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not2needy1 year, 3 months ago
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 3 months ago
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FSU92grad1 year, 3 months ago
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um...Mitt Romney will be selcted and when he is, you guys are toast....
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In fact, Osama is going to regret ever picking a "has been" like Biden...
I'll give you that Biden is an excellent debator, but Romney would eat his lunch during a VP debate....
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Charlson1 year, 3 months ago
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FSU92grad1 year, 3 months ago
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um....I think you need to look at your own party who are filthy rich and support Osama
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Gore, Kerry, George Soros, Pelosi, Edwards
So, you might want to make sure you know what your're talking about BEFORE you make an a$$ of yourself....
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Charlson1 year, 3 months ago
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A statement was made about a debate between Romney and Biden and not any of the others you mentioned. But even those filthy rich people support Obama's taxes for the rich and tax cuts for the poor and middle class.
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So, you might want to make sure you know what you're talking about BEFORE you make an a$$ of yourself.... mr. graduate. -
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 3 months ago
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You do a pretty good job of making an a$$ of yourself....Romney is good with numbers and debating. BUT don't you think his Mormon religion is going to alienate evangelicals, whom McCain has a patchy relationship with at best?
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Romney is McCain's death sentence.-
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Lurch1 year, 3 months ago
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Romney and McCain had many good arguments against each other in the primaries. I hope that Romney is the choice. It would be hilarious to see McCain squirm at how he used Biden`s primary arguments against Obama but that the Dems using Romney statements against McCain are not fair.
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Besides, Romney sucked in the Republican primary debates. He got his arse reamed. Who says he is good at debates? That has never been his forte. Romney forte is talking to a camera with no one around to challenge his BS. Of course that applies to the entire RW.-
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lbrtyordeath1 year, 3 months ago
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Well, I've only seen McCain and Romney debate once, but the one I saw, McCain used some sort of statistic against Romney, and Romney countered with a seemingly endless barrage of statistics and facts against McCain and concluded with something like, "Facts are tricky things, Mr. McCain" or something to that effect. I was pretty impressed.
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Of course, that's just a one time judgement.
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skunalis1 year, 3 months ago
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i think you need to learn a little bit about the world before posting horse s*it. i don't recall dems making enormous oil deals with the saudis, i don't remember dems trying to sell our ports to dubai, and i sure as hell don't remember dems trying to fund a BS war to create more terrorists by borrowing money from china.
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oh, and you need to grow up, you graduated FSU in '92, YOU'RE EFFING OLD. get used to it. -
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mesodude1 year, 3 months ago
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If you cons had any sense at all, you'd realize that in an election year strongly favoring Democrats, the worse the "Dem Congress" performs, the uglier November is going to turn out for Republicans. Once again, no matter which party is in control of Congress, the approval rating is a reflection of the job performance of the entire Congress. Republicans still poll worse than Democrats (partly because the GOP has spent the last two years record filibustering Democrats and partly because of Bush's disgraceful failure, shocking incompetence and the uncovering of more and more administrations lies and crime by the day). And why do you think you should be gloating over the fact that you're paying your elected officials to do nothing? That's kinda twisted, IMO. ;-(
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Not a christian zionist israel-firster are you? Condi sold out America for her own personal profit long ago.
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Condi Rice and the Neocon Plan for the Palestinians
... Condi Rice is likely the least qualified Secretary of State in recent history, especially considering her field of expertise is the Soviet Union, a political non-entity. However, since Washington is all about who you know--or suck up to--Rice is an appropriate selection for the Bushcons, considering she was a tenured professor of political science at Stanford, stomping grounds for the Hoover Institution, a neocon "public policy research center," on occasion referred to as Bush's "brain trust." Between 1985 and 1986, Condi was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution....
.... It should be remembered that Rice, as a Christian Zionist, disclosed a "deep bond to Israel" back in 2003. "I first visited Israel in 2000," Rice told the Jewish Press on May 13, 2003. "I already then felt that I am returning home despite the fact that this was a place I never visited. I have a deep affinity with Israel. I have always admired the history of the State of Israel and the hardness and determination of the people that founded it," apparently as well admiring the "hardness" of the Israeli settler movement, the crown jewel of all things Likudite. "I think that we, Israel and the U.S., share common values. Israel is the only democracy in the region," a democracy that has locked 2,896,000 Palestinians (as of 1997) into the world's largest open-air prison and has strived unhindered to further turn their shrinking geography into Bantustans....-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Of course, as a neocon acolyte, Condi Rice is not interested in peace in the Middle East, least of all between the Palestinians and Israelis, and even less so then her predecessor, who was often at odds with the Bushcon "crazies," as he so famously called them. Rice's Hoover Institution is closely aligned with other neocon foundations, including the Project for a New American Century and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the latter particularly rabid in its opposition to any meaningful resolution of the conflict--that is to say, Israel's theft and occupation of Palestinian land--and continually cranks out propaganda designed to demonize not only the Palestinians, but Arabs and Muslims in general....
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...As should be obvious to all who pay attention, the Bush administration, in regard to the Middle East, is a mirror reflection of the Likudites in Israel, who are fanatically opposed to the establishment of a Palestinian state and will "adopt immediate stringent measures in the event of such a declaration," as their political platform states. As well, the colonization of the West Bank and Gaza "are the realization of Zionist values" and the theft of Palestinian land "is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel ...
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Dionys1 year, 3 months ago
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Mitt Romney believes that Joseph Smith found some magic golden tablets which he then translated with the help of some Holy translator rocks in a magic hat.
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I'd take Frosty any day over Romney and so would anyone who believes a VP should have a firm grounding in REALITY. -
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mesodude1 year, 3 months ago
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Actually I think what you saw exit the building was the imploding GOP's last desperate hope that Hillary would be on the ticket. So what we end up with on the one hand is a Presidential nominee who, after his first wife was badly injured in a car accident, treated her like an old used up flea infested mattress before cheating on her and then dumping her for a repulsive but obscenely wealthy bleach blonde drug-addicted shrew who applies make up by trowel each morning (and yet somehow manages to look even worse than she does without it) and on the other hand you have a VP nominee who lost his first wife and daughter in an terrible accident and went on to raise his two surviving children himself. Tough call. ;-x
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Mdiar1 year, 3 months ago
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Actually, on this there are valid reasons as to why its not possible. The population densities are quite different. Its not really that fair to force my closest city (which is an hour or so away and its not even a large one) to sustain a mass transit system for here. For the most part, in Europe, decently sized cities aren't that far apart. Here, I live in the biggest place within at least 50 miles and its a town with a grand population of 16,000.
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In the Bosnywash area, it makes alot of sense though. As well as in most major metro areas.-
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mesodude1 year, 3 months ago
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Thanks, Mdiar. I was comparing apples to apples. There are lots of urban areas across the country where the transportation system is decent to great (like here in DC where I live) but overall, I think we're slackers by comparison (because we're so addicted to our cars). For instance, we have our metro here but it's not really a true subway system (like in NYC which I think has one of the best systems I've ever travelled on) and it doesn't. Where is our high speed cross country rail system comparable to those in other industrialized nations? Yes, European countries are way smaller than we are but there is no excuse for us to be lagging behind if we're supposed to be all that. I don't like that people can brag about our military but not our education or transportation infrastructure. ;-( America is great but we can do way better is all I'm saying.
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Mdiar1 year, 3 months ago
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I prefer to brag about the ethnic diversity, myself. Our education isn't as bad as some people make it out to be, in my experience, at least it isn't something the federal government can address that much. The only thing the federal level government can do is institute a health care program and paid vacation laws like those in Europe to make it easier to take part in a child's education. The first few years of my schooling (until 6th grade or so) my parents were still in college so I had quite a bit of interest in my schooling from my parents. On this issue, in alot of ways the Democratic mindset is a problem as much as the Republican one. I think the Democrats keep trying to address the symptoms and the Republicans, while they do try to address the source, can't (due to their own philosophy) address the real issue- people just can't afford to pay much attention to how there kid is being schooled unless you have the right job or are superhuman. I'd like to nationalize the school systems and grant community control over most aspects of it, though certain quality requirements would have to be in place.
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On the Europe part, you'd be very surprised the differences as well as the similarities, I think. America has alot of aspects I solidly prefer to Europe, even though I'm rather far left in my own ideology. I prefer to take the best of each and throw them together.
Americans are very lazy when it comes to mass transit, not because we love cars so much (we do, though, its part of the culture in a way that its not in Europe) but because our government is lazy. Americans are among the hardest working people in the world and I've always thought that was a good thing. Also, government is really afraid to build any kind of government run thing. Its part of the Calvinistic philosophy that a large part of the country was founded on, I suppose.-
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hyperbola1 year, 3 months ago
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Actually America had lots of public transport systems prior to General Motors buying them up and closing them down in the 1930s.
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As for population differences, the density in Europe is on average not so different than the US. Where trains and metros don't make sense, there is usually a public bus system (sometimes run privately with public subsidy) that will take you to any tiny village.
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 3 months ago
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Well, maybe Obama's opponent hasn't picked a VP yet...
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Conflicting stories...it was reported that the campaign for Obama's opponent had settled on a VP Wednesday night (8.27), but as of today (8.28, 1:00 EST), Obama's opponent told a Pennsylvania radio station this morning that he hasn't picked a VP candidate yet.
Maybe a VP was picked Wednesday night, but maybe Obama's opponent has forgotten it...
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 3 months ago
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Update...7:30 EST...
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Now Obama's opponent says he has picked a candidate, and Minnesota's Gov Pawlenty cancelled all appointments for the afternoon and evening.
A ploy to distract us? Surely not Pawlenty...I'm still holding out for Tom Ridge...
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