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Following the Last Lion: MA Senate Elections
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Right, but again, not a very excellent candidate.
So there are two things that people find important: Degree of Experience (XP) and Degree of Excellence (HP).
Obama had less XP than either Clinton or McCain, but apparently had more HP, so he won the battle as it became protracted.
I mean I feel like it's silly to say people "threw out" XP, as though they really loved the idea of an inexperienced person. If that were true, more people would have been jazzed up by Palin. I feel like they felt an ideal candidate would be experienced and excellent, which is why Clinton/Obama got thrown around a lot.
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Yeah he only accomplished more in his first year than anyone else. What a shitty President.
You're thinking of health care only, he signed Ledbetter, credit card reform, the stimulus, started funding stem cell research again, opened up needle exchange again...
There's lots of good shit he has done. Yes he is still trying to stick way too close to being bipartisan and for whatever reason not realizing the Republicans will never sign onto anything he wants. But very unhappy? Come on, think outside health care reform and he's done pretty damn good.
Except for financial reform. He's definitely done shitty with that.
Sounds like a good thread. Belie your name. Make a new thread.
(Not being snarky - it really would make a good thread.)
It's another alt, so it's probably best just to ignore him.
Where the fuck is this credit card reform?
The stimulus was shit and is not working fast enough again.
Stem Cell research? That shit should have been done ages ago anyway and is not a big deal anymore
Ledbetter? What the fuck that literally is pretty damn useless for most people.
Why the fuck isn't gitmo closed
why the fuck are we not out of Iraq right now
where are the jobs
and healthcare holy shit
COPENHAGEN!!!!
I'm not gonna grade him on that in his first year. If he still hasn't done anything about that after this year, I'll think differently.
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Is this a joke post?
Are you Obs again? Godammit, Obs.
Almost all of that was straight out of the gate. Once he settled in, the picture has been a lot murkier.
McCain had lots of MP because he was a wise old wizard but his spells took to long to cast and got ko'd
sorry, i couldn't resist
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God damn it why hasn't he been IP banned
Posting from the library like a hobo I imagine.
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That's like three alts in two days.
Somebody break out the Pokemon thing?
I'm kind of meh on that one.
Reducing nuclear weapons is a good thing. Eliminating them not so much. We do need some form of deterrence. In a perfect world where everyone wants to play nice then hell yeah scrap them, clearly we are not there yet.
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The nuclear disarmament policy was(to me, not trying to be a stick in the mud) a way of keeping his more moderate/liberal base happy and to distract from HC for a minute.
Nah, it really is one of his passions, unless he's been planning this since undergrad.
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If Obama could strike a deal to eliminate the world's strategic arsenals, he could kick back and smoke a fatty for the remainder of his term and still make my top 5 presidents list.
I'm not saying that wasn't one of his priorities, and I completely agree with it.
It's timing, however, was a bit suspicious to me, as I felt we had a slightly more pressing issue(like, say, HC). The time he announced he wanted to finally rid us of the e-penises was in the troughs of trying to get UHC with idiot Repubs and sleeping Dems? Just makes me feel it was a political tool. Good overall, mind you, but still...
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...Touche.
For sure.
But with the current world state Israel, Iran, India, Pakistan, and North Korea are not going to give up their weapons\ambitions. Perhaps we could strike a deal with russia.
Until we live in a world where various powers are not at their throats its a waste of time. Improve world climate before attempting to disarm.
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Shit, if he actually succeeded in not just reducing, but eliminating the world's nuclear arsenals, he'd be listed in the same breath as Washington and Lincoln for centuries to come.
Reducing armament from their present ridiculous levels is pretty good, though. Wait until the PRC decides to increase its stockpile, if it ever does so. Until then, being able to waste all of humanity at a moment's notice is rather overkill.
I'd be happy just to reduce it to a level where you can't nuke any potential enemies 10 times over, if only for the reason of not needing to expend resources to keep that massive of a nuclear arsenal.
From what I've been able to gatherl, China thinks that having enough nukes to take out some major cities is enough deterrence, and being able to completely obliterate the enemy is overkill.
the amount of damage that you can do is irrelevant. What matters is second strike capability- you need to make sure you have at least some nuclear weapons survive a nuclear attack. With submarine missiles, you don't need as many for that as you do with ground-based ones.
I was thinking we could have planted some trees and what not.
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Oh, I was thinking naturalize, like bring them inside our borders, give them fair trials, and upon the inevitable release of some innocents, offer them work visas while they sort out their immigration status and adapt to our culture...
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Well, if he were still alive.
Well played sir.
Well played.
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