I wish I could have been responsible for us being stuck with Obama for the next four years, but I can’t vote. I hope to be able to in time for 2012.
While I don’t think Palin would have been a very good President, you’re committing the same offense here that Clothahump did- writing off a (hypothetical, in this case) presidency before it actually occurs.
Didn’t Franklin Roosevelt do that, three years before taking office? (And while giving a fireside chat on TV, too, according to Senator (and VP-elect) Biden.)
Yes, but we know a lot about Obama and Palin. Obama is at worst inexperienced with some overzealous fans. Palin is a lying, corrupt scary fundamentalist with frightening, racist followers. Nobody who knows anything can equate Obama and Palin.
arcane_eye and Clothahump are indeed ninnies, but Cecil goes a bit overboard when he writes:
I’m comfortable with full-term abortion rights simply because I’ve never heard of a purely elective “five minutes shy” abortion, and I’m disinclined to imagine up a boogeyman or -woman who would perform one. In fact, the whole “partial-birth abortion” argument is an exercise in propaganda until and unless someone can present a case where it actually happened without a massively compelling medical reason. My concern is that some clueless law-enforcement agent is going to forcibly insert himself into a medical situation that is already difficult enough just so people not involved can feel that wickedness is being punished.
Sam, that statement is incorrect and you know it. Why do you and the rest of the libs insist on squawking it over and over and over like parrots on crack?
He did promise to increase humanitarian assistance to African countries for AIDS and malaria and came through. Even if some of the AIDS programs features abstinence-only education, the funds as a whole have gone to a good cause. As for being successful, any such definition involving a fight against sexually transmitted disease apart from HPV is relative.
But as for good ideas or policies, that’s probably it.