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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
There isn't a candidate left that I feel good about voting for at this point. It's sad.
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Really? I'm not an Obama kinda guy, being more right wing than left, but Obama's candidacy is intriguing. Were it Hillary vs. McCain, that's two establishment folks fighting it out, boring.
Watching Obama leap onto the scene is pretty exciting, and at the least he offers a different way of dealing with international relations.
Had Ron Paul not been disclosed as such a racist, I'd otherwise have wanted him to win the Republican nomination. When the news about his newsletter came out, I was pretty shocked. I suppose he always was a fringe player anyway, but still, I fancy myself a Libertarian, and he's the closest of all the candidates to that ideal. But I'd never vote for him given his disclosed history.
Obama has already had the dirt thrown at him, while McCain has had an easy run. Obama is primed to win the presidency. He'll surge in the fall, because I expect McCain has a lot of bad history that is about to come out. First, he's not really a conservative, and second, he flip-flops more than Kerry. And I suppose those two problems are related.
Hopefully, Obama won't have enough influence or foolhardiness to wreak a socialist agenda on the US, and will be an intelligent president who really thinks before acting, unlike Dubya.