Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (40559)	8/20/2008 5:24:47 PM
From: DizzyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Ancient history, Kenneth? Since then, his polls have mostly been bad. That's odd, your recent posting history suggests otherwise: Obama is Unfit for Command Ann, you might just as well vote for Bar Kenneth E. Phillipps 7/7/2008 6:12:23 PM Obama is Unfit for Command Pollster John Zogby wrote a column about Kenneth E. Phillipps 7/3/2008 8:55:18 AM Obama is Unfit for Command Zogby says Obama extending lead in NC (5 Kenneth E. Phillipps 5/6/2008 5:17:10 AM Obama is Unfit for Command CBS Poll: Support For Obama Rebounds In Kenneth E. Phillipps 5/4/2008 9:21:35 PM Obama is Unfit for Command Zogby: Obama leads in North Carolina by Kenneth E. Phillipps 5/3/2008 7:56:43 AM Obama is Unfit for Command Looks like he didn't read Zogby Poll thi Kenneth E. Phillipps 5/2/2008 2:21:39 PM Obama is Unfit for Command Wright Speaks, Democrats Yawn http:// Kenneth E. Phillipps 4/2/2008 8:32:33 PM You really fool nobody with your DNC talking points. You are such a DNC parrot. Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (40559)	8/20/2008 6:29:03 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Really? Kenneth just last month you liked him a whole lot... To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (33628) 7/7/2008 6:12:23 PM From: Kenneth E. Phillipps Read Replies (4) of 40569 Ann, you might just as well vote for Barr because McCain will lose anyway. ZOGBY.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1523'>http://www.ZOGBY.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1523

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (40559)	8/20/2008 7:59:46 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 224729

Plot summary for documentary: I.O.U.S.A. (2008) I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. As the Baby Boomer generation prepares to retire, will there even be any Social Security benefits left to collect? Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes. Wielding candid interviews with both average American taxpayers and government officials, Sundance veteran Patrick Creadon (Wordplay) helps demystify the nation's financial practices and policies. The film follows U.S. Comptroller General David Walker as he crisscrosses the country explaining America's unsustainable fiscal policies to its citizens. With surgical precision, Creadon interweaves archival footage and economic data to paint a vivid and alarming profile of America's current economic situation. The ultimate power of I.O.U.S.A. is that the film moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer potential financial scenarios and propose solutions about how we can recreate a fiscally sound nation for future generations

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (40559)	8/20/2008 8:46:03 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Attorney Ann Coulter comments on Obama's lack of constitutional expertise: DID CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR OBAMA QUESTION THE LEGALITY OF THE SLAVERY BAN? Ann Coulter, August 20, 2008 This week, Barack Obama's challenge is to select a running mate who's young, hip, and whose accomplishments in life don't overshadow Obama's. Allow me to suggest Kevin Federline. The only thing we can be sure of is that Obama will choose someone who is the polar opposite of all his advisers until now. In other words, it will be a very, very white male who was probably proud of his country even before being chosen as Obama's running mate. Obama's got a lot of ground to make up following that performance last weekend at the Saddleback presidential forum with pastor Rick Warren. After seeing Obama defend infanticide with the glib excuse that the question of when life begins is above his "pay-grade," Rev. Jeremiah Wright announced that although he's known Obama for 30 years, he only recently became aware of how extreme the senator's viewpoints were. Wright, after all, has his reputation to consider. Network heads responded by dashing off an urgent memo: During the main presidential debates this fall, ask NO questions about abortion, ethics or evil! Morality isn't the Democrats' forte. Obama's defenders spin his abominable performance in the Saddleback forum by saying he's just too smart to give a straight answer. As Rick Warren charitably described Obama's debate performance: "He likes to nuance things ... He's a constitutional attorney." The constitutional lawyer "does nuance," as Bill Maher said on "Larry King Live," "and you saw how well that goes over with the Rick Warren people." If that's Obama's excuse, he ought to know a few basics about the Constitution. Did the big constitutional lawyer whose "nuance" is too sophisticated for Rick Warren's audience see the letter his wife sent out on his behalf in 2004? Michelle Obama denounced a federal law banning partial-birth abortion, writing that "this ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional." Clearly! The Supreme Court later found the law not "unconstitutional," but "constitutional" -- which I believe may have been the precise moment when Michelle Obama realized just how ashamed she had always been of her country. But most stunningly, when Warren asked Obama if he supported a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, Obama said he did not "because historically -- because historically, we have not defined marriage in our Constitution." I don't care if you support a marriage amendment or not. That answer is literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say. If marriage were already defined in the Constitution, we wouldn't need an amendment, no? Say, you know what else was "historically" not defined in the Constitution? Slavery. The words "slavery" and "slave" do not appear once in the original Constitution. The framers correctly thought it would sully the freedom-enshrining document to acknowledge the repellent practice. (Much like abortion!) But in 1865, the 13th Amendment banned slavery throughout the land, in the first constitutional phrase ever to mention "slavery": "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." On Obama's "historical" argument, they shouldn't have passed the 13th Amendment because the Constitution "historically" had not mentioned slavery. Do we know for a fact Barack Obama has read the Constitution? Obama's Facebook profile: "I'm pro-infanticide, I love sunsets, and I don't get the 13th Amendment!" This is the guy who thinks he can condescend to Clarence Thomas? Asked at the Saddleback forum which Supreme Court justice Obama would not have nominated, Obama said ... the black one! In Obama's defense, he said he thought Thomas wasn't experienced enough "at the time." So I guess Obama thinks Thomas should have to "wait his turn." By contrast, Obama has experience pouring out of those big ears of his. Asked last year by Robin Roberts on ABC's "Good Morning America" about his lack of experience in foreign policy, Obama took umbrage. Swelling up his puny little chest, Obama said: "Well, actually, my experience in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. I'm somebody who has actually lived overseas, somebody who has studied overseas. I majored in international relations." He actually cited his undergraduate major as a qualification to be president. But on Saturday night, Obama said he didn't think Clarence Thomas was a "strong enough jurist or legal thinker" to be put on the Supreme Court. I bet Thomas has heard of the 13th Amendment! anncoulter.org