akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - May 20 2008 | politics, democrats, republicans
Biased opinion, but interesting observation
Quoted: The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.)
Quoted: The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist.
- akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 03 2008 | obama, government, news, politics
Good ole' economist
Quoted: The sad thing is that one might reasonably have expected better from Mr Obama. He wants to improve America's international reputation yet campaigns against NAFTA. He trumpets “the audacity of hope” yet proposes more government intervention. He might have chosen to use his silver tongue to address America's problems in imaginative ways—for example, by making the case for reforming the distorting tax code. Instead, he wants to throw money at social problems and slap more taxes on the rich, and he is using his oratorical powers to prey on people's fears.
Quoted: Mr Obama advertises himself as something fresh, hopeful and new. But on economic matters at least he, like Mrs Clinton, has begun to look a rather ordinary old-style Democrat.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 08 2007 | politics, president, political quiz
Pretty slick political quiz - it lets you weight the issues you deem to be the most important, which in my opinion increases its accuracy by a lot. Unsuprisingly, my #1 was Ron Paul at 72%, probably because I heavily weighted 'Trade and Economics' and 'Taxes and Budget'
ShareViewed: 21 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 23 2007 | politics, facebook, president, satire
Mmmmm 21st century satire
Quoted: Rudy Giuliani is wondering how he can fit 9/11 into a speech about agriculture policy.
ShareViewed: 19 Times - akabagel | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2006 | politics
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Quoted: SEA says that "scientists and engineers have a right, indeed an obligation, to enter the political debate when the nation's leaders systematically ignore scientific evidence and analysis." SEA's main targets will be the Bush administration and the Republican leadership, says executive director Mike Brown. "[They] are the source of a lot of the problems we've identified."
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- srainier - May 20 2008
You must be Matthew's friend before you can comment on this Fave.Definitely biased. And missing some key bits of information:
1. George W. Bush wasn't simply a businessman. He was a horrible failure as a businessman. Every oil company he tried to run he ran into the ground.
2. Howard Dean, DNC Chairman, largely responsible for the Dem's 2006 congressional wins, was a medical doctor.
3. If your job is to make laws, doesn't it make sense that your background be in law?
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