“…for choosing them as THEIR are believers.”
Funny how a “small” thing such as that can turn a person off.
PS: Please tell me why Joe Lieberman turned turncoat. Could it have anything to do with his being orthodox and wanting us to maintain a strong combat ready presence close to the country he loves more than America?

From the beginning Barack Obama was my choice because he was the one who opposed the Iraq war on the basis of its irrationality and illegality. Scripture James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

I voted for Barack Obama because I DO NOT believe in god, and I believe he will put the country back on the road to the SEPARATION of church and state, rather than the theocratic path it’s been on for the last eight years.
You can do what you want and make the choices you want in your own life, but I do not want those choices foisted upon me with no other reasons than “the Bible.” The bible is NOT the only book out there, and if something does not pass the muster of ALL the religous books out there AND that of people who do not believe, it should not be put into legislation.

The only criteria I use in a political party. I believe that without a party’s backing you can get nothing done and they can keep you fom making huge mistakes as well-so I vote the party not the person.
I think I lucked out this time and I was right when I predicted that McCain would have his family and Sarah’s eatting moooseburgers and beer and he would go off to the Congress where he belongs and does so well and she would go back to Alaska.
The speeches by McCain and Obama last night were great and so was the President’s speech this morning in the Rose Garden.
Hugs
Laura

Women’s rights, the supreme court, foreign policy and health care
the war in Iraq, the financial mess. These would be my major reasons
for voting for Barack. Mostly also because he understands in my view
the meaning of Tikkun Olam and has a steady spirit which did not
change throughout the campaign. He has a tough job ahead .

I voted for Obama–in the primary and in the general election.
We have all sinned: we have split into the red and the blue, and hate each other. We have grown fat, complacent, vain, and stupid. We are longer capable of living frugally, no longer able to tighten our belts and perform labor. Our judgment is uninformed and wrong because we accept sound bites as explanations to difficult questions. Our educational system, holding our future, produces the ignorant and uneducated. Our healthcare sysem is a crazy but untouchable puzzle. The world’s ecosystem has become Malthusian, no longer able to sustain the seven billion people on the planet. The global economy is in an historic depression that will change and perhaps even end what we have come to define as capitalism.
So why Obama? I wish I could cite a prophet that described the situation. Obama is not a magician or a messiah who can fix these problems. But at least he recognizes them as existant and real. Under the best-case scenario, perhaps his CALL FOR CHANGE can, in some SMALL measure make a small difference somewhere. John McCain seemed not to recognize what has happened in the world.
Lucy

I voted for Obama because, to quote Einstein: We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Gavriella

I voted for Obama for real change to fix our serious problems that we all face, especially our young and our old. I cried when he was announced the winner. Tears of joy. The people turned out in record numbers. Our state broke 85 % turnout with many more young people and first time voters.
Shalom,
Aviella

Dear William Turner,
Lieberman knows that being Jewish does not require the abdication of his mind. Your suggestion that he is a turn coat indicates that you think he should follow lock step with the Thought Police. Lieberman is an Independent because the Demo Thought Police kicked him out. Thus, he ran for his Senate seat and he won. Exercising one’s brain to have independent thoughts is not being a turn coat.
There is no fact to show that Lieberman would favor Israel over the US. It is the right wing religious zealots and the left wing thought police who place their ideology ahead of the best interests of the United States. Sen. Lieberman has never done that.
Rabbi Brad seems bent on writing for an Interfaith Forum. That is fine. Interfaith is fine. If that is his desire, however, the good rabbi should write for an Interfaith Forum and he should stop subjecting Jews to these anti-Semitic comments.