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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (122813)	1/4/2008 2:01:10 PM
From: the navigator	Respond to of 362860

And so who would you support? As a life-long democrat I must confess to ambivalent feelings. In fact I find myself in a place I never could have foreseen. When Bush was appointed, I relished the day I could support Hillary - not because I thought she would be the best, but because President Hillary Clinton would be the sweetest revenge to the neo-cons. I'm past that now. Hillary voted for Iraq and still does. For that, I can never forgive her - ever. It tells me she does what is expediently right, not what she believes is right. In other words, she can't be trusted. And you can blah blah blah about "compromise is the way to get things done" all you want. When it comes to war and death, there is no excuse for expedient compromise. Obama? I donno. He did the right thing on Iraq, but maybe when it was a little easier to be against the war. He came to the US Senate in 2005. I do like his name but I have to see more of him before I can support him. In the meantime, I'm going to work for Ron Paul. I want him to be the republican nominee. I don't agree with all his views and maybe he's an anachronism, but if he is then so is our Constitution. I support Ron Paul because he supports our Constitution. I'm afraid we've lost sight of that document. We've put it under glass to protect it and then we've gone about our business as if it no longer applies. So maybe he doesn't stand a chance, but I don't care. If nothing else, support for him will remind the powers that be that there are still people out here who do care and will not let them have their way without a fight.

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (122813)	1/4/2008 2:01:28 PM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362860

OBAMA = Bush Lite Hillary = Bush strong lite?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (122813)	1/4/2008 2:06:31 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362860

Thanks, CR, for a refreshingly candid bit of truth. Bush was "the uniter, not the divider," the "compassionate conservative" who has taken us completely to the Dark Side. But politics is also a balancing act, trying to say just enough to gather enough independents, youth, geezers, women and fallen republicans to seal the deal. Now that he's running from the front, at least for the next 4 days, he can sound magnanimous. If Hil wins NH, it's get interesting. If Hil loses, stick a fork in her. But yes, riding an amorphous wave of "change" may come back to haunt him one day.