So, both conventions are over.
We are now in the last leg of the race for sure.
You have 4 more chances to get a unfiltered idea of your choices:
Presidential Debates
September 26: Oxford, Mississippi
October 7: Nashville, Tennessee
October 15: Hempstead, New York
Vice presidential debate
October 2: St. Louis, Missouri
What are your thoughts coming out of the conventions?
I’m ready to hear these debates to tell you the truth.
They are gonna be good.
Potter/Weasley '08!
I think that Americans spend way too much time and money deciding who they are going to elect. Our Prime Minister just called a Federal Election today and it is going to be on October 14th. Think about that. These guys have less than a month to campaign and convince us to vote one way or the other. Obama’s been campaigning for over a year now…is that right? Maybe longer? I’m glad I don’t have cable, otherwise I’d probably spend every waking hour watching CNN and keeping up with all this, but I’m glad I don’t do that anymore. Sorry I can’t provide anything useful to this thread…I’ve just completely lost interest.
Well after looking what has happened the last 8 years, I think Americans spend way too LITTLE time deciding.
Maybe if people actually gave a shit we could accomplish some NEW things, like, I don’t know,…Heathcare? A College Education without being bankrupt? A little less CO2 in the air?
People vote from either their pocketbook or their gut.
Maybe we should vote from our brain?
EDIT:
Your from Canada GR, you don’t count. You still answer to the crown you babies. 
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Americans DON’T spend enough time contemplating who we are electing to be in charge… its usually the headlines on the paper or TV that does the deciding for our population, and its quite sad seeing the US doesn’t really have a TRUE non-biased TV station or newspaper
found this to be a funny lil excerpt from the comments of an online article…
American Politics is like driving, to go in reverse put it in R, to go foward put it in D.
Yes, but aren’t those reasons a reason enough to have short one-month elections like in Canada? Since people don’t spend enough time researching the candidates and only VOTE BASED ON CHARISMA, then why bother spending two years to campaign? The issues mean nothing since there’s no proof that any one president can change anything they promise and stances like abortion mean nothing since those are dead issues. So what’s left? Charisma and general intelligence and decision-making abilities of the candidates. Do the election in a month and let it work that way…then let people call for a redo election if things go wrong. No reason that shouldn’t work here.
Not to mention that everyone involved in these two-year campaigns aren’t doing their jobs!! Palin, McCain, Hillary, Obama, Biden…they’re all working as Senators or a Govenor!! How much work are they REALLY doing in Congress during this campaign? I heard some report that Obama, Hillary and McCain were in Congress at the same time for the first time in 8 months in January…I wonder how long it’s been since then. We should require these people to retire from their current position before they run for office. Not only would it cut down on these jokers like Kucinich who become candidates every year and have no chance of winning but it’d also mean that we don’t have senators who spend two years of their Senatorship campaigning and not doing their real jobs. I will guarantee that a big reason many candidates do run for president is so they don’t have to do any real work in Congress. Hillary lost the candidacy and she’s STILL campaigning around the country…you think she wants to go back to work? Hell no. Of course, having one-month elections would solve this problem as well. Canada has it right on that front.
Stevo
There is no choice. Don’t be fooled
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My thoughts coming out of the conventions are there are a bunch of so-called patriotic Americans who are pathetically one-sided and biased to a certain parties agenda, and they wear really dumb hats and/or sunglasses/outfits. These are people who cheer and praise a guy like Ted Kennedy who has KILLED another fellow human being but was rich enough to have that mess swept under the rug. These are people who fill their hats with stupid pins of republicans or democrats that they admire, even though that same politician could give a rats ass about that person. These dorks cheer when some guy at the podium states something like “and we want better education and schools” -YAY yay YAY, yeah, we want better education…what a wonderful thing better education is huh? I mean, no shit sherlock, everybody agrees better education is a good thing…no need to cheer captain obvious for laying out such a softball statement… These people that pay tickets to go to these conventions are really true dorks imo, and by the looks of most of them, it doesn’t seem that it’d be that hard to out-debate them in their ridiculous costumes either.
I think my favorite part of the convention is when some lesser-known Senator or Governor is talking on the podium, but the networks cut to their talking CNN or FOX media heads that are huddled in a group who instead talk about someone who is more important…because obviously whoever is in the background talking at the podium is just some douschebag, D-list senator that nobody knows or cares about so what’s the point of listening to that guy speak? If you aren’t popular or relevant enough, you get cut off by CNN & FOX News -oh I love it! Anyways, as always, those are my thoughts that I gather about each and every convention that I have every witnessed on TV, basically same shit different day and yes I’m looking forward to the debates where we can actually get to some fucking issues already.
i wanted to vote for Ron Paul. i really, really did. sigh.
Just the mere fact we even got Ron in the debates was a win for freedom. the Ron Paul campaign woke up millions of people to the truth and got a lot of BIG points out on the global elite who have hijacked our beloved country.
That whole Ron Paul thing was a BIG WIN for us, I mean, look what we’re up against? we did great and Ron Paul is still moving forward with the Liberty movement.
One man who will be on the ballot that I’m voting for is
Chuck Baldwin!! http://www.constitutionparty.com/
vote your heart
“Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil”
