Since this is a political thread, I'll add my two cents.

First of all, the only reason why Palin is on the ticket is to try to get the women who were disappointed that Hillary didn't get nominated.

Hmm I liked Hillary, and I like Obama much better than what the republicans have to offer.

The republicans had control for the last 8 years, and I think we were better of when Clinton was running the show.

The republicans promise tax cuts while they are fighting an illegal war on credit. And spending zillions of dollars on credit does nothing but diminish the value of the US dollar (remember when the US$ was worth more than the Euro), and that makes everything we purchase that has a bit of foreign anything in it more expensive (including oil). So we are not getting tax cuts, but instead a hidden tax increase.

While thinking about oil. Remember the Reagan (republican) years? We had long lines at the gas pumps and a doubling of the oil prices.

The republicans told us they wanted to reduce the size of the government, so they are contracting out government services to Halliburton, Blackwater, Insurance Companies, Banks, etc., that charge much more than the old government services used to charge. And you know who pays for it.

The republicans severely watered down the US anti-trust laws and allowed huge corporations(like Standard Oil) to merge and become cartels.

Example: BP/Amoco (a merger of British Petroleum, American Oil Company, Gulf and a few others - does British/American mean anything to you?). I knew a woman who worked for BP and her paychecks came from Standard Oil of Ohio. Oh and we have Exxon/Mobil/Esso (Standard Oil). And don't forget supposedly Dutch Shell and Texaco had a thing a few years ago whenre all the Shell Stations became Texaco and all the Texaco Stations became Shell. What's going on there?

And you wonder why we are paying record prices for gas while the oil companies are making record profits after record profits after record profits after record profits - and they blame it on the Arabs. Hmmm. If my local baker has a shortage of flour, he makes less profit.

The republicans are asking us to vote for McCain for a change. What change? McCain said we should stay in Iraq for 100 years. Doesn't sound like a change to me.

And Palin is no better. She was quoted in last Sunday's paper saying we should go to war with Russia. She shoots threatened animals from an airplane, doesn't believe in gloabal warming, and cannot even control her children's sexual behavior. McCain is old, is this the person we want to control the world if McCain dies in office?

I could go on here.