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Originally Posted by A264172

I suppose those who vote for them can tell you what standard they are expected to achieve.
If politicians weren't chosen in spite of their failings we would be ungoverned... now there's a thought worth considering.

Sadly, big government, married to socialistic policies and spending, isn't even up for debate anymore. At least as far as any candidate, 'as far the eye can see' is concerned. Neither has the notion that our 'interests' abroad are based on securing access to resources, with no regard to the sustainability of the markets for our children or their future partners there been.

The question before us, effectively, is: "who will steer this supertanker, we've embarked on, through the straits". As we are forced to choose 'more of the same' from one of these three pilots, I'll take Obama's peculiar path over Clinton's static spin, and McCain's narrow field of competence. Not so much because of what he proposes to champion, but because of how he has been observed in action by his peers, and the way he proffers to go about the job. Should he be elected, I would expect him to accomplish some things seen as landmarks, while leaving some great type of 'deficit' to contend with.

In the end it is up to our representatives, and therefore you and me, to tax ourselves, to spend only that, and to allow ourselves the freedom that makes us what we would be. If there will be any real 'change' in the country's future, it will come from those who fill the house and senate with it's members. As no cure for what we need is in sight or ever will be past the bathroom mirror. And the expectation of that cure from elsewhere is bound to sink us if we forget it, no matter who is at the helm.

Nuthin' much I care to argue with there. I'm nearly dead certain I will be voting for a 3rd party candidate. This will be my bumper sticker.

"I wasted my vote on the Libertarian Candidate. Who did you waste your vote on?"

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