Chief Scout: I'm not sure I understand your attack at third parties. You're saying they don't earn success because they're not automatically on the national ballot? They have to work to get on the state ballots. So when they get big numbers it's harder earned success. I don't understand why you even brought them up...I suppose because I support Barr?
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What a success! All he's done is beat out Hillary Clinton, a woman, for the Democratic nomination. His voting record shows that he voted "present" more often than not (when he showed up). Obama's only platform was to be against the war in Iraq and now he's running against a "token Republican nominee" who isn't supposed to win following George "WTF" Bush's disastrous eight years of thievery, dishonesty, etc., etc....
Remember that "it ain't over 'til it's over"! If the blacks aren't appeased when he loses, there probably will be more rioting like Watts or Detroit back in the day. Obama hasn't EARNED success yet.
The Nerd
Absolutely not, if you believe his rhetoric. He just thinks those who have more wealth have a greater responsibility to support the nation. In principle I don't have any moral objection to this theory; the problem is the perverse macroeconomic effects of levying the highest taxes on the most productive workers in society.
Yes, yes, I know that you might argue that a garbage man works just as hard (or harder, physically anyway) as a doctor, but come on, whose human capital is really more valuable? Anyone with a strong back can be a garbage man, but it takes 8 years of higher education to become a doctor. Do we want to discourage people from pursuing the higher-paying careers by taxing them at a higher rate?
Anonymous
Yes...Now when is Obama going to do the will of the people of Ill. that put him in office All of his votes are PRESENT, not yes or no...So far he has not earned any successes
Anonymous
Both parties do.
Many of the rich really didn't earn their success, but rather used the apparatus of the state for handout, legal monopolies, regulated oligopolies, contracts, etc.
Anonymous
A democrat like a third party supporter who isn't even on the National
ballot has a problem with a earned anything.