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  • Posted By: JimPearce222 @ 01/17/2008 9:10:55 PM

    Immigration:
    Solution: If Americans did not hire illegal immigrants there would not be a problem.
    Actively prosecute those who hire illegal???s with a minimum sentence of 1 year without reduction of time for any reason. End of immigration problem!

    Afghanistan:
    Solution: Aerial spray all Poppy plant fields to kill the plants. Loss of drug money would significantly reduced holy war efforts by terrorist. Teach farmers in Afghanistan to grow other crops that would sustain them.

    Iraq: Solution:
    Take enough of their oil to pay for the expenses of our efforts to help them. Leave immediately upon getting at least ?? of our money back ??? there is no viable solution!
    Begin immediately to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. Begin immediately to build 5 new refineries in the US. Reduce our foreign oil dependence from the current 60% to 20% within the next 10 years ??? make it our National Goal- agreed upon by Congress and the President.

  • Posted By: sydneyschanberg @ 01/17/2008 5:12:33 PM

    Perot is correct about McCain's successful efforts to hide evidence of POWs who were in fact left behind. I've researched and written about the POW issue for years. Alterman should read my McCain/POW piece for APB piece in April 2000 "The War Secrets Sen.





    . JOhn
    McCain Hides") and the sidebars that document his record. I would be glad to guide him to
    many other documented articles. Most of the personal attacks recentl;y thrown at McCain in
    South Carolina are indeed smears. But a real story does exist about McCain's suppression
    of the suppression of the evidence that significant numbers of POWs were left bnehind in 1973 when the repatriation of 591 of them occurred. Alterman needs to do some real reporting before accepting McCain's claim that the claims of abandoned GIs was a "hoax.".
    He should try the National Archives, among other original sources. Do the reporting. The rest is chaff. .Syd Schanberg .

    • Posted By: oldschool @ 01/17/2008 7:41:08 PM

      I can't say what you are.

      And McCain didn't spent 5 years in prison....it was 5.5 half. 180 more days. You would have broke in an hour.

      • Posted By: NYC1973 @ 01/17/2008 8:43:26 PM

        McCain spent a long time in prison, more than any of us can fathom (except the few who have been through such things). He obviously has guts and determination.

        He's just the wrong man for the presidency at this time.

  • Posted By: oldschool @ 01/17/2008 8:06:00 PM

    Any Military Veteran who has the audacity to question McCain as a flier, patriot, war hero and desires to tarnish his service and sacrifice is a pathetic sorry sob. For those who haven't served...... your mean spirited attacks are like those on Kerry's service. I didn't like his political views, but how dare they question someone wounded in combat who rescued his peers and bled with them.

    As for Perot .... go off and die after giving your billions to charity and close your mouth. You did enough damage in 1992.

    As for Ron Paul. Chelcy Clinton has more of a chance of winning a beauty pageant than he has of winning the Nomination or Presidency.

    As for Romney. A Blade of Grass in the Wind whose personal ambition is only surpassed by Guliani.

    McCain, as a US Senator ought to do as a Statesman, should vote on principle and go against party lines for THE COMMON GOOD and POLITICAL COMPROMISE. The Finance Campaign Bill was not an impediment on Free Speech and the HIGH COURT WAS DEAD WRONG in striking it down. It took courage and leadership to do this. Term Limits and the LINE ITEM VETO REAGAN begged for that 38 Governors have are other examples of His Courage.
    Both Parties of full of cowards and incumbents and held Captive to Fox News and on the other disgusting end by Liberal bankrupt stances.
    McCain is an American first like Reagan. He is a Nationalist and a Patriot. He is no Social Liberal nor does he walk or sleep in bed with the Right Wing Reactionaries.... NeoCons or Rockfeller Republicans or Limosine Liberals.

    You all have your head in the sand.

    Perot wasn't the answer and couldn't get elected and sabatoged 1992

    Nor is Paul the answer and he can't get elected.

    There is a thing called Reality and Truth..... Recognize it, Grasp it, Embrace it. You'll feel Liberated

  • Posted By: Thomas Jefferson @ 01/17/2008 7:55:46 PM

    Ron Paul for President 2008/2012. Romney would make a good VP.

  • Posted By: Thomas Jefferson @ 01/17/2008 7:53:34 PM

    Ron Paul is the MAN, and the IRS sux.

  • Posted By: CEMACJ @ 01/17/2008 7:28:23 PM

    WAKE UP PEOPLE! If you truly are ready for a change not the same old politician telling you what they think you want to hear then vote your conscience. This is not a horse race you don't have to choose the candidate the media tells you is a front runner. If you want a pricipled person who will not be bought then VOTE RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT! He is the only one interested in helping America's economy and ending this war that we shouldn't be in! RON PAUL 2008

  • Posted By: thewizardofgoz @ 01/17/2008 5:05:28 PM

    Great men and women all have one thing in common--the visceral spite of the squallering masses who have nothing better to do than point out their faults. No one that has ever served as President of the United States has been perfect in all political, social, religious, economic or foreign policy aspects (the closest was RWR), yet the great ones were what the country needed at the time. What we need is leadership with a moral compass and an unwavering faith in the family values that have made this country great and saved it from its own narrowly focused "what's in it for me?" mentality. Thank you, Mr. Perot, for your service to this country and recognition of that individual who truly believes and practices those inner moral convictions.

    • Posted By: mistyvalley @ 01/17/2008 7:19:31 PM

      I couldn't have said it better. I am with you completely. Romney for President!!!

  • Posted By: gromansky @ 01/17/2008 6:47:19 PM

    I never understood the reasoning behind the "POWs are ALIVE!" crusade. Anyone imprisoning a POW after the war ended would have to be insanely sadistic and ridiculously stupid to take on such a risk. And to what end? If the American POW was too sick to resist and revolt, he probably wasn't a very good worker. If he was healthy enough to work hard, he would find a way to escape eventually, and the world would storm in. I always figured if anyone still kept a POW around, they would be much safer to just shoot the poor POW and bury the evidence. I mean, some of these guys believe there are STILL prisoners over there. The irony is delicious as the wing-nut crowd Swift-Boats a Republican in this cycle.

  • Posted By: j.b.ferguson @ 01/17/2008 5:40:00 PM

    I voted for Perot but he is wrong on this. Paul is the only one that has diagnosed America's ills correctly--we do have cancer. All others are band-aids..Paul is the cure. Do your research people!

    • Posted By: thscd @ 01/17/2008 6:33:02 PM

      Cave man
      He created democrat corruption, free speech was denied to the GOP, the DNC has the liberal media who is 100% liberal and can say or do anything 30 days before an election basicaly giving an advantage to Demonicrats, we can't run ads, good thing he will never be nominated to be president! I Rhino is someone who has no core of beliefs either way and thinks he knows more than everyone else! My neigbors are Marines, they let me know they would never ever vote for McCain the Military has hated him since the 70's!!

  • Posted By: ethosestablishment @ 01/17/2008 6:32:22 PM

    go god. ra ra ra. When this joker (soldier.. [for what, I wonder]) says close the borders to all non-Christians, how is that any different to any tyrannical governance in any time. This guy is a moron. By moron, I mean un-intelligent.
    This train of thought is a scourge and should be fought; unfortunately, the way to fight it is education, that same education that is grossly under funded here in the states.
    Huck has no clue how to deal with economics, only how to preach. It is a shame that this individual has a voice. It is not the liberals who bring countries down. It is any one demographic forcing its own will on the others. This nation is great because of its diversity, and its unity; united on the shared concept of freedom.
    We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity???
    That is the roll of the government. Not to choose which god to worship, and whose god should be in charge. This moron must not know too much about his own religious beliefs??? The last I heard, Jesus was a Jew. The last I heard, all Christian sects believe in the Old Testament, interestingly, so does the Muslims. They all share the one true god. Whether they admit it or not, the only argument is who his son is, and who his prophets are. The fundamentals, the Judeo ethic hold true in all.
    So, by all means continue to display for all, your complete lack of insight.

  • Posted By: Bigdanracer @ 01/17/2008 6:24:45 PM

    I have had the pleasure to sit down and talk with Mr Perot in 1992. He is a Super Patriot just research his lifeand you will be amazed. Do yourself a treat compare what these Presidential candidites are running on and re watch the 1992 guest appearance of Perot on the National Press Club..

  • Posted By: wildbill69 @ 01/17/2008 6:12:51 PM

    Perot was right about one thing. When he said NAFTA would create a "giant sucking sound as American jobs went south", he wasn't blowing smoke up our posteriors. Between that and slimy greedy scum sucking bas-ards hiring ILLEGALS here, the American worker is going through a large supply of KY jelly.
    But the buzzards are coming home to roost. When no one here has jobs and the people in these countries were big business finds cheap labor can' afford what they produce, who's going to be left to pick the last pieces of meat from the carcass?
    As for the POW issue, i tend to give McCain some slack. I have no idea how much or little the man was a hero, but i know unlike a lot of these loudmouths he was there. He didn't sit it out in HAR________VARD!!!! What the man went through on the deck of the aircraft carrier fire is enough to earn my respect.
    So i give people like Ross Perot high marks for being honest enough to tell people the hard facts. Problem here is no one wants to hear it. They would rather hide that old head in the sand and hope it goes away.

  • Posted By: johncx @ 01/17/2008 6:08:06 PM

    Everything Ross Perot said in 92 has come true and the Media said he was crazy,just like what they say about Ron Paul?

    When you speak the Truth the media has a problem with it?

    Go Ron Paul

  • Posted By: DanNC @ 01/17/2008 5:53:28 PM

    n 1979, two EDS employees were taken hostage by the Iranian government. Perot directed a successful rescue mission composed of EDS employees and led by retired Green Beret Colonel Arthur ???Bull??? Simons. Perot himself went to Iran and entered the prison where his men were held.

  • Posted By: Golfer @ 01/17/2008 4:48:40 PM

    Ross Perot is a thing of the past. He should not make comments on things he knows nothing about. Such as what anyone did or did not do in Vietnam. He was never there so how in hell would he know anything that happened. Maybe for once in his life he sould remain silent. This country would be better off if he did.

    • Posted By: thscd @ 01/17/2008 5:51:56 PM

      Barrack Husein Oboma a MUSLIM half breed, his dad is a Muslim he was born a Muslim, gee we are in a fight with Islamic Terrorists who who he side with? Not the US! He also belongs to a racist Black Church that hates White People, it's ok to go to Black KKK church hm what hiprocricy!

  • Posted By: aronimiller @ 01/17/2008 5:50:20 PM

    I would quickly like to point out that, generally speaking, muslims do not lie about being muslims.

    60 minutes DID look into the school Obama went to...THEY WENT THERE AND INTERVIEWED TEACHERS.

    he's not a muslim people.

  • Posted By: sydneyschanberg @ 01/17/2008 5:48:03 PM

    Perot is correct about McCain's successful efforts to hide evidence of POWs who were in fact left behind. I've researched and written about the POW issue for years. Alterman should read my McCain/POW piece for APB piece in April 2000 "The War Secrets Sen.





    . JOhn
    McCain Hides") and the sidebars that document his record. I would be glad to guide him to
    many other documented articles. Most of the personal attacks recentl;y thrown at McCain in
    South Carolina are indeed smears. But a real story does exist about McCain's suppression
    of the suppression of the evidence that significant numbers of POWs were left bnehind in 1973 when the repatriation of 591 of them occurred. Alterman needs to do some real reporting before accepting McCain's claim that the claims of abandoned GIs was a "hoax.".
    He should try the National Archives, among other original sources. Do the reporting. The rest is chaff. .Syd Schanberg .

  • Posted By: sydneyschanberg @ 01/17/2008 5:48:02 PM

    Perot is correct about McCain's successful efforts to hide evidence of POWs who were in fact left behind. I've researched and written about the POW issue for years. Alterman should read my McCain/POW piece for APB piece in April 2000 "The War Secrets Sen.





    . JOhn
    McCain Hides") and the sidebars that document his record. I would be glad to guide him to
    many other documented articles. Most of the personal attacks recentl;y thrown at McCain in
    South Carolina are indeed smears. But a real story does exist about McCain's suppression
    of the suppression of the evidence that significant numbers of POWs were left bnehind in 1973 when the repatriation of 591 of them occurred. Alterman needs to do some real reporting before accepting McCain's claim that the claims of abandoned GIs was a "hoax.".
    He should try the National Archives, among other original sources. Do the reporting. The rest is chaff. .Syd Schanberg .

  • Posted By: sydneyschanberg @ 01/17/2008 5:47:59 PM

    Perot is correct about McCain's successful efforts to hide evidence of POWs who were in fact left behind. I've researched and written about the POW issue for years. Alterman should read my McCain/POW piece for APB piece in April 2000 "The War Secrets Sen.





    . JOhn
    McCain Hides") and the sidebars that document his record. I would be glad to guide him to
    many other documented articles. Most of the personal attacks recentl;y thrown at McCain in
    South Carolina are indeed smears. But a real story does exist about McCain's suppression
    of the suppression of the evidence that significant numbers of POWs were left bnehind in 1973 when the repatriation of 591 of them occurred. Alterman needs to do some real reporting before accepting McCain's claim that the claims of abandoned GIs was a "hoax.".
    He should try the National Archives, among other original sources. Do the reporting. The rest is chaff. .Syd Schanberg .

  • Posted By: j.b.ferguson @ 01/17/2008 5:39:36 PM

    I voted for Perot but he is wrong on this. Paul is the only one that has diagnosed America's ills correctly--we do have cancer. All others are band-aids..Paul is the cure. Do your research people!

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