QUOTE (fatb0t @ Oct 23 2008, 07:13 PM)
Considering the past 8 years, how could we not afford a change? Something needs to change, we certainly cannot keep going this way. If you're a conservative, please explain to me how it is that the US dollar - the once unversial currency - the currency that everyone compared their national currency has lost NEARLY HALF OF ITS VALUE? How can you explain our exponential growth in US debt? How can you explain to me the unaccountability of the Republican administration in terms of misleading the public : telling us that saddam has WMDs, having the public believe Iraq had ties to Al Quieda? I mean, can we REALLY afford to have another 4 years (probably 8) of that?
Am I to say Obama won't do that? I have no idea - but we need something and it's change.
The last eight years, the last eight years. That's the Obama mantra at the moment. Did you consider that the democrats held the majority in both the senate and congress for the
last two years? Or that the 700 billion dollar bailout was due in large part to the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under the watchful eyes of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, two democrats who assured us that all was well?
As I have said, both sides of the aisle are at fault for our problems. It's not about being conservative or liberal, it's about being American. This partisanship bickering is getting the country nowhere.
By the way man, Hussein
did have WMDs. He used them on his own people. Regardless, I'm not convinced that we should have gone to Iraq. Hussein would not have been able to use any weapons of mass destruction on us anyway, he didn't/doesn't have the technology. He may have attempted to do something stupid with Israel, but not us. So, no, we should not be there. But, we are now, and we must remain there until there is no power vacuum for Iran to move into. Otherwise, we will have to go back yet again.
Republican, democrat...it doesn't matter to me what somebody is. It's about ideology. Change for changes' sake is not always the right answer. Obamas' idea of change will hurt us, I'm telling you. His idealistic view of "spreading the wealth" will mean taking money from small businesses to give to a large portion of the population that doesn't even pay taxes! That means loss of jobs. You might want to give your money away, but not me.
Besides, Obamas' "change" slogan has been used before. It's going to take somebody far more qualified than Obama to exact change from a democratic majority...are you kidding?
Our system of government is one of the best. Yet, it has faults. When terms of office are open ended, greedy people run for that office. Most of our politicians are bought and paid for at some level, either ideologically or materially. It's our job to weed out the trash, and get rid of it. The only way is to research a particular politicians' history. I have with Obama, and he ain't cutting it.
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