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  • Posted By: maramara @ 08/01/2008 12:24:57 PM

    God bless American is the usual saying common in American society. What ponders me is why we Americans do not believe in God. King Solomon was a very young and unskilled when he was chosen as the successor of King David. I believe the Israelites know this story better. King Solomon was the best king that has ever ruled (1 King 3: 5, 7-10). Well, I am an independent but I will like to make the following point to those who think he is young and inexperience are missing the point because a good leader is one who is able to discern between good and evil. I guess you can make the judgement for yourself. Amongst thes two candidates, which of them is a war monger and which of them has been accused of being an appeaser?

  • Posted By: kirt @ 07/31/2008 2:22:44 PM

    I used to have more respect for John McCain but his recent adds were he endorses are just a bunch of lies and follows the same tactics that the Bush people used.

    • Posted By: ZedMont @ 08/01/2008 12:07:19 PM

      But they work, because U.S. Presidents are elected by certified idiots. Those who have been paying attention for the past 8 years know who they are voting for and why. But every election cycle, the election of the president comes down to the pathetically clueless "undecided." They are the difference makers. And the difference makers don't know the difference. A lot of them will walk into the voting booth still undecided. Some of them will take a coin into the booth with them, but the bulk of them will vote for the very reason that they couldn't make up their mind - fear. McCain may have to read to them from cue cards, but he does know how to scare them. Scaring people is a time-tested strategy. Yes, it's inane, it's infantile, and it's clueless - but then so are the difference makers, the people who show up at the polls wringing their hands with "indecision." They make me sick.

  • Posted By: You Know!!! @ 08/01/2008 11:11:51 AM

    Go Ahead !!!! Vote for Bush # 3 and when he wins...don't whinnnnn.....Just swollow and enjoy it!!!!!

  • Posted By: kkhan @ 08/01/2008 11:00:42 AM

    Obama is no celebrity, he is just a regular politican feeding the population with the usual gimmick that tends to get them into position of authority. He has no empirical political wisdom, yet he proclaims to have alll the answers to the countless problems facing the American nation. He sounds more like Houdini to me or maybe it's just the senseless voter's mentality in effect once again since they last voted Bush into a second term. He really did a number on the nation & the world as a whole.

  • Posted By: s_j_oliver @ 07/31/2008 3:13:52 PM

    Obama supports windfall taxes on Oil Company. This is raising taxes on the oil company who in turn raise the cost of gas to cover the charge. Obama wants to raise the tax on the wealthy that own businesses and hire employees. Higher taxes for the wealth means WE pay more for products and services, and employees make less money and fewer people get hired. The reason the rich have lower taxes is so the rich will have incentives to hire more people and charge a completive lower price on products and services. When Obama talks about Windfall taxes and only taxing the wealthy he is really talking about the average person paying more for everything from gas to dippers to cat food.

    • Posted By: raddave @ 07/31/2008 4:01:54 PM

      Higher taxes for the wealthy means that they will pay their share of the taxes. The "trickle down" economic policy has proven to be a failure and does not benefit the middle class. It just makes the rich get richer.

      • Posted By: Makduras331 @ 07/31/2008 4:12:55 PM

        Wow your understand of trickle down economics is so horrendous I have no idea why you even mentioned it. Trickle down economics is when the wealthy obtain MORE money through tax cuts, and it eventually reaches the poor through reinvestment into production of goods and supplies, therefore lowering costs for ALL. Good try though, next time how about you at least get a D in an economics class?

        • Posted By: akatz @ 07/31/2008 4:18:26 PM

          And you get a "D" in real-life.

          It hasn't trickled down. It never does. The tax benefit isn't for the companies, which produce products and jobs, but for the rich individuals who invest in, own or manage said companies.

          Trickle-down economics, when applied to personal income (like the Bush-McCain) tax cuts results in the fabulously rich becoming obscenely rich, with no benefit accruing to the middle or lower classes - which is exactly what happened over the last 7 1/2 years.

          Perhaps it's -you- who needs a refresher course in economics. You sure don't need one in condescencion, you've already mastered that.

          • Posted By: Makduras331 @ 07/31/2008 8:11:25 PM

            And you get an F for intelligence and logical reasoning. If any of you had actually bothered reading, s_j_oliver believed trickle down economics (higher taxes for the wealthy) took away money from the middle class. Then raddave mentioned how it just makes the rich get richer (how does higher taxes allow the rich to get richer), so I explained the theory behind it. I DID NOT say it actually worked.

            • Posted By: raddave @ 08/01/2008 10:58:27 AM

              I mentioned that Higher taxes would ensure the rich paid their fair share. Tax breaks for the rich is what makes them get richer, the tax breaks for the rich does not benifit the poor and middle class which is the basis of supply side economics.

            • Posted By: Twhit1007 @ 08/01/2008 1:03:34 AM

              Uh....trickle down economics aka supply side economics actually LOWERS tax rates for businesses and the wealthy....so you get an A in Idiot 101!

            • Posted By: Twhit1007 @ 08/01/2008 12:55:52 AM

              How about trickle up economics? Why don't we try that? Tax the hell out of the filthy rich give the money to all the poor people. You know what will happen? These poor people will actually buy things and give the money back to the rich people and everyone will be happy!

          • Posted By: Makduras331 @ 07/31/2008 8:13:22 PM

            You should go back and take some practical logic classes. Honestly, it's pretty pathetic how you came around with random assumptions moron.

        • Posted By: raddave @ 07/31/2008 4:23:50 PM

          That is the theory of supply side economice. The reality is that it DOES NOT work.

          • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/31/2008 5:26:53 PM

            Nor does socialism work. It did not work in Britain. That's why Margaret Thatcher was elected. Obama's "new" 20th century ideas are just olld rehased socialist ideas.

            • Posted By: raddave @ 08/01/2008 10:54:44 AM

              Liberal Ideas are not socialistic ideas. You are a freaken idiot.

            • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 07/31/2008 10:56:15 PM

              Margaret Thatcher's party and her successor, John Major, were soundly defeated by the Labour Party and Tony Blair in 1997 because of the Conservative Party's very unpopular positions on nationalized health care and education. Tony Blair managed to hold on as PM, in spite of his unpopular policies on Iraq, because the Brits did not want to return to Conservative rule. Labour Party's Gordon Brown was easily elected Blair successor and there is no end in sight for Labour Party dominance in Britian. I guess the Brits think their Democratic Socialist policies are actually working.

        • Posted By: raddave @ 07/31/2008 4:22:38 PM

          Yeah trickle down economics was so good that George H.W. Bush called it voodoo economics, which it is.

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 07/31/2008 8:14:12 PM

      "The reason the rich have lower taxes is so the rich will have incentives to hire more people and charge a completive lower price on products and services"

      So has that been working for the United States? After all the Bush tax cuts have been in effect since 2001. I haven't felt any trickling; have you? Also, a windfall profits tax is a tax on profits that result as a shift in the market (rather than something that results from such things as increased marketing or product development) -- you can't pass it along to the consumer because that would result in another "windfall" which, of course, would then have to be taxed. When Exxon-Mobil earns more profit than any company in the history of the country, it is time to stop giving it tax breaks -- especially when many people have trouble affording the cost of a tank of gas. McCain's oil policy would give more than $4 billion in tax breaks to oil companies -- about half of it to Exxon-Mobil, which is a major contributror to the McCain campaign. If you really believe that the rich should get richer at the expense of the 95% of the country that is not rich -- then by all means, McCain is your man. But don't count on him to bring down the price of gas. He won't.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:24:14 AM

    Senator Salazar's (D-CO) solution to high gas prices:

    Shell (paid lobbyist) said we shouldn't try to extract oil from the oil shale fields in Colorado, Utah or Wyoming.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:21:07 AM

    Senator Boxer's (D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Allow the new President to declare an Energy Emergency and restrict and ration remaining gas as the new POTUS sees fit. (S 3044)

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:19:08 AM

    Representative Pelosi's (SOH D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Give actors, producers and directors a tax break.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:15:57 AM

    Senator Bingaman's (D-NM) solution to high gas prices:

    Sell all the oil in the US reserves (30 day supply) on the open market. (Even though hurricane season is upon us, it's better to have no reserve for emergencies.)

  • Posted By: Alphonse @ 08/01/2008 10:15:21 AM

    Name Calling and Negative Ads Should be Strongly Rejected

    When General Clark commented that riding in a jet fighter did not qualify senator McCain for president, Senator McCain nearly insulted General Clark performance as NATO commander ???saying something like it was not good at all. But General Clark was not putting down senator McCain; he was truthfully saying that presidential campaign is about policy, ideals, new ideas, good judgment, decency, dignity, diplomacy, intellectual thinking that comprehends a complex modern world.

    Cheap shots, negative ads and dirty tricks are just the opposite of policy, ideals, new ideas, good judgment, decency, dignity, diplomacy, and intellect that gains insight into a complex modern world.

    Senator McCain degraded Senator Obama when the latter was touring countries overseas that he was willing to loose war in favor of winning a political campaign. Senator McCain later insisted that that was the kind of person senator Obama is. This was beneath a presidential campaign.

    Now, Senator McCain???s campaign calls Senator Obama ???frivolous and irresponsible??? in the celebrity ad. How far below dignity will Senator McCain sink during this campaign?

    If senator McCain???s campaign is desperate and thinks that turning to degrading means to tear down is opponent will do it, he should think twice. It will not. It did not work for Mitt Romney against John McCain; it will not work for John McCain against Barack Obama. Senator McCain should remind himself of the word ???dignity??? he so often uses. This campaign IS NOT and SHOULD NOT be turned into ???frivolous and irresponsible??? name calling. Senator McCain and his campaign should beware that the American people are expecting more than negative ads; they are expecting to hear new and fresh ideas, inspirational ideals, sound policies, etc., that will solve the multiple crisis facing America today.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:13:01 AM

    Senator Harry Reid's (D-NV), Boxer's (D-CA), Durbin's (D-IL) solution to high gas prices:

    Allow the US trial lawyers to sue OPEC nations in US courts to increase production of oil.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:10:43 AM

    Representative Pelosi's (D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Increase the federal gas tax by an additional $0.10 per gallon to help improve the highways and bridges.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:07:46 AM

    Senator Boxer's (D-CA) solution to high gas prices:

    Drive less, car pool, move closer to work.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:05:42 AM

    Senator Obama's (presumptive Democratic POTUS nominee) solution to high gas prices:

    "Go to Jiffy Lube."

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 10:04:42 AM

    Senator Cantwell's (D-WA) solution to high gas prices:
    Impose new regulation for tire manufacturers to boldly imprint PSI on all tires - without regard to the type of vehicle you drive. And, for the US government to GIVE all residents of the USA a free tire gauge..

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 9:40:42 AM

    Why would anyone want to vote for McCain and the same failed Bush policies that McBush wants! People need to wake up and be responsible for your own actions, the choice is clear, do you want the same failed policies of nothing being done to help health car, nothing being done to move out of Iraq, nothing being done for this economy except the bush tax cuts which McCain was against now he is for, and do you want big oil Teflon John dictating what the energy policies are? No on all four counts! We cannot afford John McCain and big oil running this country for another 4 years! We have 3 % of the worlds oil and we use 30%, the math doesn???t work! Even if we drilled in every possible place, we don???t have the refineries to use that oil! Big oil shut done 70 refineries since the 70 and what makes you think they won???t sell that oil to China and India! I know 11.68 billion dollars they made this quarter!

  • Posted By: love this country @ 08/01/2008 9:40:13 AM

    Why would anyone want to vote for McCain and the same failed Bush policies that McBush wants! People need to wake up and be responsible for your own actions, the choice is clear, do you want the same failed policies of nothing being done to help health car, nothing being done to move out of Iraq, nothing being done for this economy except the bush tax cuts which McCain was against now he is for, and do you want big oil Teflon John dictating what the energy policies are? No on all four counts! We cannot afford John McCain and big oil running this country for another 4 years! We have 3 % of the worlds oil and we use 30%, the math doesn???t work! Even if we drilled in every possible place, we don???t have the refineries to use that oil! Big oil shut done 70 refineries since the 70 and what makes you think they won???t sell that oil to China and India! I know 11.68 billion dollars they made this quarter! Steve

  • Posted By: Middleclasswhiteguy @ 08/01/2008 9:33:40 AM

    Oil is dead. We just haven't realized it yet. We need to be thinking of the next options and not trying to drill our way out of the oil crisis. After all there were only so many dinosaurs and even if we could get more they take 65 million years to cook. You can't drill your way out of an oil crisis when you use most of the oil on the planet but possess only 3% of the planet???s existing oil reserves. Let???s use this ???crisis??? as an opportunity and create a viable alternative to fossil fuels, while putting the oil sheiks out of business along with Exxon and it???s billions in profit.

  • Posted By: mrymryw @ 08/01/2008 9:29:37 AM

    It is outrageous that any voter would support John McSame just to "teach the media a lesson." I would hope that the needs of the United States be our top priority, not petty excuses not to vote for a change.

  • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 08/01/2008 9:20:37 AM

    The extremist Democrats in Congress refuse to utilize ANY fossil fuels in our IMMEDIATE FUTURE. Rather than provide funding for research on carbon-free coal processing, oil shale extraction, natural gas drilling, etc - they refused to allow amendments on ALL energy legislation. Rather than have any balanced legislation coming out of the 110th Congress, the Extremist Democrats have become Bushies, IT'S MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY.

    Between the current President, George W Bush, and the Democratic leaders, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin and Hoyer all taking the power road, nothing has been accomplished that really helps the working class. The only major legislation that has come out of the 110th Congress is bail outs for their lobbyist banks and mortgage companies. No oversight of business. Nothing that gives the working class a fair shake at life in the United States of America.

    Again, any extremist is detrimental to the rest of society. And our leaders DO NOT have what best for the United States of American in mind with their current legislation.

    As long as we have a Republican President and a Democratic Congress, the extremists CANNOT cause further harm to our nation. IF we have an Extremist Democratic President and an Extremist Democratic Congress, we can all kiss our a** goodbye.

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