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Actually I mostly agree with tommyo, but the thing is, we have dems and repubs to choose from here in the US of A. I consider a vote for a third party, while admirable, a waste of a vote in the current situation. One way or the other we have to turn left right now, and that means Obama. It's like being in the car with a manic who's been steering right into a wall for the last 8 years..we have to turn left just to avoid a complete trainwreck.
And granted, both parties are cupable, but truth told the Republicans under the Bush White House and the Repub congress between 94-2006 has driven us into a fucking ditch and tarnished some deep and fundamental principles of American Constitutional government to such a degree that they have to be removed from anywhere near the levers of power. I miss a smart and principled old school american right wing party. They have disappeared from the landscape. Bush, Rove, Limbuagh, Coulter are ideolouges - not leaders. Can they return? I don't know. I hope so.
I happen to like Obama in many ways, wary of him in others. Like I said a few pages back i don't think Obama is going to be the Progressive force that many on the left think he is. But either way, McCain/Palin would be a fucking disaster. We need a fundamental sea change in this country..and hopefully the wave that is bringing Obama is bringing that change.