We live in a day and age where fact-checking is easy and accessible.
Most Iraqis want American troops out of their country:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601721.html
Most people in the world are losing confidence in Bush, less favorable view of Americans, and falling support for the US-led war in Iraq:
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?PageID=825
(Notice how there is more confidence in Putin than Bush)
Most insurgents in Iraq are Iraqi:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0923/dailyUpdate.html
I just don’t understand how anyone can still support this man, or this war. Some Republican individuals cheerlead both like this is some sort of game. Anything to smear the other team, while either defending or deflecting criticism on one of the worst American presidents in modern history. You know I’ve heard people claim that liberals were the cause of all American problems… that is borderline insanity. And so is blaming everything on Bush, which some people on the left tend to do. He certainly was a BAD president, and I want to avoid a continuance of his failed policies through John McCain.
Someone mentioned ‘trust the people.’ Obama received donations from 273709 individuals:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_ind/P80003338
While McCain got donations from 117800:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_ind/P80002801
Obama has more disclosure on his finance reports than McCain:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00006424&cycle=2008
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cid=N00009638&cycle=2008
My point is simple. Don’t be a cheerleader. Don’t turn this into team politics. Think for yourself. We have to eventually work together to fix America’s problems. Some people, sadly, outright refuse to EVER work with ‘players on the other team’ and that’s detrimental to all of our efforts and is just pathetic.
P Pine
My point on our healthcare system was that we certainly do not have the best healthcare in the world. You may be right in arguing that we should be ranked higher than 37. But we certainly aren’t even near the top. Our current healthcare system is in definite need of improvement or repair.
