Sep 8, 2008

What What in the .. nevermind

I do like the new apartment. I did some more packing (I'm running out of things to pack!).

Last week I was talking about the upcoming election with some friends at lunch. I decided that I'm tired of the media - hanging on their every word to figure out which candidate I feel is a better choice. So I went to both websites - McCain and Obama, and I read through all the issues. I analyzed everything, and made my choice.

I highly recommend if anyone is going to vote to go to both sites, read about the issues that concern you and decide. With all this "starpower" in the media, it's hard to determine how a candidate thinks when all they want to do is dissect your family and make up rumors about your past that aren't true.

In the end, I have to go with Obama. If he accomplishes 1/3 of all the goals he has set for president, I think our country will be far better for it. I was paying attention to McCain in the Primaries, and when I went to his site, he stole good ideas from Obama and made them his own. Every sentance starts with "John McCain..." and it's mostly fluff. Obama's views were clear, outlining the problems, and addressing them with a solution.

In my own opinion, McCain is making emotional appeals to the voters, along with a VP candidate who is trying to rock the "star power" aspect, and who only has extreme right wing views and claims to be a maverick. I think they need to look up the definition of that word - for neither of them are mavericks to me.

Everyone needs to use their own judgement to choose, but mine is purely on the issues and new ideas for our country. I'm going to do the early voting. And I'm sharing this with my friends, to let them know how I think, and hopefully they feel the same and go to the polls too.

I'm going to go play Alundra now. I started that game, it's alot like Zelda. I'm having fun with it!

Later!

4 comments:

said...

Yeah, yeah. The issues... I'm planning on reading those... soon....

I just have difficulty drawing up the willpower to force myself to go through it all. It just seems so dry.

Mum is incredibly Anti-Obama. And for no sound reason, from what I hear. Just totally unfounded. I don't get it.

said...

BTW, this reminds me of you as a kid.

lookie here

Leah of Rafaleah said...

hmm, invisible jawbreaker. :D I like it!

Yeah, mom just looks at the surface. She doesn't care about substance. Whatever - she can decide however she wants to vote.

said...

Yep. Agreed.

By the by, how are you? I hear crazy things about this recent hurricane business in your neck of the woods. I, for one, am concerned about how this affects things for you and Raf.

I hear that the storm is the size of Texas...