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Scott M. Sandridge
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   Posted 12/9/2007 3:17 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

If Naomi Wolf was running for President (and Ron Paul wasn't), I'd vote for her, despite the fact that half her political views would make her likely to run as a Democrat. Unlike "it takes a village" Hitlery, she actually has character and integrity.

Plus she's hot. devil

But most importantly: she's not a CFR member and Bilderberg pawn.


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   Posted 12/9/2007 10:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
tchernabyelo said...


So, who is "the right woman", and whence will she (eventually) appear?

 
Your guess is as good as mine.
 
What matters is electing someone who's intelligent, wise, and has integrity, and to heck with race or gender, neither of which have anything to do with a contender's qualifications for the job.
 
~Beth
 
 
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   Posted 12/10/2007 3:34 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
tchernabyelo said...
Heaven forfend anyone with a shrill voice or cackling laugh should be trusted as President...

 

 
Well, a primal scream ruled out Howard Dean...
 
~Beth
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   Posted 12/10/2007 3:37 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
tchernabyelo said...
I'm tired of hearing people talk the talk about how the US is a country of equal opportunity for all at all levels. I'd like to see it walk the walk one of these old days.
If it ever tried walking the walk, its legs would snap off at the knees.
 
There are some very pretty lies America tells about itself; the problem is too many Americans currently believe them, and the percentage of the duped is only getting higher.
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   Posted 12/10/2007 9:34 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well, we are talking about a country where the majority don't even understand (or possibly even read) their own Bill of Rights. Yes, the Founders are turning in their gaves as we speak.
 
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   Posted 12/17/2007 1:04 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
W00T!!
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Yep. I'm still good at picking the winners.
 
Here's my prediction:
 
Obama wins the Dems and Ron Paul wins the Repubs.


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   Posted 12/17/2007 10:44 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
BethS said...
What matters is electing someone who's intelligent, wise, and has integrity, and to heck with race or gender, neither of which have anything to do with a contender's qualifications for the job.
 
~Beth
 
 
No, they don't.
 
But if you're supposed to elect someone who's "intelligent, wise and has integrity" then can someone explain to me just WTF that buffoon Dubya is doing in the White House?   Because he is MANIFESTLY none of these things.   He IS effective and a convenient front for certain interest groups (hawkish neocons and corporatists), but his presence shows, surely, that it is "issues" and (dare I say it) "principles" that people vote on, not the actual competence of the individual - and yet people will rule out certain people as "unelectable" because they have a shrieky laugh, or a skin tone that doesn't quite have a high enough albedo.  


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   Posted 12/17/2007 11:51 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
 
Here's my prediction:
 
Obama wins the Dems and Ron Paul wins the Repubs.

Well, anything can happen, but I'm real, real doubtful about the Ron Paul prediction. He has some avid fans but his support is not that widespread.
 
~Beth
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   Posted 12/17/2007 9:22 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

80,000 volunteers in MeetUp groups all over the cauntry as well as U.S. citizens overseas. More than all the volunteers of the other candidates in both parties added together.

Don't follow the poll numbers the TVs showing. They're fixed. I've seen the evidence and know from personal experience.

 
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   Posted 12/18/2007 1:33 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
For anyone who's interested, Ron Paul is going to be a guest on the Glenn Beck show tonight (CNN Headline News), for the full hour. 7:00 EST, then repeats at 9 and midnight.
 
~Beth
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   Posted 12/18/2007 6:56 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Cool!

Glenn Beck is a perplexing fellow. On the one hand, he praises RPs libertarian views, but on the other hand he called RPs supporters "terrorists," and has pretty much smeared him off and on. Who knows?

 

Either way, it'll be an interesting interview.

 
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   Posted 12/20/2007 5:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I've read over all the major candidates websites. I've listened to most of them speak on TV. I've read the media views...

I've come to the conclusion there is no "good" candidate running for the presidency. We're forced with making a choice between the lesser of evils. I don't think any of these clowns will make a fit president. If the current list of hopefuls (from either platform) is the best this country can come up with then we're in for another rough four years.

I've always preached that Americans should exercise the right to vote, but what do you do if you don't like any of the choices.

I'm ready for a third party candidate. I want one who is going to get us out of the Middle East and who is serious about the environment and moving our country away from fossil fuel dependenc--quickly. I want a candidate that will initiate some kind of universal health plan that will work. I want a candidate who will make a real difference when it comes to getting all the illegal aliens out of our country. I want a candidate who will save and strengthen social security. I want a candidate who will push for real tax reform (Fairtax ain't gonna cut it). On top of that I want a candidate that at least comes across as a person of integrity in both his/her personal and professional life.

The current lot is just a bunch of rich Washington insiders. I don't TRUST any of them. What a sad state of affairs for our country.


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   Posted 12/20/2007 7:51 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution." -- Benjamin Franklin

"I believe that banking insitutions are more dangerous than standing armies...if the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson

"If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the nation's credit" - Sir Josiah Stamp.

"The Morgan interests took advantage...to precipitate the panic [of 1907] guiding it shrewdly as it progressed" -- Frederik Allen, Life Magazine
 
 
One year after the 1913 Federal Reserve Act was passed (allegedly to prevent money panics like 1907), Woodrow Wilson wrote in regret:
 
"Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men...who necessarily, by reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy economic freedom.
 
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world--no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."
 
 
"A world banking system was being set up here...a superstate controlled by international bankers...acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The Fed has usurped the government." --Congressman Louis McFadden
 
The public was told that the Federal Reserve System was an economic stablilizer and that inflations and crises were a thing of the past. Well, we all know that the Great Depression proved that wrong.
 
"Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we work a mathematical figure." --Congressman Charles Lindbergh, during the 1921 Money Panic (what we today call recessions)
 
 
After the 1929 crash that caused the Great Depression, Congressman McFadden, began bringing Impeachment proceedings against the Federal Reserve Board, saying:
 
"It was a carefully contrived occurance. International bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair, so that they might emerge the rulers of us all."
 
After two previous assassination attempts, McFadden was poisoned at a banquet before he could push for the Impeachment.
 
 
I could go on and on and on about the problems with having the Federal Reserve (and lets not forget the fact that it's unconstitutional to have a privately owned central bank in control of the money supply, for the very reasons Franklin, Jefferson, and other founders stated). But, to bring things up to the point I want to make:
 
Absolutely nothing will change in this country as long as the FRS exists, because this country is going in the exact direction the private owners of the FRS want, and they have our government in their pockets.
 
"Give me the power to control a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws." -- Mayer Amschel Rothchilde



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