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[mrv3000]

The company network was down for a little while today, and so there was some news reading.



There was a time I liked John McCain. It was even as close as a few months back. Oh, I was never planning on voting for him in November, but I thought I wouldn't be all that irked if he wound up as President.

But things have been going downhill, and my respect for him has been steadily dropping. Today, I pretty much have no respect for the man. He and Palin have gone completely negative, whipping crowds into actual frenzies of hate. Do they actually think that bile will sway a voter? I'm not undecided, but I'm telling you that kind of bullshit would immediately turn me off if I was. It seems the only thing it's doing is working the already-loyal base into a froth. A really ugly froth. The kind I'm ashamed to share a country with. Yes, it's exactly that bad.

In politics I expect a certain amount of idiocy and snipping. And I don't believe that Obama wears a halo of perfection and innocence. But in my book, McCain and Palin aren't even registering a pulse on the integrity meter right now. Why would I want people like that leading and representing this country?

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[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

The problem is that they don't want to take their marbles and go home. They want people to rally behind them to victory. And I'm sorry, there is no way I could ever get behind what they're doing right now and I still can't believe they can't see it for what it is. Not sure if they're that blind or that vicious. Either way, I don't want anything to do with that.

Reading more on this, I'm getting the feeling that McCain might be on a runaway train. But if he can't control his own campaign...

[pittsburghgirl.livejournal.com]

then how can he control the country? he can't. I believe he is in early dementia stages-at the town hall meeting he came across as a bitter old man. and don't get me started on Palin-she is the closest to a racist then I had ever seen a politican be without coming right out and yelling "White Power"-I have to tell you that when she said that Obama isn't like the rest of America, he doesn't he see America the way we do-all i heard was "the Jews are not like us, they don't see Germany the way we do." maybe it is an over reaction on my part-but really-can they not see what is happening right in front of them?? when someone yelled "kill him" at a rally Palin smiled-smiled! and didn't say a word not then or even after.