Apr
10
2008
Colin Powell: Not Sure Who To Vote For?
Posted by Russell Brown at 6:51 AM
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I don't care what your political affiliation is. How can any person who is informed and considers themselves principled not know who to vote for in a race that has 3 very different candidates.
Colin Powell Praises Obama; hasn't yet decided who he'll back...
- Senator Barak Obama is further left than the other candidates, more of a Jimmy Carter. He thinks we should pull out troops from Afghanistan and Iraq immediately and has even said he would like to remove all troops from all foreign posts. Obama thinks he can talk countries like Iran into doing what he wants with zero show/threat/possible use of force; we saw how great this worked for Bill Clinton with North Korea...
Obama favors higher taxes (on everything) and is probably one of the more green-friendly [read anti-business] candidates and He has something against the working lower-upper class which apparently left wing nuts love
Obama is also the most extreme pro-choice of the 3 by even voting in favor of allowing doctors to let a baby die [read leave in trash can] if it was born alive during an attempted late abortion. He was in the extreme minority even in his own party on that one. -
Senator Hillary Clinton is in the middle on everything and doesn't itch her nose without looking at poll numbers to see if your cool with it. She has shown some common sense and ridden the middle ground on the "war on terrorism" [I hate the term] and I'm pretty sure she would kick Iran's ass when the time comes (it will). She has a health care program that will in her mind heal America (although I'm guessing will just fail and we'll end up with shitty coverage like Canada).
She is pro-choice but isn't a nut about it.
She will raise taxes almost as high as Obama, and then higher once her health care plan fails.
Somehow thinks my income bracket and the taxes I pay can be compared to the 10's of millions her and her husband make from books and appearances. When will Democrats learn the difference between 6 digits and 7-8 digits on a tax return statement. -
Senator John McCain is almost Hillary Clinton; only with less lying, less polls and he looks better in a suit than she does. He is more conservative leaning on taxes and believes most of the time in smaller government (although all Republicans are doing shitty at making headway with this). He is not afraid to show/threaten force and I think he has a pretty realistic idea of what to expect from countries like Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and China. Hell even Russia is on that list since Putin has taken them back to 1985.
On a political scale, he is More Bill Clinton than George Bush; he just lacks the charisma and is 200 years old than Bill was during hist Presidency.
I don't know how anyone can change their mind on who their going to vote for unless you don't really pay attention to the facts and base your vote simply off a political stump speech. If you are one of those people, do me a favor and don't vote until you go learn something. I don't care if you vote for Obama (well ok maybe I do) but at least do it in full knowledge of who/what your trying to elect.