Couldn’t agree more Alison.

Refreshing to find people who study their choices, and don’t vote purely on emotion.

Christine’s last blog post..“Adult Christianity”: The Place to Buy HOLY CRAP since 1995

Thanks for visiting Christine; I have to say the Green Party appeals a lot to me as well…so glad you feel politically refreshed. We all deserve that.

Um… she may be overpowered yet.

Nice that she doesn’t know her own party’s central foreign policy doctrine. Very impressive.

jen of a2eatwrite’s last blog post..Where were you? September 11, 2001

I did, and as I’ve said to others, I love her “In what respect, Charlie?” to try to buy time after being asked about the Bush Doctrine. Reminds me of being in law school and trying to pull one over on the professors when I didn’t read a case but was unlucky enough to be called on and subjected to the Socratic Method….

Here’s a transcript of the excerpts…some (not much) was edited out of the broadcast I noticed.

I’m Australian, as I think you know, and I first travelled to the USA around 15 (gosh, maybe 17) years ago and travelled to a lot of places on and off over a few years and loved it. As a travel writer, I have a lot of opportunities to travel there, but – I’m sad to say – I simply can’t bring myself to go. Since the Bush government was elected the USA has become scary, morally-corrupt place, ran by arrogant, lying, scum-of-the-earth neo-cons, and I hate to use the language of fear they do, but they are E-V-I-L.

The US just isn’t respected in the world anymore and has become a bit of a laughing stock. And I think Australia had too, to some extent, because of John Howard’s blatant support of Bush, and Australians themselves were also divided and insular. But now under a smarter government (under Kevin Rudd the country seems to be a bit more balanced, thoughtful and open minded.

Like Australia needed Rudd, Obama is exactly what the US needs, a thinking person who’ll unite the country, a leader who is smarter than the average man on the street, who people can admire, and aspire to be like. I think it’s only with someone like Obama at the helm that people will start to respect the USA’s place in the world again.

I totally disagree with the notion that personal blogs shouldn’t be political. But politics *is* personal. That’s the way it should be. Because it affects people’s lives. You *must* bring politics into your personal communication so you can affect change – that’s the only way to do it. That’s what grassroots politics is all about. Don’t let politics happen on some other level that you think you can’t control. Bring it into your realm, the everyday, so you (the smart Americans) have influence over those who are too easily influenced by the dumb-ass Palins (because let’s face it, there’s not much of an IQ there. This woman didn’t even own a passport for godsake!) and the ancient McCains. I mean, really, a 70-something year old should be fishing and reading books and travelling the world and writing his memoirs, not running for freakin public office.

You need to do *something* and the blogosphere is the very place you should be doing it!

Sorry for the rant, but this is one citizen of the world who is going to be very afraid for your country – and our world – if Palin and McCain get in. Think about it.

(P.S I’m going to be posting on the topic too soon.)

lara dunston’s last blog post..How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels

Thank you so much for your comment, Lara. I love hearing from readers outside of the US, outside the process. I just read that the world would, as a majority, vote for Obama. Let’s hope Americans somehow become as informed as the rest of the world.

What I want to hear about, from both parties, are:
1. what they plan to do to get the economy going in the right direction (and I don’t think fixing it is a one term issue…it’s going to get worse before it gets better, no matter who is in office.)
2. what they plan to do to repair our Constitution, and take some of the powers away from the Executive branch that have been grabbed in these last 7 years. That’s a doozy, because we rarely see any government anywhere GIVE BACK powers, even if they know it’s the right thing to do.

Sigh.

J’s last blog post..September 11, Again

Will certainly be interesting to say the least, J.

Judith in Umbria’s last blog post..Food for thought

I hear you Judith. And I don’t get it either. Looks like we’ll hear from her soon though!

Despite my site’s “button,” etc., Obama isn’t my dream candidate. To be honest, none of them were. When I looked at his policies, though, he was the closest match for my beliefs and I really, really like his career path and level of integrity. I do like choices he’s made around the campaign and I hope he sticks with his original convictions. I also hope that he listens to Hillary on health care and a few other issues.

In the meantime, I’m going to do everything I can to help put him in office.

jen of a2eatwrite’s last blog post..What’s Cooking Wednesday: Fran’s Chicken

Thanks Jenn. I love Obama’s integrity as well–his character is really what makes me believe in him (same with Joe Biden). I actually *trust* them to do what’s right for the country, and that’s a heck of a lot more I can say for most politicians, especially their opponents this go around.