Vote for Change????

[Rneil]

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> George Bush has been in office for 7 1/2 years. The first six
> the economy was fine.
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> A little over one year ago:
> 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
> 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
> 3) the unemployment rate was 4.5%.
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> 4) the DOW JONES hit a record high--14,000 +
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> 5) American's were buying new cars, taking
> cruises, vacations o'seas, living large!...
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> But American's wanted 'CHANNGE'! So, in
> 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress & yep--we got 'CHANGE' all
> right!.....
> 1) Consumer confidence has plummeted ;
> 2) Gasoline is now over $4 a gallon & climbing!;
> 3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
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> 4) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12
> TRILLION DOLLARS & prices still dropping;
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> 5) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
> 6) as I write, THE DOW is probing an other
> low~~11,300--$2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS HAS EVAPORATED FROM THEIR STOCKS,
> BONDS & MUTUAL FUNDS INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS!
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> YEP , IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE!...AND WE SURE AS HELL
> GOT IT!!!....NOW 'BO', the DEM'S CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT--AND THE
> POLLS SAY HE'S GONNA BE 'THE MAN'--CLAIMS HE'S GONNA REALLY GIVE US
> CHANGE!!....JUST HOW MUCH MORE 'CHANGE' DO YA THINK YOU CAN
> STAND???.....

[Rabbithoundjb]

Rneil you are right about that. My question is simple what happened to all investigating the oil companies and putting a stop to the price gouging that was going on when they were running for office and that was 2 dollars a gallon ago. I guess once they were elected it wasn't important anymore.

Gas prices has driven everything that has to be transported up. If you think it's bad now wait til the dems get the white house too. Your taxes are going up, interest rates, unemployment, buisness closings, the crime rate, while cash flow will continue on a downward trend.

I don't claim to know what the answer is but it's not a liberal in the white house.

[green river]

If you want homosexuals to marry, lose your guns, cornerstore abortion clinics, "ILLEGAL" aliens becoming legal, your jobs going to Mexico because of NAFTA (I'm going through it right now), more of our hard earned money going to take care of people that WILL NOT take care of themselves, totally getting rid of God in this country, go ahead and vote for a "CHANGE"! The media is driving this election and the majority of the people that fall for it are weak minded and believe what NBC or CBS or ABC tells them what to think. God help this country.

[sanfordssj]

I'm voting demo because i want to see all of this STOPPED!

Homosexuals getting married, gun control, corner store abortion clinics, "ILLEGAL" aliens becoming legal, our jobs going to Mexico because of NAFTA, getting rid of God in this country! I'm voting for CHANGE! i guess the media is guilty of pointing out the facts and so will the voters in November .

Good luck republicans!

[green river]

Thanks for posting your opinion sanfordssj. That is one thing that makes this country great. When I talk about the media leading this election, what I mean is they only put what they want you to see in the news because what they want you to see is what sells papers. Ever talk to a veteran from Iraq, Afganistan, or even Vietnam? I have several friends that I served with and some have died in the recent wars and family members that served in Nam. Some will agree with the media, but the overwhelming majority of the guys I talk to will tell you a different story about what is going on. The media will show you dead babies, dead civilians, murders and rapes. Take a look at what is going on with Obama. He has been hammered from many angles that would normally mean the end for any other candidate, but the media will always brush it to the side and move on to the next story. He's the teflon candidate. Let some of those same stories go against McCain and the elction will be over. Obama is a great public speaker, but can he run this country? He is a celebrity right now. I will admit, he has a good chance of winning the election. It won't be my fault though. Once again, thanks for posting.

[TC]

He's the teflon candidate. Let some of those same stories go against McCain and the elction will be over. Obama is a great public speaker, but can he run this country? He is a celebrity right now. I will admit, he has a good chance of winning the election. It won't be my fault though. Once again, thanks for posting.

YUP Yall Want CHANGE then Go ahead and Vote for Ol BO
When the milita is Roaming the streets trying to keep Martial law in Order. And this Country has Turned to ANARCHY remember YOU WANTED CHANGE
me personally i hope out of the two he Does get it!!!!!!!!!
maybe that is EXACTLY WHAT this COUNTRY NEEDS is a total Shakeup to bring it back to its senses..a return to Common Sense
just remember that YOU VOTED FOR HIM!!!!!

Seems that EVERYBODY has FORGOTTEN you do have a Choice other than the TWO
its called a write in vote and it is YOUR legal RIGHT to write in Whomever you Want!!!
just Another of those things the DEMS and REPS WANT you to Forget......YOUR RIGHTS!!!!

This NATION has got to hell in a handbasket since the Dems took over......Yeah your right it wasnt all that good before BUT it WAS better than it is now...
Me personally i will be VOTING MY CONSCIENCE and it will not let me rest if i were to vote for either candidate
BUT I WILL be voting......For RON PAUL We need to get back to basics and get GOVERNMENT OUT of our lives and our LIVES back into Government!!!!!!!!!
...........................................FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE..............................

[bluegrass]

[jd casey]

I'm picking MC . But I still think if OB dont win they will burn down the citys.

[chris fuson]

good point jd

[bluetickbeagle]

I am fulling backin Barack, Yes he may be a different color than you. But the younger generation sees things that the young at heart dont. McCain was held captive for five years and tortured, He is not menatly capable of controll of the whole country, and if he does get it he still has hard fillings again Nam. So Vote for a change. Barack, is young and may not have the experiance the 90 yr old man does, of coarse he wont. Those are just my veiws.

[green river]

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[bluegrass]

You know Bluetick, thats the kind of thinking that simply cancels out my well informed vote...maybe you could just stay home on election day, maybe???


Tony

[Rneil]

I would like to know what Barack has Accomplished as a politician. Give me a reason to vote for him, not he is new, fresh ideas, what has he done. I would like to see some facts I can look up.


The O-man, Barack Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

[green river]

Bluetick, Go get educated about the candidates and then do your thinking for yourself. You don't always have to follow the crowd.

[Rneil]

McCain, not Obama, was right about Georgia

August 12, 2008Recommend (278)

STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley.cst@gmail.com
Mention Georgia a few days ago, and most of us would have thought of the state evoked so sweetly in "Georgia on My Mind," the classic tune sung by Ray Charles. Very few of us had heard of the South Ossetia province of Georgia, the nation with the misfortune to have Russia as its neighbor, until war broke out last week.

Like Kosovo, Bosnia, Kuwait and other unfamiliar places before, Ossetia reminds us that a small, remote corner of the globe can explode into an international crisis. One who was up to speed on Georgia and the menace it faced from Russia was veteran Sen. John McCain. He had visited the Caucasian nation three times in a dozen years. When fighting erupted, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate got on the phone to gather details and issued a statement Friday summarizing the situation, tagging Russia as the aggressor and demanding it withdraw its forces from the sovereign territory of Georgia.

It took first-term Sen. Barack Obama three tries to get it right. Headed for a vacation in Hawaii, the presumed Democratic candidate for commander in chief issued an even-handed statement, urging restraint by both sides. Later Friday, he again called for mutual restraint but blamed Russia for the fighting. The next day his language finally caught up with toughness of McCain's.

Making matters worse, Obama's staff focused on a McCain aide who had served as a lobbyist for Georgia, charging it showed McCain was "ensconced in a lobbyist culture." Obama's campaign came off as injecting petty partisan politics into an international crisis. This was not a serious response on behalf a man who aspires to be the leader of the Free World. After all, what's so bad about representing a small former Soviet republic struggling to remake itself as a Western-style democracy?

The comparison between the two candidates served to emphasize the strength McCain's experience would bring to the White House in a dangerous world.

Obama's favored approach to international issues, diplomatic talks, failed to stop Russia's invasion. Vladimir Putin, a KGB bull in the former Soviet Union, wants to restore Russia as the supreme power of Eurasia and, to that end, bully former vassal states like Georgia out of their democratic ways. The fear is that Ukraine will come in his cross hairs next.

However the world's newest war ends, America's leadership must recognize and respond to the underlying dynamic of Russia's resurgent aggressive instincts -- the power bestowed on Moscow by its oil and gas riches.

While we don't get fossil fuels from Russia, Western Europe does, and the Kremlin's energy might is fueled by the worldwide demand for oil. Developing U.S. domestic energy sources and alternatives to oil will only enhance our national security and, by reducing the world's petroleum demand, undermine the economic, political and military advantage vast oil and gas reserves give to unfriendly powers like Russia, Iran and Venezuela.

Obama calls for transforming America's economy in a decade. He's got the right idea -- long term. But short term, this nation must push for energy security on all fronts -- now. That includes new offshore drilling for oil, which Obama loathes, and new nuclear plants, which he views with aversion. We can't just wait for breakthrough technologies for wind, solar and biomass energy.

McCain has got it right in advocating new offshore drilling and a federal push to add 45 nuclear generators over the next two decades. Given the evidence of Russia's energy-fueled aggression, he should abandon his opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and to extending subsidies he favors for nuclear energy to include renewables.

As Georgia burns, we need to light a fire under all the talk about energy security and start doing what it takes to make it happen.