Is the Media Unfair to McCain?

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I'm sitting here in baggy short pants styled after those worn by an NBA team that was eliminated from the very first round of the play-offs - a television event I missed viewing because I was watching the Science Channel series about the natural history of a 4.5 billion year-old earth...

And I'll never vote for Obama.

I believe it is up to 4.7 billion now.

[Ferd]

here you go... a little bit of what Obama is all about from his number one fan, Mrs. Obama:

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that
you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your
isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to
your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

[Ferd]

Obama's resume:

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important
legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois
state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As
president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as
legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of
scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most
memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject:
himself.

[Ferd]

Obama on Obama:
speaking of his clenching the dem nominintion....

"generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children
that this was the moment ...the
rise of the oceans began to slow."

[Rico]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I'm sitting here in baggy short pants styled after those worn by an NBA team that was eliminated from the very first round of the play-offs - a television event I missed viewing because I was watching the Science Channel series about the natural history of a 4.5 billion year-old earth...

And I'll never vote for Obama... because it's more important to be right than to be popular.

I don't really care whether you vote for him or not, Pel. I just like hashing it out with you guys over him.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Ferd

here you go... a little bit of what Obama is all about from his number one fan, Mrs. Obama:

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that
you shed your cynicism . . . that you come out of your
isolation. . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to
your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

You should be glad. He's finally gonna put all these bums to work and lower the numbers on welfare rolls.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by pelathais

All due respect Bro - can you name a single "Bush" economic policy? Can you name or identify anything that he has done that is uniquely a "Bush economic policy?" All he's done is react to 9/11.

All the fiscal moves (with the exception of his tax rebate and the huge investment in security) were set in motion by laws passed in the Clinton years. And even Bush's tax rebate itself was largely fueled by the economic downturn following 9/11.

I find it hard to see how you can complain about Bush's economic policies - unless you can identify something for us here.

And your statement "Bush is terribly corrupt"... prove it! Back it up. I'm calling you out on this one, Aquila my bro. Give me some charges of corruption or I'll tell everyone that you're a bubblehead.

lol

I think Bush's corruption is deeper than just his economic positions. The man curses like a sailor and mocks Christian conservatives who went to bat for him. He's a pretender. Also I believe the Bush family has been involved in some very dark forces to push the UN's agenda and the New World Order. Their goal....cripple the US by rendering it a second rate importing nation without a middle class and the wealth solidified in the hands of a few. This will speed the path to global government.

But the economic policies I'm talking about are essentially connected to how President Bush has expanded Federal power and increased spending more than any other President in office.....while breaking the bank with tax cuts. Conservative economics demands that spending be slashed and taxes cut....Bush increased spending and cut taxes...a recipe for disaster. In a way.... Bush is quite a liberal. Accept Liberals have the common sense to know they need tax revenues to fund their grand idears.

My biggest issue is health care. I believe Americans need something in place that guarantees that even the least among us get to see a doctor regularly and for preventative care at low cost. Reason: my mother. Last year my mother died of a massive heart attack. She didn't have health insurance and didn't have a family doctor, because she couldn't afford it. She had discomfort and dizziness on several occasions but said it was heart burn or just being "light headed". She couldn't afford to see a doctor. She died of a massive heart attack on July 9th 2007. Had she been able to see a doctor, they may have been able to find the problem and prevent her death, she was only 54.

This election cycle my issue is health care. And after reviewing McCain's health care policies I find them absolutely unacceptable. His plan will ensure that more Americans are rendered without health care coverage.

[ReformedDave]

Originally Posted by Rico

You should be glad. He's finally gonna put all these bums to work and lower the numbers on welfare rolls.

But at the expense of bigger government??????

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I believe it is up to 4.7 billion now.

Since the crust of the earth itself was molten early in its history, and because the crust when it cooled has been largely recycled through plate techtonics- the best evidence for the age of the earth is from the nearby meteors and meteorites which formed at about the same time as the earth.

The oldest of these are known as "pre-solar grains" and are found embedded in rare meteorite fragments. They date to around 4.6 billion years. They are called "pre-solar" because their isotope ratios appear to indicate that they solidified before the sun's nuclear furnace kicked on. So, in a sense they are "older" than the earth and older than the solar system itself, if you were to use the time when the sun fired up as the "start" of the solar system.

Of course, all the material in the solar system existed prior to that as part of a diffuse nebula (known as the "Local Fluff") and that material was sloughed off of a dying star and so on back to the earliest observable dates in the universe - more than 13 billion years ago.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Ferd

Obama's resume:

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important
legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois
state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As
president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as
legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of
scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most
memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject:
himself.

And to think, with all that inexperience, he's managed to earn the democratic nomination for President of the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the world. Sure seems like he's got the ability to lead to me.