News No Clue Who To Vote For!

[Ed Norton]

Touché. For very immature and puerile reasons G. W. Bush was my favorite president ever! Reagan was my second because I was only about 5 and I still thought that the president was just a nice man who talked a lot about stuff I didn't understand. My 3rd was Bill because I thought he was cool and played the sax. Alas, I find Obama boring to watch but he seems like a nice guy. In the end they all become friends anyway.

 

[The Albatross]

Personally I think you should have to pass an aptitude test to vote.... but I digress and that would make me an anti-Constitutionalist but we live in a place where the lowest common denominator carries the least edified/populist candidate. I guess that makes me a snob but I'm okay with it. This though gave me a snort via Jimmy Kimmel... just reinforces my point:

 

[Ed Norton]

Oh boy I can't see embedded youtube links on the phone. You'll have to give me the search keywords, Alba...

Alas, I'm ashamed of my history knowledge now but I think that a test of some sort was tried before but that created other problems..I maybe thinking about poll taxes but I do remember a sort of literacy test.

With the highly disparate educational system here I can't see that as ever being fair.

A better solution would be to run them all out of Washington with pitchforks and bring humans in to office! But I digress

 

[Crow]

Vote Jill Stein in the primaries. She's the Green Party candidate. Last election she got arrested while the reps & demo debated. It'd be nice to get a third party on the debate stage. Oh....and her platform is sound.

 

[The Albatross]

@Ed Norton - search Jimmy Kimmel Congratulations North Korea video... the 1 and a half plus versions.

 

[BloomInWinter]

Every single Republican in the house and senate voted against Equal Pay for Women. That, alone, is enough to lose my vote forever.

They also voted against paid, protected sick leave. That's completely unacceptable, as far as I am concerned. Far too many of us with PTSD have days where forcing ourselves to function at work to keep a job hurts our health and none of us should be denied the ability to take sick leave as we need to. We also deserve to be able to take off to go to health appointments as our physicians and therapists advise us to do so. Yet when it's between losing a job entirely or waiting until an appointment opens on a day off (which can take months) so many of us end up not being able to take good self-care. With a suppressed immune system, I also don't want workers coming into work sick and putting me at risk.

That's another deal breaker for me.

The Republicans also voted against parental leave. Far too many women have to return to work far too soon after giving birth. Even at my workplace, women have to return before their doctor's guidelines after having a c-section or they have to burn vacation leave, destroying that chance to actually take days off to manage hearth and home. There's a reason why our maternal death rates are climbing while they're falling everywhere else.

These are issues that really matter to me and my family, and watching Republicans turn their backs on us for these simple things time after time is infuriating. As long as they can throw up scandal after scandal, they never have to explain their votes to their constituents. But you know, let's not discuss how sick leave would help us. Let's keep just discussing Benghazi so none of these issues that truly affect us every day are in the conversation.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I hate Hillary and Trump and will definitely be moving to a small island in the middle of the arctic if either of them gets elected.

Haha! I thought I was the only one! So much "go Hilary" this and "go Trump" that and Im here trying the figure out whom would do less damage!

I dont think i am voting and if anyone gets it it will be Bernie but i feel its wasting a vote as he stands no chance.

 

[EveHarrington]

Every single Republican in the house and senate voted against Equal Pay for Women. That, alone, is...

Exactly. As long as the smokescreen of emails and Benghazi (which nobody gives a damn about unless they've been told to give a damn about) are used, we can avoid talking about real issues which affect us every day.

In Canada BOTH parents are granted extensive parental leave. Here, not so much where the kids are just dumped into daycare at a few weeks old. Our society cares less and less about people. It really is a shame.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Let's keep just discussing Benghazi so none of these issues that truly affect us every day are in the conversation.

First, do you know what happened in Benghazi, which later sparked the movie 13 Hours (id watch it if anyone hasnt) and Clinton's role in it and what her emails uncovered of what she told her family vs what she told the public and family and lawsuit the family filed against her?

Its an important item to never forget! I didnt even realize the true story until after I watched 13 hours which had me in huge tears...and i dont cry!

Yes, I agree, sick leave and woman pay is important but if I would put that on a scale with Benghazi, Benghazi would win every time. I feel its a sad world that we live in if we feel we need to shew Benghazi under the rug and shrug and say "so what". If you were there or one of your family members, it likely would be different.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[EveHarrington]

I really don't think a single incident (for which we will never know the full truth) should take precedence over policies that affect millions of people every day and will continue to shape society for------forever.

A movie with an agenda won't tell the truth. It's there to give a particular view.

 

[EveHarrington]

Clinton has been a champion for families, women and children throughout her career.

The 'pubs are sleeping with the Russians. God help us all.

 

[BloomInWinter]

No voting is voting for the status quo. Those of us in Illinois are all suffering thanks to those who couldn't be bothered to vote, so Rauner got elected.

Women weren't "given" the right to vote. They were beaten, tortured, and died to secure my right to vote and I consider it my civic duty to show up to the polls in their honor.

Every single republican voted against us all having paid, protected vacation. Every. Single. One. If they were really about family values, they'd ensure employers can't force us to work our lives away. But we will get that opportunity with a Dem leadership, because vacation time actually is a boon to the economy. People are able to spend time doing home projects, visiting tourist areas, seeing friends and family and strengthening their neighborhoods. How in the world anyone could vote for a legislator who voted against vacation leave is beyond me.