It's time for changes..... lots of them.
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 15:58
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Originally posted by rue:
If I were Obama, the first three things I would do to fix the country are:
1) repair the registration and election system so that everyone who is eligible is registered, everyone who shows up to vote is able to cast a ballot, and every vote is counted - and I'd make election day a national holiday.
He can't. No President can. It's a state issue, on how each decides to vote for President. If Idaho made a law saying only lawyers could vote for President, then that's how they'd chose, and ain't a damn thing Washington D.C. could do about it.
Quote:Bush was actually against this, at first, but then yielded to expanding Gov't anyways. As long as the various agencies could share info , and we don't build up the Gorelick wall of seperation which stood during the Clinton years, I see no real reason for Patriot Act any longer. If done properly, I'd be for this
2) lead the repeal of the USPATRIOT Act, make signing statements illegal, and repair necessary checks and balances
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3) re-institute the Fairness Doctrine and re-regulate corporate media.
Nothing fair about the Fairness Doctrine. This out dated piece of legislation was born of a 40's era mentality, when there were far fewer stations and signals. The doctrine, nevertheless, disturbed many journalists, who considered it a violation of First Amendment rights of free speech/free press which should allow reporters to make their own decisions about balancing stories. Fairness, in this view, should not be forced by the FCC. In order to avoid the requirement to go out and find contrasting viewpoints on every issue raised in a story, some journalists simply avoided any coverage of some controversial issues. This "chilling effect" was just the opposite of what the FCC intended.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.ht
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Now, with the wide array of t.v channels, and the internet, there's little credence to the claims that critics in the political arena can't be answered. There's also the concept of Free Speech, where anyone and everyone is welcome to have their own show, provided it has an audience.
The Fairness Doctrine is a horrific idea, and whose time has thankfully long gone.
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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"If Idaho made a law saying only lawyers could vote for President, then that's how they'd chose, and ain't a damn thing Washington D.C. could do about it."
Not true - the 24th amendment which repealed the poll tax, and subsequent Supreme Court rulings have established broad Federal authority to enforce equal voting rights.
"Now, with the wide array of t.v channels, and the internet ..."
All owned by a total of eight corporations - in essence, a severely limited spectrum.
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I'm sorry Rue, but there is NO Constitutal right for anyone to vote for Presdient. All the 24th Amendment does is state that , if you DO allow citizens to vote, there can't be any discrimination, or poll tax. There's absolutely no law which requires the citizens be allowed to vote for the office of the President.
None.
It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Add to that, go through the alphabet boys with a chainsaw, eliminate all that blackbag shit, needless redundancy, lack of accountability and secret black budgets.
Streamline it to a single agency under the auspice of the former NSA and remove ALL authority to act on their own in any capacity, making it a serious criminal offense to do so.
In short, make them an Observation post, which was what they were always intended to be, not a bunch of thugs.
And have them report directly to the joint chiefs of staff and a board of civilian advisers with appropriate backgrounds appointed by congress to review their reccommendations and suggest what course of action to take.
No more of this terrorist action against americans to keep the fear button pressed so they can keep their authority and budgets, hell no - and anyone they CAN catch on that, life imprisonment, without parole.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm sorry Rue, but there is NO Constitutal right for anyone to vote for Presdient.
15th
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
19th
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
24th
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
26th
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Reading this, you'd think that somehow a small band of 'the liberals' foisted off a president on an unwitting conservative country, and not that the president was overwhelmingly elected by large numbers of citizens.
Townhall seems to have a very strange vision of democracy.
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The lowering of expectations has already begun.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
1. Give GWB a fair and balanced trial for his war crimes and his pissing on the Constitution and American freedoms.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) pretty much quashed this idea on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU public radio in D.C. earlier today. Apparently the Dem's line is gonna be reconciliation, not revenge.
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3. End the endless war on terror that serves no other purposes than to piss everyone else in the world off and dump 12 billion dollars a month in that shit hole when they have plenty of oil money to fight their own battles.
On local news/talk station WTOP, a senior Obama national security advisor said the first natl. security concerns for the Obama administration would be radical Islamic jihadists and uncontrolled nuclear material, either available to terrorists or to Iran. Obama has said during his campaign he'd chase and kill terrorists wherever they were.
Listening to the call-ins on the local NPR radio shows this morning, I get the feeling that a lot of folks imbued Sen. Obama with their own desires and didn't really pay much attention to his actual platform. Folks are now expecting things to happen that he has never supported or promised.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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Originally posted by rue:
Reading this, you'd think that somehow a small band of 'the liberals' foisted off a president on an unwitting conservative country, and not that the president was overwhelmingly elected by large numbers of citizens.
52% to 46% is "overwhelmingly elected"?
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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52% to 46% is "overwhelmingly elected"?
349 electoral votes to 173 seems a bit "overwhelming", though - and as you guys are always pointing out, the popular vote don't amount to a hill o' beans...
Mike
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Originally posted by rue:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I'm sorry Rue, but there is NO Constitutal right for anyone to vote for Presdient.
15th
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
19th
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
24th
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
26th
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Silence is consent.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
It's not just that he's wrong so often, it's that he's so often SPECTACULARLY wrong, and then remains steadfast in his resolve that he's absolutely right, and we're all just too stupid to "get it".
This is right up there with the 95% of "them" who pay no taxes whatsoever.
Hey, I've got an idea: Why don't we take those 95% of them who pay no taxes, and do away with their right to vote? Y'know, since there IS no "right" to vote anyway...
Mike
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