A Question Before the Election...
(old journal page)I have a question for you. Yes, *you*. I'd like you to leave a comment in the comments section. You can leave your name or you can be anonymous. You can leave who you are voting for or you don't have to say. Come this election day, what do you expect? What do you think will happen if your candidate gets into office? What do you expect that person to do? What do you want them to do?
What are your thoughts?
All opinions are welcome. No one will be condemned or applauded. I just am looking for honest answers.
Thanks for your time.
Comments
Not expecting anything--just hoping for something good!!
I also don't think anyone realizes that once a candidate makes it into office they rarely do what they promised while campaigning and I don't want to take that chance with someone who is that inexperienced. I don't care if they chanted Change for months and months. I want someone with some experience to be able to back up our country and make some decisions when some terriost is attacking my country.
As far as healthcare is concerned, I'm all for people being able to afford it. But on his healthcare plan it does say within the next 5 years. As a Nurse I feel there is a lot to do to change healthcare and it will take more than a President to do it. The drug companies need to quit charging so much, the hospitals need to quit charging outrageous amounts of money for items($7 for one pill) and I don't feel that Obama is going to be able to sweep in and do this with his magic wand.
There is no "miracle" cure for the state our world is in right now. Their isn't going to be a magic wand to fix it. I have hope and I pray for our country all the time. I think it's sad that people are placing their hope on one man for our "Change". I don't expect anything from our new President, I don't pray to him.
Just my opinion.....
His tax plans are very detrimental to our society, as has been spelled out by numerous financial analysts. We may be in the next great depression if Obama wins. As for his health care plan, Obama want goverment healthcare and I am absolutely against government healthcare. I pay my own health insurance and it's a hardship, but at least when I want to go to the doctor, I can get in in a reasonable amount of time and I can go to who I want to.
I feel McCain is much more experienced in world affairs and would do a much better job.
The main reason I don't want Obama is I have never seen a man so connected to so many absolutely terrible people. Some of the worst people in our society. Even ACORN is a dishonest group that is now being investigated. The media covers it up most of the time because they lean Democrat, but if you research it there is just too much of it to take lightly. I feel if you know even lightly that many terrible people, then your judgement is impaired. As for the Reverend Wright, I would have had more respect for Obama if he had just admitted to his relationship and stood by it, but to be associated with an individual like this for twenty years, worship in that environment and then when it hurt him, just deny it and abandon the church, again I believe this is poor judgement and certainly not who I want to run the country.
Erin in Morro Bay
I have my work cut out for me this weekend. My son just joined the Air Force, so I have that to contend with. I want him to have a good commander in chief.
I also agree that there is no easy fix to all the problems we are experiencing. We didn't get here over night, and it won't be solved by electing a President. We have to elect a wise House of Representative too.
I also agree with the comments about how good we still have it compared to many other places in the world.
I will rely on my God to give me comfort and strength to handle all that is ahead of us. He is able to handle whatever the country chooses because He is ultimately in charge!
Thanks again Kelly
Obama, on the other hand, has had to work hard to get where he is. I read his book about his early life which was written 13 years ago. He was then not thinking about running for office, but trying to find where he belonged. In my opinion, one has to define "Black" to me. He had a white mother, a black father. His father was totally absent during his childhood except for a month long visit when he was 10. He will understand how to try to bring the races together.
Like many of you remarked previously, we desperately need change in our country. I honestly do not think that McCain is capable of doing that. I think Obama really has a good heart. He may not succeed, but we need to give him a chance.
Anyone with half a brain cannot possibly think Sarah Palin would make a good president. Talk about opportunists! She and McCain appear to made from the same shallow mold. I fear for us if they win.
I hope we all pull together and try to make our country stronger instead of just complaining.about what is wrong with it.
I think he will take on the health care industry, immigration and foreign policy in a way that it hasn't been addressed before and I look forward to that. He also supports comprehensive sex education, which I feel is HUGELY needed (as an educator).
It frustrates me when I read about how people buy into the idea that Obama has faulty relationships- please attempt to be educated before you just throw out smears. I agree that no one is perfect, but know the facts before you just start throwing out slurs and rumors. If you want to research faulty connections and relationships, McCain was formally cited by an Ethics Committee in a case. Might be something of interest to look into.
Regardless, we have a long way to go to truly be a country of the ideals we were founded on. I hope that Americans can come together and be the great nation we are supposed to be.
Wouldn't it be nice to have politicians standing up saying what they really feel and want to say instead of what advisors have told them to quote. I guess what I want is an honest politician and there just "ain't no such animal".
As far as I can tell, both sides have not only lied about where they stand but also about the other side. The media lies, distorts, and presents whatever meets the agenda of those running that particular station.
Campaign promises are just so much hot air and really don't mean a thing.
I agree with those who have said that we need to pray. Pray that whoever gets elected will have the best interests of the country in their heart and not those who contributed to their campaigns and pocketbooks. It will take a miracle for that to happen.