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Its not the business people with their golden parachutes nor really is it the small business owner that makes America tick. It’s the workers skilled and unskilled which is why shipping jobs overseas to save money is such a stupid stupid idea. Its killing the goose that laid the golden egg as it were since such policies are destroying the middle class.
Originally posted by grover
SO... Assuming that Obama is going to win does anyone have any ideas as to what his cabinet will look like?
My predictions are limited at this time but I would put odds down that he is going to take a page from Lincoln's playbook and put his competition in it so...
McCain for the VA
Hillary as Health and Human Services
Edwards for Labor...
Bill Clinton as Ambassador to the UN
... any other ideas?
. . some strange things had happen to my profile. I've never used my foe list, and yet, I somehow ended up with people on it. I have taken those names off my fore list, and I'm asking around to see why this happened. We can and we should agree to disagree when those moments arise.
Be careful what you wish for. I was going to present evidence that strongly ties . .
FDR stimulated the economy not by tax cuts to the already wealthy and bailouts for banks but through massive public works. We need to retool to get us off of oil once and for all . . our infrastructure is crumbling. Screw the wealthy, they have been screwing us for long enough, same with Wall Street. Screw that. Invest in something that will benefit ALL of us.
John McCain proposed policies will do nothing more than continue the shift of wealth in this country upwards instead of outwards. NOW that is real class warfare. That is real income redistribution. The Republicans only talk about the middle class. Yet they just spent $150,000 on Palin's wardrobe.
Would it be fair to say that there are very few undecided voters left because of the length of the political cycle in the US and the nature of the two horse race means that unless there is a decisive turn around Obama will win?
I have already noted on the CNN website I think it was that there is already talk of Palin running in 2012. Palin one hundred fifty thousand clothing budget has become like Kerry 4WDs she wont shake the elitist tag.
There is indeed talk of a Palin run but it is just all hot air . . no one takes a serious run at the White House by Palin as little more than a SNL skit starring Tina Fay.
The question I am curious about is why people think that McCain is losing? Is it that Obama is such a commanding presence? Or is it because of McCain himself? Or is it external factors such as the economy?
Personally . . Obama does not [have] (Obama has slightly less experience than Lincoln did when he was elected),
My take is that the Republican core supporter base has isolated itself from mainstream America by supporting failed policy's and a failure of a president for so long. McCain isn’t purely ideological driven but that isn’t the same thing as being a maverick outsider IMO. McCain’s military [service] by itself doesn't mean he would make a good president.
I have said the Republicans have had eight years to come up with Free Market solutions to the problems with the US health care system. The Surge only undid much of the damage done by Rumsfeld and Co which really only speaks of the incompetence of the Bush admin.
Originally posted by donwhite
Personally . . Obama does not [have] (Obama has slightly less experience than Lincoln did when he was elected),
Well, that’s a curious comparison. Lincoln served in the Illinois lower house from 1832 to 1842. Ten years. In 1846, Lincoln was elected as a WHIG and served one term in the US House of Representatives. Total 12 years. (Whigs were the political descendants of the long moribund Federalists of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Whigs advocated a strong central government, which points that Lincoln would be a Democrat if he was alive today). Further aside: Note that Lincoln was issued US Patent No. 6,469 and is the only American president to have ever received one.
www.historyplace.com...
Obama served 3 terms in the Illinois state senate. 1997 to 2004.* Six years. He was elected to the US Senate in 2004. That gives Obama 10 years experience in holding elective office.
en.wikipedia.org...
I hesitate to point out that Lincoln twice sought the Whig Party’s nomination for president but failed, and once in 1856, he unsuccessfully sought the new Republican Party nomination. Lincoln required 4 tries at what Obama has done on his FIRST try! Wow! How does that COUNT?