Paradise

Jul 6 2008, 12:42 AM

Why would you vote Republicans? They keep scrapping your economy...

The Democrats during Clinton eliminated the deficit, and Bush scrapped it with his wars and years of bad management.

You elected back the Republicans in 2004 so that they could scrap even more the economy, and they have succeeded. Bankruptcy is rampant, your money worths now as much as the canadian dollar (yes, this is an insult), and unemployment is climbing. Your public debt is now so huge, the next governments will have both hands tied.

Now you want to elect again the Republicans so that they can finish off your economy? Americans are so masochistic.

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 07:32 AM

I suggested Republican, however, in my state you only need to declare during primaries by asking for the specific ballot at the time. I know in other states you must be previously declared.

Paradise, will you get over the republican bashing and get aware of the history? It was Newt Gindrich's "Contract with America" that turned the economy around during the Clinton years, not Clinton. There was a republican congress that was very active, unlike the current democratic congress. The House of Representatives passes laws and creates budgets, not the president. All the president can do is use the Bully Pulpit to advocate. It has been since the house went democratic that the economy has collapsed, and the house went democratic over the Iraq war, and for no other reason.

The CNNP

Jul 6 2008, 09:43 AM

But you are correct about the presidency. The office really has no true powers, although misreading or lack thereof, has given the office more power than the Constitution allows.

lebowski2123

Jul 6 2008, 10:34 AM

The CNNP

Jul 6 2008, 09:43 AM

But you are correct about the presidency. The office really has no true powers, although misreading or lack thereof, has given the office more power than the Constitution allows.

Unless you pull an Andrew Jackson and just not enforce any laws or decisions by the other branches you don't agree with

Siadhail

Jul 6 2008, 07:34 AM

Meh, McCain is not so bad. He's a moderate in conservative clothing. Any seasoned politician should see that he's lying through his teeth about how he's conservative and all these sudden change-of-hearts. You can tell, McCain is really bad at lying, and it never ends well for him.

I'd rather he wins than Obama, who only seems to have made it as far as he has by pure charisma, while he has no real plan, and hollow promises. I'd rather have someone in office who I know I can predict. The truth is: McCain is not Bush, no matter how much the democrats want to say he is. McCain is simply playing to the conservative crowd lately. While I am disappointed in him for dishonesty, he has not lost my support. I have been supporting his campaign even before it seemed to be failing last summer, and he is still a good man. Dishonesty is part of politics, eh?

But he'll probably lose. Too many damn hollow minded college students following Obama blindly, simply because he promises change, yet says nothing about what the change will be. If he wins, I'm gone. He will kill any hopes of having a good military career, and take away our benefits. He will leave Iraq in its unstable state, while still fighting a proxy war through contractors, continuing to lose just as much money as Bush. He will downsize the military, making it weak for the greater wars to come.

Obama, in this regard, is either a fool or a genius. He either knows not what he does whatsoever, or he is purposely aiming at weakening this country. Or maybe it is even more sinister than we know...

In any case, McCain is in MY best interests, and I believe he is in the US best interests, no matter how much they want to deny it. He says things people do NOT want to hear, which is exactly why he is right.

Now, am I a republican or a democrat? I am neither. It is an insult to call me a conservative or a liberal. I find it laughable to find people proud to call themselves such. Politically I am a moderate. If you wanted to label me party-wise, the closest you could get is socialist. And yet policy-wise I am strongly imperialist. You could say I am fully independent of those foolish things called parties, though not the fun type, ahhhhhhhh!

Therein lies but one problem of the US. A two party system. Worse, each party is on an extreme end from the other. The US is in constant decay now, and I don't think the system will ever be corrected. Perhaps the economy can be corrected, perhaps the superpower status can be kept, but the idea of what the US stands for will die soon enough, for it has already been being killed slowly by this partisan extremism. Soon enough the US will be a sham of democracy, if it isn't already.

I love what the US used to be, but it is not what it was. I can hear my homeland calling. I think Europe, particularly Ireland, will prove a far better place.

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 07:32 AM

Paradise, will you get over the republican bashing and get aware of the history? It was Newt Gindrich's "Contract with America" that turned the economy around during the Clinton years, not Clinton. There was a republican congress that was very active, unlike the current democratic congress. The House of Representatives passes laws and creates budgets, not the president. All the president can do is use the Bully Pulpit to advocate. It has been since the house went democratic that the economy has collapsed, and the house went democratic over the Iraq war, and for no other reason.

Paradise

Jul 6 2008, 03:41 PM

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 07:32 AM

Paradise, will you get over the republican bashing and get aware of the history? It was Newt Gindrich's "Contract with America" that turned the economy around during the Clinton years, not Clinton. There was a republican congress that was very active, unlike the current democratic congress. The House of Representatives passes laws and creates budgets, not the president. All the president can do is use the Bully Pulpit to advocate. It has been since the house went democratic that the economy has collapsed, and the house went democratic over the Iraq war, and for no other reason.

Republicans went to war, not democrats. See the facts.

I do not know about "Contract with America", but I know that during Clinton's administration deficits were eliminated and that they were back with Bush's administration.

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 04:20 PM

Paradise

Jul 6 2008, 03:41 PM

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 07:32 AM

Paradise, will you get over the republican bashing and get aware of the history? It was Newt Gindrich's "Contract with America" that turned the economy around during the Clinton years, not Clinton. There was a republican congress that was very active, unlike the current democratic congress. The House of Representatives passes laws and creates budgets, not the president. All the president can do is use the Bully Pulpit to advocate. It has been since the house went democratic that the economy has collapsed, and the house went democratic over the Iraq war, and for no other reason.

Republicans went to war, not democrats. See the facts.

I do not know about "Contract with America", but I know that during Clinton's administration deficits were eliminated and that they were back with Bush's administration.

"Only Congress can declare war."

So, let's see, the congress was Republican, by a very slim margin. Since then, it has turned democratic and voted for the inflated war budget three times out of three years! You make the same mistake most of the world does, and most Americans do - you give the President too much credit, and you give the President too much blame.

A history lesson - after Abe Lincoln until Teddy Roosevelt the Presidents of these United States had NO POWER. They were stripped of all power by congress except for the bare minimum allowed by the constitution, and the Speaker of the House ran the Government. For that entire period, 1865 to about 1912 the Congress was Republican, and there were NO declared foreign wars with the lone exception of the little thingy in Cuba. Since then there have been exactly 2 declared wars, both under democratic congresses and presidents. In addition, Korea, Vietnam, and a bunch of little thingys like all the messes Clinton got us into, all with Dem, Dem governments. Finally, a Republican gets into a war, and suddenly the Democrats are the party of peace???? Scrotum sweat!

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 04:20 PM

Paradise

Jul 6 2008, 03:41 PM

New Harumf

Jul 6 2008, 07:32 AM

Paradise, will you get over the republican bashing and get aware of the history? It was Newt Gindrich's "Contract with America" that turned the economy around during the Clinton years, not Clinton. There was a republican congress that was very active, unlike the current democratic congress. The House of Representatives passes laws and creates budgets, not the president. All the president can do is use the Bully Pulpit to advocate. It has been since the house went democratic that the economy has collapsed, and the house went democratic over the Iraq war, and for no other reason.

Republicans went to war, not democrats. See the facts.

I do not know about "Contract with America", but I know that during Clinton's administration deficits were eliminated and that they were back with Bush's administration.

"Only Congress can declare war."

So, let's see, the congress was Republican, by a very slim margin. Since then, it has turned democratic and voted for the inflated war budget three times out of three years! You make the same mistake most of the world does, and most Americans do - you give the President too much credit, and you give the President too much blame.

A history lesson - after Abe Lincoln until Teddy Roosevelt the Presidents of these United States had NO POWER. They were stripped of all power by congress except for the bare minimum allowed by the constitution, and the Speaker of the House ran the Government. For that entire period, 1865 to about 1912 the Congress was Republican, and there were NO declared foreign wars with the lone exception of the little thingy in Cuba. Since then there have been exactly 2 declared wars, both under democratic congresses and presidents. In addition, Korea, Vietnam, and a bunch of little thingys like all the messes Clinton got us into, all with Dem, Dem governments. Finally, a Republican gets into a war, and suddenly the Democrats are the party of peace???? Scrotum sweat!