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Listed below are comments made by life-of-brian between Monday, 3rd November 2008 and Tuesday, 4th November 2008.

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What victory would mean 4:18pm on 04 Nov 2008 #20. Temascos, I've actually taken advantage of early voting here in Illinois, so I've already voted for him. The reason is not because he's black. I'm white. The reasons to vote for Obama are more substantial. I like his foreign policy as well. I don't believe in "American Exceptionalism", it's a self-centered, arrogant philosophy based the absurd idea that "if America does it, it's ok, because it's America doing it".

We need a foreign policy that treats other nations with respect.

I feel confident in Obama's ability to handle the current financial crisis. He sees that the US economy and the world's economy are interconnected.

I don't expect miracles from him, but I believe that he will make every effort to pull our country out of the abyss that his predecessor put us in.
The Cleansing 3:02pm on 03 Nov 2008 I've already taken advantage of early voting and cast my ballot for Barack Obama. I voted for the candidate who will be best able to turn this country around. I voted for the candidate whose "special interests" are the millions of citizens who have donated to and volunteered for his campaign and voters like myself, rather than the shadowy interests who donate to campaigns and expect a return on their investment.

That being said, I have a few questions for Peter Sym,comment # 12:

1. What version history are you reading? Clinton only appointed 2 of the 9 justices that sat on the Supreme Court in 2000. The rest were appointed by Nixon, Reagan, and the first President Bush.

2. While turnout in the 2004 election was a record, the fact is that Bush only got 51% of it.

3. Kerry vote for funding to rebuild Iraq, then spoke out against it when he discovered, as the rest of us have, that most of the money was going to Haliburton and other White House connected private firms, instead of rebuilding the infrastructure we destroyed during the invasion. This DOES NOT constituted a "shocking history of flip-flopping".

4. The Democrats didn't "find" Barack Obama, he's had to campaign as hard against the Clinton influenced Democratis Leadership Council a he as against John McCain. Obama is his own man, he is the only candidate in this election who is a leader.

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