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Go here to read the article. I already have my answers, but I just wanna know what YOU think. I wanna compare answers. Tell me. And are you voting tomorrow, and who are you voting for?

Well along with the writer of this article, I too am a supporter of Barack Obama, so obviously I am extremely excited at this point! I honestly believe what the writer was trying to express is the fact that people are trying to expose character flaws, or differences in belief rather than address the issues at hand. Now obviously most of this is moot at this point, however, saying that anyone is "un-American" is almost un-American in itself. I feel that a lot of these negative views are mired mainly in ignorance. If you look at the facts you can't help but realize the holes in these theories. Barack Obama is half white, which many people fail to mention, and had little to no contact with the African side of his family until quite later on in life. I believe he met his father three times. He did begin to have relationships with those relatives on his father's side after his father's death and when he was already an adult. Barack was raised by his grandparents and his mother, who were white and Christian in Hawaii. So Muslim? no. un-American? It almost seems that that phrase would simply be a matter of opinion because is their a rubric or a set of qualifications to judge the American-ness of a person? It just simply is something that is ridiculous to say. 

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After 8 years of an increasingly worsening situation, most people are just ready for something different and I believe that's what caused Barack Obama to win. If Bush had done a fairly decent job I think this election would have been a lot closer. Though McCain seems competent, who would want to take the chance of having another four years like the ones we just had? Not to mention the fact that he did show good judgement with his appointment of Sarah Palin as his running mate. However, had McCain won I would have stood firmly behind him because a country divided, as it clearly is now can never stand strong. I have gotten off the point (as I tend to do when talking about politics) but I personally believe that anyone would go through what either of those two men did could not possibly be deemed as un-American. I feel they both want the best for this country, thought the pathways they would have taken may differ.