Eric P Metze's List: Barack the Vote

• "We're here to show our support for John McCain and Sarah Palin," Easterling tells me. "We like their strategy on the economy and everything they say. He's an honest man, he doesn't lie and she's the same."

  Most of all though, Easterling doesn't like Barack Obama. "I'm scared to death of him," she admits. "I'm scared of what he stands for, the whole nine yards. He hangs with the terrorists and he lies. He never tells the truth and he's a flip-flopper. He's not to be trusted."

  • This quote highlights just how corrupt and misguided the McCain/Palin campaign has become. This person quoted is simply brainwashed and is going to cast an ignorant vote. It isn't about opinions or differences in policy, it's about a campaign that has lied to people and fooled them into FEARING the other candidate. After eight years of the worst president in American history, what is so frightening about optimism, progression, and hope?
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• • I understand that right-wingers fear big government. So do I. That's one of the many reasons I voted against Bush in 2004. So why don't they see just how big the government has gotten under the neo-con regime? The government has more control over your life now than it has since the time when kings ruled this land. And yet, "real" America doesn't see that. All they see is a black Muslim terrorist...
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• an almost pathological suspicion of "big government"

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• This quote highlights just how corrupt and misguided the McCain/Palin campaign has become. This person quoted is simply brainwashed and is going to cast an ignorant vote. It isn't about opinions or differences in policy, it's about a campaign that has lied to people and fooled them into FEARING the other candidate. After eight years of the worst president in American history, what is so frightening about optimism, progression, and hope? - Eric P Metze on 2008-10-28

• "A place that I've come to love, which I did not expect until this campaign, is Texas," he said in an interview the other day aboard his campaign plane, a patchwork of the countryside passing below him. "I ended up loving Texas! I've been struck by how many beautiful places there are in the country that you don't necessarily think of as beautiful.