Joe Biden sums it up perfectly:
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If anything Rudy shows why conservatives fail at a local level. The city was unprepared any kind of dissater much the same way that under Bush the US was unprepared for a natural disssater when Katrina struck.
It will be interesting to see who the Republicans nominate, the true social conservatives in the field have been known to raise taxes and the rest of them are just plain crazy
Shouldn’t the comparison be Rudy vs. Nagin? I didn’t get jumping past Blanco::Pataki and contrasting Rudy with Dubya.
Hillary and Rudy are the dirtiest candidates. But not the worst. Still, I wish we had someone better.
I hate both Hillary and Rudy as candidates. Both of them scare the hell out of me. I’d vote for a 3rd party if Hillary was nominated.
The Presidency is turning into a birth/marriage-right, and that sucks.
Rudy though…what I’ve read about how he performed on 9/11 within the past year, really woke me up to how phony this guy actually is. I called it ‘Celebrating Murder’ in 2004, and an editor I’d been working with was turned off. That’s exactly what it was, what it still is today.
Biden was pretty stupid on shutting all chinese imports down. His head seems to be stuck in some sand, wanting to ignore Econ 101 basics. That’s one of the problems with government, as we can see from price controls (whether soviet or nixonian/carteresque).
I’m thinking about it, but I can’t recall what specifically where Nixon & Carter’s economic policies regarding price controls.
My feeling right now is we’re not doing the world a favor by continuing to control the price of sugar.
Did Biden actually say he’d shut down all Chinese imports? (note – I swore off watching these so-called debates long ago, so if he said it the other night and I didn’t catch a clip of it…) I noticed that this year there was a hearing on chinese imports, with several businesses represented. The one that stuck out for me was a furniture manufacturer who cited subsidies paid by the Chinese gov’t to its companies for hitting a certain quota for overall revenue coming from exports, and how that is unfair. The Commerce Dept. finally was told to get on top of it, by filing a complaint with the WTO, and as far as I know, the subsidies have ended.
My point being, there are avenues available to protest about an unlevel playing field. Maybe Biden was saying it for the sake of having an issue that was all his, but I agree with you if he came out saying that we should cut off our trade with China. That would be stupid and immoral.
Whoa, Al! You’d vote for a third-party candidate over Hillary? I’ve got to hand it to you for that! I agree that we’ve had more than enough of the Bushes and Clintons. It’s like we have our own royal dynasty now.
I don’t find Hillary to be a competent leader, nor is she a principle-driven voter in the Senate. She’s a popular politician who would never have ascended to the level she is at today were it not for the fact that she’s Bill Clinton’s wife.
Her vote on the Lieberman/Kyl amendment ruined any chance that I’d ever be enthusiastic about her candidacy.
I agree with that. George W. Bush never would have been elected had his dad not been President, either.
Very true – – – Perhaps the job is too important, too difficult to simply relegate to a series of legacies.
In most cases the one who follows won’t be as good as the one who came before them. The more I read about Bush Sr. in the context of foreign policy and constitutional law, the more I end up respecting him. I prefer Bush Sr. to his son and Reagan. For one thing he had control over his minions, meaning…he was smart enough to know what they ‘could’ be up to, and he had enough of a love for this country to bother ensuring that they didn’t break anything too important.