Inquiry

Señor Obama, that's who will get my vote.  I was not won over immediately, and I have a great amount of respect for Hilary Clinton, and would have preferred her as the Democratic candidate (I'd enjoy the Hilary-McCain Debates!) Nevertheless .  .   .

I decided during the Democratic convention as I listened to a few of the speeches (I mean that of all the speeches I heard, I really listened to a few) that touched me,  Including Obama's.  He has presented himself in a dignified way throughout the debates with his competitor, often responding to low-ball statements or queries with a conversation-elevating framing before answering with the content that pertains.

I am Canadian but if I were able to vote, it would be for Ralph Nader. Not that I thought he could win or that I would necessarily want him to win. It would be to honor and acknowledge his astonishing accomplishments as a consumer advocate and how his work has made a significant impact on all parts of the world.

canadian so can't vote for u.s. president .. but if i could it would for obama because he is at a higher structure of development

I feel this IS the most important election since the Civil War.  The Republic could've been dismantled then.  It's on the path of being re-made now.  A McCain presidency would complete the re-alignment which has been seeded in the Bush-Chaney administrations.  In the end, any semblence of government "by and for the people" would be entirely eradicated.

There is no guarantee that an Obama administration, even with a Democratic majority in Congress, will/can reverse what has  already been put into place.  Remember, the Democratic Blue Dogs look as neo-con as their Republican counterparts.  But with McCain there is no hope of any reversal and unraveling of the past 8 years.

I am  encouraged by the public's involvement in this election.  I suspect that what happens AFTER November 4 will be as divisive as what we are in now.  The 'hanging chads' of Florida may end up looking like a cake walk in a few weeks.  I could be optimistic and expect that there will be such a lopsided outcome that vote count manipulation won't even be reasonably possible. 

I could be optimistic. 

I could be optimistic. 

I could.

  I will vote for neither Obama or John for president. I respectfully decline to have a horse in this race. I have watched too many elections not to know that whoever is elected will do some things that I feel are good for the country and for which I will stand and applaud and invariably take some actions that I will deplore for their duplicity and for which  I will write a letter expressing my thoughts. I will not, as so many have done now for eight years, entertain a visceral hatred (and the attendant stomach acid) toward either as I expect the actions of a politician from each and will thus will not be disappointed. In truth by voting for neither, I exclude neither. Should someone other that a Politician somehow make their way onto the ballot I can well imagine becoming so  activated as to wear a badge and wave a banner. I believe we really have not the slightest idea nor rational grounds upon which to base a decision as to who will be best qualified. The skillfully sound bites that we have seen regurgitated for two years now have been carefully designed to enliven and titillate their respective constituencies and have little or nothing to do with what they will actually accomplish. As I live in a State in which the winning candidate is a foregone conclusion my vote will have less than no effect on the commons. It's absence will however afford me a heightened sense of peace and objectivity.

I will be voting for Barack Obama. From the very first time I heard him speak, at the 2004 Democratic Convention, I sensed that he understands that as individuals we each have inherent value and that as human beings we are one. This is actually the delicate balance or integration of freedom and responsibility. He also demonstrates the capacity for inspiring passionate idealism and even tempered pragmatism. IMO he exemplifies the integral world view.

It is in the clarity of Conscious Awareness that Truth is revealed.

I have already voted for Barack Obama for President, in early voting.  I believe he is at a second tier level of consciousness and that is what the USA and the world desperately need in their leaders.  This is the first chance that USA has had for second tier leadership and I feel hope for our country in Obama's hands.

Ralph Nader is a true progressive and Obama is not. Look at Obama's record and positions not his flowery rhetoric. For example, he promises a "surge" (we called it an "escalation" back in the Vietnam days) in Afghanistan and is talking like a neo-con regarding Pakistan (a unstable country with nukes!). The corporate parties continue to cause chaos in the world and the Democrats continue to take progressive voters for granted as they pretend to be an opposition party. As long as they favor money and power, they get money and power and continue the class war and the imperialist wars to continue receiving....money and power.

Obama is no different, just a different package. The Clinton years should clue progressives in on what to expect: Clinton devastated working class interests and the labor movement, he killed more Iraqis than George W. or his father, and he set back GLBT rights. And Clinton and Gore (despite popular myth) did more to harm the environment than Reagan and Bush the first!

It's time to give up on the Democrats and build a true progressive movement. Supporting Nader and/or the Green party is a long-term strategy for changing the corporate parties' control of the country and electoral process; short term, we put pressure on the Democrats and Obama to move left (remember, Nixon allowed more progressive legislation to pass since WWII due to pressure from the street).

Greetings from Philadelphia.

I will either vote for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party or Ralph Nader.

Both understand that the major parties don't differ substantially from each other.

They do not favor nuclear power-sources, instead wish to use the abundant solar, wind, tidal and geothermal energies.

Both are vocal about the impeachment crimes Bush Jr has committed.

Both support peace and the withdrawing of the US troops globally.

I'm leaning towards Cynthia McKinney because she really is fighting for equality rights and civil rights. And fighting must happen in this country, otherwise people get more apathetic and just keep buying stuff they don't need and sit in front of the tv all night without accomplishing anything.

I don't buy into Obama's promises, he's just as a player as McCain is. I can't see any difference between them from where I am.

 Just kidding!

I am voting for Obama. ( :  Not that McCain isn't able to take as many perspectives as Obama, he just won't for his own political reasons, and thus even narrowed further his perspective taking potency by having Palin as his running mate. While he is able to take perspectives, she really is not. And I believe we can't risk anymore narrowness. We need bigger vistas. Hell, maybe I just need bigger visitas, but nonetheless I am voting for my man Obama.

I've already voted for Obama. I did for several reason, none of them based on campaign rhetoric or logic. All of them are based on speculation, introspection and an addiction to viewing things symbolically.
1. Of the 2 remaining candidates that have a realistic chance of being our president, I believe Obama is the only 1 who has a chance of beginning to repair the unutterable damage done to our country's credibility, especially in ethical/moral arenas. In the past few decades, we have turned into our shadow: we have become the very forces we have prided ourselves at protecting the rest of the world against.
2. I believe Obama is the only candidate who, if he attracts the right advisors, has the potential of catching a glimpse of a world- centric view out of the corner of his eye.
3. I believe there may be greater forces at play in this divine comedy than are obvious at outer levels of observation.  The Fall of the world trade Towers eerily replicated the Tower card in classical tarot, and it's aftermath has played out almost exactly like the Oracle description of the card.  In the season of things,  something new is being called for. It could be our demise as a prominent culture. It could be our rebirth into new possibilities, symbolized by a man who may be seen as black by most, but who is actually the product of a union of opposites: half "black" and half "white". Feels numinous to me.
4. My Favorite: As I listened to Ken Wilber and Jim Garrison in their discussion on America As Empire, an observation was made that our downfall, should it come, rather than being at the hand of an Army, would be at the hand of one individual (probably living in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan).  I suddenly had this luminous, laugh-out-loud vision of the ultimate superhero comic book brought to life: the fate of the world hanging in the hands of the two archrivals, Obama and Osama. It felt just too rich for the gods to ignore.