1. Pres. Bush has a lower approval rating than when Nixon resigned.
2. Economy is in the dumper (Remember Clinton and “Its the Economy Stupid”).
3. 8-years of Republican rule with nothing to show except the largest government deficit in history.

Add these things together and history will tell you that the office of the President switches parties 9 times out of 10.

All the above said, McCain is a good man (I voted for him in the 2000 primary) but his biggest problem is that his campaign has been run very, very poorly. I am sure that this will be how history judges this election.

McCain’s campain has been all over the place taking large gambles that have been failures at almost every step. Of course, the campaign’s biggest failure was to bring on an inexperienced, poltical hack as Vice President. Maybe a good choice for fundraising and exciting the bottom rung of the base, but any conservative with half-a-brain can’t look you in the eye and truthfully tell you that she is qualified to be President.

She is an anchor to this campaign and there is no one to blame but the poor decisions that McCain’s handlers have made to try to get this election heading in their direction. McCain should have dumped her and when he had the chance. Soon as she went off script, so did his campaign.

Outside of a major external factor, this election will probably be called before the polls close in California.

McCain’s time was in 2000. This world would have been a better place if he was the Republican candidate then. Of course, as the London newspaper “The Mirror” said so well after Bush’s re-election in ‘04 “how can so many people be so stupid.”

I don’t know, but it is good to see a vast majority of the population starting to get their heads straight again.

As I pointed out before, there is no such thing as “a collective” at all, there are only the individuals who make up that collective.

The individual is the one “Indivisible” unit, the individual is the only real standard of law, including of course and most definitely property law. To subject an individual to this nebulous “collective” , to subordinate the individual to the “we,” , that is socialism in a nutshell. It is to subordinate the individual to the masses. Which is precisely what the Untitled States Constitution meant to avoid. That is why we do not live in a democracy but instead a Constitutional republic where the absolute right to life, liberty, and property are guaranteed by the constitution, but not in the case of democracies, subject to vote or subject to the whims of the majority, but absolute.

In fact, our Constitutional framers and the enlightened thinkers who most influenced these men were opposed to democracy precisely because “democracy subordinates the individual to the majority.
Our original settlers managed to starve to death all whithin a year of their arrival due to nothing other than the lack of individual rights to property ownership.

Thats as literal as I get today, it was a lot of work for me as I tend to cut to the chase more often than not.
Happy snacking, you lost me at Gilligans Island.

even on gilligan’s island they took for granted that survival, let alone our lifestyles, depended not only a skipper and the professor, but many hunters and gatherers. (you can add consumers.)

you tempt providence by assuming the grocery bagger has no other choice. there is a great, and dubious, instinct that is called survival. laissez fair historically has lead to greed and social unrest. it also explains licentious crime.

let me tell you something: you don’t want the disappearing middle class, as a fatality of being priced out of the economy, to resort to real fear. your little payments* also help them to buy into americana.

i put at least $250 into my 7-year old daughter’s “snack shack” this summer, not including, fancy this, my labor. she may make a go of it, at this or graduate into some other thing, and turn out quite nicely too. (i’m assuming you’re strenuously trying so to tell us just that, but we clearly have different measuring tools.) fortunate crumb snatchers — the pair of you.

*with a competent tax accountant you are paying no more than at the 20%, daddy.

There is no collective/community without the individual.

Period.

Yea, so someone else bagged my groceries for me today.
I guess I’m a socialist.

I guess I should give a part of my earnings to the man who designed all 250 dollar bills it took to start my business.