I will try and make this short (ya - right) . I'm reading the responses below and I am laughing. Maybe because it's late right now, but I'm reading the responses and trying to picture what you all look like and the shock that must come across your faces with the responses you receive (because I know the face I make when someone throws me a line). Just is making me giggle right now - like I say it's late.
Okay, with that said this is my feelings about both sides. I was anxious to watch the DNC this week and I will be anxious to watch the RNC next week. I want to hear what everyone has to say on both sides. I want to watch the movies about JM's life. I saw BO's film about his life and I enjoyed it. Barack seems like a very nice person who has worked hard to get where he is and has helped a lot of people (that is normal people like me, my family and friends who have lost jobs, housing etc). It sounds like he was raised on the same values I was (about caring about other people, helping those you can). I believe with the community service and past jobs he's had, and the time he has spent in the senate, he does have the experience and the common sense that a Commander in Chief needs to run a country.
At first I was hesitant to even watch tonight because the whole set up I felt was getting out of hand. People were throwing out the terms rock star, greek, temple, etc, etc. When I first saw it coming together I thought well that's a bit odd and why didn't they just have it where the convention has been all week, but once it filled in with all the people it didn't look like anything greek or a temple. I just looked like a stage on a football field filled with lots of people, and he didn't come across as a rock star. He looked very statesman like, and I could really look up to him as our Commander In Chief. Listening to him speak I was reminded of how I felt when I watched Ronald Regan talk. I felt very patriotic. To me it looked like a lot of people just wanted to hear him speak. I also didn't watch all the stuff before Barack came out because I can't stand Sheryl Crow, Bruce Springsteen (which for the life of me I wish someone could tell me the words to his songs - I listened to the music they played last night and honestly there was not one single word in his songs I could identify - not an "it" "and" or "but" it was all mumbled together - anyway...that's a whole other story). And I certainly can't stand Algore so there was no way I was going to listen to anything he had to drone on about, so I waited until the story of Barack's life and that's when I watched. I did feel that Baracks speech tonight was truly one of the more inspiring speeches I have heard in a long time. I do believe he has the American people's best interest at heart. He is a very caring person and has dedicated his life to trying to change Washington so it works for American's. He has plans that will help get the American economy back on track. It's not going to be instantly but at least I feel there will be someone who understand that America should not continue into a depression while we continue to send $1.8 billion dollars every week to Iraq when they have a surplus. I sit back and think about that and am thinking when is the madness going to end. Iraq has a surplus, we're heading for a depression yet we continue to send money to them. I believe Barack has a responsible plan to bring our troops home. The republicans are now coming out saying that the war has been a success and we won. So if we won we don't need to be there anymore. So I thought overall Barack's speech was very inspiring and gave me some hope for the future.
Also I listened to the commentaries tonight. Not all cos I had to work, but I listened to the republican commenters from Fox and two of them said that Baracks speech was inspiring and they were saying that they (DNC) spent a lot of time and effort preparing for tonight and he came through and gave one of the best speeches and really pulled it through.
My mom told me that you will never agree with a candidate on every issue, so you just vote for the one that you agree with most of the issues on. For me right now I'm seeing that I agree with more of Barack's issues than JM's, but I need to hear more.
On the economy I believe Barack is more knowlegable. I don't believe McCain knows what's going on with the economy. He seems to be stuck on how the economy is great but ask him specific questions and he does not know the answers. When he does not even know how many homes he owns how do you think he would even know how the economy is doing? He's not in touch with what we are going through as Americans. He doesn't know what it's like to worry if your going to be able to put food on your table, or put gas in the car to go to work or even have a job. As for jobs, he has voted and supported jobs going overseas and those companies getting tax breaks for doing that.
Foreign affairs. While Barack may not have years and years of experience, Joe Biden does. I think John McCain isn't very knowlegeable when it comes to foreign affairs (not when he has to constantly be corrected by Lieberman and others close to him).
Heath care - I don't know where John McCain stands on this so I can't comment.
But those are the issues I face everyday. Am I going to have a job with income to pay my bills and where is the economy going. And it's time to bring our troops home with dignity and give them whatever help they need. That's another issue I don't agree with John McCain/Bush about. I do not believe the republican party is doing as much as they can to help our troops, especially when its time for them to come home where they belong.
I do not feel that America is any safer than we were before 9-11. I know we have really p.o.'d other countries sticking our nose in where it doesn't belong trying to dictate to them how they should live and trying to force our viewpoints and political system on them making them fashion theirs as we do ours.
Also, lying in a POW camp for 5 years does not make you qualified to run a country. |
