Stick a Fork in Hillary...She's Done.
I know, I know. I really should wait until we get the results next Tuesday, but from my vantage point, Hillary got spanked in this last debate.
No doubt about it, Obama is far more intelligent that Hillary. Not saying much there, but I really am impressed with him. He is by far the most capable and intelligent Liberal I have seen since Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Democrat Party contest. McCarthy was a principled Liberal with core ideals, much as is Obama.
Hillary's greatest problem is that she has no justification for her desire to become President of the United States bey0nd her blind ambition for power. She has no core values so she has a difficult time defining why Americans should support her over Barrack Obama.
Policy-wise, I doubt there is a dimes worth of difference between them on any given issue. They both represent the extreme Leftist, Socialist, utopian world view. Both would have us move back from where we are now to the tired old failed policies of the great socialist experiments of the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
The difference that I see is Obama's realization that socialism is not an end unto itself, but a means to an end of providing the American people with a means of improving their lot in life. For Hillary, socialism appears to be her final goal. She lacks vision and it shows every time she speaks.
Both candidates embrace a flawed economic and social philosophy, but Barrack has shown that he has the intelligence to grow and think beyond the immediate objective of becoming President.
His answers are better and more complete, his thinking is on a much deeper level, and he is much quicker on his feet because of his superior intellect.
I think that following this final performance which was at times boring, Obama is the huge favorite in the upcoming primaries. I wouldn't be surprised if he sweeps the remaining states.
As a side note, as "brilliant" as he seems to be, he still has the myopic view that afflicts all Liberals when it comes to how this economy functions. In his responses tonight, he brought up the fact that Exxon reported record profits of $11 Billion for the quarter, as though this is something to be frowned upon. Democrats and Liberals just don't get it, never have and never will.
It must be some genetic flaw that prevents them from comprehending that the very thing they denigrate is the thing which made this country the greatest in the world. The richest, most successful, most powerful nation in the world came about because of our unfettered economy.
Therefore, the question to ask Mr. Obama is..."Who is Exxon?" It's a very simple question which gets right to the heart of the failure of their economic world view.
Mr. Obama, who is Exxon? Or if you like, "What is Exxon?"
Perhaps an even more generic question would be more appropriate. What is a corporation? How do you tax a corporation? Who owns a corporation? Who receives that $11 Billion in profit?
Therein lies the difficulty all Liberals face in condemning "corporate greed." A corporation is not an entity, it is a legal document. It is 0wned by the stockholders. Who are the stockholders? Everyone who has a 401K, a pension fund, a retirement fund, an insurance annuity or other financial retirement arrangement.
A corporation is its employees, its customers, and its stockholders. The question Mr. Obama is how many people benefit from Exxon generating $11 Billion in profit? How many pension funds, stockholders, 401K owners, Annuity funds, IRA's are invested in Exxon?
It's a stupid argument to engage in for Liberals, because it is an argument with the American people. More individuals own stock, mutual funds, annuities, and IRA's than at anytime in our history.
Slap a 50 cent/gallon tax on Exxon gasoline today, the consumer's price of gasoline goes up 50 cents tomorrow. Corporations don't pay taxes. Until you Liberals are able to comprehend that little fact, you will always be more of a hindrance to our economy and our labor markets than a boon.
I will close with this little tidbit though, I am becoming a protectionist more and more. I have come to believe that no nation should exist without a strong manufacturing base. The miracle that was America in World War II, could not exist today.
We were able to build the machine of war which beat back the growing tide of oppression in the twentieth century because of our huge manufacturing capacity. Today, we are rapidly giving away our capacity to manufacture by outsourcing significant portions of our economy to foreign nations; nations which might or might not choose to supply us with our needs should such an eventuality again occur.
And this is where I have to make an admission and an apology. The little gnat from Fort Worth, H. Ross Perot was right about NAFTA and I was absolutely and completely wrong. Patrick J. Buchannan was correct, unfettered free trade, when it begins to endanger your manufacturing base, is not a good thing.
I am in favor of free trade, but it must be accomplished with a level playing field. We must balance our tariffs to match those other nations place on our goods. We must insist on comparable environmental, employee safety, and benefit standards so that our industries are not placed at a disadvantage.
It is a sea-change from my former positions I know, but it is what I believe to be right. America cannot continue to hemorrhage jobs and industries the way it has over the past thirty years and survive as a nation.
Anyway, back to the main topic. Having sat through the entire debate between Hillary and Barrack, I now see no other possibility but that Obama will be the Democrat nominee.
Hillary's whining at being "always asked the questions first," only served to make her look weak and out of her depth...which she clearly is. I have never believed that Hillary was or is as smart as those in the press have made her out to be and it showed very clearly in this final debate.
She was out maneuvered at every turn and out answered on every question.
Next stop, Obama v. McCain.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!
No doubt about it, Obama is far more intelligent that Hillary. Not saying much there, but I really am impressed with him. He is by far the most capable and intelligent Liberal I have seen since Eugene McCarthy in the 1968 Democrat Party contest. McCarthy was a principled Liberal with core ideals, much as is Obama.
Hillary's greatest problem is that she has no justification for her desire to become President of the United States bey0nd her blind ambition for power. She has no core values so she has a difficult time defining why Americans should support her over Barrack Obama.
Policy-wise, I doubt there is a dimes worth of difference between them on any given issue. They both represent the extreme Leftist, Socialist, utopian world view. Both would have us move back from where we are now to the tired old failed policies of the great socialist experiments of the fifties, sixties, and seventies.
The difference that I see is Obama's realization that socialism is not an end unto itself, but a means to an end of providing the American people with a means of improving their lot in life. For Hillary, socialism appears to be her final goal. She lacks vision and it shows every time she speaks.
Both candidates embrace a flawed economic and social philosophy, but Barrack has shown that he has the intelligence to grow and think beyond the immediate objective of becoming President.
His answers are better and more complete, his thinking is on a much deeper level, and he is much quicker on his feet because of his superior intellect.
I think that following this final performance which was at times boring, Obama is the huge favorite in the upcoming primaries. I wouldn't be surprised if he sweeps the remaining states.
As a side note, as "brilliant" as he seems to be, he still has the myopic view that afflicts all Liberals when it comes to how this economy functions. In his responses tonight, he brought up the fact that Exxon reported record profits of $11 Billion for the quarter, as though this is something to be frowned upon. Democrats and Liberals just don't get it, never have and never will.
It must be some genetic flaw that prevents them from comprehending that the very thing they denigrate is the thing which made this country the greatest in the world. The richest, most successful, most powerful nation in the world came about because of our unfettered economy.
Therefore, the question to ask Mr. Obama is..."Who is Exxon?" It's a very simple question which gets right to the heart of the failure of their economic world view.
Mr. Obama, who is Exxon? Or if you like, "What is Exxon?"
Perhaps an even more generic question would be more appropriate. What is a corporation? How do you tax a corporation? Who owns a corporation? Who receives that $11 Billion in profit?
Therein lies the difficulty all Liberals face in condemning "corporate greed." A corporation is not an entity, it is a legal document. It is 0wned by the stockholders. Who are the stockholders? Everyone who has a 401K, a pension fund, a retirement fund, an insurance annuity or other financial retirement arrangement.
A corporation is its employees, its customers, and its stockholders. The question Mr. Obama is how many people benefit from Exxon generating $11 Billion in profit? How many pension funds, stockholders, 401K owners, Annuity funds, IRA's are invested in Exxon?
It's a stupid argument to engage in for Liberals, because it is an argument with the American people. More individuals own stock, mutual funds, annuities, and IRA's than at anytime in our history.
Slap a 50 cent/gallon tax on Exxon gasoline today, the consumer's price of gasoline goes up 50 cents tomorrow. Corporations don't pay taxes. Until you Liberals are able to comprehend that little fact, you will always be more of a hindrance to our economy and our labor markets than a boon.
I will close with this little tidbit though, I am becoming a protectionist more and more. I have come to believe that no nation should exist without a strong manufacturing base. The miracle that was America in World War II, could not exist today.
We were able to build the machine of war which beat back the growing tide of oppression in the twentieth century because of our huge manufacturing capacity. Today, we are rapidly giving away our capacity to manufacture by outsourcing significant portions of our economy to foreign nations; nations which might or might not choose to supply us with our needs should such an eventuality again occur.
And this is where I have to make an admission and an apology. The little gnat from Fort Worth, H. Ross Perot was right about NAFTA and I was absolutely and completely wrong. Patrick J. Buchannan was correct, unfettered free trade, when it begins to endanger your manufacturing base, is not a good thing.
I am in favor of free trade, but it must be accomplished with a level playing field. We must balance our tariffs to match those other nations place on our goods. We must insist on comparable environmental, employee safety, and benefit standards so that our industries are not placed at a disadvantage.
It is a sea-change from my former positions I know, but it is what I believe to be right. America cannot continue to hemorrhage jobs and industries the way it has over the past thirty years and survive as a nation.
Anyway, back to the main topic. Having sat through the entire debate between Hillary and Barrack, I now see no other possibility but that Obama will be the Democrat nominee.
Hillary's whining at being "always asked the questions first," only served to make her look weak and out of her depth...which she clearly is. I have never believed that Hillary was or is as smart as those in the press have made her out to be and it showed very clearly in this final debate.
She was out maneuvered at every turn and out answered on every question.
Next stop, Obama v. McCain.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!
What do you think?
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posted by Will Malven at 9:41 PM
7 Comments:
"A corporation is its employees, its customers, and its stockholders. The question Mr. Obama is how many people benefit from Exxon generating $11 Billion in profit? How many pension funds, stockholders, 401K owners, Annuity funds, IRA's are invested in Exxon?"
As a liberal I agree with you that this is a conundrum; I have worked only for corporations my entire adult life.
However, even my staunch Republicn parents admit the greed factor: that many CEOs make a huge salary compared to the average rank and file worker. They also admit that shareholders demand too much - that there is too much profit-motive and that needs to be reined it. It helps the community when everyone has better salaries by stimulating consumer buying-power via goods and services.
Glad to see you think that manufacturing needs to come back home. With an ever-increasing service sector, we are doomed to squelch the middle-class.
Here's something else I just came across while reading about Obama's opinion on judges, which correlates to the paragraph of yours that I cited; you seem to think he doesn't understand where Exxon's profits go, but of course he does.
From 2005 he said:
I think this perspective misreads the American people. From traveling throughout Illinois and more recently around the country, I can tell you that Americans are suspicious of labels and suspicious of jargon. They don't think George Bush is mean-spirited or prejudiced, but have become aware that his administration is irresponsible and often incompetent. They don't think that corporations are inherently evil (a lot of them work in corporations), but they recognize that big business, unchecked, can fix the game to the detriment of working people and small entrepreneurs. They don't think America is an imperialist brute, but are angry that the case to invade Iraq was exaggerated, are worried that we have unnecessarily alienated existing and potential allies around the world, and are ashamed by events like those at Abu Ghraib which violate our ideals as a country.
Source
I certainly think that the BUSH admin has made our economy take a dive rolling us back 40 years financially. Owing China so much money while still acting like we can afford to rebuild the world after we bomb it is a ridiculous plan for America.
Having Obama Hussein, who has admitted to smoking crack and snorting coke would also take us down another loser path, when are we going to wake up and think about our children and their children??? Their future is important to most people but people are so misguided with the smoke and mirrors. I really wish the media played a SMARTER role in this equation.
Could barack obama be the person in the Left Behind series. He certainly fits the profile with chrisma and glib tongue. He wins the people over and turns out that he is the anti-Christ. I will not vote for him.
Anonymous
Obama's devotion to capitalism is problematical. He claims not to believe that corporations are intrinsically evil, but he is clearly a socialist at heart. He believes in a massive redistribution of wealth from the "haves" to the "have-nots."
As far as his political beliefs, there is not a dimes worth of difference between Obama and Hillary. Both are solidly in the Marxist camp. Both believe in socialized medicine, taxation of corporations (a proposition already proven absurd). Both believe that the government is supposed to provide "services" like college education, child care, after-school programs, diversity endoctrination and supervision of thought (aka hate crimes legislation). Both are in favor of draconian restrictions of the possession of firearms. Both believe in the alleged "right to organize," but oppose the "right to work."
The only real difference between them is their gender and their style.
Sure Republicans and conservatives would like to stick a fork in Hillary. They've been trying to do it for years, but I expect she'll fight her way out.
In the meantime, stop jabbing your fork at her and try to understand why she's been leaning over you and your table in the first place. Bush and the Republicans have dished out a lot of garbage to you and the rest of us for the past eight years. She's the only one practical and smart enough to understand that the way to get rid of trash is to throw it out, including anything mixed up in it.
However, if you insist on keeping your fork, at least disinfect it before you put it in your mouth. Otherwise, you'll continue spewing the kind of garbage you've spewed here.
I like Hillary. No matter how hard Republicans and Conservatives try to knock her down, her opponents end up on the ground instead. All that oil money Republicans have greased themselves up with is causing them to slip up and land on their rear ends. As for Obama, I think a few more years actually doing something in the Senate would do him some good. I'd like to see what he does when when he looses the race.
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