We used to be hated by the world during GW Bush era; presently with the Republicans in the Congress obstructing everything that Obama suggests (that they used to believe in) Now, with the blatancy with which the Republicans in Congress are obstructing any thing that they used to believe in or have brought forward. This is not behavior for which politicians can claim pride. It explains why the polls show them in single digits of favor.
An American Marine, now in Canada, suggests on YouTube that we become part of Canada as they are far ahead of us for their people. Ber sure to scroll down until you see the picture shown above and click on the arrow to play the video. Comedians take the pulse of the American people far more accurately than the politicians do. Naturally the video is tongue in cheek but the maxim 'out of the mouths of babes' can be substituted here in the form of 'out of the mouths of the comedians...'..
Our Republican candidates put on a great show on Saturday evening, debating in New Hampshire. Lies, history re-writes, were but a few elements of the reflected idiocy. and lack of awareness of the real and most prioritized issues which the citizens of this country plead to have heard rather than as they are now ignored. I do not consider going back to Iraq (though the Iragis do not want us there) to presumably preempt Iran from taking Iraq over, taking their treasures, etc.
To date during the debates, they offer no positive solutions other than to take back anything that has passed during the Obama administration. They seem to want to get rid of "Obamacare' as they call it, get government out of our lives by eliminating Roe vs Wade, disallowing all contraceptives, and bringing out where it mimics the naive values of Regency England before doctors realized first cousins should not marry.
Equally amazing is that they all speak with the same forked tongue...get rid of Obama and go back to the Bush era of war and the skid down to a recession/depression where the middle class is as 'under water' as are many house mortgages. The candidates must forget that not everyone who goes to hear them will vote for any of them and that when they deny that they said what everyone heard them say, the media plays the clips disproving their denial, over and over. It is as though they forget that TV allows their viewers to hear these things while they are being said, repeatedly, so they are difficult to miss. This way, those who weren't old enough to have heard them the first time gets the archived tapes played ad nauseam.
Our Republican candidates put on a great show on Saturday evening, debating in New Hampshire. Lies, history re-writes, were but a few elements of the reflected idiocy. and lack of awareness of the real and most prioritized issues which the citizens of this country plead to have heard rather than as they are now ignored. I do not consider going back to Iraq (though the Iragis do not want us there) to presumably preempt Iran from taking Iraq over, taking their treasures, etc.
To date during the debates, they offer no positive solutions other than to take back anything that has passed during the Obama administration. They seem to want to get rid of "Obamacare' as they call it, get government out of our lives by eliminating Roe vs Wade, disallowing all contraceptives, and bringing out where it mimics the naive values of Regency England before doctors realized first cousins should not marry.
Equally amazing is that they all speak with the same forked tongue...get rid of Obama and go back to the Bush era of war and the skid down to a recession/depression where the middle class is as 'under water' as are many house mortgages. The candidates must forget that not everyone who goes to hear them will vote for any of them and that when they deny that they said what everyone heard them say, the media plays the clips disproving their denial, over and over. It is as though they forget that TV allows their viewers to hear these things while they are being said, repeatedly, so they are difficult to miss. This way, those who weren't old enough to have heard them the first time gets the archived tapes played ad nauseam.
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There are several issues where I would vastly prefer President Canada to President Obama.
For starters, the Canadians has never engaged in a hyperactive war on drugs. While our federal government has been closing record numbers of California marijuana dispensaries (see http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/feds-order-california-pot-dispensaries-to-shut-down/), Canada fully recognizes the medical uses of pot, and has left both the dispensaries and patients along. Moreover, Canadians convicted of drug crimes are not subject to draconian mandatory sentences.
In 1994, Canada had a deficit problem nearly as bad as ours is now. But unlike our current leaders, then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien recognized the problem and took the painful austerity steps needed to correct the problem. Canada is now reaping the benefits of this austerity. See http://reason.com/archives/2010/10/12/it-can-happen-here/singlepage
The Canadian system makes it much harder to for that nation to go to war without parliament's approval.
The 9/11 induced anti-terrorism hysteria has not overtaken Canada. You can still fly in that country without taking your shoes off, or making a choice between being groped or getting a full body X-ray. There is no Canadian equivalent of the PATROIT act nor the NDAA, both signed by President Obama. Canada does not imprison "enemy combatants" indefinitely without a hearing.
Of course, we won't have the chance to vote for President Canada this November. But we could vote for a candidate that would end the war on drugs, make the spending cuts needed to balance the budget, restore the constitutional requirement that wars be declared by congress, and restore the civil liberties we lost after 9/11. That candidate is Ron Paul.
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