Here's another little secret about the election polls you won't here reported by most media outlets; at this same point in the last election Kerry was leading Bush by 18-20%. At the same point in the election before that Gore was leading Bush by 20+%. Prior to that Dukakis was leading Bush Sr. by 24%. Before that it was the immortal Fritz Mondale beating up on ronald Reagn by a whopping 26%. For those of you with short memories or a history deficiency, the Democrats lost each and every one of those elections.
Want more promising news for America? There's this; A recent Rasmussen poll found that in a generic election the Democrats are running ahead of the Republicans by about 20%. In other words when they asked prospective voters if they would vote for a Democrat or Republican in their local, state and federal elections, the Democrats were 20% ahead of the Republicans, however when those same people were asked to choose either McCain or Obama, that number dropped to 8%.
In an election where Vinnie the talking donkey ought to be able clean up against a Republican, Obama (the golden boy) can't seem to pull away from an admittedly weak opponent in John McCain. Here's one more tidbit to give hope to people who love this country and aren't eager to see it turned into some socialist, spineless laughingstock. Throughout the Democrat primaries Obama's actual numbers were on average 8-10% lower than polls in every state. In other words when polls showed him with a 20% lead he actually won by 10-12%. There are several explantation for this. First is a fear of saying you won't vote for Obama and not wanting to listen to his little trolls call you a racist for being informed. Second a not insignificant number of Obama supporters either don't vote or unregistered to vote and can't.
So fellow patriots don't despair this race is not over yet. While conservatives must concede Congress to the socialist party for this cycle, the presidency is still up for grabs. While John McCain may not be a conservative he is far more desireable than the America hating, affirmative action, elitist socialist the Democrats have chosen.
If you had these two in front of you and had to pick one based on their resumes and not based on flowery rhetoric, racial guilt and affirmative action set asides, how long would it take for you to pat Barack Hussein Obama on the head and tell him you don't start off as CEO of Google, why don't you apply for an administrative position and come back in 8 years....?
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I haven't been keeping up.
I never believe what the news or newspapers say anyway.
IF YOU LIKED JIMMY CARTER, YOU'LL LOVE BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA.
He's Jimmy Carter in a better suit, without the hillbilly accent and a better tan
Lot of hostility here Chris. Too much caffeine?
Give me a Carter presidency over anything coming down the pike from the Republican Party.
Now, I had promised not to engage myself politically here for a while, but you just rattled with the wrong person.
Source:
The Budget of the United States Government www.whitehouse.gov
Chris you truly have no idea about the people you are dealing with. We just dally with knuckle draggers because it's amusing.
Oh, by the way, there should be a capital W starting your sentence "well thank you sharon,"
It is grammatically incorrect to end a sentence with at or to begin a sentence with "And". Actually the whole sentence is a grammatical nightmare.
The biggest faux paux though is ".....My liberal reader never fail to deliver". Why in the world would you start a sentence with "....."?
They just confuse them.
Dame Ruth has hit it exactly right. Much of what's going on inside the Belt (DC) is simply an attempt to quickly take everything away from our children, their children, from "us," from everyone, from the planet's life-sustaining systems so that a very select few can, well, this article already now is flagged, well, so a few schmucks can have a momentary auto-erotic experience at the expense of ther est of the world. There actually is a science at Cambridge University studying this phenomenon empirically.
Hell, it's his name. Why should anyone hide it? Are the libs ashamed? Are they saying that something is wrong with it? I've got no problem with the man's middle name.
Really? Have you visited The Netherlands lately, Chris? Or most of Scandinavia (those parts that haven't been tainted by their association with our Thief in Chief)? The fact is, most countries that are still classified as "kingdoms" are actually socialist in nature and the people of these countries are far better off than Americans. You, as do most close-minded, uneducated self-styled "conservatives" confuse communist dictatorship with socialist generosity. I suggest you turn off Rush and Faux News and try reading a book for a change.
McCain is a known. He has been here and made a decent run for the office once before.
In the end, at the voting booth, people will vote for a known rather than take a chance on some unknown with no resume to speak of at all.
McCain will win and the Democrats will once again pull defeat out of the jaws of victory.
That is my prediction. Neither candidate is worth a hoot and both are One Worlders. Nothing will change. The next president will be hated because he will have to deal with the garbage Bush left behind.
Our best hope is that McCain is known to be a mavrick and has went against the neocon republicans on many occasions. With Obama there is only speculation that he might actually have an idea or two that has not been fed to him by whoever put him on the post.
Both candidates are Post Turtles.
That was a good show and Tom Selleck was a hunk.
Amen!
The second issue is most people take what the media says as factual. They believe what Obama cheerleaders like Andrea Mitchell and Larry King say to be fact. When in fact the mainstream media is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Obama campaign.
"Physician, heal thyself" is a proverb found in Luke 4:23. Shakespeare, not so much.
Chris, fess up, did you really read the book?
They just confuse them.
Your crap doesn't deserve more as with all you idiotic pals.
The reason no one with a half brain is addressing what you wish us to address by your article is simple. It is entirely a distraction from the issues that threaten our world with the likes of McCain.
There is a growing understanding of all this, which Stephanie above hit squarely on the head, with: There is a parallel between the Gather upgrade practice and the Republican notion of the government. It's more than just the upgrades, but also a series of articles being written by paid staff and investors at gather, who have unfortunately learned how to earn advertising dollars through certain multinational corporations that could give a damn about our children's futures... only greed here and now.
Economists and sociologists who study the phenomenon, also exemplified by how the Fannies are being bailed out, call this "Socializing risk, privatizing reward." It is the ultimate double standard in our world, where major corporations who fail, and the biggest one in America has failed, get welfare bailout from our tax dollars, while the speculating investors who risk our homes and hearths and children's futures don't pay for the risk, but still will earn multi-million dollar incomes, when they ought to go to jail.
Geopolitically, it is the same with the likes of McCain, who feels it is perfectly OK to destroy entire nations, orphan and make homeless millions, create endless pools of suffering everywhere, whenever a male in power gets a hard-on over some cro magnum (sic) pecking order BS issue in the world. Here's another double standard. Bush-McCain can become a part of the axis of evil in our world, but without going to jail for it.
We can go after terrorists without destroying our world with effective and wise police. We can do it without undermining the Geneva Convention, which was mostly a US idea so our own GI's would not be treated the way the Japanese did treat our POWs. We have an international court in the Hague that has just incarcerated a recent war criminal who practiced racial extermination against Muslims in recent Europe. Europe is actually quite a hotbed of racism. America is a far more integrated land, if we ignore the Bush-McCain politics of multinational corporations who get rich quick on divisiveness and chaos in the world.
Well, Bush-McCain et al now don't want us to abide by the Geneva Convention, and only wish to use the International Court when it serves their purposes, but no American is under its jurisdiction, risking of course our own GI's lives as they innocently and unfortunately serve a pied piper.
So pardon me for not playing into the distractions you poorly attempted with your poorly written article.
Do you know what the term "argumentum ad hominem" means?
Look it up.
In all the arguments above that you can't address, you decide to attack the "person."
I have three jobs, my friend, as well as being an author with three books under his belt, and I've even worked for the United States Information Agency. My articles have been published at US embassies all over the world. Though not since Bush, granted
But Obama also inspires a fresh breath of air for Americans, wherever he goes, and more power to him, I say. We're not going to get a "savior" from anyone like Obama. But we will perhaps feel within ourselves the capacity to become better "shepherds" of our natural world. It is an old symbol that goes back to the dawn of human wisdom, as inherently found deep within most Creation Stories, which sans their political agendas after old words that should remain "alive" get killed by priests in the employ of their political masters, teach us that nothing in this universe is not interconnected, so beware of creating towers of babel to disconnect from nature.
There is a reason natural selection, including the cultural dimension, is random in the empiric sense. Right now, humanity as a whole and in its geopolitical expressions, hasn't even come out of the kindergarten phase. We've evolved a brain that can hold a huge amount of memory in its architecture. But it comes at a price. Just as any evolutionary phenomenon that eventually gets expressed either in behavior or physiology, any feature of that which does not integrate itself with the underlying natural systems that have evolved life on this planet, will eventually get selected out. So if human beings, with this cognitive brain, "create" isms that are in opposition to the underlying, randomly-arrived construct of nature, well, that element will also get selected out.
Most of good science is now warning us that the behaviors characterized by Bush and McCain can easily lead us to a mass extinction phenomenon. The human brain is barely understood, but something quite significant was selected into its neuronal architecture, which can enable us to actually live our lives with an awareness of these very simple natural laws. The Golden Rule, the ability to intuitively understand how others and even other lifeforms, are an equally important feature to global life... and even beyond, since science has begun to understand the implications of...
Enough already!
Well, why do I bother sharing pearls with you? And they sure don't belong to me. Well, because I am not actually writing to you, Chris... but hopefully one day, you will wake up a little bit and see the beauty of the world around and in you. Believe me, for me as a man to come to this understanding did not happen without a lot of my own stuff being constantly challenged, and that's a process we all should be open to.
Okay. I'll start with Brent :P "We can go after terrorists without destroying the world..."
How do you think POTUS Obama will handle the central front of the war on terror raging in Afghanistan? He will move our troops in from Iraq. Then, he will grin and explain that his action does not count as a "flip-flop" because it's not a "surge." Of course not, it's a "re-deployment." silly Voters. Will it then be "OK for HIM to destroy entire nations, orphan and make millions homeless, create endless pools of suffering everywhere" all over Afghanistan??? War is war.
Disconnect that from nature :P
Afghanistan, one of the key places that fermented modern society in ancient times, has been ravaged by empire building from Europe, then Russia, where bin-Ladin was an ally to the US, until now, Afghanistan is about the most dysfunctional - in the sense of opium addicts - in the world. Iraq, with Saddam one time also an ally of the Reagan administration, was developing some form of regional stability, when the hotheads who get wealthy on chaos, invaded. Saddam was personally an asshole of the highest degree, but internal legal and social movements were making it a place that was safe for Christians to exercise their beliefs in a Muslim land, for women to have their say in society, and he was effectively policing the terrorism that threatened America. As Alan Greenspan stated, the Iraq invasion is only about who controls oil.
The only country in that region that has actual WMD is Pakistan. The recent history of geopolitical map drawing, especially since WW II, and mostly after the 1960's, has never accounted for natural tribal migrations the region, which is also one of the problems currently festering in Africa. If Afghanistan is not stabilized, then Pakistan will further destabilize, and then we have about 12 kilotons of nuclear WMD, also on missiles, in anybody's hands.
Obama will inherit the sum total of a lot of American/Bush stupidity from the past 7 years, which McCain only wants to perpetuate.
Thus far. Obama seems to be the only one willing to stick his neck in this mass-extinction hornet's nest with any reasonable wisdom.
Something's rotten in that family, and this was exactly what both JFK and Eisenhower, from both sides of the aisles warned against in 1960 (in his farewell address), and just before Kennedy was assassinated - warning against the covert power of the military industrial complex, which is inextricably tied to the multinationals invested in the fossil fuel industry.
As much of my writing has expressed, we need an equal representation of women in all this power delegating of our world. In the deeper cultural sense of human history, that is why, in my opinion, we have war, in the way we now have it.
War is war, you say lackadaisically.
Kære gud, hvor er du en idiot!
This Gather update is making it too hard for me to effectively respond to emails, so I'm thanking you here to save some time to problem solve it. I've got a lot of work to take care of back here in Copenhagen today, and accidentally being drawn into this stupid article yesterday has distracted me and my time.
That was very arrogant of me. I should have written: Nature evolved in humanity a brain that can hold a huge amount of memory...
I think Obama may defeat himself, regardless of McCain's less than stellar campaign. We'll have to see who screws up worse.
Those are true Freudian slips we see McCain constantly falling into when asked direct questions, like with the Social Security payments issue of birth control Vs. male impotency pills. I had forgotten until recently that even way back in his so-called heroic days in Vietnam, that he was responsible as a hot dogger going against command directives on a carrier for costing taxpayers millions of dollars in damages and risking life and limb of his fellow men in servíce for flaming his jet and setting fire to F-16's. McCain could easily have inherited an admiral-ship, due to his father, had it not been for a registered history of such impulsive behavioral patterns during his entire military career, also while under the duress of captivity by Vietnam. Of course, like with Kerry Vs. GW Bush, we're going to see bizarre and untruthful spins on military careers once this campaign gets even dirtier than it is now.
This morning's NYT ran an article that describes his aides efforts at helping McCain get his act better together, in terms of launching a more unified Republican/multinational corporation attack on Senator Obama.
To get a glimpse at Obama's healthier state of mind, and Senator McCain's either affective or developmental issues, this was Senator Obama's response to this new wave of attacks: “I do notice that he doesn’t seem to have anything to say very positive about himself.”
*In the real marketplace, 1 out of 4 "consumers" have no "assets." CEO's are the primary owners of assets, for the most part now, and there is barely a woman allowed in that old boy's club.
*In the marketplace of a free people, even employees would own shares in their workplace. I can remember way back when, in Canada, when a young student, that in a supermarket as a bag boy, I was given shares with the option to buy more, as an incentive to be a good employee.
*What has occurred with the so-called free market is that local economies are being undermined, such that they cannot become self-sufficient and responsive to the local demands of its population group and habitats. That's why outsourcing, as per the Republican agenda (and often also Democratic), has become such a pariah on distant societies that have evolved their own unique and sustainable ways of interacting with their habitats and bordering societies.
*In other words, another presidency that surrenders itself to the wants of certain multinational corporate interests, to wit, McCain, will only result in the further disempowerment of ordinary people... the people who supply the CEO's with their outrageous salaries.
The free market is an oxymoron in today's world, especially after Reagan, but it actually began with Nixon and before, with the hand-in-glove special interests activities in government.
So is it any wonder people are "hoping" for a president who is willing to return some semblance of freedom back to ordinary people, and not just in America, but a globalized world.
* Basically, it boils down, perhaps, to restoring civil society.
Oddly, it is also about allowing people to freely express whatever form for a religious practice they feel can empower and give meaning to their lives. We have no business demonizing another person's spiritual belief system - it is part of natural cultural evolution - just as any of us would not want such things to be dictated to us, based on another society's relative ethnocentrism.
So those small pockets of Islam that wish to dominate other societies are behaving just as bad as the evangelists who play their fingers in Bush's holy (sic) pockets.
And that brings us to the subject of Islam, of course, which has been deeply demonized by the Bush administration's willingness to go to bed with the likes of Pat Robertson, who said it is OK to murder the president of Venezuela because he doesn't like Bush's politics, while he himself has oil drilling investmentsin Venezuela at risk due to Chavez's socializing of its natural resources.
Generally speaking, and here I speak as an anthropologist that's studied it, Islam as with Christianity, generally speaking, embraces a teaching of compassion and tolerance for all belief systems in the world. What some extremists in America, and unfortunately in in my native xenophobic Denmark (Denmark is rated as the world's most paranoid society over Islam), seem to forget, is that fundamentalist Christianity is equally disastrous, when it demonizes that which it doesn't understand. Basically, it is nothing short of mixed up circuitry in the brain, based on alpha dominance of resources and, well, sex. So in that sense, such fundamentalist ideologies are not spiritual by nature, but a means to control and exploit populations, their habitats and resources. And in that sense, all good science goes out the window. One of the oldest existing religions in the world did go astray with all that when it became more patriarchal in nature, and created a caste system, but the underlying connectivity between one's spiritual belief system and the evolutoion of science merged with the original tenets of what now is called Hinduism, but more accurately, the Ayurvedic system, which literally translates to "The Principle and Knowledge of Life."
Yes, just like with many evangelistic Christian movements, whose leaderships rake in huge fortunes and live the lifestyle of millionaires through threatening fire and brimstone on its memberships unless everyone tithes their family's food and mortgage payments away to them.
My God... what have we become?
As far as the flag goes it's the second time it has been flagged I had the first removed within an hour and this one will be too. As soon as find out which of these sniveling cowards is responsible I will make sure they are not allowed access to my articles again. I intend to petition Gather to remove them altogether for censorship.
Oh my god, Chris, do you realize that I've voted in US elections for quite some time legally.
You haven't the foggiest notion what you are talking about.
And why would you call Denmark a "second rate European country?"
Had it not been for the multinational speculative-investments in Germany's slave labor of GW Bush's grandfather and his ilk, that goose-stepping, mustached idiot would never have ascended to any power.
If your comment here wasn't so off any scale of logic, I'd destroy your arguments in that regard in a New York instant.
Almost more than Denmark, I deeply love America. Not *your* or *my* America... but the America that is founded on the principles that all peoples are created equal. Someday, we will all wake up and find out that a Danish rose smells as beautiful as an American rose and not more beautiful or less than an Iranian rose.
Perhaps there is a natural logic to global warming, in that it may just eliminate the economic infrastructures created by stupidity such as you proselytize. The sad thing is, it may very well also created huge suffering for half the world's population. But those so-called primitive societies that retain an old memory of wherewithal under extremely adverse conditions, like the wandering elephants of Africa, will survive, as will those who have a history of exercising that part of the brain that can intuitively rise to any challenge with great ingenuity and compassion.
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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA... AD INFINITUM.
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em
and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on
--Augustus De Morgan (mathematician)
What I do condemn, and in a most profound way, is this: when the messiah attacks a country it will be OK because you see it will be for a higher principle.
That certainly has nothing to do with the Christ in Christianity.
And before you come down on me without knowledge, I studied fundamental Christianity for 11 years of my childhood.
How typical of a eurocentric lefty to attempt to blame Hitler on the USA. The last time I checked it Was FDR who was the president over that little dust up, but as usual no need for facts to get in the way.
I call Denmark a second rate European nation for only one reason. It is. It is a samll country incapable of defending itself. It's far left social programs have turned Denmark into an international destination of drug users. It 's claim to fame is it's red light district. Quite a set of accomplishments. Your smug attitude is quite tiresome. You know nothing of which you speak, which makes you the perfect Obama supporter. In the end Liberalism always loses out to conservatism. It will continue to do so until the the bottom feeders who want to take from those who earn and give to those who don't, outnumber those of us who support ourtselves and our families despite the government confiscatin close to 50% of what we earn. If or when that sad day arrives, the entire house of cards that liberalism is founded upon will collapse as it has virtually everywhere it has been tried as an economic system and layabouts such as yourself can go back to just stealing directly from those who have, rather than have the government do it for you.