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- Pluckie, on 10/10/2007, -4/+98ahem...
http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/Your_Guide_to_2008_Presidential_Candidates_Positions_on_Top_25_Issues - sixthplanet, on 10/10/2007, -4/+91Interesting chart. What would be REALLY interesting is to compare this pre-election chart to what the winner actually does as President. If you remember, in a nationally televised debate Candidate George W. Bush was said that the U.S. was not in the business of nation-building...
- austinisi, on 10/10/2007, -8/+56LOOK AT NET NEUTRALITY!!!
please look at it - TsuruchiBrian, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35Even though W said he did not support nation building, at least Iraq is a totally awesome nation now.
- jdh24, on 10/10/2007, -8/+40I think this is oversimplifying things.
- gogog0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+32wow only 3 candidates are against the patriot act...
- Rossoneri22, on 10/10/2007, -33/+62I don't like Ron Paul anymore.
- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Too_lazy_to_research_a_candidate is more interesting.
- SeaMowse, on 10/10/2007, -13/+41Thanks. I've been waiting for something like this to show up on Digg.
- unitedkronos, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29No weed support listing?
- gthrank, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26It still blows my mind that in 2007, there's a category for a candidate's position on "Torture". And there are alarmingly many ticks of support. Holy crap - get out of the middle ages, America!!!!
- Shawn4168, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24It's a chart. It's supposed to simplify things.
- Sil369, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22Clinton is for universal healthcare .... again?
laff - digghasnoethics, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23Seems as if Kucinich is the only tolerably sane one there.
However, why should it matter? Aren't they there to do what the populous tells them - you know, representative of the people and all? Where is the line that says "will do the job rather than doing what they like"? - stealth658, on 10/10/2007, -14/+33ron paul is against net neutrality ?!
stupid diggers fawning over him.. - adam07, on 10/10/2007, -12/+30Yes Ron Paul is against net neutrality...
- crackah, on 10/10/2007, -20/+37I think gravel is better than paul
Gravel supports abortion. - BaconBits, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20Its not hard to stay consistent when you only support two things.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+179/11 changed a lot of things - not only did Bush flip-flop on nationbuilding, but also on his "absolute demand" that there be a clear exit strategy and a definite timeline for any engagement. That, apparently, only applied to Clinton, not Bush himself.
Plus that we now know that Bush had decided upon attacking Iraq long before 9/11; 9/11 actually derailed the plans for a while, as it forced Bush to attack Afghanistan, which he otherwise would not. - danboarder, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Explain yourself. Fascist = authoritarian. Ron Paul a fascist? Quite the opposite. He is basically Libertarian with is closer to anarchy --- more freedom for the individual, less government intervention.
- it5five, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Which works great for us liberals in red states. Right?
Wrong.
Oh, but I'm supposed to move, I guess. - JahRage, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18Yeah, nothing but the Constitution.
- jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -7/+21hahaha, I like how Romney has a check and an X in his abortion box. Flip Flopper.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17"what' s u'r stance on gay marriage? 9/11
wiretapping? 9/11
death penalty? 9/11
2.3 trillion missing from pentagon? 9/11
war with iran?!!? 9/11
...lindsay lohan? -- stupid b*tch. i'd bang her though... - Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17I think I'll vote for the dudes who're for torture and wiretapping and against network neutrality and background checks on guns. :-p
Seriously. They're like the devil.
If I were American, I'd go Obama. - MrKrinkleDude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Some of that is inaccurate in several categories. One quick example, during the CNN YouTube debate some candidates expressed interest in scrapping the broken No Child Left Behind, yet in the chart it shows the opposite. That's only 1 out of many.
- it5five, on 10/10/2007, -19/+31I love how all the Ron Paul spammers hate this chart.
It shows how terrible of a candidate he really is. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -7/+19No, "net neutrality" is not _MORE_ legislation, it is how it is NOW.
"Net neutrality" means that the telecoms may not throttle your bandwidth unless you pay them extra. That is how it is now. Ron Paul wants to remove that regulation, and let the telecoms throttle YOUR bandwidth. In short, he's against net neutrality.
For those who do not understand what this means: you've visited download sites like Fileplanet which charge extra for fast downloads, right? If you pay you get immediate access and fast download; if you don't you get to wait and download slowly. If net neutrality is removed THE ENTIRE NET will be that way. - tlogank, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14(I won't say it's a dupe, but...) Tables like this are real nice, but-although I know it would be a lot more work, I would like for someone to be able to source the issues somewhere to the candidate. Interesting also, it seems that one of most likely Republican hopefuls, Fred Thompson, either has been quiet about a lot of these issues, or the author did not bother to research them since he has not officially announced his candidacy. Just interesting that half his results come up as unknown.
- bluejayv1, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Everybody's mind seems to be entrenched on the abortion issue. What I see from Ron Paul is a willingness to refine the definition of life and when it begins. Abortion is a difficult issue because tough decisions need to be made as to when life begins. Does life begin when a fetus has a functioning circulatory and nervous system, when it is completely out of the womb, when the child can actually begin to think for itself. We have become so intellectually lazy that we ignore the one candidate, Ron Paul, who realizes that this issue of abortion is more profound than we claim.
Ron Paul makes the argument that the more contentious and difficult the question is, the more it should be resolved at the local and state levels. The Founding Fathers understood this and that's why the Ninth and Tenth Amendments were instituted. Just think about how murder, rape, and other violent crimes are not defined at the federal level but at the state levels. If you are dealing with an issue that has even the slightest possibility of involving homicide, then decisions should be more decentralized and not dealt with at the federal level and Ron Paul is the only one who understands this.
I'm tired of the pro-life, pro-choice schizm and I want the philosophical debate on when life begins to start without any presumptions on one's political propensities. - RobotBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15"but you really have to watch the debates to get an idea of who you like most"
Why? Further, why should I care about liking them or not. I'm voting for representation of my ideas, not a drinking buddy. The debates are great for personality, but they're horrible in terms of getting direct answers. I'd agree that voting by chart is bad when it lacks citation, one with them seems a far better source of voting information than any of the debates I've seen. - ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12There is no free market in these commodities.
- 0zzy, on 10/10/2007, -7/+18He's against regulation. Apparently the net neutrality bill he read gave power to the government for regulation. He's against that.
- Sil369, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Might as well list weed. Wiretapping is listed, that's ILLEGAL/Unconstitutional. So might as well throw in more rows of other illegal things....
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -8/+18That's because you don't understand that "net neutrality" is how it is NOW, and Ron Paul would change how it is NOW to letting the telecoms charge extra for not throttling your bandwidth.
It's not a case of "more regulations", it's about keeping the regulations there already are. - sodade, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13Paul, Gravel and Kucinich are pro-weed. Notice that they are the only ones against the patriot act as well. Also, notice that none of them will get elected.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12given how little most people know about the candidates, it's a good start. hopefully tools like this will inspire people to do further research. as it stands, we are at the mercy of the corporate media to give us their take on their preselected candidates.
- CLShortFuse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You know what the submitter did. He found http://www.2decide.com/table.htm and decided to submit it to Digg. Then he found out that it was already submitted. So he took a screenshot of it and posted it on Flickr and submitter that. Lame.
- dxprog, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15I don't like any of them.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10He's not a fascist, he's a paleocon. You want fascist, look at Brownback.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Maybe doing such a ***** job in Iraq is just fulfilling his campaign promises to not engage in nation-building. He never said anything about being against nation-blowing-up.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14Ron Paul is a REPUBLICAN.
More specifically he's a PALEOCONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. He's not a Libertarian at all. That he's somehow libertarian is just something people claim because they want to draw attention away from the fact that Ron Paul is in the right wing of the thoroughly discredited Republican Party. - atheinostic, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12The Great Invisible Hand will solve all of mankind's problems, as long as we don't try to guide or otherwise touch it. Do not question the Great Hand of the Free Market.
- bluejayv1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The word fascism is just an empty word nowadays. It originally meant that governments would give special privileges to particular businesses and lock out their competitors. That being said, Ron Paul is 180 degrees from being a fascist since lobbyists don't even bother going to his office to demand anything from him because he will strike it down as being unconstitutional. Ron Paul is the man because he realizes the importance of the Constitution as a contract between the federal government and the people of the states. Without a strict adherence to the Constitution, what is the federal government other than a vicious lawbreaker.
- zmjone2992, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11thats what net neutrality is about idiot, the government prevents the telecoms from throttling access, so he is against net neutrality if he is against regulation of the internet
- Frnnkdlxx, on 10/10/2007, -9/+16i'm black btw. racist? i've read what you're talking about and then ron's response. he didnt even write that. a columnist aid did, and he disagreed. that's not the point. racism is a joke, institutionalized and used to create a schism between us all. it won't work here buddy!
YOU are missing the point. all those institutions you're referring to that would dissolve the union didnt exist when the union began and definitely weren't there as this nation saw unprecedented growth. only did it come when america entered the 20th century and witnessed the buying off of its politicians and the subsequent selling of our rights/checks and balances on what was private domain, etc.
we WOULD be better off without all those organizations and departments and i can't trust myself to say "if you researched you'd find that out",
so i'll end this on a "F YOU AND HAVE A NICE DAY!" - Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Yeah, he's so libertarian that he's not libertarian at all!
Tip: wiki "paleoconservative". Ron Paul is in GOP because he _belongs there_. - thomasprebble, on 10/10/2007, -23/+30Interesting to see how much of a fascist Digg's chosen child, Ron Paul is.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -18/+25Dear ronbots: "Net neutrality" means that the telecoms may not throttle your bandwidth unless you pay them extra. That is how it is now. Ron Paul wants to remove that regulation, and let the telecoms throttle YOUR bandwidth. In short, he's against net neutrality.
For those who do not understand what this means: you've visited download sites like Fileplanet which charge extra for fast downloads, right? If you pay you get immediate access and fast download; if you don't you get to wait and download slowly. If net neutrality is removed THE ENTIRE NET will be that way. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -6/+13No, that is inaccurate. He's voted against ALL stem cell research, including privately funded.
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