WHY are people voting for McCain?

[pattygreen 5]

The pro choice movement is not about your right to choose a Ford over a Buick. It's ALL about abortion. So if you are pro choice, that means you are willing to allow others or yourself the right to kill children. We don't allow murder in this country, except the murder of the unborn. I can't understand why we allow it. I think Satan has blinded the eyes of some people to the reality of what they do. Some people are so self centered, that when it comes to making a decision as important as 'killing or not killing' their own unborn baby, they choose to do what's best for themselves without even taking into consideration the OTHER life growing inside them. It's so heart breaking. In this country, we are so concerned about the issues all around us that concern children, like headstart education, yet we don't even blink an eye for the 'headstart' of an unborn baby.

[Jodi_620 37]

The pro choice movement is not about your right to choose a Ford over a Buick. It's ALL about abortion. So if you are pro choice, that means you are willing to allow others or yourself the right to kill children. We don't allow murder in this country, except the murder of the unborn. I can't understand why we allow it. I think Satan has blinded the eyes of some people to the reality of what they do. Some people are so self centered, that when it comes to making a decision as important as 'killing or not killing' their own unborn baby, they choose to do what's best for themselves without even taking into consideration the OTHER life growing inside them. It's so heart breaking. In this country, we are so concerned about the issues all around us that concern children, like headstart education, yet we don't even blink an eye for the 'headstart' of an unborn baby.

:grouphug: I'll just agree to disagree and allow this thread to go back to its intended topic...

[ReadySteadyGo 8]

I'll just agree to disagree and allow this thread to go back to its intended topic...

Your a smart lady Ms.Jodi. I think your suggestion, or maybe counting how many time the same things can be said by different folks are the only two options we have been allowed.

Let's try to bury the horse so people will stop beating the poor thing.

[Coffi 0]

I missed Michelle Obama's speech at the DNC in August, but just finished watching today. OMG...if you have not seen it yet, here it is. I cried 3 times during her speech.

Michelle Obama - Speech at Democratic National Convention - Video and Transcript - The New York Times - Election Guide 2008 - The New York Times

[ReadySteadyGo 8]

I haven't gotten a chance to see the speech yet, and I don't get sound at work. I will have to wait till I get home.

I really like her.

Edited to add that I did read the transcripts and they gave me chill bumps. Thanks for posting.

Edited October 22, 2008 by ReadySteadyGo
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[Coffi 0]

I was going to read the speech too and then I found the video. I can't wait until you actually hear her speaking her own words. I just feel this strong sense of sincerity in both of them (Michelle and Barack). I feel like they care so much about everyone. Seeing them in each others presence makes me feel so good inside. I do not have the same feeling when I hear McCain speak...I do not feel like he cares as much. Cindy McCain's speech gave me the wrong kind of chills. I just can't wait until this is all over. Hopefully Michelle will be the first lady.

[gadgetlady 4]

Here's an interesting article, from CNSNews.com - Obama Sends His Kids to Private School But Opposes School Choice Vouchers

As chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) from 1995 to 2001, Barack Obama helped distribute $49.2 million to help improve Chicago’s public schools, a task for the CAC that two studies showed had little or no impact on improving public education.

Despite his work to improve Chicago’s public schools, the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee sends his two daughters to the University of Chicago’s Laboratory School, a prestigious private school in Chicago – and he opposes school vouchers, which would allow parents to send their kids to the school of their choice.

While Republican presidential candidate John McCain supports vouchers, the school choice topic has not been a major issue in the presidential campaign.

In July, McCain told the National Council of LaRaza, a Hispanic lobbying group: “The civil rights challenge of our time is education. We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition. ... We need to empower parents with choice.”

Obama later blasted McCain’s support for vouchers, saying he was “recycling tired rhetoric.”

“We know well-designed public charter schools have a lot to offer, and I’ve actually helped pass legislation to expand them,” Obama told a gathering of the American Federation of Teachers in July. “What I do oppose is using public money for private school vouchers. We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools, not throwing our hands up and walking away from them.”

Tuition for the Chicago Lab School where Obama’s daughters attend is $18,492 a year for grades 1-4, the grades Obama’s daughters attend. The tuition climbs to $20,286 a year for grades 5-8, and $21,480 a year for grades 9-12, according to the school’s Web site.

For advocates of school choice, the fact that Obama sends his own children to a private school is relevant to the school choice debate.

“That’s not unusual. Loads of people opposed to school choice send their own kids to private school,” said Dick Komer, senior litigation attorney for the Institute for Justice, which supports school vouchers.

“Wealthy people like Obama have school choice,” Komer told CNSNews.com. “This is garden variety hypocrisy.”

Gaily Purkey, spokeswoman for the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT), disagreed that public positions should have a bearing on where an individual sends his or her children to school.

“It’s the position of the IFT that people can send their children to any school they choose,” Purkey told CNSNews.com. “But public tax dollars should be put only into public education.”

The Chicago Lab School that Obama’s daughters attend was founded in 1896 by education innovator John Dewey. It touts its long history of fostering intellectual curiosity, open-mindedness, critical thinking and a respect for evidence.

“We are among the leading independent schools in the nation and pride ourselves on creating conditions for a purposeful search for knowledge and truth,” School Director David W. Magill said in a statement on the Web site for the school.

[Coffi 0]

If I lived in Chicago and had the money...I would send my kids to private school too.

[Gracey 7]

[sarcasm] I think we should quit paying taxes and live in a lawless society. You want it? Go get it yourselves. Pshaw-we don't need a health care system. God made you sick; therefore, it's your turn to die. Learn them youngins at home; wth are women working for anyway? Running Water? Overrated. Firemen? Your neighbors will help you rebuild.

But keep in mind that if we aren't paying taxes for what we don't want, I DON'T WANT TO PAY FRICKEN TAXES FOR THE IRAQ WAR. The Republicans can all pay for it, tyvm.

Clearly the Congress sucks and Bush has dug us into such a hole, we may never get out. The Ultra right-wingers kill me with the socialism crap. Hello, we are electing a President, not a Dictator. Of course, with as much as we've let Bush crap on us, I guess I might be a little leary as a Repub that Americans would be asleep enough to let Obama just run roughshod.

Suck it up Republicans - Papaw ain't gettin' elected. Yell, scream, and hollar as much as your paranoid selves want but the Dems are gettin' back the Presidency!

[Coffi 0]

I was just going to post "LOL!" But a message popped up saying that it was too short and that it needed to be at least 10 characters long...LOL!

[Lowbmier 0]

Loved your post SickNTired!

[pjd3253 0]

I am voting for McCain for several reasons but the main reason I am NOT and never could vote for Obama is because he is a socialist - he wants to take money from hard working people and give it to people who are not hard working so that they can have a better life - I want everyone to have a better life but I think it should be earned by them if possible and not given that life from people who get up off their butts every day and work hard. Obama*is lying about his plans - he will win but we will be sorry.

[luluc 6]

Loved your post SickNTired!

it's the pawpaw comment that keeps me gigglin'

SNT has a way w/words...coffi, i feel michelle obama will be a fantastic first lady.

[Coffi 0]

OMG...here we go with the paranoid "socialist attack" again. So sad...

[pjd3253 0]

Why don't you think giving people who don't pay taxes part of what you earn a socialist view - that is what they do in other countries who are socialist countries - a government run health care program is also socialist - Canada has it and the people up there who don't like sitting in the doctor's office for several hours and can afford it come to the USA for their health care. I do not want to argue because everyone is entitled to their opinion but read Karl Marx' manifesto and you will be amazed at how close to Obama's plan it is. Also I was appalled that he thinks that when a baby is born alive that was being aborted he does not think you should try to save that life. I won't even go near the Rev Wright issue - if you could possibly think he didn't know and agree for 20 years with what he was saying that is being very naive.