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Person, I asked you:
He promises change, he promises new ideas, but where are they? Where are his new, innovative ideas that will bring about this much-advertised change? Is the change just that he is promising change? That's the oldest line in the book.
And you answered, what exactly?
Obama said that inner city unemployment predates the current immigration problem, and the real problems behind it need to be adressed.
Now their policies on illegal immigration are the same, save that Obama supports illegal aliens getting drivers licenses.
Plus, she managed to raise what in any other campaign season would have been a record amount (The amount is second only to Obama) and run into funding problems. By Super Tuesday.
I don't want somebody that bad with managing finances managing the finances of America.
Um, I don't see any new hopeful ideas there, at all.
@Czarina, I asked you
So you think, for example, his healthcare plan is more progressive than Hillary's?
No answer, because you know that the answer is that Hillary's plan is the more progressive one.
I asked you:
Which of his ideas do you think is so progressive?
Which of his ideas is so new and/or hopeful?
The CBS article is long on speechifying, but where are the ideas? Obama is a dove, Clinton is a hawk, even though Obama said he would bomb Paksitan. Um, ok. Obama will bring in new voters. Fair enough. Obama wants to vanquish lobbyists -- lol. Sorry, that's my only reaction. Where are the goddamn ideas?!
@ Persia: It was actually 22% according to the last AP poll; AP/Washington Post has it at 33% last month. (Link at my name.) Which is, you know, a tremendously shitty number and right in the toilet next to Bush's. Which should send a signal that the 'old way' of doing things-- governing with 50% + 1-- doesn't cut it any more, but here you are arguing on behalf of Hillary Clinton, who wasn't present for any FISA votes and seems to think the 50% + 1 strategy is brilliant for both the primaries and the general.
Doesn't cut it anymore? When did it cut it? When was a time when this didn't exist? And, um, what do you think Barack Obama is going to do to change this system? Are we going to give him new powers to appoint congresspeople? is he going to force people to vote in supermajorities into the legislature?
