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Fact 1: McCain reacts to a suddenly worsening financial crisis but halting his campaign. On the spur of the moment. For 1 day. He threatens to cancel a debate cuz he needs to save the financial world. Finally, he shows up at the debate anyway and resumes his campaign the next day.

Fact 2: McCain chooses his VP after meeting her once. He hoped she would get him additional female votes. She only solidified the base, while alienating all Hillary supporters since she didn’t stand for anything that Hillary supported.

Fact 3: Obama, a week before election, leaves his campaign to visit his sick grandmother, doesn’t make speeches about it, and returns quietly to the trail.

Fact 4: every day for 2 weeks now, McCain has a new reason why we shouldn’t vote for Obama: Ayers, ACORN, socialism, Khalidi. He tells us this a few weeks before we vote. 100% of what he says is why we SHOULDN’T vote for Obama. Yes, he tells us how he will do it, but it’s ALWAYS in contrast with how Obama does it.

Fact 5: Obama has stayed on message consistently for months, 70% of what he says is about what he will do for the country, irrelevant of McCain. 30% of the time, he talks about McCain, but with the same message, always: more Bush, more of the same.

You want to talk about personality? Up to you to judge who seems more stable, focused, consistent and with strong priorities, and who seems erratic, unfocused and grasping at straws. TRUST THE FACTS. GO VOTE.

Polls are up, polls are down. One point here, one point there. If you think it’s in the bag, that the race is won, that Obama is the next POTUS, you’re wrong. We haven’t won anything yet, i don’t care what the polls say: GO VOTE! It’s your birth right. People gave their lives so we could vote today, all of us. To all the women out there: it was during your own parents’ generation that people died so that you can vote today. You owe it to your country to vote.

You expect progress and benefits from your country and candidate?
Then give something too. GO VOTE!
NOT voting for your candidate is like giving the other guy an extra vote!

They say that expressing your fears is the first step to overcoming them. So i will verbalize my fear:
Fear 1: Obama supporters will rejoice too early, they will become complacent and lazy and won’t go vote.
Fear 2: Those Obama supporters who DO go vote, all pumped up… will enter the voting booth, get cold sweat dripping down their back, panic, and chicken out: they KNOW that Obama is the change we need, but McCain seems like the nice guy next door. Last minute, they’ll change their mind.

THAT’S my fear. Does this mean i have no faith in the American public? Damn right i don’t! Look what happened ‘00 and – 04. Prove me wrong America!

GO VOTE

Until recently, i’ve observed and discussed every event in the US presidential race. A few days ago, i quit and said i was so turned off by this race and wouldn’t comment again. I was extremely angry then. Now that i’m calmer, i will say this. There are some 16 days left to the election.

I will no longer comment on every little petty thing that happens, amongst supporters or candidates. I will take a page from Obama’s book: if he was true enough to halt his campaign, for 2 days, to go visit his ailing grandmother, it shows me that he has perspective and knows his priorities in life. Yes, the presidency is the most important thing in his life right now, but it’s still not as important as family. He showed that before, when he refused to get involved with anything relating to candidate children, all the while Cindy McCain, Sarah Palin (and even, reluctantly, Joe Biden) were talking about their kids in the army.

So, taking this page from his book, i will stay quiet on all pettiness on the campaign trail (and trust me, EVERYTHING is pettiness at this point, everyone’s just grasping at straws), but I will express my innermost thoughts about the impact of this race on the world, our entire world, my world. That’s my pledge for the next 2 weeks.

This is fun. CNN and Facebook have joined forced so you can create a political badge. You get to actually pick your top 3 issues, and then, answer some questions about those issues, so that you can see where you stand on the political spectrum.

See my CNN / Facebook politcal badge

The day Joe the Plumber came on the scene, was the day i gave up on Americans and American politics. Obama wants to help the underprivileged. If in your book, that’s un-American, then you have bigger issues. Yes, Joe the Plumber, the American Dream IS about earning all you can earn, but it’s not about stepping on the little person to do so.

Obama “spreading the wealth” does NOT mean he will steal from the rich to give to the poor, it just means that he’s giving tax breaks to those who are not earning as much. Since when is this wrong? This does not make him a socialist. Not in the way republicans are using the word. It’s fear-mongering, plain and simple, they want the word socialist to trigger thoughts of communism.

Socialism is NOT equal to communism. It’s not evil. It doesn’t mean the Russians are coming. Get over it already!

Oh, and speaking of socialism. If Barack Obama is a socialist because he wants to bail out the under-privileged, then um, didn’t McCain encourage a $700 billion bailout? I’d say that’s socialism on steroids, isn’t it?

Americans respond to keywords that send shivers down their spines: terrorism, islam, socialism, communism… Americans like it when things are black and white in front of them, they like to be told who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. 50 years ago, Russians were bad. Now, the bad guys are… well, the axis of evil. Until the president decides that one country is no longer on this axis. Do you realize how simplistic this is?

The American public is always being talked down to. The world used to look from afar and smile condescendingly. Now we look and we’re scared, cuz you’re about to make the biggest mistake of your life.

I’m done people. I quit politics. Let’s wake up, November 5th, and see what mess you’ve put us in, America.