Another SWOS update, and more politics!
Major Nelson posted at 12:30 PM Eastern that he doesn’t have anything new to report but should have a status update in a couple of hours. Fingers crossed.
Glen already posted the wheel information. I haven’t used the wheel since I received my replacement. I guess MS could say this is a new SKU — the “non recall version” Heh.
Let’s talk politics. The 18th largest earmarks in house bills comes from the guy (D-NH) who said he would stop the earmarks and start being accountable. Just goes to show you that you really can’t trust anyone in Congress. Just like this whole AMT thing. Democrats are complaining about how Congress passed the AMT bill to keep the exemption in place but there’s no way to ‘pay’ for it. This makes no sense to me, as it’s not like Congress had the money to begin with — there’s no lost funds here..it’s just an extension of what’s been going on for years! Maybe they should get some accountants up Capital Hill.
The more I hear about Ron Paul the more I like him. Which of course means he doesn’t have a chance. I’m not even a registered Republican, so it’s either write in his name or pick someone else. These political ads are insane. I love how all candiates will end this or do that, Rudy will ‘build a wall’ to stop immigration and make everyone applying for citizenship speak and write English. Sounds great, but what about the French couple that gives birth in the USA, making the child an automatic US Citizen who only speaks French. Sorry Rudy, but your plans are terrible. Mitt Romney sucks, Rudy Sucks, John McCain I had respect for until he sucked up to W for god knows what reason in 2004 — they all suck on that side, except for Ron Paul. On the other side, I really don’t know. Hillary has a lot of the same “I’m going to solve all the world’s problems” ads which you just can’t do as President without Congress approving them. Obama can be very uplifting with his speeches, but his record in the IL senate voting “PRES” rather than YES or NO on many occassions make me wonder why he can’t stick to an opinion. Bill Richardson seems to be in line with many of my thoguhts, but I’m afraid he’s another one who can’t win. So if you had to vote in the first in the nation primary, who would you vote for and why?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Dan, I mostly agree with you about the Presidential Candidates. W had to go ahead and call McCain crazy in South Carolina 7 years ago and outdo him for the nomination. We probably would’ve been in a better position right now had he had been President. Bill Richardson is a good guy (check out his last political ad for governor on youtube - good stuff) and he’d be a good choice, but unfortunately he can’t win. I like Ron Paul too. As many people have said, Hillary could just be a smarter version of W overall - an improvement, yes, but not good for the country. Why does half the country have to hate each President?
We need a guy like Kevin Kline in Dave (one of my all time favorite movies) for a President, but that’s only fiction.
It would be nice for someone to be elected who would actually try and unite the country. Enough of this them against us stuff. Maybe it’ll take someone with almost no political record to do it. Who knows how he’ll do at being President, but I think Obama has the best shot at uniting the country, if it even can be done.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
His speech about the united states of america, now running in commercials is very inspiring. I just want results to go with propaganda.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Yep. It’s sort of like recruiting high school athletes and drafting college players. It’s tough to accurately predict a good player every time out.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Like you guys, I like the idea of certain candidates, but the process is so unbelievably broken at this point it’s hard to envision any sort of real change.
Even if the stars were to align and Ron Paul were to get elected… he’d never be able to make the changes that he wants to.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
The best thing we could do would be to abolish the two party system and have people vote for the candidates that they share positions with, and not people they share parties with.