2008 Presidential Election

[Bandit]

Here's another 3rd party candidate for POTUS this year:

http://www.geneamondson.com/prohibition-party-2004.html

Just what the country wants as we slip into a "deep recession".

His solution to all our problems : No more beer (or booze).

that was pretty funny!

I am not sure what would be worse, our current drunkard president or one of these anti drunkard wackjobs.

[BankruptPinoy]

Happy Halloween. Oopps, that's tomorrow.

[Bandit]

Happy Halloween. Oopps, that's tomorrow.

I like all those halloween pics...let's ya know who is under the masked marvel.

Happy Halloween to you too!

[JRScott]

There is a third party debate this evening, however I'm not sure if we'll get it on TV.

Ralph Nader
Cytheia McKinney
Chuck Baldwin
Robert Barr

They are suppose to be in attendance.

[JRScott]

http://www.wcpn.org/index.php/WCPN/news/15108/

[Bandit]

He acknowledges all the valid problems, namely congress, these other two ignore. I feel good about my vote this year where in years past, this only voting from two parties nonsense always left guilt and regret at some point.

Both Obama and McCain supporters worry that Nader and Barr could be the twin spoilers in swing states like Ohio and Florida, where Nader won thousands of Democrats away from Al Gore in 2000.

even though Nader is quite creepy at times,
we need more spoilers dividing the vote in more than two directions.

[BankruptPinoy]

Barry Cooper Encounters John McCain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzh3U1Tk3Do&eurl=http://nevergetbusted.com/node/171

[Mary Irene]

Trust me. NO one will vote for Nader this time around. It will be one or the other. There is NO way the majority of this country wants 4 more years of a Republican president in office. They had 8 years to cram the middle class down as far away from themselves as they could while they kept getting richer. I can't wait to get their piece of the pie that they stole from my kitchen.

[JRScott]

Mary that's the problem with folks thinking. It's not just the R. It is also the D. The Democrats have controlled congress for 2 years now. Yet they did not pass any bills they promised, did not get us out of Iraq, they didn't do anything.

McCain and Obama spent approximately 1 working day out of 3 at work in the Senate the last 2 years. They are both part of the problem, professional politicians more interested in their own status than the folks. No blue collared worker with such an attendance record would keep their jobs, so why should we promote these men to a higher office.

Obama has raised the bar of hope so great, I have a great deal of fear about his welfare. Being the first black president the bar would have been pretty high for him anyway, but he has raised expectations to a level even he realizes he can't meet. That's why earlier today news organizations began to report he plans to downplay expectations because of the 'economy' starting on Wednesday, you know the day after the election and that he's been working on the presentation for the better part of a month. I'm fearful that Mr. Obama if elected and he can accomplish nothing he's promised in the first 100 days may be in real danger for his life.

[WhatMoney]

Despite all the right-wing Libertarian and Republican anti-Obama rhetoric on this board (by a small minority of prolific posters) there has not been any noticeable effect on the voting preferences of the BKforum board members.

The Presidential voting poll so far:

Democrats: 64.29%
Republicans: 30.52%
Other (Independents): 5.19%

In fact this board is more Democratic than the national polls. At least most of you with financial problems and bankruptcy are smart enough to vote your self interest, unlike you did with Bush.

If you are suffering now, it will be a picnic in the park compared to what a McCain/Palin administration will bring to your family and life.

(this announcement was not approved by any candidate.)

[JRScott]

WhatMoney It doesn't matter if its McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden, it is clear that most likely it will be one of them who is the next executive. The problem remains that the problem was never the president alone, it was congress. In both cases the congress will still be controlled by Pelosi and Reid.

Both the Republicans and Democrats are promising things today they know they cannot achieve. Had they been able to achieve it they would have done so as Senators.

I realize folks want change, but change real change, cannot come from within the Republican and Democrat parties. It cannot come from flipping the executive from one of these to the other, and it cannot come from flipping the House and Senate from one to the other.

True change can only occur if we allow true competition. We must open the process up to more people and more political parties if we are to see real change. I know most Americans still don't realize that, but the D and R have been in power for 150 years. It is likely your parents voted for just them, and their parents, and their parents and even their parents.

As they have run the country we have increasingly lost more and more personal freedom. Government has more and more intruded into our lives. Unless enough of us wake up and realize we must break the cycle, then there may be no hope for our nation and the country we leave our children will be less free than the country our parents had.

I've said it before and in fact was published in a paper saying it. The government cannot provide everything for us without taking everything from us. We must become the self reliant people of our grandparents generation and before, or we will be lost in the annuals of time.

[arkienurse]

Despite all the right-wing Libertarian and Republican anti-Obama rhetoric on this board (by a small minority of prolific posters) there has not been any noticeable effect on the voting preferences of the BKforum board members.

The poll doesn't ask who you will vote for. It asks who you think will win. Often 2 entirely different subjects.

Just because I don't think one of the independent party candidates will win, doesn't mean that I didn't vote for one of them. In fact I VOTED for the Constitution party candidate. Because their ideas fall along the line of my own.

[WhatMoney]

Originally Posted by Arkienurse> The poll doesn't ask who you will vote for. It asks who you think will win. Often 2 entirely different subjects.

Well then there are eight (8) highly deluded board members out there who think an independent (other) will win the presidency.
Gee I wonder who those eight are? Fess up you 8 who reallly think some extremist third party candidate will win. After all since that's who you indicated in the poll you must believe it, right?

Or could it just be that regardless of how the question is phrased that people still will vote for their preference?
It's estimated that the two leading third party candidates (Barr and Nader) will each receive less than 1% of the popular vote, and of course no electoral votes.

Thank-you for throwing your vote to some right-wing libertarian nutcase. That's one less vote for McCain. I encourage all you that would never vote for Obama to please vote for a third party candidate! That would be wonderful.

[arkienurse]

Well then there are eight (8) highly deluded board members out there who think an independent (other) will win the presidency.
Gee I wonder who those eight are? Fess up you 8 who reallly think some extremist third party candidate will win. After all since that's who you indicated in the poll you must believe it, right?

Or could it just be that regardless of how the question is phrased that people still will vote for their preference?
It's estimated that the two leading third party candidates (Barr and Nader) will each receive less than 1% of the popular vote, and of course no electoral votes.

Thank-you for throwing your vote to some right-wing libertarian nutcase. That's one less vote for McCain. I encourage all you that would never vote for Obama to please vote for a third party candidate! That would be wonderful.

Where did I ever state I voted Libertarian?

[allavdj]

I can't wait till I get to post some sort of "I told you so" when Obama turns out to not be second coming of Christ, descending from heaven on high, to take us away from the hell on earth that George W Bush and the Republicans alone have created.

You guys are seriously deluded to think that any politician is going to do anything other than do what it takes to get reelected.