I voted for Obama in northern Florida on Monday. Ethics and integrity need to reenter the world we live in on November 4. I voted for a ticket that I believe will do just that. I also believe that Obama will use his skills to unite the country and bring us back to the center.
I encourage other Florida residents to vote for Obama/Biden. I am not sure where we will end up if McCain/Palen win. Ms Palen is not what we need at this point in time. She will be “played” by the Old Boys who have been in charge.

Found this interesting article…
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977488297&nav=Explore

Applying Obama’s Wealth Redistribution Plan To Real Life
October 25, 2008 06:19 AM EDT
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I saw a homeless guy with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” I laughed and went into the restaurant.

In the restaurant I noted that my server had on an “Obama 08″ tie,

Bythe time the bill came I had decided not to tip the server. Instead I explained to him that I was applying the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. The waiter stood there in disbelief when I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone I deemed more in need of the money, the homeless dude outside. The server was not happy!

As I left the restaurant, I gave the homeless dude the tip money and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
By now you have realized that the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was very unhappy that I gave away the money he had earned even although the recipient deserved money more.

So now you can see the actual redistribution of wealth is easier to accept in concept than in practical application!

I am not a liberal but I intend to vote for Obama. I beleive that a woman has the right to choose what happens to her body and, if two people of the same sex decide to marry that is between them and their God. As for not tipping the waiter because he supports Obama, equates to condeming someone because of their beliefs. But that too is between you and your God.

Abigail…I found it ironic that an Obama supporter got angry when Obama’s plan was applied directly to him. I do not feel that it has anything to do with God, religion or condemning anyones belief.

I agree, Jill. At the middle school where I teach, teachers were complaining about how their own elementary age children were told not to put their names on their supplies, because they were being taken and used as community supplies. And I know some of these teachers are voting for Obama, whose programs are no different . . . What gives someone the right to reach into your pocket, take your money, and give it to someone else?

I’m campaigning for OBAMA/BIDEN!

And I had to laugh… what with talk of ‘fraud’ in the voting booths… when I went to go check out the puppet patterns and CLICKED ON THE OBAMA puppet…the instructions for McCain came up…?!?!!

I have to think in this case it was an UNintended glitch… but find myself wondering if it’s an omen (or a repeat of the last two questionable elections…hmmmm)

–Mary K

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I think Jesus wouldnt be happy with the republicans, you are like the pharisees, who only think that morals are important, and are not caring about your neighbors, so, do you really think its okay to kill other people, whatever happen to love your enemies??? If you really loved God, and not just cared for your so called morals, you wouldnt support war, you would be on your knees praying for Iran, Iraq, and also for all the problems the country is facing, it seems that people just say morals, pro life, and America and that is really going to get your vote, I think I just should scream those three words to get your votes.

I’m being criticized for NOT doing research and when I explain that I have done it, I’ve not done it in the right places!

When I read that some of you are believing that Obama is going to take money from waiters to give to the homeless, promoting socialism, associating with a 70′s activist, and supporting partial birth abortions, I feel like you’re the ones not paying attention, not weighing both sides, finding out what the truth is, not making an informed decision.

How many of you have watched ALL of the debates? I have. How many of you have Googled William Ayers to see what his story is? I have. I personally heard Obama say in a debate that he SUPPORTS a BAN on 3rd trimester abortions . . . IF there is a provision for the health of the mother. How many of you listened or watched in horror as two 17 yr old KIDS shot up a high school not 5 miles from where your daughter was in lock down at her elementary school?

I grew up in the ’50s-’60s when women used coat hangers or back alley butchers to have abortions. Some died, some were so severely infected or scarred they were never able to have children. If you don’t want an abortion, I respect your right to choose, so don’t take away mine! I don’t agree with 3rd term abortions – that’s way too late! And I don’t think abortion should be used as birth control Teenagers are going to have sex…that’s a given. They need to be educated BEFORE they become active. Thanks to the schools they are getting some education on this. I’ve told my daughter since she was 14 that if she even thought about having sex, I would get her some form of birth control.

I have not heard Obama say anything that even smells like socialism, much less reek of it. What is socialism? Read what it entails and then tell me what policies of Obama’s are socialist!

When has he said he’s going take ALL guns away from private parties? Why does a college student NEED a weapon of war that allows him to shoot up a college campus? Do you want to protect HIS rights to have such deadly weapons? When you have a gun for self-defense, more than half of the time it is taken away from you and used against you. Or it is found by a child with disastrous results! Keep your guns for hunting, but let’s keep the ones used for mass destruction out of the hands of the public!

“Redistributing the wealth” is not about actually taking money away from you and “giving” it away…it’s about who pays more taxes. (if you’d been doing your research, you would know this) We’re already “giving” it away to the government and those who are making more than $250,000 a year will take on more of that burden, taking some of the load off of us that don’t.

I get real frustrated by those who choose to personally attack others for their beliefs. Just because someone is wearing a tie or t-shirt professing who they are voting for doesn’t give you the right to be offended or “teach them a lesson.” It’s called freedom of speech folks and isn’t that why we live in America? It’s time we respect the differing opinions of others and quit belittling, attacking, criticizing them without fully informing ourselves as best we can!

Hoozieg….I didn’t say Obama would take from a waiter to give to a homeless man…..You obviously see what you want to see. I simply said I found it ironic that an Obama supporter got angry when Obama’s plan was applied directly to him. Do you understand now?

I have been receiving the LionBrand newsletter since 2002. Today I am canceling my subscription. My husband is a retired Army officer. This meant long separations and being what amounted to a single parent. That was my choice and I would gladly do it all over again. We are Democrats and we beleive in God and our country. I grew up in the south. I have seen riots and boycotts. We have thought our son to be open minded and fair. What I want most is for people to agree to disagree. I am assuming that we all want a safe and harmonious world for our children. Hoozieg I totally agree with you.

Hey Bree…Thank your husband for his service for me will you? I mean it!!! I don’t understand why you have to cancel because some of us don’t believe in the Democratic Party anymore. I am a homebound Disabled Veteran. I wish I could join the human race again and actually this is the first time I have ever expressed my feelings outside of my home in many years. I used to believe in the Democratic party! The Democratic Party has not done right by this American in the last 2 years! I do not believe in taxing more so the government can get bigger and spend more. I have to live on a budget so why doesn’t the government? I am not trying to be mean and I don’t even know if what that guy said in his article really happened but he made a good point. I don’t want somebody who makes more than 250,000 to give me their hard earned cash. Right now the Democrats want to take our 401k’s and decrease the military by 25%. YIKES!!! I have just had enough! Do we really want an unchecked Democratic Party running the United States of America?
Check out this article about Nancy Pelosi… http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jan/12/20070112-120720-2734r/

I would never attempt to argue with anyone over issues like gun control or abortion, because I bet that the number of times someone has changed someone else’s mind through debate is probably less that 1%. I do think, however, hoozieg, that it is reasonable to expect anyone to have a healthy skepticism about what they hear from the media. As I pointed out, donating money 10-1 in favor of one candidate might cause some bias in reporting. It’s worth considering.

Also, what people perceive as an attack depends a whole lot on whether they agree with what the person is saying. I don’t think any one side holds the majority market share on attacking (witness Luisa’s comment above saying Republicans don’t care about their neighbors and wouldn’t be approved of by Jesus). Also it doesn’t seem to me that comments like “How many of you have done X? I have . . . ” really qualify one for the Miss Congeniality award.

And even if we leave out the word “socialism” (although Obama’s beliefs are on that spectrum, even if they may not be Socialism proper) I think people are just saying they object to his plan of taxing higher incomes at higher rates. No one I know falls into that tax category, and I still don’t think it’s fair. I also don’t think it’s going to ease the burden on me, because of what someone else said above. We already have the highest corporate tax rate in the world (a fact that also came out in the debates) and this has contributed to businesses moving overseas to low tax countries in Asia. And Mary, your response to the fact that people who are not legal residents of Ohio are fraudulently voting, was rather bothersome. To me, the only appropriate response is, “Wow, that’s crazy – that’s got to be stopped.” And finally, people can “agree to disagree” on the LionBrand website, but it doesn’t work in real life. Someone’s way is going win out.

I have spent way to much time on this, but wanted to leave you with the following. My SIL sent this to me and I have no idea where it came from, but it elicits some very interesting thinking. Enjoy!

“This is an interesting perspective someone has come up with on the leading candidates in the 2008 presidential race between Obama/Biden vs McCain/Palin. What if backgrounds were switched around? …..think about it. Would the country’s collective point of view be different? Ponder the following:

What if the Obama’s had paraded five children across the stage, including a three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain had only married once and Obama was divorced?

What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severely disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married to wife #1?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of
corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn’t read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama’s family had made their money from beer distribution?

What if the Obama’s had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Candidates Educational Background :

Barack Obama:
Columbia University – B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class ranking: 894 of 899 graduates.

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University – 1 semester; North Idaho College – 2 semesters – general study University of Idaho – 2 semesters – journalism Matanuska-Susitna College – 1 semester University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in Journalism

Education isn’t everything, but this is about the two highest offices in the land, as well as our standing in the world. You make the call.

Hoozieg, I saw your most recent post after I posted. I have read those questions before and that is exactly why I think this blog is so sad it just brings home the fact that racism is alive and kicking in this country. We can dress it up and call it something else because we don’t want to sound racist. But at the end of the day that’s what it comes down to. And the shame of it is the hypocrisy. I mean how is it possible that someone can say to you that they are not trying to attack you when they have questioned your intelligence and called you everything but a child of God? It boggles the mind. But keep the faith. I have a good feeling about this election! The times they are a changing!

Just a clarification about Obama’s birth certificate: even in the 60′s it would have said African, not negro, because his father was actually African. Kenyan to be exact. Each candidate had to file with the Federal Election Commission who approved their eligibility to be a candidate. I’m sure both Obama and McCain presented the FEC with official copies of their birth certificates when they filed to become a presidential candidate. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is comprised of 6 commissioners, appointed by the President and approved by the Senate. The FEC cannot have more than 3 members from one political party, so it is fair to call it bipartisan. You can learn more about the FEC at http://www.fec.gov.

I too vote for McCain/Palin. No one in my knitting circle is voting for Obama.

I am totally disgusted by the comments on this post…this is supposed to be about YARN and the things we can do with it

You want to post about politics? there are a bazillion other places on the internets

I think it’s too bad that you can’t disagree with someone’s plan on universal health care and higher taxes on the wealthy without being labeled racist. If you disagree with a white candidate who suggests such things, what are you then?

Hi, Thanks for posting. I came across your site in aol and I’m glad I found it. I will come back to read more soon.