Democrats please Answer!

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Registered: 12-17-2006
Democrats please Answer!
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Sun, 09-28-2008 - 8:14pm

When Obama created his entire campaign based on three things which he now will not or cannot do what is happening for his supporters now?


He said he would pull out of Iraq, now clearly that is NOT his plan, and he also plans to send four times the troops to Afganistan and also attack Pakistan.


He can NOT do anything about HEALTHCARE, he knows this, regardless of the fact that all his plan boiled down to was a 2,500 dollar tax credit per family for medical related expenses, that is FAR from insuring 330 million people and 64 million illegal aliens.


He said he would cut taxes for the middle class, which can not be done now that we are having to take this bailout which all the Democrats are pushing the hardest for, since so many are tied to the bailout in a personal way like accepting lobbyist money or kick backs and also having their part in blocking regulations on subprime loans.


I would like to know other than Obama being black which is the appeal for some, and other than him being young and inexperienced what is the huge attraction? He endorsed many of Bushes policies including the wire tapping. He also voted MORE with party lines than John McCain and he also voted 94 times to raise taxes on those making over 42,000 dollars...so WHY is he better to be President?


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Registered: 07-16-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 12:46am

Thank you for putting it much more politely than I could muster.


LOL, I'm trying to remain politically correct (haha) as much as possible.

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Registered: 08-24-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 12:51am
Thanks :)

 

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Registered: 12-21-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 8:22am

<<not voting for Obama, but it has nothing to do with being black, or biracial, or less white, than McCain.>>>


Oh Elissa, I have always known you're not voting for Obama!!!



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Registered: 07-05-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 8:56am

There's a difference between "do you know the difference between a good touch and a bad touch" and explicit sex ed.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:31am

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It's still his plan to pull out of Iraq.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 04-09-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 9:43am

The video is not convincing. I think it does illustrate just that the economy of our country is so busted that a significant percentage of our citizens cannot afford to own a house. Almost half of all American families fall into the "low income" category (the median U.S. household income is just over the poverty level for a family of five), and it isn't the poorest of the poor who are buying houses and not being able to pay for them. Most Americans are just a few paychecks away from not being able to keep up payments on a house. (We avoided this trap by moving into a modest neighborhood, and bought a house that we could pay off early. I'd pick a better neighborhood if I had to do it again, and go with the financial risk. People shouldn't have to protect their kids from the neighborhood.) Part of the blame has to fall on those who have large incomes but do no PRODUCTIVE work: the house flippers, the energy speculators, the people who split and resell mortgages and bits of mortgages...the CEO's (like the one of our former health insurance company) whose annual salary was over $40,000,000. Etc.

This article was in BusinessWeek last January:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_06/b4070040767516.htm

But no one in our national government could have "predicted" this.




Edited 9/29/2008 10:10 am ET by muddymessalonskee
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 10:38am

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Way back in the 80's I was working for a company that was part of a leveraged buyout.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 1:50pm
See, this is what scares me about McCain. I do NOT like his Health Care plan. I fear it will cost us more. I do not want the healthcare taxed as part of your yearly income. Does this 5,000 go to your employer to help offset his costs of your healthcare,if so, we would be paying MORE. If the Employer stops paying Health Care and we are on our own, 5,000 is diddly squat, we will pay more. I realize there are people fortunate enough to only pay 150.00 a month and covers your family, a lot pf people already do pay more and for them it won't make any difference. I would like to see each plan and what it will mean to us SPELLED out, with examples! I'm not buying what McCain is saying. I want to have Obama spell his plan out also. there is a lot we don't know about this from both sides!
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Registered: 09-08-2006
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 2:19pm

What a very strange video filled with skewed information.

 

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Registered: 04-09-2007
Mon, 09-29-2008 - 3:03pm

There was a report on NPR the other day that said that after the real estate market (similar to our bubble) collapsed, it took Japan a decade to fully recover.

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