Comments on: Honestly, does it really matter who wins the presidency?

By: ?

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:18:59 +0000

I don’t care about what benefits the President gets, I care about the policies, view on national security, and the judges that will be appointed.

I am not a big fan Of John McCain, but compared to Obama, he is the only "safe" choice. Obama is an empty suit. His ‘change" campaign reminds me of another "change" candidate, Jimmy Carter(in the running for the most pathetic President ever). The campaign slogan is not the only similarity. Lack of understanding on the economy, seeing the U.S. as the cause of most international problems, and being a faithful follower of Karl Marx should be enough do ensure his defeat, but as history shows, the Democrat voter is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

When Engels and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto they listed 10 goals that needed to be met in order to achieve a successful communist regime.
Every modern prominent Democrat politician uses 4 of these as talking points, or campaign promises.
These are
Universal(free) health care
Progressive taxes, from those with means to those with need
Central government control of education, increased federal funding of education equals increased control
Reducing a persons sense of property, Environmental restrictions on private property use(stricter wet lands laws, and making the use of natural resources more difficult, IE not allowing, or making the permit process almost impossible).
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By: Richard V

Richard V — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:30:59 +0000

I had Hope while Obama was campaigning against Hillary with an Anti-War progressive message filled with promises.
Since then his Economic staff are supporters of ‘Free Trade’ and the Walmart business model and he has backtracked on raising Capital Gains taxes: now only to 20% (he had earlier mentioned 25-35%.)
Most of his Foreign Policy advisors were Clinton era Imperialists.
He supported two Supreme Court decisions made by extremists Alito, Thomas, Roberts and Scalia. He came out agreeing with Bush on ‘Faith based funding’ and agreeing with McCain on ‘offshore drilling.’ He backtracked on the FISA bill giving immunity to Telecoms to spy on Americans. He even articulated that all of Jerusalem should be apart of Israel-an extreme Zionist poistion.
After saying the mindset for War with Iraq had to change, he picks the Hawkish Joe Biden who, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was as bloodthirsty for invading Iraq as Bush was (he ignored Weapons Inspectors and any dissenting voices.)1,

I’ve heard nothing but week ineffective speeches (excepting Michelle Obama’s great emotional speech) from career politicains too afraid to attack the Criminal Republicans on their Unconstitutional Crimes: Obstruction of Justice, Outing Valerie Plame, Lieing to Congress as a Pretext for Invading Iraq against International Law,2 Illegal Detentions and TORTURE at Guantanimo and Abu Ghraib and Illegally Spying on American Citizens.

Tweedle Dee…Tweedle Dum…
Two Corporate Wh*re Parties of War.

Yes, Obama might get through a more progressive tax plan and might nominate a Pro-Life Justice, but the fact most of his money has come from Investment Banks and Corporate Lawyers, and he wants to Increase Military Spending and wants to Escalate the Military Occupation of Afghanistan (each month the U.S. has been bombing dozens of civilians the last two years)3 has lead me to abandon the Morally Corrupt Two Party system.4
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1) http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/24/11124/

2) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/index.htm

3) http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/24/11125/

4) http://www.gp.org/tenkey.shtml

By: Yahoo Makes me Mad

Yahoo Makes me Mad — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:05:59 +0000

Honestly yes and no..
Yes because it’s a start in the fixing of certain problems but in the big picture no.

Outsourcing should be a main point of interest. It’s not. Americans are essentially working like the lowered paid foreigners. There are many Americans that were making 80G’s a year and now down to 30-40G’s a year because we’ve shipped all our business over to China and Taiwan and other lower paid countries. You can’t walk into one store and find something that is made in America any more. We need to completely reform the that. Companies need incentives to keep jobs here at home instead of getting tax credits for shipping jobs overseas.

Healthcare is a joke. It doesn’t matter who’s in office. That will take years and years to fix and most of us will not be alive by the time anything would change.

You can’t just give every one healthcare and expect the problem to be solved. Essentially the problems would get worse as the quality of care would go down because every one will have insurance and use it for the slightest sniffle. You will be waiting weeks if not months for appointments then you go to the ER and that will be just as bad… the ER’s will be full and wait times will be outrageous. People will be misdiagnosed. It will be like an assembly line.. Dr. will over prescribe antibiotics just to get the people out of the ER as fast as possible and it will make matters worse..

Terrorism is never going to be eradicated. We will always be chasing the enemy. I’m not for or against Iraq, but once that is over it will take us somewhere else.

America is a wonderful place but has a lot of issues that will take lifetimes to reform.

Right now you should be wondering who will not make the matters worse. Lets not introduce more problems… lets not turn this into a socialist nation because to me that is worse than sick people and terrorism.
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By: ?

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:25:59 +0000

Yes and no. I agree with your conclusion but the president is supposed to be the stop gate against a run away congress. A direct answer would be yes if it is Bob Barr but that is only a temporary solution. You really need people to get involved with local politics to solve your issues. Do you think we would still have the same chuckle heads like McObama running if you killed support for their kind at the local level? Vote for yourself Bob Barr 2008
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By: Just Curious?

Just Curious? — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:54:59 +0000

No, it doesn’t. The people who we have now need to work together to get the country to where it was or get out. India, China and Dubai are on the rise. The president is only one part of the problem. The house and the senate is a big part of the problem. A lot of legislation get stuck on Capitol Hill. It’s like a stagnate pool of ideas. There’s nothing like a gov’t job, you rarely get fired; you either resign, retire or die. I wish the government was run like a business. If you’re under performing in your position, you get a review and if you’re under-performing you get the boot! It’s time out for politics, we need solutions.
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By: gfd_truck7

gfd_truck7 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:48:59 +0000

Best scam going, run for president, raise millions, then drop out and keep the cash! In the long run it doesnt matter who you vote for, the Supreme Court will decide i.e. 2000 election
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By: hapzap

hapzap — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:43:59 +0000

so according to you every president has done the same no matter what. We are still doing the exact same thing since Washington was president? No ending of a four year period has ever been different, right, according to you? So what is wrong with bush again? Nothing different from any other president right? It does matter, what obama will do is ruin this country, in more ways than bush ever has, and that is saying a lot. Mccain isnt the greatest choice but its better than letting obama destroy america.
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By: ?

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:59:59 +0000

You may be right, but we still have to try.

As for healthcare, you’ve got to start at the state level. Write to your congressmen. Help fight for what is needed. Join groups that help fight for the well being of our nation.

http://www.uhcan.org
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By: truthsayer

truthsayer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:29:59 +0000

Actually it makes a huge difference who become President. The most important duty of a President is to nominate Judges for the Courts. The last thing we want is a secular humanist progressive like Obama picking America’s Judges.

We’ve already got to many Judges that are legislating from the bench and doing the will of the ACLU, which is a really bad thing…
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By: Cinner

Cinner — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:12:59 +0000

I am answering your question not your rant. Yes it matters if you vote and who you vote for. If you don't and Obama wins you'll be on here next year screaming and ranting about how unfair life is because he's taking so much of your pay check (that's assuming you get a pay check of course).
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