<p>othermusicdad-
Yes, CC is a great place for COLLEGE INFORMATION, like you said. You fail to realize that CCers are also some of the most intelligent people in the country and around others (not saying that those who don't go on CC are stupid). But because we are some of the most intellectual people and care the most about college, we also care about issues that will matter when we do enter college (voting and who becomes president). We are already informed about politics because we, unlike much of the population, understand how politics will influence our future. Therefore, it makes complete sense that a site which provides COLLEGE INFORMATION also provides an outlet for those who wish to talk about politics.</p>
<p>oh man. palin will kill biden in a debate. just watch.</p>
<p>mccaaaaaaaaaaaaain 08-09. cheers.</p>
<p>^Welcome to Fantasy Island.</p>
<p>^LOL. Biden will rip Palin APART.</p>
<p>Lmfao...the day McCain passes away...GG.</p>
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I appreciate college confidential for the many insights it has provided in helping my daughter search for a school. It is a great place to come for COLLEGE INFORMATION.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this thread is a political thread and has nothing to do with colleges, college choices, essay writing, specific majors, etc. In short, it does not belong on college confidential.</p>
<p>Your initial reaction may be to tell me to stick it in my ear or to mind my own business, but if cc is to be a strong resource for college applicants and their parents, the threads should stick to college related topics as often as possible.</p>
<p>There are a whole host of political chat rooms and blogs - Democrat, Republican and other. This discussion belongs there not here.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading.
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And that's why those pertinent threads belong in places labeled "College Admissions", "College Life", "College Selections", and so on.</p>
<p>This section clearly is labeled, "High School Life", where politics is totally relevant. This is why this belongs here, not because we're intellectually elite (I LOL'd hard @ Sharkobessed's extremely elitist and unfounded post...it seems like the majority of people on here are very much caught up in their elitism, but meh, since you've said that there are some of the most intelligent people here, I guess you aren't wrong)</p>
<p>I get the feeling that you don't really understand how forums operate yet; any forum with a specific theme (such as gaming, cooking, surfing, sports) will have different forum sections in particular for different topics, because people clearly have more than one interest and more than one thing going on in their lives. Consequently, in a football forum where we talk about the Superbowl, Eli Manning, Tom Brady, and all that, there may be a forum section about Debate which may very well belong.</p>
<p>Personally, I completely support the Palin decision [for me, anyway, because I share many of the same views that she does].</p>
<p>Discussion of relevance aside...
I was pretty disgusted with McCain's choice of Palin myself. Until the decision, I thought Obama and McCain were equally horrible, and that no matter what happened, we'd still have a one-term president. But after watching the sessions on TV w/ both candidates, neither one has truly strayed from their parties' ideologies. And McCain's selection of a woman was clearly a ploy to gain the old Hillary votes.</p>
<p>^ and it'll work</p>
<p>^Not a chance. The women who supported Hillary (who was well qualified to be president) are not going to support Palin (empty suit). They're smart enough to know the difference.</p>
<p>^ Both of you, let the polls among women tell us the answer.</p>
<p>haha, baelor you're right. but, man in my opinon obama was an idiot NOT to pick clinton as v.p. in the primaries, it was clear millions wanted her as the nominee. and, althought obama did clearly win, a significant amount of voters expected is pick to be her. picking biden was a smack in the face to millions.</p>
<p>*the pick to be her</p>
<p>Obama for president!</p>
<p>"I appreciate college confidential for the many insights it has provided in helping my daughter search for a school. It is a great place to come for COLLEGE INFORMATION. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, this thread is a political thread and has nothing to do with colleges, college choices, essay writing, specific majors, etc. In short, it does not belong on college confidential."</p>
<p>While CC is designed to be a site to provide college information, it also contains forums that are designed for members to interact with each other on subjects of their choosing. Such forums are the Cafe, Parents Cafe, and High School Life. All of the other forums stick to issues directly related to college.</p>
<p>Palin was an horrendous choice in my opinion. It was completely a political ploy to get disaffected Hillary supporters, except the policy differences are so extreme I doubt that will happen.
She believes a woman should not have an abortion even in cases of incest or rape
She wants to teach creationism in schools
She doesn't believe that global warming is man made
She flip flopped on the bridge to nowhere at first supporting it and then rejecting it
She favors drilling in ANWAR (mcain doesn't)
She has 0 foreign policy experience and knows nothing about it (no one can argue that Obama does not have great judgment and insight on these matters)
And finally her relative youth, indirectly highlights Mcains age</p>
<p>O last but not least, do we really want a woman that is has served only 2 years as a governor of a state (won election with a total of 120k VOTES, TOTAL---thats like a quarter of some congressional districts), who has no foreign policy experience to be a beat away from the presidency. She is an abysmal choice, which is great for obama. </p>
<p>Mcain had the social conservative vote, because honestly their not voting for Obama and what he really needed to do was appeal to independents. Romney with his economic experience would have been great to offset Mcains lack of experience(he admitted he knows nothing) in an election that the economy is quickly becoming the top issue. Or he could have picked Tim Pawlenty and gotten Minnesota an important swing state. Palin brings nothing, not independents or anything in the way of electoral votes.</p>
<p>For Obama, Biden helps in the middle class areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan as well as offsetting Obama's relative lack of Foregin policy experience and so so much more...If Mcain wins this election, it will be a sad sad day for our country.</p>
<p>On one final note, we all consider(or most) Palin a horrible choice, but if Mcain wins it will go down as one of the boldest and best vp selections ever and if he loses it will go down as one of the reasons.</p>
<p>She wants to teach creationism in schools. Thats all I'm going to say.</p>
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<p>QFT: Articles</a> of Faith Michael Paulson's Articles of Faith Blog</p>
<p>Can you imagine Miss Congeneality going up against Putin, North Koreans, Chinese, Iranians, Chavez, regulating Wall Street, fixing the economy, health care, or education? I had always defended McCain as someone who put country first, but no longer. He is a complete sell-out that will do anything to get a vote. My children are more valuable than that.</p>
<p>To those who say that Palin will successfully bring over women...uhh like some previous posters have stated, you far overestimate the female vote as being just PUMA. She is basically the antithesis of feminism and women's rights on every issue imaginable, and any rational female who is interested in those issues will not vote for her. </p>
<p>I am not convinced that she is "sharp." The few interviews I've seen her give were terrible (ex. reasoning for firing the commissioner on public safety = "I wanted someone with more energy, someone fresher...he wasn't doing his job," not sure what the VP role exactly does on a "day to day basis"). Perhaps she could have clarified her reasoning, because that seems more like an excuse rather than a legitimate reason to remove someone. It wasn't part of some grand campaign on crime that she was leading. Very isolated. Idk, maybe someone can convince me that she really had strong reasons for firing the guy, and not related to the sister/ex husband stuff.</p>
<p>"Can you imagine Miss Congeneality going up against Putin, North Koreans, Chinese, Iranians, Chavez, regulating Wall Street, fixing the economy, health care, or education? I had always defended McCain as someone who put country first, but no longer. He is a complete sell-out that will do anything to get a vote. My children are more valuable than that."</p>
<p>I'm sure the former KGB man Putin is shaking in his boots at prospect of having to face down a former beauty queen, hockey mom, and mayor of a town of 8000 who doesn't believe in evolution or global warming. McCain has got to be senile.</p>