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   pschearer said, about 1 year ago

   Yes, I DO want someone more like me, namely someone who understands that America is about freedom and “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. America is NOT about service and sacrifice or “finding a goal higher than yourself”, all of which both candidates agree on along with every kind of statist throughout history. Neither one is worthy of America because each either rejects or has never understood American ideals. Whoever wins, America is screwed.

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   Doctor Toon said, about 1 year ago

   pschearer: so this election is pretty much like every other one?

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   Casteel said, about 1 year ago

   pychearer: Is the clear winner of the 2008 True Believer Award. God bless America!

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   dtriedel said, about 1 year ago

   So America is about self-fulfillment, even at the expense of others? Glad to hear it.

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   DigitalFrog said, about 1 year ago

   Is it a choice between the lesser of two evils, or the evil of two lessers?….

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   ralphman said, about 1 year ago

   Third panel says it all.

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   IrishEddieOHara said, about 1 year ago

   Great election choices.

   Immoral baby murdering sodomite lover vs warmongering maniac thief supporting his rich buddies.

   Anyone got a barf bag?

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   pschearer said, 11 months ago

   dtriedel’s comment–about self-fulfillment at the expense of others–is the most philosophically insightful here though it is wrong. Insightful because s/he sees that morality is more fundamental than politics; wrong because the comment buys into the philosophic lie that dominates history: that your moral choices are either sacrifice your interests to others or sacrifice others’ interests to yourself.

   This moral con-game was finally exposed over 50 years ago by the writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, first in her novel “Atlas Shrugged” and later in the essay collection “The Virtue of Selfishness”. For an understanding of what a non-sacrificial morality of virtuous, rational selfishness can be, read those books. If you are not up to a 1000-page novel, at least look at the websites of the Ayn Rand Institute www.aynrand.org and the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights www.aynrandcenter.org.

   As for Casteel’s comment, I take it to imply that my principles are religious-based. That is another of Ayn Rand’s accomplishments, taking morality out of the hands of next-worldly religion and rooting it firmly in the facts of reality and the nature of successful human life in this world. Ayn Rand supplies the moral foundation the Founding Fathers needed and didn’t have, a morality of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.