McCain bounces into lead (gulp)

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• Wayne PHILLIPS said:

  This is the same electorate that hurt themselves by electing Bush twice. There is a reason why the foreclosure market is in dissaray, or why America lost 84000 jobs last month. The reason is the collective stupidity of the American voter. We are asking voters who made a dumb decision the last two times to get it right this time. McCain can win and thats fine but you will be able to effectively put a nail in the American coffin in terms of considering this country to be a world leader.

  September 7, 2008 3:31 PM

• Tony Schinella said:

  With all due respect to you Wayne, I think you don't get it. There are a lot of folks out there who don't agree with very liberal social issues and will vote against their own economic interests in an effort to preserve those values. There are also folks who think it is more important to reward someone who has fought for the country. Some people think saving the unborn is more important than their own economic interests. These things don't make them stupid ... it just means they have a different world view than you do [and that I do too]. So, you can be tolerant and accept that view as another person's opinion or you can be narrow-minded and called their narrow-mindedness stupid.

  September 7, 2008 4:17 PM

• Terry said:

  With all due respect to you, Tony, I don't think you get it (a trite condescending, don't ya think?)

  There are a lot of folks that have watched the Bush/Cheney/Rove oligarchy piddle away our freedoms, get us into a war, abuse prisoners, tap our phones, ignored global warming, promote teaching creationism in our schools, stole the election through the courts, lied to congress on the WMD, watched over the economy of "Enron", Fanny Mae, etc., decided that we didn't need an energy policy..I'm sure you know the rest of the list.

  Very liberal social issues:  like getting medical help for everyone.  I guess if you are independently *very* wealthy, or you own an insurance company, health care isn't a problem.

  The question is will there be a planet/U.S. around where you can make your own choices the way you want, with four more years of the same?  I truly worry for my young adult children, and theirs.

  September 7, 2008 6:21 PM

• gordon marshall said:

  I'll say something nasty but true: McCain is a delusional sham artist. He himself is so convinced of his hallucinatory lies that, on occasion, as in the aftermath of his acceptance speech, he can give a palliative comfort to his viewers that he really does "know how the world works" and that he can see into the future and prophesy his own election.  I myself was enchanted for a moment by the pathos of the speech.  I wasn't about to switch my allegiance, but I did have a passing wish to see him sworn in.  At least I don't feel like such a fool seeing the bounce that so many others who are still experiencing that wish are giving the candidate.  With any luck they too will come to realize that McCain's true role over the past thirty years has been that of Republican court jester, shaking some sense into his colleagues' heads like a Shakespearian jester, but without much sense of his own.

  September 7, 2008 7:16 PM

• Tony Schinella said:

  Thanks for making my point Terry. Like I said, some people will vote against their own economic interests to vote for someone who will protect the unborn, "preserve" marriage, military service, etc. I didn't say I agreed with it but it isn't stupid. It is another person's opinion and view of the world. You can choose to agree to disagree with them and move on, or call people names and be intolerant, something I really truly detest in people with similar opinions as mine.

  September 7, 2008 8:03 PM

• juan said:

  I have been a lifelong Democrat. I voted for Hillary in the primaries.

  I was moved by McCain's speech. It touched me. I thought he did a great job connecting to moderates and the less-partisan.

  He came off as a real hero, someone to look up to.

  I just do not see anything in Obama's track record or decision making that compares to what McCain brings to the table.

  September 8, 2008 2:57 PM

• gordon marshall said:

  That is, if you consider a trumped-up military record an a 90% voting-with-Bush congressional record "bringing something to the table."

  September 8, 2008 6:32 PM

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