Funny seeing so many on DR now going to vote third party.
I plan on doing the same thing.
I will vote for Nader or Donald Duck -- anybody but McCain or Obama.
I knew all along what McCain was -- a corporate shill who when he had a chance to stick up for regular middle class Americans -- the backbone of our nation -- bailed out and voted for the sham $800 TRILLION bailout bill. I knew McCain was a free trade, deregulator and he had even picked the crook Republican Senator Phil Gramm as his campaign finance advisor. It was Gramm who in 1999 snuck in a 200 plus page bill which allowed the banks and finance institutions to merge, deregulate, and literally throw out all the rules and regulations into the must-pass 10,000 page Omnibus Bill.
But I thought the Democrats might be different. Big mistake on my part.
The Democrats and their liberal special interest groups like ACORN and La Raza started this subprime mess because they were suing the banks on charges of redlining housing loans. It got so bad with so many lawsuits that the banks just threw up their hands and gave loans to people who never should have qualified. But the Republicans were just as guilty in their own way because with crap like Gramm's bill, it allowed the banks to bundle up subprime mortgage securities and literally run amok. BOTH parties have helped destroy our economy.
After hearing Obama give his Democrat convention speech, I had finally -- after months of debating with myself -- decided to give my vote to Obama.
But no more Obama for me. Not after last week's bailout vote.
Obama blew it entirely when he ran back to DC and was doing all kinds of back room deals to get this $800 TRILLION bailout swindel pushed through. This bill would have passed without Obama's one vote in the Senate. Obama could have made a stand and said "NO" he would not bailout Wall Street and the rest of those crooks but Obama did not have the cajones when it came down to showing some leadership and some guts. Obama caved like a house of cards. Obama says if elected he will go back over the bill but that's crap. The bill is already law, the money can never be retrieved.
There were decent and honest politicians in both parties who had the guts and morals to vote "No" on this bailout bill. But not McCain and not Obama.
After the bailout vote I decided right then I will vote third party because I have no other way of registering how angry this bailout swindle and the corruption that got us there has made me.
I doubt if I am alone either. Why vote for either Obama or McCain? I know now both are corporate whores. Their "yes" votes on the bailout bill proved that beyond a doubt. Obama and McCain both knew calls to Congress from average Americans were coming by the thousands 100-1 against this bailout bill but both of them could care less.
Neither one of them will get my vote in November. I hope others do the same.
