And McCain's been shedding his "maverick" character of 2000 for Karl Rovian look since 2004. I'd rather have someone who's been looking ahead than one who has abandoned any bit of integrity that he once had.Cardinals wrote:That's one of the things I really liked about the Confederate Constitution. As president, you got one 6 year term. That was it, that way the president didn't spend his entire term worrying about getting reelected, but rather on dealing with the problems at hand.
Bren, Obama's basically been campaigning since 2004 to be president. How is that any different from Romney?
Vice President Palin?
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Aaron, the single term issue is meaningless in this case since none of the candidates were running for re-election.Cardinals wrote:That's one of the things I really liked about the Confederate Constitution. As president, you got one 6 year term. That was it, that way the president didn't spend his entire term worrying about getting reelected, but rather on dealing with the problems at hand.
Bren, Obama's basically been campaigning since 2004 to be president. How is that any different from Romney?
Obama has been running for quite some time. So was Hillary and so was McCain. There was never any question whether the latter two were going to run, with Obama, there was,
As far as Obama v. Romney, Romney started jockeying for position for presidentas soon as he became governor of Massachusetts back in January 2003, he shouldn't have even been eligible to run for governor since he hadn't actually lived in Massachusetts in 4 years but because he owned a home there, had enough money and knew enough of the right people he was able to weasel his way into the race (even though he listed his address on his income taxes as being in Utah). As much as I dislike McCain's positions, I have (or at least used to have) a fair amount of respect for him. Romney is pure sleaze. That said, at least he isn't completely clueless like Palin is, as sleazy as Romney is, he knows how to handle business (at the expense of the working class). Romney would have balanced out McCain's economic shortcomings on the conservative ticket instead of going for a gimmick pick.
Or they start worrying about climbing the ladder to the next level.
It also has the wonderful side effect of making sure that the person who is best qualified for the position can't keep working in that position and every term we get a neophyte who is just starting to get the hang of his job when he has to give it up (Reps serve only two years). There are LOTS of problems with our government, term limits might be one of them but compared to the influence of special interests, expanding executive authority and a host of other issues, it's pretty minor (and one that could be curbed by fixing other problems, such as curbing the massive amounts of money given by special interests).
It also has the wonderful side effect of making sure that the person who is best qualified for the position can't keep working in that position and every term we get a neophyte who is just starting to get the hang of his job when he has to give it up (Reps serve only two years). There are LOTS of problems with our government, term limits might be one of them but compared to the influence of special interests, expanding executive authority and a host of other issues, it's pretty minor (and one that could be curbed by fixing other problems, such as curbing the massive amounts of money given by special interests).
I think Garrison Keillor says it best!
Americans' B.S. detectors off charts with Palin
By Garrison Keillor, Syndicated Columnist
In print: Saturday, October 11, 2008
We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. In Philly, a woman earns $10.30/hour to care for a man brought down by cystic fibrosis. She bathes and dresses him in the morning, brings him meals, puts him to bed at night. It's hard work lifting him and she has suffered a painful hernia that, because she can't afford health insurance, she can't get fixed, but she still goes to work because he'd be helpless without her. There are a lot of people like her. I know because I'm related to some of them.
Low dishonesty and craven cynicism sometimes win the day but not inevitably. The attempt to link Barack Obama to an old radical in his neighborhood has desperation and deceit written all over it. Meanwhile, stunning acts of heroism stand out, such as the fidelity of military lawyers assigned to defend detainees at Guantanamo Bay – uniformed officers faithful to their lawyerly duty to offer a vigorous defense even though it means exposing the injustice of military justice that is rigged for conviction and the mendacity of a commander in chief who commits war crimes. If your law school is looking for a name for its new library, instead of selling the honor to a fat cat alumnus, you should consider the names of Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Lt. Col. Mark Bridges, Col. Steven David, Lt. Col. Sharon Shaffer, Lt. Cmdr. Philip Sundel and Maj. Michael Mori.
It was dishonest, cynical men who put forward a clueless young woman for national office, hoping to juice up the ticket, hoping she could skate through two months of chaperoned campaigning, but the truth emerges: The lady is talking freely about matters she has never thought about. The American people have an ear for B.S. They can tell when someone's mouth is moving and the clutch is not engaged. When she said, "One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day, American people, Joe Sixpack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars," people smelled gas.
Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne'er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself – one stink bomb after another, and now Gov. Palin.
She is a chatty sportscaster who lacks the guile to conceal her vacuity, and she was John McCain's first major decision as nominee. This troubles independent voters, and now she is a major drag on his candidacy. She will get a nice book deal from Regnery and a new career making personal appearances for 40 grand a pop, and she'll become a trivia question, "What politician claimed foreign policy expertise based on being able to see Russia from her house?" And the rest of us will have to pull ourselves out of the swamp of Republican economics.
Your broker kept saying, "Stay with the portfolio, don't jump ship," and you felt a strong urge to dump the stocks and get into the money market where at least you're not going to lose your shirt, but you didn't do it and didn't do it, and now you're holding a big bag of brown bananas. Me, too. But at least I know enough not to believe desperate people who are talking trash. Anybody who got whacked last week and still thinks McCain-Palin is going to lead us out of the swamp and not into a war with Iran is beyond persuasion in the English language. They'll need to lose their homes and be out on the street in a cold hard rain before they connect the dots.
Americans' B.S. detectors off charts with Palin
By Garrison Keillor, Syndicated Columnist
In print: Saturday, October 11, 2008
We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus. In Philly, a woman earns $10.30/hour to care for a man brought down by cystic fibrosis. She bathes and dresses him in the morning, brings him meals, puts him to bed at night. It's hard work lifting him and she has suffered a painful hernia that, because she can't afford health insurance, she can't get fixed, but she still goes to work because he'd be helpless without her. There are a lot of people like her. I know because I'm related to some of them.
Low dishonesty and craven cynicism sometimes win the day but not inevitably. The attempt to link Barack Obama to an old radical in his neighborhood has desperation and deceit written all over it. Meanwhile, stunning acts of heroism stand out, such as the fidelity of military lawyers assigned to defend detainees at Guantanamo Bay – uniformed officers faithful to their lawyerly duty to offer a vigorous defense even though it means exposing the injustice of military justice that is rigged for conviction and the mendacity of a commander in chief who commits war crimes. If your law school is looking for a name for its new library, instead of selling the honor to a fat cat alumnus, you should consider the names of Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Lt. Col. Mark Bridges, Col. Steven David, Lt. Col. Sharon Shaffer, Lt. Cmdr. Philip Sundel and Maj. Michael Mori.
It was dishonest, cynical men who put forward a clueless young woman for national office, hoping to juice up the ticket, hoping she could skate through two months of chaperoned campaigning, but the truth emerges: The lady is talking freely about matters she has never thought about. The American people have an ear for B.S. They can tell when someone's mouth is moving and the clutch is not engaged. When she said, "One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day, American people, Joe Sixpack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars," people smelled gas.
Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne'er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself – one stink bomb after another, and now Gov. Palin.
She is a chatty sportscaster who lacks the guile to conceal her vacuity, and she was John McCain's first major decision as nominee. This troubles independent voters, and now she is a major drag on his candidacy. She will get a nice book deal from Regnery and a new career making personal appearances for 40 grand a pop, and she'll become a trivia question, "What politician claimed foreign policy expertise based on being able to see Russia from her house?" And the rest of us will have to pull ourselves out of the swamp of Republican economics.
Your broker kept saying, "Stay with the portfolio, don't jump ship," and you felt a strong urge to dump the stocks and get into the money market where at least you're not going to lose your shirt, but you didn't do it and didn't do it, and now you're holding a big bag of brown bananas. Me, too. But at least I know enough not to believe desperate people who are talking trash. Anybody who got whacked last week and still thinks McCain-Palin is going to lead us out of the swamp and not into a war with Iran is beyond persuasion in the English language. They'll need to lose their homes and be out on the street in a cold hard rain before they connect the dots.
