I find myself following politics a great deal more these days, mostly thanks to Mitt Romney and his drawing enormous amounts of publicity to our common religion. Anyway, rather than rant about all the candidates (on the left-wing side, I know precious little about them), or about Romney in particular (what, precisely, is there to say that hasn't been said a thousand times?), I thought I'd open it up to comments and see if anyone wanted to say who their current favorite was. If no one comments, I'll probably hammer on friends and family until some of you do.
If anything really interesting or provoking is said, I might even follow up with an additional post. I don't know. Still trying to figure out this whole blog thing.
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I don’t like talking about politics, because someone inevitably gets mad. Curt loves it, though. I’ll tell him to check your blog.
P.S. I like Hillary Clinton. See why I don’t discuss politics?
McCain confuses me. It's not that he seems bi-polar... it's more of a Jekyl and Hyde thing. One day, he's doing something that has my full support, and the next he's an unmitigated left-wing communist...
Shrug. I voted for him in the last election, but who knows what'll happen this time around.
Shan: I'd be curious to hear what you like about Hillary.
Her campaign seems designed to appeal to the center-left. By and large, I agree with her on issues (most of them are decidedly moderate views, so it's hard to argue), although I do disagree with many of the shouting points (abortion and salary gaps). I'm against gay marriage, although I'm fine with domestic partnership arrangements as long as the law continues to reflect a preference for married, heterosexual couples for child-rearing; this seems to be pretty close to the Democrat position.
As far as improvements over Bush: Hillary has better manners. I suspect foreign relations would improve somewhat under her.
Things I don't like: I don't trust that she believes what she says she believes. It appears that her primary goal is to become president (because being president is cool?), and her position on issues is somewhat secondary. I'm not sure of this, she just makes me uneasy.
OK, 'nuff ranting. I'm not really a Hillary fan, but I'm trying to be open-minded about it. If you only drink one party's Kool-Aid, you tend to end up with very distorted views :-P.
I really like that Obama is actually discussing topics. Whether you like his ideas or not at least you know what he stands for and how he came to his conclusions. We need more politicians actually speaking to the public instead of this rally type shouting campaigns. Obama has not been without his rhetoric shouting speeches but he is learning and changing. You should all listen to one of his home town style speeches.
I also enjoyed Romney standing up to the Rev.
OK, I've listened to some Obama speeches ;-).
He's leaning very heavily on his anti-war stance. I wish I knew what the right thing to do there is. What will happen to Iraq after we leave? The government there is anti-withdrawal. The public in Iraq clearly hates us, and there's a lot of both camps ("Go home now" vs. "Go home ... but not just yet"). Can we make the final outcome better by staying around? I really don't know.
I like Obama fairly well. I also like Romney, so here's a quick comparison:
Obama would revert the high-income tax cuts. Meh, that would probably be fine. It's not clear that he would be good at clipping spending. Romney isn't a fan of raising taxes, and wants to focus on controlling spending. Romney has a strong proven record on that.
Obama is clearly, overtly in favor of starting troop withdrawal NOW. Romney wants to try and stabilize Iraq as long as there is a reasonable chance of doing so; Romney's premise is that if Iraq destabilizes badly enough, we could end up in a much worse war than the one we're now in.
Romney wants to strengthen the military (which was slashed by Clinton). So does Obama.
Romney is a very charismatic speaker. So is Obama.
Both Obama and Romney have had their religions poked at accusingly (Romney is Mormon, Obama is sort-of maybe not-really Moslem). I think the fear over either of these is about equally well-founded (i.e. ridiculous and stupid).
In short: If Romney is NOT the GOP nominee, and Obama IS the Democrat nominee, I might find myself voting Democrat for once. I rather like the guy.
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