Identifying with the Candidates vs. Issues

Ppl these days are voting on the very things that they say are un-PC 'discrimination': Blacks for Obama, Women for Hillary, and White men for McCain. They call it 'identifying with the candidate!'

In that case, guess I have to 'refine my position' (another Obama word for the Thesaurus for 'Flip-Flopping')

Identifying with John McCain

1) We are both "John Mc's" from AZ

2) We both served in the military during Viet Nam

3) We both were into competitive wrestling in sports

4) We've both had 2 wives

5) We both like Budweiser (but for 'different' reasons)

6) I never had the nickname 'McNasty,' but was called 'Big Bad John.'


Or, Identifying with Hillary

1) We both dislike 'philandering, adulterous, big-ego males'


But, attempting to Identify with Barack Hussein Obama

1) Absolutely NOTHING!*

*(including his Black Liberation version of Christianity with influence of the New Age Goddess & Rev. Oprah)


So what happened to voting on the issues?? Are we all so polarized so as not to think as "What's best for America?!' Are we now personality and celebrity driven?? I think that this self-focused, 'what's best for me' society is now the Norm, and the good ole days of self-sacrifice following the Depression and WWII/Korean War generations are over.....

Well, I don't remember what all I said on my reply before it was moved...but I know I'm not lookin forward to this next race. There isn't really a good candidate to vote for, I can honestly say I've never voted democrat. I'm not a huge McCain fan but I'm not for Obama either and it's not his color.
My brother has told me things and him and alot others in the military fear him being the Commander In Chief. I just hope and pray something changes w/ the economy, uneployment is SO high and working part time at wal-mart, when business after a holiday slows, so does everyone's hours, so I'm cut from 20-25 hrs a week to 12-15, hoping that changes soon.

Anyway, good post, always love reading what you post. Take care!

What do I or any-one else for that matter, REALLY KNOW about Barack Hussein Obama, John Sidney McCain III, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, or any politician we've ever had? Nothing, zero, zilch nada. Chances are we've probably never met them, sat down and had a heart to heart talk with them, took a fishing trip, gone to a football game or any of the things we do when we are getting to really KNOW someone.

We can fool ourselves into thinking that we KNOW the candidate but we don't. We only know what little bit of information has to be released to the public and that's it.

You can list things that you feel or even know you have in common with someone but those things don't make you KNOW them or how they will react in a given situation.

I personally have nothing in common with any of them and I never will. I don't vote on what I have in common with someone. I vote for who I think will do the best job. I don't care if it's a he or a she, yellow, black, white, pink, or purple as long as I feel he is the best one to unite the country, change the wrong and deadly path we are on and do what's best for the people of this country period. 
Well I do have one exception and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger. I just plain detest him. He thought he was so smooth marrying into the Kennedy family so he could get into U.S. politics. Well he did and look at CA. He was a horrible actor and isn't any better as a governor. Did anyone else happen to notice the question that he asked during one of the earlier debates about changing the law so that someone that wasn't born a U.S. citizen can run for President. I'm thinking Oh no that's not going to happen. Thankfully the candidates responded correctly with a resounding NO.

The bottom line, for me anyway, is based on the information that I've been able to read by looking at the bills, sub committees, co-sponsors etc that each one was involved in during their first years as senators or state Representatives and the 10 years in politics.

Everyone has to decide their own way and shouldn't be condemned or belittled for how they do it as long as they use actual facts and not the trash that has been on the Internet about each one of the candidates, or let people influence them. It's THEIR decision and theirs alone, they have to live with it just as we all do. 

Anyway it goes, one of them is going to be the next President so we better be ready.