In Search of Rational Voters

Here???s a great reason to VOTE OBAMA - - OBAMA IS HONEST!

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I just saw Larry King Live! 9/10/08

The GOP celebrity subversive ???mini-army??? is on the move! (wink)

Chuck went on Larry King declaring he was an Independent and after confronting big bad Ariana Huffington for all of under 1minute, he ???ACCIDENTLY??? revealed himself to be a McSame supporter. (LOL, I rolled on the floor and wiped my tears.)

Some people will do anything to anything to sell their products.

DOESN???T THE MARTIAL ARTS??? CODE REQUIRE YOU TO BE TRUTHFUL AND HONORABLE?
???OH SENSEI ??? SOME ONE HERE NEEDS REMEDIAL HELP!???


WOW! I DIDN???T KNOW CHUCK NORRIS WAS SUCH A SNEAKY GUY!

I am right there with Phoenix, Arizona. As a Mom who has always worked full-time, I too understand real life. Real life is not Sarah Palin. I have always worked 40-50 hours a week in a stressful job and with my husband have managed to raise two active kids. It is hard work and there are only so many hours in a day. So, knowing this, I know without a doubt that Sarah Palin is a fraud. She is no hockey mom. While this may not be particularly relevant as a political issue, it is relevant that the image she is attempting to portray is a blatant lie. So, it is truly insulting to me that John McCain actually believes that real working women will fall for this fraud. I have faith that there are countless other women who feel the same. None of us "relate" to Sarah Palin.

The way to bring about needed change in this country is not through lies and smoke screens. If the only way John McCain can win this election is by picking this joke of a female as a running mate, he is in no way qualified to be the next President of the United States.

Talk about more of the same... can Palin and McCain say even 1 thing that's new? Really, aren't you
all getting a bit tired of hearing about the bridge to nowhere and all the same ol' BS they repeat day after day after day after day?

She is so darned protected by the Republicans. Since when is a politician so protect and unreachable?
McCain's campaign became so transparent when he chose SP for VP. Anyone who actually listens to the
words coming out of their mouths see's through McCain's reason for choosing her. So far I haven't heard anything that convinces me to think any different. Look at how the Republican analysts do not answer a Sarah Palin question without getting defensive, if they will even answer the question at all. They play the double standard game when it comes to Sarah Palin. And now, from what I've seen, it appears she is running for president and John McCain is in the background. (wondering how thrilled he is with that) She says nothing we haven't heard over and over since she came out like a viper at the GOP convention. I'd like to know what is the hype about this woman? I, being a woman, don't care who is running as long as she/he can actually fulfill her duties to this country and the world. How on earth can people say Sarah Palin is capable of this role?

I'm trying to keep an open mind but McCain/Palin are making it difficult to buy their weak strategy. Do we really want this 'celebrity', who is taking a Politics for Dummies crash course, in charge? I'm losing faith in my fellow Americans that they are falling for the lack substance with this ticket. AND guys... what about you? I hope you don't vote for the Republican ticket because Sarah Palin is a 'hottie'. I agree with you, she's an attractive woman, she's tough yet feminine. Guys like that, but as I'm sure you know, the packaging isn't everything. And fellow women... look at the issues not the gender, p-l-e-a-s-e!

A final note, I have great respect for our military and for John McCain's horrific experience as a POW, but wasn't he just laughing (on John McCain Revealed) about he didn't read 'the manual' on how to eject from the plane he flew in Viet Nam when he became a POW? Hey, just food for thought... Personally, I don't want a 'Maverick' running my country. To me it's not a complentary trait. (yet another highly overused word)

To both parties, stop the attacks and get down to business!

Here, here! Any woman would vote for little annie oakly of the Yucan just because she is female, is proving the sterotypical pictutures of all women, and I am ashamed, and embarressed.Maybe women do have a problem with logic and reason. after all they;ll believe anything a guy tells them, such as; he loves them, he's going to leave his wife and kids for them that he really isn't interested 9n sex so come on over, that he's had a vacetomy, that he is not married, and now they'll believe this woman just because she's female. believe me she will do nothing for you.

Posted By: sisterkate @ 09/10/2008 4:28:31 PM
Comment: SueZQ get it straight. Obama is only going to raise taxes on those earning over $600,000/ year. Anyone earning under this will get more of a break under Obama's policy than they will under McCain. So if you're one of the elite few than you should support McCain; however, if you're like majority of America you should be voting for Obama to keep dollars in your own pocket. Get the facts straight if you have a brain.....go to www.taxpolicycenter.org and read the facts. Obama/Biden is the only smart ticket for the economy. Even for corporate America. If the average American isn't earning enough, than there's nothing for us to spend and businesses shut down. How much more can we endure?


If he does that, most of these business owners will either close up shop and take their business to a more "tax friendly" country (so goes the jobs for that company), they will not invest into the American economy because Robin Hood is stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, and when it comes time for workers to ask for a raise, the owner will turn around and say "Obama has your raise with the taxes he just took from me." So you can't have it that way because it does not make sense. A lot of his plans do not make sense just like his change rhetoric!

Rational voters??/ Not in this country?? just read comments and see. maybe 10% of Americans are good. insted of the way it was in the 60s when only 1% of Americans were bad! Men should love her, she will make your income 15% more than any woman doing the same job, as a man he should be happy, women are set back into the 40s under Palin, and you don't want more Gov keep trying!!! Then SHE will tell MEN how to treat our bodies, as it's there buisn,if they win! AsMcCain re-defines Patriotism for Veterans benifits, so we lose AGAIN!!!

The questions about that Republicans have that Democrats don't - It comes down to approach - Most democrats - especially the loud "entertainment industry ones" have the attitude that they are right and you are stupid if you don't agree with them and follow them over the cliff. They want you to have an opionion as long as it agrees and suports them. Everyone that disagrees is a red-neck, bigoted, stupid, ignorant fool. Most republicans just do their thing.

REAGAN WAS THE MASTER OF MARKETING WITH A SIMPLE MESSAGE- "LESS GOVERNMENT, STRONG DEFENSE"

I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO SOMETHING ABOUT SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY IN ADVERTISING A MESSAGE.

IF YOU HAVE A WEAK, WRONG, OR CONFUSING PRODUCT OR MESSAGE, THE MORE MONEY YOU SPEND, THE WORSE YOUR IMAGE GETS.


OBAMA TALKED OF CHANGE, SLAMMED EVERYTHING IN SIGHT AS BEING WRONG/MORE OF THE SAME, BUT IS TOO LATE WITH SOLUTIONS/SPECIFICS THAT ARE:
1) UNIQUE,
2) RELEVANT,
3) BELIEVABLE, AND
4) MOTIVATING TO A SURPRISINGLY, RATIONAL ELECTORATE.

When people are content to accept as fact what they hear from talk show hosts, shock jocks and preachers, none of whom is required to have an education or to research what they spout, we have declined to the point of making decisions based on emotions, not unlike road-ragers. This is the situation that most threatens our country, when somebody like George Bush is placed in a second term of office who did not deserve or win the first. Thevoters seem to have an atention span of TV commercials,. Ignorance is expensive, ignorance is dangerous.

The present election tells us much about how we managed to elect one of the worst presidents in our history, and then re-elect him. Bush was often characterized as ???someone you would like to have a beer with.??? He was carefully packaged by Karl Rove to connect with many of the very people that the Republican Party has little interest in; ordinary people at the lower end of the economic scale. Even the evangelicals, who saw Bush as their man, were ridiculed in Bush???s private discussions with his staff.

Yet once again we are witnessing this elevation of image over substance in both campaigns. It has been said that the John McCain of 2000 would not vote for the John McCain of 2008. And Sarah Palin, who has been packaged as experienced, an antagonist of big spending, a foe of earmarks and ???one of us??? is none of these. She hired a city administrator to run her tiny town, left that city with its first ever indebtedness and lobbied for and received more pork barrel allocations per capita as governor than any other state in the United States. Barack Obama, for his part, has dwelt far too much on rhetoric and not enough on substantive comparison. Many of his and Hillary Clinton???s supporters have allowed themselves to focus on personality rather than commonality.

This election so far is once again about emotions rather than issues. One set of emotions relates to excitement about an appeal to our aspirations and hopes. The other emotions relate to identity and connection with kindred spirits. It is these latter emotions that the McCain campaign is appealing to. When the dialogue is about feelings rather than facts we make very bad choices. We allow our emotions to disregard the obvious and the difficult in favor of what is familiar and comforting.

This election finds us at a pivotal point in our history. Our vitality as a nation is under withering assault domestically and internationally. From the state of American education to foreign and economic affairs we are failing. If we do not turn the dynamics of this election towards the issues there will be grave consequences for our future. If we do not demand truth and accountability from the candidates we will squander our hard fought privilege of voting. If many in the media do not turn away from punditry, the petty and the sensational, in favor of educating us factually about the substantive differences between the candidates, they will fail us again as many did by becoming swept up in the emotions leading to the Iraq War.

The real choice in this election is whether the electorate will choose to rely on facts or feelings when they cast their ballots. Rick Davis, John McCain???s campaign manager, has said that ???This election is not about issues.??? We very much need to prove him wrong.