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mrbenjones Commented on Why Do You Believe What You Do? A quick response. by mrbenjones

2009-12-01T01:56:18Z

Please do post this, and post it on other blogs. It is a much more kindly and beautifully expressed version of the question that I always use as the price of admission for a political discussion:

(1.) Can you name one important policy or moral question on which you took a wrong position in the last five years? How did you discover that you were wrong?

most people who can't do this have nothing else to say that I will find interesting or useful, whether they are liberal or conservative.

mrbenjones recommended Why Do You Believe What You Do? A quick response. by mrbenjones

2009-11-30T01:27:14Z

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mrbenjones Commented on Murdoch: Beck 'Was Right' When He Called Obama Racist by Rachel Slajda

2009-11-10T20:19:02Z

Why oh why didn't somebody interviewing him say "so what do you have to say to all of your advertisers that were wrong about that? Do you want to call them liars or stupid? And, would you like to insult them by name, or shall we read this list for you?"

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mrbenjones Commented on Chambliss Wins Georgia Senate Runoff For The Republicans by Eric Kleefeld

2008-12-03T16:26:07Z

I'm very sad that Saxby Chambliss won again, but this was a foregone conclusion from the beginning. As for getting the magic 60 number, this isn't 1993--there are six reasonable Republicans who will vote for reasonable bills. 59 would be a very good number in my opinion. Any Democratic Domestic bill that can't get Susan Collins' vote and any foreign bill that can't get Chuck Hagel's vote is probably not worth passing for the public outrage.

I can't google the quote, but Karl Rove said in 2001 or 2003 that he preferred to pass bills that wouldn't get a single Democratic vote. We are not the W GOP--we want to pass bills that are accomplishing things for all Americans across the country. The kind of things Barack Obama wants to do have wide benefits and are bound to get more than two Republican cloture votes.

mrbenjones Commented on Obama: "I Shared My Peanut Butter And Jelly Sandwich" by Greg Sargent

2008-10-29T19:43:40Z

Can somebody explain to me why this is not true--McCain is calling Obama a socialist for supporting a 39.6 percent top income tax rate-- the rate that McCain voted to maintain in 2001.

Agreeing with John McCain's pre-flip-flop positions makes you a socialist?

mrbenjones Commented on Early Voting And Absentee Balloting Favors Obama -- In Multiple Bush States by Greg Sargent

2008-10-20T16:03:02Z

I'm thrilled about the early voting, but I'm very worried about Democrats encouraging absentee voting. Mailed ballots are the easiest to disqualify; David Iglesias busted ward Democrats in New Mexico giving native americans mail-in ballots on a mining issue without envelopes, and then rejecting them because they came in the wrong envelopes.

Repugs will use this in every state, to the greatest extent they can. We have to keep the publics eye on the number of uncounted ballots.

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