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History test

Oct 08

8:06 AM

All you letter writers who are now praising John McCain and trashing Barack Obama, please tell us whether you voted for McCain or George Bush in 2000, when you had the choice, so we can assess your judgment also.

Randy Cartwright

Nags Head

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It seems the producers of

Submitted by Ira Tateu on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 5:12 pm.

It seems the producers of this site are making one of their common mistkaes by duplicating the threads.

I voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004. I would have considered McCain in 2000 but it wasn't an option. I did not vote in the primaries either year. Now it's McCain in 2008. Never voted for any of the Bush's.

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I admit that I voted for Bush

Submitted by vbmom on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 1:41 pm.

McCain had dropped out by the time the primaries came to the state I was in.

I wholeheartedly believe that if McCain had won in 2000, he would have handled the 9/11 attack better as well as Iraq's non-compliance to the weapons inspectors a few years later.

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Write-In

Submitted by EternalSunshine on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 1:21 pm.

I voted for John McCain in 2000. Unfortunately, since George W. Bush (and Karl Rove) sabotaged him in South Carolina and went on to win the Republican nomination, my vote was a write-in.

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My, my...

Submitted by MilitaryFamily on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 10:28 am.

I voted for the person who won the popular vote and surely would not have us in the mess that is our country now. Call me liberal if you want, but as I have said specifically to you before, I have quite proudly supported many, many Republicans in the past, and there are many Republicans that I will continue to vote for in the future should they be on the ballot. I do not call myself Republican or Democrat. I vote for what I believe is the best candidate based on what I think the country needs. Unfortunately for you, it is people like me who decide elections because we are in the middle and swing towards the party we feel has timely and appropriate solutions. It is evident you are nothing more than a far, right-wing conservative who buys into the desperate attempts of the Republican party this year to say no one should be looking at recent history but instead only looking forward. Give us all a break, will ya? Those who do not learn from their mistakes are condemned to repeat them.

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keep looking back

Submitted by justanotheruser on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 9:58 am.

Yep, it's so. Tell me what difference it makes who I or anyone voted for in the 2000 republican primary. Seriously. Who did you vote for, and why does it matter? Plenty of current problems to fix, why do people like the letter writer and apparently liberal military family members wish to blame voters who didn't vote for McCain eight years ago? It makes absolutely no sense.

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Looking Forward?

Submitted by MilitaryFamily on Wed, 10/15/2008 at 9:27 am.

Say it ain't so, Joe... are you seriously pulling straight from Sarah Palin with "let's look forward", justanotheruser? That's the funny thing, when it's politically convenient, we're told we aren't supposed to look at history. What difference it makes, is that so many people pushing for McCain act like he's the best thing that's ever happened to the Republican party, yet many, many of them didn't even vote for him in 2000... and instead voted for arguably the worst president in American history. Judgment, my friend, it's very important. Why should anyone trust the opinion of someone who voted for George Bush? The author of this letter makes a very good point.

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