Yes being a minority gives you a “special insight”. Uh-huh and when you don’t want to vote for them it must be because you are a bigot when in reality people like me see me for what they are oportunists. Please stop with the 60s guilt and start electing someone based on qualifications not because you think a black man should be president. There are plenty of qualified black men but Hussein Obama isn’t one of them.

Just for the record I want to point out that racism is not dead in America:

#29 >> Barack “Hussein” Obama is a nobody. And you better believe his middle name is not Hawain. I have never seen more people so desperate for a black ooops “African American” to be president

#53>>I am talking about things that qualify him ready to president? Oh I forgot he speaks well and is black.

I, like most Democrats, am not going to vote based on skin color, gender or ethnicity — but I’m certainly not going to vote against it either.

Let the best candidate win on the issues. If they have some sort of minority status, that’s a bonus because it gives them a special insight — but it’s only one piece in the mix.

As a Democrat, I am proud that a black, a woman and a Hispanic believe Democrats are non-bigoted and evolved enough to elect them.

Good for us. Shame on you!

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Sucker.

Oh wait your a mainframe guy? Yeah tough job calling IBM for all your problems. Anytime you pay $100,000 for a “disk drive” IBM does all the support. and am now unemployed because you couldn’t keep up with the latest tech? Hard to get a job when you actually have to know something other than IBM’s 800#.

Wait I bet you programmed in Fortran (Obsolete) too and not VB but C++. when you can’t fix the problem on your Windows box you just blame Microsoft right? Or do you run BSD because it keeps you nostalgic to the obsolete tech you worked with? You using old ass tech and calling IBM doesn’t change how much you don’t know.

Uh-huh the guys on wallstreet all pay only 8% in taxes because the Daily Kos says so. Evidence?

As for where my tax money goes, I wish most of it goes to the war than ANY entitlement program. At least there it is being put to good use.

But now it fits into place now, municipal as in government run? You were a gov employee? Of course you want the handout, you got it before while the rest of us earned a living.

Oh yes from the school of Alex Jones, Bush Started the war because Cheney wanted to make money. Fear the Military Industrial Complex! Come on, don’t you guys have anything knew and that is not an unproveable conspiracy?

BTW dumbass Video Cards haven’t had jumpers in over ten years. Please continue to prove how much you don’t know.

“I also see the statistics and think they pay plenty of money in taxes.”

No, you see the creatively jiggered statistics that highly-compensated professional liars foist off on chumps like you to disguise the fact that while you’re “paying over 30%”, those “hard working Americans” on Wall Street and their clients are paying about 7 or 8%, due to all the loopholes and incentives their Republican pals have granted them.

The price tag for the Iraq disaster? One point two trillion dollars. But your masters hornswoggled you into thinking that all your tax monies go to provide food stamps for shiftless Cadillac-driving welfare queens.

Bad news, pal. Not only does far more of that 30% your pay go to pay for the war than it does entitlements, but the elite not only aren’t paying for the Iraq war, they’re profiting from it. From your pocket into those of a relative handful of multimillionaires, by way of Iraq, courtesy of the “friends of the working man,” the GOP.

Buy some Halliburton stock, chum. Working for wages for the Repugs to pass on to their rich cronies is a sucker’s game.

Oh, one more thing…

“You missed many more gramatical errors I made. I could careless I don’t take the time to spell check my comments and there is no way to edit them. But get over it. The fact that I have forgotten about 1000x more about computers then you have ever known should be enough clues.”

Ya. Over the last 27 years, I’ve met more than one youngster who gets the strange idea that because they’ve learned to reset a jumper on a video card or write a “Hello, world” proggie in VB, that all of a sudden they’re the next Seymour Cray.

FYI, I was singlehandedly running a major municipal data center w/ a 3033 running under OS/VS2 MVS and a Model 158-3 under VM/370, around about the time you got your first See ‘n Say.

Sucker.

Listen carefully, all I do is pay taxes. I just want to pay for efficient well run services that I have a say in like the police, firedepartment and roads. I do not want to pay for every pie in the sky victim program you guys fabricate as you march towards socialism.

Wealth redistribution? He didn’t raise taxes on the middle class. That was Clinton. Isn’t Wealth redistribution what you guys think will solve all the problem with the REAL illiterates of this country?

Nothing is stopping you from donating all the money you want. The IRS I believe will accept any donations you wish to give. See the thing is, this is not about you being so generous, it is about you wanting the government control mine and every other hard working American’s money.

Yeah you’ll shut up and pay it? What 50%? What insane amount is enough until you wake up and realize the goverment is getting way too much money and run absolutely inefficiently.

You missed many more gramatical errors I made. I could careless I don’t take the time to spell check my comments and there is no way to edit them. But get over it. The fact that I have forgotten about 1000x more about computers then you have ever known should be enough clues. How much money I make and have made does not change. I didn’t go to college to be an English teacher.

No I don’t invest because I don’t take risks. I bet on sure things. Rather I only do sure things. Regardless you should know true conservatives do not like deficits. But taxing your way out of one is not the answer, cutting spending is.

Subsidies for Ethanol production? Isn’t that what all you global warming fanatics want? Hardly corporate welfare. Hey I’m all for cutting any other real corporate welfar but if it means raising taxes forget it.

You then ramble on…. all I see is someone insanely jealous of what they don’t have. Why do you just make insane assumptions? I don’t believe for a minute the rich or ultra-rich care about me in anyway. I also see the statistics and think they pay plenty of money in taxes. I am not fighting for them even remotely, I simply look at things realistically. The problem is government waste.

Conservative and Republican doesn’t mean Ultra-Rich either. Far from it. No one is waving taxes in my face except the IRS! I keep paying more and more taxes! Local, State, Federal. That is all I pay. I pay over 30% when I should be paying no more than 15%.

Why don’t you guy go back to economics 101 and cut back on the DailyKos.

Yes, yes, the eternal cry of the short-sighted greedheads who have the bizarre idea that they don’t have to contribute to the economy and infrastructure that made it possible for them to get that money in the first place. Roads somehow will pave themselves, who needs police when you have your own private security, et cetera, et cetera.

You Repugs awet your pants dreaming of an America that resembles Mexico City, where the moneyed few live behind barbed-wire-topped walls, with armored Suburbans and bodyguards with MAC-10s to protect you from the dirt-poor peasants struggling to survive outside the walls. A two-class system is what the ultrarich want, peasants and kings – and guess which ones your heroes wanna be?

That slack-jawed illiterate you worship has presided over the largest redistribution of wealth from the working majority to a tiny minority. Income inequality is a solid indicator of quality of life, and the countries with the lowest are also the ones with lower crime and general violence, higher standards of living, higher quality of life, it goes on and on.

“Nothing changes, you guys are still jealous you haven’t earned any money. Maybe if you guys worked like Dvorak instead of bitching and moaning, maybe you guys could make it too. But the victim mentality doesn’t change.

But seriously what were you a union worker or did you legitimately loose your job to NAFTA and free trade?”

Unlike you, sonny, my income is derived from investment. And when the capital gains tax cut expires, I’m gonna shut up and pay it, because I’ll still be making money – and I’m mature and responsible enough to accept that I have to pay my fair share to keep the country that allows me to prosper prospering itself.

Anyway, I know more than a few wealthy individuals – and outside of some old-time oilmen who got rich without any education past grade school, and blue-collar tradespeople like plumbers and carpenters, I have yet to meet anyone north of a $30k income who doesn’t know how to spell simple four-letter words like “lose.” It’s little clues like that that give the lie to your insinuations of having bucks, so don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Put down that bowl of ramen noodles and sign up for a remedial English course at the community college; you’ll be amazed how much more respect you’ll get when you spell like someone who has graduated high school.

“Lets not forget how everything was going into the toilet the last year of Clinton’s policies as their full effect was felt. The “salesman” drove the IT bubble and every sucker jumped in on it. I sailed through and so did every other intelligent conservative. Maybe all the suckers went bankrupt? Awe toooooo bad.”

It’s “aw,” not “awe.” Now you demonstrate you can’t spell TWO-letter words, and you expect us to believe you make more than $20k? It is to laugh.

Ya. Your anti-Clinton bullshit may still fly among you and your crowd of gullible dupes, but even your Repug heroes have pretty much given up trying to pass off that tissue of lies, faced as they are by the astonishing deficit the Decider has run up funneling money to the obscenely rich. You “sailed through,” didja? How nice. I imagine it was easy, not having any investments.

“Actually mine was in the thousands but I take it you don’t make much for a living. Cry me a river, maybe the government should start some more entitlement programs so you can get more handouts. Not out of my pocket.”

You a trip, homes! You’re one of the dupes of the Repug fantasy that “handouts” are a Democrat thing, when their fiscal policy’s core consists of huge handouts to some of the richest people alive. It takes a fuck of a lot of $400 welfare checks to equal the $600,000,000-plus in corporate welfare forked over to ADM alone, for just ONE example. For every $1 in profit ADM makes on their ethanol operations, they receive $30 in subsidies. Now multiply that thousands of times and come back and tell us all about “handouts.” Ya.

Sucker.

You and others like you are a great reminder to the rest of us that there are basically two breeds of present-day Republicans: stooges and dupes. The stooges suck up to the rich and act as their lackeys in order to get a cut of their ill-gotten gains; the dupes are the ones like you that the stooges have brainwashed into believing against all evidence and common sense that the interests of the ultrarich elite fraction of one percent of America are aligned with your interests. Those multi-million-dollar mansion, jets, supercars, superyachts – they’re all paid for with money they’ve fucked you and me out of, all the time waving the boogyman of taxes in your face, which you chumps fall for and we don’t.

And what makes us different from you is, we didn’t fall off the turnip truck last night. Virtually all the economic gains of the Bush regime have gone to a tiny handful of shareholders in the booming greedhead-run megacorporations – that’s Wall Street – and none of it back to the working people who are the actual producers of wealth.

And that idiocy about stem-cells – oh, brother…

Enjoy your Kool-Aid while it lasts.

I think it is pretty sick to mention something even jokingly like body bags when our soldiers are fighting a war. But like I said nothing surprises me with you guys anymore.

Hey I keep waiting for more generalized blanket statements as I stand in awe waiting to be “outwitted” by absolutely nothing.

I figured out Andrew sells body bags to the military. That is why he hates Clinton so much. He was bad for business.

Take a pill. Sit down. Take some deep breaths. Relax. Close your eyes. Keep breathing, don’t hold your breath. Think of snow. Gentle snow falling. Big puffy flakes. Keep breathing, that’s it. Big fluffy flakes of snow. Walk through the snow. Catch a snow flake on your tongue. Keep breathing, relax your shoulders. Don’t worry about all that spit on your chin and monitor, it’ll clean off. Slow deep breaths as you walk through the snow,… .

The Stem Cell Race

Both John Kerry and John Edwards regularly declare in their stump speeches that the Bush administration has “banned” stem cell research, which is flatly false. There are in fact no restrictions at all on stem cell research, whether adult or embryonic, in the United States, making this country the most liberal of all the Western democracies on this subject. Using private funds, researchers can do whatever they wish. Using public funds, they can use a fixed group of embryonic stem cells lines, where the embryos in question had already been destroyed before the president’s policy went into effect. There are, as of this writing, 22 embryonic stem cell lines available for federal funding (an increase of three since the last issue of this quarterly journal, with more on the way), and nearly 500 shipments drawn from these lines have already been made to researchers. The NIH provided about $25 million for embryonic stem cell research last year and spent another $180 million on ethically non-controversial adult stem cell work.

To call this a ban would mean that the government has “banned” anything it does not fully subsidize, which would include almost everything anyone does in America. Far from a ban, there is in fact a total absence of limits on stem cell research, along with fairly substantial public subsidies for the work.

Here watch this: What is really going on in Iraq

Did you watch the above Mosque video from the UK? Doubt it.

Yes the conservative opposition to FEDERALLY FUNDED EMBRYOTIC stem cell research. You do realize that this is not about making it legal? You can already do the research. No one does it because it has shown no potential to cure anything. What it is the biggest lie I have ever seen imposed on you fools. You guys think that it is currently illegal and no one can do this research and if only we flood it with billions of my tax dollars will it raise the dead, ooops I mean cure cancer, aids and every other disease. Please how naive are you guys?

You think it is some religious thing? GET A FUCKING CLUE! All conservatives are NOT religious.

What, do you think he’s been working at a Walmart his whole life?

Read his bio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

>> Liberals = Idealists
>> Conservatives = Realists

Holy smokes what a load of crap!

The conservative opposition to stem-cell research is based in realism? Their demand that Creationism be taught as science? Their stubborn belief that we’re winning in Iraq for the last three years?

No because he is a NOBODY who has done NOTHING! Experience doesn’t mean in the beltway for ten years+. It is interesting how you fabricate assumptions.

So how many taxes has Obama decided to raise if he gets elected? How many taxes and entitlement programs will he implement?