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Posted By: openmind on 2008-09-05
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Everyone here has some strong opinions about "their" candidate and what is so wrong with the other, and it seems like a lot of it is "I read this" or "I heard this," "saw that." What I want to know is this-how many of you have actually read through the platform statements of the candidates? I know I have and found it to be quite eye opening. It also changed my vote. One candidate will bring this country democratic socialism. one candidate will put aside the values my country was founded on in favor of a new order. I can only hope that all voters will read the platforms and then vote on only the issues and nothing else. I can only hope all Americans will think about what principles this country was founded on and dedicate themselves to keep those principles sacred.
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I want the platform that Ron Paul ..
originally ran on back in the 1980's - term limits. Let congress do 4, 5, or 6 years and then go home and get a job like the rest of us. The founding fathers never intended pols to remain at the trough on the Potomac for decades, collecting and peddling influence and serving special interests. Besides, with 300+ million of us I'm certain we could find a new crop every few years who are capable and willing to serve their country for a term.
When trying to reinvent one's own failed party platform,
It sort of goes hand in hand with stealing elections.
Dems don't fear the lipstick platform. SP cannot fix
Hate to break this to you, but a convention bounce in unreliable polls that change on a daily basis does not a catipult make. No party who plans to base a campaign on personality over policy can spin their way to victory in light of the dire situation we now face with the economy.
Dems get this much. Our job right now is to focus on the critical issues that we all share and to contrast the candidates' solutions to the problems that MUST be addressed. The question in the voting booth will be who can deliver the kind of change that is best for the nation and how far away can we get from W's mass descruction. 90% does not have a whole lot of political capital on that score.
Talking party platform and candidate selection.
Incumbents across the board are in peril after 8 years of Bush. The country is more divided now than it was in the 60s and 70s. Never thought that was possible. I remember. I was there. Everybody everywhere is disgusted with politics as usual...nothing special about Congress.
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