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This may sound as a cop out, but in good conscience, I can't vote for either one of those worthless retard candidates. I vote when it matters. For instance, if me and two buddies are deciding what crag to go to, I cast my vote. Or what toppings on my pizza, I vote then....and always go with roast pork. But for these nimrods trying to ru(i)n our country, why bother. Neither is worth my time on election day.

"Since mankind's dawn a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives, responsibility that we should have accepted ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away."

-movie quote

vertical1 wrote:This may sound as a cop out, but in good conscience, I can't vote for either one of those worthless retard candidates. I vote when it matters. For instance, if me and two buddies are deciding what crag to go to, I cast my vote. Or what toppings on my pizza, I vote then....and always go with roast pork. But for these nimrods trying to ru(i)n our country, why bother. Neither is worth my time on election day.

Apathy is what got us into this mess. Enjoy your pizza.

@toad857.....Well since you put it that way, Romney is the only one of the two not responsible for any civilians or military killed, so I guess I should vote for him.

Actually, you don't really vote to elect individuals in this country, you vote to elect components of political machines. The blood of our last two wars is unequivocably on the Republicans' hands, specifically W, Condi, Rumsfeld, and Cheney in their aggressive and deceitful crusade to invade Iraq. This is one of the main reasons we saw almost zero representation from the previous Bush administration at the RNC this year (aside from the fact they drove our country into a ditch economically as well).

v1, there are other candidates; but i also enjoy roasted pork on my pizza

dustonian wrote:This is one of the main reasons we saw almost zero representation from the previous Bush administration at the RNC this year (aside from the fact they drove our country into a ditch economically as well).

Out of sight, out of mind... I guess.

"Out of Romney's 24 special advisors on foreign policy, 17 served in the Bush-Cheney administration. If Romney were to win, it's likely that many of these people would serve in his administration in some capacity -- a frightening prospect given the legacy of this particular group. The last time they were in government, it was disastrous. " http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... ?page=full

And our current administration has been a disaster, so back to my previous point. I vote roast pork and sweet potato on the pizza, and maybe Funk Rock for a crag to climb at.

I am not saying Bush didn't drive us into a ditch, but Obama is just spinning the wheels and making it harder and harder to get out.

I disagree. We are emerging from the ditch, but yes it is happening slowly if measured by unemployment rate (the most pessimistic of the many metrics available to measure economic health). Blockage of the American Jobs Act as well as other reforms because of partisan (ie. teabagger) politics in the House is the primary reason for this. The United States would have wallowed in the Great Depression for at least as long back in 1933 if Congress had pulled the same dumbass manuevers on FDR with the New Deal. But that was back when the well-being of the nation mattered more than partisan bickering and pleasuring your ultra-wealthy and corporate super-PAC donors. Mitch McConnell and other congressional "leaders" have even admitted that their primary agenda for the last 2 years has been ensuring Obama's policies did not succeed in order to discourage his re-election. In other words, self-described obstructionism has been their primary objective since 2010, not improving the economy, not helping Americans get back to work, not reforming the corrupt banking system, not doing much of anything in fact except blocking our emergence from the ditch W and his buddies dug. If anything it is impressive how much Obama has achieved in light of this cynical and self-destructive strategy.