Feingold has less charm and presence than Kerry. Won't happen.

Almost all Wall Street fund managers are liberal, the big business conservatives are the middle man.

Never forget who really runs America.

You shouldn't try so hard to support the position that is in your head, the facts at hand are much easier to substantiate.

"Second Amendment creates an individual right ... he also believes that the Constitution permits federal, state and local government to adopt reasonable and common sense gun safety measures and to take those benefits away from those deemed unfit to carry a firearm!"

WOW!!! Who gets to make that decision for us? Osama? Er, Obama?

You are right Howitzer! When Obama/Osama was asked if the government was tha statutory authority that had the responsibility to restrict or ban the sale, manufacture or ownership of guns and ammunition his response was "Yes, Absolutely!

Lord, protect us from the Libocrites and help us save this Republic!

And you shouldn't make assumptions about what position is in my head. As for Obama's views on the 2d Amendment, I don't have a position. His statement that the 2d Amendment confers an individual right seems inconsistent with his answer to that questionnaire. Maybe he realized that the position on the questionnaire was going to be tough to defend, so he decided he really should have a different position. Or maybe he's changed his mind. Or maybe he can reconcile his various comments in a way that never occurred to me.

How about yourself? You keeping a pretty open mind about Obama?

Yes, I check the facts. Unfortunatly for Obama facts show me that he's not my kind of guy, but I'm all ears if he changes his position(s) and his actions prove it.

Well, not quite! You see when you pay people to stay poor by creating a welfare state and giving them unlimted access to the teat, you create a second class generation of welfare recipients who put back nothing, unlike business owners like me who will in turn hire more people and create a work force producing products everyone needs and creating more income which in turn puts more money BACK in to the treasury!

A couple of major differences between communism and capitolism. Communism takes what you have and gives it away with no return on investment required, therefore no economic growth is involved or expected.
Capitolism expects and DEMANDS you to generate more of what you created and SHARES that with those willing to WORK for it.

Do you know why a welfare recipient cannot find a paycheck? Because it's under their workboots!

The American Dream is working for your own wealth, not by being robbed by your government who gives your money away to those who contribute and put back nothing, especially jobs and earnings potential.

The American Dream is learning to stand on your own two feet and shout out that you can achieve as long as the liberal parasites get off your back and quit sucking your blood like leeches and giving your money to those who pop out more kids for a bigger welfare check! ;)

I'm all ears when he walk the walk and not just talks the talk. So far he's only voted "present" 143 times in the Senate, which tells me he is not fighting the good fight, just protecting his own position.

Great point man!

I don't think what we have qualifies remotely as a welfare state.

Its really hard to get and stay on welfare these days.

We might have a pretty good welfare state for big corporations though!

Tom W

I have never been quite sure what the phrase, "corporate welfare" means. I know what it means on a personal level -- taking money from the taxpayer and giving to a non-productive individual. How does that work with corporations -- you mean like farm subsidies? I'm all for letting the free market rule in farming as it should in everything else.

True capitalism is tough. There are losers as well as winners.

Tobacco subsidies, oil subsidies (I am not sure what there is here but I suspect there are some.)

Tom W

If he has the positions on gun control that are described here, I believe that would render him unelectable in the general election. There are a whole lot of blue collar democrats that are very fond of their guns. They will vote R if they believe their guns are in jeapordy (whether they are or not really does not matter). I think what a president thinks about gun control probably does not matter a whole lot. I think congress would not allow the present situation to change much.

I am not a gun afficianado but I believe it is our right to have guns and I believe it is a very important right.

Tom W

Tobacco subsidies come under agriculture, to which I have already made reference to a preferred elimination.

I have never had an oil subsidy and would be interested in receiving one.

B

Do industry specific accelerated deprecation of pipelines count?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7066