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Originally Posted by akprodr
The R's game plan is to tell the people what they want to hear and paint the D's as doomsayers.
Apparently, Biden said that it should be a patriotic duty to pay taxes. Fox 'News' berated him for that.
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OK, fair enough. So it's more a response to Biden's comment than McCain going in unprompted. That's what was confusing me slightly. I have to say, whatever Biden was meant to achieve, he's getting absolutely no coverage here in the UK. (not that this matters politically in terms of the election) It's interesting that Obama too figures very low in the news coverage ratings now, at least compared with Palin. Saying that, McCain has been, and remains, more or less invisible media-wise (which probably suits his campaign quite nicely). I'm sure if you asked the average person in Britain who they thought the election was between they'd say Sarah Palin and Obama.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
I don't see why one can't take their own initiative as well as still have faith in the American political system.
But this thread isn't here for you to continue on in your quasi-revolutionary daydreaming. It's here to facilitate election discussion.
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I think this is true - not just of this election but of so many that are to come. The 'Left' (for want of a better word) is too easily put off by the thought of compromise. No government is realistically going to change things for the better
that radically, but it's certainly true that some parties are going to be less intolerable than others. Besides, I've never understood why ordinary people can't enter into the official political process while at the same time continuing their work for more radical changes outside of that. It isn't an either-or situation. Obama wouldn't revolutionise the country, but even if you look at it in the most sceptical way he'd still be a slightly smaller step in the wrong direction than that taken by McCain. The fact is that whatever anyone's
real political beliefs, either McCain or Obama
will be president in just over a months time. And unless someone can honestly say that there really is no difference between the two (which there clearly is) then they simply have to choose one over the other.