If Obama picks Sen. Jim Webb as VP, I'll seriously consider voting for Obama.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

I guess on the issue of capitalism, I line up well with Ron Paul - abolish the fed, go back to the gold standard, seriously considering alternatives to the income tax. Where I don't line up with this specific view of capitalism is what we are experiencing is exactly what Adam Smith warned us about, "merchant cartels."

No one is really doing stereotypical monopolies anymore, but we are seeing near monopolies and we are seeing a Bush Republican selling the federal government out to specific billionaire corporate cartels - such as the pharmaceutical companies and the medicare drug benefits or the Iraq war and the military industrial complex raking in profits hand over fist.

And I'll use the big nasty "R" word twice now as directly related to two of our critical issues. The loan industry needs regulation to prevent the excesses we have just seen leading to the housing bubble bursting. My only concern in saying that is that what is likely to happen will look like the FDA with industry cronies hired for the regulatory agency. Raph Nader predicted this was going to happen while Alan Greenspan was still around.

Then speculation in oil on the stock market needs to be eliminated. The whole process of buying oil at a low price, driving up the price by increasing demand, and then selling at a high price is exploiting the American public and economy and driving inflation higher. This is especially the case in the heat of competition when a stock broker gets an inside tip or there is some other jump start that will drive prices up fast - such as Nigeria Oil fields being shut down by a civil war or Iran shutting down the tanker lanes in the Persian Gulf.

As long as people keep voting Democrats and Republicans into office, there won't be any real change. They're two sides of the same coin.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Well, McCain does, anyway. That damned carpetbagger Hillary Clinton has only completed one full term in the Senate.

That about as ridiculous a statement as saying someone was qualified to be a surgeon because that person watched his (or her) spouse doing surgeries.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

I'm not saying that she is "qualified" because of that, but that that experiense of seeing the inside for 8 years will make her less likely to choke (not saying she'll do better, only saying that she'll be less likely to choke).

If given the choice for surgeon between person A and B. Person A has never done a sergeory, never gone to school on it, and never seen the inside of a real human body. And person B has also never gone to school or done it, but she watch her husband do it for 8 years and was present with him in the opporating room many many times over that 8 years. Both will likely fail and kill you, but person B has the best chance of doing it right.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

That WOULD be a good choice!

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Obamanos!

Obama has a lot of good choices for VP.

Senator Jim Webb
Governor Bill Richardson
Senator John Edwards

Senator Hillary Clinton, don't think this will happen though.

Anyone have any good female VP candidates other then Hillary?

Gov. of Kansas. Kathleen Sebelius.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87