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Re: Presidential Importance
by Thevail

"fake coches and most important fake deans that allow this to happen aned also fake lottery money that the surgeont never gets but is flnked out even though they make a b and c grades. that happened to me i shouldn know"

Um..IF you went to college..I can certainly see why they "flnked" you.

GET A DICTIONARY, please.

Now, back on topic.

The next presidency..will not be a glorious prize joyously won.

It will be the political equivalent of a flaming bag of dog-poop on your front step.

We're in two wars, a major recession, a housing crisis, and we're in the middle of a series of natural disasters almost as bad as the "dust bowl" era.

Congress is the most bitterly divided, hyper-partisan mess it's been in over 50 years.

Oh, and don't forget to add to that a budget deficit and a trade deficit so unimaginably huge that it will take literally DECADES to fix either.

And never mind our "standing and respect" in the global community, there isn't much of it left intact after the last 8 years.

I really don't think ANY president, not even Thomas Jefferson himself, could fix this in a single term, and I'm not sure it's possible even in two.

But I do know that the LAST thing we need John McCain as president.

His plan is another war with Iran, and to keep paying Blackwater and KB and R (aka Halliburton) ridiculous amounts of money for very little service while we grossly underpay and neglect our own troops and bankrupt America, nor can we afford 4 more years of "de-regulating" crucial industries like health insurance.

Remember that they "de-regulated" power companies (Enron comes to mind)

Then they "de-regulated" the lending industry..(sub-prime mortgage crisis, anyone)

They also "de-regulated" the credit industry, (and we all know how well that's working out don't we.)

The challenges that America and Americans face right now won't be quickly solved by anyone. But they can easily be quickly made a hell of a lot worse, by not at least beginning to address them immediately.

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