The KRON 4 Countdown to the California Primary Question of the Day for Wednesday, January 23, 2008:
“Who Do You Support for President and Why?”
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I support Barack Obama for President.
Why? While in the past I usually pick Republican for president, but I feel that it is time to put a Democrat president back into the White House. Obama has a lot of great idea that would turn our country around. He is energetic, and he is young. I believe "young" is the key because he will best represent the young people in the US.
I thought about supporting Clinton, but I just feel that if she is in the office, it will be "Politics as usual" and nothing will ever get done.
Don't give me wrong, both Clinton and Obama has great ideas that will truly turn the country around from the current administration and both of them are excellent candidates, but Obama is clearly a better choice.
I voted for Barack Obama.
4 Years Bush, 8 Years Clinton, and 8 Years Bush and now another 8 years Clinton? No thanks. 28 years 2 families? That's scary.
I voted for Obama because he can bring REAL change to Washington. And give me a break about experience. Before Bush became president he visited Mexico as the only country outside the US. Insane!
I am supporting Obama because it is a chance to vote "for someone" instead of against their opponent. His campaign has generated excitment and hope. I can't imagine having to refight and relive the Clinton era. Bush/Clinton/Bush ... please not Clinton again, it will crush the spirit of too many Democrats and lead to a Republican victory in November. It is time for the old guard to step aside and let someone new try to unify the country and work on our very real problems.
I'm a registered Democrat and will be voting for Obama. I think he is ethical and skilled at bringing people together to get things accomplished. I think the Clintons are too divisive and seem to be willing to split the Democratic party in order to "win". Obama will make us proud here at home and throughout the world.
I am supporting Obama because he is someone I can vote "for" instead of having to vote against someone I don't like. He has injected excitement and hope into the race. I don't want to relive and refight the Clinton/Republican wars of the last 15 years -- Bush/Clinton/Bush ... please no more Clinton. Hilary will kill the excitment that many now feel and cause the Democrats to lose in November. Obama can help to unify the country so we can try to solve our very real problems.
I support Ron Paul for president because he wants limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and to drastically reduce the presence of government in our lives and increase our personal liberties. Ron Paul wants to get rid of income tax and not replace it with anything. How is that possible? This can be done by drastically changing our spending! For along time now, America has been operating beyond it's means and is getting very good at mismanaging and being wasteful. Corruption is huge too. Let's go back to the principals of the constitution and restore our liberties and bring back SMALL government. Stop the welfare state. How is it that schools are facing budget cuts when the average homeowner (in the bay area) pays $5000 to $10,000 a year in property taxes? How many homeowners are there is this State? Major mismanagement! Teachers should be getting paid a lot more! What would solve this problem? Private markets! I encourage everyone to at least take a look at Ron Paul. That's my two cents.
I have aleady mailed in my vote for Republican candidate Mc Cain a week or so ago. My experience tells me that Democrats will and do stack bills and legislation upon bills and legislation that encumber us with buracracy, taxes and the errosion of our rights. They will law us into diapers and create a mandated buracracy to change our diapers...an anology with real examples if requested or needed including plans to lump people that invest in and take care of their health with those that don't and also those that abuse their health and safety. Then they (Demos) will assess me for their health care costs via taxes and fees and in addition I will find myself in long buracratic lines when I need and go for medical health care. Just imagine! Does the bama smoke? Sounds like he does. Democrats seem to be overfull of "ideas" retoric and void of how, when and where, yet full of costly bills and legislations i.e. depend on government to take control of and provide for you every need. I use to be and voted Democratic, but no more. It is Democrats that will take away your ability to protect yourself, your family including eroding your Second Amendment rights. By my vote, being active in the community, contributions and no contributions to Demos etc. I support Republican sensibility for the long run. I also communicate with elected Democrats and Repubs. So, don't waste your vote with "I feel" or "I believe", but base your vote on the facts and history. No Bama! No Hill! G. John Galvan, San Jose, CA
I was for Hillary Clinton, till I saw some Youtube videos on the way she acquired campaign funds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBMj3SCF7E
Recently several articles such as the one below has showed up in public websites:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/548692506.html
I am a registed democrat, and I am voting for Hilary Clinton, because I believe she has the most experience, since she has been involved for so many years in politics. She has also done a lot for the people as well.
Obama seems to have some good ideas, but he is still young, and does not have the experience that Hilary does.
My vote is definetely for Clinton.
I am Republican and torn between
Mitt Romney and Hockabee.
Something new and fresh.
Clinton is scary and Obama is wet behind the ears, but seems like a really nice guy. I truly believe that America is not ready for a woman nor a black President. It is not about the party. It is about the person who is running.
My husband voted for Ron Paul.
He has really good moral character.
I am voting for John Edwards because he speaks for those of us who work for low incomes to keep this county alive. Healthcare, factory workers, those of us who work two or more jobs at a time, the sick, poor, disabled, elderly and those who care for them. He speaks for the unaccounted, the unemployed, the bankrupted, those of us who fall under 30,000 a year and our children. He calls for a National healthplan, end of war, fair wages, taxing of obscene profits of Corporations, Educational funding and programs that actually reach the people they were intended for. I am voting for John Edwards.
I am supporting Ron Paul because of his stand on the issues, and his strong support of our constitution. I am most impressed with his proposals to limit immigration, and to immediately withdraw US troops from Iraq.
I find it interesting to realize what the President can and can not do. For example, in regard to health care and education, the President can do very little because the federal government does not run healthcare and education, with the exception of the service academies, and the VA hospitals, etc. For the most part, healthcare and education are run by private companies. The president can only serve to negotiate with these private institutions.
On the other hand, the president is the commander-in-chief, and can issue an order immediately to move our troops stateside. The president can instruct the Department of State to issue fewer visas; the president can post federal troops on our borders; the president can instruct the justice department to enforce our immigration laws.
As far as the war, and immigration, Ron Paul gets it right.
I am a single issue voter. That single issue is enforcement of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
By that single issue, there's only one person in the race who comes close to being viable.
A lot of people vote for 'experience', but when the experience is gained in violating the Constitution, it's not valid.
Everyone in the campaign has violated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, every single one.
Here's a quick way to judge that, btw: One of the first 10 amendments - the Bill of Rights - makes it clear where the powers of Congress and the President end. I quote:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It means that any power not specifically granted within the Constitution is forbidden to the federal Government.
I don't agree with him entirely, but Ron Paul shows the greatest amount of respect for that rule, and for the Constitution in general, in that he at least shows it some respect.
I am member of the Green Party but have temporarily left to become a member of the GOP. Why? So I can vote for Ron Paul! It is time for the people to take back our rights (and yes, they have been slowly and sneakily been stripped away from us), and the best candidate for that change is Ron Paul.
I am voting for Hillary Clinton. While I am not thrilled with the insults flying back and forth between Obama and Clinton, I do feel that she is the better candidate for the job. She has 35 years experience and though some things didn't work out, she does give it her all. She is smart and although many people are looking for something new I don't think it is a good idea to elect someone for the most important position in the country just for that reason. I do think that it is a bonus to get the former president as first man as he had great relations with other foreign countries. If they could stop insulting eachother, I think it would be great to elect Hillary Clinton as President and Barack Obama as vice President. He would get a lot more experience and could run for president when her term is up. He is young enough to wait that long. I think Obama is a better speaker and he does inspire you as an american but again I feel that the position warrants someone with more experience.
I support Ron Paul!
Because I feel that for decades this country has been in a downward spiral, running up huge debts, spending more time and money policing the world than taking care of our own people. As citizens WE are paying that debt! Our money is being devalued constantly. For the first time in history the US Dollar is worth less than the Canadian Dollar! Everyday we are paying more, working harder and receiving less! We are sacrificing our constitutional rights and freedoms in the name of "Security". People are losing their jobs, their homes and even their quality of life! Is that PROGRESS? Wake Up People! We need to go back to the wisdom of the Constitution that this great country was founded on! We need LESS Government! We Need LESS Taxes! We need to take care of the mess we've made so our children don't have to!
SO many candidates harp on about "Change" What we NEED is THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE! We NEED the man who is not afraid to give it to us! RON PAUL!! He may not tell you what you WANT to hear, but he will tell you the TRUTH! Please do yourself a favor and just visit www.RonPaul2008.com Educate yourself on this fine candidate. Do not let the mainstream media dictate to you who you can and can not vote for! Exercise the freedom guaranteed to you by the very Constitution that Ron Paul is dedicated to defending!
I'm voting for Barack Obama. To achieve universal healthcare, put money into the pockets of working people, and break through the gridlock of Washington, we are going to need someone who can unify our country and lessen the influence of money in politics. He's the only candidate in this race who has actually done something in Washington to take power away from lobbyists. He was a leader in passing the most historic ethics reform since Watergate. He is consistent on his principles--he also passed ethics reform in the Illinois senate.
Barack Obama has more than 20 years of experience fighting for what's right. As a community organizer in neighborhoods devastated by steel plant closings, he registered over 100,000 voters, set up for job training programs, and fought for affordable housing. As a civil rights lawyer, he combatted discrimination. As a state legislator, he expanded healthcare, early childhood education, and put tax cuts in the pockets of working people.
He is the only candidate with vision, skills, and ability to inspire--the only candidate who can lead this country to reach for a new kind of politics that really is for the people.
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