Chet Nozick: Obama is the most business friendly president in my lifetime.
Adan Alipio: both complete free enterprise/ government control lets to no where good. so there needs to be a balance. and it is not that liberal hate corporations they just don't like what is happening. CEO pay has been raising rapidly while the workers wages have remained stagnant. now the argument on the right is "well they worked hard to get to where they are" this is true but what makes it wrong is allowing others to suffer. take walmart. majority of their workforce is subsidized by the government. meanwhile the owners are worth billions.. likewise there is nothing wrong with giving the CEO a bonus is a company is successful. . but people see them getting golden tickets while the same company lay off people....Show more
Marita Stadick: The same way any of it starts for them. As a talking point. That is all they have every offered. Just rhetoric.
Gus Leiby: I think they want! the government to control everything they do...If it wasn't for the big corporations there would be zero jobs...everything revolves around big business...
Angel Klym: I'm just going with what those 4 father dudes said about corporations and monied interests bro
Jene Licausi: The last times they were truly fiscally conservative was under Coolidge and Hoover, who cut both the government and taxes. That led to the Great Depression. After that, Republicans discovered that their base is full of idiots who lap of whatever crap the Republicans tell them.
Phil Kuarez: because cons only care about rich corporations, they don't give a fvck about ordinary Americans...liberals dont hate corporations, they just dont demonize poor people on welfare...
Charissa Bichsel: You have to separate the real from the farce. George Bush and Ronald Reagan are good examples of a farce. Clinton era's Congress were real. Clinton era had a *projected* surplus thanks to his repub! lican Congress.
Dexter Gold: because they do not underst! and life in the world out side of mom's basement. No I am thankful we took out Hussein
Erin Arron: Just being very careful. This Syria thing is tricky, He is conferring with the Congress on what approach to take. Every time America goes in to help one of these countries to free them from tyranny, it seems to backfire, and go in a different direction. So the President is being very careful to make sure weapons don't get into the wrong hands. Syria is a very slippery slope, and careful planning is necessary.
Thomas Riner: Some of them seem to think Homeless people are the only people providing jobs.
Mitchell Pickens: liberalism is about control not results or morality
Tyrone Disanti: Liberals do not hate corporations. They favor a free market with regulations. That may sound odd, but the truth is that liberals remember their American history and what we were like as a country when everything actually operated on "free trade". Workers had no safety ! in their jobs. They were paid so poorly that even working 60 or 80 hours a week, they couldn't house and feed their families. There were four men who owned the US economy at that time, and they prevented any competition from even getting a chance to get started. We do not live in the fantasy world in which this would not happen now. Men haven't changed. The plutocrats will still control everything for themselves if allowed to do it. Nowhere in the world operates on "free market", except for third world backwoods places like Somalia, etc. And that should tell you a lot about how well it works....Show more
Malissa Porth: yes it was a mistake. The mistake ended up being somewhat nice but think about this, over 100k civilians have died and 5k american soliders have died. Is that worth it? maybe... but!What about our image. We attacked them even though the UN didn't back us, and the iraqi people didn't even want us there. Look at the eairly polls about the US being ! there, no one wanted us there. They are okay with it now because they w! ant their life back to normal. So yes, i think it was wrong for American soldiers to die. They could have just as easily revolted or done terrorist attacks against their own country to overthrow the government, but they didn't. Lets face it, we messed up the lives of millions of people, forced them to change their life just so we can be closer to Russia for when we attack them. (russia comes after the next 4 countries that surround it).If you want to try to imagine what it is like to go through what they did, imagine someone like the government comes into your city and says, "right, you all have to move and change jobs. Everyone on the westcoast needs to go to the east and everyone on the east to the west". I know that sound silly but that is the only way to think about how hard it is on a country to change governments....Show more
Faustino Mellerson: It was started by Democrats trying to draw attention away from their own fiscal irresponsibility. Neither party is wit! hout fault, we all know that. Next!!
Lourie Mcroberts: I can't explain it because it's total stupidity, Theresa Heinz, John Kerry's wife is the heiress for the Heinz ketchup company. Oprah is her own corporation. You have liberals that hate corporations because they "keep the little man down," yet support bills that tax small business men to the point of bankruptcy, bring in illegal immigrants that take away jobs from the citizens they wanted to protect's jobs in the first place, then continue hating corporations even though the same occupy wall street morons all are protesting with an ipod in their purses....Show more
Abel Adger: As a war in pursuit of financial gain for the US, it is wrong. If we were fighting on the behalf of the Kurds, I might still be behind it.
Melvina Bieri: Syria is a no-win situation.
Reyes Brunell: The libs forget they voted to go to war looking at the same intelligence info the president did. Now that we are there we n! eed to finish. US troops should be put around the perimeter of Iraq an! d not let anyone in or out. Then let the Iraqis fight it out themselves.
Pattie Vold: I once had an English professor say that when it comes to writing "...good fiction, the truth is the skeleton on which the meat of the story is hung." If you look at mythology, throughout history, you will find it is based on truth. As for believing truth over lies, lies are always more easily and readily accepted as truth.
Inez Relihan: Personally I think they should have nuked the whole area and be done with them for good. But that would not be nice.Any group of people who think and are taught that either I have to convert to their way of thinking or die have no place in this world and should be removed for the good of all.You asked my opinion so now you have it.Do I think we made a mistake? NO we are just taking much to long....Show more
Cierra Gadbaw: Very simple. Because it was. Again with the denial, deflection and distortion. As hard as many practice these 3 Ds.! It changes nothing. I bet there are more than liberals saying it was a mistake.
Mandy Mustaro: Pat Buchanan is hardly a liberal, yet his position is that Bush's war in Iraq was a mistake. Even William F. Buckley conceded such before he passed away. Dr. Ron Paul is hardly a liberal either, yet he has been one of the most vocal critics of the war in the House.So it isn't just "libs" that think Bush made a stupid mistake.
Jesse Japak: Because you say so, obviously. Personally, I "hate" corporate welfare, especially when it is in the form of tax cuts for corporations exporting jobs. Giving subsidies to big oil for the privilege of being raped at the pump just seems wrong to me. The Walton's getting richer by the hour while we subsidize their payroll also does not sit well with me.
Damion Oleksa: So you just want our democratically elected nation-healing President Obama to just throw caution to the winds and take our all-voluntary already-tired undermanned m! ilitary and attack yet another country? Are you, like the rightwing wa! rmongering Republicans, a stockholder in defense contractors or perhaps a member of the profiteer-laden Carlyle Group? President Obama likes to THINK before he commits the U.S. to any quagmire, which is what Syria would be should we become involved. Russia's Vladimir Putin (a former KGB leader and hardliner) is backing the current Syrian leader Assad, and Assad has appealed to at least four other nations for backing, to include China, South Africa, Brazil, and Iran. On the rebel side, an al-Qa'eda-affiliated al-Nusra has taken over much of the civil rebellion, and al-Nusra was labeled a terror group by the U.S. State Department under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's tenure. Are you proposing that we now arm al-Qa'eda/al-Nusra, both of whom hate the U.S. as much as they hate Israel. President Obama is hoping for a relatively peaceful resolution---that Assad can be convinced to voluntarily step down from power, especially if Vladimir Putin can be persuaded to he! lp achieve this end. The G8 Summit that began today involved a one-on-one meeting between President Obama and President Putin to work out some sort of compromise or resolution. And President Obama does NOT give up easily---if anyone can hammer out a truce or compromise of any sort, he can....Show more
Buster Exline: They'd been out of power for so long that Americans didn't have any recent memories of them being one way or the other and just took their word for it.
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Davida Gisriel: I think he knows its wrong to assist the rebels, the media is trying to feed us that the Syrian president is a dictator and murderer etc, when in fact its the rebel groups trying to overthrow him that are murderers/rapist/terrorists. He knows this, but because he's a puppet, he needs to follow the script, and act as if the Syrian President is the problem, when he really knows it's not the case - which is why he's dragging his feet
Ron Keliipio: I do not ag! ree that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake.I will concede mistakes wer! e made in the course of the invasion and the stabilization of the country, but that would also be true in any military action.
Season Confalone: Interesting question. I'd like to know the same because reality shows that the Republicans like to spend. Hell, they even love the welfare state (Bush and Medicare Part D).That's why I vote Libertarian.
Isaias Badgley: even George H.W. Bush stated repeatedly that going into Iraq and trying to bring democracy was not a good idea.
Alphonso Brake:
Garrett Detone: They all say that they are fiscally conservative, and people believe them. They think fiscally conservative means cutting taxes, unfortunately they don't do the corresponding spending cuts. Then they blame it all on the Democrats. That's the MO.
Letitia Bigelow: It was true in the 60s and 70s. But The religious right took over the Republican party in the 80s and Fiscal conservatives became a bother because it interfered with Ronnie's war wi! th the Ruskies.
Soraya Coodey: They insist to everyone that is their belief, but they never actually practice it.
Oda Mauson: They remind them that we have a Free Market economy, that's why.One difference between conservatives and liberals: Conservatives are guided by TRUTH. Liberals try to GUIDE the Truth.Republican since before she was born… and PROUD of it....Show more
Leora Klingelhoets: Yes, in that WE shouldn't have been over there. Saddam gone is good, the cost is exorbitant next to any benefit the American people get from it, special interests have skimmed immense sums off the top, many people have died, and we've tarnished our reputation.Which doesn't mean I didn't hope the government knew more than I did and support it tentatively when it began. I shouldn't have, but I trusted, with misgivings. I don't have anything like that level of trust now, having watched as it played out, but I am watching the Dems going through the same cycle on Afg! hanistan....Show more
Salvador Prchlik: I am DEFINITELY more Soci! alist than Corporatist. Cons, give up. You will never understand PROGRESS. You are stuck in a limbo.
Whitley Leopold:
Eleni Mccier: This question is not about liberals or Democrats. It's about Republicans. Why is it so hard for some of you people to stay on topic?
Ardath Templer: And that means what?
Wilfredo Muldoon: He's advocating giving weapons to the rebels (AKA terrorists). How much more decisive do you want him to be?
Idell Syed: About the same time that the mythology that Democrats were not communists developed, would be my guess.
Von Houskeeper: Mommanuke is right. They only hate the corporations that don't donate to their campaigns.
