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Mandatory Post-NH-Primaries…um…Post

Posted by Rey

Politics: I don’t like it. I try to avoid talking about it because I find that people get more heated about their Presidential hopeful than they do about the person of Christ or if Buddhism actually works—so I tend to avoid it. But recently I’ve been spending some time trying to figure out who to vote for and I’m once again annoyed by how much I don’t agree with anybody. I have issues close to my heart on both sides of the political fence and I find myself weighing the pros and cons of each candidate in the hopes of voting for the person I can live with as President.

But honestly, that’s an overstatement. In the end I don’t care who becomes President because I know the political machine is way too cumbersome to really be laid on the shoulders of one person. Secondly I’m a firm believer that the only reason people get in power is because God allowed them there: His vote counts.

Anyway, after the New Hampshire primaries, I figured I’d post my research on where the candidates stand: sort of like a cheat sheet meets cliffs notes for voters.

Clinton

  • Education: Universal PreK
  • No Child Left Behind: Needs Reform
  • Abortion: For
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: For. She’ll lift Bush’s ban.
  • Marriage Amendment: State Decides
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Civil Unions
  • Gun Control: Tighter Control
  • The War: Immediate End
  • Taxes: Tax the Rich
  • Social Security: No Privatization
  • Immigration: tough borders with path for legalization
  • Affirmative Action: support without quotas
  • Health Care: Universal
  • Energy: Independence with $50 Billion to jumpstart industry

Giuliani

  • Education: Vouchers
  • No Child Left Behind: Needs Reform
  • Abortion: Hates it but supports the Law
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: Unclear
  • Marriage Amendment: Not Yet
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Civil Unions
  • Gun Control: No Change
  • The War: Strong Response, the long haul, seeking victory
  • Taxes: lower taxes
  • Social Security: Unclear but very cautious
  • Immigration: tight borders, build the fence, number immigrants and register them
  • Affirmative Action: against—supports merit alone
  • Health Care: Tax cuts to promote free market
  • Energy: Independence

Edwards

  • Education: Assistance 1 Year of College tuition with working
  • No Child Left Behind: Needs Reform
  • Abortion: For
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: will lift Bush Ban
  • Marriage Amendment: Against ban
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Civil Unions
  • Gun Control: No Change
  • The War: Cut troops then support Iraq to allow them to take over
  • Taxes: Reform tax code
  • Social Security: No Privatization
  • Immigration: tight borders, no guest workers
  • Affirmative Action: Supports but no quotas
  • Health Care: Universal
  • Energy: Independence with temporary electricity freeze

Huckabee

  • Education: Personal Learning
  • No Child Left Behind: For but include the Arts
  • Abortion: against
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: Permanent Ban
  • Marriage Amendment: For
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Opposed
  • Gun Control: No Change
  • The War: No Deadline on End
  • Taxes: The Fair Act
  • Social Security: Optional Privatization for Younger
  • Immigration: tough borders, inc. security, crackdown
  • Affirmative Action: merit-alone
  • Health Care: Free Market. Employees get their own healthcare.
  • Energy: Independent

Gravel (still researching)

  • Education: XXXX
  • No Child Left Behind: XXXX
  • Abortion: XXXX
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: XXXX
  • Marriage Amendment: XXXX
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: XXXX XXXX
  • Gun Control: XXXX
  • The War: XXXX
  • Taxes: XXXX
  • Social Security: XXXX
  • Immigration: XXXX
  • Affirmative Action: XXXX
  • Health Care: XXXX
  • Energy: XXXX

Hunter

  • Education: voucher plus home schooling benefit
  • No Child Left Behind: XXXX
  • Abortion: Overturn Roe V. Wade
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: XXXX
  • Marriage Amendment: For
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Against
  • Gun Control: No Change
  • The War: XXXX
  • Taxes: Reform
  • Social Security: XXXX
  • Immigration: Tight borders, fence, increase patrols and no amnesty
  • Affirmative Action: XXXX
  • Health Care: Break State Borders—interstate health shopping
  • Energy: XXXX

Kucinich (still researching)

  • Education: XXXX
  • No Child Left Behind: XXXX
  • Abortion: XXXX
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: XXXX
  • Marriage Amendment: XXXX
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: XXXX XXXX
  • Gun Control: XXXX
  • The War: XXXX
  • Taxes: XXXX
  • Social Security: XXXX
  • Immigration: XXXX
  • Affirmative Action: XXXX
  • Health Care: XXXX
  • Energy: XXXX

McCain

  • Education: Power of Choice
  • No Child Left Behind: needs reform
  • Abortion: against
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: keep ban
  • Marriage Amendment: support it if it happens
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: State Level and not equal to marriage
  • Gun Control: Include mentally ill on denied list
  • The War: Victory as long as it takes
  • Taxes: Permanent Tax Cuts
  • Social Security: Suplemented with Privatization
  • Immigration: Tighter plus incentives for skilled laborers
  • Affirmative Action: merit alone
  • Health Care: Reform with more clinics
  • Energy: Implement current unused technology

Richardson

  • Education: salary plus preK
  • No Child Left Behind: “scrap it”
  • Abortion: For (demanded question for Court Judges)
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: End ban
  • Marriage Amendment: Against
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: Civil Unions
  • Gun Control: Include mentally ill
  • The War: end war on day one of office
  • Taxes: tax the rich more
  • Social Security: no privatization
  • Immigration: tighter borders, more guards, fines for those who want to obtain legalization
  • Affirmative Action: support but not quotas
  • Health Care: Universal
  • Energy: Independence

Paul

  • Education: student credits plus teacher incentives
  • No Child Left Behind: against
  • Abortion: State Level
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: Keep Ban
  • Marriage Amendment: Against
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: State Level
  • Gun Control: No restrictions
  • The War: complete withdrawal as soon as militarily possible
  • Taxes: lowest possible taxes
  • Social Security: remove tax on social security payments
  • Immigration: tight borders, no amnesty
  • Affirmative Action: merit alone
  • Health Care: more individual level health care
  • Energy: Encourage Free Market

Obama

  • Education: teacher residency
  • No Child Left Behind: it was a good start (unclear)
  • Abortion: for
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: lift ban
  • Marriage Amendment: against
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: civil unions
  • Gun Control: Background checks at gun shows
  • The War: Immediate end
  • Taxes: Protection for Middle Class (unclear)
  • Social Security: No Privatization
  • Immigration: Reform and make smart choices (unclear)
  • Affirmative Action: support
  • Health Care: Options both Private and Universal
  • Energy: Tax Carbon based fuel to promote independence

Romney

  • Education: more charter schools plus teacher rewards
  • No Child Left Behind: reform
  • Abortion: State Level
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: only adult stem cell research
  • Marriage Amendment: support
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: opposed
  • Gun Control: no change
  • The War: no deadline
  • Taxes: cut taxes
  • Social Security: Private contributions to 401K-type plan supplement it
  • Immigration: tight, biometric records, no special path for illegals
  • Affirmative Action: unclear…sounds like he supports with no quota
  • Health Care: Reform with incentives
  • Energy: Independence

Thompson

  • Education: More choice
  • No Child Left Behind: good start
  • Abortion: overturn roe v.wade
  • Embryonic Cell Stem Research: only adult stem cell research
  • Marriage Amendment: support
  • Marriage / Civil Unions: State Level
  • Gun Control: No change
  • The War: Trust Military
  • Taxes: Permanent Bush tax cuts
  • Social Security: 2% Privatization
  • Immigration: Tight borders, cut federal funding to Sanctuary cities
  • Affirmative Action: “No comment”
  • Health Care: Streamline (unclear)
  • Energy: Cautious leading to Independence

Posted in: rants, reviews January 9, 2008

3 Responses to “Mandatory Post-NH-Primaries…um…Post”

  1. b13 Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    See, now what I think is that God gave us the power to make the votes count. But you are correct that the political machine is so large that anything they say they will do must be taken with a grain of salt.

  2. b13 Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Oh, and anyone that says “end war on day one of office” or “Immediate end” is living in a fantasy. There is no “easy” way out at this point and we must support our troops. A hasty withdrawl will put radicals in a position of power and the situation would get worse.

  3. Rey Says:
    January 10th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Oh I’m positive that our votes count: its not like if every single person votes for one person that God is going to up and magically put someone else in the presidency but ultimately God is the one allowing things. So if the country actually gets by with everyone voting for one person its just that God allowed them to do it. He could easily overrule such a strategy by several means that I guess any one can imagine.

    And honestly I think they’re all living a dream in some mythical Political world. Some say “Immediate end to war” others say “end all health care and go Universal” and yet others say “Document every illegal alien and track them.” There’s just some things that are logistically difficult of not impossible.

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