McCain himself is a declared pro-life candidate promising even to appoint Supreme Court Justices that will bring Christian laws into the Constitution. No equal rights for women and/or gays. This could force America into a police state controlling the personal lives of all Americans.

What a choice it leaves all of us. I choose a socialism over a police state at least socialism can be voted out of our government but a police state is forever. Once those Christian laws are part of the Federal Government even our public schools will force the bible on the kids. There are a list of prohibitions just waiting for McCain to bring them into the Bill of Rights as Amendments. Not since the 18th Amendment has any Administration worked against our freedoms. It was quickly repealed when the crime cartels took over the bottling and selling of alcohol.

Our Bill of Rights protects all Americans from the government and McCain will turn that around so that no one in America can live freely without Federal approval. I would rather live with sinners than these Inquisition types who will turn on all of us for the power the government gives them. Our government cannot even clear the CIA for their drug dealings and the private contractors trained by the Robertson University for killing innocent people including our own American soldiers. Handing our government over to this awful McCain will be the final straw against our freedoms.

We are in a terrible predicament since we overlooked the candidates who would restore our Constitution. We failed with Goldwater, Perot and Paul. Let's see how the voters choose for a new America. Do we need an American Pope?

Looks like we've got three, count em, three choices.

Hope, the Pope , or dope.

Hope is leaving town ahead of the inquisition.

The Pope is busy writing the new scriptures,(our constitution).

Dope is counting on the stoned masses not to notice.

Not a pretty picture.

My wife is a big Barack fan. A few days ago she sent me a piece of his campaign propaganda about how he's all about compromise:

When an extremely intelligent politician tells you over and over and over that he is tired of the take-no-prisoners politics of the last several decades, that he is going to get things done and build a “new consensus,” he is trying to explain that he is all about compromise. Even if he says it in that great Baracky way.

Actions speak louder than words. His actions over his tenure in office do not offer a shred of evidence of 'meeting in the middle'. To the contrary, his record is that of the most ideologically polar politician in the senate.

My fear is that he'll get a democrat controlled congress to help him out with his plan for socialization.

I think the best we can hope for is a congress that is controlled by a different party than that of the president. Gridlock will be better than either major party getting control of both the presidency and congress.

Nothing wrong with socialization. That's how I teach my puppy not to bite. Socialism, on the other hand just plain bites.

Churlpat -- a plutarch by any name is still a plutarch

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1
so·cial·i·za·tion
Pronunciation[soh-shuh-luh-zey-shuhn]
–noun
1. a continuing process whereby an individual acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.

2. the act or process of making socialistic: the socialization of industry.
[Origin: 1885–90; socialize + -ation]
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Thanks Warren.

I too feel that being an American transcends position, creed, orientation, and that being a fact, hence we are all part of that which makes us go.

We also want but a slice, or should I say, a level field, and would prefer to forgo the bite of life when forced to bet against the proverbial stacked deck.

Try that one on neocons.

DanT

Barack a socialist? He is a free marketer, although quite liberal.

This is what he said in an interview with BUSINESS WEEK some time ago:

There's no doubt that anything I do is going to be premised on what the economic situation is when I take office next January. The thing you can be assured of is that I'm not going to make these decisions based on ideology. I'm not a dogmatist. My opponents to the right would like to paint me as this wild-eyed liberal, but I believe in the market. I believe in entrepreneurship. I believe in capitalism, and I want to do what works. One of the problems with the Bush Administration has been its rigidness when it comes to economic policy. It doesn't matter what the problem is, they'll say tax cuts. Trade deficit? Tax cuts. Slowdown in manufacturing? Tax cuts. At a certain point, if you've only got one arrow in the quiver, you're going to have problems.

My basic approach to leadership is to hire very good people, set a clear vision for where I want the organization to go…then give people a lot of power to do their jobs and hold them accountable for doing them. I said early on that I wanted to have a cooperative atmosphere. I didn't want a lot of drama. I wanted to focus on building a broad-based network of support rather than just relying on all the usual suspects in politics. We put together a budget, and we stuck to it. We've put together clear objectives and we've achieved them. So I think it's fair to say that having started from scratch and competing against organizations built over 20 years—including an organization built by a former President—we have outperformed the others in terms of fund-raising, volunteer participation, votes, and states won. And we've done so without a lot of turmoil or turnover. And I think it should give people some confidence that I know how to manage a team.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_15...

"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Caroll

OK, I have my map out and I can't find the Iraq/Pakistan border. Am I missing something?

Confused

incog99

McCain is more than an Alzheimers afflicted Bush clone loony toons Nazi and Viet Cong collaborator.

Yes, we WILL !!

FREE AMERICA

DIRECT DEMOCRACY

McCain, like most Republicans these days, calls anyone a socialist who believes in the Constitution and the rule of law.

As far as economics goes, McCain, like most Americans, including economists, doesn't know anything about the history of the American economy and the fact it is not based on capitalism.

No founding father ever mentioned the word "capitalism". Read about the American System of Hamilton and Clay.

This system neither believed in free-trade nor capitalism. Those are the facts. The U.S. became a super power by protectionism and especially the "revenue tariff" which freed workers from having to pay taxes. Yes, we Americans were geniuses in economics until in 1973 when we adopted free-trade. It has been downhill ever since then.