Sorry, but no. He is very much present news as he represents the policies of the Republican party which McCain and Palin are part of. The Republicans and the McCain campaign are trying very hard to make us believe that the past eight years haven't happened, or at least that McCain represents some sort of "new breed" of Republican. He does not. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time. His "maverick" label has long since expired. If elected, he would continue the policies of Bush and the Republican party that have brought us to this nadir of economy, foreign policy and personal and national security. A vote for McCain is a vote for the Republicans, plain and simple. If you like what's been going on for the past eight years, then you go right ahead and vote for McCain.
Palin was added to the ticket to attract the fundamentalist, Christianist wing of the Republican base that was not entirely in McCain's corner. She was selected to "unify" the base with no regard for whether or not she's actually qualified. You complain because she was asked foreign policy questions? Good lord -- why SHOULDN'T she be asked foreign policy questions. McCain is 72 years old. He is not in the best of health. To say that McCain's the one running for president and Palin's qualifications are irrelevant is preposterous. She stands a very good chance of being president. The McCain campaign is doing everything they can to keep her from the press. Why is that? Because they know she's unqualified for this position and every time she opens her mouth she proves it.
Obama has to answer questions about his life and family because this media that you think is so biased in his favor has made an issue out of those things -- his supposedly "Muslim" upbringing, his pastor, his...bowling score. We don't need to hear about Palin's life because the McCain's campaign has made her small-town spunk the highlight of her qualfication for this job. We know all about her "hockey mom" and her "first dude" fairytale. Now it's time for her to answer some real questions and she clearly can't do it.
You don't like people being "mean?" Did you sit through the Republican convention? A flock of Republican luminaries from Giuliani to Palin herself sneering at Obama for being a community organizer? Joking about him like a bunch of rotten junior high kids? That's not "mean?" It's not only mean it's deeply harmful to the nation. It reduces this election to some sort of juvenile spitting contest. Who can get off the best shots.
I know the issues. I know that McCain's economic plan will benefit the wealthiest tier of people in this country -- a tier that I and some 80% of Americans are not in. I know that McCain has supported the further privatization of healthcare -- just as he supported the freewheeling deregulation of the markets and the banking industry that has led to this economic crisis. I know that his Vice-President is such a staunch fundamentalist that she made rape victims in Wasilla pay for their own rape kits because they contained emergency contraception -- and this is the mindset she would bring to the White House. No thank you.
Can Obama handle a threat? Can McCain? His self-stated solution to the civil war in Iraq was to sit the Sunnis and Shias down and tell them to "cut the bullshit." Real insightful foreign policy there. How would Palin handle a threat? Her whole insight into foreign relations seems to consist of being able to see Russia from an island off the coast of Alaska and she doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is -- and that's been the prime foreign policy directive of the past eight years.
We need the rich to start businesses? Whoa. Big business and the millionaires/billionaires in America have been lining their pockets for eight years off the Republican's catering to them and where are all the businesses they were supposed to start? The "trickle down" theory has been a myth for years. Guess you hadn't heard.
I don't know where you're getting your info from but you sound woefully uninformed. You want to have a debate about this stuff you're going to have to bring more to the table than this fictitious notion that the media adores Obama and your hurt feelings.
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Sorry, but no. He is very much present news as he represents the policies of the Republican party which McCain and Palin are part of. The Republicans and the McCain campaign are trying very hard to make us believe that the past eight years haven't happened, or at least that McCain represents some sort of "new breed" of Republican. He does not. He has voted with Bush 90% of the time. His "maverick" label has long since expired. If elected, he would continue the policies of Bush and the Republican party that have brought us to this nadir of economy, foreign policy and personal and national security. A vote for McCain is a vote for the Republicans, plain and simple. If you like what's been going on for the past eight years, then you go right ahead and vote for McCain.
Palin was added to the ticket to attract the fundamentalist, Christianist wing of the Republican base that was not entirely in McCain's corner. She was selected to "unify" the base with no regard for whether or not she's actually qualified. You complain because she was asked foreign policy questions? Good lord -- why SHOULDN'T she be asked foreign policy questions. McCain is 72 years old. He is not in the best of health. To say that McCain's the one running for president and Palin's qualifications are irrelevant is preposterous. She stands a very good chance of being president. The McCain campaign is doing everything they can to keep her from the press. Why is that? Because they know she's unqualified for this position and every time she opens her mouth she proves it.
Obama has to answer questions about his life and family because this media that you think is so biased in his favor has made an issue out of those things -- his supposedly "Muslim" upbringing, his pastor, his...bowling score. We don't need to hear about Palin's life because the McCain's campaign has made her small-town spunk the highlight of her qualfication for this job. We know all about her "hockey mom" and her "first dude" fairytale. Now it's time for her to answer some real questions and she clearly can't do it.
You don't like people being "mean?" Did you sit through the Republican convention? A flock of Republican luminaries from Giuliani to Palin herself sneering at Obama for being a community organizer? Joking about him like a bunch of rotten junior high kids? That's not "mean?" It's not only mean it's deeply harmful to the nation. It reduces this election to some sort of juvenile spitting contest. Who can get off the best shots.
I know the issues. I know that McCain's economic plan will benefit the wealthiest tier of people in this country -- a tier that I and some 80% of Americans are not in. I know that McCain has supported the further privatization of healthcare -- just as he supported the freewheeling deregulation of the markets and the banking industry that has led to this economic crisis. I know that his Vice-President is such a staunch fundamentalist that she made rape victims in Wasilla pay for their own rape kits because they contained emergency contraception -- and this is the mindset she would bring to the White House. No thank you.
Can Obama handle a threat? Can McCain? His self-stated solution to the civil war in Iraq was to sit the Sunnis and Shias down and tell them to "cut the bullshit." Real insightful foreign policy there. How would Palin handle a threat? Her whole insight into foreign relations seems to consist of being able to see Russia from an island off the coast of Alaska and she doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is -- and that's been the prime foreign policy directive of the past eight years.
We need the rich to start businesses? Whoa. Big business and the millionaires/billionaires in America have been lining their pockets for eight years off the Republican's catering to them and where are all the businesses they were supposed to start? The "trickle down" theory has been a myth for years. Guess you hadn't heard.
I don't know where you're getting your info from but you sound woefully uninformed. You want to have a debate about this stuff you're going to have to bring more to the table than this fictitious notion that the media adores Obama and your hurt feelings.