On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:48 PM, denstar wrote: > > You sure choose weird times to put your faith in the government. >
Ha, I have no faith that Congress will actually do what I suggested. > Obama has already proven he doesn't lean too far to either direction (IMO). > Except for the whole socialist thing. It's funny you don't consider that "leaning too far". > Which is fine, we need a unite-er. Clinton did a good job, all in > all. Dunno if Obama can pull it off like Clinton did... guess time > will tell. That's my point. He needs to lead from the center. So why would he invite a bitter partisan fight that he has the power to avoid? > I dunno... I'm pretty sure you want Obama to fail (and not just his > policies), so that sorta slants what you predict, and makes me want to > take it with a grain of salt, so to speak. > I want the cap and trade plan to fail because it is an economic disaster for the country. I'm not a fan of the $12 trillion in spending committed by Bush and Obama in the last six months, but I also have no idea what the President is up to in the bigger picture, so I suppose he gets a pass on that count. Ultimately we need to figure out how we're going to pay for it, and so far there is nothing on the back end to cover those costs. We can trust the CIA to wiretap us responsibly, with little to no > oversight or accountability (I'm sure they'll tell us if they're > screwing us, since that's the only way we'd know), but we better keep > an eye on this shyster president? I never said I trust the CIA. What I have said is that they were allowed a lot of leeway in the aftermath of 9/11, and they paid back that leeway by helping to prevent another attack. It's called a trade-off. We gave up some privacy in the short term, and it helped the country prosecute the war against Al Qaeda. > Eh. Maybe we won't start seeing better stuff coming out of > politicians until we start believing them capable of better stuff. To > some extent, at least. Human nature, man. Power corrupts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296029 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
