What Bailouts Mean
Ian @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While AIG executives go to fancy resorts, American tax payers who gave them eighty five billion dollars, struggle to keep their homes, to pay their credit cards. At the same time, the head of failed Lehman Brothers says he acted prudently and appropriately, in a measured manner, just as our Stevie Boy said yesterday. Makes you wonder, did he write the speech, or steal it from his buddies, George Bush and the head of failed Lehman Brothers? Doesn’t matter, as the point is, his policies are the same as the failed policies of George W. Bush. The result will be the same, bankruptcy and disarray.
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Who Won?
Ian @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Where is the fire in the belly of these two? I thought Obama wanted the job, as did McCain but instead of coming out fighting, instead of showing they know what needs to be done, they danced around each other, treating the other like they were a long lost brother. The problems mount for people, and these two want to lead us to the promised land, but it would be nice if they would show some real qualities of leadership. Instead of playing it safe, how about showing some guts, and speak from the damn heart for a change? TELL THE TRUTH.
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McCain’s Picks Palin
Ian @ August 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While the media fumes at McCain’s choice for Vice President, it is a choice that shows just how crafty the old man from Arizona truly is. It is a good move, because it will negate the influence of the press, to a degree, and will help focus the election more on the differences, than on who do you hate the least. It makes a case for change, which is good. Is it a cynical choice, or is it a jab at the old established party politics. It highlights the differences between both candidates, and it could keep the focus on the issues, rather than on attacks based on hate. Is she qualified, well no one truly is qualified for the job of President, but can she lead? Time will tell, as the election gets properly underway, and one thing is certain, John McCain knows how to make his case for change, just as Obama does. So at last, an election that will highlight the choices people have, without it being pre determined by the Big Business or Big Labor. It will force people to think, and that can’t be bad, can it?
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Big Talk, Can He Deliver?
Ian @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If all you do is listen to the sound bites from the Media, you may not get a clue as to what Barack Obama really said. After listening to the sound bites, to the pundits, and then actually listening to the speech, there was a huge difference. There is no doubt that he gave a good speech, and if watch it, you can see that he believes it, that it wasn’t an attack speech as the pundits and Republicans claim, but a clear defining outline of the differences between Democrats and Republicans. Yes it was firm, but attack? No, not even close, certainly not like Hilary Clinton’s red phone ringing, and some of the latest McCain ads. Watch the whole speech, then you’ll know what I am talking about. It’s worth the time.
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Obama’s Big Night
Ian @ August 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama has come out fighting, and it has the Republicans squirming. For the first time, America may actually have an election that might have some decency in it. Though it will depend on whether or not the handlers will allow it to happen. Somehow I don’t think they will, but man it should be fun. Tonight a non white is a candidate for President, and that in itself is historical. How far it can beat back the racism that exists, well, 70 odd days will tell.
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Convention Overload
Ian @ August 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
If you listen to the pundits from the various news agencies, you have to wonder if you were listening to the same speeches, or if somehow the words were changed for our listening, but they got the real speech. How arrogant these political pundits, these news anchors are. To assume THEY know what a candidate or speaker meant, or for that matter, how we should judge the speeches. Then to add insult to it all, they tell us how we should be feeling, and what we should be expecting. Like who in the hell made the media the deciding factor? Sure as hell wasn’t me, and it is sickening to listen to. After all, it isn’t like they report the news, they just tell a good story, based on little fact, just on what will sell advertising.
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Hilary Fans Not Certain
Ian @ August 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The fans of Hilary Clinton still aren’t sure they’ll support the Obama nomination, which shows you how much of a sore loser they are. It also shows what is wrong with a nation, that can’t accept the victory of one over another, when the victor isn’t white. Poor sportsmanship is at the root of it, nor has Hilary Clinton done much to help smooth it over. She has lost, though I don’t think she has yet accepted her defeat. After all, she was the odds on favorite to take it all, and she expected it. Too bad, she couldn’t manage her campaign any better than she could handle her husband and his affairs, and his blatant racism. Least she has a ton of cash to help ease the pain of losing.
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Biden for Obama, Who for McCain?
Ian @ August 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
They say Mitt Romney is the leading choice for VP in the McCain camp. Like Hilary Clinton was a negative for the Democrats, Romney should be the equivalent in the Republican side. Still, it seems the so called conservatives would like him, but then they would like Hitler too, if he agreed to their hate agenda. Obama in choosing Biden doesn’t signal change, just smart politics, now will McCain signal change, or more of the same old style politics? The kind that brought you George Bush.
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Fixations
Ian @ August 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Why should McCain not announce his VP choice on the 29th? Why Obama will choose Clinton according to Nader. Who of the surrogates enhanced their standing, who failed, are todays leading questions, which frankly shows how inane the Media is. How starved they must be for non threatening news items. No word about any specific policy plans for Obama, for McCain, just threats, just bombast, and just plain attacks. That is all the media is presenting, is interested in. They aren’t about to discuss the real issues, and where the two political parties stand. Instead they focus on how party leadership is scrambling for keeping lobbyist money without seeming to keep it. Nice, but that isn’t gonna help those paying high fuel costs, or those who no longer have a job. Nor is it helping those who can’t afford health care. But hey, that would upset the corporate sponsors.
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Reaching for Votes, at what expense?
Ian @ August 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
As the campaign enters the convention stretch, you have to wonder about the two candidates. Have they forgotten that they are supposed to be leaders? Change they cry, yet what is so different in their solutions to today’s issues? Both try to distance themselves from Bush and his failed policies, yet both are tied to him, and both seem to think no one notices. Nothing but catch phrases, and the same old politics from both. Maybe one day we’ll wake up to find that change simply means getting a quarter for a dollar. Sure seems we are being shafted this election year, with nothing but tired old cliches, and double talk.
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Republican Stunt or Election Pandering?
Ian @ August 3, 2008 # One Comment
Congress is off for the summer, while solving nothing. The financial markets continue to call the shots, the economy continues to stall, and a depression continues, but Congress needs its vacation time. Obama & McCain both should be hollering for Congress to work out an energy policy, to help end the dependency on Oil itself, not just from where it comes from. Congress should do what it was elected to do, which wasn’t to subvert the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, but to GOVERN. Too bad no one told them, too late now, as they are long gone on vacation, except for a short little stunt. If the Republicans were serious, they should have stayed, should show up tomorrow, the next day, and the next, to show they are willing to work for a solution, but then, they wouldn’t get to have fun in the sun.
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Media Gall
Ian @ July 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The publication of Obama’s supposed private prayer to GOD, is wrong. Even in stories that talk about it, to print the prayer is just wrong. It was a private moment between a man and GOD, which is not for publication. Yet even while the Press cries foul for it being printed by one, they compound the discretion by printing it themselves. No one needs to know what was written, and while the majority of Israeli publications/media refused, you can bet the North American press is ramping it up, is ignoring what is moral, in order to satisfy their need for advertising dollars. This isn’t about a right to know, but about a witch hunt. It is not about politics, but about racism.
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Voter Groups to Sway
Ian @ July 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Will more Seniors support McCain over Obama, will more women vote for Obama than McCain, will the Religious stand behind McCain? Like shouldn’t the question be, will those who want an immigration solution vote Obama or McCain. Will those who want change choose Obama or McCain? How about will it be those who want to fight terrorism support McCain or Obama, or will they all just stay home, because well the sixty something crowd will make the choices for them, or the womens group will, or the…
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Media Bias or Censorship or Sour Grapes?
Ian @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The refusal of the Op Ed Editor of the New York Times newspapers to print the John McCain opinion piece, is just one side of an issue that shows how bias the media has become. No newspaper, no media outlet should censor any candidates opinion piece, or suggest how they should edit it, so it gets published. Elections are about choosing candidates on where they stand on issues, not on which Media Outlet prefers. No Newspaper gets a vote, nor does any advertiser, union or business, yet they seem to believe they do, by how they attempt to control the media.
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What Makes A Commander In Chief Good?
Ian @ July 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The whole media hype of who would make a better Commander in Chief, is just that, Hype. The simple truth is no one is prepared for the job of being President, there is no other job that prepares you for it. So to claim that because you served in the Military makes you a better choice for being Commander, is just wrong. What makes a good commander is one who takes charge, who gets all the facts possible before making a decision. You don’t just shoot from the hip, or listen to those who claim to know more, without knowing if they do or don’t. The USA is in Iraq because the Commander in Chief was lied to, so he claims. John McCain supported that war, without checking the facts presented to him. How does that make him a better choice for Commander?
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