natrone23
Well-Known Member
lol what about the first debate, where were those tele-promtors?O'Bama will be challenged with no tele-prompters.
Vi
lol what about the first debate, where were those tele-promtors?O'Bama will be challenged with no tele-prompters.
Vi
We shall see.If you watch fox, they're all for mccain and palin...so it really just depends on which news station you look at.I know the only folks who I know of who are voting Mccain happen to be on this website.
Yes, Fox is biased toward McCain/Palin ... but what about the other TV stations? Did you see O'Bama on The View, then compare the way he was treated when McCain was on? How about the Sunday morning shows ... Face the Nation and Meet the Press? They are so one-sided toward O'Bama, it isn't funny. Then there's Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, SNL, Letterman, Leno, Newsweek, Time, People, NY Times, NY Post ... and on and on and on and on ....
All I'm saying is ... don't believe everything you read or hear from the MSM. Remember the Reagan/Mondale race? It was the same thing coming from the media ... "Mondale way ahead in the polls." Reagan won in a landslide and carried 49 states.
I just can't believe that the American people are ready for a congress and senate made up of hard-core lefties and an executive branch run by a Marxist president. WTF ... this isn't Venezuela, fer cryin' out loud.
Vi
i think everyone knows that mccain is just so OLD and EVIL that putting him in the oval office, with the codes(he will definatly forget), with the connections(Life Alert around his neck) and with young his nurse(palin), it means almost certain death.
no question about it mccain/palin is a losing ticket. there campaign is taking a shit nap. they have no chance. its over.
Obama/Biden '08
i insulted a friend of mine yesterday (yes, i do still have one or two friends that i haven't managed to completely alienate) by reminding him that we are both life-long liberals and that we hadn't necessarily abandoned our ideals, but that our ideals were no longer considered perverse enough to be worthy of much attention.Its not that I am so far right.....
i insulted a friend of mine yesterday (yes, i do still have one or two friends that i haven't managed to completely alienate) by reminding him that we are both life-long liberals and that we hadn't necessarily abandoned our ideals, but that our ideals were no longer considered perverse enough to be worthy of much attention.
i should probably qualify that statement by noting that i am an adherent of classical liberalism, not the sad attempts at totalitarianism that passes for liberalism these days.I didn't know you were friends with Joe Lieberman.
i should probably qualify that statement by noting that i am an adherent of classical liberalism, not the sad attempts at totalitarianism that passes for liberalism these days.
I don't know vi, I still like the dems program over the repukes. Help the people rather than the corporations. Something about that just sounds right, no left, well correct anyway. Since I am a people and have never owned a corporation, I guess that makes me prejudiced.And the difference, sadly, has been lost to the past two generations.
Vi
the problem with that way of thinking is that it denies that corporations are made up of people too, they aren't just amorphous creatures that exist in their own separate reality and feed off of the people. they employ people, they support and are largely controlled by people. their capital is provided by people and their profits are returned to those people. the major problem with the piss-down economic strategies of the conservatives is that they go too far in protecting business, they try to deny the very real possibilities of failure that are a part of the risks involved in success.I don't know vi, I still like the dems program over the repukes. Help the people rather than the corporations. Something about that just sounds right, no left, well correct anyway. Since I am a people and have never owned a corporation, I guess that makes me prejudiced.
the problem with that way of thinking is that it denies that corporations are made up of people too, they aren't just amorphous creatures that exist in their own separate reality and feed off of the people. they employ people, they support and are largely controlled by people. their capital is provided by people and their profits are returned to those people. the major problem with the piss-down economic strategies of the conservatives is that they go too far in protecting business, they try to deny the very real possibilities of failure that are a part of the risks involved in success.
That's a basic ideological difference between Republicans and Democrats. The whole trickle-down thing as compared to the bottom-up thing. I think the trickle-down theory doesn't work particularly well. We've tried it several times, and nothing ever seems to actually trickle down.
The bottom-up thing, I don't know if that's really been tried on a large scale. I do think it would work better. Why? Because the poor and middle-class *can't* just take extra money and throw it into the stock market or assets to gain value over the years, because they *have* no money that could be considered 'extra'. If they have money, it gets spent, and if they're spending it, that means someone -- a business -- is doing some selling. In other words, the trickle-UP effect is virtually guaranteed, whereas the trickle-down effect never actually materializes.
I agree that there are workers that benefit from the corporate existence, and I am not totally against corporations, just the way they are run. Them top dogs get way too much of the pie, and since they aren't really responsible for what they wrought, they basically do what makes them the most money, fuck responsibility. Come on now, allowing them to run wild over workers and the environment, cranking out job cuts and fucking over the environment, for the almighty bottom line. That is what I find reprehensible with capitalism, their almighty bottom line. hey it's allright to make a profit, but when it's at the expence of everything else, then it's no good. The basic premis of corporations is flawed.the problem with that way of thinking is that it denies that corporations are made up of people too, they aren't just amorphous creatures that exist in their own separate reality and feed off of the people. they employ people, they support and are largely controlled by people. their capital is provided by people and their profits are returned to those people. the major problem with the piss-down economic strategies of the conservatives is that they go too far in protecting business, they try to deny the very real possibilities of failure that are a part of the risks involved in success.
Yeah, don't forget 20 years of church affiliation. Palin was a member of a church where people freak out about witchcraft, speak in tongues, and she's stated that she believes the world will end (Jesus will return) in HER LIFETIME. And she was a member of that church for 20 years. Until not too long ago, actually, about the time she got into politics and realized that being a member of a church where the members flop around on the floor and are exorcised of demons *might* not look so hot to the general public. And she thinks men and dinosaurs existed at the same time, of course. And thinks that should be taught in school too. Does she really want to go there? Should be fun!