This was my first time voting, and it was much simpler than I was expecting (all these florida horror stories). I went with Obama.

NBC just projected Obama and McCain to win Maryland with significant margins

yeah he got 68+% in both DC and Maryland (according to the interactive Yahoo primary map thingy)

according to cnn, obama has more total projected delegates than hillary

oh my god Obama's speech in Wisconsin right now is giving me goosebumps

This is pretty cool (sorry guys):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8

I hate black people.

I am black.

This is pretty cool (sorry guys):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8

no it's not. it's LYING. saying barack obama is not for ending the war on drugs or taking troops out of Iraq is a grave misstatement.

please don't do this again. your unique brand of blinded advocacy is usually entertaining but we're actually in primaries now and I've fully illustrated what a poor choice Ron Paul would be a page ago.

It was excellent dude. Maxed capacity 17k with overflow. The three hour wait was really worth it, there is just something really cool about seeing a president (nominee) in person. Hopefully I'll get to seem him after the nomination when he comes back.

oh shit i forgot you saw him in person! congrats to you! I wish i could have seen him a couple weeks ago when he was in MA

This is pretty cool (sorry guys):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8

Yeah, I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one too.

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7499 - Obama: "I think the war on drugs has been a failure, and I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/us/politics/13obama.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin - Obama's extensive plan to wind down the war in Iraq

I'M A DOCTOR I UNDERSTAND THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

DOCTOR RONALD PAUL TO THE RESCUE

RON PUAL (Click to reveal)

Ron Paul had several newsletters printed under his name over several decades that were pervasive with anti-semetic, homophobic, racist, and extreme right-wing paranoid conspiracy theory ramblings.  (The sheer number of craziness, filth, and crazy filth contained in these newletters is staggering; just read the article to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes.) 

Despite denying any connection to these newletters that bore his name--and were published by "Ron Paul & Associates"--for decades, Ron Paul continues to make prejudice remarks, describing those working for the Transportation Security Administration as looking "more suspicious to [him] than most Americans who are getting checked," not to mention that he not too long ago voted against the renewal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and published his reasons for disaproval with the Act. 

It is not surprising that Ron Paul continues to make these types of remarks considering the newletters and his legislative past, where he sponsored a bill that would make it easier for private schools to discriminate, another that would weaken the Civil Rights Act of 1964, yet another that would deny Iranian students federal aid, and finally one that would require unmarried minors to notify parents they requested an abortion or contraceptives, "[prohibit] the expenditure of federal funds to any organization which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle or which suggest that it can be an acceptable lifestyle," endorse "corporal punishment" against children, and repeal the estate tax--a tax which affects only the wealthiest of Americans. 

He has also recently published articles stating that he believes that the Left is waging a war on Christmas, that Churches should serve a role in society eclipsing that of the state, and that he opposes gay marriage .  Plus, Ron Paul has recently (6/6/07) introduced legislation that would define life as beginning at conception and legislation that would prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like--a bill which he has repeated reintroduced.  (A list of all the ridiculous bills he has sponsored over the past few decades can be found here.)

Oh, there's more.  SO MUCH MORE!

He was the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan..  He wants to pull out of the U.N., disband NATO, abolish the federal reserve, reinstate the Gold Standard, believes in New World Order conspiracy theories, believes that the International Baccalaureate program is U.N. mind control, and...

Aw hell, just take a look at his own website, where he advocates abolishing the Department of Education, the Food & Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Social Security Administration, and a ton of other agencies that provide vital public services.

I did not write this, this is someone froM SA, but yeah.

also: does not include a link to the infamous 20 years of newsletters that were uncovered.

man my dad got a full head of steam and voted for ron paul today. he mumbled something about how he liked one of his mindless rhetorics on economic policy or something. i tried to stop him, but i felt really stupid because i had forgotten entirely what it was about him that made me so incredibly sick to my stomach when i first read about him many moons ago. too bad i didn't read this beforehand i guess, because it's horrifying that my dad gave this disgusting creature a vote. not that it matters anyway, but it's one of those moral losses


in lighter news: i voted for obama, not knowing anything about him beforehand as i have not read one ounce of political information in possibly 6+ months, because a BLACK PRESIDENT will make racists really mad.

i can immediately think of a few people i have met in the past who 1)SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT AT ALL COSTS and 2)STOP ALL THE NEGROS AT ALL COSTS and i am hoping that this contradiction will wreck the shit out of them

beyond this i am finding it increasingly difficult to care who is in office as long as it isn't some fucking backwards homophobe racist that clearly poses some overwhelmingly apparent threat. i am no longer interested in keeping tabs on the figureheads they keep installing and blasting on my television set 24/7.

call me when the revolution comes, i shall be hibernating until then.

man my dad got a full head of steam and voted for ron paul today. he mumbled something about how he liked one of his mindless rhetorics on economic policy or something. i tried to stop him, but i felt really stupid because i had forgotten entirely what it was about him that made me so incredibly sick to my stomach when i first read about him many moons ago. too bad i didn't read this beforehand i guess, because it's horrifying that my dad gave this disgusting creature a vote. not that it matters anyway, but it's one of those moral losses

Ron Paul talks about how the dollar is increasingly becoming weaker (I remember a topic a few months back about how the canadian dollar is stronger that the US Dollar now). The main things I have read him say is that America borrows about 600 billion of dollars a year and prints money it doesn't have according to it's gold and silver supply, which according to the constitution is the only legal tender.  he claims that sooner or later the economy will lead to a recession if they keep on borrowing and printing new problem to hide the problem.

Ron Paul's solution is said to spend more wisely (i.e. not on war on Iraq) and stop printing money that the country doesn't have according to it's Gold or Silver supply.

I don't really know much about economics, but I had heard before that America are like 3 Trillion dollars in debt and continuing to spend and borrow money, which will eventually have to pay back.

Maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject can shed some light on this one for me.

Ron Paul talks about how the dollar is increasingly becoming weaker (I remember a topic a few months back about how the canadian dollar is stronger that the US Dollar now). The main things I have read him say is that America borrows about 600 billion of dollars a year and prints money it doesn't have according to it's gold and silver supply, which according to the constitution is the only legal tender.  he claims that sooner or later the economy will lead to a recession if they keep on borrowing and printing new problem to hide the problem.

Ron Paul's solution is said to spend more wisely (i.e. not on war on Iraq) and stop printing money that the country doesn't have according to it's Gold or Silver supply.

I don't really know much about economics, but I had heard before that America are like 3 Trillion dollars in debt and continuing to spend and borrow money, which will eventually have to pay back.

i do not acknowledge politicial candidates that identify exceptionally elementary problems and then suggest ridiculous solutions that they probably won't be able to go through with anyway.

this is particularly the case when these politicians are racist homophobes

i do not acknowledge politicial candidates that identify exceptionally elementary problems and then suggest ridiculous solutions that they probably won't be able to go through with anyway.

this is particularly the case when these politicians are racist homophobes

this sums up ron paul's entire campaign

McCain meanwhile offered a grim warning of the direction Obama or Clinton would take the country.

"They will paint a picture of the world in which America's mistakes are a greater threat to our security than the malevolent intentions of an enemy that despises us and our ideals."

...isn't that the general concensus though?  That America's mistakes are jeopardizing their security?

Ron Paul talks about how the dollar is increasingly becoming weaker (I remember a topic a few months back about how the canadian dollar is stronger that the US Dollar now). The main things I have read him say is that America borrows about 600 billion of dollars a year and prints money it doesn't have according to it's gold and silver supply, which according to the constitution is the only legal tender.  he claims that sooner or later the economy will lead to a recession if they keep on borrowing and printing new problem to hide the problem.

Ron Paul's solution is said to spend more wisely (i.e. not on war on Iraq) and stop printing money that the country doesn't have according to it's Gold or Silver supply.

I don't really know much about economics, but I had heard before that America are like 3 Trillion dollars in debt and continuing to spend and borrow money, which will eventually have to pay back.

Maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject can shed some light on this one for me.

the main issue is a few storms are colliding at once, like the housing bubble and all this shit, which has caused the US dollar to slip a little bit. Paul's philosophy is to DISMANTLE the Federal Reserve and introduce gold or silver currency as ALTERNATE CURRENCY. aside from the hilariousness of two competing currencies within a country and that gold standards never work and by necessity have to lead to crippling recessions (I can do this again if you want me to illustrate it), gold itself has...fluctuated in price OH MY GOD.

Paul's solution isn't to spend more wisely, it's to spend almost nothing at all. everyone knows that a little bit of inflation is a good thing (when it comes to debt and stuff) but people who graduated from the Von Mises/Chicago school seem to believe externalities don't exist and you can sustain a self contained isolationist economy in a globalized world, without a massive decline in well being for everyone involved.