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C'mon man, no SATAN?
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Just to mention, Obama isn't the "messiah". He may just look that way by comparison to where we've set our standards. We apparently want a President who you want to get drunk with and a VP who you can identify with at a church supper or a shooting range. I can only imagine what today's right wing would call a Thomas Jefferson. "He's too smart, he's elitist, he's too popular, he's arrogant, him and his two dollar words he probably thinks we're low life scum". Ok, that last one, he might. When will we expect more, and demand more from our leaders?
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So you disapprove of the Annenbergs and the governor of South Carolina. (FYI, that search took me about 8 seconds).
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I thought that was interesting. I thought that actual debate was against the rules, that they weren't supposed to talk to each other. Kudos to Jim, bummer it didn't work out. The Commission on Presidential Debates is crap IMO. That said, in 30 seconds I'm tuning it in.
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Everyone has an opinion. I have one, and it's not based on someone else's. I will admit however, that it's interesting to hear all of the excuses for failure recently. Unchecked free market capitalism failed, trickle down failed, now negative advertising has failed. The explanations why fall somewhere between humorous and sad. That's my opinion.
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Wow! This is probably the most comprehensive collection of unsubstantiated, dishonest, blindly biased talking point regurgitation that I've seen in quite some time. And I was just listening to Limbaugh!
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Give this a read and you might change your mind.
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That's the theory. And it's not necessarily a bad one, IF we collect. If we had a better record of collecting on oil leases or if the IRS collected from the largest tax evaders or if our defense budget's records were detailed enough to allow for an audit, then I might have more confidence that we might get our money back. But where the welfare really lies in this fiasco is through the lack of accountability in this bail out. The people who helped cause and profited by this melt down are earning interest on their winnings, and probably bought back in to the market on Monday. And the fact that some are now unemployed is no consolation. Give me $40 million and I'll quit my job and promise to never work for anyone ever again.
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Hey, we're trying to cut McCain some slack here but if you want to bring up his class ranking, his temper, and his boast of collecting "an impressive array of demerits", that's fine. But don't expect all of us to play along
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Huh? Precisely, and they like it that way.
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IMO, the recent credit crisis isn't the beginning. I think the end started when we began selling our country to foreign interests through our labor and trade practices. China's got us by the short and curlies. In a few years they'll be able to ask for Taiwan and we'll have to say "okidoke", "yes sir", "thank you sir". Secondly, we handicapped ourselves through our inability to adequately educate our population. Seems that it's easier/more profitable to farm out the work to the cheaply paid smarties overseas than it is to invest in our own people and infrastructure. We've even got Israel writing the software for our NSA's encryption and surveillance. How's that for leaving your zipper down? But with regard to the banking problem, it is indeed interesting to see how the greed driven financial engines that were created, then failed, have spread like a virus through the global economy. We really are already a global community. People just don't want to admit it yet.
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Maybe you could send this to the McCain/Palin campaign. They don't seem to want to talk about these issues. They'd rather tell ghost stories to their mob. Unfortunately, it works.
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Good for you. Vote the way you think you should vote. Just vote. My parents were unhappy with all of the Nader voters who helped put Bush in the WH. I told them I had no problem with Nader voters. I had a problem with the 1/2 of the country that didn't bother to vote.
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I think I'll dim the lights, make spooky noises and go get some popcorn. Obama's connection with Chicago's 1997 "Citizen of the year" doesn't scare me nearly as much as McCain's lobbyist connections i.e., his staff, or most of all, his foreign policy adviser/lobbyist. But I'll admit that his choice for VP comes in at a close second.
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So, if you're wealthy enough to influence the regulation process in your favor then everything goes?
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How else would you accept their surrender? Great point! Maybe that's what McCain meant when he said he knew how to catch bin Laden. Just ask
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Roll call - leaving the US if Obama is elected
idrankwhat replied to billvon's topic in Speakers Corner
Hell, let's give it a shot. Giving all that money to people who ARE rich doesn't seem to work that well -
I can't think of any one who is.
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It's possible I suppose, that he meant "enemies*" and not "enemies". We have a habit of supporting "democracy*" but not "democracy". In the mean time, I'm going to take his comments at face value. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that a military leader has expressed opinions that differ from the executive branch.
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Well I heard Hannity last Thursday and Friday and both times he was blaming only the Dems for the credit crisis. I didn't hear him mention ACORN specifically. Boehner released a memo a couple of days ago that instructs the R's to push the idea that the Dem's support for Fannie and Freddie are the reason behind the financial crisis. Keep your eyes open for that talking point. But the video shows a bunch of McCain supporters ready to go to a rally who are either actually ignorant or are willing to say ignorant things in support of their candidate. And McCain rallies have become some pretty ugly places that show off the worst of what our country has to offer. Sadly, he waited a bit too long before trying to take control of that crap.
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Yeah, he's talking about the Taliban, I'm talking about Iran... This second quote is the key to how he succeeded in Iraq, those talks were not an attempt at legitimization, but rather finding those that had to be removed from the picture. The Taliban will fold the same way. He was asked about the Taliban and then used Iraq as an example. Sounds like he meant "enemies", not "some enemies". I don't have time today to watch the whole presentation to hear the actual question/answer exchange so I could be wrong. Or maybe not. [url]
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I guess you and the General disagree. "I do think you have to talk to enemies," Petraeus said Wednesday at an appearance at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, when asked about potential dialogue with the Taliban. "You've got to set things up. You've got to know who you're talking to. You've got to have your objectives straight," he said. "But I mean, what we did do in Iraq ultimately was sit down with some of those that were shooting at us. What we tried to do was identify those who might be reconcilable." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95530871
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Completely agree. Completely disagree. This is what you get when your "news" comes from talk radio and FOX. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us
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What's the Christian equivalent? After watching him on TDS I figured his days were numbered
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You might not want to include the menu when you send out the invites for Christmas dinner. Sounds kinda nasty.