Long, short: invasion does not translate into occupation.

Lady,
Fair enough. However, the original signers of the founding documents of this country (the Declaration and the Constitution) did. Besides-and I am not an expert on religion-do any of the world’s major religions (Judiasm, Christianity, and Islam) endorse a union between a man and another (or a woman and another)?

-That’s a mighty purty strawman.

We invaded Iraq, pure and simple.
We are there as an occupying force.

D –

1. Not everyone believes in the God of the Bible – even if they believe in a God. So proclaiming “one nation, under God” does not have to mean – one idea or ideal of what God is.

2. This is also a country founded under the ideal of a separation between church and state.

In a country that supposedly provides its citizens with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the government to inflict the ideals of one religion or one group of religions on all its citizens is ludicrous and best and dangerous at worst.

-Oh, yes we are.

Then let that sovereign nation, the one that the US invaded, handle their own problems.
Let the US leave…NOW.

2. What McCain meant by the “100 years in Iraq” comment was a military presence similar to that in Korea. Remember (or in case you missed it), Iraq is a sovereign nation; we are not there as an occupying force.

3. I’ll admit that I am out of step with McCain on abortion.

4. Marriage is ordained in the Bible as a union between one man and one woman (Mark 10:7-8). As a country that proclaims to be “one nation, under God,” our laws should reflect that sentiment.

Keep in mind, McCain is hated by the right wing of the Republicans. Like Obama, McCain often reaches across party lines.

I have a better feeling about McCain than I do about Clinton. I noticed when I listened to Barack’s speech in San Antonio last Tuesday, when he mentioned McCain, there was genuine affection in his voice. When he mentioned Clinton… his voice wasn’t so nice.

Just my opinion, McCain is nothing to get excited about, but he would be an improvement over Bush.

All this, we need to make them listen to us stuff…um, sorry, this isn’t a new idea. We’ve been TALKING all this time.

Agreed with the person who said Hillary is a hawk. She most definitely is.

Who hurts us more? Republicans for implementing their agenda or the Democrats for not getting the job done?

I am tired of the Democrats always on the defense. Even when they have the numbers, they still manage to lose their set and not do anything.

One thing about the Republicans–they will do what they feel they need to and say, “And? Don’t like it too bad.” Democrats are wimps.

With Clinton, I don’t care what you promise me, if you’re not trust-worthy it really doesn’t matter does it? Because you’ll Sista Souljah me the first time it serves your self-interest.

Uh no, she’s straight saying they will vote for me; who else will they vote for.

I don’t believe the trickle we will get from Hillary is any different than the trickle we will get from McCain-she wants to be his running mate!

I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON OR ANOTHER DEMOCRAT IF SHE IS GIVEN THE NOMINATION!!!!!!!!

THIS IS NOT A TEMPER TANTRUM, THIS IS A FACT!!!!

Clinton is making it hard for me to want to even hold my nose and vote her way. She thinks McCain is a better candidate than a fellow Dem? She believes you have to scare the people into voting for you? She believes in tearing everyone else down so she can be lifted up?

Her administration would be bad news; she’d have critical press all the time, and the only way she’d be able to pass critical programs is by smearing, slandering and destroying the careers of all those in her way. That’s only going to make the next generation of politics more nasty, but even more importantly, much more unproductive and illogical. If her proposals weren’t at least better on the whole than anything McBush can come up with, I’d think about voting McBush over Clinton. For now, I’m wavering between voting McKinney, Clinton or just staying home is Hillary is nominated.

NOTE: I sincerely think that the most effective way for a constituency taken for granted to show displeasure with a party is to not vote at all. The significant loss of voters nationwide is much easier to identify and history tells me encourages the parties to start engaging that group on their playing field (see: current Dem. wooing of evangelicals, budget hawks) instead of taking those voters for granted again.

African-American women are now the fastest growing segment of the US population afflicted with HIV/AIDS There’s more than one way to get rid of African-Americans in this country.

The modern day Tuskeegee Experiment: Lock up black men at disproportional rates and sentencing (especially the innocent ones who always look like the suspect du jour) + refuse to provide condoms to prisoners + release black men after 10-30 years (AmeriKKKa locks up negros at age 13 now…the sooner the better) to have sex with black women who are contracting HIV (which is spreading like wildfire in the prison population)+ re-imprison black men because they can’t get jobs with records (those whose family’s can sustain them and keep them free too often operate on the “down low”) + unknowlingly HIV positive black women have babies that are infected + the Blacks who the man can always count on to kneel for fear of Supreme Court appointments that might reverse RoeVWade (black folk, as a whole, don’t do the abortion thing but we needsta make sure the missus can have hurs on demand) or afraid the SC might end affirmative action (that has mostly benefited the missus and model minorities with a few tokens thrown in for good measure), which has already been effectively rolled back at the federal level with an expiration date without a majority conservative court (Kennedy and O’Connor were moderate jurists) and it was so beneficial to blacks that we haven’t even missed it but, more importantly, is being dismantled on the state level but we are too uninformed to realize it)+ a general lack of community self-love that will always allow a few sellouts to go against the better interests of the race ensuring the many remain sitting and spinning = a decreasing and dying off (always unwanted here anyway) segment of the population that has always been the most willing participants in its own demise, otherwise known as African-Americans.

John McCain nor the Supreme Court are our worst enemies; that position is held by the okie doke, yes massa negros amongst us. Flame away.

I heard where some people waited until 2′oclock in the morning & were told if they left, their vote would not count! Just pathetic!

My man!

Cosigned,
OOO

PS, Texas is still straggling with caucus results.

I respect that. For me, though, rewarding Hillary Clinton’s antics this year will have WORSE repercussions. What Hillary is doing to Obama is deeper than the Supreme Court.

This is some psychological shit that will permeate a hell of a lot more than just politics, if she’s allowed to succeed in what she’s doing, how she’s doing it — and blacks support her anyway.

Once your dignity is lost, why should anyone who’s on the Supreme Court or in a position to nominate people for the Supreme Court care about issues that pertain specifically to blacks? We obviously don’t respect ourselves, so why should they!

No one cares for the abused who defends their abuser.

Besides, no one gets on the Supreme Court without being vetted by all sides. Harriet Mier isn’t on the Supreme Court in spite of Bush wanting her there. McCain (or rather, his vice president since he appears to be sick) can make strong suggestions, but his word will not be law.

She does not represent the Democratic Party.

Voting for her is not a vote for the Democratic Party; it’s just a vote for her and a vote for her nasty, destructive tactics.

My conscience will be clean. I’m not voting Hillary. I’m not voting McCain either, though… you’re right, Jill, his stances are fucked up even though Republicans can’t stand him and think he’s fucked up too because they think he’s a RINO and might as well be a Democrat with his stances.

My conscience will be clean this November, should Hillary win the nomination. This is where downticket comes in.