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Feedback ForumNOW wants to hear from you! Send us your opinions, reactions and ideas about "Election 2008: What to Expect"Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: alicia mercik Comment: VOTE???? 'Our' politicians lives are too removed from the voters. WE are too removed from the realities that govern our choices and futures. Someone needs to tally up for us the cost of major political actions and tally the cost that the major political players are pushing onto the public. How about a program like this?? Then we can vote with some idea of our futures or maybe find out that there isn't a meaningful vote to be had. Poster: Brian Metelits Comment: I'm sick of the Bush years, and I want to vote democrat, but I don't understand how the democratic party - the party of the working class, manufacturing jobs, and unions - is the party favored by hedge fund and investment fund managers. Aren't these elite, wealthy financiers the very group who wanted to outsource our manufacturing overseas and raise financial services to the position of America's no. 1 export? Poster: Cynthia Gilles Comment: As a lifelong Democrat, I am angry bcause I feel that I am being disenfranchised by the Democratic party leadership and the media, with the exception of the Indianapolis Star. I believe that Hillary Clinton is far more qualified for the presidency by virtue of her knowledge, experience and skills. Barack Obama is extremely competent in talking about and cheerleading for change but he lacks experience in making change and in managing high office. My views are based on the research I carried out re: change processes for my Doctoral dissertation. -- Why doesn't anyone research Clinton's and Obama's change effort outcomes? (e.g., Mike McINtire's 2/3/08 article in the NY Times) If Obama is nominated, I will vote with my feet and boycott the Nov. election. Most of Sen. McCain's postions are apalling to me but he would be held in check by a Democratic dominated Congress so Obama vs McCain is a toss up. Poster: Jim Quigley Comment: Re May 4 show Why is there no mention or discussion regarding Republican crossover to the Democrat side to vote for Clinton or Obama? How pervasive is/has this been? Is the concern to prevent the crossover becoming more pervasive? The NYT presents the crossover at 10% fir the coming primaries. Poster: Steve Thomas Comment: This show has become pathetic. I never thought the editing room of NOW would be filled with a bunch of party hacks. I can't believe you left the footage of Broanchaccio blowing this swarmy Schnur to air. Where'd they go to dinner? Poster: DellaRae Green Comment: I watched you show tonight and it was great, but there is something that is not being heard and that's being blown off as sour grapes. I'm not saying that there isn't some of that, but I want you to know what I think. Last year, at the beginning of this process, I choose a candidate based on the times we are in and my opinion of who can handle that best. At THAT time I said to everyone I spoke with, that I could probably not be able to vote for Obama over McCain. At that time what I believed was that against McCain, someone I respect though not agree with all the time, I could easily be convinced to vote for him because we ARE at war, and we face some many national problems. It's not that I agree with the war, I don't, I marched against it many many times, but I also believe we broke it so it became our responsibility. In any case what I said over and over was that if I, am liberal dem, could be convinced I know that most to the right of me would as well. So now we reach where we are now. When I say it now, I am called raciest, cynical, uneducated and worse. The fact is, with Dr. Wright, and Ayers, etc. it is more true than ever. I beleive that you will find this among many older voters. My PCP, who is black, feels the same. So the DNC can spin what they like, but this group is not going to fall back in line. Especially as they insult and disregard us day after day. The issue of FL and MI will play strongest with this voting block as well. The DNC has a very small window to fix this or there really will be a flood out of the party. You can blow this off as whatever, but you are wrong. As it is I am in Oregon, and the more supers that come out just piss me off. My vote counts, or at least it should. This is America, isn't it. Poster: Judith Logue Comment: 1. You're right on the money with your remarks regarding Rev. Wright. 2. I have no where found the answer to this question, nor have I heard the question: HOW MUCH MONEY IS COMING OUT OF IRAQ'S OIL WELLS? (WHERE IS THAT MONEY GOING?) It seems that we can, at this point, buy the loyalties of the Iraqis. Why not use the oil money to do that? Don't the American people, who are sacrificing the lives of their children and the entire national treasury, have a right to know? Does someone else know what is happening to that money? As usual great job this week. Much gratitude. Poster: Jean Standish Comment: You referred to John McCain as a moderate. If you really study his record he is far from being a moderate. One prime example is McCain's choice supporters. When McCain was running for president in 2000, he criticized the Bush campaign for pandering to the outer reach of American politics and the agents of intolerance, such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Earlier this year he reversed his position on the agent of intolerance quote and gave the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. In fact he has also been hiring Falwell's staffers to advise him on communications issues. Furthermore, Senator McCain's spiritual adviser, Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a false religion; and John Hagee, another political supporter, believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church the Antichrist and a false cult. Other serious problems are he is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq; he voted against a bill banning waterboarding; he wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent; he is right to life; his solution for the housing crisis has been get a second job; his health insurance policy reform is market driven; he has promised to nominate conservative, nonactivist Supreme Court justices--need I say more. I suppose, compared to the other Republican candidates, he would be considered a moderate. I suppose it is a matter of semantics. |
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