I did some research into this a couple of weeks ago, one of the facts I picked up was that if we got our healthcare system up to the standards of the top countries in the world we would save 100,000 American lives each year. That's 33 times the death toll of 9/11, and that's PER YEAR, so just over 230 times as many people over the remainder of the Bush presidency. I'm pretty sure the Iraq war funding could have been better spent saving American lives by fixing our broken-*** healthcare system instead of using it to kill people, including plenty of innocents. I'm sure there are plenty of other things we could be doing instead, but I like this one for an example.
Also, WRT global warming, I can't see how anyone can look at this:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/tr..._data_mlo.html and not at least wonder what effect that might have on things.
Oh, and Palin installed a sheriff in Wasilla that forced women who had been raped to pay for their own forensic test kits, just in case they hadn't been traumatized enough.
Obama sure as hell isn't as shiny as a lot of his supporters make him out to be, but in this case I must say that "bad" is a whole lot better than "worse." Sure, I'd love to see pretty much the whole US political system razed to the ground and rebuilt, but unless that's gonna happen in the next month and a half I'll stick with voting for the best choice I can for now.