NEWSWEEK Poll, Oct. 10, 2008

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• Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/18/2008 1:59:19 AM

  Comment: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
  
  The Free and Equal Elections Coalition (FREE) and the Columbia Political Union are pleased to announce that a Presidential debate will be held this coming Sunday, October 19th, 2008, on the campus of Columbia University.
  
  ALL SIX of the Presidential candidates who appear on enough state ballots to acquire the 270 Electoral Votes needed to become President are invited. They are as follows (listed in alphabetical order by affiliation):
  
  Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin
  Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama
  Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney
  Independent Candidate: Ralph Nader
  Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr
  Republican Party Can John McCain
  
  The Columbia Political Union will present the debate from 8:00pm to 10:00pm in the Altschul Auditorium, located at 417 International Affairs Building. The debate will be moderated by Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman, the host of "Democracy Now!". CSPAN will cover the debate, and live radio broadcasts are expected.
  
  "The Columbia Political Union is committed to energizing political discourse on Columbia's campus," said Allon Brann, Columbia Political Union Publisher. "As a non-partisan organization, we work to provide students with opportunities to encounter and engage with political ideas across a wide ideological spectrum, and on a wide range of issues."
  
  "It is with these goals in mind that we have organized this Presidential Debate: to give all candidates-- either within or outside of the political "mainstream"-- the opportunity to speak directly to students about their goals on the issues they deem critical for this country."
  
  "We have invited all eligible candidates, and it is our sincere hope that all will participate, to ensure the substance and rigor of the dialogue which we believe is crucial at this time."
  
  Certified letters officially inviting each candidate have been sent to the respective campaigns.
  
  The Free and Equal Elections Coalition and the Columbia Political Union await the response from the candidates. All candidates' supporters are encouraged to contact the Presidential campaigns and urge them to attend.
  
  The Columbia Political Union seeks to enhance involvement in the political process, domestic and international, and draw every member of the campus community into an ongoing discussion of political ideas.
  
  FREE is a coalition of political parties, independent citizens and civic organizations formed to promote free and equal elections in the United States.
  
  http://www.freeandequal.org/events.php?id=7

• Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/16/2008 8:30:37 PM

  Comment: Baby I'll be there to take your hand,
  Baby I'll be there to share the land
  That they'll be giving away, when we all live together.
  
  So, in the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, and is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Yahoo, back to the 70's we go! So now we know that an Obama presidency really would be as if it were Carter's lost second term after all.

• Posted By: billtill @ 10/14/2008 10:36:12 AM

  Comment: About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
  
  'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
  'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
  'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'
  
  'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'
  
  'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
  
  1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
  2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
  3. from courage to liberty;
  4. from liberty to abundance;
  5. from abundance to complacency;
  6. from complacency to apathy;
  7. from apathy to dependence;
  8. from dependence back into bondage'
  
  Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:
  
  Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
  Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
  Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
  Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
  
  Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.
  
  If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
  
  If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
  
  WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
  ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE