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Democracy, without a large dose of respect for imdividual liberty, is nothing more than tyranny of the majority. That is why elections lead to so much violence and bloodshed in much of the world.

The 16th Amendment.

It looks like it is the race card versus the gender card with poor Edwards with no card to play.

The people of the ME ain't regular people. They are always pissed regardless of the situation. Ruthless dictators are the only ones capable of keeping their societies stable. I agree it is usually best to let them pick their own dictators. That way it is harder for them to blame us for the fact they are phucked up.

Actually Ike was smart enough to impose dictators. It worked for more than a generation. That is the best you can expect in the ME. We need another Eisenhower.

The fact is the foreign policy of George W. Bush is a derivation of the liberal idealistic policies of Woodrow Wilson. The fact is Iraq is an artificial nation that never would have come into existance without the West drawing a border that ignored demographics and cultures. The fact is most of the world is not ready for democracy. The fact is imposing democracy at gunpoint seldom works. We have ended Saddam's threat (however mild it was), now we either impose a ruthless despot or leave the situation to the Iraqis and move on. The war against fundamentalist Islam can only be defeated by moderate Islam. Our troops in the Middle East provide propaganda fodder for the fundamentalists. Our national interest does not coincide with spending 100s of billions of dollars and precious American blood to attempt to spread democracy on people still stuck in the Dark Ages.

Avoid the democratist temptation of the internationalists With the Cold War ending, we should look, too, with a cold eye on the international set, never at a loss for new ideas to divert US wealth and power into crusades and causes having little or nothing to do with the true national interest of the United States. High among these is the democratist temptation [free the world], the worship of democracy as a form of governance and the concomitant ambition to see all mankind embrace it, or explain why not. Like all idolatries, democratism substitutes a false god for the real, a love of process[political pragmatism] for a love of country. The true national interests of the United States are not to be found in some hegemonic and utopian world order. Bush holds global democracy as a goal. This is a formula for endless conflict. " Source: Where The Right Went Wrong, by Pat Buchanan, p. 13-17&34-35 Sep 1, 2004 Interventionism is the incubator of terrorism In the presidential campaign of 2000, we failed to make foreign policy the issue. But what I said then retains relevance: How can all our meddling not fail to spark some horrible retribution.... Have we not suffered enough--from Pan Am 103, to the World Trade Center, to the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam--not to know that interventionism is the incubator of terrorism? Or will it take some cataclysmic atrocity on US soil to awaken our global gamesmen to the going price of empire? America today faces a choice of destinies. We can choose to be a peacemaker of the world, or its policeman who goes about night-sticking troublemakers until we, too, find ourselves in some bloody brawl we cannot handle.

The major difference between the two main parties is one taxes and spends and the other borrows and spends.

A little info on the Republican Party's 1964 nominee, Barry Goldwater.

Probably did not have insurance. Health care bums don't get much respect from health care workers.

It is wealth distribution, that is what politicians do. It is a campaign promise, that is what politicians do.

If you really want small government Ron Paul is the only choice out there. Ron Paul on free trade: Ron Paul, What is Free Trade? | Ron Paul Library The rich got screwed by Bush too. THERE WAS A CEILING ON THE SIZE OF THE CHECK YOU GOT BACK. Libertarians, as Paul is, are not isolationists they favor true free trade. Paul is a strong believer in limited government. You cannot have limited government and be the world's policeman. You did not see Canada attacked on 9/11.

Exactly, it was 2001 when Bush enacted a plan similar to Obama's.

Plus they will now only have to split the eventual inheritance two ways. They may have been in on it.

The major "accomplishments" of the Bush era extending the federal government's involvement in health and education.

Why is it conservatives never cut spending and increase deficits? What happened to Barry Goldwater type conservatism?

It is probably the only way to beat the tyranny of the status quo.

I figured you would.

I'm picking the Giants in an upset.

The media shows what people wish to watch. We don't watch ugly people or minorities on TV. Don't blame the media.

Ya cain't rationally debate the supernatural.

Come back after you get your GED.

I hope there is a hell so you can go there you phucking dumbass.

I'm picking the Chargers to upset the Colts.

I don't see many people killing people to support their cigarrette habit. Opium and cocaine can be produced quite cheaply. When people argue that drugs should be legalized to end the negative effects of the black market it comes with the terrirory that the taxes will not be so onerous as to produce the same effects. The ole terrible government requires more government argument holds no sway with me. Once again, the high price of prescription drugs is primarily due to the Kefauver Amendment passed in 1962. Alcohol is not covered by the Kefauver Amendment nor would legalized recreational drugs.