Eevery time I look at the title of this thread, I think to myself.... wooo hooo 8 more years.... fortunately I don't think it will happen in the way you suggest.
HealthyLiving: That very well may be true, solitare...
The scripts have been written and the comparrisons you make here are interesting but...
Obama is NO Kennedy!!!
Can not even come close to comparing!!!
NEVER in anyway shape or form did I say he was, they were and are being ridiculed for lack of experience...and what people may think about who or what he may have been or not been is only AFTER the fact which has nothing to do with my comparison. Kennedy was certainly no Nixon and Nixon was nothing but a clown with shaky jowls and a bad reputation of changing sides...like all other politicians Kennedy was only the opening act to Clinton and Lewinsky as that seems to have been their main preoccupation while in the white house...%D real politicians.
Hot_Single_Dude: I am agree!And only another idiots would beleive a pol made by AOL
What I was saying is that the CS poll would have absolutely no accuracy as to how the nation is going to vote, since....in part, CS is a world wide poll. There are tons of other variables that skew a CS poll regarding the election.
Obama is no different from the rest... "Politics as Usual" A fun, friendly link from days gone by.
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama's former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama's close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama's constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.[/b]
i still have'nt heard anybody explain what that guy stands for...they all just talk about there idealism's and what they think should be or not be but, i dont think democrats even know what mamabama stands for......wich brings to mind an old saying.....''you gotta' stand for something, or you'll fall for anything''
jlw45: i still have'nt heard anybody explain what that guy stands for...they all just talk about there idealism's and what they think should be or not be but, i dont think democrats even know what mamabama stands for......wich brings to mind an old saying.....''you gotta' stand for something, or you'll fall for anything''
I am not believing it... Tom Brokoff is actually asking Biden some hard ball questions about his son getting special favors and the company his son works for....politics as usual. Biden's not answering them well.
WhatUwish4: That just makes me like McCain better...He was always considered the Maverick...which is just what we need. The big lobby groups hate him because he has NEVER taken any earmarks...he can't be bought...
EARMARKS: OMB defines earmarks as funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents Executive Branch merit-based or competitive allocation processes, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to manage critical aspects of the funds allocation process.
"I can eliminate $100 billion of wasteful and earmark spending immediately--35 billion in big spending bills in the last two years, and another 65 billion that has already been made a permanent part of the budget." --John McCain, NPR All Things Considered, April 23, 2008.
"The Pinocchio Test McCain's talk about eliminating $100 billion a year in earmarks is largely fantasy. His advisers are now promoting a more realistic plan of eliminating $100 billion in overall spending. But it is difficult to take even that promise very seriously given the fact that the senator refuses to identify exactly which projects he will cut. To use a phrase coined by George H.W. Bush, this is "voodoo economics," based more on wishful thinking than on hard data or carefully considered policy proposals.
McCain Falsely Claims He Has ‘Never Asked For A Single Earmark Or Pork Barrel Project’ For His State» McCain’s claim is false. In 2006, the senator teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl (R) to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. Even Arizona lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Flake (R), said he was planning to “lean against the measure.” The National Taxpayers Union, another traditional McCain ally, questioned why the senator was making federal taxpayers foot the bill for the center.
In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric:
The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee - two of McCain’s criteria for identifying so-called ‘pork.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), a notorious porker, was overjoyed that McCain had joined his side. “One man’s pork is another man’s alternate white meat,” said Stevens. “If he asked for it, we put it in.”
Can't be bought? He is already bought and paid for!
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Credit Suisse Group $150,025 Blank Rome LLP $149,426 Security for Sale The Department of Homeland Security has a section on its Web site labeled “Open for Business.” It certainly is. Sarah Posner | December 18, 2005
When Blank Rome signed up 18 companies as new homeland security clients that year, and added homeland security to its lobbying duties for half a dozen existing clients, no ethics rules barred Buchholtz, Holman, and Davis from lobbying the new department
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I hope all of you folks on this thread will forgive healthy living and I for creating a sub-thread here. I was hoping it would stop with my last reply. But alas and alack she's immaturely back. These elliptical headed one- issue fanatics don't seem to get it. They dump tons of Ron Paul propaganda over several threads here on CS and composed by a number of social misfits looking for a money making cause ( oh yes, it's a business healthy just as your organic substance sources dream up tons of non-FDA and AMA approved products that are downright false or proven dangerous to the user) and then get disturbed when someone questions their authenticity. There is nothing new or unique in Ron Paul' campaign blabberings healthy. I heard him speak in person. His delivery was dry, with little emotion, and the crowd seemed to be a gathering of people who didn't have the intelligence to read but rather had to have somebody interpret for them. Issues?. No healthy, the Paulists have no issues aside from the ramblings that offer political solutions out of touch with mainstream America hence his about 3% showing in the primaries where his name actually appeared on the ballots. He won't appear on the ballots of the entire 50 states for the same reason. Paul is a Republican claimant from a part of Texas that used to be solidly Democratic. When the Demos wouldn't support a number of their more radical members these members turned to the Republican party where they reside today and every Paul ballot mark is one less now for McCain. It's interesting that George Bush's Representative is a Democrat and there will be in my opinion a sigh of relief when Bush sells the ranch (as rumors predict after all he only bought it in 1999 to appear as a true Texan) and moves to Dallas. But I digress unceremoniously. So, I'll leave you with this healthy. When you post truckloads of nonsense on a public website you should expect to be blistered by those who disagree with you. These websites aren't debating clubs. They are for the most part places where folks come to meet, chat a bit, have some fun, make friends and honestly don't want to be more than mildly bothered with political rhetoric. I'm sure you can find other internet venues that will give you that "warm and fuzzy" feeling and attention you so desperately crave. Look for them. An answer, should you decide to post one, will go unanswered by me and to the delight, I'm sure,of those other folks on the site who have waded thru this "buffalo chip" morass. Be safe healthy and grow up.
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