For the last seven years we have bitched and moaned about Bush's aggressive foreign policy, his secrecy, his partisanship, and his expansive claims on executive power.
Wouldn't things remain pretty much the same with Clinton in Office?
The problems with Clinton is that she's likely to be as bad or worse than Bush on all of those issues.
Obama on the other hand is appealing. I think that Obama’s talk creates a very idealistic picture, but that there is more going on with him that he isn't telling us.
Remember when Bush talked about being a “uniter, not a divider?” He presented himself as someone who could reach across the isle to work with Democrats. He said he was “a different kind of Republican.”
Well, we know how that all turned out.
It might piss you off to hear me say that Obama at times reminds me a lot of Bush. I wonder if despite his rhetoric about change and hope if he is able to bring the healing he is talking about.
Both Candidates are well qualified that's a given. We need to start thinking like Republicans.
Who is electable. Who can win?
We need to think in terms of who can beat McCain.
That sums it up nicely don't you think?
Apr 25, 2008
Consider This
Jan 31, 2008
How is it that you’re the expert on my position?”
This is why Conservatives don't trust McCain. This was probably the highlight of the debate. The quote of the night is Romney saying, "How is it that you’re the expert on my position?”
Watch McCain dig in and defend his lie with a disgraceful and irritating smirk.
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Quick Read: Thompson Quits
Mary Ann Chastain / APJan 21, 2008
Bill Clinton told to stop attacking
Former President Bill Clinton has accused Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., of violating a candidates' pledge — and now Clinton himself finds himself under attack. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. Sphere: Related Content
Jan 19, 2008
McCain and Clinton win key battles
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating battles in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, gaining strength in an unpredictable White House race where no candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
If Hillary wins, could there be a Justice Bill Clinton in our future?
As one Democratic political analyst said, "You may recall recent trial balloons that Mr. Clinton was perhaps interested in becoming U.N. secretary-general. If he is grasping for a similarly large stage to fill his ambitions and ego, what better place than the nation's highest court, where could serve for life if he wanted?"
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Jan 15, 2008
Romney Wins Michigan
Romney supports the death penalty, charter schools, and sentencing under the three strikes law.
Romney opposes the use of "torture"; however, he supports the limited use of "enhanced interrogation techniques," which he believes are not torture
This is the guy who lied about his father marching with MLK...just what we would be looking for in the next president...another liar.
Can someone please tell me the difference between enhanced interrogation techniques and torture? Perhaps Romney ought to experience this and see if he really sees the difference.
About Mitt Romney
Jan 8, 2008
New Hampshire Comebacks: Clinton, McCain Victorious
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire primary generated two comeback stories Tuesday night, with Sen. Hillary Clinton eking out a narrow victory among the Democrats and Sen. John McCain completing the resurrection of his floundering campaign to win among the Republicans.
Clinton had plummeted in polls in New Hampshire following her third-place finish in Iowa. Sen. Barack Obama had soared to a double-digit lead in many polls and was expected to take the critical independent vote in New Hampshire.
With 74 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton led Obama, 39 to 36 percent, a margin that she held for most of the night.
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Looks Like Clinton and McCain in New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) -
Democrat Barack Obama expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire to 13 points as voting began in the state's critical presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona also widened his advantage over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, taking a 36 percent to 27 percent edge after months of hard campaigning in the state.
About McCain
About Clinton
Aug 22, 2007
If the Democrats Want to Lose
Far from the high hopes of last November, congressional Democrats are in disarray and retreat. Their leaders have repeated many of the same mistakes of 2002, surrendering both on George W. Bush's demands for more "war on terror" powers and blank checks for the Iraq War.
The hard truth for Democrats is that the political dynamics of Washington have changed little over the past five years -- and that reality could undermine their chances in Election 2008.
For the full story of the congressional Democratic folly, go to http://www.consortiumnews.com.
Aug 1, 2007
Bill Clinton - Vice President?
I have been thinking long and hard about the upcoming Elections. Truth be told, I don't like any of the Candidates.
What do you say we get them to re-write the Constitution (Bush has shredded it anyway) so that Bill Clinton can run again. After all the worst thing he ever did was forget to tell Monica to swallow.
The 22nd Amendment says that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
Perhaps he could run and be elected Vice President? There would be nothing illegal about this. It is not prohibited by the 22nd Amendment. While the 22nd Amendment says that he cannot be elected to the office of president again, there is nothing that says that he cannot run for or be elected as vice-president.
Hmmmm....who is the oldest Candidate running in for the '08 Elections?
May 17, 2007
Imperial Presidency and Some Food for Thought
The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. This got me thinking about what this Presidency has been all about.
Bush and Cheney have had the most secretive Presidency since Nixon.
Below are several articles that I have been looking at and found to be interesting and thought you might to.
I know that this Presidency is almost at an end, thankfully, but do you really think that this upcoming election and the resulting new President is going to change anything? I don't think it really is going to change much at all.
In My View of It we have allowed the President's since JFK to have entirely too much power, almost like we have been lulled and hypnotized by our own apathy, I doubt if that is going to change as we move forward. Have you heard any of the Candidates talk about bringing this Country back to the Constitution because I sure haven't.
"The aim of the party out of power is not to cut the presidency down to size but to seize it, not to reduce the prerogatives of the executive branch but to regain them."
Imperial Presidency
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?
By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com
Brilliant historian and essayist Chalmers Johnson argues that unless we face up to the tremendous strain our empire is having on America, we will lose our democracy, and then it will not matter much what else we lose. Read more »
Can the President of the United States arrest any American he suspects of being a terrorist and toss him in a military brig, deny him a lawyer, omit to bring any charges against him -- yet indefinitely keep him imprisoned nonetheless?
Can the President kidnap foreigners charged with violating federal law, and bring them to the United States to stand trial? How about Osama bin Laden, for starters?
These are only a few of the issues raised by cases now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that will examine the limits of presidential powers. As David Savage, the legal writer for the Los Angeles Times, has noted, this is a remarkable collection of cases.
How President Bush Is Testing the Limits of His Presidential Powers
Read a Related Post by Ev Nucci Here: What Bush, Cheney, Blair, Wall Street and business could learn from Aristotle and Einstein. Admit your mistakes you idiot!
Apr 11, 2007
Tom O'Connor For President '08
I Hate Politics, So I’m Running For President
January 29th, 2007 tom o'connor
It’s coming up again, we have to make our choices, pick a party, a candidate and vote. In 2008 we will be choosing which RICH Guy/Gal will be running the country.
Maybe you have made your decision along party lines ? Maybe you claim to be independent or have ended up voting for the lesser evil. Maybe, like me, you didn’t vote at all…..the worst thing you could do. Our country, despite it’s faults, gives us a voice. I will vote in the upcoming election, I’ll be voting for myself. And I want your votes too.
I think you should go to his Site to read all that he has to say!
http://tomoconnor.wordpress.com/
Jan 12, 2007
Huffington blog aims to host Web debates in U.S. race
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the most widely read U.S. political blogs is inviting candidates for the 2008 presidential election to hold an online debate, a first that would confirm the Internet's reach and influence.
Arianna Huffington, a political commentator who has run for governor of California, said the line between established media and independent blogs would blur further as the 2008 poll neared.
Her site, the Huffington Post, has contacted Democratic and Republican party officials about organizing a debate for each side, she said in an interview.
"2008 is going to be critical in terms of the coverage of the election," Huffington said. "We are working to put together the first primary online debate among candidates and working out the logistics of how this is going to happen."
Politicians have paid close attention to the Web since Democratic party chairman Howard Dean rose from obscurity to front-runner in the last U.S. presidential primaries, largely thanks to contributions and support organized online.
Bloggers' coverage of U.S. politics has gained prominence, alongside that of well-established newspaper and television outlets, as audiences seek more unabashed discussion of everything from environmental policy to the war in Iraq.
In a more recent contest, bloggers promoting Democratic Senate challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut were partly credited for his primary victory over incumbent Joe Lieberman last year. Lamont lost in the November general election when Lieberman ran as an independent. Continued...
My View Of It's Invitation must have got lost in my email..LOL!!
Bush May Doom GOP Candidates in '08
January 10, 2007
Editor's Note:George W. Bush's determination to escalate the war in Iraq and ignore the clear electoral message from the American people in the November elections has shocked many congressional Republicans as much as it has outraged Democrats.
In this guest essay, the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland warns that Bush's stubbornness could seal the fate of Republicans in 2008:
President George W. Bush, contrary to the will of the American and Iraqi peoples and his own military commanders, seems ready to embark on a potentially disastrous escalation of the Iraq war, which was lost long ago.
This mind-numbingly idiotic strategy is sure to needlessly cost more American and Iraqi lives and to lose the presidency for the Republicans in 2008.
Dec 29, 2006
Edwards shoots for White House again, calling for a new spirit of activism
