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jillianleab
I'm speaking on things I've witnessed, people I've interacted with, even some people on AMHD (no, I'm not going to sling names). Are there news articles about it? I don't know, maybe. I don't really have the time to search, to be honest with you. But look at the crowds during his speeches and appearances - one could make the argument those people are ardent supporters. But really, it doesn't matter.
Sorry, but I haven’t noticed it anywhere. In fact, most people I know along with most of the conservative talking heads have been much less than enthusiastic about McCain. The best thing he’s had going for him is the alternative would be a disaster.
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His qualifications have been established (thanks, tal), and it's also been mentioned that all people have the right to vote - nutjob or not.
That makes him eligible, does it make him qualified?
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Besides, "nutty people" can be anyone on the opposite side of your (collective you, not you, you) opinion, right? I could argue that "nutty people" are the ones who think there is an all-knowing, all-powerful, white-bearded man in the sky who listens to their thoughts. Those people get to vote, right? So why not the people who think Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Do you honestly think there is a significant portion of the population (enough to swing the election to Obama) who think he's the messiah? Really?
Tell me Jillian, have you ever heard anyone say anything like this about another politician?
"A Lightworker -- An Attuned Being with Powerful Luminosity and High-Vibration Integrity who will actually help usher in a New Way of Being" -- Mark Morford
"He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians. . . . the agent of transformation in an age of revolution, as a figure uniquely qualified to open the door to the 21st century." -- Gary Hart
"Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings . . . He's our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence." -- Eve Konstantine
"We're here to evolve to a higher plane . . . he is an evolved leader . . . [he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth." -- Oprah Winfrey
“I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan." -- Bill Rush
"This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." | "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event." -- Chris Matthews
If people were saying these things about a Republican the cry from the left about conservative nutjobs would be deafening. They would be calling for voter disqualifications if not as Janeane Garafalo thinks is appropriate, put them in jail – while still believing “Democrats as people are fundamentally more decent.”
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Look, I'm not saying I support Obama, what I am saying is that taking a satire piece (I think the article and the link are both satire, btw) and using it as evidence as to why someone shouldn't vote for a candidate, or why this candidate doesn't belong in office, is silly. Let's say there are enough wackjobs out there to swing the election and Obama gets elected because they think he's the messiah - he still got elected because that's what the people want. You don't mean to imply we should take voting rights away from people who don't "decide based on" (your) "reality", do you? That sounds very un-democratic to me
I wouldn’t take any qualified voter’s rights away Jillian. I also wouldn’t do as ACORN likes to do and make up names to pad the polls in their candidate’s favor. They’ve now allegedly signed up “the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys” to vote in Nevada. THAT’S very undemocratic and that’s what troubles me, too many Obama supporters are willing to do anything to elect their Messiah including voter fraud. One person, one informed, rational vote is all I ask.
