Hello!
The comments on this profile are unclaimed and thus are unverified.
Do they belong to you? Claim these comments.
danehrig
Is this you? Claim Profile »
9 ヶ月 ago
in The politics of mythology on The New Mexico Independent
http://www.barackobama.com/issues
Obama doesn't advocate free healthcare. He advocates allowing people to buy into the healthcare that government employees have. That healthcare has copays and deductibles just like private HMOs do.
Obama has never advocated free housing.
Obama has never advocated an extension free food beyond the food stamps program which has existed since the 1960's, which John McCain also supports.
Obama supports a path to citizenship, but not a free one. McCain's immigration plan is essentially identical to Obama's.
Obama does not support extending voting rights to non-citizens. He does not have a position on voter rights for criminals, because that has always been a state issue. Most states have always returned voting rights to convicts after their sentence is up. Obama does not support voting rights for currently incarcerated felons.
Obama does not support free abortions. He does however support the right to choose to have one, just like 70% of the rest of the citizens of this country.
Obama does support incentives for and investments into renewable energy sources. John McCain also does. Obama does not support subsidies for oil producers. John McCain does.
Obama is campaigning on issues and policies. McCain is campaigning on blatant lies about Obama (many of which you are parroting here.) McCain has now shackled himself to Sarah Palin in hopes of reaping the benefits of her substanceless charisma.
Rev Wright is not an America-hater and the six second clip you've seen of him does not make him one. John McCain and Sarah Palin also associate with controversial religious figures and I don't hold them any more responsible for that than I do Obama.
I can only assume you're referring to William Ayers as Obama's "terrorist connection." Obama's only connection to Ayers is through a pair of boards of directors that both sat on at the University of Chicago. Obama has never advocated any of Ayers positions or methods.
I've refuted your dimwitted charges in detail but in reality you're the one making these wild claims about Obama and as such its your responsibility to provide some shred of proof that they're true. I'll give you a hint: There is none, because they're not. They're lies.
Obama doesn't advocate free healthcare. He advocates allowing people to buy into the healthcare that government employees have. That healthcare has copays and deductibles just like private HMOs do.
Obama has never advocated free housing.
Obama has never advocated an extension free food beyond the food stamps program which has existed since the 1960's, which John McCain also supports.
Obama supports a path to citizenship, but not a free one. McCain's immigration plan is essentially identical to Obama's.
Obama does not support extending voting rights to non-citizens. He does not have a position on voter rights for criminals, because that has always been a state issue. Most states have always returned voting rights to convicts after their sentence is up. Obama does not support voting rights for currently incarcerated felons.
Obama does not support free abortions. He does however support the right to choose to have one, just like 70% of the rest of the citizens of this country.
Obama does support incentives for and investments into renewable energy sources. John McCain also does. Obama does not support subsidies for oil producers. John McCain does.
Obama is campaigning on issues and policies. McCain is campaigning on blatant lies about Obama (many of which you are parroting here.) McCain has now shackled himself to Sarah Palin in hopes of reaping the benefits of her substanceless charisma.
Rev Wright is not an America-hater and the six second clip you've seen of him does not make him one. John McCain and Sarah Palin also associate with controversial religious figures and I don't hold them any more responsible for that than I do Obama.
I can only assume you're referring to William Ayers as Obama's "terrorist connection." Obama's only connection to Ayers is through a pair of boards of directors that both sat on at the University of Chicago. Obama has never advocated any of Ayers positions or methods.
I've refuted your dimwitted charges in detail but in reality you're the one making these wild claims about Obama and as such its your responsibility to provide some shred of proof that they're true. I'll give you a hint: There is none, because they're not. They're lies.
9 ヶ月 ago
in The politics of mythology on The New Mexico Independent
riteisrite:
Your entire post does nothing but reinforce Alpert's point. None of the claims you made are actually true (except that Obama favors free voter rights, which I'm pretty sure all Americans except you would also favor. Do you think they should be for sale?). Every single assertion in your whole post is false, so what does that say about you and your preferred party?
Your entire post does nothing but reinforce Alpert's point. None of the claims you made are actually true (except that Obama favors free voter rights, which I'm pretty sure all Americans except you would also favor. Do you think they should be for sale?). Every single assertion in your whole post is false, so what does that say about you and your preferred party?
10 ヶ月 ago
in Michelle Obama in ABQ, Santa Fe on Thursday on The New Mexico Independent
This doesn't really make any sense to me- Albuquerque has a gigantic Air Force base and as a result many, many military spouses, both active duty and retired. Santa Fe... not so much. I'm a military brat and I can tell you that the vast, vast majority of military families could never afford to live in Santa Fe unless they had inherited money. I doubt even most flag officers (Generals and Admirals) could afford to live there. Clovis or Alamogordo would have been much more appropriate.
I assume this was set up by the SF-centric Dem party leaders. It really is a shame, how many spouses of enlisted soldiers are going to travel all the way up to SF for this? Michelle will probably end up meeting mostly with relatively wealthy spouses of retired career officers and not really hear much about how the majority of soldiers and their families lives are.
I assume this was set up by the SF-centric Dem party leaders. It really is a shame, how many spouses of enlisted soldiers are going to travel all the way up to SF for this? Michelle will probably end up meeting mostly with relatively wealthy spouses of retired career officers and not really hear much about how the majority of soldiers and their families lives are.
10 ヶ月 ago
in Michelle Obama in ABQ, Santa Fe on Thursday on The New Mexico Independent
This doesn't really make any sense to me- Albuquerque has a gigantic Air Force base and as a result many, many military spouses, both active duty and retired. Santa Fe... not so much. I'm a military brat and I can tell you that the vast, vast majority of military families could never afford to live in Santa Fe unless they had inherited money. I doubt even most flag officers (Generals and Admirals) could afford to live there. Clovis or Alamogordo would have been much more appropriate.
I assume this was set up by the SF-centric Dem party leaders. It really is a shame, how many spouses of enlisted soldiers are going to travel all the way up to SF for this? Michelle will probably end up meeting mostly with relatively wealthy spouses of retired career officers and not really hear much about how the majority of soldiers and their families lives are.
I assume this was set up by the SF-centric Dem party leaders. It really is a shame, how many spouses of enlisted soldiers are going to travel all the way up to SF for this? Michelle will probably end up meeting mostly with relatively wealthy spouses of retired career officers and not really hear much about how the majority of soldiers and their families lives are.
11 ヶ月 ago
in Obama is rock star material, not presidential timber on The New Mexico Independent
Wow, the comment posting removes all the formatting and turns whatever you wrote into an unreadable wall of text with no line breaks. Someone should fix that.
11 ヶ月 ago
in Obama is rock star material, not presidential timber on The New Mexico Independent
Wow, the comment posting removes all the formatting and turns whatever you wrote into an unreadable wall of text with no line breaks. Someone should fix that.
11 ヶ月 ago
in Obama is rock star material, not presidential timber on The New Mexico Independent
Mr Foley,
I realize this is an opinion piece but don't you think that you should provide some backing for your assertions? You claim that Obama's Berlin speech attacked the United States and the US Presidency. I watched this speech twice, once the day it was given and now again looking for these attacks you mention, but I heard none. What attacks are you referring to? Do you consider it an attack on America to say that the US has made mistakes? I think that any rational person would conclude that the US (and every other country on the planet) have made many, many mistakes.
You repeat the common complaint that Obama is unspecific on his platform, but have you made any effort to discover it? Have you bothered actually listening to any of his many policy speeches or are you basing this entirely on 30 second campaign commercials? Senator Obama's website has hundreds of pages worth of policy specifics in easily readable formats. Here's a link:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
If Senator Obama is wrong on foreign policy issues, why are both the Bush administration and John McCain now embracing the proposals that Obama has been pushing since 2007? Both McCain and Bush have now come around to direct diplomacy with Iran rather than pointless saber-rattling (which has had the additional benefit of causing oil prices to drop.) McCain has now embraced withdrawing the bulk of our forces from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, as Obama has pushed for since 2006. If John McCain is the master of foreign policy, why is he now resorting to agreeing with the policy proposals of this rock star foreign policy amateur?
Finally, to address your last little bit about Obama traveling around the world while McCain was funding the troops... you realize that Obama went to all the same countries that McCain did during his big international trip which directly followed his clinching of the GOP primaries, right? You claim that McCain was funding the troops while Obama was "attacking America" (Again, you have no supporting evidence for this nonsense), why did he vote against the new GI Bill, which Obama voted for?
Frankly, I'm stunned, in our currently economic climate, that anyone who consider voting for someone who said that following:
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." -John McCain February, 2008
I realize this is an opinion piece but don't you think that you should provide some backing for your assertions? You claim that Obama's Berlin speech attacked the United States and the US Presidency. I watched this speech twice, once the day it was given and now again looking for these attacks you mention, but I heard none. What attacks are you referring to? Do you consider it an attack on America to say that the US has made mistakes? I think that any rational person would conclude that the US (and every other country on the planet) have made many, many mistakes.
You repeat the common complaint that Obama is unspecific on his platform, but have you made any effort to discover it? Have you bothered actually listening to any of his many policy speeches or are you basing this entirely on 30 second campaign commercials? Senator Obama's website has hundreds of pages worth of policy specifics in easily readable formats. Here's a link:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
If Senator Obama is wrong on foreign policy issues, why are both the Bush administration and John McCain now embracing the proposals that Obama has been pushing since 2007? Both McCain and Bush have now come around to direct diplomacy with Iran rather than pointless saber-rattling (which has had the additional benefit of causing oil prices to drop.) McCain has now embraced withdrawing the bulk of our forces from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, as Obama has pushed for since 2006. If John McCain is the master of foreign policy, why is he now resorting to agreeing with the policy proposals of this rock star foreign policy amateur?
Finally, to address your last little bit about Obama traveling around the world while McCain was funding the troops... you realize that Obama went to all the same countries that McCain did during his big international trip which directly followed his clinching of the GOP primaries, right? You claim that McCain was funding the troops while Obama was "attacking America" (Again, you have no supporting evidence for this nonsense), why did he vote against the new GI Bill, which Obama voted for?
Frankly, I'm stunned, in our currently economic climate, that anyone who consider voting for someone who said that following:
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." -John McCain February, 2008
11 ヶ月 ago
in Obama is rock star material, not presidential timber on The New Mexico Independent
Mr Foley,
I realize this is an opinion piece but don't you think that you should provide some backing for your assertions? You claim that Obama's Berlin speech attacked the United States and the US Presidency. I watched this speech twice, once the day it was given and now again looking for these attacks you mention, but I heard none. What attacks are you referring to? Do you consider it an attack on America to say that the US has made mistakes? I think that any rational person would conclude that the US (and every other country on the planet) have made many, many mistakes.
You repeat the common complaint that Obama is unspecific on his platform, but have you made any effort to discover it? Have you bothered actually listening to any of his many policy speeches or are you basing this entirely on 30 second campaign commercials? Senator Obama's website has hundreds of pages worth of policy specifics in easily readable formats. Here's a link:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
If Senator Obama is wrong on foreign policy issues, why are both the Bush administration and John McCain now embracing the proposals that Obama has been pushing since 2007? Both McCain and Bush have now come around to direct diplomacy with Iran rather than pointless saber-rattling (which has had the additional benefit of causing oil prices to drop.) McCain has now embraced withdrawing the bulk of our forces from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, as Obama has pushed for since 2006. If John McCain is the master of foreign policy, why is he now resorting to agreeing with the policy proposals of this rock star foreign policy amateur?
Finally, to address your last little bit about Obama traveling around the world while McCain was funding the troops... you realize that Obama went to all the same countries that McCain did during his big international trip which directly followed his clinching of the GOP primaries, right? You claim that McCain was funding the troops while Obama was "attacking America" (Again, you have no supporting evidence for this nonsense), why did he vote against the new GI Bill, which Obama voted for?
Frankly, I'm stunned, in our currently economic climate, that anyone who consider voting for someone who said that following:
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." -John McCain February, 2008
I realize this is an opinion piece but don't you think that you should provide some backing for your assertions? You claim that Obama's Berlin speech attacked the United States and the US Presidency. I watched this speech twice, once the day it was given and now again looking for these attacks you mention, but I heard none. What attacks are you referring to? Do you consider it an attack on America to say that the US has made mistakes? I think that any rational person would conclude that the US (and every other country on the planet) have made many, many mistakes.
You repeat the common complaint that Obama is unspecific on his platform, but have you made any effort to discover it? Have you bothered actually listening to any of his many policy speeches or are you basing this entirely on 30 second campaign commercials? Senator Obama's website has hundreds of pages worth of policy specifics in easily readable formats. Here's a link:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/
If Senator Obama is wrong on foreign policy issues, why are both the Bush administration and John McCain now embracing the proposals that Obama has been pushing since 2007? Both McCain and Bush have now come around to direct diplomacy with Iran rather than pointless saber-rattling (which has had the additional benefit of causing oil prices to drop.) McCain has now embraced withdrawing the bulk of our forces from Iraq and focusing on Afghanistan, as Obama has pushed for since 2006. If John McCain is the master of foreign policy, why is he now resorting to agreeing with the policy proposals of this rock star foreign policy amateur?
Finally, to address your last little bit about Obama traveling around the world while McCain was funding the troops... you realize that Obama went to all the same countries that McCain did during his big international trip which directly followed his clinching of the GOP primaries, right? You claim that McCain was funding the troops while Obama was "attacking America" (Again, you have no supporting evidence for this nonsense), why did he vote against the new GI Bill, which Obama voted for?
Frankly, I'm stunned, in our currently economic climate, that anyone who consider voting for someone who said that following:
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." -John McCain February, 2008
