Obama '08?

They're juggling their books a little better than Bush.

cicerone imposter wrote:

They're juggling their books a little better than Bush.

Do you really believe that the dems can handle the finances of the entire country if they cant even handle the finances for their own convention?

Foxfyre wrote:

Nobody ever bought me a car, healthy or otherwise

I actually prefer to have the privilege and ability and opportunity to prepare myself to work and earn as much as I feel up to earning to buy my own though. Health care too.

Don't care what you prefer, really. We need a system which works well for all, not one in which some do very well and some do very poorly.

Cycloptichorn

okie wrote:

teenyboone wrote:

okie wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

'Told who to vote for?'

You presume knowledge where you have none, Fox. How do you know these people are told who to vote for? Or that they actually vote for these people, once in the booth?

It's just another tired Republican trope, oft repeated but little verified.

FD is right - you don't know what you are talking about, in the slightest. I've done plenty of voter registration work myself, much of it in what would accurately be described as slums and ghettos, and we never told anyone who to vote for, ever. In fact, we weren't legally allowed to even talk about it with them unless they asked us direct questions about the candidate, iirc.

Cycloptichorn

Did you ask for ID's cyclops, and did you verify if they were already registered either there or somewhere else? How did you know you didn't sign up a bunch of people illegally? Or did you care?

In my precinct, you walk up to the registrar, state your name and that's it!
If you are registered, your name is in the book! Anything else is illegal!
If your name has been deleted, you can ask for a provisional ballot! That's it! Apparently no one has asked YOU to verify YOURSELF, so why should anyone else be asked? You've got a lot of nerve! These are the tactics used by "Jim Crow", throughout the South, before the Voting Rights Act was passed!

I wasn't referring to voting, I was referring to becoming registered to vote. It has been a long time since I registered, but I think I had to provide an I.D. to prove I was who I said I was, and that I was a resident of the county. Sheesh, what is so terrible about that, and unreasonable?

And providing I.D. to vote is not a bad idea as well, to show you are the person on the voter registration rolls.

#1 - You need to read the damn Constitution, then
#2 - Read the fricking Bill of Rights!

Are you so cowed that you don't know what your rights as a citizen are? Do you care? What a fool! Did you know that you can't be arrested for no reason or to be stopped for no reason? Cops are so corrupt until, they become judge and jury, while they kill people while in police custody!

Do you read the newspapers and have you heard of police brutality? That's YOUR tax dollars at work, while the "protect and serve", do everything BUT! They think they're above the law in New York. When guiliani was the mayor, the cops had tee-shirts that said, "We OWN the night", then pumped 41 bullets into an African, reaching for his wallet to ID himself and the cops claimed they thought his wallet was a gun!

Guilani and Bernard Kerik, 2 crooks with badges; "Perfect together", as we say in Jersey! Bernard Kerik; nominated for the Homeland Security chief, until they found out that he was involved in a shady "pay for play" scheme! The son of a prostitute and a philanderer! Guiliani hates Italians so much, he broke up the mafia, he was born into!

You need to read more. These are but 2 horror stories of the many that make up the NY/NJ area. If you can make it here, you can make it, anywhere!

Just look at the makeup of the Supreme Court, then ask again who compromises too much.

May 9, 2005

REPUBLICANS vs. DEMOCRATS ON THE ECONOMY....Did you know that Democratic presidents are better for the economy than Republicans? Sure you did. I pointed this out two years ago, back when my readership numbered in the dozens, and more recently Michael Kinsley ran the numbers in the LA Times and came to the same conclusion.

The results are simple: Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations.

cicerone imposter wrote:

May 9, 2005

REPUBLICANS vs. DEMOCRATS ON THE ECONOMY....Did you know that Democratic presidents are better for the economy than Republicans? Sure you did. I pointed this out two years ago, back when my readership numbered in the dozens, and more recently Michael Kinsley ran the numbers in the LA Times and came to the same conclusion.

The results are simple: Democratic presidents have consistently higher economic growth and consistently lower unemployment than Republican presidents. If you add in a time lag, you get the same result. If you eliminate the best and worst presidents, you get the same result. If you take a look at other economic indicators, you get the same result. There's just no way around it: Democratic administrations are better for the economy than Republican administrations.

Your still peddaling this horse squeeze?

I don't know what is wrong with c.i. I just write it off as inhaling too many fumes from his taxi and then the shoe business.

Well, Obama does set a good example for America's youth to emulate