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 Post subject: Needed: Objective election info
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:38 pm 
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Can someone provide me a with a link to an informed, objective, unbiased article that provides commentary on what each candidate's plans will ACTUALLY do?

Obama claims that taxes will only go up if your business makes $250k a year. But then I heard on the radio that people in the $40-$80k range will have an increase in taxes. So which is it????

Any candidate can say anything they want. They have their spinsters on constant alert so they can twist the other candidate's words. The "facts" they use in their debates often turn out to be untrue or misquoted. Rarely are they held accountable for not following through on promises.

So...again...can anyone please point me toward a fair explanation of what each guy truly plans to do, and the likely ramifications of their policies?

Will McCain's energy plan REALLY ween us off foreign oil dependence?

Will Obama's tax plan REALLY affect only the wealthiest X% of people?

Much appreciated.

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:27 pm 
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try here or there



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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.c ... d=12321683

As usual, the clearest and most intelligent analysis of the issues.

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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Gracias.

Anything else out there worth looking at?

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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You should probably just throw darts at a list of names tacked to a wood-paneled wall.


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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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Lysander wrote:
You should probably just throw darts at a list of names tacked to a wood-paneled wall.

that can also be a neat father-and-son activity this weekend!

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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voter.org?

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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voter.org?


This is much too logical an answer

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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Bammer wrote:
Gracias.

Anything else out there worth looking at?



Did you really read all 20 pages of that? Hmmm??

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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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shades-go-down wrote:
Bammer wrote:
Gracias.

Anything else out there worth looking at?



Did you really read all 20 pages of that? Hmmm??


That would have required the closing of several pornographic-based windows full of the usual adult fare including glory holes and cock-and-ball torture, and opening up what this individual could only construe was "boring economic and politic-y stuff".

In other words, he is looking for "objective election info", man. Like, OBJECTIVE and stuff.


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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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Lysander wrote:
shades-go-down wrote:
Bammer wrote:
Gracias.

Anything else out there worth looking at?



Did you really read all 20 pages of that? Hmmm??


That would have required the closing of several pornographic-based windows full of the usual adult fare including glory holes and cock-and-ball torture, and opening up what this individual could only construe was "boring economic and politic-y stuff".

In other words, he is looking for "objective election info", man. Like, OBJECTIVE and stuff.



Heh.

But seriously though. They're British, lean towards the politics of individual freedom and free market economics, and I sense that they're about to endorse Obama - not a natural choice for them. No such thing as totally objective, but I'd say they're about as objective as it gets.

That PDF at the bottom of the page is well worth downloading. It's pretty incisive in cutting through the spin and doesn't hesitate to make the claim that neither candidate is going to be able to deliver on most of their election promises.

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If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.


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 Post subject: Re: Needed: Objective election info
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voter.org?


This is much too logical an answer


Here's another one: http://www.issues2000.org/

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