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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1287)	5/26/2008 9:24:40 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 6579

Recession,depression........http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/21/news/economy/olderworkers/index.htm?postversion=2008052113

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1287)	5/27/2008 5:46:05 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 6579

You do not hear me, I recognize the failure of the two major parties, that they are now in it for themselves instead of doing the job they are elected to do... Just last night it was reported that the democrat from PA admitted that they decided to imply to the party members that they would get out of Iraq if elected in 2006. They knew this to be a lie, but said so to get elected. They purposely lied to the public, it has now been admitted, and you could care less. You would not hire, (excuse me this would not be your case since you only have 1 employee) liars in a company and would fire them if they had lied on their application, but partisans like you protect the dishonest and even promote them. Shame on you...you will never get it, but that is not how you get a good government.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1287)	5/27/2008 2:54:57 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 6579

Scorpion stings girl shopping for watermelons 12-year-old was at a West Virginia Wal-Mart when she was stung May 27: A scorpion found its way into a box of watermelons at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia, where it stung the finger of young Megan Templeton. WSAZ-TV's Melanie Chapman reports. NBC News Channel updated 10:12 a.m. ET, Tues., May. 27, 2008 BARBOURSVILLE, West Virginia - One young shopper at a Wal-Mart in West Virginia had to watch out for more than falling prices. A 12-year-old girl picking up a seedless watermelon from a bin was stung Sunday by a tan, inch-long scorpion that had apparently stowed away in a shipment from Mexico. Megan Templeton, of Barboursville, was taken to the hospital as a precaution but later released. Her father, William Templeton, said the pain was a little worse than a bee sting. msnbc.msn.com He initially did not believe his daughter when she said she had been stung by a scorpion, but then he saw the it scurry underneath a box. It was captured by Wal-Mart employees. Most of the nearly 2,000 kinds of scorpions are not dangerous to humans. Richard Coyle, senior director of international affairs for Wal-Mart, said store employees believe the problem was with a single shipment of watermelons. "We are very concerned," he said. "This is a very rare incident. When I spoke with the store manager, she said in her 17 years she had never heard of something like this."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1287)	5/30/2008 11:55:54 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 6579

repost from a post I made on another thread: I have something good to report on McCain for a change. A long time ago on this thread, we used to debate the value of the UN. I was very adamant that it is a broken organization and that what we needed was a UDN...United Democratic Nations...to further the interests of the free world. My argument was a simple one. We allow countries like Russia and China to veto efforts that would make this world more free and democratic and curtail the bad in the world like dictatorships and repression of human rights. With a UDN, we could act to move foreward an agenda for the world based on freedom and human rights. Anyway, McCain is now saying much the same thing and I applaud him for that. I'd love to see Obama co-opt McCain's thinking on this. We need to engage with the UN, but I also think we need an alternative body with equal relevance that seeks to unify the free, Democratic countries of the world for a common purpose. Here's the article: McCain proposal for joint action gains support news.yahoo.com By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer Fri May 30, 6:32 AM ET WASHINGTON - Gaining ground this political season is a proposed League of Democracies designed to strengthen support for the next president's overseas agenda and ensure a global leadership role for the United States. John McCain, the virtually certain Republican presidential nominee, has endorsed the concept of a new global compact of more than 100 democratic countries to advance shared views and has discussed the idea with French and British leaders. "It could act where the U.N. fails to act," he said last month, and pressure tyrants "with or without Moscow's and Beijing's approval." McCain said the League might impose sanctions on Iran, relieve suffering in the Darfur region of Sudan and deal with environmental problems. Barack Obama, who has a lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, has not taken a stand. But Anthony Lake, one of Obama's policy advisers, has spoken in favor of the idea. Analysts at think tanks in Washington and elsewhere envision a league focused on maintaining peace and limiting U.S. military intervention, such as the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But missing so far are specific, proposed steps to turn the idea into reality, such as where to have a headquarters, who would finance the league and how its membership would be decided. "Cooperation is an absolute essential," Ivo Daalder, a national security expert at the Brookings Institution, said Thursday at a seminar. An originator of the idea, Daalder said it would give democracies a better opportunity to reform the United Nations. "If there had been a dialogue on Iraq there would have been more rigorous containment of Saddam Hussein," possibly averting war, said Tod Lindberg, a Hoover Institution research fellow, at the seminar held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. But not all foreign policy experts support the proposal. Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at Carnegie, said "the world has no appetite for a U.S.-led league and many countries do not want the U.S. going around the U.N." In fact, Carothers said, the United States cooperates often with non-democracies in its foreign policy. China's help in trying to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program is just one example, he said. President Bush's Iraq war policy was bitterly opposed by two leading democracies, France and Germany, among others. But Bush went ahead despite their strong objections. "It is wishful thinking" that a league of democracies would any more readily approve U.S. military intervention in support of another U.S. president, Carothers said. And while "some people like Senator McCain imagine it might become a replacement for the U.N., that is not the initial intention," Carothers said in a telephone interview after the seminar.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (1287)	6/2/2008 11:38:40 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Look Who’s Tough on Iran Now By WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: June 1, 2008 In the annals of role reversal, the switch by the United Nations’ atomic sleuths in Vienna and the American intelligence community has been striking. Having long taken a back seat to the Bush administration in publicly challenging Iran’s nuclear program, the global inspectors last week moved into the driver’s seat, demanding that Tehran come clean on any progress it has made toward building a bomb.