I thought that McCain said hew was going to stop his campaign starting today he was not going to show any ad’s on TV. I just saw one so now I’m confused did I miss something. I was really looking forward to not seeing a bunch of negative ad’s for the next few days. I guess I lose and someone lied or the tv station was not told about it!

I’m getting very tired with the “they caused this” and “They did this” thing, they did not do anything. Congress as a whole does things. I really just wish they would stick to what they are going to do and not what their opponent did. Thats one reason I love Obamas new ad where he explains what he wants to do and points you to his website to read more. I don’t know if McCain has an ad like this as I haven’t seen one, but I think he needs to start telling us what he’s planning on doing. I don’t care about the past, I care about how we are going to fix our future. The past is done and we can not do anything about it.

That said, yes I still plan on voting for Obama in the election as I agree more with his views and ideas them McCain’s. I also feel that Obama knows more about normal everyday people and their life’s. He has been though many of the same issues I have and knows what it’s like to go hungry or not have money to buy something. They say that the things you have been though make you who you are today. I feel that what Obama has experienced has made him who he is, but also will be in the back of his mind as president. I’m not saying McCain has not been though things, just that they were different things and I don’t think they really help him relate to the average person.

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I am sure Brarack Obama will not forget what he stands for if he makes it to the white house, end the war and get back to where we should be. One reason he will not forget it is because of the bracelet he wears. It was given to him by a mother of a solder in Iraq, she wanted him to remember her son when he was president. Remember what he fought for and the life that was taken. McCain also wears one to remind himself of the soldiers in Iraq.

Memorial Bracelets are a great way to show that you respect the past and hope for the future. There are many types of memorial bracelets there are some for 9-11, some for Vietnam and the gulf war. I think that these bracelets are a wonderful way to show that you are thinking about what goes on in the world around you and what happens to those that fight for what we as a nation stand for. I may be against the war, but I still respect what these guys are doing every day.

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I was watching the news last night and saw that McCain is leading in the polls. Okay he’s got a lead good for him, well mostly good for Palin because I once again talked to a women online last night who said she is voting for anyone but Obama, because Hillary didn’t win and it’s likely McCain won’t last though the term.

I couldn’t believe she said that, not only does she not care about the issues, she hopes McCain dies so a women is in the white house? I’m at a loss for words here. I guess this is what it has come down to for some people. They don’t care about the future of the country except that there is a women in the white house. These are the people that drive me crazy, the ones that don’t seem to listen to what the candidates say, they just see what they look like or their gender and go that way. That is no way to vote and really I hate to say it, I would rather just see them all stay home.

I don’t really care who people vote for as long as they vote for the right reasons. Even friends of Palin have not made up their minds who they are going to vote for as they disagree with some of her or McCain’s views. We need to stop looking at who has the experience and who would look better or what their gender is and look at the issues.

Here are my feelings and if you disagree feel free to Politely state your side.

Right now the economy sucks and giving tax breaks to the rich is not going to help. Why? because even with their tax breaks they have stopped spending money on some things. The rich are rich for a reason, unless they win the lottery, they are good with money. They know when to spend and when not to. They can afford to cut back as they can buy food and clothing, even overseas if they want to. If you then drop down to the middle and lower class, they spend all of their money on food, clothing and all of that, they boost the economy because they can’t buy out of the country, they buy at wal-mart, sears, JcPenny or other department store. The middle class needs the tax break to have that extra to spend.

The other argument people have is that in order to get investments and businesses going we have to give tax cuts to the rich. Again, remember they already have the tax cuts, they are not investing it because interest rates are too high. Also if you look at the business world now, people in the middle and lower class are starting to take risk and start their own business. Many are doing this online because it cost almost nothing to start. If you don’t have any money you start small. I started small. I got a free blog on blogger and went from there. My start up cost was zero!

You can do with this many types of business. Start by using eBay, yes you pay fees, but you don’t have to worry about setting up a store or anything. It’s also not that expensive to start up a website, say you like making candles. You can sell those online, you can even use blogger to sell them and not pay anything!

If you look at it this way you see that McCain’s tax cuts just will not work in this new age of business that is starting, We need a fresh thinker who has been in our shoes, who has lived off of welfare and knows how the system really works. If you have never been on it, you don’t know.

There are other issues too, but this is getting long already so I’ll leave you with this. What are your thoughts?

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I have to say I am very impressed and after listening to him am am very sure I will be voting for him. I think he will be about change, and as he put it we don’t need to take a 10% chance for change. I was not able to vote 8 years ago I was 17 when voting took place, but 18 when Bush took office. I wish I could have had a voice, because I would have voted against him and I would have felt like I tried. Instead I am one of those who has struggled since I graduated to find work, pay for school and food and try to make a life for myself.

Obama’s plans for this country is what needs to happen, we need to take care of ourselves not try to pay for everyone else when we have homeless people and children that can not eat. I am tired of watching people with money get everything and complain when they can’t have that second or third home. That needs to stop and if your one of those people, think about how the economy is for you, now think about what it would be like to wonder if you’ll have food tomorrow? I’m sure you don’t worry about this.

I think though the best part of the speech was that Obama believes in family and parents being able to be parents, not working all the time to make ends meet, not worrying about money or how they are going to get their kids to and from school. We need to make a change, and we need to now or we are just going to keep going downward and things will just get worse.

He also stated that you don’t defeat terrorist by being in Iraq. he’s right terrorism is everywhere, you defeat it by sending the message that you are willing to look past differences, not enforce your believes onto others. Working with others is the answer, not going in with power and weapons and making people do as you want them too.

We as a country need to think, what about me? what about my children what about our lives, our homes, our issues? Why can’t we spend Billions on our schools and our health instead of on war and other countries that just use us so that they don’t have to spend anything?

The United States is on at a canyon, do we step forward and build a bridge across or do we sit down and let things stay as they are?

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I’m sitting here watching CNN and Food Network, (Iron Chef is on!) and they keep talking about the anniversary of Martin Luther Kings speech. I keep thinking about how as a child in city schools I learned so much about that speech. I was once chosen to sing a wonderful rendition of Amazing Grace along with 4 other students from my elementary school in Ann Arbor. I remember thinking about all of the children around me and how they may not have been here if it hadn’t had been for that speech.

It is an amazing event both the speech and the fact that we now have a presidential nominee that is a black American. I say black because I was once told by a friend of mine that she was not African, she was a black American. She was not born in Africa, therefor she should not be called African. I agree, we need to break down barriers like that and just call all of us Americans.

The I have a dream speech for me has always meant something. As a child I felt I had much more in common with the black community then whites. I lived among them and was treated as one of them. Maybe I was a strange child and when I told one girl that I had to thank Martin Luther King for giving me my best friend. She cried and I smiled. At that time I truly believed that I would not have been the person I was if she had not been around.

So today as I sit here waiting to hear Obama speak I want to show how much respect I have for the people who fought, black and white and in between for rights for minorities and women. The world would be a much different place if you had not stood up and spoken out.

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I got a chance to watch Hillary Clinton speech tonight and I have to say it moved me and was an amazing speech. She made a great point that the United states needs to work on it’s problems and work on how we are seen around the world. I also love how she really pushed the unity of the democratic party. I am an independent, but because I have leaned this year and in the past more toward the democratic candidates i have seen what is going on. I believe the speech has done it’s job and will bring the party closer together.

I still think the best part of the speech was when she asked people to think, did they support her or did they support the ideals that she and Obama believe in. I think too many people supported her as a women and not what she believed in and that is why they will not vote for Obama. If they agree with McCain instead fine, vote for him, but don’t complain about what he does if he is elected.

Overall the speech gave me goosebumps as it did other people from what I saw on Twitter. I do have to say she does know how to speak and get the attention of a room full of people. I am looking forward to the next two days, hopefully I can stay awake, last night I ended up going to sleep.

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I want to know why, not because I’m an Obama supporter, but because many of the people who have been saying this have been demicrats for years. Why give up your values just because it’s not a women up there. Now if you have switched because you actually agree with McCain more then okay that I understand, but I have talked to people who agree with everything that Obama says, but won’t vote for him because he’s not a women and didn’t choose a women for vp.

I just don’t think that some of these people realize that if the vote McCain in they will have to deal with what he belives in and what he want’s to do. The war will continue, US taxpayer money will continue to go to Iraq and nothing will change, if thats what they want, fine, but if they want an end to the war they need to grow up and do what is right, not act like a highschool kid and try to get back at Obama for winning the nomination.

This is the reasion that many young voters don’t vote, they figure voteing is a big scam because people just vote the party and don’t listen to the issues, they vote for the cute one or the person who looks better then the other. In this race I am sure that many will not vote for Obama because of race. It’s sad this is still going on, but it’s a truth that even he knows. I just think that if you are old enough to vote you need to vote because you agree with what the canidate has to say, not because your pissed off that they were nominated instead of someone else.

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