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i love how hes always saying that hes going to bring change but everything he says is bring up taxes and change to windmills for energy... none of that quilifies as good change. oh i forgot the stimulous package thats going to come out of our taxes, its like a bad loan that were going to be paying off for a long time.

Jack Wheeler on McCain:

http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3077/2/

If elected, will McCain bomb Pakistan to get Usama Bin Laden; will Obama give us a "chicken in every pot"? Who knows what these guys will do once elected. I just saw an email called "electile dysfunction" when neither candidate is a good choice.

I'm still have an open mind based on issues and am keeping my powder dry.

Next up: Is it Barack and Joe; John & Mitt?

Judgenot,

I think your feelings on the smarts of the American voting public are misplaced. The American people re-elected George W. Bush; who is without doubt one of the most incompetent men to ever hold the office.

WilliamLight- As your boy Bush will leave office with the largest debt in the HISTORY OF RECORDED TIME, how exactly do you think Americans can pay down the debt?

That is the problem with you Republicans...you are so hot and heavy for "lower taxes" but can not control your spending.

Reagan? Massive debt!
Bush the First? Massive debt!
Bush W.? Biggest debt in history.


We Democrats feel it is immoral and irresponsible to pass debt to our children.

But not ol' Amvet. What does he care? He'll be dead.

Judgenot,

Sorry about that. I should have written out my response better. Only my first paragraph was directed at you specificly.

The "You Repubicans" was directed at everyone on this post who gives props to the biased blatherings of Amvet. That guy posts all the time and to anyone payign attention, he is FAR from an objective independent.

Basically, I am tired of the Right's tired old "Democrats only want to raise taxes" while ignoring their debt-increasing ways.

As for earmarks, you are right on target. I saw an expose on the Salmon deal on the national news a few months back. It IS a screwed up deal. So I agree with you there.

But as for me name calling, please forgive me. I have spent the last eight years being called a "defeatist" or "Traitor" or "Weak on National Defense" because I did not fall into lock step with the Bush administration's march to this unending war.

Final point. I actually admire McCain very much. I just feel Obama will do a better job. I feel America does NOT need to "bomb..bomb...bomb..bomb Iran."

Basic government lecture 101: No budget is put into effect by any president. The president only PROPOSES a budget. It then goes to CONGRESS where it blossoms into something unimaginable as all those yahoos try to buy their re-election. Reagan didn't bust the budget...Congress did. Bush 1 didn't bust the budget...Congress did. W didn't bust the budget...Congress did.

Forget the president. If you want to control spending, get those idiots out of Congress. All of them. Why do you think we pay the president so much? So he can take the heat for Congress. And it seems to have worked very well judging by the uninformed responses above.

Iraq? Congress voted to go (including Hillary)
Budget? Congress added earmarks and probably 2 or 3 thousand pages to the proposed budget
Oil Shortage? Congress restricted our access to our own oil years ago and now uses the time factor to justify doing nothing.
I could go on. Just suffice it to say that Congress pulls the strings and passes the laws and regulations. No wonder they get away with it since everyone thinks it's the president.

"Jack Wheeler is a brilliant man who was the author of Reagans strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness."

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Quite aside from anything else...

I *thoroughly* disagree with the assessment of Reagan's "results."

The Soviet Union could clearly have simply ignored us wasting billions on Star Wars. Think about it: how would it have hurt them to ignore it? Do you think Gorbachev believed that as soon as we got it ten or twenty years down that line that we'd launch an all-out nuclear attack?

All that Star Wars did was increase the pressure from the Soviet hard-liners against a leader who was undoing decades of state mind-control and dictatorship with his liberalization program.

I believe Gorbachev probably *should* have been Times' "Entity of the Century" for bringing us away from a great likelihood of massive nuclear war. If Brezhnev, Andropov, Putin, or any of the other hard-line nuts had been in power during the Reagan years the Soviet Union would have just continued as always, stifling dissent and executing/gulagging anyone who made a noise.

Whatever we did or did not do with Star Wars would have made absolutely no difference to them: we could have had a million Star Wars programs and it wouldn't have affected them unless the US wanted to launch a nuclear attack upon them.

If we had had a Jimmy Carter as president during the 80s we might very well have seen a much more liberal and stable Soviet Union develop as a close ally, we might have been much less likely to see the ra