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Post by Librarian on Feb 5, 2008 0:22:57 GMT -5
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Post by Remi on Feb 5, 2008 13:01:55 GMT -5
I voted today!! ;D I read that they expect a record high turnout today in Georgia and I think that's fantastic! I found this website very helpful and informative... glassbooth.org/aboutI wanted "just the facts ma'am", and that seems to be a great website for that. Plus, you can take a quiz to see how the candidates line up with your political beliefs. #featherpen# |
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Post by texasgal on Feb 5, 2008 22:53:46 GMT -5
Oh, thanks for the link, Remi. I'll put it to use. Yes, I've heard of a similar link with that kind of information available but I can't remember the address. Something like votecheck.org. I think I have a slip of paper with the correct address at work.
I'm hitting the sack now but, as of 10:00 PM, Sen. Obama has 8 states and a likely 9th in the bag. Still waiting on California whose polls may be just closing right about now.
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Post by texasgal on Feb 7, 2008 8:19:13 GMT -5
Remi, I took the quiz you posted. My candidate turns out to be Mike Gravel.... who doesn't have a snowball's chance in you-know-where. Ah well, it was fun to take the test.
Looks like the Dems will battle it out for the next few weeks or else the contest could go all the way to the Convention in August.
I wish they'd get more specific; I'm tired of hearing 'change.' I want to know change from what to what. We've all heard this 'change' song before.
Also, watch and listen if any of the candidates promise to restore the Constitution, reinstate Habeus corpus, and stop the wiretapping of our private telephone conversations. Maybe I missed it but I have yet to hear any of them address this.
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Post by Librarian on Feb 7, 2008 9:20:04 GMT -5
On Barack Obama's site, he is VERY specific... And I suspect the other candidates are as well on their sites. I don't think debates are a great forum for getting to specifics. Everyone wants sound bites. In fact Obama is often criticized for trying to address specifics in the debates. They say he drones on... haha Obama has a section named Issues where you can read everything - he even includes links to his full plan proposals. Here's his section on "Ethics" - Click Here |
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Post by Librarian on Feb 7, 2008 9:22:46 GMT -5
Double posting... Here is Obama's official Senate Floor statement about the Patriot Act. Click Here. |
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Post by sunsetghost on Feb 7, 2008 18:16:00 GMT -5
As an Obama fan, I'll chime in too....  I haven't gotten to really know you all very well yet. So, as a preface to this, I'll share that I have spent much of my career working in the public policy arena. As such, I've had the privilege (  ) of spending a lot of time with politicians. Lucky me, huh? ;D From what I've read on this board, it's not nearly as exciting as it would be to hobnob with the Wilsons!  But anyway...very few politicians I've met in the course of my job seem to really have "it"...in fact most don't even come close. "It" is hard to define. I guess I view it as the prefect blend of intelligence, strength, charisma and compassion. From my observations, those who are deficient in (or heaven forbid missing) any one of these components are either eaten alive or eventually lose their soul in the craziness that is life inside the beltway. Before he began is run for the Presidency, I had the privilege of meeting with Senator Obama on Capitol Hill. Even as a freshman Senator, he was definitely one of those everyone just instinctively knew had "it." (Not saying that others running for Prez this year don't...just expressing an opinion about Obama). He truly is something special. Even when he is just listening, he commands a room like no one I have never seen (and I most definitely mean that in a good way). He is not just a "made for TV" candidate, I believe he's the real thing.  Okay...off my soapbox. I hafta stop playing around on here and get some work done. Darn it!  |
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Post by texasgal on Feb 9, 2008 19:24:30 GMT -5
Thanks for the site links, Librarian! I must be unusual because I think debates are a very good setting for details. I guess the majority of audiences disagree.
And Sunset, thanks for your input. You have an interesting history to tell. To your very good list of qualities, I'd add honesty, but I know I'm too picky. Honest politician is an oxymoron, lol. But, as I've said, Sen. Obama is the least distasteful (to me!) of all the remaining viable candidates.
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Post by texasgal on Feb 9, 2008 23:16:55 GMT -5
Double posting - a bit of trivia:
In his address to the 2004 Democratic Convention, Sen. Obama explained his first name, Barack, means "blessed." I'm curious which Kenyan language was that of Sen. Obama's father. Interesting that in Hebrew baruch means 'blessed' [or 'praised.']
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Post by Librarian on Feb 14, 2008 10:37:23 GMT -5
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Post by texasgal on Feb 14, 2008 19:23:27 GMT -5
Ha, good one, Librarian. ;D
Yeah, that's what scares me about McCain too. Wish I could like him, but it feels to me like he'll be George Bush on steroids if he gets in.
Huckabee wants to rewrite the Constitution. I like it just the way it is, thank you very much. Now if only we'd follow it....
Both these R men scare me to death.
Speaking of "you ain't seen nothing yet," that's exactly what Karl Rove said to Bill Moyers a few weeks back in regard to the 2008 election. There is an endless number of tricks that guy has up his sleeve.
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Post by texasgal on Feb 18, 2008 19:29:11 GMT -5
For the lighter side of presidential politics, it was discussed on the radio show I listen to that the 2008 election will be a historical first for the following reasons: McCain could be the first Vietnam veteran to be president, Clinton could be the first woman president, and Obama could be the first racial minority president.
For more "firsts," the radio posed these fun quiz questions:
1. Name the first president to visit a foreign country while in office.
2. The first prez to visit the West Coast (USA).
3. The first to be born west of the Mississippi (river).
4. First to be born in a hospital.
5. First bachelor prez.
6. First divorced prez.
7. First prez to resign.
8. First prez to die while in office.
9. First prez to wear trousers regularly (as opposed to knee breeches).
10. First prez to own a radio.
I only knew #4, 6, and 7. (#7 was the easiest).
Here are the answers:
1. Theodore Roosevelt. He visited Panama in 1906 to observe the construction of the Panama Canal.
2. Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1880.
3. Herbert Hoover, born in Independence, MO.
4. Jimmy Carter, born at Wise Clinic, Plains, GA in 1924.
5. James Buchanan.
6. Ronald Reagan. He and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, divorced in 1948.
7. Richard M. Nixon, in 1974.
8. William Henry Harrison. He contracted pneumonia one month after his inauguration and died April 1841.
9. James Madison, in 1809.
10. Warren G. Harding, in 1922.
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Post by texasgal on Feb 18, 2008 19:38:30 GMT -5
Ha, just thought of a bonus question all on my own:
Last prez to wear a top hat at his inauguration.
John F. Kennedy, 1961.
P.S.: Sorry for going off-topic y'all.
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Post by texasgal on Jun 3, 2008 21:46:17 GMT -5
I'm sure everyone knows by now that Barak Obama has won the Democratic Party's nomination for prez. He gave an inspiring acceptance speech tonight in St. Paul, MN. I must say he's one of the best American political speech-deliverers I've seen in a long long time - maybe not since JFK.
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Post by Podbaydoor on Oct 7, 2008 16:58:03 GMT -5
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