Do you regret your '08 vote?

I wasn’t old enough to vote then…but if I was old enough I would vote M’Cain

it was the first election i voted in and unfortunately my chosen candidate lost 🙁

I voted for McCain just like most of you, but I think we all were well aware that he stood little chance against Obama. What was interesting to note was how quickly the national debt rose, subsequent to Obama’s appearence in the oval office.

A23- you’re fooling yourself if you think that the country is well off now under Obama just because the stock market rose. In general, the situation our country is in is quite a disaster. 🙁

I voted for McCain and am very sorry he lost. Firstly the mideast issue is a no brainer. The entire mideast is in turmoil and that is because Obama gave the Arabs carte blanche and turned his back on Israel. As far as the presidency and the country is concerned, I voted for McCain because of his experience and did not trust Obama because of his lack of experience which he has proven hand over fist. He would rather go on vacation or play golf as if he is in the White house just to play house than take his responsibilities seriously. The only thing he takes seriously is raising funds for his campaign and he really believes he can charm the pants off of anyone. He really believes he can fool the public twice.

As far as Obama versus Bush is concerned every single thing that Obama denounced Bush for in his campaign and every single thing he promised to change was a lie. Once in office he negated every single thing he said and backed Bush’s decisions up. He lied, lied, lied. So what does that mean? He wound up supporting all of Bush’s policies. He was a fake and a phony from day one and the only reason he won the election was because he read his speeches that others wrote for him with panache and charisma.

I voted for MCcain and i only regret that he did not win. You want to know concrete things that make Obama a disaster, try the national debt, try the stimulus, try unemployment. there was a recent study that showed that every job created by stimulus money cost about $300,000. He could have given each of those people $100,000 maybe they would have started businesses and hired other people creating new jobs and in the process saved us tax payers 2/3 of the money. Now Obama has noticed that the country is deep in the hole and wants us tax payers to pay more taxes to replace what he threw away. 47% of people in the US do not pay taxes! Obama makes it so easy to live off the gov’t and there is absolutely no incentive to go to work. Every way he wants to raise money is on the backs of the 53% of the people who actually pay taxes. The reason many people still like Obama is because he keeps giving them more money. This country came very close to going over the edge and has a long way to go for financial health and with Obama at the helm I’m afraid for the patient.

As far as the Middle East:

First, Obama is absolutely not responsible for what happened in Egypt, it was the people who rose up to get rid of Mubarak. Whether or not his fall will hurt Israel is unknown at this time.

Libya, Bahrain, Syria and all the other countries where the President may have a little more to do with the situation do not affect Eretz Yisrael. In fact, if they’re busy fighting amongst themselves, they won’t be preoccupied with Israel.

Second, it was George W. Bush who promulgated the ‘Road Map’ which used the 1967 borders. Obama has never said or done one thing that weakens Israel more than Bush did. Anyone who thought that Bush was good for Israel must agree that Obama is similarly good. Now, obviously, the question is whether either of them are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for Israel. I don’t know, and I think that it would take a true expert on Middle Eastern history and policy to judge something like that.

As to the economy:

There is no question that we are in dire straits. This all stems from the collapse of Bear Sterns and Lehmann Brothers in 2007. The question is whether McCain would have done something that may have made the situation better than it currently is. Again, I don’t really know the answer to this, and unless we have a navi in the CR, I am certain that nobody else knows the answer.

Maybe we’d be in a full-fledged depression with McCain, maybe the unemployment rate would be 4%… Nobody really knows. But in response to the original post’s question, I have no regrets with my own choice.

deiyezooger, and where exactly did I say he was? Obama was campaigning against Bush’s policies to make himself look good. He was talking about “change”. How he was going to “change” all the mistakes that Bush made. So where are those changes? Do you know? After he was in office he reaffirmed and retracted all those statements that he made.