ok man, those are the types of answers that I'm talking about, you need to be more clear, so I'm gonna make a little questionaire, you simply answer yes or no, if you want to elaborate, go for it, but make sure you either say YES or NO. (if it's not a yes or no question, answer it to the best of your ability)

1. Age, and state you live in?
2. Did you see 911 happen in real time in 2001?
3. Would you vote for president Bush if he could run for 3 terms?
4. What has the Bush administration done to benifit Americans and the world as a whole?
5. Do you think the government should make laws dealing with abortion and medicine?
6. Would you go to war if you got drafted (if the draft was started)?
7. Why or why not?
8. Are you 100% ok with the way current politicians do/say things?
9. Why havn't we captured or confirmed the death of Osama Bin Ladin?
10. What would you do if the FBI raided your house in the middle of the night and told you to sit there and be quiet while they search because suspected terrorists don't have the same rights as American citizens?
11. If the government said any American citizen in the US has to switch from a drivers lisence to a national id card with an RFID chip in it in order to shop for food, travel, or even buy gasoline, would you switch without a problem?
12. What do you think about the education system in America, and the no child left behind act?
13. What do you think about the healthcare system?
14. What do you think about the war on drugs?
15. What are you general thoughs about police?
16. What did you think of Alberto Gonzales?
17. What do you think about Michael Mukasey?
18. What do you think about waterboarding?
19. Do you think there are people who benifit greatly from international wars being waged?
20. What do you think about the federal reserve, inflation, the way our money system works?
21. What do you think about the income tax?
22. What do you think about global warming?
23. What do you think about the formation of the NAU?
24. What are your religious views?
25. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi civilian casualties during the war on terror?
26. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi refugees fleeing the country?
27. What's your opinion on Iraqi polls that say 70%-80% of the people of the country want the US out of Iraq?
28. What's your take on McCains statement about 100 years in Iraq if need be?


Simple enough.

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20. Arizona.
Not live, but saw it on TV.
No.
Yet to be seen. It all really hinges on Iraq.
You'd have to get more specific. As a basic rule, I'd be apt to say no.
Probably. I heavily considered joining the military. Scored high on the ASVAB and whatnot.
No. Not at all.
I don't know. Haven't found him I suppose.
If they had guns..not a whole lot I could do. But after they left I'd sue.
I don't know.
Christ, could write an essay on this.
Again. A bit vague.
I see it as a waste of money, and resources.
Depends on the individual. My run ins with them have been pleasant. They got a tough fucking job.
Not much.
Again. Not much. He's more of a seat filler anyhow.
I'm not sure of how effective it is in getting the answers you'd want. And I'm not sure if I'd classify it as torture.
Sure.
I am not really educated enough in the field to give you a definite answer. From what I've learned, it isn't what people on here make it out to be. I've spoken with my PHD econ professor about some of the rhetoric about the Fed.
It's awesome.
Not sure. Suppose I gotta go with the scientific consensus on that one.
I dunno. I'm going to ASU in the fall....it gets cold up in Northern Arizona. Oh...the north american union. How silly of me. I don't think it's going to happen.
Agnostic.
It's a tragedy.
Same as above I suppose. Though hopefully we can get security locked down there enough to turn it over to the Iraquis...and then a lot will come back.
I don't really have one.
I think it's infeasible, but I think it's ballsy. Definitely not what the mainstream media wants to hear. He put his political career on the line to support the surge. I gotta respect him for that.

Yeah. What's your point?


I'll add a "political questionnaire" to the thread.

1. Age

2. Favorite historical political figure. (make a top 5 if you like)

3. Favorite current political figure

4. Favorite philosopher

5. Favorite work of literature (or book)

6. Religious affiliation

7. Political affiliation

8. Educational background and aspirations (political or otherwise)

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That makes it sound like we've got a psyco running the country willing to do anything neccessary to prevent himself from going down in history as the worst president the US has ever seen, that makes me really uncomfortable.
So would you let each state decide how to handle things like that?
I heavily considered joining the military, I scored high on the ASVAB, there's no way in hell I'd go fight this war if I got drafted. Not at all because I'm scared, there are a few things I would pick up a rifle and defend to the death, but that sure as hell isn't one of them.
OK, isn't that what the CIA is for, isn't that why we spend billions of taxpayers dollars on? What is this organization for if all it's doing is eating up money and not producing any results? 7 years is by far enough time to track one man and if not capture him, most definitely kill him. Air strike, sniper...you name it, the US military COULD get it done if they wanted to.
You would sue the federal government of the United States? Is that a joke?
It's a simple question, they say "take this, or you're on your own, and you can't live here, because we own the land" in a roundabout way. Would you take it and abide by their 'laws' or would you refuse it and try to survive elsewhere?
Well summarize it, I don't want an essay.
Is it good, bad? Do you feel comfortable knowing what you know now (not what you think) about the healthcare system, enough that if you got really sick, or really badly injured, you or your parents or whoever had enough money to cover the costs that it would take to make you healthy again? Do you think you could pay for everything and still maintain the life you do now?
As do many Americans, yet again, we see billions of taxpayers dollars going towards it. Why don't we fix this problem?
Terrible response, you have to have an opinion about this guy, youtube him and then respond if you havn't seen him speak. One of the biggest liars I've ever seen. The reason I brought him up was because when he speaks, you can CLEARLY see he is lying, anybody can, and I remember asking you in another thread if it bothers you when they lie outright like that, and you said something like 'all politicians lie' which somehow makes it ok for him, the top attorney in the US, to lie to the country, to the people, and to you.
He has a pretty high position in the administration, he's not just a 'seat filler'. I brought him up for the same reason as Gonzales, BLATANT public liar, obvious even, and he's given 4 different responses to what waterboarding actually is. Both of these guys were appointed by president Bush himself...agian, more coincidences. That can't just be bad judgment on his part.
Waterboarding is torture, dozens of nations all over the world classify it as torture, even Canada has classified it as torture. Do you really think that's all they do when they're waterboarding someone? They make it seem like it's nothing in the media, but if there's nobody around to stop it, things get out of control. We've all seen what happened at Abu Graib, so imagine what an 'interrogator' would do to a person suspected of terrorist activities in a US controlled prison cell...do you really think he would just be dousing him with water and asking him questions? Of course not, there would be mass ass kickings having been had by the US soldier(s) doing the enterrogating, I guarantee it. And that doesn't amount to credible intel, that amounts to more US soldiers being killed in a combat mission they should have never been on because this one guy in this one cell said something that wasn't true to stop the abuse.
How is it awesome?
Why don't you think it's going to happen? Have you seen the Amero? Have you seen the new Union flag? What more perfect way to usher in the NAU than another great depression? Did you happen to notice our country is on the verge of economic collapse? I think you should take things like this a little more seriously...
So most of the Iraqi people think their lives would be better off without the 'protection' of the US soldiers, and you don't have an opinion? Kinda like in Germany when the jewish people started telling their non-jewish friends the terrible things that were happening to them...but they just didn't have an opinion, we know how that one turned out...
Dude, there is a big difference between being 'ballsy' and STUPID. 1 0 0 years in Iraq? Is he fucking kidding me? When was the last time there was a 100 year war? That guy is more insane than George W. Bush, and he proved it with that statement.

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Financing people like Osama Bin Laden.

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JFK
Lincoln
Jefferson
Ghandi
Malcolm X

Ron Paul or Robert Wexler

Don't really have a favorite, I like a lot of them though.

Don't really have a favorite book, anything that gives me a feeling of enlightenment after I read it is good, anything that makes you think in a different perspective.

Atheist

Registered republican, I don't stand for any political party though, I believe everybody is a mix of all parties, and that the two party system is a type of control.

High school graduate, minor amounts of college so far, but I plan on getting a degree, I think I want to major in political science, I don't know what I want to do for a career right now, but I have definitely been considering a public office some time in my life.

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Not entirely sure why you're calling him out on his answers...he did just do the questionnaire.

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Originally it was a questionnaire specifically for Rightwinger. I moved it to a new thread because it was putting a thread off-topic.

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No. I don't think that's accurate.
That's usually where I fall, but usually opt for no govt. intervention at all.
It's too basic of a question I think. I'm sure some people it would depend on the conflict.

How do you know?

Again. How do you know?

No. I'd take it to court. It's not a joke. I would take them to court.

They don't own the land I live on. They don't own me. I think I'd have to take them to court on that one too.

Lack of responsibility and accountability is the problem with the education system, along with unions that are far too powerful. It's a system that defends incompetence, and refuses to reward excellence.

Well, there's always the possibility of something catastrophic happening.

Probably not enough political pressure I think. Most people are against it, but they aren't THAT against it if you catch my drift. They don't really care I suppose. It's not a big issue.

I'm aware of Alberto Gonzalez.

I don't remember that specific post. But I don't think I tried to excuse lying by pointing to more lying. And I don't think I tried to excuse it at all. If I did...I dunno what I was thinking. I recall a "Do you find it odd" question, to which I answered "No, I don't find it odd"

He pretty much is. He'll be completely unable to get anything meaningful done. He's a seat filler there to ride out the last days of this administration.

How is this a coincidence?

They simulate drowning.
Do you really think the rogue nature of Abu Ghiraib prison is comparable to the operations we have in places like Gitmo?

I dunno. I didn't know how to answer that question.

I don't think it's going to happen. I've seen no evidence of an approaching north american union.

No.
Not about what they think. Not about the polls. No. I don't.
No. Not like that at all.
He was trying to emphasize the "we'll stay their til the job is done" point, he was exaggerating. From most reports, we won't have to stay there all that long. We're already beginning stages of phasing out troops, and turning over provinces to the Iraquis.
They never financed OBL. He was part of a separate group than the one we financed.

eh. I figured the questions would lead to more questions, etc. That's why I made my questionnaire a bit more vague.


Thanks for the answers static. Good stuff. If you're majoring in political science, be prepared to deal with a TON of douche bags. Both the students and professors.

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1. Age, and state you live in?
19, Ohio

2. Did you see 911 happen in real time in 2001?
The second plane, yes.

3. Would you vote for president Bush if he could run for 3 terms?
No.

4. What has the Bush administration done to benifit Americans and the world as a whole?
Tax cuts to some degree and little else. However, America's 'national interest' is a constructed value, mainly by the administration, so the Bush administration could have done quite a bit of good for this so-called national interest.

5. Do you think the government should make laws dealing with abortion and medicine?
Abortion only in the sense that a human fetus is a human life and killing it should be illegal, though you can't reverse 30 years of tradition in a single day. On medicine, no.

6. Would you go to war if you got drafted (if the draft was started)?
Yes, if I felt the war was moral, Constitutional and in the best interest of our national defense.

7. Why or why not?
Already answered.

8. Are you 100% ok with the way current politicians do/say things?
No.

9. Why havn't we captured or confirmed the death of Osama Bin Ladin?
It's a big world with a lot of people who sympathize with somebody who hates a world hegemony.

10. What would you do if the FBI raided your house in the middle of the night and told you to sit there and be quiet while they search because suspected terrorists don't have the same rights as American citizens?
I'd sit there and be quiet (government agents have a lot of force on their side), hoping they left me in peace, then publicize the incident.

11. If the government said any American citizen in the US has to switch from a drivers lisence to a national id card with an RFID chip in it in order to shop for food, travel, or even buy gasoline, would you switch without a problem?
No.

12. What do you think about the education system in America, and the no child left behind act?
It's horribly inefficient and failing. I want to see states given total control, and not have to deal with bizarre and inadequate government regulations.

13. What do you think about the healthcare system?
See #12.

14. What do you think about the war on drugs?
See #12. While I don't agree with drug use, I don't think the Feds should be doing anything more than keeping foreign illegal drugs out of the country and perhaps insuring they aren't being trafficked or sold across state lines. The smokers in Cali can have their pot though.

15. What are you general thoughs about police?
Police are necessary and in my experience a boon to their communities.

16. What did you think of Alberto Gonzales?
No real opinion. His actions are a direct result of the administration he is affiliated with.

17. What do you think about Michael Mukasey?
See #16.

18. What do you think about waterboarding?
It's torture. Any government professing the sanctity of Life and the right to Liberty and Happiness cannot arbitrarily deny these things to certain people, even if they aren't citizens of our nation.

19. Do you think there are people who benifit greatly from international wars being waged?
Yes.

20. What do you think about the federal reserve, inflation, the way our money system works?
Works? It doesn't. We are able to drag it out and prolong an inevitable downturn only by further exploitation and devaluation of the dollar.

21. What do you think about the income tax?
It's counterintuitive to a society based on bettering yourself by working harder to make more, when your money, before you even see it, is going to be taken from you.

22. What do you think about global warming?
I have yet to see conclusive proof though I enjoy nature and see nothing wrong with taking steps to prevent the degradation of or otherwise help our environment. However, I am against world or even national regulations.

23. What do you think about the formation of the NAU?
This would be a horrible travesty and insult to much of what we were founded on. Yet another blow to our sovereignty.

24. What are your religious views?
I guess you'd say agnostic and rather spiritual.

25. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi civilian casualties during the war on terror?
I don't feel we had authority to interfere with this nation's civil government and such deaths are murders, some caused by us, others by terrorists.

26. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi refugees fleeing the country?
See #25 save we caused their homelessness as opposed to deaths.

27. What's your opinion on Iraqi polls that say 70%-80% of the people of the country want the US out of Iraq?
Something doesn't seem right about that as McCain is leading in the polls. So something's gotta be cooked I think.

28. What's your take on McCains statement about 100 years in Iraq if need be?
We shouldn't have been in Iraq 100 days, let alone 100 years. It's insane, unpatriotic and anti-American to prolong this effort, especially well into the next decade.

1. Age
19

2. Favorite historical political figure. (make a top 5 if you like)
The Founding Fathers
Capt. John Brown

3. Favorite current political figure
Ron Paul

4. Favorite philosopher
Albert Camus
Erich Fromm
Henry David Thoreau
Shakespeare

5. Favorite work of literature (or book)
Far too many, classics and modern, to name one

6. Religious affiliation
Agnostic and attending and Independent Baptist Church

7. Political affiliation
Republican - struggling with a Libertarian vs. Conservative view, leaning to the latter.

8. Educational background and aspirations (political or otherwise)
Similar to Static, with high school and some college. I'm majoring in Poli Sci with no longterm career plans save for aspirations of public office.

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