Here We Go...Politics Time
Posted on 2008-Jan-7 at 08:31
Here we go...Round one is here. New Hampshire.
| Surging crowds and sharpening barbs preceded the climax of the New Hampshire primary campaign, as Democrat Barack Obama sought to hand Hillary Rodham Clinton her second defeat while Republican Mitt Romney worked furiously to avoid one himself.
Fire marshals from Manchester south to Salem and east to Exeter had to shut the doors to each of Obama's five rallies on Sunday, as crowds flocked to see the Illinois senator who took a step last week toward becoming the first black president with a decisive win in the Iowa caucuses. "Something is stirring in the air, New Hampshire, something is going on," Obama said in Keene, where more people crammed into an overflow auditorium than could fit in the high school cafeteria where he appeared. Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady trying to become the first female president, accused Obama of being behind a series of automated calls that said she was trashing his abortion rights record. She also sought to revive her campaign by casting Obama _ with less than one term in Congress — as long on rhetoric but short on substance. "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton told a raucous rally in Nashua. |
Obama seems to be the man.
People are really interested in change this year, and I feel as though he is going to not just win the Democratic nomination, but DESTROY any Republican who challenges him.
What does this election seem to be about? Change.
We're tired of George Bush and the way he has ran this country into the ground for the last eight years. We're tired of a do-nothing Congress (which changed from Republican to Democrat and still have had very little results). We're tired of the status-quo.
This election has the potential to be a full revolution. Both parties need to see this now, if they want to keep their power.
Am I on the Obama bandwaggon? No, not quite. I do enjoy some of his ideas, but not all of them.
The main idea I enjoy from him is his healthcare reform. He knows that socialized medicine is NOT going to work in this country.
On the Republican side, Mitt Romney seems to be gaining support.
| On the airwaves, at a town hall meeting and later, in the second of two weekend debates, Romney worked with equal ferocity to avoid going 0-for-2 in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"Washington is fundamentally broken, and one of the reasons I'm running for president is that I believe that my lifetime of work in the private sector, and in the voluntary sector, and as a governor, has taught me how to bring about fundamental change," Romney said during a Fox News Channel forum at St. Anselm College. McCain replied: "All I can say is that I also had experience in leadership, not in management. I led the largest squadron in the U.S. Navy, not for profit, but for patriotism." On the Republican side, McCain had 34 percent, up from 27 percent in mid-December, while Romney had 30 percent, down from 34 percent. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was third with 13 percent, while Rep. Ron Paul of Texas and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani were tied at 8 percent. No other candidate, including former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who conceded Sunday he was focusing on South Carolina rather than New Hampshire, was above 3 percent. Both surveys had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points, a small enough gap to consider the GOP race tied. Huckabee, looking ahead to the Florida primary, campaigned in New Hampshire with state House Speaker Marco Rubio and state Rep. David Rivera. Florida's primary, on Jan. 29, follows the Jan. 19 South Carolina GOP primary. |
There is no one on the Republican side to get excited about. I was on the Ron Paul wagon for a while, but after listening to him, he's starting to sound like every other Republican.
Sure, he is against Iraq...
But, they shove religion down my throat on the Republican side, and have pretty much lost me.
So, who is out there that can garner my vote? Let's look at some of the third party guys...
Yes, I belong to the Libertarian Party.
This is Wayne Allyn Root
If you want to read up on what his beliefs are...then click here.
In second place in the LP...
This is Micheal Jingozian...former Green Party candidate now in the LP..
His core values can be found here...
There are other candidates out there, you have to do the looking for yourself.
Enjoy the fight...because here we goooo....
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