Republican Youtube Debate 11-28-07

In the first part of the debate when McCain came out he gave a creepy hug to the guy that was introducing him.

The first video that was shown was the funny guy singing. I was entertained by that video and actually watched it a couple days before.

Mitt and Rudy did a little back and forth about sanctuary cities and Rudy said Romney employed illegal immigrants.

Tancrado talked about stopping immigration, Hunter brought up the stupid border fence which Penn & Teller's Bullshit showed could be scaled dug under and cut through in a matter of minutes.

Huckabee talked about giving people taxpayer funded college education.

Romney fought with Huckabee

Ron Paul's 1st question was about the North American Union and conspiracy theories. Ron answered that he does not believe in the conspiracy theory but does recognize that money has been spent and about how some power that was being sent to the UN.

McCain called Ron Paul a isolationist. Ron responded with the record that he gets more contributions from active military.

A question was asked about a pledge to cut taxes and Dr. Paul's response was that he has never voted for a tax increase but you also need to reduce spending.

Gulliani doesn't want to cut corn subsidies. He also said that NYC was safer because he enforced gun laws aggressively.

McCain, Romney, Gulliani all do not own a firearm.

Ron Paul was asked a question about abortion and he said that it should be up to the states and he thinks that the person committing the abortion should be punished but it should be up to the states and the individuals in the community.

Huckabee tried to say that putting someone to death was different then a abortion death. He also said he believes every word of the bible.

McCain brought up the phrase that "if we leave they will follow us home" and attacked Ron Paul about his promise that he will bring the troops home. Ron countered with the example after the US left Vietnam.

Huckabee said he wants to expand the space program. I wonder how he expects to pay for that? I would guess stealing money from you and me through taxation.

Ron Paul was asked a question if he would seek a independent canidicy. Ron actually spun the question a little bit but cited that he did nothing to raise the 4.3 million dollars in one day and that there is a revolution going on and people were tired about the way the country is heading.

I also think that Ron's campaign video was the best out of the 8. Thompson submitted a attack ad against Romney and Huckabee.

Michigan Debate

***********Warning Began drinking while writing this post***********

Ok I watched the Debate in Michigan. Wow I was screaming at the TV during some peoples answers. The worst performance goes to Hunter. John Popeye Mcain seemed like he was taking some naps when the questions were asked and needs to get a hearing aid he cant hear the questions.

The CNBC poll was taken down but before it was tossed in to the memory hole a person took a screen shot you can see here http://newhampshireunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=11256.0
Also on the MSNBC poll with 6706 votes the people think Ron Paul won the debate at 63% the next closest is Huckabee at 8.7%

Ron Paul seemed to get less questions then most of the other people but I would have to watch it again and I don't think I am going to waste my time with that. Ron hit on the nail on the head with the monitary system. The Federal Reserve (which is a private company just like FedEx is a private company) is just keeping the US government in debt and in that system you can never pay the debit it is impossible mathematically. It can be easily explained with a scaled down situation. Lets say you want to borrow a widget from me and I have the only person that has a widget and I tell you I will loan you this widget but I want a widget and a second widget now I never make a second widget and put it in the market you can never get that 2nd widget and you can never pay the debit.

I will say Huckabee did a fine job in the debate I just don't like a man who is a hypocrite and Huckabee is a hypocrite he says he is pro life and I think that is a great thing but he also supports the death penalty. If you are pro life you should support life every time every situation. I can not say I am pro life because I think a person owns their own body and if they want to kill themselves with a knife, a bullet, a poison, or even with a drink of alcohol (while I sip my sparkling wine) they should be able to do that.

If you don't think you own your own body then please tell me who does?

I think Fred Thompson is useless without a script so he needs to go back to Law and Order. He defiantly showed he cannot go through with this by the huge pause he made when answering his first question I thought my TV was on mute but he was not talking just looking with his shifty wrinckled eyes. Romney and Gulianni are two sides of the same huge government Fascist coin and Tancrado is useless and I don't know why he is still there.

All American Presidential Forum

I was watching the Presidential forum and thought the questions were very clear and intelligent. The questions were not softballs at all, they were intelligent and asked about some great topics. I thought that they should have not brought up the names of the 4 morons that did not attend that much.

During the introduction Ron Paul got a loud cheer and I think the directors were shocked about that the first time but did not make that mistake again. I noticed after every answer from Ron Paul the lowered the volume and then when they moved on to the next candidate they raised the volume. This was noticeable a few times because they moved on and raised the volume while the crowd was still cheering.

I was horrified when I heard Hunter say Americans need to be shielded from pornography. Where does he get the gall to say that I need to be shielded from anything let alone people having sex or even the naked human body. If someone does not want to see pornography guess what look away, walk away, and stay in your own little bubble.

I thought Keyes was long winded and Tavis Smiley was getting angry when he said Keyes's time was up and Keyes kept on talking. I do applaud Tavis Smiley for holding Hunters feet to the fire during the question about what reform he would support to make sure people had equal justice in the United States. Tavis seemed to verbally spank Hunter to get him back on point.

For some reason Huckabee thinks that crime is caused by drugs and alcohol cause crime and I was horrified during this answer. The saving grace was Ron Paul answering that the War on Drugs needs to be repealed.

Dr Paul was finally given a question on health care and pointed out the 400 pound gorilla in the room and the problem with health care is the corpritism between insurance companies and the government and the problem with the FDA controlling the drugs that people can use. Also Dr. Paul said a couple times that we need to end the war on drugs, get rid of the welfare, restore property rights, expanding liberty, and letting people keep the fruits of their labor.

Dr. Paul also pointed out the inequities that the War on Drugs has with black people. Ron also reiterated that he is against the National ID cards but would be fine with states requiring identification for people to vote and if Washington DC wanted representation in the House and Senate a constitutional amendment should be submitted to change the constitution.

Overall I think the time was fairly evenly distributed and was fair to all the candidates.

The 3rd Republican debate

OK I know I am a little late on this but hey I was in the hospital without my computer and Internet access. I was going though Internet withdrawal after the 1st night.

On to my thoughts. The winner of the debate was Ron Paul and that is not just a opinion but is what CNN's online poll said hands down. That poll does not mean anything really the only poll that means anything is on election day.

Dr Paul introduced himself as a congressman from Texas and "Champion of the Constitution" when I heard that tag line I was really shocked. But as I thought about it Ron is that in essence. During the debate I was disgusted with the camera work. The sound issues were understandable with the lightning that was going on but I am sure they could have used different mics and eliminated the sound dropping issue. OK enough with the technical stuff I think I would have noticed it less if I had a PC in front of me.

The best issue I thought that was brought up was what the question about what is the largest moral issue that is facing the United States and Dr Paul said it was the recently policy of preemptive war. I think preemptive war really isn't a new policy. You could definitely say Vietnam was a preemptive war and so was Korea. So that goes back to the 1950's. WWII was a little harder but the Japanese attack could because of the trade blockade and that blockade could be considered a military action. So that could be considered preemptive war that takes us back to 1940's. We could go further but that would take a lot of typing. But I do think that is a great answer to the question.

I would suggest if you have not seen the debate go watch and make up your own mind.

2nd republican presidential debate

Ok First off I think I was tripping I heard Brownback say we need to cherish all life but he supports to keep the war in Iraq going which results in deaths of both American soldiers and Iraqi people every day. He needs to stick with a principle and say with it you cant support a principle when you think it suits you.

I would have to say Ron Paul was definitely the most exciting candidate and no one can say he is just a carbon copy of the rest of the candidates. Ron was very candid he pointed out the real reason why the 9/11 hijackers targeted the United States. In case you missed it was because we have been fucking around with their countries for years and we still are. If the United States has a army which I think is unconstitutional except for 2 year stints but that is for another day. Also during the question about the hypothetical question about the terrorist attack I have to give props to Ron for pointing out the rest of the people on that stage wants to take away your rights or other if it does good for the collective.

GOP Debate - 08

Disclaimer - I am not a republican, I am not a democrat, nor affiliated with any other political party!!

Now to my thoughts. I was watching the GOP debate last night because it was commercial free and I was playing a computer game and wanted something to listen to. After the debate finally got started and Chris Mathews stopped explaining the rules to the audience. I got the feeling that all the people on the stage wanted to distance themselves from the current president.

The first time I stopped playing my game was when Congressman Ron Paul spoke for the first time he was asked about his vote against the Iraq war which was a inaccurate question because no matter how many times people say we are at war congress never declared war and congress has not declared war since WWII. Ron Paul got my attention and kept it for the entire time he was speaking actually when he finished his answer I was clapping my hands. Ron's answer to the question was straight to the point and displayed his thought process.

Some of my feelings from the other candidates is that McCain is a warmonger and Mathews gave him too much leeway and more questions then the other candidates. Huckabee has a face like Nixon but none of Nixon's charisma. The rest of the lineup seemed like they were all clones and they did not impress me at all and some made me ill.

I think Ron Paul was given a softball with the question asking if he would eliminate the IRS. Ron took that softball and hit it out of the park. Getting rid of the IRS is a issue that will resonate with every American and who wants to fill out the forms before April 15th. Ron said multiple times he is not in favor of the Iraq war and that the foreign policy needs to be changed. The US is not the police of the world and the US should not be.

The abortion item is a issue I personally do not have feelings about this has been my stance since I heard about the topic. I think I have no say what goes on in another person's body and I would like the same respect. I can see the argument from both sides but as I look at the issues that come up with the war on drugs I see what happens when the government prohibits something but I think if people in a town do not want abortions going on in their town they can make a law that says that but the people of the town will have to bear the responsibility. From what I have been able to find Ron Paul would not make a law prohibiting it but leave the decision up to the community as the 10th amendment says.