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Wed, Nov 14th - 4:12PM  Is Hillary Clinton elect able to be president?  I ask myself this question over and over. Hillary lies just about as much as President Bush. Possibly more. From contribution money scandals to her trying to keep both sides of the political spectrum happy. Frankly the more i hear from or about Hillary Clinton the more I feel I cannot vote for her. I just do not trust her. Many do not trust her including many liberals. Keep in mind she is also a liberal. Today for instance Hillary says "As president, I will not support driver's licenses for undocumented people and will press for comprehensive immigration reform that deals with all of the issues around illegal immigration including border security and fixing our broken system.". Ok let me get this straight you are against giving them licence, but you are for giving them the whole shabang including drivers licence? This is exactly what i am talking about how she avoids taking sides, or acts like she is on both peoples sides. During her husbands term as president of the United States the border was not enforced anymore than it is now. Immigration laws were not enforced either. Naturally during President Bush's term it has been protected almost none. What says hillary who is totally for giving Amnesty for these illegal immigrants will so any better? I feel it is more likely she would do less than enforce the border. After all she would not sign the petition for the two border patrol agents that were put in prison for doing their job. Many congressmen and women signed the petition to President Bush including many Republicans and some Democrats. Hillary has not signed it and President Bush refuses to pay any heed to demands that they be given a presidential pardon. These men both are in prison and await long sentences unless pardoned. Wile in jail the main they shot, a Mexican drug dealer goes free. He was given immunity by the prosecution so he would testify against them for shooting him in the buttocks. Hillary Clinton also has taken money or at least almost taken money from some very shady characters. The most recent was involving Norman Hsu. In late August 2007, a major contributor to, and "bundler" for Hillary Clinton's campaign Norman Hsu was revealed to be a 15 year long fugitive in an investment fraud case. He also was suspected of having broken campaign finance law regarding his bundling collections. The Hillary Clinton campaign first said it would donate to charity the $23,000 that Hsu personally contributed to her, then said it would refund to 260 donors the full $850,000 in bundled donations raised by Hsu. Another problem making Hillary Clinton hard to elect is the fact that she is way too liberal. I believe it would take a more moderate to win. Politics in our nation in the past decade are split down the middle. This is for many reasons but in the end it is just that our nation was already heavily divided. There could be many reasons but what it came down to in 2000 after 8 years of having a Democrat in the White House, many wanted a change so the more moderates voted for a Republican in 2000. Now after near 8 years of President Bush and near 8 years of Republicans controlling congress and senate people are wanting a change. but the changes are more slight now so in the end even though one side may have a few more followers it is stuck a political dead heat. Now many can say Bush is not a moderate. Well he may claim he is not but he is sort of Just in the most screwed up way possible. Conservatives fiscally typically try to lower taxes and lower spending and are against big government. President Bush has lowered taxes, but his spending is thru the roof and into the clouds. President Bush's administration has a bigger government than we have ever had before. Sure president Bush has stuck to the age old roots of discrimination against homosexuals and being against abortion. Problem is his administration takes it to a new level. Now it is not just discrimination it is hateful and has encouraged much hate . If you ask me President Bush is not Conservative or a Liberal. He is not a moderate either. You would have to think of a new class to define his being a total screw up. Hillary Clinton's problem now is she is trying to cater to both sides of the fence as i said before. The problem is she has been so liberal in the past only a retarded chimp (President Bush?) would believe her. You cannot be against giving illegals drivers licence, then want to give them amnesty and drivers licence It just can not be both ways at once. In the end with Hillary slaughtering the others with a 20% lead in polls. It is almost a sure bet that the Republicans will win again. with Giuliani and Romney at the head of the Republican polls. It is a sure bet that we will have 4 more years of crappy leadership. If Hillary does win though, I doubt we will be any better. Comment (0)

Tue, Nov 13th - 3:44PM  How bad will President Bush's Legacy be? It is obvious that his blunders and screw ups are just about everything he has done. In fact I can only think of one thing I agree with him about. I support the second amendment, that is the end of my support for this failure of a president. His decisions have caused problems that will be with us for generations. For instance take G.L.B.T. rights and stopping discrimination against G.L.B.T. individuals. President Bush with his anti-gay stance and support for hate filled bills and amendments have set back G.L.B.T. rights a long ways. It did not matter weather or not his Constitutional ban on gay marriage passed. What it did was focus the religious right against the G.L.B.T. community. Now they focus much more energy against us than they did before. What president Bush did was empower the hateful minds in the Christian community. International relations are definitely not President Bush's strong suit either. President Bush has turned us from one of the most loved nations in the world during the Clinton years to pretty much the most hated. One moment I will never for get is the great "Axis of Evil" speech. In this speech President Bush lumped up 4 nations Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Iraq whom he declared were sponsors of terrorism. Weather they really were or not is irrelevant. All this speech did was piss them off more. It did very effectively as well. this kind of behavior is part of the cowboy mentality that some seem to love in this man. The kind of you are either with us or with the terrorists black and white thinking. Bush totally screwed up the economy which some of the effects we are starting to feel now. With the tax cuts from 2001 and the spending like no tomorrow President bush took our nations surplus and turned it into a deficit. Now we are so far in dept from spending on things like President Bush's big government, The Iraq War, and The hurricane Katrina disaster. All of this is handled with huge misspending. Good part of the credit on this goes to the Republican controlled congress who gave President Bush practically anything he asked for. Why they did I can never know. After all, most Republicans last I checked were fiscal conservatives. At least they used to be fiscal conservatives. Now due to in my opinion Bush's economic blunders our economy is in yet beginning to slow down yet again. With gas prices soaring it is not hard to see the impact of all of this. Another sign is how the housing boom just ended or the fact the dollar is now worth less than a Canadian dollar. We have incompetence about oh so many things i can mention, but I will focus on the top one. The nightmare of September 11, 2001 was possibly preventable if President Bush and his cronies had not cut anti-terrorism budgets. In early 2001 President Bush obviously did not consider terrorism to be a threat to the United States. This is despite being warned by the outgoing Clinton Cabinet and getting a classified memo on April 10, 2001 named "Bin Laden Determined to Strike the US". Well we all know the outcome of these actions and inactions. This administration has lied about oh so many things. The Iraq War for instance was started based on a lie. It was so obvious when they started changing the reasons we actually went to war. Originally we were supposed to be in Iraq because Saddam had WMD's and it was a matter of time before he would have missile technology that could reach the United States. Saddam has been known to possess biological and chemical weapons and has used them in the Iran/Iraq war. This is a known fact. I am not saying they lied about the WMD's, though I do wonder if they did. What I know the Bush Administration is lying about is that Saddam was a threat to the United States. When our troops made it to Iraq at the beginning of the war Iraq's military was in shambles. Once they found out what Iraq's true finances were they realized Iraq was pretty much Broke and had not been researching nuclear technology in a long time. What I would like to know is how President Bush and the intelligence groups of the most powerful nation in the world did not already know this. Now let me explain you about the treason of the Bush Administration. This affects President Bush because he still supports the traitor. He may have been involved or at least known about it. Prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in Joe Wilson's January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address, President Bush stated the following "16 words" "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.". In late February 2002, responding to inquiries from Vice President Cheney's office and the Departments of State and Defense about the allegation that Iraq had a sales agreement to buy Uranium in the from of yellowcake from Niger, the CIA had authorized a trip by Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate the possibility. Joseph Wilson discovered what there was no evidence that Saddam was attempting to buy yellowcake from any rouge states in the area. Wilson then contributed an article titled "What I Didn't Find in Africa" which inside he said "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." On 14 July 2003, one week after Wilson's New York Times op-ed, Robert Novak identified "Wilson's wife" publicly as "an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction" named "Valerie Plame" in his syndicated column in The Washington Post. Novak's public disclosure of Mrs. Wilson's then-still-classified covert CIA identity as "Valerie Plame" led to the appointment of a Special Counsel, the CIA leak grand jury investigation, the indictment and successful prosecution of Lewis Libby in United States v. Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal investigators, U.S. Congressional investigations in which both Wilsons have testified, political debate about the contexts of Wilson's Niger trip, and a civil lawsuit by the Wilsons against former and current officials of the Bush administration, Plame v. Cheney (dismissed on July 19, 2007 in U.S. District Court in a decision appealed the next day). In the end this lame duck of a President will be nothing more than that. He may have gotten away with skipping town on his National Guard post, he may have achieved being the first President who was a former coke head who has a DWI and is a former owner of the Texas Rangers. Like in business he has failed. He has failed the United States he has failed the world. Now may he go back to Crawford and stay there with his Secret Service bodyguards. Few will care about him as few do now. His legacy is so poor even his most of his most loyal supporters have abandoned him. He is a failure. Now that the term in office of "The Mighty Warlord, Premier Bush" (as Borat would say) is almost over one must wonder about how history will judge him. It is no doubt that history is not going to judge him well. What one must wonder is what will the future generations think of him? I highly doubt he will be considered "Mighty". The word "Warlord" though fits him well. Comment (0)

Mon, Nov 12th - 1:42PM  Shouldn't we be sick of racial poltics by now? I do not know how politics work in other nations, but in the US race plays a big part in politics. Thing is one must wonder why. In this day and age yes racism still exists, so does homophobia and hate toward others for many other reasons. Yet racial politics are often accepted becuase race is apparent to even an idiot not chosen. In the US politicians pander to a certain racial minority to win a states congressional college votes. People in the US will vote for a politician soly becuase he is of their race. In US politics if a Congressman or Senator etcetra says something even if misunderstood as racist, it could end his or her career. I am sick and tired of laws being made to protect people from hate crimes becuase they are say black or hispanic. Why not instead just punish anyone who severly harms another with obvious hatful intent with the same harsh sentence? Some say it is a deterrant, but I disagree. Fact of the matter is when many kill another with hatful passion they often are not thinking of the consequences or just do not care. Due to this fact it makes harsh sentences not a deterrant at all. Instead all it is is a punishment. The other problem I have with these choosings is the fact that we are all human. we all deserve the same protections and punishments for cimes. Noone should be better or worse than another. What frustrates me about all of this is transgenders have very few protections at all from hate crimes while blacks and other minoritys have many. Like I said we are all human. So, why are transgenders less human to not care if someone kills them. I knew a transsexual once who i took care of who told me how once she was attacked. When she was out with her boyfriend who was black, they were attacked and nearly beaten to death by Neo-Nazis. When they caught the Neo-Nazis the only reason they got a harsh punishment was becuase the boyfriend was black. The court hardly cared at all that they also beat her up becuase she was a Transsexual and not protected by hate crime legislation. Not only do I find this apalling but also frightening and disgusting. How can we care about one human life and not another? In the end in many ways it comes down to this our nation is filled with people who just do not care about certain groups. Transsexuals, homosexuals and other "deviant" minorities are not treated as human. The Christian right often calls them perverts and says things like "I hope that fag gets AIDS!" they do not even try to hide the fact they want us dead. I do not undersand how Christians who act this way can even call themselves Chrisitans. I am highly against racial based laws becuase of these reasons and more. Affermative Action for instance is the joke of a law. In this law schools for instance are required to allow a certain number of minorities into their college. Even if the minorities have poor SAT scores. This causes many non minorites to not get into the school they applied into becuase it is too full with people. This means even if you have better grades on the SAT you might not get in becuase it is filled with the minorities due to the quota from Affirmative Action. In the end Affirmative Actionm itself is racist, only against caucasions. Noone cares becuase there seems to be the big idea because you are caucasion you are advantaged in this country. This is not necessarily so. I must wonder when our nation or even the world will stop this nonsense. I am tired of seeing blacks pulling out the race card and claiming racism whenever they are wronged. I am tired of white trash KKK and Neo-Nazi groups making minorties think caucasions hate them. I am tired of hate crime legislation that leaves out transgenders just becuase otherwise they are afriad it will not pass. Can they not just say in the law if it is a hate crime it does not matter? It is not like noone is not hated. I have worked with of blacks who hate whites. I have known whites who hate blacks. I have known blacks who do not like other blacks. Like i said, in the end hate is hate. We are all human lets act like it.  Comment (1)