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MARTHAA..Right on.

Aaron, you condescension is unconvincing.

Where did you get the idea I was a single issue voter?
Simply from the fact that I only commented on one issue in one discussion?
Quite a stretch there... even if it IS a rather important issue. Life & Death you might even say.

I don't care who you intend to hold responsible for always getting the "lowest common denominator" president, because you let the two parties scare you into staying with the sh!t they feed you, election after election.

If the Dems & Repubs both want to run sh!t candidates, and you're OK with that, such that you'll do nothing that will make them change, then fine.
YOU deserve the candidates YOU support.

I intend to vote according to my conscience, and your pleading will not sway me to vote for the ticket of your choice.

Odd, you say:

I'll say to you what I said to fearless: feel proud. Feel proud for being a single issue voter, for having unswayable morals when the rest of us are relativist push-overs.

You are absolutely right about Biden. And yes, Kennedy/Johnson got us into Vietnam, Truman dropped the bomb. But Carter sought to promote human rights abroad, and Reagan mined the Nicaraguan harbors while the School of the Americans taught Contras how to slit throats and torture peasants.

So no, the parties aren't event the same, but if they were, you still have to decide. Or you can not decide, and let others do so for you. And as someone who likely shares many of your views, at least on international issues, I will hold you responsible, as much I hold Reagan and Bush responsible.

Your abdication of responsibility will not absolve of your guilt.

Please, please, please: vote Obama/Biden.

Thanks for the quadruple reply.

Palin as V.P. doesn't scare me any more than "Liberal Military Interventionist" Joe Biden.
www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/08/9370_bidens_worldvie.html

Neither ticket will be seeing my vote.

I plan on voting for a ticket that thinks we should NOT be intervening, militarily, in the affairs of other nations.

odd, you say? said:

"I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

You may need to start worrying now since Palin has decided she is at the top of the "Palin/McCain" ticket. She said that on several occasions and referred to McCain as "her running mate". Maybe I am wrong and she isn't clueless about politics. Perhaps, she really thinks she has been so popular that she should be the Presidential candidate and has decided to take the role away from McCain. One would think she would know that the term "running mate" refers to Vice President and never used by the VP candidate in reference to the Presidential candidate.
I do "say it is odd" that she made those gaffs--or maybe they weren't gaffs and she meant to say them.

...it is odd the way her husband, Todd, seems to be involved with her duties as Governor of Alaska.

I assume you were outraged when Slick Willie allowed his wife to be so involved in Whitehouse politics. Asking her to draft major, sweeping changes to gov't policies regarding health care??

I'll start to worry about this non-issue when Todd tells people "WE are the Governor!"

OMG! It just keeps getting worse for Palin and I find it too painful to watch her fall on her face any longer.

Shame on McCain for choosing a novice to be his running mate for the 2nd highest office in the land. This poor woman is clueless about the world outside of Alaska and contrary to what some experts are saying, she knows little if anything about politics.

McCain has done this woman a disservice along with his party. Palin is making gaff after gaff and is becoming a laughing stock to many. Her most recent gaff being when she introduced McCain as her running mate--then making reference to the "Palin/McCain" ticket-not once, but several times in as many days.

It is bad enough that Palin comes across as being uninformed and clueless about major issues, but it is odd the way her husband, Todd, seems to be involved with her duties as Governor of Alaska. Todd, a member of the Independence party in Alaska until 2002, is copied in on Palin's official emails. One complaint from an Alaskan politician was that Todd was present at a meeting that was supposed to be between her and Palin. I wonder if Palin feels she is not up to the job as governor and needs the help of her husband. It makes me wonder if Palin is VP or President, will Todd be by her side helping make major policy decisions.

The Republicans keep lowering the bar for candidates they choose for VP and President. As if 8 years of Bush taught them nothing. I only hope that Americans see that the Palin/McCain ticket will be sure disaster for all of us.

Fearless,

Yes, go vote third-party. Feel brave, strong, intrepid, Daniel-Boone-going-where-no-man-has-gone. Throw a brick while you're at it.

Then, please, come back to reality. The Democrats and Republicans are rife with problems. True. Nothing can be done. False. Slavery ended. Women voted. FDIC created. Voting and civil rights pass. It's hard, actually having to be a part of the solution, rather than complaining on MoJo. But worth it. Try is sometime. Go work for a congressman you don't agree with, so that in helping write his or her policy statements, you can have influence. Do voter outreach to communities with low-information due to lack of internet access.

I wish we had a parlimentary system. I really do. But the fact that we don't is not going to paralyze me into morally self-satisfied actions like voting for a third party in a presidential election.

By the way, feel free to vote third-party in local elections. Depending on where you live, they actually win.

Best,
Aaron

Fearless, you are a tool. This blurb is taken from a 240-word story is taken CNN.com. In the original story, Barack Obama's name comes in after 108 words, Tom Coburn's at 120 words. The link to the original story is at the top of the page, and even in the short part that is pasted here, it's a stretch (huuuuge stretch) to call Coburn's contribution buried.

But please, your Laziness, continue with your point about whatever (Lincoln?!) is bothering you about this blog post, facts be damned.

"I guess he is like al gore creating the internet..."

or John McCain creating the Blackberry

I tried googling "google for government" and found a neat headline at The Inquirer for today: Google beats off the government, That's a keeper.

Palin's a liar. That's a fact.

go read coburns report Obama showed up one time to get his name on the bill wouldnt return calls or any thing til it was passed A real glory grabber I guess he is like al gore creating the internet I still laugh about that one

Yeah, well, most evil usually comes from people who think they're above it. Kinda like a con man who knows he can keep you in the game because you keep thinking you can outsmart him. See, here you are already going on about how you got the real guts and everybody who doesn't vote your way is voting for evil. You can vote any way you want, but when it makes you more moral than the rest of us, like me, who really believe our candidate is a choice for good, well, I guess one of us must be the lesser of two evils, huh?

Mother Jones - Comments for "Palin Proposes &quot;Google For Government,&quot; Unaware Obama Already Created It"

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Mother Jones - Comments for "Palin Proposes "Google For Government," Unaware Obama Already Created It"