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[Bob98SR5]

neli,

but obama belatedly (b/c mccain was gaining points with it) wants it as part of his energy policy and Biden will be vice pres, so i doubt your dad nor the entire nuclear power industry will shut down. practically speaking, what would replace it?

bob

[oly884]

neli,

but obama belatedly (b/c mccain was gaining points with it) wants it as part of his energy policy and Biden will be vice pres, so i doubt your dad nor the entire nuclear power industry will shut down. practically speaking, what would replace it?

bob

Bob, I have to wonder if he will stick to that though. As with any politician, they say things that the crowd they are in front of will cheer. I'll even say things to simply avoid confrontation/arguments. Call it, "choosing your battles wisely"

However, what is important is to go back and look at Obama/Biden's voting record on nuclear power and then make a choice. The quick search I just did did not come up with much. Most of it was recent quotes and with being this close to the election, I would not trust what any politician is saying.

Remember, actions speak louder than words.

Vote for someone by what they have done, not what they are promising to do (or change)

[fustercluck]

Vote for someone by what they have done, not what they are promising to do (or change)

Words of timeless wisdom...

[Bob98SR5]

neli,

but obama belatedly (b/c mccain was gaining points with it) wants it as part of his energy policy and Biden will be vice pres, so i doubt your dad nor the entire nuclear power industry will shut down. practically speaking, what would replace it?

bob

Bob, I have to wonder if he will stick to that though. As with any politician, they say things that the crowd they are in front of will cheer. I'll even say things to simply avoid confrontation/arguments. Call it, "choosing your battles wisely"

However, what is important is to go back and look at Obama/Biden's voting record on nuclear power and then make a choice. The quick search I just did did not come up with much. Most of it was recent quotes and with being this close to the election, I would not trust what any politician is saying.

Remember, actions speak louder than words.

Vote for someone by what they have done, not what they are promising to do (or change)

I dont have much faith too that they will pursue it either because it goes against what Democrats have voted for (or against, in this case) in terms of nuke power. but when the inevitable is at your doorstep, you have to hope for the best.

[Robinhood4x4]

I don't agree with everything Palin has to say (religion and abortion), but I do like most of what she stands for.

They say that the best people who would be president, are the people who don't want to be president. People also say they don't want politicians to run the country. Well, Palin isn't a politician and I really like that aspect of her. I say give her 4 years as VP and I'll vote for her for president 2012. After all, Reagan was an actor, not a politician.

[04 Rocko Taco]

Good posting Steve. I too, don't agree with everything Palin and McCain say, or even stand for, but I like even less of the other sides policies. I would say that I am mostly in favor of the things McCain and Palin stand for (epseically religion and abortion). I think with a little experience under her belt, she could make a serious run at the office herself.

[fustercluck]

I don't agree with everything Palin has to say (religion and abortion), but I do like most of what she stands for.

They say that the best people who would be president, are the people who don't want to be president. People also say they don't want politicians to run the country. Well, Palin isn't a politician and I really like that aspect of her. I say give her 4 years as VP and I'll vote for her for president 2012. After all, Reagan was an actor, not a politician.

It might be useful for everyone to read up on FDR's career pre-political office. He was nominated for VP without ever holding an executive position. In fact, he was nominated from a position as under secretary of the Navy. I don't think anyone will dispute he rose to the occasion...even though he was confined to a wheelchair. I think at some point the experience can only take one so far; and then he/she must rely on fortitude and correct ideological principles.

I think for all of Obama's gloss and suave, he has poor character and atrocious ideology....the same ideology that eventually cost 100,000,000 people their lives in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though his ideology is just a nascent iteration of that which destroyed hundreds of millions of innocent lives, every sociologist worth his weight understands that Socialism is a transition to Communism. If we accept a full frontal Socialist now, we will find ourselves dependent and complicit in our own demise as well as that of our childrens' and theirs.

This country was founded and successful as a self sufficiency captalist economy. It has only stumbled when Socialist principles have been parasitically shackled to it. This latest tumble is a direct result of Socialists, social engineers, dependents and those convinced that a little Socialism is benign, yoking captialism with Socialist egalitarianism and concealing it long enough for the amagamation to metastasize.

In some cases you can fight fire with fire. This is not one of those cases. The politcal Left promises more Socialism to remedy this economy. History shows that this prescription is not medicine, it is poison and once we head down the road to Socialism there is no bloodless way back historically. Mark my words. If you have not been taught the principles of freedom, learn them. They are: Individual liberty requires personal accountability, a moral code, self sufficiency and the will to protect them from those who are not so convinced of their value. In this life, strength comes through adversity. To have a strong community, there must first be a strong individual joined together with a strong family guided by strong faith and humility. Without humility, there can be nothing learned. Where ther is nothing learned, there is no progress. Where there is no progress, society festers and falls into decline. When society falls into deline personal freedom erodes. These are som of the many time tested irrefutable principles of freedom. There are others, but I'm sleepy.

[04 Rocko Taco]

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

~Thomas Paine

[MTL_4runner]

I still find it amusing that despite having created several screwups of monumental porportions that somehow the republicans can do no wrong and that the "left" is then always at fault. I simply don't buy that any more than the average American in the polls does at this point. There is not a snowball's chance that Palin would rival either Reagan or FDR and to even make that comparison is as completely absurd as it is outrageous. I could go on considerably but due to time constraints I'll hold off.

[calrockx]

I still find it amusing that despite having created several screwups of monumental porportions that somehow the republicans can do no wrong and that the "left" is then always at fault. I simply don't buy that any more than the average American in the polls does at this point. There is not a snowball's chance that Palin would rival either Reagan or FDR and to even make that comparison is as completely absurd as it is outrageous. I could go on considerably but due to time constraints I'll hold off.

good post.