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VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 08, OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!! YES!

THAT POST WASNT ABOUT VOTING YOU FREAKING IDIOT!!!!!!!!!! RACE PLAYED NO PART IN MY VOTE. I JUST FELT GUILTY THAT I CONSIDERED NOT VOTING FOR HIM SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WAS A BLACK MAN. I GOT OVER IT, THEN MADE A DECISION BASED ON POLICY NOW CAN YOU POLITELY SHUT UP.

Individual responsibility...thats a funny term

My mother worked for a non for profit agency for about 20 years when I was growing up. It is called Rockwest Training and it prepares people with developmental disabilities to join the workforce. Because she worked there, she obviously didnt get paid a lot. As a consequence of my mom and her partner getting together when I was about 7 we didnt get the same opportunites a lot of families did. For instance our family generally didnt get the amount of tax breaks that a family of that size normally gets. In fact, there were several years that my family owed on taxes. On top of that, since Rockwest didnt have a healthcare plan to speak of, my family never had health care. I had never gone to a dentist until I joined the Air Force in 2004. I was 17. I had been to the doctors a total of three times in the span of seven years.

When I was 13 I had a major illness called Necrotizing Faciitis (I slaughtered the spelling I am sure) which is a flesh eating virus that requires immediate and extreme medical attention. I spent 4 days in the hospital. The bill for that hospital visit was upwards of 20,000 dollars. We tried everything to pay it off, and eventually we did by running a paper route for 3 years. My brother, my mom, her partner, and I all got up at 3 am and ran a 200 paper route.

The point of this is not to tell you my life story, or to somehow gain sympathy, it is to demonstrate that sure personal accountability and responsibility is great, but sometimes people need help. Our family did. I was in 9th grade when we ran that paper route. We could have used some help, and maybe I could have gotten better grades, gotten a scholarship and a degree. Now I am working toward a degree, but I am four years behind.

So Lonnie, please try to see some other perspective than your own and remember that there are people that have it much rougher than you. Our family pulled through because of resolve, but a lot of families wont. Thanks for listening.

Free isn't free people. America was based on that because we had to fight for our freedon from England. And if America is such an imposing tyrant country why do so many people (other countries) come to us and ask for help?
Yes, the mid east asked for our help back where Carter was President and they were turned down not to mention Clinton was also asked before he left office why do you think we had Desert Storm and so here we are again helping others the only differenc is that we were attacked (9/11).
This election has turned into something else; there is no words to describe it. The anti-Americanism that has affect our country has to stop and it isn't it just kepts sprialing down hill. What is it going to take?
Eventually, we'll all be so equal that all individaulity will disappear and we'll be a union of One where no one is better. no one makes more, no one deserves more because everyone works supposedly just as hard as the next and eveyone follows one ruling/order so no one person can gain ground over another.
This dream world my friends is called COMMUNISM, please look it up and come to realise how good we have.
America is a young country, but see how far we have come. If you look at all other history ours isn't so bad we aren't like Rome taking everything they can get their hands on, We're not like England taking everything they can get their hands on. We aren't like France taking everything they can get their hands on. We aren't like Germany taking everything they can get their hands on. The intergrity of the American people are stronger than the one person in charge who would try to use our country to conquer. We should be so greatful and yet we're not. Would America really change if we got a new President who thinks our Constitution is flawed? or would it be so terrible to have a President who wants to see something finished? We are Americans first.

And i never said I was voting for him because he is black, I am saying that it was a major issue with me and I feel incredibly guilty for ever thinking like that :/

noob revenge you didnt read my post...

so what if bush is a trillionair.....mccain and bush are different and you damn liberals need to stop trying to lump them together...bush besides has worked for his money either in the oil industry or runnning the texas rangers baseball club.....*** and wetbacks just believe they are gonna get that free check.

so you are voting for someone that will destroy our country by voting for a racist? hmmm seems weird that you waste your sympathy vote on someone that hates you for the color of your skin....lol what a conundrum.

Noob, So what's that make Bush a Trillionare? Do the math.

Vote Obama

Everyone has stated that this is NOT an election for Black or White in their speeches. B.S. Being of a mixed race myself, I am sick and tired of the self racism of African Americans in South Florida. You don't hear black people from other heritages with all this freaking drama. Get over it!! As a female we have it much worse.

U Rock Daddy!

Although I do not subscribe to the fact that Barack Obama can deliver everything that he promises, I do however believe that the man is brilliant, careful and an overall pragmatist. That is the change that America needs. We need to become a thinking society again. We need to learn to love each other again, and overall we need to learn to trust our government again. This is the era that the lost generation becomes found again, this is the era in which people question the status quo, and this, ultimately, is the era for change.

It was not long ago (In June) that I came to an impasse in my morals. I sat down and had a heart to heart with myself that I will never forget. I asked myself "Do I have it in me to vote for a man of color?". From that question cropped up a series of uncomfortable conclusions that I came to. The first is that I was raised in a primarily segregationist society. People separate themselves into groupings that are like themselves. It even goes as far as major groups of people having severe problems with one another. This did not come as a surprise to me, as it has been this way for a long time.

The second conclusion that I came up with is this: I am a racist. I do not mean to be, and for this I apologize to anyone that I might have disenfranchised during my walk on this earth. This conclusion was the hardest for me to swallow, because I was one of the ones that got discriminated against. I grew up in a family unit that is considered out of the norm - my mother is a lesbian and has lived with her other half for fifteen years. That is right, I have two mothers and no fathers. For this I got ridiculed and beaten all throughout grade school and middle school.

what world do you live in? noob

thanks mark. Good night from the far east!

and i said evil ***

amazing that today is election day and alot of people have not even boted yet and yall can already say with certainty that obama is gonna win....you liberal media people need to stop choosing sides and go back to being an unbiased entity that was supposed to be looking out for the best interest of the public instead of trying to vote in a canidate with your help and support...obama is evil and a communist...thanks to yall it looks like this evil *** will win our presidency and will soon be running our country into the ground....thanks morons.....jeffspell@hotmail.com