Politics - 17 November 2007

He's the only one who votes and stays with his vote.

All the other candidates seen to vote your something and then change their mind with it's already too late.

2007-11-17 05:12:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I read recently in a Wall Street Journal an article that posed this same question.

"Will those who denigrate our administration, denigration beyond the pale, listen to people who have made it their living to pull down America?

First, denigrate the president and the rest of the world will follow, and as goes the American President so goes the Country.

Disagree, sure, but the current dem policy of personal degredation hurts this Country."

It appears to me that people in the U.S. will go to great lengths to condemn the man THEY voted into office. If he isn't doing a good job, speak out. But does consistently blasting the office of President and your own country make the world see us as a weak nation?

"I spent decades scrutinizing the U.S. from Europe, and I learned that international respect for America is directly proportional to America's own respect for its president. "
- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

2007-11-17 05:12:24 · 8 answers · asked by Mister Lippy 2

I'm tired of so called "christians" not wanting tax money to go to health care, and yet not having a problem supporting corporate welfare and no-bid defense contractors run by Dick's buddies.

2007-11-17 05:06:29 · 17 answers · asked by Jim T 2

Many women, when asked why would they vote for Hillary, the response is "Because she is a woman". Does the posession of ovaries make you a qualified leader? Does she have any other qualifications? If she feels picked on by others at the debates, how could she handle difficult decisions if our country was attacked? She had a poor memory when questioned under oath, could her memory improve if she were President? Do you think Hillary has USA's best interests in mind? Or do you believe she is looking for a power rush?

2007-11-17 04:57:18 · 22 answers · asked by Charles S 4

2007-11-17 04:49:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-17 04:42:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If they are going to heaven, wouldn't they want to die? It has to be better than the life they lead. Why all the worry about their deaths? Why does Shock and Awe collateral damage even matter?

2007-11-17 04:41:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

... rights abuses then we would simply stop doing business with them.

The suggestion of an Olympic boycott is a sad reflection of the fact that we won't put our money where our mouths are. An Olympic boycott doesn't cost us anything and politicizes an event that is meant as an apolitical sporting event (not that anything is ever completely apolitical but we're supposed to be trying)

It saddens me that we want ethics only when it doesn't hurt us financially - and thats not really ethical.

Your thoughts?

2007-11-17 04:39:38 · 5 answers · asked by megalomaniac 7

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/110807.html

2007-11-17 04:37:49 · 25 answers · asked by Page 4

If I remember correctly, a "divinely inspired" movement and a secular, "earthly" corporate-state authoritarian government aren't exactly compatible with one another.

Sounds contradictory, does it not?

2007-11-17 04:33:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=11920

2007-11-17 04:31:27 · 17 answers · asked by Page 4

The Bush-Cheney administration has been an administration that has used fascist-like, McCarthyite tactics and suspended fundamental liberties at home, including the nearly millennium-old Right of Habeas Corpus.

When President George W. Bush ordered the National Security Agency to proceed with warrantless domestic wiretapping, he knew he was establishing an illegal wiretapping program to spy on Americans, and that he was placing himself in a situation of illegality. If this had not been illegal, his attorney general would not have felt obliged to cover up the entire affair in order to protect the administration. In fact, under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the U.S. department of Justice has lost its long-held tradition of independence, and embarked upon a long list of politicized operations.

Once a politician embraces illegality, there are no limits. For instance, George W. Bush has paved the way for exercising martial law powers, first by de-facto repealing the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act that forbids the deployment of soldiers on American soil for domestic law enforcement, and, second, by signing last October (2006) the Military Commissions Act of 2006(MCA: HR 6166). Under this act, the president has granted himself almost-dictatorial powers to arrest and detain indefinitely any American citizen, without constitutional protections.

To top things off, President George W. Bush has relied on signing statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws in a manner that no previous president would have ever thought of doing.

2007-11-17 04:19:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-17 04:16:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The more money I make the more money they take.

Making you second guess on taking that higher position being offered at your job.

2007-11-17 04:16:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

you know, the seperation of church and state clause that the Bush administration has ignored?

The first amendment to the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" The two parts, known as the "establishment clause" and the "free exercise clause" respectively, form the textual basis for the Supreme Court's interpretations of the "separation of church and state" doctrine.

2007-11-17 04:14:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-17 04:12:03 · 13 answers · asked by jammey h 2

why doesn't Ann Coulter just keep her hateful yap shut and stay home and bake cookies. If it weren't for libs she wouldn't have the rights that she abuses.

2007-11-17 04:10:38 · 14 answers · asked by Jim T 2

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2886538.ece

2007-11-17 04:08:18 · 24 answers · asked by Page 4

With the help of her terrorist friends would she surrender to radical Islam and cause all Americans to convert?

2007-11-17 04:04:26 · 22 answers · asked by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2878525.ece

2007-11-17 04:02:10 · 21 answers · asked by Page 4

2007-11-17 03:57:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

bottom line, either make medical socialized like the police and fire protection...or make all three a business.

I mean come on can't we be "good capitalists" and just make police and fire protection a business? you know so next time oyu get robbed or have a fire you get asked if you have insurance first?

come on what do you say? let's just be capitalist pigs. come on.


wait i have a novel idea- lets just implement national health. WOW! what a thought. you mean we can let people get healthcare as they do police and fire? naa too crazy.

too bad that the cons want it both ways. a business when it suits them, and socialism when it suits them.

oh- if you republicans hate taxes so much feel free to move to Iraq. You can send the military home, keep blackwater and keep W as your master. Amazing deal huh?

just leave patriotic Americans alone and let us invest in America and take care of our own. Not Iraq and Haliburton.

2007-11-17 03:53:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I understand that some people dont believe there is global warming, and I understand that some people believe climate change is happening but man has nothing to do with that. I respect your opinions. So please respect my question. My question is to learn about how your mind thinks in this area. My question is ...(pay attention please)...assuming you were convinced that in fact global warming exists, and is caused by man....(notice I said assuming you were convinced), if you were convinced, then as a responsible earthling, what would you recommend we do as a country if you were in a position of political leadership.

The purpose here is to hopefully stimulate good ideas and good discussion.

2007-11-17 03:48:09 · 16 answers · asked by ron j 1

2007-11-17 03:46:03 · 24 answers · asked by James T 3

Arbusto, an oil exploration company, lost money, but it got considerable investments (nearly $5 million) because even losing oil investments were useful as tax shelters.
Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. bought out Arbusto in 1984 and hired Mr. Bush to run the company's oil interests in Midland, Texas. The oil business collapsed as oil prices plummeted by 1986, and Spectrum 7 Energy was near failure.
Harken Energy acquired Mr. Bush's Spectrum 7 Energy shares, and he got Harken shares, a directorship, and a consulting arrangement in return. Harken, under Bush, brought in Saudi real estate tycoon Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh as a board member and a major investor. Over the next few years, Harken would turn out to have links to: Saudi money, CIA-connected Filipinos, the Harvard Endowment, the emir of Bahrain, and the shadowy Bank of Credit and Commerce International

2007-11-17 03:45:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cant wait for the GOP to retake Congress, fact!

2007-11-17 03:40:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dems had their chance to lead and they failed, its over and America is ready for change. Vote the Dems out of Congress is what America will do, fact.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312044,00.html

2007-11-17 03:37:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Which any person is defined as "RICH"??
I keep hearing "Tax the rich". Is the 'rich' level, the point whereby someone / anyone makes above the "poverty line"??
Like $18,000.00 dollars a year ?? Is this amount where the extra taxation starts??
Not one candidate has yet defined "RICH" !!!

2007-11-17 03:34:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have already spent 1.2 Trillion dollars on a war that requires a political solution to resolve. This war cannot be won by the U.S. Military. If the Iraqis are not going to resolve this thing politically, then there is no reason keeping a large military force there. The Iraqi reconciliation seems further apart now than they were before the surge.

2007-11-17 03:33:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312044,00.html

2007-11-17 03:31:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous