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To sin tax or not to sin tax
Then you say he's "wrong" on national security and has a "redistributionist" fiscal policy. But wait
I realize this is an opinion piece but don't you think that you should provide some backing for your assertions? You claim that Obama's Berlin speech attacked the United States and the US Presidency. I watched this speech twice, once the day it was given and now again looking for these attacks you mention, but I heard none. What attacks are you referring to? Do you consider it an attack on America to say that the US has made mistakes? I think that any rational person would conclude that the US (and every other country on the planet) have made many, many mistakes.
You repeat the common complaint that Obama is unspecific on his platform, but have you made any effort to discover it? Have you bothered actually listening to any of his many policy speeches or are you basing this entirely on 30 second campaign commercials? Senator Obama's website has hundreds of pages worth of policy specifics in easily readable formats. Here's a link:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
If Senator Obama is wrong on foreign policy issues, why are both the Bush administration and John McCain now embracing the proposals that Obama has been pushing since 2007? Both McCain and Bush have now come around to direct diplomacy with Iran rather than pointless saber-rattling (which has had the additional benefit of causing oil prices to drop.) McCain has now embraced withdrawing the bulk of our forces from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, as Obama has pushed for since 2006. If John McCain is the master of foreign policy, why is he now resorting to agreeing with the policy proposals of this rock star foreign policy amateur?
Finally, to address your last little bit about Obama traveling around the world while McCain was funding the troops... you realize that Obama went to all the same countries that McCain did during his big international trip which directly followed his clinching of the GOP primaries, right? You claim that McCain was funding the troops while Obama was "attacking America" (Again, you have no supporting evidence for this nonsense), why did he vote against the new GI Bill, which Obama voted for?
Frankly, I'm stunned, in our currently economic climate, that anyone who consider voting for someone who said that following:
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." -John McCain February, 2008
Well, then I started laughing about your recent quote, “I felt like it was probably not right for me as Rep. Foley with my red (legislative) license plate to pull into the Department of Transportation (or any other state agency) and say ‘I’m here to sell you something,’” - all after a contract was sealed to help your company win a state contract last year to pay YOU a 10-percent commission on all policies sold. According to the NMIndependent, some 500 government employees in New Mexico have signed up for the supplemental cancer, accident and universal life-insurance policy.
You sir, unlike Barack Obama and John McCain, will never be remembered among great men and women.
I come to NMI for the great reporting on local issues, like the environment, and I've really come to appreciate the smart writing, thorough research and most importantly, a progressive perspective on stories. I, and most other NMI readers I suspect, could do without hearing anyone's opinion on anything, regardless of its political viewpoint. There's already a glut of opinion bloggers out there, and none of them are going to change anyone's mind about anything.
I realize it's about about Web hits, but I'd rather you stick to covering news, NMI.
First of all, Dan isn't a conservative, he is a neo-con. (quit trying to lump conservatives in with the neo-cons) Harold Hobson is a horse trader. Liberal do love to complain, they also hate having anybody have a different opinion. Not exactly a tolerance for different view points and different ideologies that they tend to profess to have, but rather a belief that their view is the only one that should be spoken. If you don't like Dan's trolling, then don't bite the hook. He start the article pointing out that the purpose was to flame and start a debate. Stop trying to silence debate. If you can't handle his point of view, stay out of the kitchen. Liberals and neo-cons two groups with heads stuck in the sand.
What I'm saying is that there is already no shortage of this sort of pointless discussion on the Internet. I am arguing that NMI should consider itself above this sort of drivel.
I want to read progressively-minded, thoughtful news pieces. If I need some moron's uninformed opinion, there's always the Journal's ed. page, or Daily Kos, LGF, Huffington Post or gazillions of other sources for endless arguing and bloviating.
In other words, rather than trying to silence debate, I'm humbly requesting that NMI seek to keep it a little more high-minded. By letting the sources and people quoted in stories -- the folks who are actually doing something -- be the voices.
Chimpy-I notice you spoke of only having progressively minded folks adding to the discussion. That appears to highlight a bias against conservative minded folk. Don't want to hear the other side of the argument???
Lets see my choice is John McCain or that smart black man Barack Obama?
McCain who does not know how to use a computer but is willing to learn if we elect him
Lets look at some republicans celebrity status.
McCain: Cameo appearance in the movie the "Wedding Crashers"
Ronald Reagan...if I remember correcly he went from acting to politics.
The "Govenator" of CA.
My vote goes to the rock star.