Politics - 23 September 2007

Basically a handful of individuals guide a nation?

2007-09-23 15:10:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ever notice a con thinks that just by saying he's a con, that somehow that automatically makes him right about everything?

Where does THAT idea come from?

I thought "conservative" meant "small government", Bushies are the OPPOSITE of Conservative.

2007-09-23 15:04:51 · 18 answers · asked by easy_game_101 2

You know - Kill 300,000 innocent civilians like Truman did to end WWII.

Lets hear all the situational ethics pleeeeease. It just shows the double standard you need to exist.

2007-09-23 15:03:58 · 9 answers · asked by Libsuc 3

What is the goal of the U.S. government and it's people? Why won't the President concisely answer questions about his policies? Why are we truly in Iraq? <-- Ive heard too many answers on this one and not one was backed up by the facts to prove it.) Why are we still in Iraq? Why are we sacrificing our freedoms for protections? Why is the check and balance system out of order? Why are we having taxes funneled to spend on war? Why are the people having their rights infringed upon? Was 9/11 a false flag operation or was it done by actual terrorists that don't like or have a beef with this country? Why is it that the news isn't sharing whats going on half the time. Why is it bad to question the motives of our government and why do they tell us we are "Bad Americans" when we do so? What is going on? I wan't answers! Give me plausible sources and give me plausible answers. Cite your sources. You will have bad feed back otherwise.

2007-09-23 14:48:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can't they just be prests like the other Gay conservatives

2007-09-23 14:47:34 · 15 answers · asked by Parrot Bay 4

practice such hero worship for dictators and other evil rulers around the world that hate The United States of America and want us all dead?

2007-09-23 14:38:17 · 13 answers · asked by Sloan R 5

of Kumbaya?

That the cowardly killing that has been going on worldwide for 20+ years will stop?

That the radical Muslim intent on wiping out Jews and Christians will end?

2007-09-23 14:34:03 · 10 answers · asked by Libsuc 3

2007-09-23 14:29:57 · 10 answers · asked by Belzetot 5

Was some sort of consensus reached? There's no blow back from U.S. media, so can I presume that the conference accepted the holocaust???

2007-09-23 14:28:38 · 4 answers · asked by poolboyg88 4

Can you say that we really have the best way of life today.?

2007-09-23 14:23:14 · 24 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2

If you're stupid enough to fall for his con man ways, then you need to get help and wake up to reality.

I'm serious.

You see, this isn't about liberals vs. conservatives.

This is about the survival of the U.S.A. as a whole.

And the fact that "Im a Jihad" has declared death to America and Israel doesn't disturb you?

And the fact that he has declared that Israel should be wiped off the map doesn't disturb you?

And the fact that he has denied the Holocaust doesn't disturb you?

And the fact that he funds radical terrorists groups like Hezbollah doesn't disturb you?

And the fact that he is funding/providing terrorists to carry out attacks on our troops in Iraq doesn't disturb you?

There are many more reasons why to not befriend this maniac.

So, let's all come together (liberals and conservatives) to denouce this crazy psycho.

If you don't, then you're an American traitor.

How's that?

Who will denounce him here now?

I will!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

2007-09-23 14:02:49 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-23 14:01:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

since President Bush was elected the price has risen to $738.90 an ounce.

2007-09-23 14:00:39 · 15 answers · asked by Sweet Suzy 777! 7

2007-09-23 13:58:07 · 14 answers · asked by Sweet Suzy 777! 7

opposed to the emancipation act of 1862 to free the slaves? They were called the Copper head democrats.

2007-09-23 13:57:02 · 9 answers · asked by Sweet Suzy 777! 7

2007-09-23 13:56:46 · 2 answers · asked by John C 1

Many don't waste time showing up as they know which way their electorial votes will go regardless.

2007-09-23 13:56:13 · 14 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

ISTANBUL—Walk down the pedestrian-jammed Istiklal Street in Istanbul's fashionable Beyoglu neighborhood day or night, and you sense the tremendous energy that has been unleashed in Turkey during the past decade. Founded by Italian merchants in Byzantine times, this vibrant district, rising above the northern shore of the Golden Horn, was until recently one of the city's shabbier quarters. But since its conversion into a mostly car-free zone in the late 1990s—one of the many shrewd calls made by the city's then Islamist government—Beyoglu has taken off. The maze of narrow streets branching off the boutique-lined Istiklal buzz with trendy cafes, clubs, and restaurants, while apartments that sell faster than they can be refurbished appreciate at the clip of about 25 percent a year.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul before a giant photo of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
IHLAS NEWS AGENCY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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If he were alive today, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic, would embrace this booming, cosmopolitan neighborhood as the fulfillment of his modernizing dream. And Beyoglu is only contemporary Turkey writ small, a dramatically compressed version of what is happening throughout the rest of the country.

Averaging around a 7 percent GDP growth rate for the past five years, Turkey is flooding the world with exports produced by its "Anatolian Tigers," as the heartland-born (and often religiously conservative) members of the new industrial and commercial elite are called. With inflation and taxes down, and with continuing prosperity expected, what's to complain about?

As it turns out, quite a lot. Grumbling, partisan sniping, and even large public demonstrations have become the order of day ever since Turkey's Supreme Court—nudged by threats of a military coup and a large pro-secularist rally in Istanbul—annulled a parliamentary vote that made the candidate from the religiously tinged Justice and Development Party (AKP) the likely successor to the presidency. Events surrounding the court's May 1 decision have brought to a head tensions that some analysts say had been building for at least a year—tensions that are bound up with modern Turkey's perennial debate over religion, democracy, and secularism.

Mosque and state. At issue, says an assortment of secularly oriented Turks, including the staunchly Kemalist Republican People's Party (CHP), are the efforts of the governing AKP to bring religion into the center of the nation's political and civic life. If unchecked, the critics charge, the AKP would effectively dismantle the mosque-state barriers that Ataturk erected after creating a republic in 1923.

Not surprisingly, AKP leaders object. They deny that they are Islamists or have any designs on creating a religiously governed state. They claim only to be building a clean, open, and vigorously free-market society. If the AKP has an agenda, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly says, it is to prepare Turkey for membership in the European Union—and to do so despite recent rebuffs from Germany and France.

This is one domestic squabble that the whole world is watching, and not only because of the large question mark hovering over Turkey's bid to join the EU. The second-largest provider of troops to NATO after the United States, Turkey offers a much needed alternative to Russia as a passageway for pipelines bringing oil and gas from the Middle East and Central Asia to Europe.

2007-09-23 13:53:38 · 1 answers · asked by lilbxdominicana157 1

For Instance, a Democrat might say:

Equal Opportunity
Anti-War
Pro-Choice
Healthcare Reform
For Gay Marriage/Civil Unions

2007-09-23 13:52:25 · 5 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6

2007-09-23 13:49:33 · 13 answers · asked by 2fine4u 6

I mean, its not like the average American lived over in those areas...

2007-09-23 13:48:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-23 13:47:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The average American doesn't live there, of course.

2007-09-23 13:42:57 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Electoral College System
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/electcollege.htm

During the days of horse and buggy, the E.C. made sense. Not anymore. Agree or disagree?

2007-09-23 13:40:36 · 16 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

this quote was from the movie on WW2. Bushies have forgotten history and are now repeating it.

2007-09-23 13:33:38 · 13 answers · asked by easy_game_101 2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

should the masonic order invade iran its *** will be kicked as it did in iraq (and bfore then in Vietnam, Somalia, and Korea).

2007-09-23 13:32:52 · 4 answers · asked by novus ordo seclorum 1

Any idiot (which means the average American is not worthy enough to be an idiot) can figure out the US is lying continuously about Iran. THe US uses words like "is most likely", "is believed to be",etc. which is specifically written for the idiot ( aka the US puiblic). THe problem is that most Americans can barely comprehend what they read and hardly read anyway. In addition Americans are not allowed access to unbiased news...in that "free" country of theirs bringing "freedom" to Iraq via death.

2007-09-23 13:32:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dems, conservatives, lefties, righties, *all* politicians do not care about us. They don't really care about the people, they *all* want more for them and less for us. There is no such thing as a perfect system of government, if you give people it *will* be corrupt. Greed and self preservation is too powerful.

Every person in power or office is playing the same game, they are just using different strategies. In the case of the United States, our leaders are controlled by corporate owners who lobby, corporate owners pay the leaders to not care, it goes against their interest. it isn't going to change.

Dictators use fear mongering, Religious rulers employ God, we lobby. They don't care about us, they want the rich to get richer because they are the rich.

Can we get over this illusion, that our government cares about us? Please? Can we all agree on this at least?

2007-09-23 13:30:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_mideast

2007-09-23 13:27:50 · 7 answers · asked by novus ordo seclorum 1

2007-09-23 13:25:43 · 6 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5