When It’s Head Versus Heart, The Heart Wins

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  • Posted By: Len W @ 02/05/2008 12:02:40 PM

    Comment: I think those voting with there hearts, vote Obama, they have not paid attention to his campaign and how he has talk about change. If he is so much for change then why has he gone to one of the oldest and none change families in the Dem Party (Kennedy). He got the support of the people who are riding the train of popularity to remain in the spot light and possibly secure a future in politics. Even if Obama comes up short they win by simply stating we where for change, and we will continue our effort. They know how to play the game and are doing it now. Look at Kerry, his V.P. choice was running for the Office and he did not even support him. He ran decided he needed to secure his future as did the Kennedys. If you use your head you could have seen this. Your heart maybe in the right place, but your heart will be broken. So a word to the wise think before you vote. I can say the this has been an interesting process so far, but one that I am afraid to say is more about who you like and not who will best secure and lead our country. Vote your head not your heart and we will all be better off.

  • Posted By: reswl @ 02/05/2008 3:39:49 AM

    I enjoyed your article and found your examples of past elections to be right on the mark. I think the edge Obama seems to have falls in the realm of inspriational. Wanting to believe in America again.

    • Posted By: Bornita @ 02/05/2008 12:01:18 PM

      Well I can say that Hawaii is the most beautiful and fun place I have ever been (and I live in Europe), so I don't think you need to lose hope in America.

  • Posted By: MalaVida @ 02/05/2008 3:21:08 AM

    Estrela... Get a life honey. You don't have to write in caps to make a point. Particularly your lame points. You don't have to knock Obama to promote your candidate. But I guess you are taking a page from the Clinton's campaign playbook. You are a great example why Obama should be the nominee for the Dems. Otherwise, I'm voting McCain- at least we know where he stands.

    • Posted By: Bornita @ 02/05/2008 11:55:07 AM

      Good comment.

    • Posted By: inozchin @ 02/05/2008 3:53:23 AM

      You so funny honey. You better go back and read all of your messages - - nothing but smack for your opposing candidate while you promote Obama. We all have our own opinions and you are intitled to yours too, wrong as it may be. You vote for whoever you want Obama--McCain....your loyalty is astounding. I will stand behind whichever Democratic candidate gets voted into the White House but tomorrow and in Nov. my VOTE goes to HILLARY!!

  • Posted By: maggiemae41 @ 02/05/2008 11:54:30 AM

    I feel that the best canididates are those with the best fully rounded educational backround,followed most importantly by their experience in politics. A candidate with a world view, the big picture.
    I vote for a person and their position on important issues,never on party lines. I would like to see this country adopt a parlimentary government . The two party system is divisive and archaic.
    Marguerite

  • Posted By: madmargie @ 02/05/2008 11:28:49 AM

    I vote with my head. I study the issues and the stands of the candidates. I am a registered Republican but am so disgusted with the Republican party after the Bush fiasco, that I vote Democrat now until the Republican Party gets it's act together and gives us a valid choice. I want someone to win who will get us out of Iraq and the middle east....fast!

    Margie

    • Posted By: KeepYourCoins_IwantChange @ 02/05/2008 11:51:57 AM

      That would be Ron Paul. He has said time and time again that he will pull our troops out immediately. He has the morals the conservative republicans like and the logical and clear headed approach to foriegn affairs, economy, and federal aide the rest of the republicans like so much. He is the only true republican in the last 100 years to run for the presidency. He is the only one who believes in severly downsizing the federal government and lowering taxes (and I don't mean a miniscul 1/2 a percent he wants to downsize taxes 35% no more income tax)

  • Posted By: RENEA @ 02/05/2008 11:50:05 AM

    HILLARY IS SO ENTRENCHED WITH BIG MONEY AND LOBBYIST! HOW CAN YOU CHANGE THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE IN WASHINGTON IF YOU ARE PART OF PROBLEM ?

  • Posted By: RENEA @ 02/05/2008 11:47:50 AM

    HILLARY IS SO ENTRECHED WITH BIG MONEY AND LOBBYIST.HOW CAN YOU FUNDIMENTALY CHANGE THE WAY THING GET DONE IN WASHINGTON IF YOU ARE PART OF PROBLEM?

  • Posted By: DebateGuy @ 02/04/2008 9:31:38 PM

    I disappointed by a lot of these comments on here. I realize that there is the first amendment and everything, but we have a duty as citizens and informed readers to introduce comments to stimulate the topic rather than bash talk on all of the candidates or parties. I am a teenager, and I do stay informed on the issues. While there are many voters that would vote based on the "heart", it is most probable that these voters wouldn't vote anyways. That is evident particularly in the last presidential election. That is why more people should stay abreast of the issues and encourage others to listen to the news once in awhile. That is my two cents.

    • Posted By: Bornita @ 02/05/2008 11:44:51 AM

      I agree with you completely. Please try to influence your friends to make better decisions as well.

    • Posted By: texjuanon @ 02/05/2008 4:13:12 AM

      Bravo! And that is why I've forwarded this article to my son, a high school senior, who'll be voting for the first time this fall

  • Posted By: jgarch @ 02/05/2008 11:44:42 AM

    It is my opinion that voting is too forced on people. This results in people who are uneducated on issues and candidates voting simply because they can. Voting should be seen as a privilege, not a right. Since I haven't had the time or interest to really study candidates and where they stand, I'm not going to vote because i don't feel I have the information to make an educated vote. Sure, I read the news everyday, but in order to make a real intelligent decision, a person needs to go deeper. As 'Tired of Media Spin' stated, research should be done from facts, not the media. I hope you vote media spin, and I wish all people who vote dig as deep as you have. As for me, I'm going to set an example and keep my politically uneducated self from the booth.

  • Posted By: Believer08 @ 02/05/2008 10:18:13 AM

    It's important to vote with both your head and heart. People need to analyze which candidate matches their view of society and its problems, and offers the best solutions. They also need to vote for a candidate who inspires them personally to help create those realistic answers. Obama has not provided enough concrete solutions--particularily in health care. The best CHANGE for our society which would improve everyone's life is for true universal health care. Imagine never worrying about whether you can get health care when you or a family member needs it. Imagine just graduating from college and not being told --get a job with health care because you are now off your parents plan. You could really pursue your dreams-- start a business-- write a novel-- travel. Imagine not worrying about health coverage when you lose your job at 59 during a recession. Imagine not losing your home because of a medical crisis. That's CHANGE. That's inspiring. That's Hilary.

    • Posted By: KeepYourCoins_IwantChange @ 02/05/2008 11:44:28 AM

      And how do you suppose we pay for universal healthcare? Hmmmm I think that comes in the form of a tax and I'm sorry 35% of my income and 10% of everything else I buy so in actuality I pay nearly half of my income to pay for services to support an occupation and an over bearing federal government. And now you want to raise that tax to pay for people who can't seem to make enough for health care. We have a faulty economic system that needs to be corrected, how about you put the 35% of hard earned money I made back into my pocket where it belongs and then I will have no problem paying for healthcare. Raising taxes to pay for someone else's problems is not an practical nor intelligent.

    • Posted By: jsINSAC @ 02/05/2008 11:03:18 AM

      yeah, live off everybody else's hard work, while you get to play around

  • Posted By: jgarch @ 02/05/2008 11:44:13 AM

    It is my opinion that voting is too forced on people. This results in people who are uneducated on issues and candidates voting simply because they can. Voting should be seen as a privilege, not a right. Since I haven't had the time or interest to really study candidates and where they stand, I'm not going to vote because i don't feel I have the information to make an educated vote. Sure, I read the news everyday, but in order to make a real intelligent decision, a person needs to go deeper. As 'Tired of Media Spin' stated, research should be done from facts, not the media. I hope you vote media spin, and I wish all people who vote dig as deep as you have. As for me, I'm going to set an example and keep my politically uneducated self from the booth.

  • Posted By: jfecme @ 02/05/2008 11:38:59 AM

    I vote with my head. That is to say I wouldn't vote for a Republican if you held a gun to my head., which might be next if they continue to have their way of slyly denying our civil rights.

  • Posted By: madmargie @ 02/05/2008 11:37:01 AM

    I vote with my head. I study the issues and then check the positions of the candidates. Those who voted with their hearts go us into this position with the Bush presidency. I am a lifelong Republican but I may never vote Republican again unless they can come up with a candiidate who doesn't trade on emotionalism. I want a president with a brain.

  • Posted By: nylady58 @ 02/05/2008 9:06:38 AM

    Anxiety and enthusiasm are a small part of what leads us to our desicions no doubt but emotions are also part of the thinking process and can't be dismissed as mundane. To think and make a wise choice one must use all his/her senses and I have seen this through out this primary with people I have spoken to. These emotions of the heart help propel people to asl questions and compare.
    Hillary can't be trusted as president or as a woman. She carries too much dirt and many secrets. She doesn't mind the lobbiests in Washington, after all they have suported her. When she ran for NY Senator she recieved high contributions from defense contractors and the health care industry. She is the first New Yorker to sit on the Senate Armed Services Committeeon. Now I have to ask myself,

    1. How much did that effect her vote to go to war with Iraq?
    2. How will this effect bringing our boys home?
    3. How will that effect how we conduct ourselves in Afganistan?
    4. How can she effectively work with health care to bring medical costs down?

    At the time she accpeted those contributions, Frederick H. Graefe, a health care lawyer and lobbyist in Washington for more than 20 years, said, ???People in many industries, including health care, are contributing to Senator Clinton today because they fully expect she will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.???

    One hand washes the other as they say.
    She still can't admit she made a mistake voting to go to war.
    She has pitted one minority group against another. The old man establishment needs this to keep the status quo. Keep the underdogs fighting so they can't see what we are doing. Toss them a bone here and there and they won't take away from our feasts.
















    I am a white 59 yr. old granmother who would have loved seeing the first woman president. After much though on the issues and what is at stake in this country as well as the world today I have chosen to vote for Obama.
    I will never trust her as president or as a woman. She carries too much dirt and many secrets. She doesn't mind the lobbiests in Washington, after all they have suported her. When she ran for NY Senator she recieved high contributions from defense contractors and the health care industry. She is the first New Yorker to sit on the Senate Armed Services Committeeon. Now I have to ask myself,
    1. How much did that effect her vote to go to war with Iraq?
    2. How will this effect bringing our boys home?
    3. How will that effect how we conduct ourselves in Afganistan?
    4. How can she effectively work with health care to bring medical costs down?

    At the time she accpeted these contributions, Frederick H. Graefe, a health care lawyer and lobbyist in Washington for more than 20 years, said, ???People in many industries, including health care, are contributing to Senator Clinton today because they fully expect she will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.???
    One had washes the other as they say.

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 02/05/2008 11:20:40 AM

      You are very political for a Granmother. Having trust issues since she is a woman? So you never saw a politician with a secret in your life. You must be so naive. Obama just did not get his chance yet, Ok?. If you guys hand it over to this person, you might as well say Ta Ta to Democrat's goal of winning the WH in November. O no, You did not say you are a democrat, did you?

  • Posted By: Tired of Media Spin @ 02/05/2008 11:16:02 AM

    From experience of the last two elections, the Media makes the candidate. They do not concentrate on the issues and absolute truth on the past. This year and from this time forward, I researched the issues not from media but from facts. This Country is in bad shape due to Media Spin and their corporate mandate to make money. We do not have true journelists anymore, we have propaganda $$ lobbiests that just bring us Jerry Springer crap. I have researched these candidates, and Hillary Clinton is the one I am voting for. First, she was instrumental in getting help for abused children, she brought in S Chip - insurance for children and she did fight the insurance companies - but republicans stopped it in Congress. They were the guys being paid off by insurance companies. Obama caved in for medical insurance companies in Illinois and their people have a horrible insurance coverage - non for people who have depression problems. Obama claims Kennedy status and truthfully - John F Kennedy had experience, 12 years in the Senate as well as serving in the military. Obama is no John F Kennedy. He is also NO Martin Luther King - King walked the talk - what has Obama done - nothing. He has brought no jobs to Illinois citizens. His health plan has a donut hole. Now, this I do know - because I have battling healthcare for employers and employees - His plan stinks, it is called a "sick" plan in the industry - parents not getting insurance because they cannot afford it. A campaign lobbiest on his campaign. When are we going to grow up and take care of our Nation instead of this french fry approach to democracy.,

  • Posted By: dima528 @ 02/05/2008 11:11:48 AM

    adamskr you are absolutely right, "speech-making and empty promises" do not make a good President! VOTE! That is why I will vote OBAMA, and encourage others to do the same!

  • Posted By: dima528 @ 02/05/2008 11:08:43 AM

    adamskr you are absolutely right, "speech-making and empty promises" do not make a good President! VOTE OBAMA!!!!!

  • Posted By: Tired of Media Spin @ 02/05/2008 11:05:57 AM

    I vote with my head, experience tells me that is why we got Bush. I truly believe
    Americcans are not stupid. When are we going to take back America from the media! Their infatuation for Obama reminds me of their infatuation for Bush. When will we learn?

  • Posted By: Pudbert @ 02/05/2008 11:03:33 AM

    Anyone who votes (or makes any important decision) with their heart instead of their head, is immature and asking for diappointment.

  • Posted By: Pudbert @ 02/05/2008 11:03:15 AM

    Anyone who votes (or makes any important decision) with their heart instead of their head, is immature and asking for diappointment.

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