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  • Posted By: catehudgins @ 09/03/2008 6:24:54 PM

    The economic report card is crap... and not because it isn't acurrate but because it doesn't make sense to generalize the american population. In my eyes our economic report card will never look good until we realize that a family of four cannot live in this economy on $21,000 a year and a family of one can barely live on that rediculous poverty line. Also I love how samuelson used the median household income and not the average... of course it isn't going to look that bad when you use the number in the middle. i just disagree... things are economically bad in this country. Maybe the numbers lie.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 6:10:37 PM

    COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS:

    Obama holds assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Veterans' Affairs, and he is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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    As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

    In August 2005, he traveled to Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. The trip focused on strategies to control the world's supply of conventional weapons, biological weapons, and weapons of mass destruction as a first defense against potential terrorist attacks.<61>

    Following meetings with U.S. military in Kuwait and Iraq in January 2006, Obama visited Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. He left for his third official trip in August 2006, traveling to South Africa, Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Chad. In a nationally televised speech at the University of Nairobi, he spoke forcefully on the influence of ethnic rivalries and corruption in Kenya.

    Obama worked with Russ Feingold (D???WI) to eliminate gifts of travel on corporate jets by lobbyists to members of Congress and require disclosure of bundled campaign contributions under the 'Honest Leadership and Open Government Act', which was signed into law in September 2007.

    He joined Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in sponsoring S. 453, a bill to criminalize deceptive practices in federal elections, including fraudulent flyers and automated phone calls, as witnessed in the 2006 midterm elections. Obama also introduced the 'Iraq War De-Escalation Act', a bill to cap troop levels in Iraq, begin phased redeployment, and remove all combat brigades from Iraq before April 2008.<68>

    • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 09/03/2008 6:23:21 PM

      just because he sits on these committees that don't say he does anything he just sits on the show the records of what he has done while on the committees other than drawing his senate paycheck !

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 6:16:11 PM

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

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    • Posted By: chdench7 @ 09/03/2008 6:22:39 PM

      and ignorant fools such as you must have pea-brains - the most pathetic and puny of them all. No wonder you're filled with hatred and fear you coward.

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 5:56:31 PM

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    MRI findings are racist?

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    • Posted By: chdench7 @ 09/03/2008 6:15:34 PM

      the website chimpout is and you're just advertising whore for them. How about you do an MRI on your ignorant assface?

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 6:11:27 PM

    There are intelligent people in all races... Now if you are so smart, let's see if you can bit Obama's record!!

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 6:10:09 PM

    Later in 2007, Obama sponsored with Kit Bond (R-MO) an amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges, and calling for a review by the Government Accountability Office following reports that the procedure had been used inappropriately to reduce government costs. joined Chuck Hagel (R-NE) in introducing legislation to reduce risks of nuclear terrorism.A provision from the Obama-Hagel bill was passed by Congress in December 2007 as an amendment to the State-Foreign Operations appropriations bill.

    Obama also sponsored a Senate amendment to the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide one year of job protection for family members caring for soldiers with combat-related injuries. After passing both houses of Congress with bipartisan majorities, SCHIP was vetoed by President Bush in early October 2007, a move Obama said 'shows a callousness of priorities that is offensive to the ideals we hold as Americans

    ** First legislation, the HOPE Act, which increased Pell Grants to $5100, and later joined Senator Kennedy on the Higher Education legislation that passed July 20, by a vote of 78-18. That legislation also included funding for Predominantly Black Colleges to assist with counseling, tutoring and other needs of low income students. It also creates the Teaching Residency Act which will create a school-based teacher preparation program in high needs schools to provide each teacher with a mentor, content instruction, classroom management skills, a master???s degree and state certification, and a 2 year follow-up program.

    **The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006
    is an act that requires the full disclosure of all entities or organizations receiving federal funds beginning in fiscal year (FY) 2007 on a website maintained by the Office of Management and Budget.

    **The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act
    Authored by U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL), the Lugar-Obama initiative expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction. Signed into Law on January 11, 2007.

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 6:02:51 PM

    If you actually read what I posted, you would see that I agree that Chinese are exremely intelligent:

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    For more hidden truth, visit the Fact section of C H l M P O U T . C O M

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 6:00:48 PM

    Comment: For your info, the chinese are some of the smartest people on earth. They invented how to make ice 2000 years ago!
    Racists like you are what you are because of you low intellected.. I think you bit them all!!

    I hope some day we can put all racists like you in mental institutions, because this is really where you belong!!

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 5:58:06 PM

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    For more hidden truth, visit the Fact section of C H l M P O U T . C O M

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 5:44:26 PM

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    For more hidden truth, visit the Fact section of C H l M P O U T . C O M

    • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 5:57:47 PM

      For your info, the chinese are some of the smartest people on earth. They invented how to make ice 2000 years ago!
      Racist like you are what you are because of you low intellected.. I think you bit them all!!

    • Posted By: brinder @ 09/03/2008 5:54:14 PM

      Fool. .4 correlation is pretty weak. Need to find another reason to explain your iq. Pay attention in your stats class.

  • Posted By: muffinb @ 09/03/2008 5:57:38 PM

    You can flip flop the numbers anyway you want, but the fact is........people are worse off today than they were 8 years ago. Due to layoffs...... higher energy.......electric, gas, gasoline,, insurance rates, food costs and many more things. So don't tell me we are not worse off than before. These numbers just don't cut it. Go out and talk to the public and see what kind of answers you get.

  • Posted By: muffinb @ 09/03/2008 5:57:25 PM

    You can flip flop the numbers anyway you want, but the fact is........people are worse off today than they were 8 years ago. Due to layoffs...... higher energy.......electric, gas, gasoline,, insurance rates, food costs and many more things. So don't tell me we are not worse off than before. These numbers just don't cut it. Go out and talk to the public and see what kind of answers you get.

  • Posted By: muffinb @ 09/03/2008 5:56:32 PM

    You can flip flop the numbers anyway you want, but the fact is........people are worse off today than they were 8 years ago. Due to layoffs...... higher energy.......electric, gas, gasoline,, insurance rates, food costs and many more things. So don't tell me we are not worse off than before. These numbers just don't cut it. Go out and talk to the public and see what kind of answers you get.

  • Posted By: OBXartist @ 09/03/2008 5:54:13 PM

    What a load of rubbish. If rising health insurance costs (usually for decreasing coverage) is cutting into take home pay, by definition, we are worse off than we were previously. There's less money for savings, less money for college, less money for discretionary purchases, not to mention less money for paying the regualr bills, buying groceries, gas, clothing, etc. Samuelson only mentions inflation in passing in the next to last paragraph of his article. What has been the cululative rate of inflation on the last 5-7 years. I can tell you for a fact the basket of groceries that used to cost me $30 bucks just five years ago now costs double that. By contrast my wife has not had a raise in five years and I, as a self-employed designer, have had to raise my rates and take on more and more projects just to maintain our standard of living.

  • Posted By: vase4444 @ 09/03/2008 5:54:09 PM

    Fact: Studies using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) find a correlation of brain size with IQ of about 0.40. Larger brains contain more neurons and synapses and process information faster. Race differences in brain size are present at birth. By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites who average 5 cubic inches more than Blacks.

    For more hidden truth, visit the Fact section of C H l M P O U T . C O M

  • Posted By: chdench7 @ 09/03/2008 5:52:37 PM

    Vase4444 - you will rot in hell you racist scumsuck.

  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 5:52:27 PM

    The University of Nevada-Reno economics professor also uncovered the following while conducting the economic comparison between Republican and Democratic presidential administrations from 1949 to 2005:
    ??? Unemployment Rate- Republicans 6.0%, Democrats 5.2%
    ??? Change In Unemployment Rate- Republicans +0.3%, Democrats -0.4%
    ??? Growth of Multifactor Productivity- Republicans 0.9%, Democrats 1.7%
    ??? Corporate Profits (share of GDP)- Republicans 8.8%, Democrats 10.2%
    ??? Real Value of Dow Jones Index- Republicans 4.3%, Democrats 5.4%
    (in logarithmic growth rates)- Republicans 2.8%, Democrats 4.4%
    ??? Real Weekly Earnings- Republicans 0.3%, Democrats 1.0%
    ??? CPI Inflation Rate- Republicans 3.8%, Democrats 3.8%

    Regarding the question of statistical significance, Parker noted:

    The differences in growth, unemployment, and the corporate profit share are all statistically significant, and support the argument that the economy may actually perform better under Democrats. The differences in weekly earnings, stock market growth, inflation, and multifactor productivity all favor the Democrats as well, but these differences are not statistically significant.

    Addressing the claim heard back in my college days, Dr. Parker also tried to account for a lag effect. He said, ???It is a reasonable argument that economic performance early in a new administration is likely to be the result of policies followed by the prior administration.??? Therefore, he tested whether lagging the effect of the administration on growth might support the argument that the economy actually performed better under Republicans. The professor found that even with up to four years of lagged effects, there was no evidence that the economy performed better under Republicans.

    Dr. Parker drew the following conclusions regarding the claim that Republican presidencies are ???best??? for the U.S. economy:

    But we can reasonably conclude that these government statistics provide evidence that directly contradicts the argument that the economy does better on average under Republican administrations. With lagged effects and other causes considered, the difference may be insignificant, but the economy may actually perform worse under Republicans.

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  • Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 09/03/2008 5:42:20 PM

    Statistics shows that republicans are unfit to govern!!

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