Comments on: The Post Wherein I Explain Myself

By: Cory Crow

Cory Crow — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:28:52 +0000

“Just had to say that due to your delusional thoughts that McCain can win and your primary thoughts that he SHOULD win – have lost you one reader…. Me.”

You’re stopping reading the blog because Dr. Clouthier has a difference of opinion with you?

Wow.

Personally I think McCain is toast, but to each their own. (I won’t stop reading this blog because you believe different than I, just sayin)

By: mer

mer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:33:50 +0000

Matt, I’m not going to disagree with you on the bailout, I’m not a financial guy so I don’t “know” if something needed to be done (gut feeling says maybe, but along the lines of what the FDIC/Fed is doing with insuring some of the interbank lending). McCain “do better”? Maybe “not as bad” is a better way to say it, that’s also why I said we have to ride herd on Congress. Earmarks in the bailout bill, I haven’t looked, but I’d like to see whose earmarks they are; I agree about the AIG execs.

Hope and Change: If “The One” wins, I hope to have enough change left in my pocket to buy a cup of coffe once a month.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:33:48 +0000

Hello Mer,

Yes, I do work and I do agree with your points. I know there are more than 40% of people who don’t pay any tax at all and it’s sad to see what the congress are doing with our money. But do you really have faith that McCain will do better? I didn’t see him coming out against the bailout, and what about all those earmarks in the bailout? To be honest, I rather see my money go to a homeless person than the AIG executives.

At the end, maybe the prospect of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress would be scary enough for me to go the other way. We need some checks and balances.

By: Robert Arvanitis

Robert Arvanitis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:49:58 +0000

Outstanding clarity and admirable principle.

Shame on quitters.

Shame especially on “Wendy” for her inconsistency and intolerance. Wendy is angry you WANT McCain to win? OK. But she is also angry you for thinking he CAN win?

By her reasoning, and that of the ship-jumpers, it’s over well before Election day. It’s over, in fact, right after the very first poll.

By: ABracker

ABracker — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:08:48 +0000

Amen, Melissa! Thank you for not adding to the media’s attempt to doom & gloom us into submission. I totally don’t understand why rightwing blogs can’t manage to wait a week to start with tearing down the RNC and lamenting an Obama administration. It ain’t over ’til it’s over!!! If we lose, we lose, but I’m sure as heck not giving in beforehand. That, to me, isn’t foolishness, it’s courage. God is bigger than the MSM and the DNC, and I say it’s a time to pray, not write post-mortems. As Aragorn says in LOTR3, “This day we fight!”

By: Al

Al — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:47:27 +0000

If anyone wins, it will be Palin!
I would be voting Constitutional party but since they did not get listed due to 2 party restrictions, I guess I’ll vote libertarian. It won’t matter in my state as Palin will easily carry it 2 to 1.

By: vite

vite — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:32:09 +0000

I’ll tell you what. Normally, I’d say you were smoking dope.

But this thing is almost writing itself as a DEWEY WINS headline. The press is so cocky and overconfident, the left is exposing themselves so early as scoundrels, McCain may yet surprise.

So…you’re not alone. And in 2006 I knew we were toast.

By: wdnorman

wdnorman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:07 +0000

Just flat don’t know how ANYONE who can read could be “undecided” at this point in the process. You “UNDECIDEDS” are like the people in the check-out line in the grocery store who watch the clerk ring up a couple hundred dollars of groceries and, only when given the total do you 1) get a suprised look on your face and 2) start looking for the checkbook in your purse (pocket).

You are not undecided you are CLUELESS ! ! You are in the way !

Granted, this is a race between a guy who CANNOT tell the truth and a guy who WON’T tell the truth. But, that is all the more reason to be informed about your decision.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:57 +0000

Just had to say that due to your delusional thoughts that McCain can win and your primary thoughts that he SHOULD win – have lost you one reader…. Me.

By: mer

mer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:58:13 +0000

Matt, do you work? Do you feel you earn every single dollar you are paid? Who do you think knows best what to do with the money you work hard to take home, you or someone else? If you think someone else, then please start sending me $100 out of every paycheck. If you think you are the best judge of what to do with your hard earned money, then poke around the Web for IRS statistics on who pays what, particularly the percentage of people who pay effectively $0 in taxes after all the tax credits. Now reconcile that with Obama’s stated “tax cut for 95% of Americans”. I can’t make the math work. If his statement was “tax cut for 95% of the Americans who actually pay tax” it may be different. Foreign policy, poke around for recent statements by Mr Sarkozy of France on stated positions with respect to Iran.

Is McCain perfect? Hell no, far from it. But to me this election is coming down (again) to the lesser of two evils, and I think that for the long term vitality of this country, I see McCain as better choice (think judicial appointments).

But regardless who wins, it is more important to ride herd on Congress; the majority of the bozos in DC seem to think that your hard earned money is theirs and frankly, that pisses me off because I work hard for it.