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- CreedFeed, on 09/02/2008, -2/+4VP hopeful Palin's Babygate "scandal" is now over so now Digg gets flooded with Ron Paul stories again?
- wishninja, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4i can only hope, that and more stories that advocate legalization of marijuana.
- fwertz, on 09/02/2008, -2/+6Is Ron color blind?
- btschul, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4No, he just realizes that in reality, in a presidential run, race should mean ABSOLUTELY ***** ALL NOTHING. It is just a way to distract from the real issues.
- n0gnuz, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Yes he is. Is fwertz?
- BennyGreenberg, on 09/02/2008, -0/+8Just wondering what everyone else is thinking...
and no race cards please...- jcorn1, on 09/02/2008, -2/+3THere are significant differences. Even if people believe they have similar policies, what about variables such as the age factor (some favor McCain for being older, some favor Obama for being younger) and the VP candidates?
These are the details that can make or break an election candidate's chances for success.
- jcorn1, on 09/02/2008, -2/+3THere are significant differences. Even if people believe they have similar policies, what about variables such as the age factor (some favor McCain for being older, some favor Obama for being younger) and the VP candidates?
- thePuck77, on 09/02/2008, -0/+10Well, of course there are differences, but the point of the OP is that we are being tricked into believing there is far more difference than there is. When nailed down side by side, there is little difference between "left" and "right" policies anymore. What will really change with Obama? I mean, really? Don't fantasize and don't get poetic, just tell me: will we start to curb America's energy use? Will we change US foreign policy to something that does not include the notion of "might makes right, as long as it's spun right"? Will we see the problems in education, culture, the "drug war", and so on addressed? NO. Because our choice is between one career politician and another, and every single one of them benefit from the same system that screws the citizens.
If you would truly have change, be the change, and stop pretending someone else will do it for you.- CaptainNoPants, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3Who knows? Like you said the "line" is virtually non-existent these days. It's all big party garbage and we're forced to choose the one that smells better.
How many people in this country, not just digg, obviously, would be willing to vote for, or have even heard of RP?
- CaptainNoPants, on 09/03/2008, -1/+3Who knows? Like you said the "line" is virtually non-existent these days. It's all big party garbage and we're forced to choose the one that smells better.
- Patricia1, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3My grandmother always said "If you want to have a successful dinner party, don't discuss politics or religion."
- BennyGreenberg, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3Your Grandmother is wise!
- wishninja, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2With my family its pretty much shut up and eat.
- Waiting2awake, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Respectfully Why not?
If we don't discuss it, we don't communicate our thoughts about it. We don't learn enough about it and that gives the powers that be more power over us because we can't discuss politics which does have a huge baring on our lives....
Imagine if we had the courage to discuss 911 when it happened? Discuss the W.O.T/W.O.Drugs/Etc when it was going on? How many people would have seen the errors that didn't and maybe still don't? How many people would be alive today had they not fallen for that whole "fight them there, so we don't fight them here" crap? What about if we were about to discuss pork barrel politics? The sameness of both parties? The way both parties use "divide and rule"? How many more politically aware Americans would there be today?
I see nothing wrong with discussion. I see nothing wrong lively debate. I see a vast many things wrong with deciding something as important as the institution of government as being off limits of discussion.
- BeShirtHappy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5I learned a long time ago not to argue politics or religion - you rarely change someone's mind and both can bring out the worst in people. That being said...I don't think Ron Paul is that far off. :)
- peacepower, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10Ron Paul is right, as usual. Both Obama and McCain had to pass inpection by AIPAC, so we know roughly what their foreign policy is going to be. Same stuff, different leader dishing it out.
Obama promises to be more of a socialist; McCain, more of a fascist corporatist. Big deal - the voters are still getting screwed, the government is still spending money it doesn't have to sink this country with debt.
Ron Paul was the best chance we had for real, intelligent change, and the average voter didn't know enough history to understand what he was/is saying.- Waiting2awake, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2So very true. Sad to see how marginalized RP was. Worse, how oblivious America seemed to be of it.
- bernk1, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5What a silly thing to say. Of course there are differences. For one, in the words of The Economist magazine, "Mr Obama’s appeal depends on what he symbolises: the uplifting notion that the son of a Kenyan father and a Kansan mother can, through talent and hard work, rise to the highest post in the land. Mr McCain’s appeal rests on what he has done."
- chuckypita, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6Let's see - Barrack O'Cain still loves The Federal Reserve.
Yup - no difference between the two. - jgregc, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7I believe modern day politics is like a Corporation that sets up competing gas stations on either side of the road. People argue about which station is the best, but in the end the Corporation still gets all the business, since they own both stations.
- n0gnuz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5That -- and, sadly, they have gas stations now all over the planet, which they have to defend by military force, assassinations, propping up terrorists and supporting gangs of thugs who supposedly would back the corporation. Additionally, some of the acquisitions made in the last century have turned out disastrous, as those subsidiaries have transferred their pariah status to the parent company, as well as become an enormous loss center, demanding billions of dollars every year in the special "auto-forgiven" loans that the parent company has to sell more stock to fund.
- n0gnuz, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5That -- and, sadly, they have gas stations now all over the planet, which they have to defend by military force, assassinations, propping up terrorists and supporting gangs of thugs who supposedly would back the corporation. Additionally, some of the acquisitions made in the last century have turned out disastrous, as those subsidiaries have transferred their pariah status to the parent company, as well as become an enormous loss center, demanding billions of dollars every year in the special "auto-forgiven" loans that the parent company has to sell more stock to fund.
- cashman57, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6OBushma claims he was against the Iraq use of force from the beginning but voted to fund it in a rare 100-0 Senate vote.McSame has always supported the Iraq use of force.
OBushma claims opposition to the so called patriot act and then votes to extend it.
McSame has always been in favor of it.OBushma smoked marijuana and snorted cocanie so he knows the war on drugs never stopped anyone from using drugs. McSame doesn't have a clue.
OBushma claims opposition to FISA and votes to extend it. McSame has been in favor of it.
If you want a president that says one thing and does another vote OBushma. If you want someone who always supports the wrong thing vote McSame.- Waiting2awake, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1If only there was another choice.....someone who has had the integrity, the foresight and the intellect to speak up.....If only the country had the courage to vote with that in mind...
- angusm, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Obama's just another ho-hum middle-of-the-road candidate in slicker packaging. McCain is a geopolitical disaster waiting to happen, a man who shouldn't be allowed to stand for dogcatcher. That looks like a difference to me, even if Ron Paul can't see it.
- Waiting2awake, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3What they will do though - is no difference. That is what he is trying to point out, that your choices are only illusionary and not real. People think that voting one way or another will change the direction of the country, but that is simply not true. Your politicians don't listen to the people, they listen to the lobby's, their financial backers, the favour-dudes. Both Obama and McCain are owned, wholly.
Where is the difference? There is none the second you get past the obvious facade.
- Waiting2awake, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3What they will do though - is no difference. That is what he is trying to point out, that your choices are only illusionary and not real. People think that voting one way or another will change the direction of the country, but that is simply not true. Your politicians don't listen to the people, they listen to the lobby's, their financial backers, the favour-dudes. Both Obama and McCain are owned, wholly.
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