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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Mean spirited ?????
	Date:	8/24/2009 1:50:25 AM

-No, I don't think anyone here is mean spirited. Several highly opinionated perhaps. Some very party oriented.
-Based on teh last election, I believe a lot of us had/have to pick and choose on what we do or do not want to support.
-For Republicans, the really right wing and teh conservatives had nothing to support in McCain. Even teh liberal-conservatives didn't have much to support with teh tough economic situation Bush left them in.
-The dems were pretty much in teh same boat, with only the really liberal dems happy with Obama's record and policies. The rest of teh dems were happy about his race, hoping that electing a blackman would help with our longest-lasting problem of justice for all.
-SO how were all these people in the center (the independents, conservative dems, liberal repubs, etc) going to decide on whom to vote for. In my mind it was teh economy. If that's true, then there should be a lot of opportunity for everyone to be straying from party block votes, ...but for some reason yu just don't see that happening.
-Health Care: I find it hard to understand why every dem is for teh health care bill HR3200, and why every repub is against it....especially since practically no one's read it. However, I do think everyone is ready for health reform, so why can't a compromise be reached. For me, teh only answer is party politics.
-Abortion; I can't understand why this is supported down party lines. To me it would seem that this is a moral, ethical, or even bio-med issue that would have supporters in both parties and detractors in both parties. But it's usualaly cast as a dem-vs-repub issue. (The Catholics, who are mostly dems, are against it but subordinate it to the overall social justice program of teh dems)
-guns; what, there are no hunters in teh dem party? etc., etc,
-I just don't get it. In conversations, as soon as I support just one issue, I'm pegged with a certain party. If I then support a position affiliated with a different party, I'm called inconsistant and as one neighbor said, a "chaotic" thinker, I guess that's a nice way of saying he doesn't think I'm too bright.
-Mean spirited? I don't see mean spirited out there. but I do see some locked into party mind sets.
-Anyway, are there any of you out there that feel like I do? ...that Barny Franks is an idiot and liar, and so is Tom Delay. ...that niether Obama nor McCain could really have been the "best" this country had to offer, ...that just because the cente voted Obama in that they want his crazy left wing to run the coountry, that both parties and the maority of their platforms really stink....cuz, i'm not getting those vibes from our posts.
-See, when i'm looking for hope and change, I'm hoping for change from these two moribound parties and their myopic way of thinking.