No derbal213, I'm saying that to indict an entire class of voters because you've found some nutters or fools that agree with them, or you for that matter, is LUDICROUS.

I'm not indicting an entire class of voters. I'm merely trying to say that is ridiculous for people on both sides to vote for stupid reasons like "they look nice" or "He's black."

Thank you. I realize that there is a difference between stupid and ignorant. But what I'm trying to get across is that the majority of voters (on BOTH sides, in other words, the majority of people who have or will vote for any candidate) are ignorant to the real issues and are voting for stupid reasons.

I also, admit, that on some issues, I am completely ignorant. By no means do I know or claim to know everything. The issues that I do know something about, though, I agree with McCain on more than I agree with Obama. I respect that others feel the opposite. I'm not sure who said it earlier in the thread, but to quote them, "I'm not going to change your mind, and you won't change mine."

Well, duh! 

Just as it is for people to NOT-vote for someone because they "don't look nice" or "are black."

I'm glad we can at least find common ground that we all SHOULD be voting on the issues.  I hope this election portends a sea change in this regard.

Unless your arms were broke as a POW, so you can't use a computer.   (I'm sorry...I couldn't stop myself!)

I read your post. My point was that this is a different election.

People vote for different reasons in different elections. Someone may have voted for Bush in the last election for completely different reasons than why they are voting for McCain in this one.

I find it funny that many people are saying they are voting for Obama because of what Bush did. McCain is not Bush. Everyone should be comparing what McCain plans to do with what Obama plans to do. People should compare what McCain has done with what Obama has done. Bush is not in this election.

Well, as the Geico ad goes, it's "so easy even a caveman can do it."   LITERACY is important.  You probably wouldn't vote for someone who couldn't read (although I have known a very successful person who was illiterate--the rest of us had to cover up for him, as he caught the boss with his trousers down, and that meant if the rest of us wanted to keep our jobs, we had to do our job AND his when it came to the reading part).  We live in a digital age, and computer literacy is, in my opinion, rather important.

To borrow from a different debate I read on line, "what if the 3 a.m. call comes in the form of an e-mail?"

Also, it seems to me that although the president might not NEED to use the computer himself, if he is at the mercy of his underlings to "work the machine" for him, that means he's in a position to be compromised (moles, plants from the enemy that end up getting the position of keyboard money for the Prez), would be in a position to screen important information from his attention, or plant wrong information.  Ignorance leaves one vulnarable.

Maybe not, but McCain voted 90% in favor of everything Bush proposed.  I suppose that makes him Bush lite to some of us.  

What she sed.

My greatest fear is not the outcome of this Presidential election, but whether I continue to have many a sleepless nights thinking that the attitudes expressed here by the individuals who's minds have been made up from the beginning are going to be the ones running this Country after I am gone.  What a legacy you've begun.  I'm glad the Electoral College still exists.  The general population has no business electing our leaders.  We have no business trying to get involved in our own lives and the government who decides our fate as an American. 

You have the opportunity, with all the resources available, to be one of the most informed and intellectually responsible group of voters than any time before in our 232 years as a Democracy, yet some of you choose to follow blindly the rants of each political party without confiming the details for yourselves.  If I were your teacher at any time during your schooling, I would have smacked you with a ruler for not checking your sources. 

With each Presidential election we ask ourselves, "Will we be better off 4 or 8 years from now if I choose Candidate A or B?"  "Will the policies of my previous choice continue into the next administration and will my choice this time be the one blamed for what has played out to be a mistake as with most previous administrations?"  "Will this new Adminstration actually fix the problems that plague this generation and the ones before?"  We Americans have a short memory. 

It is not a question of who has spent the most money, or whether one spends more on a wardrobe than the GNP of several small nations, the true question is, what have these candidates shown to the intellectually responsible voter that can convince us they have the experience necessary to run this complex nation of diversity.  That, my friends, will be the question I answer November 4.  God bless this United States. 

This is complete BS. ALL communications to the Whitehouse are through someone else first. Just try to call the president directly and you will get the switchboard first and they will screen you. Do you really think that the President answers his own emails?? Nope, someone else sees them first...and may answer them instead of sending them to the President. Do you think he types his own letters? Hardly.

I still can't believe that this is an issue.

Put on that tinfoil hat mr.idog. It must be a left wing conspiracy. Funny how the goes around - comes back around isn't it?

Quit whining and get used to it. Just as everybody else has had to get used to & deal with GWB - who I would guess you voted for. Am I right?

I bet you'd vote for GWB again though wouldn't you? You and many others here - judging from what I've seen in the past.

Laughable. Give me a break.

Well, this seems to support the assertion (I think by Lantec) that conservatives are more likely to vote outside of party lines, but such progressive thought tends to leave the route to presidency wide open for democrats.

Ha, I'm still reeling over that comparison. At least Obama's not just sitting down doing a crossword or something. . . Yeah, I definitely prefer the dedicated maverick.