by MikeP » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:10 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by NuWaveRx[/i]
...Bob Barr is a bit of a "johnny come lately" Libertarian--for example he sponsered a Constitutional amendment that would make flag burning illegal, not exactly what most people think of when they think personal freedom of expression.
So I chose Obama for the following reasons:
1-the ruinous and disasterous war in Iraq
2-The thought of Palin an arrhythmic heartbeat away from the Presidency, frankly scares me
3-I have an inherent faith in the capitalistic free market to survive almost any storm, including the one we are facing now or the one that Obama's policies may exacerbate. However once McCain takes away my civil liberties or imposes the dogma of Fundamentalists on the rest of the country, those rights aren't coming back
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I am currently registered as a Republican, namely to support Ron Paul in the Primaries, but for the past 16 years I've been flat-out Independent or Libertarian. I agree that the Lib candidate Bob Barr comes off as a bit of a phony and only a few years ago espoused conservative views that I totally disagree with like banning flag-burning and supporting the laughable War on Drugs. I didn't even give Barr a passing consideration.
I too voted for Obama. I respect McCain and his service to this country but his time has passed and he has been a huge disappointment in recent years with his brown-nosing and pandering to the Bush administration and the religious right. He would have been 10x the president that Bush is had he won the nomination in 2000.
I will add that Obama by far and wide will help restore America's standing in the world and that was a big one for me, along with the fact that I think he is admirably level-headed and will manage domestic issues just fine. I also don't think he's the radical socialist that the right-wingnuts and Faux News mainliners think he is. I guess time will tell.
Regardless, we still have 70+ days of Bush douchebaggery to endure, and the country will still be entrenched in the same devisive, perpetual bitchfest between the left and right.[|)]