Hopefully this doesn't sway the election.

Quoted: Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."

Obama's response to the State of the Union address.

Quoted: Official Website of Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign

Quoted: A Bushism is any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors and gaffes that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush and, before that, of his father George H. W. Bush.[2][3] The term (a neologism) has become part of popular folklore, and is the basis of a number of websites and published books. It is often used to caricature the two presidents.

Quoted: When they go to war, most governments try to be fiscally conservative. They institute austerity programs that require less spending at home and they raise taxes. President Bush spent more at home (following the Reagan economic model) and cut taxes. Then he borrowed money to fight the Iraq war - borrowed it by selling Treasury bills to other countries.
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In the last few years I've heard people say that, well, you can't really blame the President for the price of gasoline. After all, it's those nasty Arabs that are raising the price. Recently I've clarified the issue for myself: you really can blame the president for the price of gasoline. His policies and actions have lead to the decline of the dollar. And the decline of the dollar is why gasoline at the pump costs what it does.

Oh dubya...

Quoted: Pressed on the issue, Mr. Bush said, "You need to talk to an economist."
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"I think I got a 'B' in Econ 101, but I got an 'A' in not raising taxes," he said.

redot. all states (right-leaning and left-leaning) should play by the same rules. agree with the author's conclusion quoted below.

the only reform that could make sense to me is one where we ditch the electoral college and switch to an all out popular vote

Quoted: California Initiative No. 07-0032 is an audacious power play packaged as a step forward for democratic fairness. It’s the lotusland equivalent of Tom DeLay’s 2003 midterm redistricting in Texas, except with a sweeter smell, a better disguise, and larger stakes. And the only way Californians will reject it is if they have a chance to think about it first.

I like that the discussion is framed in a non-partisan context. In fact, the guy who wrote the following quote wrote the first article of impeachment against Clinton.

Quoted: "On January 20th, 2009, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately held to account this Administration will hand off a toolbox with more powers than any President has ever had, more powers than the founders could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else. But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that people don't give away the tools."

Quoted: The US House votes to ease curbs on funding stem-cell research, defying President Bush's threat to veto the bill.

Signed by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz (ex World Bank head), and Rob Zoellick (Bush appointee to replace Wolfowitz) in 1998.

The "problem definition" below arguably sounds reasonable if you accept there truly was uncertainty. However, the proposed "solution", articulated at the end of this article, has ultimately been a disaster.

Quoted: Such uncertainty [as to Iraq re: WMD] will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat.