Personally, he voiced a major concern of mine. I also still think that once in the privacy of the home or voting booth, people may change their minds because of the race factor. Don't forget bigotry runs long and deep in people. I was just looking at "The Week" website to find people commenting to the following article that "I hope he does win" I pray McCain does steal the election" etc etc which tells a person just how virulent things are, and that "dirty tricks" is sooooo not beyond the Republican's. They are smart smart smart when it comes to getting elected, but so wrong and anti-constitutional once in office. I am not breathing freely yet - far from it.

Here's the article I spoke about:

It's not over yet.
News & Opinion
Friday, October 24, 2008

It's not hard to imagine a "McCain upset," said Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal. Senior citizens might turn out in record numbers to "vote for the older guy," or McCain could find traction on the issue of taxes. The "Obama love" out there is deep, but McCain has 43 percent of the country pulling for him, and "nobody in politics has so repeatedly relished coming back from the dead."

Please, everyone, vote, and vote EARLY to not skew the returns in favor of McCain. A lot of people like to endorse the "winning" candidate, and also may decide, why bother? my vote won't count. To that I urge y'all to remember 2000 and the "shenanigans" and the stolen election.

..and, remember, the Dems called "uncle" first instead of fighting because of "the greater good" which turned into the horror of a bailout, multiple occupying of countries, undeclared wars, budget deficits, lies, a failing economy, health care failure, insurance bailouts, our troops in harms way, their death and dismemberment, civilian deaths in foreign countries, tapping our phones, reading our mail, torturing prisoners, being jailed without being told why, no representation, the richest of our land getting richer while we lose our savings, homes, and jobs, the environmental impact of ignoring Mother Earth's needs to support big and bigger business and CEO's interests, Cheney & Haliburton, Enron and the reality of workers losing hard earned 401ks, being the "bad guy" and bully of the world, and losing the respect of nations, China bailing us out fiscally, people having to go to Canada for flu shots, or cheaper medicine, insurance premiums increasing, Part D for medicare recipients such as the disabled and the elderly, spreading fear as the message to win elections, lies, Roe v. Wade in jeapordy, a president who didn't even blink when he heard that the Twin Towers were attacked - instead he stayed in his seat listening to a children's book being read, not capturing Bin Laden when the chance was available, instead moving and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan at that time, the lies about WMDs to justify Iraq occupation, Condi Rice lying about knowing about the terrorist strike prior to 9/11 and the subsequent weasle-wording, strong ties and friendship going way back regarding oil between the Bush and Bin Laden family, Bush allowing the Bin Laden family to leave our country without any questioning while all other flights were suspended, Cheney and Bush both being conspicuously absent after 9/11, Bush landing on a carrier shouting "Mission Accomplished" while he wore his unearned pilot's jacket, and the subsequent years our troops have been shot at and killed and maimed in Iraq, and the National Guard, while being untrained, being sent to Iraq, and the lack of protective gear and machinery sent with our young people to Iraq, the lack of conditions when the troops needed treatment in our own hospitals, our troops going over on 2, 3, 4 and 5 tours of duty within as many years, and the 12 month tours stretching out to 15 months and more which would push anyone, even the most trained personnel, beyond their limit to react well in a hostile takeover, and the utter devastation we've inflicted on our own people, and don't forget the long long time it took to have Bush show up at the Twin Towers and the even longer time it took for him to visit the devastation of Katrina, and many are still, STILL homeless, bills get railroaded through the house and senate to bail out the rich, wall street, and now insurance companies, despite our letters to our congresspeople and senators, but the time it takes to get aid to our less fortunate, the victims of Katrina, and Medicare and Medicaid, don't see a sou, and there is so much more beyond my free association here...please don't forget what these 8 years have done to us as individuals, and the US as a nation and how it has lost the respect of so many.

I'd also like to ask, if the Democrats do get in, please don't buy into the idea that a Democrat's first 100 days, or first year, or first 4 years can, and should, be able to change things that quickly!!! We're in a place nationally, and internationally that we've never seen the likes of before as a nation. We're in trouble, and we need to get a new way of thinking into our collective minds /souls /psyches, one that says everyone deserves health care, time, financial care, aid, and that we need to get on the ecological band-wagon NOW and not drill, instead spend money and resources for alternative energy, and transportation, we only have until 2013 to get this done! We need to resurrect the technology of the "GM EV1" [1996-1999] that somehow went "missing" while no one was watching - it won't even cost time or science to get it on the assembly line; I can't imagine that anyone would havae been that insane to actually destroy the plans and tooling to build it, so why reinvent it when it can be on the road PDQ? We need to get us out of Iraq ASAP, that alone will staunch the flow of funds going out. We DO need to talk to other nations, and get the UN to help us persuade other nations to not advance war in the name of or , we need to direct the funds from the "bailout" to the people, not CEOs, we need to not be afraid of the word "socialism", when it is used to speak to a type of health care -- we are not a socialistic government, we are democratic, and within that umbrella we can take the best of capitalism, and socialism, and communism, and any other ism but fanaticism, because that is where we lose our step, when we become too full of ourselves and prefer to win at all costs, even our own freedoms, and choice, and our voice being listened to and heard.

I digressed as usual, and probably have become too emotional to make succinct sense. There needs to be a shift in how we view our elected (or not) leaders, and we need to have more accountability, and not be afraid to ask questions, the hardest questions, for fear that we will be perceived as "un-American". To ask is our right, our job. Our constitution is a framework, which offers within it's pages, the need to have checks and balances, to question authority, not be led by fear of reprisal or name-calling. Let's do our job, and our first job in this process is to exercise our right to VOTE. No matter the polls, the results that come in, make sure you vote -- and if there is an issue you are unsure about on a more local level, or people you know nothing about, research it online, or if you can't find the time, then please, don't vote blindly -- it's ok to leave something blank on your ballot.. but it's not OK to not vote, the one time your voice is counted and heard.
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PS if you think that your right to vote is being interfered with, make sure you document it via taking names, writing down the time, date, reasons stated you can't vote, video or photos if you can, and then pass the information on to your legislators, and if you can, post it on the website too. Write to the editors of your local newspapers. Be heard and counted in how you were cheated of your right. Thank you.