Is Obama-McCain Race a Replay of Clinton-Dole in 1996?

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Interesting piece on Palin, you need to pass along to as many people as possible...scary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAm-Nvk3FAw
Palin endorsing AIP (a Party in Alaska that wants to separate from the United States and hates the US government)....unbelievable.

ofcourseobama of CA 2:53AM October 15, 2008

Riley, what would he change?
Tax code? It is too large to carry in a wheelbarrow and too complex for anyone (including the IRS) to understand. No wonder we have lobbyists by the hundreds in Deecee and the state capitals.
Free speech? What about hate speech legislation? Would he enforce (how would he enforce) "Fairness Doctrine" standards? Would he favor bailing out newspaper companies with taxpayer money as we have been forced to do with the banks and financials?
Immigration policy? Look at the California bankruptcy (where Arnold wants us to bail him out).
Foreign policy? What do you mean by "popularity" with other countries? Would he clean out the nativists in the State Department? What specifically would he have us do be "popular" amongst the Euros, the Chinese, Chavez, and Ahmindinejadists? And who would measure the "popularity?"
Healthcare? Why are Canadians coming to the States for treatment that they do not get at home? Would we bail out healthcare companies and if so, how? Who would decide what healthcare you would get and I would get?
Education? Why are education majors at the bottom of the aptitude tests among collegians? Would he have the students learn Spanish and Chinese when many cannot speak or spell or write in English and that is their first language? Less expensive colleges? Whose pay gets reduced and who decides whose pay gets reduced?
What would he do to have the taxpayers get money back from some of the golden parachute collectors? And what would this do for right of contract?
Private property? What would he do to reverse Kelo (where the property seized under eminent domain has not been used?) Would he put in a schedule of "assumed income" wherein you would have to pay a tax on rent you do not have to pay if your home is paid for?
Who gets subsidized and who pays for it?
Who will protect the family farms from estate taxes?
Change? How about tossing all the bums out on November 4?

v of decatur of GA 3:13PM October 14, 2008

vote for OBAMA its time for a change

Lisa Riley of IA 2:34PM October 14, 2008

You compared this years election to the one held in 1996. The economy in 1996 was significantly better than todays economy. We were much better off than today. There were no foreclosurs, and people did not lose their 401ks' and parents were still able to send the kids to college and could afford to buy cars and take vacations.
Unfortunately neither of the 2008 presidential candidates canfix the economy and they will not able to keep their promises and this problem may to be fixed by itself and it may take atleast a year for us to come out of this mess.

Dr Mir N. Khan of CT 2:22PM October 14, 2008