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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    if you know how to get bin laden, why the f not tell us....?
  • digster
    digster Posts: 1,293
    SoonForgotten2 wrote:
    You do realise that "The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system" right? The US is waaaaaaay behind the curve on this. The benefits far out-weigh the cons and guess what, these systems do work.

    Either way, it's a meaningless argument; Obama's policy isn't free-government run health care; he's creating an affordable health care program while keeping private programs. But they seem to define that as "socialism." Ah, well.
  • SoonForgotten2
    SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    OffHeGoes29 wrote:
    Watching people's heads getting cut off on Youtube will make you ill as well. Maybe they will stop if we give them a big hug?

    Oh please. Maybe they'll stop if we quit aiding Israel's continual human rights violations. This goverment has caused more terror domestically and internationally than Al Quida ever could on it's own.
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  • Stone Is God
    Stone Is God Posts: 1,331
    jimed14 wrote:
    then you are not looking at it objectively, because, this is a shitstorm, rhetoric filled draw.

    Same way I feel.
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  • digster
    digster Posts: 1,293
    nothinghead wrote:
    This is the same as the first debate. If you really liked either candidate coming in, you felt they won.

    Otherwise, you were left feeling cold and indifferent.

    If that's the case (I just started watching), I imagine it will be good for Obama and not McCain. Any draw at this point is a loss for McCain.
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    There goes McCain again holding us hostage over Osama...

    "Vote for me because I'm the only one who knows how to get Bin Lauden..."
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  • SoonForgotten2
    SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    inmytree wrote:
    if you know how to get bin laden, why the f not tell us....?

    Yeah I love this and do not understand why Obama doesn't call him out on it. It's such an outlandish claim.
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  • beachdweller
    beachdweller Posts: 1,532
    wow, slam a 6 pack, McCain just said Obama was right on some things...
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  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    OK, this thing just got a lot better when the candidates responded to each other. Hopefully they'll highjack this lame format. When they respond it gives them a chance to call the other guy on bullshit.
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    McCain has a big man-crush on Petraeus...

    I wonder if they're "friends"....
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    g under p wrote:
    I agree, once in awhile but on every answer?

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  • nothinghead
    nothinghead Posts: 270
    Senator McCain--Was the surge a tactic or a strategy?

    Please, a definitive answer would be great at this point.
  • beachdweller
    beachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    There goes McCain again holding us hostage over Osama...

    "Vote for me because I'm the only one who knows how to get Bin Lauden..."

    not, he'll only go to hell to get him, not to the cave where he resides
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  • lastexit78
    lastexit78 Posts: 618
    I'll go out on a limb and call this one of the worst days in the history of this country. At least in my lifetime. The economy is crumbling, the country is literally going bankrupt and these guys both gave me ZERO reason to believe anything might change. This kind of reminds me of the debate in 2004 when W couldn't admit one mistake from his first 4 years. Stop trying to dance around the fact that this country is in severe trouble. Start coming up with some common sense solutions. I've never felt so hopeless to be an American as today. These guys remind me of a sorry pitcher who's afraid to throw anything in the strike zone. They keep trying to hit the corners but they're missing and now the bases are loaded with no outs. Time to make a pitching change, oh wait these are the only two arms we've got, were screwed.
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  • MattyJoe
    MattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    SoonForgotten2 wrote:
    The benefits far out-weigh the cons and guess what, these systems do work.

    No, they don't. Canada and Britain, for example, can barely pay for their systems. They are extremely behind the United States as far as medical research and adopting new treatments for cancer and other conditions because they can't even afford it. There are ridiculous waiting periods for even the most basic medical procedures, like pulling teeth, let alone a heart transplant which requires up to 17 months wait. They have people wasting away for days in Emergency rooms without getting treatment.

    What incentive does a person have to go to medical school to work their asses off for 10 years, paying $50,000 and up for tuition, only to come out, work for the government, and make a measly salary. Why do these people not deserve the money they earn by putting in the work required? They wouldn't be able to practice privately. it would spell the end of not only quality medical treatment in America, but the end of any kind of medical research. Cancer research doesn't come from Canada, or the UK, or Cuba. It comes from America, through the work of PRIVATE ENTERPRISES.
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    am I alone in thinking that McCain looks like Yertle the Turtle while waiting to respond?
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    I love how mccain talks shit on russia....


    I guess it's only ok for us to invade other countries for no reason....
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    lastexit78 wrote:
    ... These guys remind me of a sorry pitcher who's afraid to throw anything in the strike zone. They keep trying to hit the corners but they're missing and now the bases are loaded with no outs...

    Leave Ryan Dempster out of this conversation.
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  • beachdweller
    beachdweller Posts: 1,532
    Obama is doing well on the foreign policy front
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  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    inmytree wrote:
    I love how mccain talks shit on russia....


    I guess it's only ok for us to invade other countries for no reason....

    I just get these uneasy feeeling that if McCain gets into office, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Venzuela ... these countries are all going to poke him with a stick until he flips and starts world war 3 ... and everyone is against us.
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