No offense to Obama-supporters who read this, but I cannot support Obama in ‘08. The hyperbole of hope-and-change which surrounds his campaign is that which will undoubtedly let down his supporters. Just as the hopes of change regarding our occupation of Iraq resulted in a let down in 2004/6. Nonetheless, some Democrats continue to support Pelosi et al, seemingly blindly.
Both the Republican and Democrat parties are driven by lust for power. Both Republicans and Democrats are blindly ignoring the economic crisis that they are spending us into. There no longer is a distinction in terms of economic policy between the “tax and spend liberals” and the war-mongering neo-conservatives. While the Republicans want to spend trillions on wars, Democrats want to spend trillions on universal healthcare and social safety-nets which functions as hammocks. Where the money is spent is irrelevant — it is taken from us and redistributed for votes. We are paying for them to remain in power, and not only in dollars.
I’ll believe in a “candidate for change” when one of them starts to listen to this guy:
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if you don’t vote, don’t bother complaining.
Nowhere in my post do I suggest that I won’t vote. I will vote, and while my chosen candidate will assuredly not win the contest, I will be voting with my eyes open and without muttering any mantra of “believe in hope for change.”
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