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<body class='hmmessage'><div style="text-align: left;">Very valid point. This is my concern as well - on top of many other concerns I have with Obama/Biden. I am one of those very rare conservative-republican thespians. <br><br>Briefly - very briefly:<br>1) I do not apologize for my passion for the unborn. This will always keep me from becoming a Democrat, unless the party changes its position on abortion. And it'll never happen!<br>2) We are voting for the person who will assume position of commander-in-chief. Like it or not, we are at war. I prefer to have a person at the helm who has seen war first-hand and understands exactly what is at stake. <br>3) Also, I have serious issues with national healthcare. Our family has had personal experience with GB's national healthcare system and I lost my mother-in-law because of it. To be fair, <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2007/06/universal_healt.html">here</a> are some of the pros & cons, in a nutshell. <br>4) As a homeschooling family, I like to keep government regulations regarding the education of my children OUT of our home. No one on the federal, state, or local level knows my autistic child better than I do. I pay taxes which allow other families to take advantage of the public school system, even though I get no benefit at all. Fine. Every child deserves a good education any way they can get it. We choose to educate from our home environment. We do not need <span style="font-style: italic;">more </span>regulations from the state of Ohio than we already have, thank you. And I'm not thrilled with either candidate on that issue.<br><br>Hey, I'm not saying that McCain or Palin are flawless - I don't agree with everything <span style="font-style: italic;">any </span>candidate has to say. However, I - like everyone else - have to vote my conscious. When all is weighed in the balance, this little thespian chickadee is voting McCain/Palin in November.<br><br>And I love all my democrat friends very much, in spite of what you think of my views and how you spit on my elephant! ;-)<br></div><br><div><font face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive"><em>Maria Thomas Lister </em></font><br><br><font color="#ff3333" face="Lucida Handwriting, Cursive"><em>"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint." -Isaiah 40:31</em></font></div><br><br><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:31:14 -0700<br>From: icatfishman@yahoo.com<br>To: neohiopal@listserve.com<br>Subject: [NEohioPAL] Politics<br><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">I am scared as well but for very different reasons. Notice the tap dancing around the use of the phrase " redistribution of wealth" by the <span>Obama</span> campaign? Know why? <br><br>This is the first frontal assault by socialists raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's against the core of what makes America what it is, a place where you can succeed or fail based upon your individual efforts and you can fall off of the horse and have the opportunity to climb back on. <br><br>This frightens me more than a vice presidential candidate. To believe for one moment that a vice president assuming the presidency happens in a vacuum or that the legislative or judiciary will relinquish their roles to some kind of dictatorship headed by a successor is total nonsense.<br><br>If there is a struggle, it will be whether the red <span>flag</span> flies over
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