Comments on: The Not So Secret Service

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:15:17 +0000

When one of us does something “bonehead” around our house, the expression, “What were you thinking?”, sometimes comes up. I didn't want to experience that after voting for the most important office in our country. I tried to read and watch a lot of stuff, including a Frontline documentary. In watching that, I became disillusioned with both Senator McCain based on the particulars of his divorce and then-Senator Obama based on the Democratic party grooming him to only vote “present”, to stay off the radar.
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I don't understand why one has to be “far-right” to think Presidential candidates should and typically do share educational, health, and birth records. Maybe that's a high bar compared to applying for Dairy Queen, but I think essential given the power of the office- particularly for those in the armed forces. I also think it's telling when one candidate choses not to comply. Much like when kids are rattling-off what they did at camp this week, but your child only has monosyllables. Hmmm.
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I don't think college records and writings are lone determinant of a voting decision, any more than embracing religion or personal conduct within the oval office itself. But, given the dramatic increase in debt and deficit, reprioritization of bankruptcy, and the continuation of government expansion well past anything Constitutional, I'm no less curious about our President's past and credentials.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:15:17 +0000

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:11:52 +0000

Melyssa - this link's for you. I think you'll appreciate it:
http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

By: Think Again

Think Again — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:16:58 +0000

OKm Taxpayer, this really intrigues me: what in the world do you need ot see about Obama's college records? I'm not sure transcripts are any of your business or mine. He clearly went to college and graduated, passed the bar and taught.

I don't need to see George W. Bush's transcripts to know he was a C student. He had the attention span of a gnat and the economics background of a few monopoly games, at best, but he got tow Ivy League degrees. Go figure. C Students everywhere rejoice, but pardon me if I insist on a higher academic standard. And just a smidge of intellectual curiosity. If for no other reason than to be able to juggle more than one large problem at a time.

Health records? With just a few limitations, those are important.

But this deeply-suspicious far-right-wig obsession with the birth certificate completely escapes me. Hannity's theory has been thoroughly discounted. I wish I understood it. It borders on the absurd.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:06:31 +0000

Until our President's sailed ship stops spending like they recovered Blackbeard's booty instead of our hard-earned tax dollars, I too am waiting on a box to be opened in Hawaii…and college records…and health records…the campaign expectations of “responsibility”, “self-reliance”, and “accountability” from ALL Americans….

You don't have to be a right-wing terrorist find the spending utter madness.

By: pascal

pascal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Thanks for the link. “Congress” is on to the problem? Whew! Sleep easier at night. According to the article I'm wondering how the Plainfield guy came under scrutiny? Plainfield isn't “foreign”. Or, is the excuse found in tolerable error? Anyone reminded of Big Brother?

By: Think Again

Think Again — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:23:19 +0000

Shore, sorry for the delay. I read the article you posted, and some others. I have a close relative working at NSA for three decades, so I asked about this issue.

It seems the NSA routinely is able to "sweep" certain e-ail content, such as: emails to or from suspected trouble-makers, e-mail with certain key words that arouse suspicion, etc.

I have long been concerned about NSA's over-reaching capabilities, but our last president elevated it to an art form. Ask Cheney. And when AT&T, et al got pulled into the fray, Congress gave them a lawsuit exemption.

Now, I want to prevent terrorist action as much as the next guy. That delicate balance between needed information and civil rights, was shattered to hell by the last administration. These kinds of pendulums tend to end in the middle, over time, which is where they belong. But you said "most of our emails." Not even close. I said Pt Robertson because I make it a point to watch him once a week and a few weeks ago, he mentioned this exact situation. And he, too, pushed the limits and said "most of" or "nearly all."

Melyssa my dear--the birth certificate thing has gone away, except in the Hannity World, because it was never "a thing."

That ship has sailed.

By: Concerned Taxpayer

Concerned Taxpayer — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:55:47 +0000

Is “Puzzled” for real? Does that person live on THIS planet? Where were they for the last eight years while the entire democrat party machine (which includes ALL major media outlets) helped to destroy a President and his party?

By: melyssa

melyssa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:48:22 +0000

Obama is not going to get impeached. Although that birth certificate story won't go away.

Shorebreak…I adore you!

By: Shorebreak

Shorebreak — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:21:08 +0000

Pat Robertson? Sorry bro, I don't listen to hypocritical propagandists.

Now I have a question for YOU. After all this time, have I ever – even one time – not responded to your skeptical inquiries with a full and complete answer and explanation?

Here's the story on government software used to snoop our emails:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20090619/NEWS/...

Why don't you just give up the goofy comments when I post something that conflicts with your perception of reality? Do you honestly think that I don't have a solid, rational, and spportable basis for my posts? Here's a newsflash: The world is a lot bigger than TA. Just because I constantly come up with something that YOUR perception hasn't absorbed as reality doesn't make it false. This is case in point.