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Originally posted by badkarma00:
I haven't read much about the Iowa caucus, yet. Does anyone know what the people in Iowa are saying about their reasons for voting for Obama and Huckabee?

I ask only out of curiosity, btw. I don't know enough about Obama to really form an opinion, and Huckabee did a fair job as Governor of Arkansas, far as I know.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
As number of threads ago, people were asking if racism was still a force in this country. The answer is YES. But Obama won a 57% of the under-30 vote in Iowa. Does this mean racism is becoming LESS of a factor?

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Edwards isn't gay....not there's anything wrong with that....he's just VERY into his hair.

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Edwards isn't gay....not there's anything wrong with that....he's just VERY into his hair.

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I'm pretty sure he's in love with a transvestite hooker...I don't know where I heard it...

I note for the record that he also throws like a girl. H

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Originally posted by Righteous9:
Idon't know Jong...pointing out corporate greed and its ability to shape the politics and policies of this nation seems less to me like a "nanny state" argument, and more about a call for people to Take responsibility for their country, and to change the way it operates. It is, in my opinion about personal responsibility.

The fact is we've shirked the responsibility of being our government for far too long, we've stopped paying attention to how things work or even philosophically, how they should work in our American Democracy.

I think getting people fired up about a truly real problem in this nation and invested in the reshaping of it is an appeal for us to take responsibility for our lives and our communities by taking back our government.

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What is "corporate greed" anyway? These corporations are Public companies, with shares held my millions of average working Americans. The "evil" corporations provide jobs and benefits for most Americans as well....and of course they provide all the products, luxuries, and entertainment which we all consume.

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Let's say Edwards became President & started proposing legislation to penalize and/or cap corporate profits...what do you think that would do to the economy? Wall Street would crash & burn; instead of looking at possible recession in the near future, we'd be facing damn near global depression. He also talks about homeless vets and un-insured folks...again very catchy, but ultimately hollow and empty.

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What is "corporate greed" anyway? These corporations are Public companies, with shares held my millions of average working Americans. The "evil" corporations provide jobs and benefits for most Americans as well....and of course they provide all the products, luxuries, and entertainment which we all consume.

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Bullpuckies. GM doesn't "make" cars... people make cars. The only thing corporations "make" is a profit.

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Let's say Edwards became President & started proposing legislation to penalize and/or cap corporate profits...what do you think that would do to the economy? Wall Street would crash & burn; instead of looking at possible recession in the near future, we'd be facing damn near global depression. He also talks about homeless vets and un-insured folks...again very catchy, but ultimately hollow and empty.

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If the EU can do it why can't we? Are we so poor we can't 'afford' to?

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Bullpuckies. GM doesn't "make" cars... people make cars. The only thing corporations "make" is a profit.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
As for Iowa...

Lemme ask you this, what gives THEM the right to make decisions for the rest of US ?

So much for fekkin democracy. Frem

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Originally posted by SignyM:
A number of threads ago, people were asking if racism was still a force in this country. The answer is YES. But Obama won a 57% of the under-30 vote in Iowa. Does this mean racism is becoming LESS of a factor? BTW- the most segregated (and presumably racist) are of the nation is in the Northeast, not the South.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I don't believe in Govt. benefits or programs for people that don't, won't, or can't work.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
BTW- the most segregated (and presumably racist) are of the nation is in the Northeast, not the South.

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I don't believe in Govt. benefits or programs for people that don't, won't, or can't work.

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I think this is fairly clear but I'd like to make sure, does this mean that you are against even temporary unemployment benefits?

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BTW- the most segregated (and presumably racist) are of the nation is in the Northeast, not the South.

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I've just recently moved to the south for the first time in my life an it's not at all like what I expected. It's not the southern whites that have surprised me it's the southern blacks. There's none of the "chip on the shoulder" anti-white sentiment I felt living in the north. It's just a more comfortable racial atmosphere than I experienced in the north.

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I'm a white-bread boy, really, really white...you know the blotchy pale skin type that never tans

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Originally posted by Alliethorn7:
People know that he's done drugsbefore, and he doesn't try to hide it too much;

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All I know about Obama is that he's black.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
All I know about Obama is that he's black. That's the central theme of his campaign.

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