Posted By: Jonathan Colb on Friday, August 29, 2008
How convenient for the GOP that the US will never need to pay back this colossal sum that we've borrowed mostly from the Chinese to pay for Bush's project in Iraq. How convenient that taxpayers can continue bailing out failed private corporations, without economic consequences! How convenient that we'll never need funds to pay for upgrading our crumbling infrastructure (remember Minnesota?), or to bounce back after a natural disaster on our own soil, or for education, or, yes, for medical care for less fortunate Americans.How fortunate that we'll never need any funds for any of the above, because if we ever do, it'll show how completely brainless Republican rhetoric usually is.
Posted By: Good Life on Friday, August 29, 2008
Can anyone name a business or farm that was lost due to inheritance tax? Last I heard no one could find one.Who thinks that it is better to tax those that work at a higher rate than those who make money trading stock? Yes we all have a little stock but who really has stock?Who really still thinks that the economy does better when you give money to the rich and hope it tinkles down? That's the Bush "tax cut".Who doesn't give a crap about their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the point where they think "borrow and spend" is a great idea?
Posted By: soapboxlady on Saturday, August 30, 2008
Neither one is really ready to be President. Our choice seems to be stuck between paying much higher taxes to support Obama's socialism and whatever McCain might end up doing. I do not buy into the theory that McCain is going to be just like Bush. No one could be that bad. Both seem incompetent to me. Obama seems like he's a puppet for someone else because he doesn't seem to be able to speak on any serious topic without notes but sure can give a great speech when it's written for him. Aging McCain admits he doesn't use a computer very much so what does that say about him?What kind of choice is this? This is what our lousy 2 party system has done for us.
Posted By: geoff on Saturday, August 30, 2008
McCain: Is He ready to be President? Palin: is she ready to be Vice President? All this concern with taxes, without realising that Bush & Reaganomix have just put America deeply into debt. You can't have a war in Iraq without paying for it; you can't have schools & highways and safe spinach without paying for it.Overall, though, yeah; instead of having someone who doesn't just blurt out some pre-programmed sound bite slogan but actually thinks about what he's saying when he answers questions, "It's important that America has a vice president who has eaten a mooseburger."
Posted By: Art W. on Saturday, August 30, 2008
It is important that America have a Vice President with experience running a private company. It is important the VP has experience running a local and state government. It is important, to me at least, that the VP has experience in military matters (i.e. being Commander-in-Chief of the state National Guard).Oh, by the way . . . that's the experience Palin has running for VP.Obama has none of the above . . . probably hasn't eaten a mooseburger either.
Posted By: William on Saturday, August 30, 2008
I am unsubscribing from this neo-nazi-con propaganda called Cagle.
Posted By: dEd Grimley on Saturday, August 30, 2008
Allow me to be one of many people to point out that the "lack-of-experience/are they ready to lead?" debate is now irrelevant with McCain's VP pick.
It would be irrelevant if . . . if . . . Obama were running for Vice President.
Nope. Cuz she's next in line to the presidency to an elderly man with numerous health problems. I'm DEFINITELY not the guy who is going to say McCain is too old to be president - a terrible argument in my view - but McCain can't come out and say Obama isn't ready to lead unless he can somehow manage to convince anyone that a 1 year governor of an outlying state is more ready to be president than Obama.
Ed, The lady from Alaska was a 2 term Mayor, then became Governor. The state she Governs is 25 miles from Russia. Do not think for a second that means nothing - do you not understand the significance of that fact. Alaska is also a far more racially diverse state than most others - not to mention it is our largest state - roughly the size of Western Europe. To become Governor, she had to defeat the most prominent political family ever in Alaska - no small task. She has taken on, and beaten, corrupt government. Her state not only had a balanced budget, but a surplus (which was given back the citizens in the form of a $1200 fuel assistance rebate). I can go on and on about her many accomplishments in such a short time.On the other hand, you give me Obama. I am willing to compare the experience of the Republican Candidate for VP against your main man.Tell me what it is that Obama has done (actually accomplished) that makes you feel he is ready to be President. Go ahead, you tell me. Tell us all.After you do that . . . tell me what Biden has accomplished in his 36 years in the Senate. 36 years, and not a single piece of substantive legislation. . . but you go ahead - tell us all what he has done as well.I am waiting to hear the many accomplishments of Obama/Biden so I can change my mind . . .
Posted By: Cowgirl Up! - Texas on Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Is Obama ready to be president? In a word; No.No executive experience.No foreign policy experience (voting against the Iraq war does NOT make for experience)No leadership skills - with the exception of a 'silver tongue' that results in a pied piper response from some.No clue that running a campaign - and NOT having citizens to govern - is not the equivalent of relevent governmental experience.No - he is not ready.
Posted By: jack sprat on Thursday, September 04, 2008
Commuity Organizer – Friend of convicted felon and neighbor, Tony Rezko.“For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago's South Side. It was just four years after the landlords -- Antoin "Tony'' Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru -- had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers. Rezko was among the people Obama appointed to serve on his U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, the Sun-Times reported in 2003. The committee raised more than $14 million, according to Federal Election Commission records, helping send Obama to Washington in 2004…”http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.articleLecturer - Gee, if we were electing a "cheer leader", obama would win hands down, probably. As the big professor, the most often heard complaint by his fellow lecturers, was that he didn't seem "engaged", his class course, “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.”http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=sloginIn his voting rights course, Mr. Obama taught Lani Guinier’s proposals for structuring elections differently to increase minority representation. Opponents attacked those suggestions when Ms. Guinier was nominated as assistant attorney general for civil rights in 1993, costing her the post.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.htmlAs commander in cheese- wanted to pull out of Iraq immediately, al Anbar Province was just handed over to the Iraqis, Baghdad will soon follow. Poll driven fool that he is “if he ruled the world” he would be the second term of Jimmy Carter.Obama, go back to Chi-town and sell used cars.
