GC, just wait until the National Enquirer is done with this lady. they have 7 reporters headed there, as we speak ,to turn over every leaf in the state. she is a lightweight, and is going to implode before this is all over. she might be all cutesy and cuddly, and she probably can tune up a snowmobile like any guy, not to mention fire an m16. but she ain't too bright, or she would have never said that going to iraq was God's will. whose God? is it the will of the Iraqi God, or don't they have God too?

how come governmment cannot run government like a business, not spending more than it makes? yes, texasshoe asks that question. when i pick myself up off the floor, i will attempt a reply. oops, i fell again. why do you not address that question to George Bush? while you are at it, ask him why the national debt is 9.6 trillion, and rising? ask him about the arithmetic that persuaded him that tax cuts during wartime is good strategy. this old trickle down philosophy is as old as time, and twice as tired. surely you are not going to try to convince us that the clinton years were worse than these last eight years? if the bush years are so great, why does he have a 27% favorable rating? and we know the crowd that votes favorable; the guys with the yachts! yes, john mccain will give us more trickle down; if you want the birds to have more feed, give the horses more hay!

answer this for me, texasshoe; if an indigent is brought in to an emergency room with a life threatening emergency , such as a seizure or asthma, but, evidently cannot afford the treatment, what do you suggest should be the response of the hospital? just askin!

Rudy Giuliani! the same guy whose own kids do not talk to him anymore, having grown old enough to realise what a lowlife he is. yes, with his gangster buddy, Bernie Kerik, whom he was pushing for head of homeland security, until it was leaked that the guy was a two bit hood. Rudy, who was the favorite going in, but exited with a whimper after he realised that the only place where he could get a vote was new york. the guy who single handedly polarised new york racially to a point it almost went up in riots. and, was his private life not exemplary, the way he handled his wife , and all? ( maybe the reason his kids avoid him like the plague) if he had any decency, he would find a hole to crawl into, rather than trying to beat up on others. the guy is a first rate vermin!

texasshoe, when you come into a forum and express "opinions", be prepared for counter volleys from those who disagree with your viewpoints. i have no dog i the fight; i could not care less if mickey mouse won the election. you are the guy promoting the republicans, trying to express negatives about the democrats. you are cheerleading for a woman whom mccain chose as his running mate after meeting her once! that, my friend, is electioneering, not the search for good governance. it is politicking driven by pollsters, opportunists and strategists, not good sense. with a guy who has had four bouts with cancer taking the helm, a guy who is over 70 years old, it is not a stretch to see her becoming president. and all this crap about executive experience: look what it did for Bush.dealing with some energy consortia and interest groups is not the same as dealing with the likes of Putin; that takes vision. the problems facing the world, in my eyesight, are global, and need a global thinker. the last thing we need is someone who thinks that God is on our side, and the rest are heathens, that is what got us into iraq in the first place; isolationism, and contempt for the international community. that kind of modality worked in the 1950s; it will not work today. if enough nations get peed off with the usa, and opec demands payment of oil deliveries in euro, you can kiss the US economy goodbye!

i am fully aware of the law about emergency treatment; my mother was director of intensive care for several years in a major new york hospital. my question is "do you have a disagreement with that policy, and, if so, what would you suggest as an alternative"?

Sorry he wasnt up to the standards of the biggest loser mayor of modern times in NYC the tennis playing loser Dinkins

texasshoe, if everbody had access to health care , people would NOT go to the emergency room for razor cuts while shaving. it is precisely because they do not have health care that they did it!! i have health care in the usa; if i feel the need to see the eye care specialist, i do not head for the emergency room. guys with no insurance cannot go to the optometrist, and end up cluttering up the emergency room, which, eventually, becomes like a social meeting place! besides, i am not an elitist. i do not hold to the belief that the only people who deserve to live are the people who can afford health insurance premiums. there, i said it. republicans, in large measure, see the world as "us and them". the poor and indigent are a colossal nuisance, fouling up the world God willed for the chosen. democrats believe that every person has some worth, and should be given an opportunity to prove, or disprove that postulate. to republicans, the free market will fix everything. well, to me, it dependes on your definition of "fix".

McCain and Palin are gonna beat them like a drum beat them like and Iraqi prisoner like a baby seal and like a readheaded stepchild......The empty suit should have picked Hillybilly

talk about morality. Sarah Palin cut the allocation for special needs children by 62% in her state. then she goes on stage and says that she is going to be a friend and advocate for special needs. is that not just peachy? could that be because, sadly, she now has a special needs child? and, GC, Dinkins was probably the worst mayor i have seen in new york, and i have seen them all, from Beame, lindsay etc. but at least he was a decent person, despite his incompetence. Giuliani ran the city well, but, incontrovertibly , is an absolutely amoral excuse for a human being, something which cannot be said of Dinkins.