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  1. 1) Yes

    2)I love what he did with California's economy. Hopefully a company as great as Enron can create a flukey situation where someone like him could actually be elected president.

    3)As long as they aren't a zealot

    4)I always thought this was restricted to white christian males and then Obama got elected so I guess women should be allowed to try

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  2. Nixon would have been impeached if he had not resigned.

    And yeah it might not SEEM like that big of a deal for clinton to 'just get a blowjob and lie about it' but this is the leader of our country and he is fooling around with a then 22 yo. is that the kind of person we would want running our country?

    Instead, Nixon was pardoned and didn't get thrown in prison.

    And leaders of our country have done worse than Clinton. Just look at Latin America.

  3. when has anything ever gotten done in 6 months in this country? maybe if one party could control the government for longer than 8 years we would see some change. all i see right now is each party undoing whatever good or bad the previous party did.

  4. Elaborate on your extensive knowledge of teaching. I'm formulating a response but would love to hear what being a teacher has to do with anything. Don't take this the wrong way either, I'm genuinely interested in others' opinions on the position of teachers in the world.

    He criticized teacher unions and I wanted him to elaborate on it. That wasn't a final statement or whatever you misunderstood it to be. It was a question.

  5. There is alot wrong with how you see the world.

    1. Its not Obama's Government its United States Government (He just leads the Executive Branch)

    2. Social Security is about to be Broke and really people would have been much better off had they had the option to invest the money themselves over the long run. The return on investment for the American people has been extremely negative but again Socialist thought it could actually work! HAHA I guess, the same goes for Medicare and whatever other programs the socialist have tried to implement and have over the years turned into the giant problems we are dealing with today.

    3. Free Access To Education? We pay for it its not free. Also, its one of the worst $ to results systems in the world because the government is in control. Let the money follow the kids and give them choice. Make Education a free market with government backed vouchers and then you will see how bad the government and teachers unions really are.

    4 This one really had me laughing... so I made it bold in your post. Really, the government has a magical ability to create actual wealth? No they can create debt and inflate currency but they cannot create wealth. So again, this is payed for by the hard working American people (about 50% of the population)

    5. The government regulates our economy and I agree. Lets all see how that is going? Yep, pretty much sucks because of many reasons that are spawned from the results of socialism such as corporate taxes. "AKA, lets make all our companies want to leave because we make them struggle on a world market". I would say alot more but simply put I don't really care enough to argue it.

    6. Seriously, you want to government to control what people eat? Maybe they will make everyone who is fat go to a camp and put them on the Auschwitz diet! :(

    There is a lot wrong with how you understand the world and what I am talking about. I see the world the same way you do, I just use my intellect to understand what's going on as well.

    1. The way you people argue about our government, for fox news' and your purposes it is "Obama's government"

    2. Social Security is a welfare program. I wasn't arguing about what Bush's administration and the republicans did to it's status.

    3. Ugh, if I had a kid I could go sign him up for elementary school without having to pay tuition (for free). I wasn't talking about the fact that I don't have a kid and I do pay for elementary schools to operate. That's how a social welfare system works. We pay, you use it, when I have a kid I'll use it too. It's for the common good. The "free enterprise" system of schooling you're talking about leads to unequal opportunities, not that it's equal right now. The way it should work is rich assholes shouldn't be afraid to send their kids to any public school in the country, they should all be equal and the private school voucher program isn't helping.

    4. What are you talking about? The government has a budget... I pay rent (or taxes) to live in this country and they spend it on stuff to make it worth living in. One of the things they spend it on is fixing roads, I know you drive past a construction zone somewhere on your way to work unless you live in the boonies.

    5. You don't like regulation, move to Somalia.

    6. When did I say I want them to control what I eat? I eat organic foods when I can by choice and it wouldn't hurt if people like you were influenced to so the same. When I can't find an organic alternative I have to buy corn products because the government pays farmers to grow too much corn which forces companies to put it in my food making things like Coca-Cola taste worse than it does in Canada and Europe. Anyone who has ever traveled abroad and enjoyed a Coke knows what I am talking about.

    Also, are you a teacher? Do you know anything about teacher unions and school vouchers other than what you see on TV?

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  6. So someone has to prove your negative assertion? How about you go ahead and prove your positive assertion that the Obama administration is Socialist by any traditional definition of the word, because up to now listening to you attempt to define socialism reminds me of this:

    Obama is a socialist because:

    His government collects taxes

    His government provides services to the people that those taxes pay for

    Senior citizens in this country can collect social(ist) security checks

    People in this country have access to free education (K-12)

    People in this country are allowed to make use of a communication and transportation infrastructure paid for and maintained by the government

    Corn farmers are subsidized

    Oil companies are subsidized

    The government regulates our mixed economy

    And there are many more reasons.

    Now I don't see what the problem with this is except for the reasons behind the corn and oil subsidies. I want to know why it's a bad thing that we have all of these opportunities in the land of opportunity or why it's bad that the government can force companies to stop selling things that are overtly harmful to the population (except for cigarettes and fast food because big tobacco and big food are too powerful)

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  7. You say that our government has had socialist currents, include examples from history to demonstrat this, and in the same breath, say calling Obama socialist is right wing bullshit? I'm very very confused. How come answering Fishey's question is so hard? If he isn't socialist, it shouldn't be hard to prove this. And saying that America has had socialist tones over the years does not mean that Obama is therefore not socialist if he has kept with the trend.

    I am not saying he's not at all socialist. I am saying it's nothing new so what's the big deal? This is such an empty argument. The discussion should be about what the Tea Bagger Party agenda is because all I have heard about is lower taxes, no national health care, etc. How do they plan to do this and what do they think will work better? They win primaries by calling Obama socialist and because the spineless democrats can't defend themselves but what do they plan to do if they get into office?

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  8. Not relevant in any way. His question is not a "obama vs. bush" question. He wants to hear an arguement that Obama is socialist. Presidential history is 110% irrelevant in the answer.

    I was simply giving an example of what socialist intervention in the economy looks like. Our government has had socialist currents ever since its inception, i.e. free public schooling, USPS, Amtrak, our interstates, all funded by the government and the use of our taxes. Calling Obama a socialist is simply a right wing ploy to incite negative emotions in less informed Americans in order to artificially strengthen their position in economic and social debates. It is a non-issue and that is all I am trying to point out.

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  9. Well, come on with it. I am simply brining up the subject again since people seem to disagree on the current administration pushing a socialist agenda. Also, any reply that refers to bush is not a valid answer and you will be ridiculed at your own retardation if you talk about any other administration.

    If Obama is "pushing socialism," how would you describe the Bush Administration's trillion dollar bailout of the Wall Street banks with tax payer dollars? Isn't that socialism? As a free market capitalist, you were probably against that even though I never heard you fox news types call Bush a socialist.

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  10. And there it is, NEWSWEEK.

    Finally you show your colors.

    Not that that was in doubt, you just never were specific about your sources of info.

    Dude, that rag is dead. You and 3 other people read it. Save yourself some money, cancel your subscription, your gonna need it to pay your health care taxes.

    so what do people read these days if it's not the New Yorker or Newsweek? The New York Post? The Washington Times?

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  11. Every time my fiance travels to an airport she gets her bag searched and gets searched... Her last name is Scottish but is spelled where it can sound Islamic/Muslim/Middle Eastern... but she does not care... yes it does delay her 30mins but that is the airlines job... they are profiling and looking at the passengers.. she is ok with it, I am ok with it.

    I wouldn't be. Shouldn't they be looking for terrorists based on other evidence than unamerican last names?

  12. you bring up some good points, but you have to admit to yourself that warm periods hundreds of years ago were not caused by the rapid industrialization of giant States like the USA, China, and India. it was natural back then, we are heavily influencing it now. before, warm periods ended and cold periods started because there are natural systems that regulate. look at the iceball earth was 600,000 years ago and the volcanoes that emitted CO2 to warm the earth up again. then the forests and ocean soaked up the CO2 and balanced everything out. well, the oceans are still here but forests are disappearing. we are upsetting the balance and you can't deny that.

    also, on a side note. no one has mentioned global dimming. before catalytic converters and people caring, we polluted the atmosphere with a ton of particulate which blocked out a good percentage of the sun (according to many studies by farmers worried about their crops and german scientists that confirmed this). so at the same time as "global warming" you had "global dimming" and they were to some degree canceling each other out temperature wise. now, with emissions laws like the ones all of you californians love, global dimming is disappearing. you have to ask yourself what will become apparent over the next 25 years because of our clean air acts and our relative inaction on moving forward from the use of fossil fuels.

  13. CO2 is a necessary gas for life. The Smoky Mountains are smokey because....? All the damn oak trees are emitting CO2. Cut all those trees down. Now. Until China and India are spending what we spend on environmental protection there is no real discussion.

    Unilateral self destruction, that's what it amounts to. And Al Gore and GE making more money than God, I mean Earth...

    I like how I'm freezing my balls off, Its been 5 degrees colder than normal here for a month. All I know is my local situation, and thats what I care about. That and not letting some New World Order take over my life.

    Interesting how the west coasters are calling me out, you guys have been paying out the ass for fuel, car emission controls and inspections, and mandates on business. Must be killing your jobs, no? Hows it feel to pay a grocery bagger $22/hour so they can afford to live out there? You have bigger problems than climate change out there. That and all the dopers in Mendocino, puffing it up and soaking the soil with poisonous fertilizers.

    first of all, i am pretty sure oak trees like other trees emit oxygen. and second, look at the average temperatures in greenland during this winter weather. it's all relative, to understand climate change you have to think outside the box and your local jurisdiction.

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