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Unfortunately you're right. Palin is now continually playing the Obama is friends with a "terrorists" mantra. With McCain joining in. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2..._to_bill_a.html While the economy is really collapsing and they're busy playing their old standby, the fear game. Bush under the supervision of Karl Rove pulled this game in 2004. I hope people learned.

Depends on what law school. Some are harder than others. I worked with someone who has a law degree. He did not work as a lawyer. He never passed the oft taken bar exam. He was "lacking." Just as there are some doctors that you could not trust to scalpel a potato. A degree in an "elite" course of study does not connote competency or even intelligence.

Maybe you should have looked Biden up before you asked about Palin. Biden was not what one would call a super star: A good one, plagiarizing five pagesr and then excusing it on not knowing the "proper rules of citation". A future politican in action.

Invoke Bush doctrine #2 - the President is the unitary executive, the Fount of the State. Therefore, by definition, the President can do no wrong. When Reagan sold Iran our weapons, then obviously, the Iranians were not our enenemies.

They hand over 1,000 pages of medical history for a three hour look with no copying. Obviously there is a problem.

Oh. OK. I'm glad you clarified that. Yes, putting your name behind something makes all the difference.

What makes you think Munger told the truth? Many things are ascribed to Palin are untrue. http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/newsquotes.asp

We would certainly have been better off if we had a cocker spaniel the last seven years. Just about every decision made by Bush has been wrong. One reason we are in this financial mess is because Bush emptied our treasury with his year after year deficit of 600 billion, managing to raise our national debt by 5 trillion. If it hadn't been for his 5 trillion national debt increase we would easily have handled the 700 billion needed for this latest economic disaster. Thanks to Bush, that elasticity is gone. How do you people who are living on retirement funds, pension plans and annuities feel considering on the average you lost 5-10% of your total retirement money in one day? You put in year after year and you lose so much in one day. You can thank your Republican buddies for that. And don't think that government pensions are safe, they are heavily invested in equities. You can't pay out what you don't have. And don't expect the taxpayers to add contributions to your pension funds - the tax base will be shrinking. We have a Pearl Harbor economic crisis and our fine congress decides to take tomorrow off for the Jewish holiday. Most people are working tomorrow but the "congress" needs the day off during a national crisis. I don't care if tomorrow is Easter, Christmas, Yom Kippur, Ramadan or whatever, they have to come in and fix this. McCain looked like an asshole running back and forth to "resolve" this. McCain's brought nothing to the table and as usual it is the Republicans who are obstructing. Even though I don't like Obama, I now think he's a better choice.

Thank you.

I thought Obama did better. However, we will not know who won the debate until the polls come out. Our presidential political debates exist to sway voters to vote for their candidates. You can have one candidate saying repeating "Baba au rum" and the other stating issues with solutions. However, if the "Baba" candidate sways more voters, then that candidate will have won the debate. If there is no poll change, then Obama will have won. McCain is behind and he needs to sway voters over to his side. Most political analysts and pundits are useless. They are a self perpetuating class that primarily exists for their own benefit, justifying their jobs. I don't need them to explain or interpret.

One thing hanging this deal is protection for homeowners. The NY Times has an editorial stating that the special preferment given the financial industry with mortgages be removed. However, Obama opposes that. He’s supporting the banking industry. Why?

That explains it. I don't know how old your kids are, but if they are old enough they could reply "fund raising is not my thing and if you have to do it, that's your problem, not mine." I suspect the kids who made comments themselves don't want to do this and they get a little pissed when they see someone got out of it. As a student, I've never been subjected to the fundraiser monster. My son was. But, he never ever bought any money back to the school. He didn't want to fund raise. And we didn't feel like walking him around the neighborhood for that. His attitude was that he shouldn't have to go door to door selling like some peasant. I suspect if someone made a comment he would have given the above response. I think fundraisers are ridiculous and inefficient. Too much of the money goes in fund raising expenses. If you feel they need money, simply donate. No need to waste it on fund raising expenses.

Now its the conservative Republicans who are stalling this. Either they are posturing or they haven't figured out by now the effect this economic meltdown will have on us. This isn't about bailing out Wall Street fat cats. They already have their millions. If we go south, they'll simply move out - to their foreign town houses or estates. This is about us - our savings, our mortgages, our retirement funds, business loans, home loans, car loans. Don't expect to see your money if this is not taken care of. Sad. Our economy is a wreck. They hesitate to spend to fix that but they have no problem allocating billions and billions for the war. This tells me that McCain is not up to the job – the presidency. The papers state that conservative Republicans are stalling this. But how can they? They don’t control congress. The Democrats do. Republicans and Democrats are both playing games during our financial meltdown. However, I don't think McCain went to Washington simply to avoid the debate. It was McCain who wanted 14 debates (one a week this summer), which Obama refused.

He said he was not going to go to Washington. That changed after the president invited Obama and McCain to go to the White House during his national TV address. When there is a high profile photo op Obama becomes available. Many have stated that McCain went to Washington simply to posture and also to skip this debate. Now that this current crisis looks to be resolved (by tomorrow), I'm sure he'll go. Here's a former presidents take on this: Of course it was Obama who cut the number of debates. Not that I've seen that being reported all over the news.

Maybe Obama is the one who doesn't get it. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...nd_his_cam.html This financial crisis can kill us. Millions of retirees can kiss their annuities and their retirement checks bye bye if this is not resolved. Where do you think all the retirement funds are sitting? We'll also have massive layoffs with the state unemployment funds being depleted (you will then be paying more unemployment tax). And those of you who have savings, don't count on the 100,000 FDIC savings insurance to save you if there are massive failures. The FDIC fund has 42 billion. That's not going to cover the trillions of savings, money that the banks really don't have because they loaned out your savings for mortgages, credit lines, business loans. The whole financial system is a house of cards, where one card leans on the other. The housing marked will get worse because of the additional layoffs and retirees no longer getting their supplemental incomes. A lot more foreclosures and lowered home equities. The rest of the world will decouple from us. They're sick and tired of our financial issues destabilizing their economies. They're holding trillions of our dollars which they will attempt to dump to minimize their losses. They will also initiate financial changes removing the dollar as the reserve currency. This crisis will have severe effect on our economy over the next few years. If you're running for president, it would behoove you to get very closely involved, because you're going to be stuck with the decisions that are currently being made. If Obama doesn't get that, then he's living way above his pay grade.

I guess then you won't be voting for Obama. We're facing the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and Obama can't even be bothered to go to Washington. Considering that he may be the next president, it would behoove him to get involved. But, I'm not surprised. Looking at his work history (has he ever attended his committee meetings?) that party boy so far has decided not to get involved. Has Obama really done anything useful besides flapping his lips?

His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was one time head of Yale's "development" committee. He was also a governor of the school.

http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feat...2000/04/17/sat/ It's really not too hard to find.

Does that mean Obama does not understand Christianity? Nothing special. All families have problems. Besides, how can he have time for family when he's busy saving the world? Here's more on Obama's brother http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...halfbrothe.html Would this go under the "compassionate liberal" label?

Funny too. Except this time it was really said.

Matthew should have sued for every penny they had - stress, mental trauma, attempted trashing of his reputation. Some governmental entities only learn when they have to pay out big bucks and have to explain to the taxpayers why they had to pay out.

It is really funny but according to Snopes he never said that.

Again, Bush's SAT scores are verbal: 566; math: 640 http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feat...2000/04/17/sat/ ps - One of my SAT scores was 795 (Still unhappy I didn't get 800). Which is why I got into Columbia.

No one knows what her SAT scores are since she refuses to divulge them. To me they're really not important. Two wrongs do not make a right. I don't believe in legacy seats just as I don't believe in minority quotas. Either is wrong. Giving preferment to some may cause discrimination against others. Of course the legacy seats have a very strong argument. Take our legacy "booboo" in and we'll give your school enough money to create 20 new seats. So a legacy preferment may not cause others to be denied. Unlike a minority preferment, which will use up a seat, causing someone with higher grades to be denied. That really goes against the belief that we should be a merit based society. The fact is people of color (Asians usually excluded) are accepted with lower scores than their non-color compatriots. Colleges adjust the SAT "cutoff" level for people of color. This is to handle the 200 point disparity between blacks and whites.