Since you are all little babies you are stupid enough to vote for more of the same because you didn’t get your way. Who cares if the country falls apart because of your stupid principle. Waaaa I didn’t get the nominie I wanted so I’m leaving the party for the party that stands for everything completely the opposite of what we stand for. I am embarrassed to call myself American because of idiot groups like you. shame on you

As I am not a Republican, I don’t just do the lock-step, goose stepping idiotic go-along-with-whomever, no matter what, non thinking PARTY voting that I despise about the Republicans I know.

I am not a conservative, so I think about my vote, I take a hard look at the candidates, and I make my choice that way. In the primaries, Sen. Clinton was the best of the lot, but the DNC evidently felt the need to rig it and they chose Oblahblah. Shame on them!

My vote is my choice, not some blathering, foaming at the mouth, goose-stepping, locked arm Obots! And that’s what I love about Democracy and my country.

I put country above party, and that’s that. If ya don’t like that, well too bad. And from all the years that I’ve observed Sen. McCain, he’s tried to do the same, so I have no problem proudly touching my voting screen on his name. It will NOT be Obambi, not ever.

I supported Hillary, and when Obama won, I didn’t know much about Obama, so I started doing my research. Boy did I find out a lot. If you’re interested, google obama scrapbook. Enjoy!

http://obamascrapbook.com

The GOP is eating this up. Believe it or not, they’re many republicans who feel the same way about McCain as you do about Obama. However they’re pulling together. They know that no matter what, McCain would better serve their interests than anyone from the Democratic party.

The GOP has had control and has done pretty much what ever they wanted for the past 8 years. The results are mediocre at best and I’m ready to give it to the “kid”.
McCain, to me has lost his spark. He’s just a figure head, a mascot, something to keep the media attention off the GOP machinery. He doesn’t seem to understand why or how the Bush administration failed at running the country. That frightens me more than any bizarre red dawn conspiracy that surrounds Obama.

I think Barrack has taken some tough and unusual positions, harshly criticized, only later to have his opposition relent and end up agreeing with him. That is what sold me on Barrack and why I think he deserves a bit more cred than most of critics give him. I’m done with the obama-hating. He’s alright.

I understand the frustration. But supporting McCain isn’t the answer.
Channel your anger into forcing Obama to support the issues that matter to you most!

Honestly this is ridiculous. I understand if you don’t like Obama, and you don’t want to vote for him. I think it is laudible to vote on one’s principles and ideals. However to vote for someone representing a party with ideals that are polar opposites to the nominee you supported (Clinton) is ludicrous. That is why she has given her support to Obama’s campaign. If you want to use your vote to speak towards change in the party vote for a third party candidate who shares your ideals and principles. That is why they exist for those who disagree with the leading parties.

I think John Mccain would have made a good president in 2000 when he stood by his own principles. You can watch his comments and speeches now and see he is being controlled by the neo-conservative Republican party. We do not need four more years of neo-conservative policies.

I would like you fellow Democrats to realize what news show this is airing on…the most blatantly scewed and many times downright lying news station in history. By appearing on Fox News it looks as if you are not only supporting McCain, but supporting the Republican party in general and all of its policies.

Hillary Clinton asked the question tonight if you were “voting for me or for that soldier in Iraq, or that family without health insurance or that family kicked out of there own home” and the answer is that the people of this website were voting for a person to have the name “president” and the hell with everything else.

Go ahead and turn your backs on that soldier and that family that cant pay for cancer treatment, go ahead and turn your backs.

I would like you fellow Democrats to think of something real quick. It is very likely that the next president will have at least two supreme court nominations to deal with in just his first term. McCain is still a Republican who needs Republican backing and this will undoubtedly appoint two young conservatives to the bench. This will make the Supreme Court a 7-2 majority for conservatives which will likely mean a conservative supreme court for a long, long, long time. Think about it.

you’re a dickless little traitor

Really? You’re pissed that Hillary lost so you’re going to vote for a guy with opposite policies instead of the guy with an almost exact policy agenda? Seriously? Is this a really elaborate joke?

I am a lifelong Democrat and support the principles of the Democratic Party. I also vote only for candidates that I consider qualified for the office they seek. Obama has a very thin resume and his positions have repeatedly shifted during the campaign. We simply have no way of knowing what he would do if elected. Come November, I will be voting for every qualified Democratic candidate on the ballot, which will not include Barack Obama. I will be reluctantly voting for McCain — reluctantly because he is a Republican. He, at least, has shown the ability to stand on principle even when it is not politically expedient. He, at least, has a history of service and experience that qualifies him for the presidency. The Democratic Party needs to learn that even loyal Democrats are not going to support candidates who are either corrupt or unqualified. This has nothing to do with being a sore loser. Obama won the nomination fair and square, but because too many ignorant people get caught up in vague appeals to hope. Maybe in another four years we’ll have a Democratic candidate worth voting for.

Many of the comments I’ve seen here argue for McCain over Obama because of experience. This is a point I am having a hard time following. Please don’t call me names or get in my face, I promise to treat you with the same respect you give me. But when Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 he had no national experience, he was Gov. Clinton of Arkansas. He had no foreign policy experience, he had no Senate record, and was not widely recognized as a unifying force in local politics let alone national politics. I volunteered for Bill Clinton in 92 and his re-election campaign in 96 and honestly I wish he could’ve run for another, or another 10, terms. I love Sen Clinton as well, her policies closely mirror my ideals, if she had won the primaries, I would have volunteered for her as well. But she didn’t. Some say it was taken from her and given to Obama by the DNC. I’m not here to judge that. (I would like to say though that if we had had more of that dissention in 2000 maybe the Supreme Court and the state of Florida wouldn’t have put us in this horrible situation in desperate need of change). But please let’s look at the issues and the platforms presented by the 2 candidates that we can choose from in the general election.
The war in Iraq-
Sen Obama has always opposed the war and was one of the few to see through the Bush administration’s justifications for war from the outset. This is not a platform he created to win an election. He has been an advocate for timelines and benchmarks to allow the Iraqi government to retake control of their destiny and allow our overworked and underappreciated troops come home. The war has contributed $4 trillion to our debt that will need to be paid somehow sometime (I’ll get to this issue momentarily)
Sen McCain still supports the war and has said publicly that he would stay for 100 years and would not be opposed to re-instituting the draft to fill the ranks. Many of our own troops oppose a draft, they realize that a volunteer army is more effective than one that is forced to serve. And the only plan I’ve heard from McCain to “win the war” is to “win it” and he “knows how to win it” (see his speech at Sturges). In my opinion, that strategy is about as sound as Rumsfeld’s was. So possibly 100 years (and I hope that was figurative and not literal) of running in circles with no strategy.
What the Iraq situation (and Iran, and Israel/Palestine, and North Korea) needs is diplomacy. If Jimmy Carter can forge a peace between Protestants and Catholics in Ireland and Egypt and Israel in the middle east, then we should be able to work something out, right?
Economy-
I think it’s obvious that most Americans are suffering like never before in their lives. Wages have stagnated for decades while the cost of living has steadily increased. Fuel costs, and in turn food cost have skyrocketted in the past 18-24 months. In 1999 I opened a bakery, used my nest egg, my creativity, and my hard work to build a small business from a dream to reality. When I opened, natural gas to run the ovens cost about 30 cents/BTU, when I sold it in 2007 it was about $1.05/BTU. Fuel for my trucks was under $1 a gallon at opening, closing in on $3 a gallon at selling. Health insurance for my employees (which I required the new owners to keep in place) increased 20% each year for the last 4 years. My gross income peaked at about $1.4 million, net of about $150,000 in 2003, then both steadily declined as people in my neighborhood found fewer and fewer dollars for simple pleasures such as fresh baked breads and pastries. Home prices in my neighborhood have declined dramatically, as has the value of the dollar. Unemployment has increased steadily (even with the new way the Bush administration calculates it, for those that don’t know, they no longer count the individuals that have given up on trying to find work). I guess my point is that we, the folks that work for this country, are hurting.
Sen Obama has pledged windfall taxes on oil companies to offset a $1000 energy relief check for us. Some may argue that this will cause the oil companies to increase prices. You may in fact be right. But I lived through the energy crisis of the late 70’s, I learned conservation then, and conservation now is one of the main reasons gasoline prices have declined in recent weeks. Tax cuts for us, the workers of this world, will allow more money in pockets, more money to stimulate the economy from the 95% of Americans that make less than $250,000 a year, the threashhold Sen Obama has set for tax policy changes. Increasing our tax revenues by rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations will help balance the budget once again. We were paying the debts we created in the 80’s (I love Bill Clinton for being able to accomplish this) but now have added so much to it that we are literally selling off America to finance our debt (I despise GW Bush for throwing this all away, fiscally responsible my ass, but I digress). Someone will have to pay this back, but who? If our economy tanks, and our corporations go into foreign hand (I’m in St. Louis and there are many folks here not too happy that Budweiser is now owned by Inbev) where is that money going to come from? I also think back to those troubled times in the 70’s and how much better off we’d be now if we had the foresight then to invest in alternative energy. Our auto industry would now be thriving and selling efficient cars and technology all over the world, rather than wallowing in unsold SUVs. Sen Obama has pledged billions of dollars for development of these technologies we should already be using. America was once on the forefront of innovation but we seem now to be stuck in a rut of ‘eh, it’s good enough’.
Speaking of ‘eh, it’s good enough’, Sen McCain proposes extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. If the past 8 years has been any indication, this policy is seriously flawed as is a not so subtle form of class warfare. McCain does propose a tax cut for the middle and lower classes, but not as substantial as Sen Obama’s, plus he has no plan to increase tax revenues or curtail spending to balance the budget. Remember that 100 year’s war in Iraq we might have to face, that ain’t going to be cheap. He’s proposed slashing earmarks and pork but which ones specifically? He’s said he could find a billion dollars tomorrow but that was 6 weeks ago and I haven’t seen that billion dollars yet so……
Energy-
Sen Obama, as I said is planning on expanding research into wind, solar, and hydrogen technologies (something that should’ve been done 3 decades ago). America uses 25% of the world’s oil and has only 3% of the oil reserves. Drilling for more oil is not the solution, it only postpones the inevitable in the same way that we buried our collective heads in the sand during those booming Reagan days instead of taking the responsible path. I was very proud of the Democrats for standing firm against the calls for expanded offshore drilling and for promoting conservation. I must admit that I have been disappointed recently for their backtracking, however slight it was, but Sen Obama’s plan for new technologies is far better than…..
Sen McCain is strongly calling for expanded offshore drilling to relieve gasoline prices now or in the near future. Even if we could begin pumping oil tomorrow, the price is set on a global market and estimates are that we would be able to lower gasoline prices by no more than a few cents. Now yes, a few cents a gallon adds up quickly considering how much gasoline we pump, but it is a panacea, not a real solution to the underlying problem. Natural gas is a better solution but is also not renewable nor clean. Sen McCain is calling for 30 new nuclear power plants, citing France as an example of nuclear use (80% of their power is nuclear generated) but France has far fewer people than the U.S. and, since energy prices have always been high in Europe, France is accustomed to, and very effective at, conservation. This is the point that Americans should be focused on. Not generating more energy but using less. And on an environmental aside, Sen McCain wants to contain all the nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but he doesn’t want it transported through his state of Arizona. Ask yourself why. Sen McCain is saying now that he wants expanded research into wind, solar, and tidal energy yet he has voted more than 30 times against funding these technologies during his days in the senate. Maybe he’s had a change of heart, but I’m thinking his record is pretty obvious.
The Constitution-
This is a big one for me personally. Our founding fathers, while not perfect, created a document FOR US, THE PEOPLE! I have watched that document shredded, OUR RIGHTS, THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, disregarded by this closed and secretive government. The Executive Branch has stolen power from the Legislative Branch, has manipulated the Judicial Branch for it’s own narrow views, and created some weird quasi-branch for VP Cheney that’s not quite the Ex