I have some catching up to do on all these posts so this will be a lot of rambling.
To SSG: Canadians (and NE US) are by nature, much more liberal than the rest of the USA so your views are not surprising...saying that CNBC is more pro Republican is like saying Hitler was more compassionate than Stalin.
The whole "young children vs adult children" argument might be valid in a school board election but the president of the USA is the president of all people of all ages and so
should their perspectives be.
Religion has no place in politics? We would still be under British rule if it weren't for the "Black Robed Regiment" of the Revolutionary War. That's a whole other discussion.
When government or activist judges are mandating that religious institutions must perform abortions on demand, that they have to provide birth control, or hire sexual deviants, that marriage can be something (anything?) other than between a man and a woman, the religious have no choice but to become politically active. Is there a place in politics for homosexuals? Is there a place in politics for Environmentalists? I assume your answer is yes. What makes my cause any less appropriate?
re: Tea Party being extreme...TEA represents "Taxed Enough Already" What is extreme about that.
The flip-side of that is our massive and growing debt. Our debt to GDP ratio is worse than Greece is right now and look at them. We simply can't afford to go further and further in debt.
The Republicans created the financial mess??? I agree that the Republicans have made mistakes but the Democrats took control of the House and Senate on January 3rd, 2007. January 3rd, 2007, was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES! If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.
Lastly, there was mention of Republican lies. Don't get me started on the Democrat lies but I would be curious to know specifically what lies you feel the Republicans are saying.