Robo
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I'm fairly sure that if McCain had won over Pres. Obama - the Lily Ledbetter act wouldn't have been signed; we'd still have DADT and the govt would be defending DOMA;
Hooray for Lilly Ledbetter! I’m sure her issue was of major importance to a nation 16 trillion $ in debt, a 20% real unemployment rate and American youth being killed, maimed and mentally destroyed in 2 unconstitutional wars that both Democrats and Republicans supported.
Clinton signed DADT into law a difference between a Democrat and another Democrat. Oh! That’s right Clinton was a Democrat when he and the Republican Congress balanced a budget but now he’s a Republican because he signed DADT, huh? Just goes to show there’s no real difference, huh?
If you recall I already submitted that Democrats loving homosexuals and Republicans hating homosexuals was one of so very few real differences between the duopoly parties. So much for DOMA.
we wouldn't have pulled out of Iraq when we did and we'd be long-term in Afghanistan.
Actually you don’t have a clue when we would have left Iraq. Your proposition is pure conjecture.
As a matter of fact we are and have been in Afghanistan [n]”long term.”[/b] Obama and the Democrats had ample opportunity to end both wars in the first 2 years of Obama’s first term when Democrats controlled the Presidency and both houses of the Congress. Seems I remember a ‘surge” in Afghanistan troop numbers under this President, correct me if I’m wrong.
Libya would have been handled differently, with us leading instead of France. We'd have invaded Syria by now. Abortion might be more restricted at the federal level (hard to tell here - repubs at the federal level talk a tough game but don't really do anything about it, unlike at the state level). Not sure if we'd have school vouchers or not. I'm not sure the Washington and Colorado laws re legalizing pot would have been proposed, much less passed, since there would have been no loosening of the anti-drug rhetoric. (Yes, the fed'l govt still sends in the troops against drugs, but there were a few minutes there where they soft-pedaled it). We wouldn't have the Dream Act changes that Pres. Obama made.
All conjecture! The fact is Democrats or Republicans, we’d still have a 17 trillion $ national debt and climbing, wars and rumors of more wars, American foreign policy meddling in political and military matters of other nations, The American World Police Force, A Military budget larger than all of the other nations in the world put together, an endless stupid failed expensive Drug War and BIG intrusive government growing by leaps and bounds.
In terms of the recession - I think McCain would have made it worse by not even doing the stimulus that Pres. Obama did (which wasn't enough, but was all he felt he could get). While the bank controls that the Dems are trying to get into place are running into a lot of weakening in the rules committee, I don't think we would have even the weak ones with Repubs in charge.
The stimulus and bank bailouts were agreed policy by both the Republican and Democrat cartels. Just more evidence that they think alike and act alike. They only have different faces so we can tell em apart.
BTW, there’s no authority in the Constitution for the federal government to stimulate or bailout anybody or anything. All of that horseshit was and is unconstitutional and there’s no credible evidence that it ended anything and a damn good argument that without federal government intervention we’d be in better shape economically today than we are and wouldn’t still have banks too BIG to fail.
So yes, there are a lot of things the parties overlap on; that's because the American people overlap AND because businesses are funding both sides.
But it makes a difference whether a Dem or a Repub is in office.
Apart from loving and or hating homosexuals, I don’t see where you’ve provided any real differences about anything of any real importance to the nation.
American people don’t overlap politically. The vast majority don’t have a fucking clue politically. They don’t even know who the Vise President is, who their representatives are or what their Constitutional rights are. Most only know Dancing With The Stars, Judge Judy, American Idol and how to make a great burger at an NFL tailgate party. When it comes to voting the only difference they know about the candidates is what the “D” & the “R” stand for, who their grandfather voted for, or who is promising them a feeding binge at the government trough.
We’re a nation of political morons and idiots, political drones and pure political assholes. We’ve become a nation Of The Bribery, By The Bribery & For The Bribed.