so we just can’t go with what he has to say

people need to do all the research they can before giving away the powers which rule the WORLD!!!

There is one thing that I want to mention that I think is important. Part of what we’ve been seeing during the course this campaign is some scurrilous e-mails that have been sent out, denying my faith, talking about me being a Muslim, suggesting that I got sworn in the U.S. Senate with a Quran in my hand or that I don’t pledge allegiance to the flag. I think it’s really important for your readers to know that I have been a member of the same church for almost 20 years, and I have never practiced Islam. I am respectful of the religion, but it’s not my own. One of the things that’s very important in this day and age is that we don’t use religion as a political tool and certainly that we don’t lie about religion as a way to score political points. I just thought it was important to get that in there to dispel rumors that have been over the Internet. We’ve done so repeatedly, but obviously it’s a political tactic of somebody to try to provide this misinformation.” Barack Obama

From JohnMcCain.com:

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm

Human Dignity and the Sanctity of Life

Overturning Roe v. Wade

John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench.

Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.

However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion….

And yes, ethanol has alcohol in it because it is alcohol.

However, corn is not the best crop to make ethanol from. We just use it because we have a lot of it, but it’s so inefficient to create ethanol from corn, that people are still debating whether you actually get more energy from the corn ethanol than you use to create it in the first place.

Instead, we should be moving towards either cellulosic ethanol or trying to find ways to create or import sugarcane ethanol (though the British are apparently also trying out ethanol made from Sugar Beets) or both.

Brazil uses about 1/3 of the crop acreage to create nearly as many gallons of ethanol the US does because they’re using a crop which can be more efficiently used to make it, and they get 8 to 10 times as much energy from it as it costs to make it, as compared to, at best estimates, about 1 1/2 times which corn yields.

And of course there is the deal with it leading to higher crop prices across the board as I noted earlier.

And just a note. I have no idea what Obama’s position is on this topic. He might have stated it, but I don’t know it off the top of my head. I’m just stating my own opinion here.

As for votes…yes, you’re going to find some votes you don’t like. You’re always going to find votes you don’t like. That’s the nature of politics.

However, if someone is going to slam someone else for a vote, it better be a good one or be a consistent and repeating pattern.

Like the war vote…why he didn’t vote, I don’t know, maybe if some of the people who complain about it bother to ask, someone in the campaign may answer it. Maybe it was a protest since he didn’t want to vote against the GI bill but didn’t want to vote for the funding, so chose to do neither.

In a sense, that’s politically smart since it insulates hims from “you’re for the GI bill? but you voted against it!” and “you’re against the war? but you voted to fund it!” Basically falling into the “I voted for it before I voted against it” crap Kerry was attacked for. However, he has voted against war funding in the past, so it doesn’t seem to be a consistent trend.

Picking a vote here and a vote there won’t cut it because you can do that for anyone (a big reason why Senators have found it difficult to be elected President). And even if you do find a few votes you don’t like…does that make it so you just can’t vote for Obama? That’s especially true if you plan on voting for McCain as the alternative.

People voted Green as a protest vote in 2000 and that got us Bush. While protest votes make people individually feel good, one has to look at the whole picture and what exactly the consequences will be if one does that.

Personally, I fail to see how voting for McCain is better than Obama, even if people are mad at him for one thing or another in regard to Clinton. And I guarantee that if you went through McCain’s votes like you do Obama’s, that you will really find stuff to make you shudder.

Second, corn ethanol is already obsolete. It is an unsustainable fuel source. To replace all the gasoline people in the US use with corn ethanol, one would need a corn field larger than the land area of the entire US. It’s just not efficient to make ethanol from corn. If you can find a way to grow a whole bunch of sugar cane to turn into ethanol, then OK, but it’s time to kill corn ethanol.

Not only is it rising the price of corn since we’re using so much of it to make gas, but it’s raising the price of so many other crops since people have stopped growing them in favor of growing corn. It’s basic supply and demand.

And many things don’t have a chance of passing in the Senate as is due to GOP filibusters (and before that, GOP control of the Senate). I’m sure you can say much of the same for Senator Clinton.

But like many of the heroes serving there today, he told me his country needed him, and he would do all that is asked until they can ask no more. He will be voting this year through an absentee ballot, and he’s voting Obama for one simple reason: through his firsthand experience in Iraq, he knows Americans can’t afford another President who will wage unneeded wars. Many of his fellow soldiers feel the same. For them, their vote could be the difference between coming home to their families, or fighting for their lives in a country that does not want them nor need them.

I ask you to please reconsider. McCain has already aligned himself closely with the policies of the Bush administration, and he’s made it clear that he wants a lengthy US military commitment to Iraq. As tensions in the region rise, I fear that a McCain presidency would not only mean my son will be sent on a third and fourth tour to Iraq, but that we’ll also have a very real danger of falling into another unneeded conflict with Iran before his term is over.