I will admit that I am a bit age discriminatory. I would have strongly considered voting for a dem candidate this election because McCain seems out of touch. I respect McCain for his service, but am not sure that he has all of his faculties. Am I the only person in America who thinks McCain is moving ever-so-swiftly into a state of senility?
Of course, I am handcuffed to McCain because Obama's attack on the self-employed hurts my pocket right out of the gate. My marginal income tax rate will increase minimally by over 7% because I am a self-employed member of what would be termed by most as the socio-economic upper middle class. This 7-10% will not keep my family from eating, but it will take away from our quality of life. And why, so that we can pay for outlandish handout programs to Africa, or to provide some tax breaks for those who are considered the working poor? Its the same as this fawking war. Problem with the war is we can't just step out tomorrow, we need to start the phase out now and get out of there completely in the next couple years imo. If anyone needs to pay for this type of bullsh*t, it should be the actual wealthy. Obama talks about not increasing the tax burden on those earning less than $250K, but that is an outright lie. Self-employed will immediately pay the roughly 15% social security tax for earnings over the current cap of $100K. The new cap will be raised to $250K. Elimination of the capital gains tax and increased tax burden for didivdend recipients also hurt me personally.
That said, my vote means nothing in this election. McCain will carry Louisiana because this is a red state, but also because the black population is far exceeded by whites statewide, despite New Orleans "proper" being 60% black. No way that you could convince Joe the caucasion sugar cane farmer to vote for a black person in any election. The only reason they voted in our current Indian governor, Bobby Jindal, is because they voted in a dumb white woman 4+ years ago who made a mockery of us worldwide in the aftermath of Katrina. Still, Jindal is Indian, while Obama is a n*gger to them, even though he is 50% white.
So now you know why I am now voting McCain/Palin in '08. BTW, my original choice for prez was Ron Paul. Anyone can say Obama = change, but those of us who are level-headed bipartisan types realize that Ron Paul was the true candidate for change. Too bad so many of us are afraid of it.