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View Poll Results: Which Candidate do you Support? | |
Barack Obama and Joe Biden...All the way
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John McCain and Sarah Palin...All the way
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Other
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02-Sep-2008, 03:55 AM
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Originally Posted by aad0002  And Ron Paul -- who is he? It will not be an easy few months coming up. | he was a liberatarian/constitutionalist who gained popularity amongst a rather small group of supporters who wished to dismantle the central banking system of the US or at least wanted more government oversite in its practices.
they also wanted to bring back the gold standard and tie it to american currency...disabling the governments ability to randomly print money and debase the greenback...(which is happening as we speak...hence oil at $130 a barrel and other inflationary pressures)
he also wanted to illiminate the IRS...and go strictly to a sales tax based economy.
he was a fiscal conservative.
he was anti-war, anti-occupation, anti-military industrial complex
He had lots of bold goals...was offering lots of change... the people just got scared and labelled him a quack without paying further attention to him or at least to some sliver of his ideas.
his only downfall was...he was a congressman and not a very good 'politician' ...he actually challenged people to think...which is no no because politics is about appeasing the mob.  YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. 
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Actually == I knew who Ron Paul was but was asking rhetorically. However your list is an excellent summary and reference point. Here again is a dilemma -- some of his ideas are brilliant and some in the opinion of parts of the electorate display a simplistic view of problems and their solutions. This does not mean that he was a quack. NOT! It just underscores how complicated things have become and how hard it is to find political leadership that can communicate solutions for complicated problems. And they must also have the ability to see how what may look like an "ideal solution" in practice can spawn more trouble. Implementation has to be examined as well. In the electorate are many people who do not have the mental energy to listen to complicated solutions and who respond from the lowest emotional and political levels (called the knee jerk reaction  ). The media exploits this dual problem -- leaders with limited vision and an electorate that does not want to think beyond local interest. Anyway, that is the most you can get from me -- for now I will watch and wait.  |
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Originally Posted by aad0002 And they must also have the ability to see how what may look like an "ideal solution" in practice can spawn more trouble. | yeap, plenty of pitfalls in his political philosophy as well Quote:
Originally Posted by aad0002 for now I will watch and wait. | Aad ji
I and many others have been doing that our entire lives! ...watching and waiting. 
so this time ive actually decided to vote... with all my knee jerk capabilities...i cant possibly do any harm 
the indian democratic political system is alot better...the voters actually get bribes and alcohol which makes the selection process alot less mentally painful...silly americans only get promises  |
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the indian democratic political system is alot better...the voters actually get bribes and alcohol which makes the selection process alot less mentally painful...silly americans only get promises Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/general-discussion/22870-us-presidential-race.htmlReference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=22870
( quote sinister ji) The funniest sarcastic but very realistic comment I ever have read on a democratic system totally crippled by corruption. |
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Palin's 17 year old daughter is pregnant and is going to keep the baby and marry the father. Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=22870
That's a good and bad news...Good for ultra conservative pro-life base and bad for women's pro choice lib |
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the indian democratic political system is alot better...the voters actually get bribes and alcohol which makes the selection process alot less mentally painful...silly americans only get promises
| From past 32 years the people of west bengal are voting for communists.No amount of bribes and alchol from opponent parties have worked.The state that should have been the most industralised
state of India is now a most backward state.Infact Tata has also realised its mistake by investing in Nano plant and is now planing to relocate its plant.
If you beleive American gets only promises then it means that Americans only want promises or their demands are too unrealistic |
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If you beleive American gets only promises then it means that Americans only want promises or their demands are too unrealistic | More like deliberately immature. |
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Originally Posted by kds1980 From past 32 years the people of west bengal are voting for communists.No amount of bribes and alchol from opponent parties have worked.The state that should have been the most industralised
state of India is now a most backward state.Infact Tata has also realised its mistake by investing in Nano plant and is now planing to relocate its plant. | filthy communists! they have some nerve! 
why cant they just be more gracious and receptive to their greedy capitilist overlords?
*cough cough* BHOPAL *cough cough*
Deliberately immature is an understatement...more like deliberately insane;
only the insane would agree to spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars to race another country to the moon. | 
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