Who in the election will fight for our cause?

[susan400]

I didn't know how to title this post...  

Without getting into a big political debate, can someone tell me, which candidates, on each side, will best be helping the Hep C research funding?    It doesn't matter to me, whether you are saying Democrat/Republican/Indep., or whatever, I'm just curious if anybody knows from past history, researching this, or anything like that???   I'm not saying which party I'm affliated with, that doesn't matter in the general election anyway because you can vote across party lines in that election if you so choose.    Anyway, I'm really curious about this.  I'm also wondering if there's some website that might tell me where the various candidates stand in their past support of HIV, since I figure that if they have a good history with supporting HIV/AIDS research that they might care about HCV.  Anyway, any info would be appreciated.  I hope that this will not end up being a debate because that's not what I'm looking for.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Susan

[orphanedhawk]

"  The author above in the piece on poverty left out some very obvious facts. When this happens credibility for that person is diminished in my mind and I find it harder to believe anything else they have to say."

Yes indeed. It is hard to trust people who leave out pertinent information. The reason why I don't beleive ANYTHING said by the Bush administration.

[beamishboy]

mike-thanks for the analysis...commonsense has become an apparently endangered species round washington..we have performed so incredibly bad on foreign policy fronts and at such incredible cost...ciu bono-who benefits from this calamity? dare i suggest a glance at naomi kleins latest  book on the CHAOS ?
lady laura.....thats meat in the middle-isn't it?how's about some froglegs?.......a book with 15 title pages justa cite authors...how ya doing ??

[Lady Lauri]

.......but I get to take that thing out in the middle...that brownish-grey textured thing in the middle of the bun....

Ditto ! Ewww!

Amazed on the post count here! This may be turned into a book??

[mikesimon]

"President Bush has consistently referred to the Iraq war as "the central front in the War on Terror", and has argued that if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, "terrorists will follow us here."[270][271][272] While other proponents of the war have regularly echoed this assertion, as the conflict has dragged on, members of the U.S. Congress, the American public, and even U.S. troops have begun to question the connection between Iraq and the fight against terrorism. In particular, a consensus has developed among intelligence experts that the Iraq war has increased terrorism. Counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna frequently refers to the invasion of Iraq as a "fatal mistake."[273] London's conservative International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded in 2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for jihadists and that the invasion "galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely inspired insurgent violence" there.[274] The U.S. National Intelligence Council concluded in a January 2005 report that the war in Iraq had become a breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists; David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, indicated that the report concluded that the war in Iraq provided terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills... There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries." The Council's Chairman Robert L. Hutchings said, "At the moment, Iraq is a magnet for international terrorist activity."[275] And the 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, which outlined the considered judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, held that "The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."[276]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

Mike

[beamishboy]

the thread count is Amazing!-if only all  our bed-sheets were so luxuriously over-stuffed..even in homeless shelters..
and the football predictions are sucha welcome relief...but really,can-man-do you expect forsee to actually chow down a bigmac?..maybe a whopper....(now we can really polarize this discussion!! ).....
WRATH-as in Blake's tigers and Steinbecks grapes...we have been sowing sour seeds and IMHO are gonna reap fruit that ain't fit to drink...A bitter Harvest......we need to realize our own shortcomings;we should admit to  failures and embrace alternatives-we are all on the same page,quite literally!...the times they are a changing...and it's past time to get our own house in order.....how's that for a compendium of platitudes?FLguy?
Please : Super-size the compassion&solidarity that makes us the community we all belong to...and add a dish of ice-cream.....CHEERS,tommy

[sfbaygirl]

Good cites!  It is really sad to hear of women and their children on the streets, homeless.  The shelters are too full. I heard this on one of the campaign speeches.  The cities and locals are supposed to pick up the tab for these folks and also the mental health. How are they supposed to do that? They are strapped here by Javis/Gann tax cuts on property.  yes, I get a tax break from that, but what about these huge property owners who have found ways to sell, but have loopholes to advantage them.  Little people with houses aren't the problem.  We have no libraries, our schools are in shambles, so are parks and recreation etc, etc.  

Yep, I just saw on CNN about the recession coming. Hopefully not!  But even Bush was in on the conversation about it.  These wars are costing us a bundle. How can we justify spending all this money on war, while people are starving in the US?  40% have no health care?  What makes us the policemen of the world?  Now that we are there,  how do we get out?  Kinda like Vietnam, a quagmire.  Didn't we just leave?  Nixon did that,  pulled us out and now we really need to leave this mess we have created in Iraq.