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US Missile Deal Enrages Russia (Part 3)
Having an opinion is above Obama's pay grade
I never said candidates don't reverse themselves on campaign promises, just that they usually don't flip from left to right, or right to left, or from centrist to extremist. Teddy Roosevelt was the last President who really "flipped", and he didn't flip so much as he just defied classification within the party platforms.
This one just campaigned as a moderate, and had a moderate record in Texas, then came to Washington and went nuts on us.
Any chance I got through on oil drilling? On health care? No?
I hear you on disagreement, but if you're only getting your information from Republican advocacy groups, you're really not getting the full picture.
I can understand an ideological difference of opinion, but you've repeated a lot of easily debunked right-wing talking points, and I have to say you're just not getting a well-rounded diet of information if you believe in stuff like the environmentally protected offshore oil drilling scam.
Interventionism and Democracy (Blog Entry by Farhad2000)
About the U.S. sharing anti-missile tech, the problem then would be whatever some other country comes up with to defeat/avoid them, like say, a stealth nuclear missile, or suitcase nukes, or bioweapons.
I do think we need to have more international cooperation, especially amongst the major powers. Unfortunately, while I'd like for them to do things like enforce a global ban on genocide, I think it's much more important that they police the proliferation of "WMD", though we've kinda lost our credibility on that front for maybe a decade or two.
Personally, I'll just be happy if the United States could unite again.
Ron Paul Doesn't Believe In Evolution.
NBC’S Andrea Mitchell Calls Virginians Rednecks
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Surveillance: British: Thats alot of cameras
The Stork... (A Dark Short Film)
-Thomas Malthus
TheBest of Donald Rumsfeld
Republicans on the other hand, must always be forgiven, no matter how much damage they've done to the country.
At least, that's what the people in my TV are always saying.
Having an opinion is above Obama's pay grade
As for your analogy, you'd have to add in how most people need to burn a candle every day for their job, and candle prices skyrocketing to where it's putting strain on people's ability to buy food for their family.
Given that, I'd welcome the government using economic policy to try to help develop alternatives, like electric lightbulbs, even if I didn't believe that burning so many candles might wreck the world's climate.
You really should read some non-rightwing positions on oil drilling, because you really have to obfuscate the facts to get anyone to believe it's a solution.
There's 68 million acres leased to oil companies now for oil drilling, and they're not drilling. The lead time isn't the ridiculous timeframes that they've been feeding McCain, it's 7 years at least -- they've never gotten an offshore platform operational in less time than that. Even once it's online, it's barely a trickle of oil they could pump each day compared to world supply (because price is set on global supply and demand, not U.S. only), and might, at best, drop the price of gas would drop by $0.03...in 2030 once production had fully ramped up.
Don't believe me? Read this report from the Bush DOE on the topic.
As for speculation, that only recently became legal, through the "Enron-loophole", created by then-Senator Phil Gramm (who became McCain's chief economic adviser). If speculation is the main/only cause, then we should repeal the law that opened the loophole.
As for the recent drop in oil, again, only the Republican pundits claim that they're the ones who made price drop by talking about drilling. Most reports say it's the poor economic situation, and the fact that gasoline is finally starting to show price elasticity (in other words, people are using less because it's so expensive), that predicted demand is being downgraded slightly, resulting in a lower speculative price.
Even the White House refrained from taking credit for the drop in price, and pointed to the drop in demand as the primary cause, though they don't seem to be falling over themselves to take credit for the high prices and wrecked economy for some reason.
As for changing positions once in office, which President did that? The only one I've known who's gone from moderate to extreme partisan post-election is George W. Bush. Every other President has more or less stayed true to their campaign, or more commonly became more moderate once in office, like Bush's dad.
As for opposition to Healthcare, I expect it to come from the Republican party, but I expect them to realize, they oppose it at their own peril.
McCain Broke Pledge To Stay in 'Cone of Silence'
That would be interesting if Obama hadn't been given foreknowledge of certain questions as well. On top of both candidates being given the themes of the questions to be covered in advance, they were both given the first 2 questions in their entirety. There was short period where McCain was on route to the forum while Obama was being asked the opening questions. When McCain arrived, Obama still had another 30 minutes remaining. McCain did spend that time in a room separate from the main church building with no TVs or audio going over the initial questions and the themes they had been given. During his own session, Obama also referenced foreknowledge of certain questions by joking that he had cheated by doing some research first.
I agree, I don't think it provided much, if any, advantage to McCain. Mostly he would've gotten to hear some of Obama's answers in advance, but he wasn't going to answer like Obama was in the first place.
I think this more reflects poorly on Rick Warren for leading people to believe he'd taken extra precautions to ensure they were answering questions on the most level playing field they could, when he apparently had taken no precautions at all.
I'm just glad Obama won the coin toss, or every political show on radio and TV would be howling in anger about how Obama violated our public trust by cheating, ad nauseum.
I think the way McCain's launched into attack mode on NBC for breaking this "story" is pretty slimy, but that's a conversation for another video.
Ron Paul.....Do You Support Impeachment?
Now it's just embarrassingly obvious.
Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power.
Their answer seemed to be an emphatic "no", though.
I'm not sure of a solution per se, other than to spread the commentary on it, and make sure parents get a perspective like this so they can be on the watch for it in children's media, without simply relying on the G rating or the Disney logo.
Having an opinion is above Obama's pay grade
As for economists calling for regulation of the market, here's an article from the economist, and another from the WSJ.
For health care, it's more doctors & some large businesses calling for it, but here's a non-partisan analysis of both healthcare plans. For economics, there's this site, and it's analysis of the universal health care plans around the world.
BTW, Obama's plan isn't to force everyone onto Medicare, it's to make Medicare available to everyone at a competitive price. He isn't even calling for a health insurance mandate for adults, just one for children.
To me, Obama's plan is essentially one I'd expect from the conservative party in the U.S., assuming they were moderates and not extremists.
As for ethanol subsidies, that's pretty darned silly to accuse that of having broken the market, when most of the strife is being caused by inflation, sagging wages, and investment companies overextending themselves in the unregulated mortgage-backed securities market. If you're just talking about food prices, they are high because diesel costs 4x what it used to, and because there were a lot of crop failures this year, not solely because the subsidy has diverted some corn to being used as automotive fuel.
Mostly I'm trying to point out that extremist conservative/libertarian economic philosophy is not one that all economists adopt, and that there's a whole school of thought out there that advocates a mix of free market and government solutions.
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The guy they're interviewing for this series on US/Russia relations is actually from the American Conservative magazine, which sounds like a funny name for a liberal rag to me. They say he's one of their big donors, too.
TRN is entirely funded by donations, BTW.
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^ It's web only. http://www.therealnews.com/
Ahh thanks. They seem to always have kinda a liberal edge, and im more a libritarian. But I remembering watching an interview on BBC and liked the idea of it being non-big business funded. Makes me wonder where they money is coming from though.
Ron Paul Doesn't Believe In Evolution.
Wonder if that extends to gay marrage as well. I know he has always been for a flat or a federal sales tax. In that case the government would not need to care who is and isn't married. As it is not something that is even covered in the constitution at all, I would imagine he would say that it is something the government has no business in either. Anyone know his actual stance on gay marrage?
His Presidential campaign site is gone it appears, but Wikipedia had a series of quotes from him, and while they were varied, essentially his position is exactly the same as Obama's: opposed to same-sex marriage, but in favor of civil unions with the same legal effects as marriage.
One quote made me chuckle: "I am supportive of all voluntary associations and people can call it whatever they want."
Clearly personally uncomfortable with the notion, but supportive of it's legality. Gotta respect that.