Comments on: Voting Ambivalence Gets Shaken Up http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/ Skeptical Freethought Atheist Musings to Dispel Ignorance and Enlighten the Mind Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neece http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Neece Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:47:20 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-333 Oh Colleen, being an atheist you don't know the way it works! If you're a TRUE christian, you get to break all the commandments when you feel you're doing god's work. So killing endangered animals, wolves, muslims, atheists, and basically the whole world is fine, because it makes your god happy. The christian god actually loves killing. Especially if you burn the body afterwards. The sweet aroma of BBQ'd flesh is pleasing to the lord. Oh Colleen, being an atheist you don’t know the way it works! If you’re a TRUE christian, you get to break all the commandments when you feel you’re doing god’s work. So killing endangered animals, wolves, muslims, atheists, and basically the whole world is fine, because it makes your god happy. The christian god actually loves killing. Especially if you burn the body afterwards. The sweet aroma of BBQ’d flesh is pleasing to the lord.

]]> By: Colleen Chaos http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Colleen Chaos Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:39:01 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-332 Palin makes me sick. I don't get Christians like her. Isn't one of the 10 commandments thou shall not kill?! Palin makes me sick. I don’t get Christians like her. Isn’t one of the 10 commandments thou shall not kill?!

]]> By: Neece http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Neece Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:29:09 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-291 Thanks for commenting, Steve. Yeah, and I lived in Florida for the last two presidential elections. I was so disgusted and disheartened when my vote got thrown out. Thanks for commenting, Steve. Yeah, and I lived in Florida for the last two presidential elections. I was so disgusted and disheartened when my vote got thrown out.

]]> By: steve http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-285 steve Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:08:28 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-285 I vote because of the local issues and how they influence things on up the line. Our Mayor is Super Delegate and when she cast her vote she voted with the voters locally for Obama over Clinton. So that is what keeps me going to the polls. Who I vote for locally can influence the electoral votes for the presidential election. And I agree with you I would like to see some rational debates about the issues. Sick of them telling us who is the best this or that, invoking faith for rational debate. I think a lot of people feel ambivalent with election process, who wouldn't after the last two presidential elections. I vote because of the local issues and how they influence things on up the line. Our Mayor is Super Delegate and when she cast her vote she voted with the voters locally for Obama over Clinton. So that is what keeps me going to the polls. Who I vote for locally can influence the electoral votes for the presidential election. And I agree with you I would like to see some rational debates about the issues. Sick of them telling us who is the best this or that, invoking faith for rational debate. I think a lot of people feel ambivalent with election process, who wouldn’t after the last two presidential elections.

]]> By: James http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-282 James Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:06:26 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-282 Good for Matt Damon!!! Good for Matt Damon!!!

]]> By: Barbara_K http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2008/09/18/voting-ambivalence-gets-shaken-up/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Barbara_K Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:32:50 +0000 http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=364#comment-281 Yeah, I can sympathize. Obama's holding steady at a lead of about 15% in my state, so I feel it would be pretty safe for me to vote for my actual, third party preference. I haven't been particularly charmed by Obama, even less so by the Democratic Party, this election season, and am tired of sucking it up and voting for the lesser of two evils (although I honestly can't characterize Obama as "evil"). But even though I have a huge electoral college safety net for my individual vote this year, Palin scares the crap out of me, and I might just end up voting for Obama after all. If it helps, I think that if you live in a swing state and you vote for Obama, you're helping to move things forward. Painfully, slowly, forward. :) Yeah, I can sympathize. Obama’s holding steady at a lead of about 15% in my state, so I feel it would be pretty safe for me to vote for my actual, third party preference. I haven’t been particularly charmed by Obama, even less so by the Democratic Party, this election season, and am tired of sucking it up and voting for the lesser of two evils (although I honestly can’t characterize Obama as “evil”). But even though I have a huge electoral college safety net for my individual vote this year, Palin scares the crap out of me, and I might just end up voting for Obama after all.

If it helps, I think that if you live in a swing state and you vote for Obama, you’re helping to move things forward. Painfully, slowly, forward. :)

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