JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Simon_Foston
Why was he so afraid of debating old tired John McCain?
Why was he, by his own admission, unable to use his credit cards as recently as 2000?
Columbia has only said he attended their school and was an unremarkable student in their political science program.
He published nothing at Harvard.
There is a good argument that his two memoirs were ghostwritten.
If there were anything of substance in such insinuations it's a fair bet that McCain's team would have it all over their campaign ads and it would be in every speech that McCain and Palin have made. But it never gets mentioned, probably because McCain himself knows it would be pointless. Pandering to the ignorance and negativity of a hard core of right-wing rednecks isn't going to help him much. Sticking it to the people who screwed him over in 2000, however...
Posted in: McCain offers tougher critcism of Bush economics
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Simon_Foston
He isn't doing a good job of it so far.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Simon_Foston
Allegations of racism are what you get when you expose the mainstream media's leftist agenda.
You've got Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly Sean Hannity and FOX News to stand up for you. What are you complaining about?
Posted in: Republicans deny 'sowing hatred' in campaign
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Simon_Foston
Incredible, isn't it? But then again, looks can be deceiving...
Indeed, if the pollsters are all asking the wrong people and McCain can actually pull off a victory. But how's he going to do it? The stuff that you like to go on about, Ayers, Wright, etc, isn't winning anyone over and even Republicans are admitting it. Newt Gingrich says it quite succinctly:
Nuff said.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Simon_Foston
Evidently not in this case, as it looks like he's going to win.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Simon_Foston
I'm one of 'em.
What, OTHER than becoming a United States Senator and the first African-American to gain the nomination of a major political party? Have you accomplished that much, "Sarge?"
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Simon_Foston
What a shame............america goodnight and goodluck!
Good for him. It just goes to show he's a more decent and better man than a lot of the morons who support him. They've been negative enough about Obama, and in case you hadn't noticed it hasn't worked for them. McCain clearly knows he needs to show that he's the right man with the right ideas. Going along with the kind of people who honestly think Obama is an Arab will only lose him the election.
Posted in: Raw anger in McCain's crowds as Obama strengthens
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Simon_Foston
There we go again. It's always "Liberals" to blame for everything, isn't it? Credit crisis? Liberals. International terrorism? Liberals. Someone's used all the toilet paper? Liberals. How do you explain that the committee that found Palin guilty was mostly made up of Republicans? Or were they "Liberal" Republicans?
Posted in: Palin defiant after probe jolts McCain campaign
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Simon_Foston
How could it have been possible for the Democrats to block anything while the Republicans were in control of the White House and both houses of Congress?
Posted in: McCain steps up attacks on Obama over ties to Ayers
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Simon_Foston
Who gives a flying what the UK press thinks about Palin?
People from the UK, maybe? It might interest you to learn that a very big chunk of the UK press is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who is also the proprietor of Fox News in the U.S., and their polls are giving Obama 7-point leads.
Posted in: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
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Simon_Foston
Indeed, but Aso needs to make sure the owners of small businesses keep getting their bribes just in case they decide to vote for the DPJ. He's called for another ¥2 trillion supplementary budget apparently, which will include bigger debt guarantees for small and medium-sized businesses. Just another pointless waste of money that Aso is hoping will keep the LDP in power.
Posted in: Aso calls for more action to bolster economy
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Simon_Foston
Hrm. We've had eight years of a Republican Presidency and substantial periods with the Republicans in charge of both the House and the Senate (2003 - 2007). The Democrats might indeed have caused the financial crisis but the Republicans have had lots of time to do something about it and done absolutely nothing instead.
Posted in: McCain, Obama trade barbs in 2nd debate
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Simon_Foston
Old news. If that had ever done Obama any serious damage it would be Clinton vs McCain in the election next month.
Posted in: McCain, Obama trade barbs in 2nd debate
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Simon_Foston
Um, aren't you aware that leaders of big opposition parties are sort of required to complain about what the government's doing? Suggesting that Ozawa should shut his mouth is a bit unrealistic.
Posted in: Opposition leader Ozawa blasts ruling party
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Simon_Foston
What an excellent example the senior citizens of this nation are setting to its youth. Why exactly is it that everyone thinks elderly people should be respected when there are deranged old bats like this running about?
Posted in: 60-year-old woman arrested for threatening to kill all students at Tokyo school
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Simon_Foston
Japan does not currently have a democracy. It has a peerage, created by weaknesses in the electoral system that deprive many voters of fair and equal representation. The LDP have kept themselves in power by bribing over-represented rural voters with public works projects, subsidies and protectionist agricultural policies, and there is every indication that Ozawa will do the same thing if the DPJ ever do take power. As long as it takes twice as many votes in the cities to elect a candidate as it does in the countryside, nothing will change very much.
I think this has stunted Japan in other ways. Desperate to keep the countryside voters happy, the LDP has basically kept farms and provincial small businesses on life support, thereby exploiting the voting disparity and keeping itself on life support. The domestic economy needs urgent reform, especially in the farming and retail sectors, that will allow medium-sized and big businesses to become dominant. While politicians are scared of losing the support of small business owners and farmers who couldn't stand on their own two feet without government hand-outs, there will be no such reform.
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Simon_Foston
What is up with that?
Don't know... but seven out of ten people can't be wrong, can they? Never mind though, at least they said the Democrats are even less popular than your beloved President and Commander-in-Chief.
Aw, shucks and gee whizz. I've got the "Star-spangled Banner" playing on a never-ending loop in my head now. Personally I'd rate some of those Scandinavian countries a bit more highly than the good ol' U.S. of A, but if you take "richest and most powerful" to mean "greatest" then yes, it certainly is.
Posted in: Everything spinning out of control
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Simon_Foston
Sarge said...
"Jahdog - "Iran's gain"
You mean Iranian people no longer being killed by Saddam? Is that a bad thing? You happy about that?"
It's not such a great idea to use the Iran-Iraq conflict to support the "America rid the world of a dangerous tyrant and spread democracy" argument. Not when President Reagan issued a National Security Decision Directive in June 1982 making it formal policy to, in his own words, "do whatever was necessary to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran."
Moderator: Back on topic please.
Posted in: Obama rebukes McCain; says bin Laden free due to GOP tactics
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Simon_Foston
RedMeatKoolAid said..
"Terrorists and liberals celebrate this ruling.
By it both groups are at last able to take their common agendas - to destroy America - to the only battlefield they know offers the prospect of victory: the courts."
I've nothing at all against conservatives who have well-formed opinions about what's best for their country, but some of you knee-jerk right-wingers really do talk absolute garbage. "Liberals want to destroy America?" You'd blame just about anything on "liberals," wouldn't you. There are also so many of you, all whining on about the same thing - "liberals control the media, liberals would give federal funding to Arabs who eat babies, liberals make you constipated, liberals want you to believe we're descended from hyenas..." give it a rest, it's getting old. Besides, surely the best way to destroy America is to destroy the principles on which it's built - fair trials, Habeas Corpus, not condoning torture, adherence to international laws like the Geneva Conventions, stuff like that.
Posted in: Supreme Court rebukes Bush on rights for Gitmo detainees
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Simon_Foston
So, Saddam was okay before he did that, was he? Never mind that while he was massing his forces near Kuwait he was told by U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie in July 1990,
They didn't try very hard to talk him out of it, did they?
Posted in: Obama says Iraq war makes Iran stronger, but U.S. and Israel less secure