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Thread: 2nd Debate...or was it?
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10-13-2008, 05:31 PM #31
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Thanked: 21That's a meme that just shouldn't stick. You may as well be asking them to walk on water.
Whole governments all over the world, with essentially unlimited resources, are addressing this problem, with levels of "success" that remain to be seen. The campaigns are huge machines, but with nowhere near the staff that needs to be pointed at this problem.
The best that I would expect out of either candidate is a very rough description of the approach they would take, and I wouldn't really hold wrong guesses against them. The game is to put all the info together, and try to guess who's less likely to get it wrong when they have all the resources they need at their fingertips.
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10-13-2008, 05:49 PM #32
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Thanked: 50How many staff are directed at the problem is a pretty good point.
Word in Washington (which I believe, by the way) is that Obama has appointed twelve teams for the transition. Each team is responsible for the transition for a specific agency, and in a few cases, agencies, depending on the agency's workload. Each team consists of an estimated 6-8 policy staff.
Word is that McCain has appointed a director for the transition who has made some phone calls. He prefers, they say, to concentrate exclusively on the election.
This is said to be unprecedented. No campaign in living memory has failed to work on the transition during the campaign. People down here are nervous.
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10-13-2008, 05:53 PM #33
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10-13-2008, 05:59 PM #34
I wish we had more powerful "other" parties....choosing between these two is like having 2 set-menus in a restaurant, with no substitutions allowed.
"But I don't want the soup....."
We need a None of the Above box on the ballot...make the parties start over. I like how Canada and other nations have a short election season. If you can't make your point in a month or so, what makes you think subjecting us to 6months+ of B.S. is going to make it clearer?
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10-13-2008, 06:01 PM #35
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10-13-2008, 06:01 PM #36
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10-13-2008, 06:24 PM #37
The other alternative parties need our support to grow, dump the mainstream and do something different if you want something different to happen. We cant keep clinging to the mainstream parties hoping they'll change, it reminds me of a woman making excuses for her abusive spouse, hoping he'll change. he wont and neither will they. Until we as a people dump them.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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10-13-2008, 09:16 PM #38
And now for the Democrats turn............
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10-14-2008, 08:58 PM #39
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10-15-2008, 06:40 PM #40
Just like us...or not....
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