on a scale of 1 to 10….
using the scale where would you rank all the candidates (barr, paul etc included)..and past presidents.
10 - politician with encyclopedic knowledge of issues current and historic
09 - politician very proficient with current and historic issues
08 - politician equally good with current and historic issues
07 - politician with good knowledge of current issues..not so good with historic
06 - politician with much better knowledge of the issues
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She’s pro-life.
She’s fiscally conservative.
She’s fairly libertarian on most issues.
Obviously, there isn’t much known about her in detail, but I think she’s the best pick McCain could have done.
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he seems like a cool guy, horrible president but cool guy. much like bush. mccain seems like a total douche
McCain. Obama is a pretentious, out-of-touch elitist. McCain knows the struggles of the working man.
his response to larry king asking him about the new yorker was like, "its a cartoon, thats why we have the first amendment. people have wasted way too much time on this"
Why Obama Could be in Trouble
By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Posted on August 7, 2008, Printed on August 7, 2008
It might seem unlikely that the United States would elect John McCain to succeed George W. Bush when that would ensure continuation of many unpopular Bush policies: an ill-defined war with the Muslim world, right-wing consolidation of the U.S. Supreme Court, a drill-oriented energy strategy, tax cuts creating massive federal deficits, etc., etc.
It was not the advocates of Capitalism who helped Wilson to whip up a reluctant peace-loving nation into the hysteria of a military crusade. It was the liberal magazine, The New Republic. Its editor, Herbert Crowley, used such arguments as: "The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure." Just as Wilson, a liberal reformer, led the United States into World War I, to make the world "safe for democracy," so Franklin D. Roosevelt, another liberal reformer, led it into World War II in the name of the "Four Freedoms."
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