Would you be happy with Obama or McCain winning?

[Beet]

No. McCain is basically a conservative, although he has some moderate traits, his victory would basically be a continuation of the direction we have been going in the past 8 years, and really the past quarter-century or more, which from a centrist point of view, not even from a liberal point of view, would be unfortunate. For example just to take a look at the news today, you have McCain proposing a gas tax holiday which, while it would certainly be popular, represents another short-term solution to a long-term problem at a time when people are finally starting to cut back on their consumption. So with McCain as the Republican nominee, the 2008 election is going to be a referendum on the conservative, corporate, myiopic and militaristic direction of the recent past, just as 1988 was in a sense a referendum on the Reagan years and 1968 was a referendum on the sixties and 1948 was a referendum on the Roosevelt years. I for one desperately want change.