Comments on: Super Tuesday

By: jovan byars

jovan byars — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:58:07 +0000

Since I’ve already voted on January 26 (and the next election for me to vote in is the Democratic Senatorial Primary to challenge Lindsey Graham), I’ll say this: I agree with RachelPhilPa. A vote for a Republican is a vote for more of the same.

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:20:16 +0000

Here, here, Pizza Diavola! I’m with you on all of those counts. It’s sometimes hard to remember that the candidates still have day jobs.

By: Pizza Diavola

Pizza Diavola — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:14:34 +0000

I’ll be voting for Clinton, but I don’t think that she or Obama has the primary wrapped up. It’s difficult to say, because my immediate acquaintances are pretty evenly split and beyond that, most of the people who I know are voting are Obama supporters.

As for beating McCain, it terrifies me that the Democrats will lose this election, too, so no matter who wins the their nomination, I’m going to volunteer for them.

I’m going to be so glad when Super Tuesday is over. I can’t believe how long the campaigns have been running, and frankly, I hate it when I think about the time the candidates have spent on the road when they should have been in the Senate or Congress or doing their day jobs.

By: RachelPhilPa

RachelPhilPa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:53:41 +0000

I mean, he’s hardly Mitt Romney!

So, so true. Just looking at Romney’s name (or that of any other Rethuglican candidate) turns my stomach.

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:01:24 +0000

For the record (for Rachel, Redstar and anyone else who is reading), I like both Obama and Clinton on a personal level. When I say that Obama has a leg up on Clinton in terms of personality, I don’t mean that she has a bad one, just that Obama is slightly more charasmatic. They both strike me as genuine on a personal level, and I’d be happy to have lunch/a drink/coffee with either of them. I don’t find Obama to be manufactured . . . at least not any more than I find any other politician on this planet to be manufactured. I mean, he’s hardly Mitt Romney! And I hate to say it, but when it comes to being manipulated by Republicans, I think that Clinton has a stronger track record there. Maybe just because she has been in Congress longer. But still.

But yeah, I’m not really in the mood for a political argument. Like I’ve said, I prefer Obama but Clinton will do just fine for me if it comes down to that. I’ll be a little disappointed, but okay. My heart just isn’t in the battle :)

In any case, I am surprised about the high levels of support for Clinton here. It wasn’t what I expected . . . shows what I know.

By: Redstar

Redstar — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:48:14 +0000

RachelPhilPa – I agree!!

By: kmm

kmm — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:10:34 +0000

Ideologically, I align more completely with Obama. While I like Hillary, and I think she’d do a fine job, I am loath to throw my support that way on basic principal: depending on whether you count Reagan-Bush, we have had 20-28 years of the same two families in the oval office. The idea that tacking on another 4-8 years to that number is likely to produce significant change just doesn’t sit well with me.
Happy Caucusing!

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:08:47 +0000

Yeah, the problem with that, Paul, is that she is both seen as being from the North and being a Liberal. I doubt that the fact that neither of those are technically true is going to make a huge difference.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:02:59 +0000

the USA has not elected a northern liberal (*) as President since 1960 and probably won’t for a long time – the votes needed to win the presidency include states where a “northern liberal” would be poison and the words “ACLU” seem to be treated the same as “NSDAP”.

(* – Clinton is not a northern liberal – she started out as a mid-west conservative (campaigned for Goldwater in ‘64), became a southern centrist when she married Bill and is now a moderate.)

By: RachelPhilPa

RachelPhilPa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:08:18 +0000

On thinking about this more, there is a reason for me to lean towards Clinton. She just seems more real, genuine, honest, to me. Maybe that’s not backed up by facts, I don’t know. And I do disagree with many of her policies, and some of them do make me spitting mad. But still, when someone has the humanity to shed a tear when introduced by her mentor, or to beam when her daughter arrives at a campaign event, I respond positively to that (and I would also if the candidate was male). Perhaps I should be judging her solely on her policies, but I feel like an effective president *needs* to have some compassion for fellow USA-ians.

Obama feels like a plastic, manufactured image to me. He also feels like someone that the Rethuglicans can easily manipulate.