Bad!).</p>
<p>On the other hand, McCain’s DEMONSTRATED willingness & ability to work across both sides of the aisle is PRECISELY the approach we need right now. HE"S the one that can accomplish cooperation & compromise. He’s a proven statesman w/ tons of experience. He’s not an extremist like Obama - quite the opposite & that’s why we should elect him. He’s the one who can heal the wounds inflicted by the Bush administration, bring the country together & get us on the right track!</p>