Politics - 14 August 2007

He's also said that he will give his 400,000.00 a year presidential salary to charity, if he wins the Oval Office.

Why? Why would anyone spend millions and millions of dollars, and give up their salary... to be President?

And please... don't say, "love of country". Try to be realistic.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/13/romney.wealth.ap/index.html

2007-08-14 11:25:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

No prejudice here, but do you think a Female or an African American will become President first?

2007-08-14 11:22:02 · 4 answers · asked by twiztid_ditzwit 2

I know that this is "Monday night quarterbacking," and is therefore a bit unfair to Pres. Bush because he did not know the future, the advantage that we have now with 20/20 hindsight. But so many people seem to strongly believe that the president has blundered every step of the way, and seems to think that they could have done a much better job.

Take the top issues which appeared in these last eight years, including a failing economy, 9/11/01, Al Qaida taking refuge in Afghanistan, Iraq/Iran/N. Korea challenges, New Orlean's hurricane disaster, social security failure in progress, and domestic security issues, to name a few. You don't have to justify yourself, but just briefly describe how you would have resolved these very challenging issues and how much better off the USA would have been with your solutions.

2007-08-14 11:21:11 · 4 answers · asked by Andy 4

2007-08-14 11:21:04 · 9 answers · asked by eldude 5

I bet Hillary's gonna love it when he steps up.

2007-08-14 11:20:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

their own terrorists? It frustrates me that the perception of most Muslims in the Middle East being uncivilized and violent people, isn't effectively challenged by those of them that aren't these things. I keep waiting for a Middle East leader to speak up to the masses and call for peaceful Muslims to bond together and stop their religion from being perverted by madmen. Is that ever going to happen? And if no, why not? Does that mean those who are peaceful are just willing to let those who are violent represent them to the world?

Sadly, I think the answer is no, they will never do anything about it, but I'd like to hear opinions on this.

2007-08-14 11:16:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
What are your comments?

2007-08-14 11:15:01 · 8 answers · asked by Serpico7 5

So you are against capital punishment, but for abortion on demand, in short you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent?

Is that right?

2007-08-14 11:09:40 · 27 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4

2007-08-14 11:02:23 · 13 answers · asked by eldude 5

2007-08-14 11:01:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

... in spite of our constitution

with our civil rights being eroded away slowly but surely (read chenney, bush) how much more power can we afford to give the feds?

or do you like the idea of smaller govt and the States having more power to legislate law?

2007-08-14 10:49:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

what is considered full employment in America?

and what is the reason this number is considered full employment?

2007-08-14 10:49:15 · 5 answers · asked by TEXAS TREY 3

The NY Times reports that democrats say that pulling our troops will take years. Why cant they admit and start pulling behind our troops and report our victories, and admit that the surge is starting to work.

2007-08-14 10:38:11 · 20 answers · asked by Go Blue 3

Can't we just export EVERY SINGLE job out of the USA? & make U.S. great?
There seems to be no limit on the freedom of Big Corp to manipulate the system- soon no American will have to do a lick of work.

Of course, no one will have an income, so no-one will buy stuff from said "Big Corp" -

but what the heck?

"heck uva job!!"

we'll just be "in the final throes, if you will", of an economy.

2007-08-14 10:31:11 · 11 answers · asked by omnimog 4

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051219/ts_afp/iraqarrestrelease_051219135511

Mon Dec 19, 9:10 AM ET
Iraq's 'Dr Anthrax' among Saddam-era officials released

Dozens of high level detainees from the regime of Saddam Hussein have been released, the US military said, with an Iraqi lawyer saying they included female weapons scientists "Dr Anthrax" and "Dr Germ".
According to US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, who declined to reveal their names, only eight detainees who were originally deemed to be security threats, were released.

"Many were originally held as suspects in possible war crimes and as material witnesses" in cases against the regime, he said Monday.

2007-08-14 10:30:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Romans had a saying which was 'arma tuentur pacem'(arms keep the peace). How do or don't arms keep the peace? Real life examples as well as hypothetical ones are welcome but I prefer no personal anecodotes.

2007-08-14 10:29:06 · 5 answers · asked by Fortis cadere cedere non potest 5

Russia,china,Iran,Us,India,England
how many people in it?

2007-08-14 10:27:20 · 14 answers · asked by Ashton 2

question number 1,
could the USA have deterred IRAQ from invading KUWAIT in 1990 ? is at least some of it justified?

question number 2,
what should the USA do about its dependency or imported oil?

question number 3,
Have AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ achieved stable democracy? why not ?

2007-08-14 10:26:01 · 12 answers · asked by charleston 1

The short-sighted idiocy of biofuels is not just confined to the ethanol boondoggle in the US. In much of the rest of the world there is a demand for biodiesel, which is being met in large part by the clearing of rainforests in Indonesia. The Daily Telegraph in the UK has the story of how these clearances As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.At a rehabilitation centre run by the charity Borneo Orang-utan Survival, there are more than 600, mostly orphaned babies. Lone Nielsen, the centre’s director, estimates that for each of the 227 animals they rescued last year, five more were killed in central Borneo alone.

The unspeakable truth is that this would not be happening on the same scale were it not for the European Union’s climate change goals:

With the world desperate for “green” fuels, demand for palm oil, which is used in bio-diesel, is guaranteed to increase. According to European legislation two per cent of all diesel must be vegetable oil, rising to 5.7 per cent in 2010 and 10 per cent by 2020.

Free-market environmentalism says that the rainforests will be protected if there is a non-use value placed on them higher than the use value. It is sheer insanity that governmental environmentalism has actually raised the use value by means of such regulation.

As one of the most famous orang-utans in literature would say, “Ook” (”It may be a vital oxygenating biomass to you, but it’s home to me.”)

2007-08-14 10:23:53 · 10 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

-- The 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed 6 and injured 1,000
-- The 1993 Mogadishu firefight that killed 18 U.S. soldiers
-- The 1995 Saudi Arabia car bomb that killed 5 U.S. military personnel
-- The 1996 Khobal Towers bombing that killed 19 U.S. soldiers, wounding 515
-- The 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 citizens, 12 Americans and injured 5,000
-- The 2000 USS Cole attack in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors, wounding 39

American People ~ "Um, Mr. Clinton.....Can you please get off the 19 year old intern and concentrate on this terror stuff. Please don't leave it for the next president to clean - up".

2007-08-14 10:21:22 · 14 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4

if the media is owned by big buisness and special interest ... do we know what they want us to know?

as a good man put it: "To comfort the afficted and affict the comfortable"

Thomas Jefferson was a realist.That's why he also maintained that if there was one thing in the Constitution that could never be sacrificed, it was freedom of the press, so that there would always be an effective whistle-blower that could not be silenced. Is it working?

2007-08-14 10:20:37 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-14 10:15:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

and lastly ...why does he insist on not protecting our borders and not enforcing our laws that are on the books to fight illegal immigration?

2007-08-14 10:11:32 · 13 answers · asked by me 3

If so:
What degree(s) did you earn?
From what institutions?
What do you do for a living?
What is your political leaning?

2007-08-14 10:01:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yes, and the "Party of Values" (LOL) has the lies to proove it!
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070814133834AAx14ym&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiTNUUlDxFNoR75Da.gJRxOCtylAi37zeAw--&paid=answered#MaRSAk_AD2nKe.1GMGlY

2007-08-14 09:58:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

But where is the apology from the Japanes?

2007-08-14 09:56:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so, can you tell me where you got this information? Several people have linked the right-wing Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063

I thought at least the Times fact checked its information. Apparently not.

Here is the data correction in question:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

"Contiguous 48 U.S. Surface Air Temperature Anomaly"

Notice the key words: "Contiguous 48 U.S....Temperature Anomaly"

This was not a global temperature correction, it was a small lower-48 states correction. On top of that, it does not show that 1934 was the hottest year even in the US. It shows that 1934 was the hottest year in the US in comparison to the surrounding 30 year average (that's where the "anomaly" comes in). The 30 years around 1934 were much colder than recent years, so in reality 1934 wasn't even a warm year

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/

Can conservatives get the facts straight please?

2007-08-14 09:55:34 · 11 answers · asked by Dana1981 7

oops...

2007-08-14 09:52:30 · 27 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

"How about that pig?"

2007-08-14 09:51:55 · 21 answers · asked by omnimog 4

(I posted this answer before and it was deleted. Does anyone have any idea why?! Here it is in it's entirety:)

I betcha didn't know that Bin Laden was found in a Dubai hospital and visited by a U.S. CIA agent two months before Sept. 11 either?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,584444,00.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a070401dubai
http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/11/01/laden_ed3_.php
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0111/S00018.htm

**REMEMBER 9/11 ; REMEMBER WHO ATTACKED US ; NOW KNOW THAT WE DO NOT CARE ABOUT HIM (BIN LADEN) ANYMORE.**

BUSH IN HIS OWN WORDS (WITH CONTEXT): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o

"Deep in my heart I know the man's on the run if he's alive at all... And, uh, I, uh, you know who knows if he's hiding in some cave or not, we haven't heard from him in a long time."

"He's a person who's now been marginalized... So, I don't know where he is, nor do I spend that much time on it to be honest with you."

How the heck can you rationalize that it was "taken out of context" or "that's the liberal media for ya!"... Let's see it now. Try again, you good Little Germans.

2007-08-14 09:50:41 · 14 answers · asked by Sangria 4