Farewell, Election Day

I just read an article from this writer that lacks of focus and manipulates information. When a contributor of a magazine/a writer will stop pushing his own agenda? ,when a writer will take distance of the reality of the moment and projet himslef into the future?, when in a country with no link or association to any church in particular will stop to use the name JESUS to increase the emotinal stage of a citizen and conquer pre-established subjects? when the churches with NO tradition in history will stop adressing and using the word SATAN to perturb the mind of many? when a writer will be able to stop manipulating the words and use them as a tool to let the reader take a decision on a subject, rather than give an answer camouflaged over prestine graduate words?
I ask this writer to instreuct himself on international matters. Compare the style of livign of MANY european countries that after decades of wars have learned that a socialized environment is much better way to push the middle class and create a more equal society.
A debate on many matters should take place with a write who uses the columns of a newspaper as a white canvas to publish nonsense or lack of sense realities.

Too little time for us to digest arguments? 21 months is too MUCH time. WAY too much.
Making it too easy to vote? Perpetually low turnout figures notwithstanding, we can assume George would go back to the founding fathers and limit it to landowning white men.
Farewell, Election Day, and good riddance!

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Senator, concerning the criteria by which you will nominate judges, you said: "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old." Such sensitivities might serve an admirable legislator, but what have they to do with judging? Should a judge side with whichever party in a controversy stirs his or her empathy? Is such personalization of the judicial function inimical to the rule of law?

??? Voting against the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts, you said: Deciding "truly difficult cases" should involve "one's deepest values, one's core concerns, one's broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one's empathy." Is that not essentially how Chief Justice Roger Taney decided the Dred Scott case? Should other factors???say, the language of the constitutional or statutory provision at issue???matter?

??? You say, "The insurance companies, the drug companies, they're not going to give up their profits easily when it comes to health care." Why should they? Who will profit from making those industries unprofitable? When pharmaceutical companies have given up their profits, who will fund pharmaceutical innovations, without which there will be much preventable suffering and death? What other industries should "give up their profits"?

??? ExxonMobil's 2007 profit of $40.6 billion annoys you. Do you know that its profit, relative to its revenue, was smaller than Microsoft's and many other corporations'? And that reducing ExxonMobil's profits will injure people who participate in mu-tual funds, index funds and pension funds that own 52 percent of the company?

??? You say John McCain is content to "watch [Americans'] home prices decline." So, government should prop up housing prices generally? How? Why? Were prices ideal before the bubble popped? How does a senator know ideal prices? Have you explained to young couples straining to buy their first house that declining prices are a misfortune?

??? Telling young people "don't go into corporate America," your wife, Michelle, urged them to become social workers or others in "the helping industry," not "the moneymaking industry." Given that the moneymakers pay for 100 percent of American jobs, in both public and private sectors, is it not helpful?

Election Day? Good riddance.

Why is it that Republicans are the only ones who want to make voting more difficult? George, here are some other reasons people may not make it to a polling place - invalid, elderly and can't drive, working and/or commuting during voting hours, have an infant, full-time caregiver for an invalid, sick on November 4, no car and not near public transportation, etc. etc. This does not include the voter intimidation techniques used in minority areas - Heavy police prescence, immigration will be at polling places, Democrats should vote on November 5, etc. etc, Why do you automatically assume the only reason is because you are lazy? Get out of your bubble.

C-SPAN THIRD PARTY DEBATE

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=281952-1&clipStart=&clipStop=

C-SPAN THIRD PARTY VP DEBATED NOVEMBER 2

FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

This is so true about how the election is already bought and paid for:
http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/what-is-it-that-barack-obama-knows-that-the-rest-of-us-don%E2%80%99t/#comment-1929

Obama, the excuses are wearing thin. what excuse do you have for this one?:
http://www.againstobama.com/2008/10/obama-praised-searing-and-timely-book-by-ayers/

First, this election has been going on for TWO YEARS!!! By now,the majority of us have heard more than enough to choose a candidate!
2nd, what does it matter when or how people vote. Just so they VOTE!! The percentage of eligible voters who actually cast ballots is abysmal! They had a better turnout in Baghdad than we did the last election. Not voting is saying that this most important part of being a democracy isn;t important to you. That puts our democracy in jeopardy. I'm thrilled at the huge number of people participating this time.

Everyone of voting age should read these two books written by Obama, 'Dreams of My Father' and 'Audacity of Hope'. Don't buy them, get them from the library before they are removed from the shelves.

From 'Dreams of My Father', "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

From 'Dreams of My Father', "'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race."

From 'Dreams of My Father', "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

From 'Dreams of My Father', "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

From 'Dreams of My Father', "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."

And FINALLY the Most Damning one of ALL of them!!!

From 'Audacity of Hope', "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!! He admitted to Joe the Plumber than he wanted to spread the wealth! He said that he wanted to make everyone equal! Is America ready for Socialism? The Iranian president, Ahmadinejad, said today that he is glad to see the end to capitalism in America!! Are you glad?????
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Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

As a resident of Oregon, I am grateful for the opportunity to read about the candidates and issues and drop off my ballot when it is "convenient" for me. Does that make my vote less valid, as George Will suggests? No. Wny does saving money by having a 100% mail-in vote offend a "conservative"? This article reminds me of Ann Coulter's statement, another conservative commentator, who said it would be better for the country (and certainly the Republican party) if women didn't vote. Really??? You betcha! There's videotape on YouTube.

Maybe Mr. Will has lots of rich friends who will just be "sitting on their couches" on November 4th, but for most of us, that Tuesday is another work day. I'll be at work early, because Tuesday's the day I leave early to take my daughter to piano lessons. During her lessons, I go grocery shopping. Then I pick her up and we rush home to fix dinner before my wife gets home from her work. Not much couch sitting time for me on Tuesdays.

Fortunately, I live in Oregon, so I'll have already had time to fill out my ballot at the kitchen table. And if I haven't mailed in my ballot by that Friday, on Election Day I can go to any of the half-dozen drive-by ballot boxes in my city. DEFINITELY less hassle than voting at the polls would have been on my hectic Tuesday.

And now Mr.Will wants to take "vote-by-mail" away from me. I wonder--could it be that he'd rather that working folks like myself vote less...and his rich, conservative "couch-sitting" friends are the only ones who show up at the polls?

Maybe Mr. Will has lots of rich friends who will just be "sitting on their couches" on November 4th, but for most of us that Tuesday is another work day. I'll be at work early, because Tuesday's the day I leave early to take my daughter to piano lessons. During her lessons, I go grocery shopping. Then I pick her up and we rush home to fix dinner before my wife gets home from her work. Not much couch sitting time for me on Tuesdays.

Fortunately, I live in Oregon, so I'll have already had time to fill out my ballot at the kitchen table. And if I haven't mailed in my ballot by that Friday, on Election Day I can go to any of the half-dozen drive-by ballot boxes in my city. DEFINITELY less hassle than voting at the polls would have been on my hectic Tuesday.

And now Mr.Will wants to take "vote-by-mail" away from me. I wonder--could it be that he'd rather that working folks like myself vote less...and his rich, conservative "couch-sitting" friends are the only ones who show up at the polls?

Come on George - aren't you a conservative? Do you actually think that the presidential campaigns actually affect how people vote? Informed voters know who they are going to vote for even before the campaining starts. People who really understand government vote for the candidates that reflect their own personal values and philosphies. It doesn't matter if they vote on election day or two months before, they are going to vote the same. tt the uninformed voters who are "undecided.":

For any man who prefers the 'couch' to the 'voting box' I woud urge them to remember the Iraq war which has taken an unbelievable toll on this country in life, limb, and liberty!. It is ironic to me that so many people died in order for us all to have this vote--and so many people have died because today's people didn't! We can not afford to be complacent today; it could be YOUR life next!

If we made "election day" a national holiday, allowing people to not worry about missing work, maybe we wouldn't have the need for all this "early voting". But the Republicans would never go for that either, too many of the "wrong kind" would wind up voting if we had a national holiday on the first Tuesday of November. You need a better argument George.