Walt Handelsman

Sue
You are dead wrong about Obama, he is a very significant person who does not have to worry about ignorant people like you and the Clintons......You have a shallow and empty brain.......

Have any of you stopped to think how badly both sides have addressed all of these concerns? Both sides have a hand in the war. The timing was correct, the reason was correct (at the time), as ALL evidence from all sources both domestic and foreign agreed on the WMD's. The probelm is that the politicians are AGAIN fighting this war. Fight to win, and get out, period.

Domestically our economy is in shambles because of bot Democratic and Republican decisions. Fast and free spending and deregulation in the 90's along with bad lending decisions and deregulation of the early 2000's led to this mess. Both sides have raided the Social Security trust fund and left it full of IOU's that we cannot pay back. Both sides have voted and passed increases in medicare and medicaid spending. Both sides have expanded the welfare rolls and removed any dignity that people that need help have left.

Democrates want to feel good, and spend money and provide for everyone....you cannot do that on the scale they want to.

Republicans have done nothing to curb spending and in fact increased spending....you cannot do that.

We ALL need to save money, stop spending every dime you make and then some. Take responibility for your own actions and your childrens actions. Teach your kids what is right and how to act with rerspect and dignity in society. Stop acting like you are owed everything on a siler platter and work for what you have.

I have no issue with helping truly disabled people that cannot function in society, but there is no reason people on welfare that need a SHORT TERM hand up cannot work for the support. I have no problem with immigrants as long as they come into our country the legal and correct way. I have no problem helping out the world as long as we stop carrying everyone because they expect us to be the world police.

Live by this motto - who you are is what you say and do when no one is watching!

If you act like a jerk and do horrible things when you are alone or with your friends.....then that is who you are, a jerk.

I am amused over the badgering that I have read above.

Everyone is talking about who should run our country...Republican or Democrat...

Who are we going to trust?

We need a President who will take care of his/her people 1st. We need a President who will pull us out of the recession we are in now. Yes, I said it, we are in a recession.

Have you noticed the price of food going up? Prices of gas shooting up? Just today gas went up 15 cents over night. The price of goods and services are going up. Wages are not.

We can't ignore the economy. Ignoring it will only lead us deeper into debt and will result in millions becoming unemployed.

We need to fix the housing crisis also. We need to put a ban on adjustable rate mortgages. I also think that government should not be bailing people out of foreclosure either. They knew what they were getting themselves into. If they knew their house payments would go up why didn't they refinance long ago?

And the credit crisis...When are we going to kick the crap out of the credit card companies who allow consumers to charge huge amounts on their credit cards knowing their clients annual income? You and I both know credit card companies want to keep us in debt forever.

Nobody really is talking about the uninsured either...everyone is focused on the economy...lets also place a ban on illegal immigrants in our country from receiving any kind of health care unless it is an emergency situation. Lets stop giving away free health care for people who say they are 'poor' and can't afford it.

Environmentalists: I also blame you for the gas crisis as well. We can build more refineries in our nation to meet the nation's supply for gasoline, but you all cry that it will be bad for the environment. Sooner or later we have to do it. Sooner or later we are going to have to tap Alaska for oil. Americans are not going to pay for higher gas prices without a fight.

Truckers...I feel for you as well. Over $4.00 a gallon for diesel fuel is outrageous. Something has got to be done for truckers. We subsidize the railroad industry...we subsidize the airline industry...we can't we subsidize the truckers of our nation who are paying higher fuel prices without increasing wages?

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT WALT

NOT CP LITERATE SORRY

It's funny hearing people say none of these 3 are fit for the presidency, look at the incredible schmuck we have now, ANYbody would be an improvement.

PUHLEASE......can't we all just get along?

giggles softly walking away rolling eyes.

@mark
i'm sorry to say that i have to disagree with your stance on how the world sees you. the world expecting the US to be the world police was back in Clintons day when there was also the option of diplomacy and wars were not started to obtain more resources but through the established international channels. With the weak dollar, huge debt, sub-prime mortgage crisis and loose cannon attitude that the US has its not the police its a drunk, violent bum.
Also the US government has admitted to not having any real evidence about WMD's and even if they had that is no reason to invade a country. No one invades the US, China, France or the UK do they? The war started in Afghanistan as vengence for something a private organization had done and then swung to Iraq for no apparant reason other than an oil habbit which has to be broken in the first place.
My suggestion to the next POTUS would be to drop the macho act and start cooperating with the rest of the world. That way this country can save some of its honor and not go down in history as the cause of WWIII

Frankly, I think Mike has it in a nutshell. Both Parties Suck.... they are politicians, who have but one agenda, keeping power.

World police? Look at the Clintons record on that. Clintons foreign policy wasn't perfect, he went around "to enhance his legacy" and nothing remains, Kosovo, Northern Ireland... nothing. Clinton cut inflation by taking major items out of the calculations for Inflation (don't believe me, look it up!). It was all done with Smoke and Mirrors.

The Democrats are as bad or worse about running up debt. The difference is that they put their money into pork barrel legislation and social programs that we cannot afford. We all need to learn to take care of our own, not expect the goverment to do it.

Sitting back like Neville Chamberlin in World War II is not the way to do things either. The Clintons sat back and had 4 major terror attacks in the US, or US interests.... Khobar Tower, African Embassy Bombings, USS Cole and World Trade Center 1.

How many attacks have we had since 9-11 in the US?

Granted, the Bush administration has been a dismal failure in many ways. So did Jimmy Carter. Both parties, being politicians, are guilty of the same old routine.

How can this be changed? Stop Voting for Republicans or Democrats.... Register as an Independant, and if everyone did that, it would baffle the R's and D's.... not knowing where they stood. We need a strong independent candidate, who is not weighed down by political baggage like the Democrats and Republicans.

Do I think this will happen in my lifetime.....NO.....nor in my kids lifetimes.

Everytime you elect a Clinton, Bush, Mc Cain, and yes even Obama, you are perpetuating the same tired political machine.