starcraft said:
The problem is, Obama seems largely ignorant of the economic realities of the world. There isn't a single substantive policy area (especially areas like health) that can be looked at independently of economics. Obama's stated health care plan is going to have the horrendous result of shifting more health care costs to the state, and increasing them overall. I really like Obama as a man, and think he believes in everything he says. I just think his economic ineptitude could get America and the world in a lot of trouble if he doesn't have some very intelligent economists in his ear for the next 4-8 years. On the other hand, America's global image will get an enormous boost from this, and talking to Iran and Syria is a great idea.
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Aren't we better off spending our money on healthcare than the war in Iraq? I mean Republicans have had no problem shipping American tax dollars abroad, why not keep some of them here? Its not like healthcare is like passing out free TV's or something to everybody, it is something that people should be able to access regardless of how rich or poor they are.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
