| Kasz216 said: McCain's changes seem based on logical reasoning and changing circumstances vs getting votes. That's my biggest problem with Obama. It's hard to tell what he actually believes and what he's saying to win votes. |
The debate on this forum has become so polarized that I don't think any of us are going to influence the other. At the end of the day, we can only base our expectations, and our perceived expectations, on the character of the person we are voting for.
You had a lot of good points in your post that I have deleted to highlight these two, because I think it is the essential defining difference we see in these candidates. If you swap McCain and Obama in those two sentences, you have my expect viewpoint based on my judgement of their characters.
There is no number crunching or fact checking that can be done to sway either one of us at this point, I believe, as we have already judged them to be something they may or may not be.
Also, this dogged opposition to Obama from numerous people has caused me to defend him more staunchly than I normally would. I actually really, really liked him earlier in the year, but while I still think he is the better candidate than McCain, I do not align with him on as many issues as it may seem like. Also, while I am not a democrat or republican, I consider religious conservates one of the worst threats to our country. Obama at least seems to be a religious liberal, and his voting record proves it.
I'm pretty much done trying to argue points, but I did want to point out that regarding the internet, sure, McCain says he supports a moratorium on net taxes (so does Obama), but he has sided with the telecoms on net neutrality.
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