Annie
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Do I think politicians lie? Inevitably. Have I ever had a candidate I thought correct on all issues? Maybe in the 70's, Jim Thompson for Governor. I believed in him enough to be my college rep for him. Registered a lot of voters, not one Mickey Mouse. Since then? Pretty disillusioned.
Now that I'm more than a grown up, I look at political philosophies of the candidates. For a long time it was impossible to find Obama's, but luckily for me, I'd read lots of coverage of him, because I'm in Chicago area. In the past few months, non MSM sources have fleshed his philosophies out in more detail, often explaining the difficulties they run into in Chicago, trying to dig for the information. Most of you here don't care about his company, though it certainly reflects his philosophy. I saw someone say that he'd endorsed Ayers' book on education; it wasn't on education and anyone who really was inquiring would have known that.
McCain, well he's a 'known' quality. Most conservatives have him on their lists of least likely to be conservative. Yet, he's way beyond the Obama school of socialism-not communism. He'll get my vote, from Illinois, which will most likely vote Obama over 20%.
Now that I'm more than a grown up, I look at political philosophies of the candidates. For a long time it was impossible to find Obama's, but luckily for me, I'd read lots of coverage of him, because I'm in Chicago area. In the past few months, non MSM sources have fleshed his philosophies out in more detail, often explaining the difficulties they run into in Chicago, trying to dig for the information. Most of you here don't care about his company, though it certainly reflects his philosophy. I saw someone say that he'd endorsed Ayers' book on education; it wasn't on education and anyone who really was inquiring would have known that.
McCain, well he's a 'known' quality. Most conservatives have him on their lists of least likely to be conservative. Yet, he's way beyond the Obama school of socialism-not communism. He'll get my vote, from Illinois, which will most likely vote Obama over 20%.