However I must disagree with JAN. Most people are not voting for Obama to make him the first Afican American President … I don’t care what color skin he is, or even what sex (I myself find Hillary to be a better choice than Obama or McCane). I believe that most people are voting against McCane and his plans to put the country further into recession (if McCane was a beer, he would be “Bush” Lite) … Obama just so fortunately is the other candidate and luck be it, he be black.

I will be voting for….Obama. You had better believe it! I used to like McCain. I even used to say I would vote for him, and I am a Democrat! He used to do whatever it took to get the job done. He stood for what he felt was right, whether or not his party agreed. However, over the past few years, something happened to him. What I am not sure. Perhaps he is going scenile or something. Maybe the party has him over a barrel. Whatever it is, he is not the same man.

McCain supporting torture, and in extension putting our boys at risk? McCain has flipped on so many issues, and on the ones he has been consistent on he has been consistently wrong, imo. He has voted numerous times against our Vets. He has refused to vote for equal pay for women. He now wants to drill, when in the past he called that plan fruitless. He tells sexist jokes, and also makes jokes about killing Iranians. That is NOT Presidential! His memory seems to be failing him. He can’t remember that Czechoslovakia hasn’t been a country for some time now, and can’t get Sunni’s and Shiites straight. His foreign policy is authored by a lobbyist for foreign nations. He has all kinds of lobbyists writing policies for him, bank lobbyists, and lobbyists for dictators and leaders of countries with terrorist ties. Sure, they had to give up the lobbying job to work for him, but don’t you think it is odd that they all dropped their jobs to work for him and write his policies? And some have even admitted they will go back to lobbying later, and I imagine they will get fat paychecks for their work in buying an administration should he win. The Rove people, the same people he complained bitterly about, all now work for him. There seems to be no boundaries with him. Not to mention he voted for Bush policies 95% of the time. I don’t WANT more Bush policies! Tax cuts for the rich? Are you kidding me? We are in an economic crisis? Have we learned nothing from history? WHen the rich are not taxed proportionately, democracies FAIL.

Obama has been almost prophetic in his words since he was elected. Time and again he was right about foreign and domestic policy. HE wanted a timetable. McCain and Bush said it was cut and run foolishness. We now have a timetable for leaving Iraq. He wanted to engage in political discussion with our adversaries. Bush and McCain called him an appeaser. We are now talking with Iran. By the way, one of the purposes of the State department is to TALK to our adversaries!

They said Clinton was too inexperienced. Yet he lead us through some of the best times this country has known! Obama will return us to intelligent government once again! GO OBAMA!

As for those writing about how what the people vote for doesn’t matter because the electoral college decides who is president, you are only partially correct. In all but two states, the electors for your state vote for whoever has the most popular votes in your state, so if the republican candidate has the most votes for your state, all the electoral points your state has go to that candidate. Your votes do count, but if the majority of people in your state vote for the other candidate, well, that’s just tough luck. If you don’t like it, get out in support of your candidate and make sure people get out to vote.