By the time Obama is finished affirmative action will be so discredited no liberal will ever want to even suggest anything like it ever again.

Skandia Recluse on August 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Won’t work. They will just rename it, like communism socialism progressivism liberalism.

But you wont spend money to help Americans who absolutely, regularly face the threat of going broke due to our poor system of healthcare.

You can tell Rahm Emanuel for me to keep his manufactured crisis talking points to himself and to get off of my balls.

Astroturfing stooge.

Before Obama finishes this country will be throwing rocks an pouring hot oil organically grown soy byproduct. This is sad.

rplat on August 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM

FIFY

So you want to spend a huge chunk of money to fund military contractors so they can develop an unreliable way to protect Japanese and South Korean people from a threat that they’ll probably never face.

But you wont spend money to help Americans who absolutely, regularly face the threat of going broke due to our poor system of healthcare.

Defense contractors > poor people.

Nice priorities!

orange on August 27, 2009 at 3:52 PM

No silly.

Constitution > poor people.

Legal priorities!

So you want to spend a huge chunk of money to fund military contractors so they can develop an unreliable way to protect Japanese and South Korean people from a threat that they’ll probably never face.

But you wont spend money to help Americans who absolutely, regularly face the threat of going broke due to our poor system of healthcare.

Defense contractors > poor people.

Nice priorities!

Unreliable? Proof please? Because last I checked our defense stuff > anything else produced on the planet by a huge margin!

Tell those “Americans” going broke because of our “poor” healthcare to put their damned hands back in their pockets, buckle down, get a job, get an education and take advantage of the greatest opportunities provided anywhere on the face of the planet to pull themselves up by their own danged bootstraps.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will help pay to keep them safe, make sure their country continues to be the best place on earth to make it on your own and will continue to provide them with those opportunities to improve themselves and actually experience a little pride in what they’ve done.

That’s how this nation got great, not by catering to the mewing “victims” who are too danged lazy to make something of themselves.

I’ll work to provide equality of opportunity, its up to them to provide the outcome.

P.S. American Defense Contractors = Good paying jobs with great healthcare benefits AND providing products/services to keep our nation and its allies, safe enough to allow for its citizens to make something of themselves.

Poor people turning their noses up at a hand “up” and insisting on hand “outs” = an unnecessary drag on the nation and an unnecessary burden on the rest of us.

There’s some “Priorities” for ya!

- The Cat

You mean ‘when’?

The Bush administration argued for increasing investment in missile defense systems to combat two growing threats — Iran and North Korea. Barack Obama attacked this policy during the presidential campaign, and has offered to retreat on missile defense in Europe in exchange for Russian concessions on Iran, among other issues.

Interesting…Seems like Bush was right and Hussein was wrong again! We can’t blame Bush for this one!

So, what’s new under the sun?

FYI, our results so far has been much better than 50%. And just having a system would tend to be a deterrent for anyone but some madman hoping to coax the hidden imam out of retirement.

Will Universal Tedcare cover nuclear fallout poisoning?

allstonian on August 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM

Comparative Care Panel says…..NO.

It’ll be called the special ChernobylCare option.

Li’l Kim wouldn’t do anything naughty… not after that basketball autographed by Michael Jordan that Peanut Carter gave him. A promise to Madeleine “Cleaning Lady” Albright is a sure thing. Just ask her.

Nuked poor people wouldn’t been to great either…..

HornetSting on August 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Nonsense, they would be fine if they had a public option.

Once they stop vomiting and their teeth are done falling out and all.

Another cretin who is unable to identify the difference between a pure public good and a private good.

I guess economics classes just teach dialectic materialism these days, anyway.

and Obama votes present.

fourdeucer on August 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM

Obama though, when he pressed the present button….a gift would pop out. To bad it didn’t electro shock the doofuss

U.S.-based security consultancy Strategic Forecasting noted in July: “The Americans realize that if they arm Russia’s adversary, Moscow will respond by arming U.S. adversaries — particularly Iran.

“Russia has deals in place under which it would deliver strategic air-defense systems and other arms to Iran and complete Iran’s nuclear facility at Bushehr — all things it has notably declined to do for years now.

“Moscow has been holding onto this card to ensure that the United States does not fulfill its own commitments to Georgia.”

Well, if we get nuked, nobody will have to worry about being poor anymore.