Which scoundrel wins next Tuesday?
My gut says Mc Cain will win. lt will be an interesting election.
Last edited by The_Shooman (2008-11-01 21:36:14)
the Establishment wins, by having a big turnout - which was the whole point of the sham election anyway.
Whatever the outcome, the media lose the most. Never before have I seen the mainstream media so in the tank for a political candidate, Mr.Obama, resulting in loss of integrity and credibility and contributing to significant across-the-board declines in audience. The New York Times, which has been functioning like Obama's press agency, has seen its shares descent into penny stock status and their bonds rated as junk.
Last edited by Marc Grayson (2008-11-02 09:28:51)
Maybe the stakes are always high in any election, but I feel they're even higher now than ever. However, this election has been the one I've least been interested in. I'm not particularly happy with either candidate. I felt the same way with Bush and Kerry as well. I've noted two things of interest: Obama might well be the candidate who, if elected, is more aggressive overseas in dealing with terrorism and those who harbor its agents. Second, Obama was looking, to me, solidly republican in his domestic views until recently. All this clamor of "socialism" is just so ignorant. The only truly liberal democratic candidate was John Edwards. I myself was looking for a candidate who was a cross between Edwards (domestic policy) and Guiliani (overseas). Edwards I always thought was a scumbag and Guiliani, not sufficiently dignified to be president. Any support I would've lent McCain withered when he chose that awful woman for his running mate.
^ Further from all this, it occured to me last night that Obama is sort of a Tony Blair figure, not quite a precise fit with his party. That I think is a good thing, since the "party" system in the U.S. is particularly pointless.
As I usual, I'll be writing in Plekhanov.
I am an iGent so all mainstream candidates are too liberal for me. I am writing in Whig again this year.
Even voting third-party or writing-in names helps the eventual winner.
Actually Obama will win. He is one of the great politicians of the age. I don't know what he will do, but I do know he plays the political game in the same league with the Roosevelts and Lincoln. In my life time, I have never seen such a masterly politician.
No guarantee of what will happen in the future. But if you think he is an ordinary politician, you are a fool.
Last edited by tom22 (2008-11-03 22:01:20)
No. this was an easy year. we should have had the last two elections. we didn't because we had bad campaigners. This year was easy. John McCain is a good man. He got bad advice. But it was never going to be a Republican year.
Mark: I miss the old Republicans. the people who would not burden the next generation with a massive debt.
You people just got weird on the issue of taxes. A deficit is just a tax increase deferred.
Buy municipal tax free bonds (as long as they don't have some weird CDO term). you can hang on to all of your money. Oh and shop at LL Beans. you'll survive the pendulums of history that the Schlesingers described. you will be fine, best, tom
I (nearly) always vote Republican and this election will not be an exception.