Cent, i respect you and i wish you all the best in life. I wish the best for all human beings.

However, let me remind you all this is a chance we get to have change in our lives, to go in a different direction, to better this world- I know it sounds melodramatic and LOAM will undoubtedly get a good laugh, but i'm serious, today, i ask you all to look within your soul, those of you who have kids, grandchildren,...... Do you all beleive things will prosper with McCain????

He's a continuation of Bush. This rhetoric about changing America just is not true. It aint going to happen, it aint going to fly.

Do i support Obama or even like him? I dont know, but it would be a change this country and the world so desperatly needs right now.


Maybe that inexperienced and empty suit will be the salvation of us and our world. Maybe not- but i will not vote for more of Bush and will most definatly vote for the empty suit- who knows what surprises are in store with him...... Its a ray of hope, anyway, and i owe it to my kids to at least try to vote for a different future, as a mother, i owe it to them to feel the freedom just like i did, and feel hope. I want them to prosper and there wont be any prospering i'm afraid with a man whose been in bed with Bush for years. Same play different cast of characters.

The message:

VOTE WISELY- YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.

End of act 1, scene 1.

Originally posted by dgtempetoday, i ask you all to look within your soul, those of you who have kids, grandchildren,...... Do you all beleive things will prosper with McCain????

YES!

I have kids too. I believe the U.S. will prosper as long as the government doesn't prevent it from prospering. It's the entrepreneurs, the small business owners, the average Americans that make the U.S. prosper, not government programs or government funding.

Obama's entire platform is based on the government being MORE involved in influencing and interfering with Americans working to make the U.S. prosper. McCain working with a Democratic Congress is much less of a risk of screwing up what the American people naturally do well.

Obama-Pelosi-Reid is a triumvirate that could usher in a new era alright -a new era of economic collapse if they attempt to impose a more burdensome government onto an already struggling economy.

To roll the dice and just "hope" Obama will change things is relinquishing your own power to change your own life for the better. No government is going to do more to make your life better than you have the power right now to do for yourself.

Well, ive been known to be wrong. I sure hope who ever is elected is the right choice.

We dont have another chance.

But i do respect both your opinions and welcome your input.

Who knows, huh?

Originally posted by dgtempe
Well, ive been known to be wrong. I sure hope who ever is elected is the right choice.

We dont have another chance.

But i do respect both your opinions and welcome your input.

Who knows, huh?

We'll have another chance in four years.

Let me put it another way. 8 years ago Bush became POTUS. I personally know dozens of people who busted their butts and became incredibly successful in the last 8 years. There success in life had nothing to do with Bush or the government at all.

I also know dozens of people who are no better off and many who are worse off than they were 8 years ago. And guess what? It's not because of anything to do with the government. It has everything to do with their own choices.

So no matter who is elected POTUS, ignore them. They don't make you more successful, nor do they prevent you from becoming more successful. It's your own choices and actions that determine where you'll be in 4 years.

I would suggest your action would be to totally eliminate the emotion of "hope" from your thinking. It's a disempowering emotion. It presupposes you're not in control of your own destiny.

Decide what you want in your life, why it's an absolute MUST to have it, and then map out a plan to achieve it. If you do this it doesn't matter who is elected POTUS.

Jamie,

There's a lot of truth in what you're saying.

Thank you for the encouraging words. I will try to remember your wise words and go on, but its hard to break a cycle 8 terrible years. I hope you are all correct.

I'm not a weakling or easily persuaded by any means, but i do listen when people speak in a rational nice manner and i appreciate your advise.

Lets see where we go from here. I'm not overly religious, but i do hope and pray some things straighten out and we have a safe future of sorts.

thank you.

I personally think that Mccain is ahead due to his VP selection, he took a gamble on Palin and it seems to be paying off by giving him higher ratings.

In the same way Obama could have really pulled ahead by selecting Clinton thus uniting the party more and appealing to women voters.

Just politics, pretty superficial not about the issues.

Originally posted by centurion1211
The problem I have with your philosphy is that change for change's sake can also be very dangerous.

Let's say I'm driving on an icy road and feel that I'm starting to skid. I would agree that going crazy with the steering wheel or brakes would be dangerous, but to sit there and do nothing, while heading off the cliff? No thank you.

To call for Obama when you don't even know if you like or support him just because he supposedly represents change (Biden is change?) could easily end up the height of folly.

Well I don't get it then. You advocate no change first, and then complain there is not enough. Go figure!