Quote from Mike805:
1)When I pointed out McCain's healthcare deregulation and poor foreign policy approach, and the fact that Bush has been president for the last 8 years of disaster after disaster, you came back and blamed the democrats and threw in some stupid personal insults that had no relevance to which I came back with some stupid personal insults that were irrelevant as well.
2)Lets cut the crap:
Do you or do you not believe health deregulation as proposed by McCain will work?
3) Foreign Policy. Do you honestly think that playing the "ignore the other guy until he gives in" policy McCain/Bush supports is going to be effective?
1) Actually I think what I blamed democrats for was their role in the current mortgage/banking crisis with a video that clearly and indisputably shows the democrats culpability. And THEIR refusal to enact more stringent oversight that was being requested by the republicans at the time. A video that to my knowledge you have yet to acknowledge or comment on. As far as "disaster after disaster" of the last eight years. People lose credibility with me when they act as if Bush is responsible for literally everything.
Foreign policy for example. Is Joe Biden not the chairman of the foreign relations committee or something similar? How come he bears no responsibility? How come congress bears no responsibility? The president can't even sign legislation into law until AFTER congress sends it to him.
2)Honestly I'm not sure, and it would depend on the nature and the extent of deregulation. A concept I am generally in favor of though, if only because the feds fuck up virtually everything they're involved with.
The current housing mess for example. If the feds hadn't dictated lower/nonexistent lending requirements and simply let the lending institutions set them. Would we be where we are now? No federal regulation required.
Health care deregulation? As far as I'm concerned for the most part the feds shouldn't be involved in the first place.
Like education, it should be handled at the state level. I'm no constitutional scholar but I'm inclined to believe that we the people are not guaranteed the right to health care or cheap home loans.
If you're voting Obama to save 6K a year in premiums. By the time the feds get done they'll spend 10 times as much to achieve the same thing.
3)Iran?
To be honest I'm a "B-52 diplomacy" kinda guy. If a thug walks up and sticks a knife to my throat, I'm not going to hold his hand while he cuts open my jugular. The leader of Iran is NOT a diplomat. He's a fanatic terrorist.
He understands NOTHING but violence.
You wanna go swap spit with'em? Only harm I see is that to HIM, not necesarily the rest of the world, it makes us look weak.
And just in case any of this is designed to make me reconsider my voting choice, you're too late.
I voted an early ballot last week.