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by mallardtooxx

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Okay, okay I have stayed away from this topic for too long and if I wait any longer it will not be relevant any longer. As we all know the world is waiting with baited breath to see who the next US President is going to be. Most of you just to make fun of us, but that is to be expected as look who we are dealing with this time. We are in sad shape here folks, and it is time to add a little levity to the situation. I for one could use it after finding out my property taxes are going up while my home value is plummeting. I just scanned the Timmy (obscure fairly oddparents reference) to see if I could purchase a flux capacitor for my car. Turns out they only make them for Delorans after all, good luck finding one of those, seems they are all in 1955 for some reason. It is looking pretty grim in the 'ole USofA right now and I am not sure when it is going to end. So here is my take on the current election and what it is going to produce for not only us but those of you out there in the rest of the world.
If our protector and watchdog Hillary Clinton, I refuse to hyphenate her name, wiggles her way into office the following statement would most assuredly be read:
"Dear subjects, I have decided to cut out the middle man and just proclaim the Clinton line as the first line of succession in the empire of the Americas. I know the Bush line has had a go at it as well as a couple of other families in the past. Well they did not deserve it, I however being ready on day one do, and am taking control as such. Make sure to send your children to the village so we can raise them right and in a few years you will be able to see the doctor about that broken leg, persistent cough, cancer, etc."
Just imagine it folks, we could be silly enough to elect...wait this just in, Max is right, Ms. Clinton just bought Florida and Michigan!!! Sorry Mr. Obama, Oprah was too busy with her school projects, something about giving education to children who deserve it, (her own words!) to wire that money into your account. Check with Mr. Buffett, he may send you a couple of Billion, maybe you can buy Indiana, I hear they are looking to sell.
Then you have John my face is gonna fall off I swear McCain. The man is as animate as Bob Dole's left arm. True he is a Veteran and I respect that highly, yes I think he is honest and forthwith sort of, but good land let?s face it, the man is just not Leader of the Free world material.
We are entering what the 3rd year of campaigning here; yes I really do mean that. Remember when you had an election looming and like 7 months before they started talking about it? Heck my kids sometimes forget who is president because all they see is the people trying to get elected. I think it is time for us all to go the way of Richard Pryor and vote for no one. We are all told our vote counts, as long as you are a member of the Electoral College it does anyway. WTF would happen if everyone just said, nope I don't want any of these guys? Please people don't vote Nader, can you say unsafe at any age? I guess what I am saying is this; we need to get this country back from the people who stole it from us. We don't need Career Politicians; we need the common man in charge, like the founding fathers. Do you think any of them were in it for the cushy job and the benefits? Heck poor George Washington had to have wooden teeth for crying out loud. Imagine Teddy Kennedy having to live with that? Let a Dentist, a Doctor, a School teacher, a Line worker, hell even a lawyer, run the country. Go to your local government and run for city council, mayor, Governor. You can, the Constitution says so, if we truly are to be a government of, by and for the people then the people need to be in it. I for one am considering a run for mayor in my home town, yeah I know it would be scary, but I cannot sit here and rant if I do not practice what I preach right. I want you all to think about this, if we are truly sick of the way the world is how do we change it? Do you think it works to allow these people to continue down the path they themselves set? Or should we as a people stand up and declare enough to be enough? I for one am starting to practice the Flute so I look good in the next Revolutionary War YouTube clip. I am starting to smell the stench of Governmental decay. Common Sense! It worked then and it will work now. Huzzah!!!
-duck

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by rfink

The federal government has ignored the constituion (especially the 9th and 10th Amendments) for so long we need a revolution to reinstate it.

Bush is a war criminal and should be tried. X-(
Congress keeps funding this illegal war so they should be held accountable as well.

The last legal war was World War II.

This "war on terror" reminds me of the fear the government created in the 60s by having us little kids crawl under our school desks in the name of "Civil Defense". Keep the masses afraid and ignorant and they're easier to control.

by mallardtooxx

I remember those..."Duck...and Covvvvvver, look at little sammy turtle" I always wondered how that was going to keep the bomb from atomizing me. Prolly all the lead in the paint on the desk.

I could not agree more as to the last legal war being being WWII.

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by forum surfer

"Congress keeps funding this illegal war so they should be held accountable as well."

No funding for our troops=dead troops. Not cool no matter what anyone says! They are already sadly under equipped. I love and support our troops, so if we are going to send them out by God send them out fully prepared. If it's an end you seek, then suggest a troop pull out, not a troop abandonment which is what cutting their funding would do. You don't cut funding until our boys and girls are back home with their families.

Now as far as those brave men and women actually being there, I myself think it is time for them to come home and let Iraq sort out their own woes until they've dessimated half their own nation due to internal conflicts.

Again, nothing personal...I respect your opinion but I had to chime in on that one little bit.

by maxwell edison

Just to say that a war is illegal does not make it so. And just because a formal declaration of war was not issued by Congress does not make the waging of one illegal. The more recent War Powers Act is a legal instrument under which military actions may be taken. Even President Jefferson, himself, sent the Navy and Marines to the Barbary Coast without a formal declaration of war being declared by Congress. (And against Muslim extremists, ironically enough!)

by mallardtooxx

I think I may be getting caught up a little in my, "I am so sick of hearing about this crap from people like Katie Couric syndrome." You are correct Max and if Jefferson had not who knows how many more of our sailors would have been lost forced slavery in places like Algiers. Great point Max, thanks for snapping me out of it!
However I do understand how illegality could be on the minds of everyone when we have people out here who tell us well I voted for the war but then I didn't or I was for it until the president actually did it and all that jazz.
-duck

by maxwell edison

It can?t be argued that our Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but it is arguable that such a formal declaration is the only means by which war may be waged.

The same Constitution gives the president the position of Commander in Chief of the military. There are no provisions that make Congress the Commander in Chief, and there are no provisions that suggest a formal declaration of war is necessary in order to wage one.

Conversely, it?s also possible, I suppose, for Congress to make a formal declaration of war, but for the president, as Commander in Chief, to sit on his hands and decide not to engage in war. What would, or could, Congress do in a case such as that? Take over as Commander in Chief? I think not.

Three of the original founders, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, while acting as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, waged war against someone or some nation without a formal declaration of war issued by Congress ? Jefferson and Madison against Muslim extremists.

It could be suggested that the first war against Muslim extremists started 200 years before 9-11-2001. (Almost to the day, missing the exact day by mere weeks.)

After 200 years, although many things have changed, it?s interesting to note how other things are still the same - including the people waging war against the United States.

by mallardtooxx

I did leave something out of my post agreeing about illegal wars. Even if the war itself is not sanctioned, supported, or recognized, it does not change the fact that many, many brave men and women are out there protecting my butt from all kinds of really bad things. I actually lost sleep last night when I realized I had not made mention of my never-ending and undying support for our troops, whether I agree with the cause or not I never disagree with the fact our kids are out there and they are the finest example of what any generation has to offer. I am proud of all of them and hope they can come home to a country that will understand, without them, we would all be speaking germaneese right about now.

-duck

by maxwell edison

Whether he runs against Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton, I?m sure he?ll be faced with a question and/or comment about supporting an illegal war, especially if it?s Obama on the other side in a debate. A perfect reply would be something like this.

[i]Are you suggesting, Mr. Obama (or Mrs. Clinton), that Thomas Jefferson was also engaging in an illegal war when he sent the United States Navy and United States Marines to defend our nation against Muslim extremists on the Barbary Coast? And what?s the difference between those Muslim extremists attacking the USS Philadelphia in 1803 and the Muslim extremists who attacked the USS Cole in 2000? Both were waging war against the United States. I, for one, applaud President Thomas Jefferson, who took action against those extremists; and I wish President Bill Clinton would have done the same. [/i]

by maxwell edison

The off-topic/political discussions just aren't what the used to be, are they?

(Maybe we defeated their emotional arguments with our reasoned ones, and they've given up.)

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