For a while, I was persuaded by my Obama-supporting friends that Obama was the lesser of two evils (even though I held to it that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil). They made a good argument. Obama wants everyone to have subsidized health care, something which I love having in Spain. (I pay 35 euros a semester for unlimited, high quality hospital visits, and any medicine I've bought has cost between 2.50 - 12.00 euros.) Also, McCain is quite military-focused, and many people think he could lead us further into the neo-fascist phenomenon that George W. already provoked in his time in office.
So yes, I agree that McCain is a bad choice for president. Especially as a pro-lifer, I don't think that McCain has done much for the pro-life movement, but neither has Obama. I realize that it's hard in this day in age to define when life begins, so despite my strong opinions on abortion, at the moment I won't be too harsh on them for that. However, when I found out that Obama voted in October 2007 AGAINST banning partial-birth abortion, I decided that my conscience will not permit me to vote for Obama.
McCain can at least say that his greedy, ethno-centric military policies are to help the people at home and supposedly gain peace in Iraq. Obama can't say that partial-birth abortion is anything but brutal killing of a child coming out of his mother's womb. I can't vote for someone that inhumane, and I can't say that Obama is the lesser of two evils.
I post this in hopes that those of you with a heart for humanitarian causes, especially for those of you with sympathy for the weak and innocent of our society, will rethink whom you're voting for. I realize that Obama has charisma, but there are truths much deeper than a nice looking face and superficial speeches.
Please get out to the polls today, and please make a wise, well thought-out decision!
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." -Alexander Hamilton
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well bess, they're over in Iraq doin grown ass man abortions! Aborting them from this world into hell or heaven, so one can kill in the name of their country but no other reason? I'm not sayin I support partial birth abortions but murder is murder, the lesser evil is still evil right bessie!?
mr. mar10 - yeah good point; but again, i didn't vote for mccain and i dont agree with the policies in iraq and i never agreed with the invasion in iraq. i just think that partial-birth abortion is even more extreme. i'm just weighing out the evils...
I'm wondering if I understand this correctly: You support Ron Paul and socialized medicine?
yes totally, at least for the situation our country is in now I do. It's a tough situation, but I think the fact that the government and corporate america have hurt us so much through pharmaceutical lobbying, that the government owes it to us at this point to grant us tremendous subsidies on health care. In general, I'm pro-market, totally pro-Ron Paul, but in the case of health care, a life or death issue, I agree with Keynes, "In the long run we are all dead." With the medical system, it is quite true: it's not something we can just wait on for the market to work out; we have to take action now.
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