I don't usually quote Chris Rock regarding politics, but I totally liked this. Larry King asked how he felt about Obama and if he was proud, and Chris talked around it for a bit and finally said words to the effect of: "Yeah, it's historical that Obama is black, but that's not why I'm voting for him. Here's my criteria: I vote for the guy with one house." And Larry's all, "Huh?" Chris responds with, "Given the current status of the economy and the housing crisis in particular, I'm voting for the guy who has one house. McCain has something like 12. He could lose half his homes and still sleep VERY well at night. Obama has one. Who's going to be looking out for the people with one house, do you think?" (Obviously, I paraphrase)

I also think that the rest of the world should have an impact on how we vote, because our global relationships *gasp* actually matter. Foreign policy and diplomacy has been decimated by this administration, which is what I suspect the earlier poster was getting at.

Further, just because McCain says he's a maverick, or whatever he's been spouting lately, does not make it so- repetition does not turn a lie into truth. Do research about the things he has voted for and against. Don't just read the surface truths of the news organizations that are going to support your chosen candidate. What was the number that McCain thinks is middle class status? $200k/year? How often has he supported the Bush administration? Why the hell would he choose a vice president with no foreign policy experience when he's been hammering home that Obama has none? Who would elect McCain knowing that he's had cancer... what, five times now? And would be the oldest president sworn in, with Palin as the contingency plan? Does anyone think that's a good idea, really?

Obama may not be perfect, I'll readily agree, but he and Biden are way more invested in the American people than McCain is. McCain has changed who he is SO many times in order to secure this nomination that it's really become obvious that he'd kill puppies on national television if that's what it took to get the poll numbers up. (Okay, probably not, but you see my point...)

Don't just listen to what they're saying, look at who they are and where they've been.