Obvious but Unreported #7
This is the last installment of ObU. I can't take this bullshit anymore. You want a monarchy in this country, you have it.
Realize this: People have been persuaded by an argument that is essentially, "I am a better candidate because although you know that I lie most of the time and think that I lie all of the time, my opponent might be a little inconsistent, while we all agree, he was right at the most important time. Although I've proven to you that you cannot trust me, believe me when I say that the other guy is a dirty politician."
I've thought hard about this. I have only one choice as a response: McCain, baby!
ObU #7 is about this quote from the South Carolina Democratic debate:
I have a question for the candidate, this champion of poor children.
Have you or your husband spoken to either Marian Wright or Peter Edelman since they departed the first Clinton administration in 1996 on principle, to protest your passage of Welfare Reform? Since they did not ever receive any indication apart from computer generated Christmas cards, that you were sad to see them go, have you broken that ice?
Now, I have friends who live in trailer parks, whose neighbors arrange their calendars around the arrival of welfare checks and marvel with bemusement at "the people who work." I also have a die-hard liberal friend who works behind a pharmacy counter, and is questioning his belief system because of the frequency with which he sees taxpayer money funding deadbeats' drug habits. These situations pose valid questions for us as a society, but this is something else.
Welfare Reform in 1996 transferred all federal obligations to children in poverty to the states.
Reagan, for all the things he did, never touched it.
That's a Reagan policy Barack Obama can probably agree with.
You apparently, did not.
Realize this: People have been persuaded by an argument that is essentially, "I am a better candidate because although you know that I lie most of the time and think that I lie all of the time, my opponent might be a little inconsistent, while we all agree, he was right at the most important time. Although I've proven to you that you cannot trust me, believe me when I say that the other guy is a dirty politician."
I've thought hard about this. I have only one choice as a response: McCain, baby!
ObU #7 is about this quote from the South Carolina Democratic debate:
"Well, I respect John's commitment to ending poverty. That's why, 35 years ago, when I graduated from law school, I didn't go to work for a law firm. I went to work for Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's Defense Fund, because ending poverty -- particularly ending poverty for children, has been the central core cause of everything that I've been doing for 35 years."Let's talk about Marian Wright Edelman, shall we? Let's talk poverty. Hell, let's talk children.
I have a question for the candidate, this champion of poor children.
Have you or your husband spoken to either Marian Wright or Peter Edelman since they departed the first Clinton administration in 1996 on principle, to protest your passage of Welfare Reform? Since they did not ever receive any indication apart from computer generated Christmas cards, that you were sad to see them go, have you broken that ice?
Now, I have friends who live in trailer parks, whose neighbors arrange their calendars around the arrival of welfare checks and marvel with bemusement at "the people who work." I also have a die-hard liberal friend who works behind a pharmacy counter, and is questioning his belief system because of the frequency with which he sees taxpayer money funding deadbeats' drug habits. These situations pose valid questions for us as a society, but this is something else.
Welfare Reform in 1996 transferred all federal obligations to children in poverty to the states.
Reagan, for all the things he did, never touched it.
That's a Reagan policy Barack Obama can probably agree with.
You apparently, did not.
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