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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 05:52 PM
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What are your concerns - and hopes?
everyone, no matter who the candidate or voter, projects his or her "issues" onto the candidate he or she supports.

So, without regard to WHO the candidate may be (and can this be a flamebait-free thread? -or will it sink b/c it's not?) -

What are your concerns and how do you hope to deal with them?

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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 05:55 PM
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1. Every day I say a silent prayer that the next President will get us on the Metric System
Once and for all.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 05:57 PM
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2. I'm concerned that people drive too much
I've given up on having hope that this concern will ever be dealt with
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:00 PM
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3. I am concerned about healthcare.
I want everyone to have access to quality healthcare EXPEDIENTLY. This involves having universal coverage, having
transferable digital medical records, and having transport/medical centers for rural areas. :)
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WA98296 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:01 PM
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4. I'm concerned about the "health" of our Constitution
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:19 PM
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7. thank you. I thought this thread wasn't gonna have any real replies
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:04 PM
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5. okay, so this is an unintentional snark thread?
Edited on Fri May-09-08 06:05 PM by RainDog
okay, my concern is that I will not get laid this week and my hope is that a twenty-five year old is familar with Ben Franklin's advice to put a bag over an older woman's head and everything is just the same... :rofl: (oh, and for the humor impaired... not serious about that getting laid part - or rather the worried part..or the hope part.)

Ben's wise counsel: (this was linked on another thread here and it's preeety weird if you ask me)

I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

i. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!


:rofl: :rofl:
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:13 PM
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6. Health care and education
We don't have children, so we won't have anyone to help us when we're old. I don't want health care costs to take all the income I have (and it will be a modest retirement at any rate).

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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:19 PM
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8. The economy and peak oil.
NONE of the candidates is talking about these issues in a realistic way. We are facing BIG changes to our way of life and everybody is afraid to mention that very unpopular fact. So in the final analysis, nothing will be done about those two problems and we will look back and wonder why as we hurtle over the cliff and into the abyss.
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:21 PM
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10. we'll have to deal one way or another
with both. I have far more hope for action on this with a democrat - and we really need to work down ticket for a super majority to deal with so many big issues.
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sfam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:20 PM
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9. Concern: That we will be divided and lose...Hope, that we won't...
What is needed? Hillary needs to get out and endorse Barack Obama and then both need to work together to heal the party poste haste..
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:41 PM
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11. My hope is that whoever wins the White House swings to the left on the issues...
my fear is that they will stay the same.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-09-08 06:50 PM
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12. Healthcare and global warming
I was standing next to the the Tasman Glacier about a week ago. The spot where I stood was under more than 1/2 mile of ice 100 years ago. 20 years ago, I would have had to have been 4 miles further down the valley to be on the glacier's edge. That certainly put things into perspective for me.
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