Heck, who is Mike Gravel ? Whoever he is, he ought to be standing (we say standing, not running) for office in Britain. According to the first of these, he gets my vote.
One of the questions in the second site linked to seems a little euphemistic - 'I believe foreign policy should include actively and aggressively confronting potential threats abroad.'
Do they mean "..should include bombing places where there might be a threat"? Or could it be 'imposing economic sanctions on'? And what kind of 'potential threat'? How certain a potential?
Mike who? He seems to be my man, wherever he is and it does seem like I should have heard of him before he dropped out. Anyhow, I seem obliged to stick with Dennis now.
On the second test:Obama's my man at 92% agreement, but only by a tiny margin (1%) over Clinton.
The highest of the Republican candidates was Romney at 72%.Thompson, Huckabee, Giuliani...no. Thompson sounds like something from a distant age in our politics, say 90 years ago, and scored accordingly, though even he got 50% agreement
Hey, perhaps Mike Gravel has left for Britain to take his chances. He'd fit into our Conservative Party (not, obviously the right of it) or to the right of the Labour Party (the Tony Blair end). We have had certainly one American Member of Parliament.Nancy Astor was an MP from 1919 to 1945, a champion of women's rights she was the first woman MP to take her seat in the House. She was born in Virginia in 1879 and came to live in Britain in 1904.She became Viscountess Astor.
According to the July 2007 edition of Pacific Flyer, Hunter and Cunningham had pressured the Department of Defense to "...advise DARPA to put an immediate halt to bureaucratic delays and get on with the DuPont Aerospace DP-2 testing." The DP-2 is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing, or VTOL, aircraft designed by DuPont Aerospace to transport special operations forces, but has been repeatedly rejected by the Navy, Army, Air Force, NASA, and DARPA. The design, of which all four constructed models have crashed, has had $63 million appropriated to it since 1991, not including a suggested $6 million for fiscal year 2008. Despite the rejections and reports by multiple military and civilian experts that the aircraft will not fly or hover and will incinerate Special Operations forces rapelling out of the aircraft, Hunter has allegedly repeatedly added funding for the DP-2 in "earmarks" and defended the aircraft in recent testimony to the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology. Hunter has received $36,000 in donations from DuPont Aerospace.[27] -------- Hunter got break on taxes for home
Reading the entire article gives me the impression that the man engaged in some shady doings. Add that to his advocating a plane (built by his buddies), despite expert opinions that the plane is dangerous. Defintely not my kind of guy.
Posts: 16164 | Location: Lincoln Place, Granite City, IL, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
Mike Gravel. Right on cue he made the news this morning (in the US) for telling high school students that it would be better if they took marijuana than alcohol.Result? Reactionary uproar.
He is right, but not for saying that so bluntly . It is true that if the world stopped taking alcohol and took cannabis instead , the people would live longer and be healthier and safer in society, and the burden on our medical and emergency services be less.
What if it tells me I should vote for someone who is no longer running? The first link gives me Biden, then Obama. The second link gives me Richardson, then Clinton. What's a bleedingheart liberal to do?
Posts: 4314 | Location: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: 06-03-02
The calculator that gave me duncan hunter was one the had different laws, and asked if I agreed or disagreed. Since I didn't know exactly which law was refered to I just left it blank. That's what gave me duncan hunter. When I used the second candidate calculator...
1. Rudy Giuliani 98.60% match on issues.
2. Mitt Romney 96.56% match on issues.
3. John McCain 95.60% match on issues.
4. Mike Huckabee 94.96% match on issues.
5. Barack Obama 81.82% match on issues.
It's funny, it's exactly how I feel about the candidates. It's only upsetting that former residents can't cote in the primaries. So I have to wait and can't choose the exact candidate I want.
I tried that Candidate Calculator and yikes tho I am a Canuck it seems I agree with Hillary-well its nice she is a blond-LOL but if I could vote I would go for Obama-as a change is needed -not 4 more years of the Clinton's
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