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Liberal rookies

Oct 08

8:04 AM

Is there a Republican in the presidential race? At several times during the vice presidential debate, Sarah Palin sounded more like a Democrat than a Republican. When she started off by talking about how we need more government regulation and oversight of Wall Street, it might as well have been Ted Kennedy standing at that podium.She agreed with the Obama/Biden position on gay marriage, that gay couples should have the same rights and privileges as a married couple, but the word 'marriage' is reserved for a union between a man and a woman.

The fact is, John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just running away from President Bush as far and as fast as they can, they're also running away from their own party.

All candidates move toward the center in a national election, but these two are over-shooting the center on many issues and landing on the left. Like it or not, McCain and Palin are Republicans, and as such they bear a big part of the blame for all of the enormous problems this country is facing right now. I'm glad to see Republican candidates adopting more progressive positions on many issues. But if we all agree that we need to move the country in a more progressive direction, why not entrust that to the party with a history of being progressive instead of a couple of upstart 'liberal' rookies.

James L. Hosay

Chesapeake

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truth about this finicial mess

Submitted by johnbo on Wed, 10/08/2008 at 7:33 am.

The Democrats, under Clinton, strengthened a government-created monster called the "Community Reinvestment Act." This law was then used by "activists" and "community organizers" (like Obama?) to coerce lending institutions to make these bad loans ... millions of them. Now we see what happens when political "wisdom" supplants good loan underwriting. When private financial institutions are virtually forced to make loans to people with a bad credit and job history .. this is what you getJust remember that an arcticle in the New York Times, April 1997. This, was 11 years ago. "The chairman of the House Banking Committee called today for an investigation into the investment practices of Freddie Mac, the Congressional-chartered, shareholder-owned mortgage finance company, saying it had abused the preferential borrowing terms it enjoys through its ties to the Government. Representative Jim Leach, Republican of Iowa, said Freddie Mac -- short for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. So you add this to Franklin Raines' 100 million and Jim Johnson, what he ever got out of it, and Jamie Gorelick's part of the group that got $75 million out of Fannie Mae, and you see precisely what

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Article for the VP

Submitted by marym63204 on Wed, 10/08/2008 at 6:43 am.

Yes, just how *did* ACORN in Chicago profit from the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle??? I would like to read those articles, if someone would be kind enough to provide a link. Wish our local paper would take the topic on (and Alaska secession and anything else that they could research and either confirm or put to bed . . .). Cheers, MGM

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Ted Kennedy

Submitted by norfolkinboston on Tue, 10/07/2008 at 3:51 pm.

Sir, I've met Ted Kennedy. I've heard him speak. Ted Kennedy has done some great things for this country. Sir, Sarah Palin is NO Ted Kennedy!

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"that gay couples should

Submitted by Ira Tateu on Tue, 10/07/2008 at 12:30 pm.

"that gay couples should have the same rights and privileges as a married couple, but the word 'marriage' is reserved for a union between a man and a woman."

I agree w/ that. Marriage is a religious institution. The goverment should have no involvement. Civil unions will be the norm in the near future.

It is easy to point fingers. What seems to be harder is for Obama to look inward for fault. You kow he is sweating some very real facts about his connections to the FM's and his voting record. Take a look.

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Progressive = liberal

Submitted by steveh3 on Tue, 10/07/2008 at 9:26 am.

Moving the country towards a liberal agenda is what has caused this financial mess to begin with. Mandated liberal lending rules gave money to people who couldn't afford loans. Obama and the liberal media have done an excellent job of placing blame on republicans and taking zero responsibility for the mess despite ample evidence to the contrary.

Make no mistake; republicans share the blame for the condition of this country because they strayed from a core conservative principle of fiscal responsibility among other things.

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