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Presumptive GOP Nominee's Views Stem From First-Hand Experiences
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- From a NYT editorial:
Mr. Bush boasted about 52 consecutive months of job growth during his presidency. What matters is the magnitude of growth, not ticks on a calendar. The economic expansion under Mr. Bush %u2014 which it is safe to assume is now over %u2014 produced job growth of 4.2 percent. That is the worst performance over a business cycle since the government started keeping track in 1945.
Mr. Bush also talked approvingly of the recent unemployment rate of 4.8 percent. A low rate is good news when it indicates a robust job market. The unemployment rate ticked down last month because hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the work force altogether. Worse, long-term unemployment, of six months or more, hit 17.5 percent. We%u2019d expect that in the depths of a recession. It is unprecedented at the onset of one.
Mr. Bush was wrong to say wages are rising. On Friday morning, the day he spoke, the government reported that wages failed to outpace inflation in February, for the fifth straight month. Productivity growth has also weakened markedly in the past two years, a harbinger of a lower overall standard of living for Americans.
Exports have surged of late, but largely on the back of a falling dollar. The weaker dollar makes American exports cheaper, but it also pushes up oil prices. Potentially far more serious, a weakening dollar also reduces the Federal Reserve%u2019s flexibility to steady the economy. - Reply to this comment
- So McCain is good with foreign policy?????? When are these criminal''s going to start caring about American''s?????? They have ignored the problems here at home for 7 years now. They are developing into canyons that are swallowing all of us. We are in a mess here at home. All they can do is harp on keeping the money flowing into the money pit Iraq!
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- People you don''t have to be a very intelligent person to figure out that what we are and have done in Iraq is WRONG! When the President of Iran can just walk right into the country ANOUNCED, and have all these rally''s and meetings, while OUR leaders are forced to visit in SECRET and no one knowing they are there until they are "Safe" in the Green Zone? Now after 6 years and a Trillion Dollars, it would appear to me that something is NOT RIGHT and it IS NOT Al Queda... AL QUEDA is Sunni... The MAJORITY of Iraq is SHIITE!!
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- Mind you, these are polls of Americans...most of whom can''t find Iraq on a map...and many of them think that the sun revolves around the earth...They are also so f--king stupid that they elected Bush to lead them twice. Who really cares what they think?--The Regime doesn''t give a fig...Americans have made themselves irrelevant in the direction that this nation is going to take by supporting a Demopublican Party that is offering them a choices of faces to lead them in the Oligarchy''s predetermined direction.
Go back to watching AMERICAN IDOL, scum! When the Demopublican Regime needs your children, they''ll send their draft notice in the post! - Reply to this comment
- "Even funnier, you should have looked at the White House, the Pentagon, and the CEO offices of oil and oil support service companies around America, they were also laughing." Posted by brianbwb
Don''t get me wrong, I can understand how you wouldn''t be feeling the ironic humor on the way down. - Reply to this comment
- "We are about to jump! We look with our binoculars to the church Obama attends. We see people looking at us laughing at us as we are about to jump to our deaths! And we cry are they the ones? Then we jump." Posted by x123123
And we, on the other side, having lost the fruits of our long labor to your prejudices, having worked much harder than you only to receive less, who put up with your supercilious "Let them eat cake" attitude for generations, do indeed laugh, and say "Jump!"
If you think that Mr. Obama''s church was a bit much to bear, you should have seen all the other homes, bars, schools, and "cardboard cities" also laughing.
Even funnier, you should have looked at the White House, the Pentagon, and the CEO offices of oil and oil support service companies around America, they were also laughing. - Reply to this comment
- McCain = war
Obama = no war
McCain = permanent military bases in Iraq
Obama = no permanent military bases in Iraq
McCain = tax dollars go to military
Obama = tax dollars go to health, education and infrastructure
McCain = continue Bush tax cuts for the rich
Obama = middle class tax cuts
McCain = NAFTA rewards slave labor? Oh well, get over it, Michigan.
Obama = NAFTA will be renegotiated to include enforceable labor and environmental standards.
McCain = pathway to citizenship
Obama = pathway to citizenship
McCain = bomb, bomb, bomb . . . bomb, bomb Iran
Obama = diplomacy not war
McCain = viewed internationally as an extension of Bush and the neocons
Obama = countries the world over are envious they don''t have a candidate like him
McCain = militaristic, control oriented and outdated
Obama = a new kind of leader
McCain = last-resort candidate of a desperate party
Obama = the People''s choice - Reply to this comment
- Posted by x123123
I will offer an allegory. A "Black" man is kidnapped and "renditioned" to another country where he is made a slave. His children are slaves, and so on for almost 400 years.
After slavery became illegal, this "Black" person''s descendants were hung from trees, jailed on false charges, denied the use of public facilities, and to this day are still called by a racial epithet, and still denied equal consideration in almost all aspects of life, by "Whites".
When the descendants of that original victim state the obvious, that the "White"-controlled country still fears and hates and discriminates against us, as evidenced not only by history but also present fact, they are called "racist" by people like you.
You err, because your hatred towards us comes from fear and guilt, but your ego and arrogance forces you to disguise it behind ridiculous stereotyping, and our enmity towards people like yourself is a logical reaction to history and present fact.
Yes, many of us did note an ironic humor at the events, some of us laughed more than a snicker, the centuries-long history of what we still endure because of government officials who share your mentality, has given us that right, it had nothing to do with anybody''s church. - Reply to this comment
Apprently all of this FIRST HAND experience with foreign policy has not prepared him to be President. McCain does not have the judgment and patience to lead America. He is an ill-informed, myopic, close-minded man who is easily swayed by the bigoted religious right. Check out the result of his BRILLIANT support of the "Surge", not to mention the fatally wrong idea to go to war with Iraq in the first place, and not actually go after the 9/11 terrorists. Check this link out:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge- Reply to this comment
- Smirk5 makes point that conservatives may be in disagreement with Gen.Petraeus if they think sufficient progress is being made---he doesn''t!
CBS_Oliver makes point that it''s not a matter of whether things are going well, but why it''s (still) going at all!
Excellent---I agree! Finally, Mr.McCain''s Vietnam service is NOT above reproach---if---some poster is aware of/knows of information that shows it isn''t!
Whereas, I believe he deserves respect for his military service, it shouldn''t be the sole factor that qualifies him to be President! - Reply to this comment
- kesac4650--You are absolutely correct! Bush never called the Constitution "just a piece of paper"...He called it "just a g-dd-mned piece of paper"!
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- "McCain: A Life Entwined In Foreign Affairs"
That was a strange headline.
A body might get the idea he was having romantic affairs in Paris and Rome. - Reply to this comment
- I have traveled to and lived in every region of the world, including Antartica. The key words here are "lived in" whereas John McCain has only "visited" those countries. Does that mean I''m more qualified in Foreign Affairs than him? The Hiltonites, as I call them reallly don''t know what the people of a country or region think, only what the "leaders" of a country think. Don''t be fooled by using this criteria to determine who is best qualified to lead our country.
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- Hey OLD man McCain,
Have you had your geritol today? What about a nap? If you''re so much of a war-hero answer this one question OLD man, Why are you ducking Obama and hiding behind Hillary''s apron strings? Scared yet OLD man. Mr. T has some advice for you if you dare take on the Obama shuffle OLD man, "I pity the fool"...Where''s your "blankie" gramps? - Reply to this comment
- The time is right now. Place where on the floor above where the plane hit at the World Trade Tower. We are about to jump! We look with our binoculars to the church Obama attends. We see people looking at us laughing at us as we are about to jump to our deaths! And we cry are they the ones? Then we jump.
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- Did you not know when the plane hit the first tower certain people snickered? You know the people who go to that whatyoumallcall it racist church! They laugh and laugh! Then when they saw all the people running for their lives it gave them a thrill that America was learning Their lesson. When people started jumping out the windows and splatting against the sidewalks they shouted "They are getting what they deserve."
This is what is being taught in Obamas church!
Black power baby!
Remember now disguise it with racism
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- It looks like "Mr.McClean" is trying to skirt US campaign finance laws by holding fundraisers in London and Paris. John McCain has taken the public finance option so now he must cheat to make ends meet. He is safe, because as far as the Bush DOJ is concerned some people are more equal than others under the law and he is one of them. Let''s face it, he is the last great hope of the Republican Party. Let''s see what CBS has to say about that, probably not much.
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- My name is Obama will you vote for me being a racist! I can change YOU!
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- Dare we trust Obama with the helm of the country with all its problems when he cannot even know what%u2019s going on in his own church? For twenty years his pastor
Jeremiah Wright has been shouting racial epitaphs, America and Israel cause of 911 etc. etc., and now just yesterday Obama wakes up and washes his hands of him? Will it take twenty years for him to bring about change that America needs? Obama must either be very naive to the things around him or he is two faced.
I can no longer support him.
I cannot have faith in his leadership!
I cannot have faith in his vision, seeing that he could not realize the racial bigotry earlier on and he appears dumbfounded of finding all of this out now.
I cannot have faith in his understanding of people, world leaders!
With this said I question his motives for running for president! - Reply to this comment
- In America today we have this knight in shinny armor coming towards us promising us deliverance! He never fought a battle, He was present when the other knights fought the battles, and keeps His armor very shinny. When He is with the other knights He speaks as one who fought battles, remember now He never did He was only present, that He can conquer lions and dragons and bring this land America to tranquility. The other knights ask Him of His experience and He just points to the fact that He has shinny armor. These other knights see His shinny armor and wonder why this so called knight calls Himself a knight. This knight in shinny armor states %u201CI can bring CHANGE%u201D. The people without experience in fighting the real battles on issues are transfix on His shinny armor that they do not bother with the issue that He has no experience. The people see this knight as their hope. They point to the other knight who is in charge for now and say this is the reason why we need a knight with shinny armor (with no experience) the knight who is there now had no experience either and we want another one like Him!!!!!!!!!!!
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