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Education is a mess, prices are really out of this world, I am getting screwed on gas without a kiss and health care is a joke for the middle class. All I hear from both candidates is a put downs, nothing of how they are going to handle this mess.
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They probably do but that’s not how the game is played in our country. This country cares very little for issue politics. American politics is about reactionary diversion politics to AVOID issues (thereby not clearly polarizing and losing votes) to keep us engaged in a “he said, she said” game. Election 08 is a national Jerry Springer Show. A bipartisan system encourages this sort of game because there aren’t enough fronts for each party to defend. Aggressively attack your only legitimate opponent by any and all means while disguising weaknesses by distracting the American public from issues. People have no clue what kinds of real policy issues are coming to a vote soon. (e.g. estate tax revision vote) Rather, we’re more concerned with whether Obama is a sexist with ties to some black militant fundamentalist church leader or if Palin is a right wing wannabe Crusader running with an opportunist that has one foot in the coffin already.
Obama has actually talked more about what he plans to do. You can check it out on his website.
If you’d like to see where his values lie, you can take a look at his past work in the Illinois and US Senates:
Obama passed legislation with Republican Senator Jim Talent to give gas stations a tax credit for installing E85 ethanol refueling pumps. The tax credit covers 30 percent of the costs of switching one or more traditional petroleum pumps to E85, which is an 85 percent ethanol/15 percent gasoline blend.
-After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
-His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent.
-Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.
-Obama joined forces with former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL) to pass the toughest campaign finance law in Illinois history. The legislation banned the personal use of campaign money by Illinois legislators and banned gifts from lobbyists. Before the law was passed, one organization ranked Illinois worst among 50 states for its campaign finance regulations.
-As a member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan.
-He traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world.
-Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.
- In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.
-Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.
-Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.
-Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.
-Obama has introduced and helped pass bipartisan legislation to limit the abuse of no-bid federal contracts.
-Obama and Senator Feingold (D-WI) took on both parties and proposed ethics legislation that was described as the “gold standard” for reform. It was because of their leadership that ending subsidized corporate jet travel, mandating disclosure of lobbyists’ bundling of contributions, and enacting strong new restrictions of lobbyist-sponsored trips became part of the final ethics bill that was signed into law.
Both candidates have their platforms on their sites. I downloaded and read through Obama’s (McCain’s is an issue by issue link on his site) and he includes his plan to achieving each goal. I haven’t been able to find a detailed plan for McCain. If anyone has a link, I’d appreciate it.
Obama’s platform to download:http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
well if you watch the news then you would know that obama is for all that you just said. and he actually stated on how he was goin to do it. and is iss all for the middle class because he is middle class. im not gonna list everything he said but if you look it up im sure you will be satisfied.
Neither McCain or Obama can answer these tough questions the same more than once.
For a look at how they stand on some key issues looky here:http://aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-vi…
then you haven’t been really listening. do a little research…. I know where both sides stand…. you can’t expect to find out everything on TV
I trust John McCain. Obama on the other hand strikes me as a guy that will tell me anything I want to hear to get my vote so he can screw me over later.
Obama is sincere.
I am starting to believe that all they want is votes. Kind of sad..