[KaptKaos]

You guys are wasting your breath.

I have a friend that is a rabid anti-bush guy. Doesn't care what happens as long as a Dem wins. He and his wife have a nice life, make $350k+, nice house, cars, etc... If Obama wins, they are going to be totally fuched, but he doesn't care because he will feel better with a dem in the Whitehouse. That's how deeply his feelings run. When I push him on the issue, he just says that we need change, but doesn't really say what that means.

When you tell people that there has been more spending on social services under Bush than under any other President, they don't care. They perceive that Bush is evil and they just can't get around that feeling. Warrantless wiretaps, blood for oil, Cheney and Haliburton, Bush lied - people died, Gitmo, water boarding, whatever.... All of these things, whether real or just perceived offend them so badly that there is no reasoning.

Obama is a lightweight - to use a phrase from bush v. gore - no gravitas. He's wet behind the ears (and those are some big ears). He has no experience doing anything on an executive level, but he's handsome, a good orator, black, not a republican and most importantly not bush. It doesn't matter that he has no accomplishments, he's different and liberal and that's all that my friend really cares about.