SVXers Poll: Who ya voting for if anyone?

[shelfy]

Originally posted by BoondockSVX
Kerry is against gay marriage.

have we not gone here before?

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Originally posted by PA_SVX
So is Edwards. He said it last night. I think "marriage" should be between a man and a woman, but I am 100% in support of a "civil union" classification that can be legally recognized to give domestic partners the same rights a husband or wife enjoys. All my best to you Ken.

thanks, dan! i think.

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Originally posted by JeffN
1 thing Edwards agrees with me on. Full legal equality.

And I hope that's not the case Ken.

i think i am the one who's confused.

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Originally posted by PA_SVX
Ken has been good about me picking on him over the Legacy photos (still waiting...) and we seem to be polar opposites politically, but still can be friends.

i have the camera with me today and just may take some pics of the car possibly with a dusting of snow before i leave work today. i can post them when i get home.

If America is freedom... and it is...then why can't I be free of Bush? I had his dad 4 years, his kid 4 years, and how long's Jeb been in Florida? Sounds more like a monopoly. The thought of 4 more years of George makes me feel like getting drunk.

[JeffN]

Originally posted by shelfy
i think i am the one who's confused.

Someone dying in the hospital like you mentioned-conjecture I hope.

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Originally posted by JeffN
Someone dying in the hospital like you mentioned-conjecture I hope.

ahhh. makes sense now. my partner's not dying, but we did have a friend in the hospital recently and his partner couldn't see him.

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Originally posted by shelfy
i have the camera with me today and just may take some pics of the car possibly with a dusting of snow before i leave work today. i can post them when i get home.

camera batteries are dead. go figure.

[UberRoo]

I want a two-stage voting system. First we vote for our first choice, or at least whomever we would most like to see in the running. Then, we can vote for any people we don't want in office. The candidate with the best negative / positive ratio gets the throne.

I'd like to see a trial-run of this done simultaneously with a normal election. If it didn't yield absolutely crazy results, and I don't think it would, I bet it'd probably give us a chance of seeing somebody we actually want behind the helm. ...of course if it did work, it'd probably go to that place where all the other good ideas that pass through our government offices go: Away from the light of day. :/

[Shadow248]

Originally posted by Peach
If America is freedom... and it is...then why can't I be free of Bush? I had his dad 4 years, his kid 4 years, and how long's Jeb been in Florida? Sounds more like a monopoly. The thought of 4 more years of George makes me feel like getting drunk.

If America is freedom...then why can't I be free of liberals? The thought of 4 years of Kerry makes me want to move to Switzerland.

[Rotorflyr]

Need a hand packing?

[nsm484]

Originally posted by Shadow248


If America is freedom...then why can't I be free of liberals? The thought of 4 years of Kerry makes me want to move to Switzerland.

Agreed... Seems that our freedom is having to pass that
good ole "Global Test" Right now

[svxistentialist]

This is an interesting thread.

Congratulations to all you guys who have been able to put various points of view across, many of them polar opposites, without it degenerating into a flame fest. Good to see people have respect for others' views.

I can't vote in the US, so I won't vote in the poll. I had great respect for how Bush handled the 9-11 situation after it happened. That's as far as it goes.

I really can't stand how he has unilaterally disassociated the USA from the Kyoto protocol, simply because the measures required would cause business problems for his buddies.

To us outside the US, looking in, this attitude is symptomatic of a "go it alone" approach to world politics, which has caused deep mistrust of the Bush administration among nations that would have been traditionally very pro-US. Going into Iraq without United Nations support certainly proved this point. Like most of the civilised world, I shed no tears for the ending of the Hussein regime. It needed to be done, but it should have been done properly, with more support than just a puppet UK involvement. The [so-called] intelligence community pretext for invasion was a joke. Weapons of mass destruction my a$$. Weapons of mass distraction more like.

I really don't know who is going to win, but I would not like to see Bush back for another term. The longer he is in, the world perception of the US will move closer than you might like to the "bear stalking in the woods" appelation that was used for Russia during the Cold War.

From World Policeman to Desperado in one not-so-easy lesson.

Joe

PS I'm not that keen on Michael Moore either. He's amusing enough, but I can't see his production company getting ready to do a "Supersize Me" sequel.

[Shadow248]

Originally posted by svxistentialist
I really don't know who is going to win, but I would not like to see Bush back for another term. The longer he is in, the world perception of the US will move closer than you might like to the "bear stalking in the woods" appelation that was used for Russia during the Cold War.

Unfortunately, we lack a suitable replacement for Bush. Therefore it is doubtful that he will be voted out. Our choices right now are, Bush - guaranteed relative safety and alienation from the world, or Kerry - no guarantees at all. So we're kinda screwed. Kerry has failed to generate confidence, Bush has shown that we can depend on him for certain things...some good, some bad. When it comes down to it, a predictable candidate is going to win over one who doesn't seem to stand for anything.

[NapaBavarian]

Cheney for president, bush for vice



kinda like when Hillary Clinton was president