Comments on: Mutual respect for other’s opinions

By: Ibod Catooga

Ibod Catooga — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:58:13 +0000

I voted for McCain because I want to smell Sarah Palin’s snatch!

By: Flimm

Flimm — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:13:34 +0000

But some greys are darker or lighter than others.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:41:47 +0000

For more info re “black and white thinking”, please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

Jaime

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:19:34 +0000

Just a typo in your post, America is a whole continent not a Country, I’m American too and i don’t live in the US, http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/inf/american.html. Thanks.

By: Edmond

Edmond — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:53:00 +0000

Your first name is Philip, right? Or am I merely correct? :-) BTW, next you’ll tell us that machine language doesn’t exist and that everything is a .5. :-D

By: Frik du Toit

Frik du Toit — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:17:45 +0000

Why the question at the end – you already nullified the concept of ‘right’ a few paragraphs earlier:

“Today, I’m happy that I visited the Boston Summit this year. I was in America when there was hope, now I can visit it again when there will be change.

Right?”
–
“Wrong & right, evil & good, right or wrong: none of these concepts really exist.”

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:04:20 +0000

McCain has always been that man. While some on the right, (and even a troofer from the left) may have done some stupid stuff, he has always run a campaign to be respected.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:52:31 +0000

I don’t particularly agree about Ron Paul. While it’s really great to have a candidate who wants to make monetary policy an issue… I don’t like his monetary policy. You can rail against the Greenspan Fed all day in my book, but my train stops at the gold standard. Other than that I don’t mind him much at all. He reminds me of the better side of the republican party.

By: Ani

Ani — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:32:44 +0000

There is right and there is wrong. There is white and there is black. Now you are blind but one day you might see.

By: Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:22:10 +0000

Ron Paul would have been the best president in ‘forever’ for America.. I was thinking hard about writing him in when I looked at the Write-in section of the ballot.

In the end I decided to vote Chuck Baldwin, who was endorsed by Ron Paul. Personally I don’t like a couple of Baldwins views, but the rest I agree with fully. Ralph Nader was also on my list of people I should consider.

Today I feel satisfied that I did well with my choice, but have a small feeling that I should have went full out with what I believe and voted for Ron Paul, write-in or not, counted vote or not.

By: pvanhoof

pvanhoof — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:34:55 +0000

@Christian: I’m going to let the grammar error be, so that your comment keeps making sense. But thanks a lot for pointing me to it.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:53:22 +0000

Best of the posts syndicated on Planet Gnome so far, IMO.

People tend to get a little crazy in the run up to an election, and in the midst of all the anger and fear and pent up rage, a lot have lost sight of the fact that both candidates were remarkably decent. It’s been at least 16 years since both candidates tried to reach the other side, to argue the merits of eachother’s positions, to shush their own loonies, to keep things as respectful as they can. And it’s been just as long since we’ve had a choice between so many genuine centrists.

I was a Clinton supporter from the beginning but was *elated* that the alternatives were Obama and McCain. To have such an array of decent choices is an amazing privilege, and I’ll always be grateful for it. In the end I voted Obama, but I wasn’t going to complain too loudly had the election gone the other way (Palin really can die, though).

By: Christian Kellner

Christian Kellner — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:46:59 +0000

“If I would have been a U.S. citizen,…”

Remember when I told you on #g-h that you must not have a “would” or “will” in the if clause and you asked where you did that? Well here ;-)