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I'm no fan of CBS, and didn't see the interview or the raw footage. I would say logic dictates if they were trying to pull of a distortion they wouldn't have released the raw footage. But that's just the casual opinion of someone who doesn't care. I wouldn't waste a second defending CBS, or NBC, Fox or ABC for that matter.
I'm more interested in the fact that Ryan has introduced four different bills in Congress that privatize Social Security and Medicare.
That was a few years ago. His two latest bills privatize Medicare only for those under 55. Given that I'm 52, that doesn't compel me to stay at home in November or cast a protest vote for Nader.
Also, given that both of Ryan's budgets include the same $700 billion in cuts to the future growth of Medicare that are in Obamacare, and Romney said today that that was "the real danger to Medicare," and the RNC chairman said Sunday that Obama had "blood on his hands" because of those cuts, I'd worry more about what GOP leaders are saying about Ryan's record than what CBS is saying.
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Aaron Burr Cock said...
no, the banks ran the country before, they still do. not much has changed. it is a fact that every election is declared the turning point of this or that. mostly a lot of hyperbole
but the man behind the curtain likes the folks to stay interested in the important news of the day. meanwhile, banks are still winning.
the banks said about valerie garrett: who dat?
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dodgerblue-42 said...
ABC, would agree to a point, but not "the banks"...it is the Fed. You know, that agency outside public control that the Reps want to audit but the Dems are refusing to bring to a vote in the Senate...
If they are the enemy, why is the left so against pulling back the curtain?
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i am not an economist, not interested in ron paul, so i dont want to get into monetary issues
its simply that we all know an elite runs the country. always has. obama jarrett etal are mere chairs on the deck of the ship, move them about to befit a view. but they aint running the ship.
if only it were as simple as the gop is bad or the dems are bad. the truth is the nation is pretty muddled up, nobody really has a clue about leadership
go on believing in the gop, they will save you. ok. i am looking forward to kickoff personally
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i am not an economist, not interested in ron paul, so i dont want to get into monetary issues
its simply that we all know an elite runs the country. always has. obama jarrett etal are mere chairs on the deck of the ship, move them about to befit a view. but they aint running the ship.
if only it were as simple as the gop is bad or the dems are bad. the truth is the nation is pretty muddled up, nobody really has a clue about leadership
go on believing in the gop, they will save you. ok. i am looking forward to kickoff personally
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joetheogre said...
Funny. I must have missed the memo when everyone decided taking less money out of college to work a job giving back to poor communities was a bad thing. Thats the problem with kids today right? Too many trying to "give back" and not enough chasing the highest paycheck.
On a sidenote, can you name some successful entrepreneurs/businessmen who went on to be great presidents during the 20th century? TIA
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dodgerblue-42 said...
The 2 most successful, Herbert Hoover & George W Bush, were both disappoints as Presidents (Bush's first term was OK, his second was horrible).
As a sidenote, can you name a President who has done more to harm America's defense, apologized more for American exceptionalism, and trashed the rule of law than Obama?
Before you throw Nixon out there, he trashed the rule of law but he also built strong defenses and kept America strong/focused after Vietnam.
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dodgerblue-42 said...
The 2 most successful, Herbert Hoover & George W Bush, were both disappoints as Presidents (Bush's first term was OK, his second was horrible).
As a sidenote, can you name a President who has done more to harm America's defense, apologized more for American exceptionalism, and trashed the rule of law than Obama?
Before you throw Nixon out there, he trashed the rule of law but he also built strong defenses and kept America strong/focused after Vietnam.
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Aaron Burr Cock said...
dodgerblue once more discovers gop good democrats bad. such intellectual acrobatics are astounding.
being a partisan hack is no great deal.
obama has trashed laws, so you say. nixon most certainly did break laws, more than obama could dream of. in addition nixon was a paranoid, quite possibly a dangerous man at the end. we are fortunate he did not provoke a national confrontation
but obama, yep, he is suborning perjury, paying hush money, getting the cia & fbi to play footsie with his henchmen, breaking & entering, broke his oath of office, his attorney general was a plain crook. but, we can brush past those small things to see the greatness of nixon, but obama he has destroyed this and that & the fate of the nation hangs in the balance
balderdash
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81 Alumnus said...
Oh, my Alzheimers must be kicking in. I could have sworn it was during Dubya's term that we were attacked by Al Queda and lost 3,000 Americans and during Obama'a we caught and killed Bin Laden.
Thanks for straightening me out.
And yeah, Nixon was a wiz on defense. The first American president to ever lose a war. And only, what, 18,000 dead American troops in Indochina on his watch.
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maxcy124sc90 said...
No more than being self insured and rich makes one a bad person. There are good and bad poor...same for the rich(although I would suggest that the President has pretty much demonized the rich despite being rich himself).
You're a teacher, right?...like my wife(who chose teaching over being a physician...apparently I wasn't very persuasive)...so I'm sure you knew what you were signing up for.
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81 Alumnus said...
The vote of an individual in South Carolina in the presidential race means absolutely nothing. Same if you live in California, Texas, or New York. That's a fact, not an opinion.
But it doesn't have to be that way. The Electoral College can be constitutionally replaced just as Citizens United can. Once state legislators chose our US senators(although the Tea Party wants to bring that back, which struck me as odd until I realized its cheaper for the Koch brothers to buy half plus one of a state legislature than a whole state).
The corporations taking over our nation thrive on this cynicism. They know elections matter. More tax loopholes, fewer prohibitions on pollution to save them a buck, private insurance companies getting their hands on Medicare money. It all starts with their ability to keep turnout as low as possible.
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dodgerblue-42 said...
further diversion from the real issues. Obama needs to go even if you can not bring yourself to say it.
He did, however, praise Ryan as a good man, great with numbers, who has a good plan.
Maybe Obama evolved into "new math" and suddenly his eyes were opened...oh, no, what have I done!
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