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the pond would be half full on the 29th day.

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An obviously intelligent and well thought out response is marred when you levy sensationalistic claims against Barack Obama in an attempt to make him appear less qualified. The McCain Campaign ad committee would do well to pick your brain. And while my original post was little more than an attempt to defend the idea that an unqualified hockey mom from Alaska, who put her ignorance on display last night when discussing issues like the Bush Doctrine and a potential war with Russia, could potentially lead the free world, I felt compelled to respond.

If you know that Barack Obama didn't mean a national police force then why would you paint that picture and resurrect ridiculous Republic fear mongering rhetoric that the majority of the country would be too stupid to understand? There are people in middle America who saw a widely circulated internet video and said they "would never vote for Barack because he a damn Muslim". Let’s not get into the dangers of discussing church affiliations. Palin’s Pentecostal Church whose pastor tells people they will go to hell for voting democrat doesn’t seem nearly as frightening to people who live in a society built upon the idea of separation of church and state.

To my original point, telling people that Barack Obama's plan to increase service opportunities through government funded civilian initiatives in an effort to create jobs and inspire a shared sense of civic responsibility is some sort of Orwellian "police state" is in a word...absurd. Yes we do all have our opinion of the word.

It’s so typical that the right would rather demonize Obama with monikers like "Obammasiah" and juxtaposing a single governor's approval rating with the rating of a Senate (which Barack hasn't been a member of long enough anyway, right?) comprised of 100 people, 49 Democrats, 49 Republicans and 2 independents than highlight the ways in which John McCain will change Washington. Although, I guess we could expect change from John McCain. However according to this argument, "he [McCain] has NOT abandoned any of his core beliefs". Do you mean core beliefs like Economic policy? In which McCain voted against the George Bush tax cuts - twice, and was castigated by Mitt Romney for his failure of "Reaganomics 101", only to recant and now favor making the Bush cuts permanent by the end of his first term because no Republican candidate for President could ever favor tax cuts. McCain learned that in 2000. Or maybe his core beliefs are more accurately reflected in his "bucking of the party machine" on Environmental policy. McCain originally opposed lifting a ban on offshore drilling but I think anyone who watched the RNC will recall the most ridiculous mob-mentality chant of "Drill baby drill" I've ever heard. I'd love to get a percentage of the number of people chanting "drill baby drill" at the Republican convention who have actually read any article with experts who know a lot more about the situation than these people could ever purport to know. Offshore drilling is such a stop-gap measure that would never end our dependence on foreign oil despite the 86 billion barrels we may dig up, and would only offer a brief respite to the increasing gas prices which would have short-sighted Republicans saying, "We did it" (most likely in some sort of awkward unified chant) right before the bubble bursts and we're paying $8.00 a gallon.

But I digress. McCain is the candidate of change. He's changed enough since 2000, when I was actually a McCain supporter, to placate to the Neo-Cons of the Republican party and become their nominee. McCain has sucked up to his core so much that it's no longer visible.

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It's wonderful when people see a video out of context and think that Matt Damon got on his soapbox and went off on a political diatribe about Sarah Palin for no reason. He was asked a topical question in an interview and he responded.

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i love when people want to generalize celebrities as unintelligent when it comes to politics. as if matt damon is on the same political and intellectual playing field as jessica alba or p. diddy. as if it's out of the realm of possibility that someone who makes films for a living, could actually read a newspaper regularly or want to be well informed.

matt damon's claim that he doesn't know anything about sarah palin and that he doesn't think he will in 8 weeks is perfectly justifiable and accurate. there isn't a single person on this website or any other website who is demonizing matt damon, who actually did know who sarah palin was before the end of august. and i don't mean her name and profession, i mean who she was, her political views, her religious views, her history of requesting government earmarks, etc.

both john mccain and barack obama, love 'em or hate 'em have been in the public eye and under a microscope for years. you pretty much know as much as you can about either candidate and have formulated your opinion one way or another. i think what matt damon was saying is this woman will become john mccain's successor if god forbid, something happens to mccain in his first term. you're talking about a relative unknown, a hockey mom from a small town in alaska, becoming the most powerful leader in the free world. it is COMPLETELY absurd.

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