lordjedi said:
"His base is the young people"
Yeah, all the people that didn't live through Carter and don't know any history. Ask anybody that lived through Carter about Barack Obama and they'll all tell you the same thing, he's another Carter and this country doesn't need 4 more years of Carter. There's a reason the conservative talk shows all refer to him as Carter 2. Everything Obama wants to do, Carter already tried, with disastrous results. You guys want to know how Carter got elected? The people wanted change and Carter was a Democrat. Ford was the sitting Republican President that pardoned Nixon and the people wanted something different.
4 years later, Reagan won in a landslide.
Change is fine, but Obama is the wrong kind of change.
If Obama wins, we may in fact witness history repeat itself. 4 years of shit, to be followed by a landslide win of the most conservative president we've had since Reagan. I only hope Obama doesn't win.
What's even funnier is all these guys that were in their 20s when Carter was elected. They probably weren't paying attention to anything that was really going on at the time or they were high on drugs. Either way, even they don't remember the shit this country went through. It seems that only people in their 30s and 40s at the time are the ones that really remember how bad it was.
I was very young when Carter was president, but I do remember some of his disastrous administration. Some damage was undone (hostages), and some damage still remains (Iran, Panama Canal, Airline de-regulation....yes you can thank Jimmy Carter for our f**ked-up Airlines). But things will be much worse, I fear, if Obama is elected. Whatever taxes he raises can be cut by the next president, but if he brings in socialized health-care, that will NEVER go away. Our great-grandchildren will be stuck with that. I dread the day when I have to wait 4 months for an MRI, or the day that my Mom is told she's too old to have one.
McCain better get his ass in gear. I don't think this country can endure another four years of Jimmy Carter #2.
sean wookie, if you want to keep the gov't out of your life, then you should be a Libertarian or a Conservative. Democrats definitely don't want to keep the gov't out of your life!