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  questioning qualifications

  I think her response was fair.  Of course it is fair to question her experience, as it is fair for her to question Obama's.  She has been to Iraq(not that I think travel is a qualification) and has been the governor of the state for two years.  I think her experience is not very different from Obama's, and she has spent more time as an executive than Obama.  You don't know what kind of foreign policy knowledge or judgement the lady has(and cannot read her mind), so it's not really fair to say it's irresponsible. It is fair to question any candidate's knowledge, experience, and judgement. I think you would disagree with the foreign policy of any VP McCain would choose.  I think if he had chosen Ridge, we'd be hearing that those are two war mongers with experience, but we need change and no more of the failed foreign policies of the Bush administration. A republican might argue that the choice of Biden is highly irresponsible because he's only spent his career making bad decisions in the senate.  Someone might argue that Hillary would have been an irresponsible choice for VP because she has only been a lawyer, first lady, and senator.  I think most democrats would rather have Hillary or the author of this blog post as VP and replacement pres. over someone like Ridge, because they share their foreign policy views, regardless of experience.  I really doubt that any democrat would feel more comfortable with Romney, Pawlenty, Ridge, or Liebermann as McCain's VP.  I think they would feel more comfortable with one of them as his running mate, because he'd be easier to beat. On Resentment in partisan politics posted 1 year, 2 months ago 28 Responses

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  Re: Rynn and Ahlport

  Okay, I won't say she was mocked for being the mayor of a small town because I don't think she mocked community organizers. I think Obama questioned her experience as a small town mayor and governor of a small state.  She questioned Obama's experience as a community organizer(in a mocking way), and later as a senator with several "present" votes.  She was making a case for executive experience, not mocking community organizing. She reacted with the "small town" references throughout her speech because she's a politician and it was effective in painting Obama and the media as elitist.  The claim that she was mocking community  organizing as a whole rather than Obama's experience as an organizer in comparison to hers as a mayor is the same type of smear.

  "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency"

  Ahlport, I think competition between insurance companies for quality and prices would be socially beneficial.  There is limited competition now, so insurance companies take advantage of that.  My family cannot afford insurance, but I do not want the government to take it over for my short-term benefit. The Lasik eye procedures are not covered by insurance, and they have become very affordable because of market competition. On Resentment in partisan politics posted 1 year, 2 months ago 28 Responses

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  Re: healthcare

  "Well lets first consider that:

  It's in the corporate health insurance providers best interest to deny coverage.  Therefore they try to make it as difficult, confusing and slow as possible.

  They only want you visiting health care providers within their own network.

  Medicare is the fastest and most ubiquitous form of healthcare coverage.

  And you are able to use it at virtually ANY private healthcare provider you choose.  No contracts.  Any mixture you choose.

  So simply, your statement is categorically false."

  It's true that insurance companies abuse government regulation and raise prices.  The solution to this would be to de-regulate and allow anyone to buy whatever insurance they want outside of any network.  The solution is not government provided healthcare. On Resentment in partisan politics posted 1 year, 2 months ago 28 Responses

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   "It's a legitimate issue to say that being the mayor of a small town does not give one the experience to be President, but that's not mocking small towns."

  I didn't say he mocked small towns, and I am no republican.  I said she was mocked for being a "small town mayor."  There you go again twisting what someone says.  

  "repeating a lie"

  If you want socialized medicine, make sure you know exactly what it is.  I lived in Ecuador for six months and saw very substandard care that was available to everyone.  The best care was in Quito, and that was in in hospitals that rich people and visiting gringos actually paid money for.

  The bridge to nowhere bit was not a lie, and it's not a lie because you say it is. It's not a lie because you repeat that it is a lie. She changed her mind. Call her a flip-flopper, but not a liar.  On Resentment in partisan politics posted 1 year, 2 months ago 28 Responses

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  for F***s sake

  She said "thanks, but no thanks." Maybe this means she was interested in it until she changed her mind.  That doesn't mean saying "thanks, but no thanks" is a lie.  Obama and Biden both voted for it, and she did in fact, say "no thanks." I think it's a bit of a stretch to call what she said an outright lie.  

  She mocked community organizing because being a small town mayor was mocked.  She bit back.  What do you expect? Do you want a submissive woman? For f***s sake, David Roberts.  

  Government regulated healthcare is not in the best interest of the working man, as democrats claim.  It would take the choice of which doctors and hospitals everyday, small town folk can go to, reduce competition, and reduce the quality of healthcare. If healthcare were deregulated, competition would drive prices down and quality would be maintained, and all of the working class people democrats claim to care about would have access to great healthcare.On Resentment in partisan politics posted 1 year, 2 months ago 28 Responses