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Reply to Exactly How Much Do You Agree With Obama on the Issues? in Democrat PolMach Forums

John McCain 80% Match

Reply to Exactly How Much Do You Agree With Obama on the Issues? in Democrat PolMach Forums

I was a little shocked that I agreed with Obama twice! But then again, I'm a little more socialy moderate than some of my conservative bretherin.

Reply to Biden's 14 Lies in Democrat PolMach Forums

Did anybody else notice Joe Biden's contradicting himself when it came to the subject of defining the job of VP? One minute he spoke about the VP's duties involving the legistlative branch, and how important that function is. The Palin said something somewhat similar. Then Biden turned around and said that the VP has no duties pertaining to the Legislative branch what-so-ever! That being said, I have to play a little devil's advocate here. 2. &nbs

Reply to This Inquiring Mind Wants to Know in Democrat PolMach Forums

He did have some loanse. Supposedly he paid them off during the time he was a "Community Organizer". At least, this is what I've heard from the press, but I didn't do much digging into this myself.

Reply to I'll see your failed $700B with my 2 cents in US Domestic PolMach Forums

Okay, they keep telling us that credit is freezing. More specifically, they are talking about revolving lines of credit that craploads of businesses use to conduct everyday business. These lines of credits cost money. The banks are scared right now because they all do business with eachother in a similar way that companies and citizens do business with them. No bank trusts other banks because too many of them

I'll see your failed $700B with my 2 cents in US Domestic PolMach Forums

Before I start I have to say that I'm an economic dummie. This is just simply my (average American) perspective on the financial mess we find ourselves in. Don't look for answers here, I'll simply be raising more questions and exploring alternative views in this post I remember a few years ago warning my friends and family that in my opinion, real estate prices were artificially too high. There wa

Reply to Abortion, Religion, and Environment in US Domestic PolMach Forums

[quote]There are no federally funded abortions[/quote] Take a look at Title 10 then tell me the feds don't fund abortions.

Reply to Political Machine/JoeUser Presidential Prediction Poll in US Domestic PolMach Forums

I hate to say this, but at this point I predict an Obama victory by 2%. Prove me wrong America. Vote McCain/Palin!

Reply to McPalin on the rise? in US Domestic PolMach Forums

What amazes me about the polls are the undecideds. I mean come on! Who could possibly be undecided by this point. Oh I know, the lazy and uninformed.

Reply to John McCain Dead of Heart Attack! in US Domestic PolMach Forums

Wow, I knew about Obama's mom, but didn't know he is a smoker. Even if he wasn't a smoker,(I'm going to say something racist here) studies have shown that on average black men have shorter life spans that whites. This isn't important, I just wanted to fit into shocking nature of the article here.

Reply to Biden to Drop Out According to FOX in Democrat PolMach Forums

[quote]What was the point of this blog?[/quote] Dude, just have fun with it. I thought we all knew what to and what not to take seriously here.

Reply to Democratic Economics in Democrat PolMach Forums

I have a problem with your 98.5% tax cut statement. Actually what I've been able to come up with is that under Obama's plan (yes I know you said Democrat economics, but Obama is the Presidential nominee for that party) will actually only cut taxes to 80% while repealing current tax cuts for the other 20%. Actually it does appear that Obama's plan will have a larger tax cut for the poor and middle class than McCain's does. That should sound good to me, but here's the problem.

Reply to Biden to Drop Out According to FOX in Democrat PolMach Forums

See it's like this. Hillary wants the White House, so after losing in the primary she goes out of her way to appear supportive of Obama, even though he doesn't pick her for V.P. She gets cozy with Biden, who hates Obama. Biden goes out of his way to appear foolish (not a stretch), so Obama doesn't object to Biden dropping out. Biden suggests Hillary as a replacement. Hillary of course seems like the logical replacement. The O

Reply to Iraq war- task from God? in Republican PolMach Forums

Actually in full context, she was borrowing an idea from Abraham Lincoln in this statement. The idea is not to pray that God is on our side, but that rather we are on God's side. It's just a different way of saying that we are praying for the wisdom to make the right decisions. "Let's pray that our national leaders are..." Somehow everybody keeps forgetting those first three words "let's pray that". This totally changes the meaning. Using quotes out of cont

Reply to Obama Compared to Christ in Democrat PolMach Forums

[quote]It's not Palin running against Obama.[/quote] I think the Obama campaign saw how adding Palin to the ticket really energised the right. Their strategy is to use clever words and comments to fight the conservative movement so they can disract voters from seeing the real issues.

Reply to Jesus was a Community Organizer, Pontius Pilate was a Governor in Democrat PolMach Forums

Who else can we call community organizers? Oh I know, Charles Manson, Al Capone, Jim Jones, the list just goes on and on....

Reply to The Dems may Finally do the Right Thing in Democrat PolMach Forums

Agreed.

Reply to The Republican disaster in Democrat PolMach Forums

[quote]This caused the birth of the sub-prime loan[/quote] This is only partially true. Our wonderfull leaders in Washington passed regulations that forced sub-prime lending on institutions. This mixed with the fact that money did become too cheap made for one disasterous malitov cocktail.

Reply to The Republican disaster in Democrat PolMach Forums

I don't know how you are blaming this on Republicans. McCain was the first person to point out that Freddy and Fannie were on the brink of ruin several years ago, and tried to pass a common sense regulatory bill to stop the miss-management of these companies. The former CEOs of both these companies are now on Obama's economic advisory team. They might as well join his team since their former companies had given Barry so much money. Check it out, these are the greedy bo

Reply to A suggestion in Republican PolMach Forums

Though I would like to support the author of Obama Nation by buying a copy of his book, I can't. Besides, I already know enough about Obama to vote against him.

Reply to Lipstick on a Pig? in Republican PolMach Forums

Gotta love that sense of humor! :HOT:

Reply to Lipstick on a Pig? in Republican PolMach Forums

Okay, the audience did interperate this statement as being associated with Palin's joke. But crying sexism over this won't help the Republican party. Cries of sexism didn't help Hillary Clinton, and making a big deal out of this will do nothing but hurt the GOP cause. There are plenty of real issues to discuss, and plenty of valid cases of sexism in this campaign to address. There is no way to prove that Obama's comment was meant to be d

Lipstick on a Pig? in Republican PolMach Forums

I'm sure all of you are as tired of hearing about this as I am, so I will be brief. Yesterday, Barrack Obama used a familiar expression to illustrate a point. Barrack's point being that he feels the McCain campaign is using the same Republican platform of the current Bush administration, only packaged differently. The expression in question is, "Yo

Reply to Rethinking my position on the election in Republican PolMach Forums

We are all different and as unique as snowflakes. The only possible candidate to agree with any one person on every issue would be a mirror.:P

Reply to Global Climate Change in The Environment PolMach Forums

Perhaps we should have a government bail out for the climatologists! So what if these creaps lied to us for years so they can get grant money from the old fools in Washington. These poor scientists will find themselves out of work soon, and we can't just sit by and let them starve!;)