Posted on 05/13/2008 3:02:37 PM PDT by Red Steel
John McCain comments on global warming:
"It’s the critical issue of our time. Perhaps the worst legacy of the last 10 years may be our government’s failure to meaningfully address the issue of greenhouse gases. Climate change is real...We are literally risking the future of our planet, our children’s and grandchildren’s future...The question is, will it be too late? My great fear is that we may reach a tipping point where the effects are irreversible."
“Isn’t Oregon lib country?”
Not really.
It was a swing state for Bush, albeit he came on the short end of the stick. That said, Oregon is experiencing California transplant syndrome.
Fleeing high prices and taxes in California, Californians moved to Oregon, buying up land, sending up the price of real-estate, and voting for liberal politicians—who raised taxes.
Had Republicans run a strong economic conservative like Romney, I think the state could have swung in our direction. Jobs are extremely hard to come by there, particularly on the coast. Wages are depressed. I mean, why is a guy from Oregon going to vote for John Mccain? I’m just not seeing the inspiration.
I think that’s the real problem we’re running into: the only thing remotely interesting about McCain is his war experience. And Americans are appearingly incerasingly worn out with Iraq. There’s no edge there. At all. Barack Obama represents “change”—a meaningless, undefined, amorphous change per his own campaigning. But I guess it’s different.
Anyone care to define the McCain presidential run in one or two sentences?
I hope Mc Cain has reverse coat tails and that traitor Gordon Smith gets the boot.....lets give Oregon nothing but libs except our very respectable Congress critter Walden.
We're screwed.
http://www.270towin.com/states/Oregon
Barack Obama represents “change”—a meaningless, undefined, amorphous change per his own campaigning. But I guess it’s different.
Different, as in you like??
“Barack Obama represents “change”—a meaningless, undefined, amorphous change per his own campaigning. But I guess it’s different.
Different, as in you like??”
haha! That’s a laugh. :) I was speaking on behalf of the more ignorant voter who really isn’t into politics. The guy who isn’t happy with the way things are, hasn’t really thought through exactly why that’s the case, and who is looking for something to latch onto. McCain offers almost nothing. Obama promises change, though for the most part refuses to comment on what that means. Given the options, I have a bad feeling Joe Public is going to end up siding with Obama.
As for myself, I loved Romney first and foremost because he was a guy with ideas. You went to his website and there were hundreds of policy ideas he spoke of implementing. Economic policies to deal with North Korea? Romney was on it. Same thing with Fred Thompson later in his campaign. Obama is the exact opposite—all fluff, no substance.
Frankly, I’d rather disagree with someone than have them insult my intelligence the way Obama does. Well, that and the fact that I think Hillary Clinton would be a better Commander-in-Chief than the guy—which is truly freaking scary.
People in OR were originally descended from liberal New Englanders, and the liberalism has never waned that much.
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