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memestryker1 year, 2 months ago
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The fact that Todd Palin was trying to go after a bad guy and she is being slapped for not doing enough to stop him probably doesn't make her look like a bad governor to most fans.
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I think Palin and Obama have a lot in common. They both came in without all the facts and they're having to play catch-up. He had some months' head start, and has finally found his groove, and she's having to do a crash course. Both of them and their partners have some very strong opinions I don't agree with, and I'll have to go on the attack to retain my rights, irrespective of who wins the election.
My biggest concern is that we don't get another single party controlling the administration and both houses of congress. It doesn't work well, irrespective of party. We see how the Republicans add "God" to everything, and Obama just doesn't get the reality that countries are going to have to use tools like birth control and not just depend on wealth redistribution--especially since the U.S. is beyond broke (it was broke even with the surplus, but no one likes to point that out).-
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earthlingerer1 year, 2 months ago
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"My biggest concern is that we don't get another single party controlling the administration and both houses of congress."
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Amen to that! Haqving only one, criminal, bought off party holding congress AND the White House for the past almost eight years has brought us to where we are now.
The so-called "two party" system is the basis for the rot we find ourselves unable to treat.
It would be great if lobbyists and corporations were forbidden to contribute ONE CENT to ANY party.
But that would leave everything to the citizens, and while we have money on the conscience of politicians, they will continue to exercise "conscience over constituents".
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tchef1 year, 2 months ago
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We need the Democrats to control the whole thing for at least one congressional term so that we can undo the changes that the Bush administration made. Then I'll be happy to see it split up because things do seem to work much better for the nation that way.
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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The Democrats have had the last to years to introduce legislation. You will say the repubs would block it.
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If the Dems really wanted to do it they would have introduced what was important to them, made sure the media and their constituents knew about it, and fought for it.-
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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But based on your logic and reasoning, Klarissa, the world economy wouldn't be crashing as a result of actions undertaken by the neocons' latest whipping posts, Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd (since Congress was under GOP control for the previous 12 years), right? The GOP had control so unless Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd simply overpowered the Republicans (granted, we know they can *outthink* the GOP) then your arguments that they are to blame for Bush's extreme failure holds no water whatoever.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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We had that with Carter and it was a disaster. Obama's financial ideas are the same as Carters. High unemployment, inflation hitting 15%, interest rates over 20% at times. Great times that the Democrats gave us and Obama would give us again.
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NO THANK YOU!!!!!!
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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"We had that with Carter and it was a disaster."
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--No, you people elected a disaster twice over the last 8 years and the result has been a hellish nightmare for both our country and the world. You clearly do not know the meaning of the word "disaster". -
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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endo - Of course Carter's economic record was poor. No one argues with that. It is ancient history in our modern world of instant second to second changes in stock indexes. So What?
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Contrast that to Bush's record which McCain is so adamant about continuing.
Continuing tax cuts for the ultra-rich and corporations.
Continuing pursuit of the ruinous Iraq War.
Expanding drilling and increasing our dependence on oil. Unemployment/underemployment rate up to 9.9% (in July - BEFORE the crash). Unemployment rate alone up to 6.1%. Predicted to rise to 7%
Loss of 4.4 million jobs under Bush. Under Clinton we had 22.5 million NEW jobs created
Highest inflation ever under Clinton was 3.6%; under Bush now approaching 6%.
Poverty level under Clinton dropped from 15.1% in 1993 to 11.8% when he left office. Under Bush, poverty level ROSE to 12.7%.
Complete disappearance of over 1 trillion in asset values in past week alone. Transfer or withdrawal of $8.4 trillion from accounts and retirement plans. Wiping out of numerous pension plans.
Loss of hundreds of thousands of homes.
Closure of at least 35 banks.
45% drop in dollar value since Bush took office.
Refusal to ratify the Kyoto Accords and worsening of global warming.
Why talk about Carter from 30 yrs ago? Why are you scared to compare Bush to Clinton?
Worry about what is happening around you right now and what McCain would do if he wins and continues Bush's economic policies.-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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Everything was going good until the CRA foreclosure mess tripped the crash in housing prices that led to the banks and other institutions going bankrupt and many being bailed out. Credit dried up because of all of the money sucked out when the real estate prices dropped. CRA was a Democrat compassionate creation. Obama working for ACORN sued Citibank in Chicago to force them to give out more bad loans. Obama is part and parcel in this mess. ACORN lobbied Congress starting in 1990 to loosen up the guidelines for Fannie and Freddy. They were successful in doing so after Clinton was elected.
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Obama - ACORN - CRA - housing bubble - foreclosures caused the bubble to burst.
All connected.
I do not want Obama because he helped ACORN with this mess.-
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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The reason this whole mess came was McCain's adviser and former senate banking chairman Phil Gramm who pushed a deregulation veto proof bill through the senate in 1999 that took all regulation off the banking institutions. It was only a matter of time after that for the collapse to happen. He collected over $1.5 million for his effort.
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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But the GOP took control of Congress in '94 and only lost control (of the Congress, that is) in '06. Bush has been in office for the last 8 years and yet you're saying that the Republicans were against this when they were in control of Congress but they were totally powerless to do anything about it? What stopped them. Regale us with the chronology of events starting with when the GOP took over in the early 90s (because cons seem to think Barney Frank and Chris Dodd held the GOP hostage all those years).
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ProudBlueTexan1 year, 2 months ago
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JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday said Sen. Barack Obama put "ambition above country" after a newspaper reported that Obama may have tried to influence Iraqi politicians negotiating with the United States.
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That's the icing on the cake!!! lol
ABOLISH THE gop!!!
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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You really, REALLY need to read this from NEWS WEEK reporters. They went to Alaska, and looked at the court records. Palin and her family accused the trooper of a lot of things, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE THAT HE HAD DONE ANYTHING! Before Palin became governor, she was warned by a judge that if she and her family didn't stop bad mouthing the trooper to the children, the children would be moved away from there, & full custody would be given to the father. The law in Alaska recognizes that turning children against a parent is CHILD ABUSE. I'm going to say it again. She was told to knock it off three years before she became governor! The trooper was never charged with anything. He was found guilty of nothing. A court investigator found that the family was alienating the children from the father. They found no evidence that the accusations against the trooper was true. The mother apparently didn't want him to have custody rights at all. AGAIN! The trooper was found guilty of NOTHING! He was charged with NOTHING.
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http://www.newsweek.com/id/158140-
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techsupport1 year, 2 months ago
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Wow. Good find, Jordan.
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This isn't just some spurious accusation. A judge found her actions to be alarming and possibly illegal. Pitting children against their own Father? Apparently Gov. Palin is only "pro-family" when the family member in question is on her good side.
This article is over a month old, yet it wasn't a particularly widely-reported news story. I get the feeling Gov. Palin has become "Teflon Sarah" at this point. Not much is going to stick to her. She's anti-abortion, and that's all that's important to the masses who show up at her rallies.-
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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Wow...It's like you're reading my mind. I think as soon as right wingers heard about baby Trick or Trigger or whoever, they just swooned and their eyes glazed over. They've been lying for the past two years that they don't know enough about Obama (all the while talking about freaking flag pins and refusing to believe anything other than what they've been spoonfed by Limbaugh and told to think by FOX) but *overnight* they knew the beauty pageant runner up was their queen. LOL...Cons are so FOS and they actually think that if they pretend people don't remember their blatant lies, hypocrisy and flipflopping, they don't have to acknowledge them.
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GehlLady1 year, 2 months ago
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jordan, he did admit to the tasering, and if he had tasered my child I'd have done waaay more than the Palins did to him. If I had the same judge they had, I'm sure I would have been put away for a long time. Did you read the report? I'd have fought tooth and nail to keep the man away from my children as well!
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
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memestryker wrote: "My biggest concern is that we don't get another single party controlling the administration and both houses of congress. It doesn't work well, irrespective of party."
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Amazing how the lie-du-jour New Republicans lurch from this to that lie. After working so hard to get control of the entire government, they now claim that control of the government is a bad thing. Funny, it worked well under FDR to bring an end to the great depression that the Republicans brought on. It worked to win WWII. Government gridlock with the Roadblock Republicans in the Senate is a great deal of what's wrong right now.
The New Republicans claim that government can't do anything right, yet they desperately want control of the government, so much so they will tell any lie and use any smear to get their hands on the reins of power. And as soon as they are in control, they drive the ship of state straight onto the rocks.
Bring back the real fiscal conservative Republicans I used to be a part of. Let this economic disaster be the end of the deficit doubling New Republicans and their belief in trickle down Reaganomic .-
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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"After working so hard to get control of the entire government, they now claim that control of the government is a bad thing. "
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--You just reminded me how the sudden chorus of new "Independents" (aka, lying cons who after 2006 are actually so ashamed they voted for Bush twice that they can't dare to call themselves Republicans anymore) began wailing about how horrible and catastrophic it would be for America to have a "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton" phenomenon (which we heard none of following Bill Clinton's Presidency. -
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alakazam1 year, 2 months ago
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"Bring back the real fiscal conservative Republicans I used to be a part of. Let this economic disaster be the end of the deficit doubling New Republicans and their belief in trickle down Reaganomics "
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Now there is an idea I could really get behind.
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secondbornson1 year, 2 months ago
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To compare Obama and Palins knowledge of the "facts" is a joke. Obama was Magna *** Luade at Harvard Law, that is the number one Legal Doctoral Student at on of the world most renouned Law School. He has taught constitutional Law and as an undergrad he studied Political Science with emphasis on Foreign affairs at Columbia University.
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Sarah Palin pieced together a Bacheleors of Journalism over five years at four different schools (Hawaii Pacific U,N Idaho college, Mantanuska-Sustina College and U of Idaho).-
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FSU92grad1 year, 2 months ago
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Who gives a chit about Osama's schooling....
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Bush has degrees from Yale and a MBA from Harvard...
What's your point ?
And please don't use that stupid line that Osama is smarter because of his degrees.....Degrees don't mean crap....Bush had some nice ones and you libs constantly implied that he was stupid....But Osama, who basically went to the same schools is miraculously NOT ? How can that be ?
Point is, common sense, character, and judgement...Stuff that cannot be taught at a hoity-toity academic institution, is something Barack Apollo Obama is lacking...
I know a lot of people that went to Ivy league schools but are dumber than a box of rocks....doesn't mean anything to me...
Maybe he wrote a thesis on inflating tires up at Harvard.....Seems to be his passion....-
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disraeli1 year, 2 months ago
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FSU92grad
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"Bush has degrees from Yale and a MBA from Harvard...Degrees don't mean crap....Bush had some nice ones and you libs constantly implied that he was stupid....But Osama, who basically went to the same schools is miraculously NOT ? How can that be ?"
To answer your rhetorical question. I've heard them both speak. One uses complete sentences, the other has a degree from Yale. So my evaluation is more empirical and less theoretical.
"Degrees don't mean crap" As an aside does FSU grant degrees? -
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lfergie8121 year, 2 months ago
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Is Bush running for president again??
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If you knew what a Magna C u m Luade at Harvard Law was you might be impressed but since that was way out of your reach I can understand why you wouldn't be impressed.
"Point is, common sense, character, and judgement...Stuff that cannot be taught at a hoity-toity academic institution, is something Barack Apollo Obama is lacking..."
Here's where you are so far off it's pathetic. Obama has the good sense to not get in the gutter with the Republican campaign and refrain from placing lies in their ads as the McCain campaign has been doing.
"I know a lot of people that went to Ivy league schools but are dumber than a box of rocks....doesn't mean anything to me..."
Yeah, one is in the White House as a lame duck. Another that went to a big Academy is running for prez.
"Maybe he wrote a thesis on inflating tires up at Harvard.....Seems to be his passion...."
Another attempt to poke fun at Obama by the McCain group that backfired. You see, the DOT put out a pamphlet giving just that information and the benefits from it. Of course elitist Republicans like McCain would not even know where the air goes in the tires much less how to use a tire gauge. -
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amazedandsaddened1 year, 2 months ago
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It amazes me how pathetic the left wing is. They totally skew the media and try to smear this woman all the while IGNORING Obama's associations with total loons! I was 8 years old when John Kennedy was assasinated but I think that when I was the age Obama was when he decided to run for the senate I would have remembered who LEE HARVEY OSWALD WAS and what he had done to our country. I think those of you living the delusion whould wake up and if you want to live in a socialist country go to one and leave ours to those of us who still believe in our Constitution not the distorted veiw the media tries to shove down our throats! God HELP America!
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
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One thing we can agree on is that people like you (who believe that you alone are so special and your way of life is the only way) are DEFINITELY in need of help. The notion that cons can render the US FUBAR and then should actually be allowed anywhere NEAR the White House again is delusional in the extreme.
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