I wanna quote something Foxfyre wrote in another thread in approval.
Explaining why she will vote Republican, she wrote:
Foxfyre wrote:I support the Republicans not because I think they are basically any more honest or noble than the Democrats are, but because they do at least say that they support more issues I like than do the Democrats, and [because I fear what kind of Supreme Court we will have if the Democrats win].
There is clearly a choice in the November election - more right or more left.
This is exactly what I see this race being about. If I'd explain my sympathies, I could copy this, just change "Republicans" and "Democrats" around.
This is what it's all about. This is all that counts. There's a clear choice in the elections - more right or more left. You've got two candidates, and they have a very different stand on the issues. You're the voters, and you have the chance to vote for the guy who stands more for the issues you believe in. You have a time of economic transformation on your hands, and you can choose whether America will steer through it more to the right, or more to the left.
And yet the media will have this election be about who used what expression that can remotely be construed as offensive. McCain's campaign flaks will have it be about whether Obama is too much of a celebrity. Or about whether Obama once supported a bill that would have ensured that sex ed was medically correct and that children were taught about how to ward off inappropriate touching by adults. I mean sorry - supported "comprehensive sex ed for kindergartners".
The media would have it be about whether Hillary speaks about Obama with quite enough passion in her inflections. The McCain campaign would have it be about Obama lending a phrase from a befriended politician. Or about whether he dissed rural working class folk when he talked about how some people, when everything else they knew has become unsure, end up clinging to guns and religion. The media would have it be about Obama's bowling skills, or whether he's too skinny for people to identify with.
The media want to up their ratings. They need their daily scandal. McCain and Palin want you to
not think about where they stand on economic policy, on tax and abortion and health insurance and Iraq, because they know that most of you dont agree with them on the issues. They need you to talk about the daily scandal.
So it's all up to how independent of mind you guys will be. Resist the bullshit. Reflect on the basics that Foxfyre just lined out: on the issues, on the substance, which team do you more
agree with?
Good one!
