No classes today for me (professor was sick) so I’m just sitting around all day. UVA’s pretty good so far, it’s too early to tell how much work all my classes are going to be, but I don’t think it’ll be enough to keep me occupied all the time. We have a Computer Game Developers club, which is really cool, but there’s really nothing going on right now.
There isn’t much happening on the blog either these days. I was looking back at the older posts and saw some of the lengthy discussions we used to have here. We used to talk about all kinds of interesting things. Mainly because I’m bored and I miss those interesting study halls from last year, I thought that we could start up some conversation here again. Anything would be fine, how about people’s thoughts about the Presidential election, a lot’s been happening in the last week or so...
Is everyone here voting?
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19 comments:
yeah i'm voting. just filled out the form a few days ago for my absentee ballot, though i'm kinda wishing i had just registered in blacksburg. The election should be interesting, but i really cant see Mccain winning. people just dont want another republican in office after bush
John! What's up man? You go see that game last weekend?
I've voting for sure, probably for Obama. McCain's old and white, and we all know how I feel about those people. Plus, have you seen his running mate? Kevin was reading me off all sorts of things that are surfacing about her. Being part of a group in Alaska that was planning to secede from the Union? I don't want a president that can't even pick a good running mate.
I'm doing an absentee ballot too, there were lots of people trying to get me to register here, but I'd rather just mail a ballot than walk over to a polling stationand wait in line.
I didn't see the game, I went back to Fredericksburg for one last weekend. (I heard that we lost, badly)
Mccain's VP pick was really suprising, I really expected him to choose Lieberman, or at least Romney or someone else we've heard of. But Sarah Palin? He only met her once before he selected her as VP. She has no experience in national politics and Mccain's main argument has been that people should pick the candidate with the most experience(him). Also Mccain would be the oldest president ever elected and he has lots of health problems, so it would have been much wiser for him to choose someone qualified in case he dies. It was a bad choice, he only picked her to get political points (because she's a woman) and to get more support from his base. She has some pretty far right views, which should make the Republican base happy, she's against abortion of course, and for drilling for oil, but she's also for teaching creationism in schools and she doesn't believe in global warming. (how can someone in Alaska not believe in global warming?)
And I'm voting for Obama,
and her 17 year old daughter is pregnant
Jake, coming from chancellor that should be a godsend in a vice president.
Yeah John, we lost badly... 52 to 7.
Pretty much everyone left after halftime or sometime in the third quarter, except the USC fans who stayed an extra 20 minutes (at least) to celebrate their victory that everyone knew was coming.
I'm voting absentee, probably McCain. I haven't read many of the things surfacing about Palin though.
You guys got stomped!
Nevertheless, you raise valid points John. Both about the running mate and the lines for voting-- I'm glad I didn't switch to Blacksburg.
Are you accusing Jake of knocking up 17-year-olds, Tyler? Cause that'd be hott.
But Jake, how is that even relevant? I don't care what her family is like as long as she'd make a good VP/President-when-McCain-dies. Too bad she wouldn't.
i didnt mean that it would matter to me, just that it would turn off alot of voters
Yeah it would turn off a lot of voters, especially Republicans, who are the ones that actually matter. Although from what I've heard the McCain strategy is to use the pregnancy in their favor, by pointing out that she's keeping the baby, not having an abortion, and therefore she must truly be pro-life.
yeah thats what i heard, but there are plenty of flaws in that theory. first of all, the opposing group is pro choice, not pro killing babies, so its just as possible that she chose to keep the baby for whatever reason.
Yeah they're also using the baby they knew would have Down syndrome as proof that she's pro-life. Of course her pregnant 17 year old daughter also shows that her abstinence only policy for sex education doesn't work.
Did anyone else see her speech (and the others) at the RNC? Among other things, they tried to make the fact that she's an average "hockey mom" seem like a good thing, and they've already started saying that people who don't think she's qualified are just sexist.
All the other speeches were about how Obama's going to raise your taxes (he's not) or how McCain's a war hero. And all these claims about how they're going to eliminate wasteful spending are just BS, it's like the Democrats saying that they're going to stop jobs from heading overseas, its not going to happen, no matter who gets elected.
I think her daughter having the kid doesnt really matter. It all comes down to the whole Kerry v. Bush thing.. They both sucked in some ppl's eyes but they chose one over the other for they thought he was a better alternative. Basically, So what if her daughter's pregnant? If it was Obama's he wouldve put a 12 inch needle through it's brain!!! Hooray for dead baby jokes.
again, tyler, people who are pro choice aren't pro killing babies, they are pro having the option to choose. i'm actually pro life so dont say i'm just saying that. Its pro CHOICE not pro death
Did anyone else watch McCain's speech at the RNC? I have to admit, he's really made some improvements during this campaign, instead of speaking in front of a greenscreen he's now doing it in front of a blue one.
I watched some of it. then i got bored because it was mccain
Frankly, I'm going to through my two bits in because I have an inflated sense of self importance. Anyway. I love McCain's VP pick.
People complain about her speech at the convention and what not, but really--all the conventions are superfluous ways to rally the troups. The speeches were fine.
McCain has come a long way, and more likely than not, that's who I'll be voting for. I don't understand a lot of the criticism of Palin from the democrats either. I've heard them complain about her inexperience. She's been a governor one day longer than Obama's been running for president--which means, unlike Obama, she has some executive experience. Where as Obama has done nothing at all. He hasn't passed laws, he has yet to chair the committee he's the chairman of, and his voting record is all over the place. One of Obama's biggest...feathers in his cap, if you will, is that he' s not entrenched in Washington style politics (though his history in Chicago might say otherwise); but how much further can you be than Alaska? The whole point was that she was an unknown, from the middle of nowhere. People complain that she has no foreign policy experience (and Obama does...?). Well, the VP deals more with Washington than foreign powers, and McCain knows foreign policy. Obama, instead, will be deferring to Biden all the time, because he's the one with experience. It's dangerous, I think. We need a president that can make up his mind, and not make three different decisions in three days. I mean, really.
The trick to bringing jobs back to America is not to penalize the corporations or anything like that. To Japan, we have the second highest corporate tax rate. If we cut that, we make it that much easier for them to keep the jobs here. Taxing corporations more will not keep jobs here. It'll send even more jobs over to India, which is capable of just about everything we are, or soon will be. Raising government spending--which is what'll happen in the end with Obama--is not the solution. I'm not a huge fan of McCain, but I feel he's much better than Obama.
But I am voting--absentee.
we need a leader. which obama is much more so than mccain. bush was a terrible leader but obama would be able to keep the nation together and fix our crappy economy
Well, if you're going to argue that executive experience (and if being governor of Alaska for 2 years is really significant) is more important than any other kind, then Palin has more experience than John McCain, as did Bush back when he was running. And Obama has passed and sponsored laws, he's certainly done important work on foreign policy and the national economy. The vice president really won't have much to do, but the concern is that old man McCain might not make it through his first term and we'll be left with Palin in charge. If Obama gets elected you know where he'll stand on the issues (admittedly, to the left of most Americans) unlike McCain, who changes his mind constantly to get elected, he's even turned against his own bills.
There's no way to bring some jobs back to America, we're going to lose some jobs and we're going to fall behind India and China. The only thing we can do is focus on education, technology, infrastructure, and higher paying jobs. The problem isn't corporate taxes in America, its the cheap labor in Asia. There isn't a problem with corporations leaving, the problem is that they're just sending their jobs to other countries. If we had no corporate taxes (and many companies find ways around them anyway) it wouldn't come close to making up for the difference in labor costs between hiring American workers and hiring Chinese workers.
It's not just experience--it's executive experience. It's the ability to make a decision and stand by it. To make a decision, in the moment, and stick by it, and have it be thre right one. McCain does have some executive experience of sorts, albeit limited, and I understand this (note that I was using it to critique the Democrat's criticism of Palin), but certainly, throughout this campaign, he has shown himself to be more authoritative than Obama. I find the fear that this man is just going to keel over to be almost ludicrous. I understand that he is old, but considering that longevity is increasing every day as well as his fine physical condition, I don't think he's just biding his time until his death. I really don't think it's such a huge issue. And just because Obama's young doesn't necessarily mean he'll make the term. JFK wasn't too old. As for the changing of mind, I see more of that coming from the Obama campaign than the McCain campaign.
I think it's valid to say there's no way to bring all the jobs back to America, but I find it a bit ludicrous to say there's no way to bring back some jobs. It may not be many, but it's a good PR move, and it could be done. And it's not just about bringing jobs back, but keeping the companies that do still have jobs here..well, here. And that does have a lot to do with the corporate tax rate--which is ridiculous. I agree that we could use better goods and services in the area listed, but I don't agree with raising taxes or government spending. Obviously, corporations won't solve all those things--I know that. But neither is the government. Not in the least. It's reallocating the funds, and doing away with a lot of programs. Scale back the government's role. Seemed to work pretty well for Reagan.
Jake, I'm interested in knowing just how Obama would "fix the economy."
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