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Name: Jay
Country: United States
State: California
Birthday: 3/27/1981
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Occupation: Doctoral Candidate
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| http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/kissel.trial.ap/index.html
Must... resist... obvious... line...
Oh, who am I kidding?
Her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours | | |
| Does negative campaigning work if your campaign ANNOUNCES BEFOREHAND that it's going to start doing negative campaigning? That seems like it'd make the negative ads seem just a tad disingenuous. I'm guessing that everything McCain is doing this election season is accompanied by the thought "I wonder if Americans would really be that stupid..." | | |
| I'm mostly echoing sentiments I've heard from other people, but this is all spot-on.
If you believe that Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP/president, you're wrong. We don't have a "political disagreement," or "differing perspectives," or anything like that. She can wink, sound folksy, and say "gosh darnit!" as many times as she wants, that doesn't change a thing. When she's giving carefully prepared and rehearsed speeches, she sounds fine. When she's coerced into actually answering a question or giving her real opinion on something, her lack of knowledge and understanding is very, very obvious.
In the debate, she gave some well-delivered speeches. I couldn't help but notice, though, that when cornered...
1. She clearly didn't know that the vice president isn't supposed to have legislative power. She waffled and rambled for 2 minutes on that question. It took Biden about 4 seconds to give the "correct" answer.
2. She knew absolutely nothing about climate change or what causes it. She ignored the question and gave yet another pre-cooked speech on how she's great on energy policy because she's from Alaska! Again, Biden immediately gave the right answer.
When people marvelled afterward that she held her own, exceeded expectations, etc., it was like they were talking about a little kid. "Awww, little Sarah did her best! Yes she did! We're so proud of her!" If you're Rudy, fine. If you're on a presidential ticket, this is not good. | | |
| I've learned in the past few days that unless you're extremely well-trained in economics and finance, you should have no clue whether or not the $700 billion bailout is a good idea. Really smart people disagree about it. I'm going to admit that I just don't have the knowledge to understand the situation thoroughly enough to pass judgment on it. With no false modesty, if I don't understand something, it's probably beyond most people. It disturbs me greatly to learn how many Americans have incredibly strong opinions one way or the other on it. | | |
| Here's a basic tip for the federal government that'll help avoid economic catastrophe. Listen to smart Nobel prize winning economists rather than cronies and lobbyists.
"...we should not be in situations where a firm is "too big to fail." If it is that big, it should be broken up."
Yes. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Is this really that complicated? Neglecting to do it is a huge red "F" on the performance of an administration. All of you people who were steadfast laissez-faire "the government shouldn't interfere with businesses" types, I hope you're eating crow right now. I'm sure you're not though; you're pretending you believed all along that SOME government interference is completely all right!
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