The debate regarding our health care and life after retirement has been stuck in a rut. It seems as though you're damned if you do spend, and the economy is damned if you don't.
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Balancing our health care and pension costs
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Self Serving Reformist?
It seems that the very thing that McCain has the greatest control over, - the tone, tenure and content of his campaign - is the the area he has no interest in reforming the Republican's ways even though the general public is sick and tired of distortions, fabrications, innuendo and down right lies. Hit the McCain camp hard on the self serving and hypocritical reform they are touting ....
Read more »Bogus: the word of the day
The campaign needs a one word slogan to describe the whole slew of lies and half-truths and cons coming from the McCain-Palin campaign: BOGUS. Mavericks? bogus -- 95% bush and 100% corrupt Alaska Stevens machine. Reformers? bogus -- same old nasty campaign personal attacks and Palin supported the bridge to nowhere and earmarks. Honesty in government?
Read more »Divide and conquer the Republican Base!
Forget experience, forget the environment, forget pregnancy (and for god's sake forget the "bad mother") arguements. By now we should all be aware that the republicans wisely picked Palin to appeal simultaneously to the extreme right (abortion, gitmo, drilling) and the middle (reformer, hockey mom, outsider).
Read more »Remember the Keating Five Scandal?
As a result of Charles Keating's corrupt mismanagement of Lincoln Savings and Loan, many people lost everything in shady real estate ventures. I have a friend in Arizona whose grandparents lost everything. McCain and four other senators were found to have pressured federal regulators into looking the other way while Charles Keating was ripping people off.
Read more »Remember the Keating Five Scandal?
As a result of Charles Keating's corrupt mismanagement of Lincoln Savings and Loan, many people lost everything in shady real estate ventures. I have a friend in Arizona whose grandparents lost everything. McCain and four other senators were found to have pressured federal regulators into looking the other way while Charles Keating was ripping people off.
Read more »Expose Republican Platform: John McCain's Bio; Vacant Political Policy
As I watched the RNC speeches tonight, the platform on which the Republican's stood was that of John McCain's heroism and tenure in Senate. While I (like most other Americans) believe that John should be recognized for being a war hero and a senate leader I believe the Republican's are making the campaign a referendum on McCain's heroism vs. Obama's lack thereof.
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