Sansui said:
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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See you see these two differently but you have no facts to support it.
If you could give me reasons for why he changed his position... or in reality seemingly holds two positions on a lot of issues i'd agree they were both like that.
I was going to vote for Obama. I voted for him in the primaries. Or rather was going to until I got sick and missed the vote. However it's been his amazing changes soley for political gain that lost my vote.
McCain's changes i can actually look at an event that happened recently for his change. Usually it's the economy or Gas prices.
Republican style economics is good when the markets are doing bad, and Democratic style economics are good when the economy is good.
Obama... I can't and not only that he tries to claim he never changed his position.
Everytime... now he supports offshore drilling, before he said he didn't. Says it wasn't a policy change.
His promise for a race where both candidates used public funding if the republican did. Says it wasn't a policy change when it's obvious he's just doing it because he thinks he has a better chance at winning.
Says he's for ammending NAFTA, yet also for world wide free trade. Says it's not a policy change.
