September 15, 2008
This Could Make My Voting Decision Easier
I had basically decided to sit this election out. There isn't a candidate running that I want to see as president. It would take a major political shift for Obama to not win my state of CT, so any vote I cast would have been purely symbolic and only for my own benefit.
However I may to stock up on Mallox and noseplugs and cast a vote for John McCain. That's at least what it will look like in the official tally. In my mind it will be a vote against this:
I would never have voted for Barak Obama based on the content of his character. I may now vote against him because he asks to be judged by the color of his skin.
However I may to stock up on Mallox and noseplugs and cast a vote for John McCain. That's at least what it will look like in the official tally. In my mind it will be a vote against this:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.
Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
"That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally," Biden said. "That all by itself will be significant.
This was always an undercurrent in the Obama campaign. Mentioned around the edges and in the media. Now it is the campaign rhetoric of the candidates.Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.
"That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally," Biden said. "That all by itself will be significant.
I would never have voted for Barak Obama based on the content of his character. I may now vote against him because he asks to be judged by the color of his skin.
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