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A Letter for McCain Supporters’ Eyes Only
First, my disclaimer. I am posting this as a request for discussion purposes. I DO NOT support Obama!!
If you’re voting for McCain and you’ve clicked to read this I promise this will be pain free and fast. First off, I respect you for voting tomorrow. Right away you’ve set yourself above the apathetic millions and clearly you care about this country.
Before you punch, click or fill in your ballot for John McCain I would like to have a small one sided non-argumentative conversation with you as a person who also cares whether this country continues to grow and flourish or not.
Read more HERE
Posted by: Jennifer on 11/03 at 02:35 PM
- 1. · Thanks Jennifer- Its what Ive been trying to say for a while in all my inept posts.
Judge fairly, not from falsehoods fed you but truth, not because of an R or D, not because you are RED or BLUE, right or left wing.
But from truth and who you beleive can change the entire direction of our country. I think we are all tired of divisiveness.
We have to join together.
Go to vote for who your heart feels id right because of the true facts.
ANd know that who is ever elected- cant do it alone- he needs the help of every single American and politican.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. einstein
Comment by BJGoodwin on 11/03 at 03:05 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 2. · BJ, here's my last question to you on the election (as it won't matter in 24 hours!): How do you personally determine what is fact, fiction, rumor, myth, etc.? One reporter says Obama's association with a domestic terrorist is important, another says it's not. One reporter says Obama's tax plan is pure fantasy, another says it will benefit millions. These are just two examples of hundreds of platform issues.
So how do you decide which "expert" is right?
Comment by Birdman on 11/03 at 04:14 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 3. · I think Ive stated the entire process so many times here that folks are tired of it and Im tired of saying it.
If you really want to know- answer and after dinner, I'll start typing.
Please remembr we are ALL Americans. We all want whats best. And we all come to the table with different views of the WOrld around us.
So we Americans who try- do the best we can and than go with what our brain and heart tells us to do.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. einstein
Comment by BJGoodwin on 11/03 at 04:23 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 4. · Jennifer, I concur with everything you say and compliment you on the beautiful way you said it. In the early phases of this long campaign, I had every intention of leaning toward McCain. I respected his maverick positions on a number of issues and truly believed that after 26 years in the Congress, he was really an outsider at heart. As his campaign evolved, I became very disappointed that he spent so much time criticizing Obama on things that I did not consider important or valid and at the expense of discussing his positions on matters that are important to me. On the other hand, Obama stayed on point and only reeacted modestly to some of McCains jabs. At the same time, Obama showed courage on several issues that I thought showed character. He espoused raising taxes on some Americans even though this was certain to lose votes when his opponent promised not to raise anyone's taxes. He stayed true to advocating alternative energy programs at a time when we were paying $4.00/gallon for gasoline when his opponent was calling for more drilling. Although I'm sure many people realize that Obama understands that increased domestic oil production is necessary in the near term and that not promoting it actively does not mean he is against it, that stance is sure to cost him votes also. These positions and others demonstrated to me that he drew the line on pandering at a point far above that of his opponent.
Comment by Iamangttia on 11/04 at 12:45 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 5. · Whoa,wait a minute. Are ya'll clicking on the "Read more HERE" link? I didn't write this. This is an article written by someone else. The only thing I wrote was:
"First, my disclaimer. I am posting this as a request for discussion purposes. I DO NOT support Obama!! "
Comment by Jennifer on 11/04 at 01:10 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 6. · Yea, Yea!
Comment by Iamangttia on 11/04 at 04:31 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 7. · Iam, Obama is a strong proponent of robbing Peter to pay Paul. There are a lot more "Pauls" than there are "Peters." He's getting a lot of support from "Pauls."
By the way, Obama spent as much time attacking McCain as McCain spent attacking Obama in ads. Obama just did it in such a way that the unsophisticated observer thought he was "staying on point." An easy mistake when some silver-tongued devil is schmoozing.
Comment by Birdman on 11/04 at 05:58 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 8. · Birdman, are you disc'ing me? Some people may say that Obama's counter to outrageous McCain affronts is 'silver-tongured schmoozing' and others may call it a mannered and measured polite response to unwarranted accusations.
Comment by Iamangttia on 11/04 at 06:08 PM | [Back to Top] | [Back to Main] - 9. · I beleive that statement has been proven false by media. McCain had a huge of negative ads vs Obama.
Im still trying to find the exact percentage which I came across the other day. But the following says a lot:McCain Campaign's Ad Spending Now Nearly 100 Percent Devoted To Attack Ads
By Greg Sargent - October 3, 2008, 2:51PM
The McCain campaign has now shifted virtually 100 percent of his national ad spending into negative ads attacking Obama, a detailed breakdown of his ad buys reveals.
By contrast, the Obama campaign is devoting less than half of its overall ad spending to ads attacking McCain. More than half of its spending is going to a spot that doesn't once mention his foe.
I asked Evan Tracey -- who tracks national ad spending for the Campaign Media Analysis Group -- to detail the amounts each campaign is spending on specific different spots. The idea was to gauge the precise degree of the McCain campaign's shift into negative mode amid his slide in the polls, and determine whether the Obama camp was following suit.
The results were striking, and suggest a sharper turn into negative campaigning as time runs low. For one thing, Tracey says, Obama is now outspending McCain by nearly two to one on the air -- Obama is spending $2.4 million per week, and McCain is spending $1.3 million weekly. But on to the breakdowns.
As of October 1 -- three days ago -- the McCain campaign's $1.3 million weekly is being broken down as follows, according to Tracey, who stressed that he himself wasn't labeling the ads either "positive" or "negative":
* Nearly half a million weekly is funding the ad called "Dome," which attacks "Obama and his liberal allies" in Congress for favoring "massive government."
* A shade more than half a million is funding the ad called "Mum," which attacks "Obama and his liberal allies" as "mum on the market crisis."
* Much of the remaining McCain money is funding a spot called "Overseas," which says that "Barack Obama and his liberal allies are to blame" for jobs going overseas. A negligible amount of the remainder is going to a positive spot, the "Original Mavericks" ad.
This is a dramatic shift from the period before he suspended his campaign. At that time, Tracey says, McCain was spending in the neighborhood of half his ad money on the positive "Original Mavericks" ad, and around half on the negative "Dome" spot.
This week, by contrast, "Original Mavericks" ran on Monday only eight times, suggesting that this positive spot is "cycling out of the rotation," as Tracey puts it. "McCain took out the "Mavericks" spot and replaced it with "Mum," Tracey says.
Now let's look at Obama's spending breakdown.
Of his $2.4 million weekly, Tracey says, well over half -- $1.4 million -- is funding the spot called "Real Change," which criticizes the status quo but doesn't mention McCain once.
The remaining million per week is funding a smattering of ads that do attack McCain, on topics like Social Security, health care, and McCain's "fundamentals of the economy" line.
Pretty striking contrast.
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. einstein
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