One of my concerns about the tea party candidates is their lack of experience on such issues as foreign policy. We are the world’s remaining superpower; whether the United States should hold such a position is moot.
Negotiations addressing nuclear weapons and global trade are the realities of today’s world; compromise is the primary tool of diplomacy. We cannot dismiss the world.
Francis Davis, Mesa
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Mike1200 posted at 12:02 pm on Sat, Nov 20, 2010.
Dale
I’m not saying I would vote for palin. I just think she’s a good person and I’m tired of people and the media bashing her.
I suspect we will have conservatives or republicans with a lot better credentials than hers to choose from.
So what she uses notes on her hand. I would still say that’s better than reading off of a teleprompter. Being able to go off of some notes on your hand or papers, form your thoughts and sentences and communicate them to the audience verses reading word for word says something too. I have heard obama speaking without a teleprompter. He stumbles and fumbles around and sounds worse than W.
So he has all the degrees. That doesn’t mean everything when you’re the president. If you look at Palins approval ratings after her two years in office she is a lot better off than obama is in his first 2 yrs. All you really have to do is look at the election results from a few weeks back and that tells the story. The American people were telling him to take his audacity and hope and put it where the sun don’t shine.
Dale Whiting posted at 9:59 pm on Fri, Nov 19, 2010.
Mike1200,
Sarah choses not to use a teleprompter, but to write herself notes on her hand. Sarah graduated college with a BS in Mass Communications and not unlike JD Hayworth became a Sports Caster. Eventually Sarah got herself into politics, first at the school board, then as mayor, then as a board member of the Alaska Commission overseeing Oil and Gas leases, then was elected Governor. But what did she accomplish? Not very much. She can't even acquit herself well in interviews.
Barack Obama graduated with a BS from Columbia Univ, worked helping economically depressed neighborhoods in South Chicago, then went back to school to graduate with a Juris Doctorate from Harvard before returning to work once again in Chicago. Eventually he was elected to the Illinois legislature, then to the US Senate. What has he accomplished? Ask anyone from Chicago. They will tell you. Ask those who voted form him in 2008. He inspired them to hope with audacity. When he speaks using a teleprompter, he is giving a prepared speach. When he speaks extemporaneously, he does so with inspiration and audacity.
Now who has made the most of their gifts and who has contributed the most to society? I'll vote for Barack Obama. When John McCain chose Palin, I chose Barack Obama. McCain made my choice simiple.
Mike1200 posted at 7:06 pm on Wed, Nov 17, 2010.
Dale
Nice little dig about Palin, I bet she knows we only have 50 not 57 states in the good old USA and she probably knows how to pronounce the word corpsman. I can't say the same about our great leader. Plus she can actually speak without a teleprompter.
Dale Whiting posted at 7:35 am on Wed, Nov 17, 2010.
Francis, "More experience" you say. How can one get more experience than Sarah Palin. After all, only she can see Russia from her front porch!
What we all need [Tea Partiers, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and independents alike] is more information and a much broader education. None of us can see Russia from anywhere near where we are or ever have been. Heck, most of us can't even see past our own noses, much less into the mirror we stand facing most of the day. We have a vision blinded by beams sufficient that we only see the motes in the eyes of others. We have become phobiacs, affraid of every thing new to us or difficult for us to understand. The list is lengthening daily.[sad]
Accuracy posted at 9:49 am on Mon, Nov 15, 2010.
Francis Davis,” One of my concerns about the tea party candidates is their lack of experience on such issues as foreign policy.”
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Tea Party candidates?
The candidates supported by the Tea Party, during the election, are now the incoming freshman Republicans in Congress . . . While Congress begins its so-called lame duck session this week, because many returning lawmakers are soon to be out-of-work once the new session begins in January.
The new elected say that they made a pledge to reform Washington, D.C. and it's a pledge they intend to keep. A sense of more limited government and more individual choice.