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abc123
09-13-2008, 02:13 PM
Assuming it's one of the two that wins, which one would do less harm?

Aldanga
09-13-2008, 02:16 PM
Stupid poll. There isn't an good answer.

Kilrain
09-13-2008, 02:18 PM
Average Joe 1: "Waiter! My turd is completely rare!"
Average Joe 2: "Waiter! My turd is burned to a crisp!"
Waiter: "Why do you care? It's shit! Were you really planning on eating that?"

For the trillionth time: It doesn't matter!

lasenorita
09-13-2008, 02:21 PM
If you're going to vote for the lesser of two evils ...then the question is which is more important to you? The economy or foreign policy? Both would do less harm when compared to the other depending on the particular area -- or, rather, I should say both would do more harm when compared to the other depending on the particular area. We're all worse off in the long run so it doesn't matter who would do less or more harm as President. :rolleyes:

mmink15
09-13-2008, 02:25 PM
I refuse to vote in this poll until the option "This is a stupid question and I will be pushing 3rd party efforts with every ounce of energy I have until Nov 5" is available. Then I'll choose that one.

freelance
09-13-2008, 02:27 PM
They're both KRIL! It doesn't matter. It's OVER!

anaconda
09-13-2008, 02:39 PM
Which candidate will take us to ruin more slowly?

Kludge
09-13-2008, 02:52 PM
*Drafted to defend Isreal, Georgia & to create "peace" in Darfur

vs.

Drafted to defend Israel, Georgia & to create "peace" in Iraq



*Mandated to participate in National Service programs

vs.

Mandated to participate in National Service programs



*Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy

vs.

Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy



*Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy

vs.

Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy



*Corporatism

vs.

Corporatism



Good thing they differ on that Darfur vs. Iraq thing!

voytechs
09-13-2008, 03:10 PM
Add a 3rd choice "equal". Otherwise I'm not voting.

tonesforjonesbones
09-13-2008, 04:54 PM
WEll..the republicans will drill in anwr and the gulf, the dems probably won't.
Republicans will cut taxes, dems will raise taxes for more social programs.

Tones

MRoCkEd
09-13-2008, 05:03 PM
WEll..the republicans will drill in anwr and the gulf, the dems probably won't.
Republicans will cut taxes, dems will raise taxes for more social programs.

Tones
Cutting taxes is almost irrelevant when you don't cut spending.
And I'm not just talking about a few porkbarrel projects, mccain.

DAFTEK
09-13-2008, 05:04 PM
^ Yeah, but those raised taxes are for the upper class, i would make more money under Obama then McCain,

I wont vote this poll, i swore to do as RP has asked of me! Vote 3rd party.... I don't care who wins anymore as we loose anyway but win our dignity that we wore not part of this evil system of voting for the lesser evill..... :mad:

CasualApathy
09-13-2008, 05:07 PM
*Drafted to defend Isreal, Georgia & to create "peace" in Darfur

vs.

Drafted to defend Israel, Georgia & to create "peace" in Iraq



*Mandated to participate in National Service programs

vs.

Mandated to participate in National Service programs



*Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy

vs.

Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy



*Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy

vs.

Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy



*Corporatism

vs.

Corporatism



Good thing they differ on that Darfur vs. Iraq thing!

Epic post. :cool:

That should be made into a poster or a newspaper-ad.

cska80
09-13-2008, 05:57 PM
I'd rather be at war than witness a Marxist revolution in my lifetime.

abc123
09-13-2008, 06:10 PM
I don't care if you refuse to vote or not.

Right now we're TIED at 50% to 50%.

Seems the people of this board are evenly split about who's worse!!!

What a diverse group of people we have here.

vodalian
09-13-2008, 06:33 PM
Does it really matter who's worse? They are both scumbags who don't deserve to be president.

LibertiORDeth
09-13-2008, 06:39 PM
*Drafted to defend Isreal, Georgia & to create "peace" in Darfur

vs.

Drafted to defend Israel, Georgia & to create "peace" in Iraq



*Mandated to participate in National Service programs

vs.

Mandated to participate in National Service programs



*Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy

vs.

Continuation of an inflationary monetary policy



*Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy

vs.

Continuation of the Welfare State and a wasteful immigration policy



*Corporatism

vs.

Corporatism



Good thing they differ on that Darfur vs. Iraq thing!

It's the little things in life that count :rolleyes:

free.alive
09-13-2008, 07:13 PM
I voted for Obama because:

He's less experienced and probably weaker.

Republicans will probably take the Congress so there will be gridlock.

McCain losing means that everything which Obama does (which will be the same things Bush has done) will likely be generally opposed by Republicans thus allowing our views to grow withing the party.

Obama is, I think, instinctively less hawkish.

The disasters which do result from his liberal idiocy will likely make conservative and libertarian ideas more desirable among the public.

I could probably come up with other reasons...


Caveats:

The great unknown which is Barack Obama.

Democrats could increase their power in Congress.

If we were strong enough of a force in the Party, we could possibly force the Republicans in Congress and maybe even a McCain administration rightward.

Obama tax/spend/borrow/bail-out policies could actually put us in a depression.

In actual policy, though, McCain will be better because Obama will be McCain's equal as an environmentalist, warmonger, police-statist but will tax and spend more making us worse off in the short-run.

So in summary, McCain is worse in the long run, Obama in the short.

Whew!

Bman
09-13-2008, 07:35 PM
In actual policy, though, McCain will be better because Obama will be McCain's equal as an environmentalist, warmonger, police-statist but will tax and spend more making us worse off in the short-run.
!

I don't agree. They are still equally bad in this aspect. McCain will kill us with inflation. Obama will kill us with unemployement. However, looking at the scope of the problem I'd see Obama as the lesser. The reason is that he is actually fairly intelligent. He's even admitted that his tax plans would have to wait until the economy recovers.

Look they both suck and if you vote for either of these two I hope you get what you deserve, but on a rational level I have to believe Obama would be better for two reasons primarily.

A.) he's just flat out smarter than McLame.

B.)It's our best option to have a proper candidate run for office in 2012.

ArrestPoliticians
09-13-2008, 07:37 PM
McCain will give us more debt, while Obama will put in place more permanent socialist institutions. While McCain has the greater possibility of ending this nation as we know it in the next 4 years, Obama has the potential to create so many government interventions that the concept of "limited government" seems laughable.

FindLiberty
09-13-2008, 07:41 PM
Can't vote here - don't see a "it does not matter at all" choice between those two.

Anyhow, Obama wins in '08 and rides us right into the eye of the storm.

Correct answer: Ron Paul would do the least amount of harm.

JosephTheLibertarian
09-13-2008, 07:45 PM
Barack Obama

However, both are evil. I just happen to know that I'll get more out of an Obama presidency :)

Mattsa
09-13-2008, 08:04 PM
Assuming it's one of the two that wins, which one would do less harm?

You have 2 choices

S*it sandwich with ketchup

S*it sandwich with mayonaisse

They both taste like s*hit

Does that answer your question?

Scotso
09-14-2008, 03:45 AM
We're pretty much fucked either way.

libertarian4321
09-14-2008, 03:56 AM
Both will do a bad job, but McCain and Palin both seem to be big fans of the Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War (even if Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is)- and pointless wars are about the most dangerous thing we can do.

JohnnyWrath
09-14-2008, 04:40 AM
Obama would do more damage promoting hyper-liberal garbage at home....it would also give dems a president and congress to promote bigger government and liberal policies....

Much better that McCain is a lame duck with a dem congress.

Obama would do far far more damage in my eyes.

Roxi
09-14-2008, 05:06 AM
Stupid poll. There isn't an good answer.

nope, no good answer



Average Joe 1: "Waiter! My turd is completely rare!"
Average Joe 2: "Waiter! My turd is burned to a crisp!"
Waiter: "Why do you care? It's shit! Were you really planning on eating that?"

For the trillionth time: It doesn't matter!


nice... just nice


I refuse to vote in this poll until the option "This is a stupid question and I will be pushing 3rd party efforts with every ounce of energy I have until Nov 5" is available. Then I'll choose that one.


YES YES OLFD'ers get it! this is a REVOLUTION bitches!!




everyone else + 1776

and kludge, i knew you'd have yet another epic response in this thread..... sooooo becoming a famous email forward :D

123tim
09-14-2008, 06:16 AM
I don't care if you refuse to vote or not.

Right now we're TIED at 50% to 50%.

Seems the people of this board are evenly split about who's worse!!!

What a diverse group of people we have here.

?

I don't think we're tied at 50/50 on this forum. I think (my opinion) that most of us believe that the Republicans and Democrats are both working together to bring us down. "Two sides of the same coin" as it's been said many times before.

I can say this with authority because of the many post above me which back this up.

"Watch what those Republicrats do over there while we tear down your country over here."

We're extremely diverse in almost every area, but we also have common binding points that unite us. I think that this is one of them.

Conza88
09-14-2008, 06:28 AM
I am so fucken sick of the dickheads who continue the lesser of two evils / whose least evil BULLLLLLLSHIT.

Bugger off the lot of you.

Edit: I voted McCain in an effort to prove a point / level the vote.

There is no difference.

JosephTheLibertarian
09-14-2008, 06:31 AM
I am so fucken sick of the dickheads who continue the lesser of two evils / whose least evil BULLLLLLLSHIT.

Bugger off the lot of you.

Edit: I voted McCain in an effort to prove a point / level the vote.

There is no difference.

I'm not voting for the lesser of 2 evils ;)

Roxi
09-14-2008, 11:23 AM
I'm not voting for the lesser of 2 evils ;)


yeah, just the lesser of 3 evils....

guess what.... STILL EVIL

PlzPeopleWakeUp
09-14-2008, 11:27 AM
nt

JosephTheLibertarian
09-14-2008, 12:06 PM
yeah, just the lesser of 3 evils....

guess what.... STILL EVIL

Who said I was voting for anyone? You're voting for the lesser of evils ;)