Politics - 6 November 2007

1) Both men support the current and future wars.
2) John McCain is a war hero.
3) John McCain hasn't had three wives.
4) Both men support illegal alien rights.

2007-11-06 23:56:04 · 10 answers · asked by Zardoz 7

Waterboarding is torture.

Michael Mukasey cannot admit to this basic fact.

I respect Michael Mukasey and believe he is an intelligent and capable man. However, given our recent history, it is important that our next attorney general be able to stand up to the President and for the rule of law. I am not confident that Michael Mukasey will.

If he can't say no to torture - congress should say no to Mukasey.

While Michael Mukasey refuses to answer the question of whether waterboarding is torture, the precedent is clear. In 1947, Yukio Asano, a Japanese officer, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for performing a form of waterboarding on an American citizen.

In 2004, Daniel Levin, who was then acting assistant attorney general, volunteered to be waterboarded. Later, he told the White House "even though he knew he wouldn't die, he found the experience terrifying and thought that it clearly simulated drowning."
If Michael Mukasey cannot answer the simple question of of whether or not waterboarding is torture, he should not serve as attorney general.

2007-11-06 23:34:03 · 12 answers · asked by courage 6

For being the (self-proclaimed) people of "peace" , I've yet to find one who isn't so angry that they are hard to debate in a civil manner.(Most people have varying degrees of liberal/conservative views,in my opinion.)

2007-11-06 23:23:21 · 24 answers · asked by sillyfrog 2

They are afraid that our captured soldiers will get water boarded? When our captured soldiers are dismembered and chopped up like hamburger meat? It makes me wonder what planet they are from...ya know??

2007-11-06 23:21:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Michael Moore takes careful aim to attack the fabric of our capitalistic society, to undermine what we believe in. He uses blatantly false and heavily biased tricks and lies to fool people. He knows Hollywood and the news media will support his biased "mock-u-mentaries" because his message is consistent with the liberal media's preferences.

e.g. "SICKO" His diatribe about health care did not focus on the number one problem in health care- trial lawyers. Health providers have mercenaries trying to collect "lottery" level awards to exploit anything they can prove is a mistake. Trial lawyers fill our courts with frivolous law suits. Hospitals, doctors, nursing homes are terrorized by trial lawyers, forcing many out of business and having to move. How in heck can you complain about the health care crisis and support trial lawyers who are terrorists without weapons.

Is it a surprise Michael Moore gave trial lawyers a pass, in "Sicko", focusing on socialist and communist ideals?

2007-11-06 23:16:56 · 12 answers · asked by ? 7

Examples:
Terrorists, Nazis and Liberals: Want there religion to be the only established government religion in the world. Consevatives: you can have and practice any religion you want even Islam and liberalism, even if it offends others, as long as it does not harm another person.

Terrorists, Nazis and Liberals: Want no citizen to have have guns of any kind for any reason except them. Conservatives: Every legal citizen not convicted of a fellony can own firearms in the USA.

Terrorists, Nazis and Liberals: Only freedom of speach for those who agree with their views.
Consevatives: Freedom of speech for all.(even if they disagree with Conservatives.

Terrorists, Nazis and Liberals: Special rights and treatment based on race and color of skin.
Conservatives: No special treatment for anyone.

Terrorists, Nazis and Liberals: Indoctrination of children through the school system with propaganda video
(I.E. "an inconvenient truth")
Conservatives: stick to the 3 R's

2007-11-06 23:03:59 · 16 answers · asked by Jack_Scar_Action_Hero 5

How much will the kids of Utah continue to suffer by having one of the worst school systems in the nation?

Will the Teachers Unions ever do anything worthwhile to help the boys and girls of Utah get a better education?

The NEA defeated the idea of using vouchers.

Does the Teachers Union have any plans to help these kids at all?

2007-11-06 22:41:00 · 5 answers · asked by Duminos 2

I am not advocating or opposing the use of oil. I am just asking is the use and dependence of foreign oil harmful to national security?

2007-11-06 20:41:32 · 7 answers · asked by Kenneth C 6

First off, I am tired of having the US dollar devalued. At the current rate of devaluation, we may have to use it as toilet paper soon. George W Bush's administration alledgedly supports a strong dollar policy but all of our actions have pointed in the opposite direction. I know, a weaker dollar will help narrow the budget deficit and the trade deficit but that cannot be our only solution in our economic arsenal. Which candidate supports a stronger dollar?

2007-11-06 20:15:24 · 10 answers · asked by Kenneth C 6

2007-11-06 19:17:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-06 17:26:26 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are a couple of revolutions or other examples i could use to back up the fact that power MOSTLY lies in the barrel of a gun?

2007-11-06 17:16:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously?

2007-11-06 17:13:55 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-06 17:03:25 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

House Republicans are circulating a petition on the House Floor that would force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow all pork barrel spending waste to be debated and publicly scrutinized.

Nancy Pelosi herself is in the top of the list of creating million dollar do nothing spending programs. All together programs like hers costs taxpayers billions of dollars. Her own do nothing programs are designed just to help her get re-elected. The programs take U.S. federal taxpayer money and spend it her own congressional district in San Francisco. She is in the top three of the list of wasteful spending projects with Murtha being number one.

This petition will not succeed without the support of fiscally responsible Democrats.
http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/petitions/Dis2.htm

2007-11-06 17:00:25 · 5 answers · asked by a bush family member 7

2007-11-06 16:57:04 · 6 answers · asked by bullfrog112491 2

While this is a boon to me personally because some of my investments pay in foreign currency and while the drop in the value may actually help place American goods in foreign markets or spur tourism to the US, I think the long term problem will be sliding faith in our ability to repay massive debts.

Am I just being a worry-wart here? Is there a bright side I'm not seeing a year or two down the road?

I'm astonished that so many are spending time bashing candidates but not questioning what got us to this pass or what to do next.

2007-11-06 16:47:03 · 14 answers · asked by Arby 5

After World War 2, Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for war crimes for utilizing Water-boarding as a form of torture.
What country prosecuted them for using a method that is typically utilized by tyranical government to silence pro-democracy protesters?

2007-11-06 16:46:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why does the US media hear something and just repeat it without checking the facts!!!!
Experts on the topic don't believe it was US big military spending that ended the Soviet Union

2007-11-06 16:35:17 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Find me one example of it working, and I'll listen to what you have to say.

As for me I'm going to go get some sleep. Tomorrow I have to go to my JOB. And when I come home from my JOB I have to fill out some paperwork so I can go back to COLLEGE, so I can LEARN. LEARNING will get me a better JOB, not to mention it will make me a better, happier person. Having a better JOB will also contribute to my happiness and betterment as a person.....

Is the picture getting clearer?

2007-11-06 16:33:03 · 9 answers · asked by null 6

Enlightened?

2007-11-06 16:29:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

...I mean seriously, you have to really work hard at F**king up to get that kind of approval rating. If you were in any type of job, from Mcdonalds to Mirosoft and you only had 25% approval rating from customers, co-workers, management, etc etc., how long would you really last? So, I'm still scratchin my head wondering how Bush has served not one, but two terms. Anyone else understand this? Sure he started out with a higher approval rating,,umm maybe 35% or whatever, but still even Rep's advisers to Bush finally got sick of it and left.

2007-11-06 16:23:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-06 16:13:31 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yes fellow Americans, Bush is using your money in the Iraq War to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan universal national health care system!

2007-11-06 16:09:22 · 21 answers · asked by GL Supreme 3

2007-11-06 16:08:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can't they stick to issues and solving issues?

2007-11-06 16:05:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

or more to the point, how many of you even knew that it happened? for those of you who didnt catch it on Cspan or tune in to one of the very few radio and tv programs that addressed it : republicans voted to keep the impeachment bill alive and then the democrats voted to refer it to the house judiciary committee.

2007-11-06 15:54:45 · 19 answers · asked by 22steve5150 3

2007-11-06 15:44:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

it seems to me that many government officials in the north lean more twords the democratic parties, and in the south they lean more twords republican parties. do you think that america is being split up by democrats and republicans like it was split up in the past? if so give examples, if not give examples. be nice please.

2007-11-06 15:34:36 · 10 answers · asked by curvy_chick000 4

I know some of your remember that I mentioned how I supported Bush and the war. I made my user name based on that. I am so sad and I regret every day for spporting and trusting Bush. We all got fooled and I am so sorry for ever voting for Bush.

I lost my brother in Iraq over 2 years ago. I hope none of you ever experience what I have gone through. Please I beg you all to save the lives of your loved ones and bring them home. You can support them only when they are alive.

It is so sad and I fal into tears when I think of my brave and proud brother. PLease do no let your loved ones get seriosly injured or worse. I too spported all of it. Now I regret it and know my brother died in vain for this lie of a war. Please for the love of your family and friends keep them safe before it's too late.

You can't support them when they are gone.


I am so sorry. i miss my brother. we all miss our loved ones. I beg all of you to stop this war lie.

I am so sorry.

2007-11-06 15:32:35 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous