September 18 at 11:25AM
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton Discuss Women's Issues… and Discuss Women's Issues… and Discuss Women's Issues…
In the wake of dynamic-female, vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's arrival in Old Man McCain's campaign, a lot of Democrats have been whining that they don't see enough of Hillary Clinton (dynamic female) and Joe Biden (Old Man) out there trying to even things up.
Well, be careful what you whine for, because here's a frickin' half-hour of them…
Man, I didn't think it was possible for anyone to talk about women for so long and make me so bored.
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Friendship? Me ladies doth protest too much.
Thoughts on the video:
(1) Huh, Joe and Hillary are friends. Did you hear them say that they're friends. Oh they're good friends. Good, good friends. This is not a political pandering move– no, their jut good friends, sitting down for a chat. *headdesk* Don't get me wrong– I'm not denying that they ARE friends, but overdoing it much? Yeah
(2) WHY does Hillary have a teleprompter and Joe Biden just has a stack of papers that he *literally* follows the words with his finger. They should both have prompters or both have papers– having one of each was just jarring and distracting.
(3) Yeeah, this was boring– but also oddly informative. I had no idea that McCain didn't vote for the Violence Against Women act. That's something we should know!!! Obama-camp, listen up– people aren't going to watch this video. But the INFO in this video would make a good commercial. You know, one of those attackish-commericials that McCain's been doing for ages and you don't seem quite fond of? Yeah, you may want to work on that.
All in all, thanks for posting this vid, DDC!
Oh, sigh…
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Oh, no, joe, turn that chin-music down on loooooowwww.
And it IS really great that you and Hillary get along.
But in this tiny-tube "frame", it would be really great to get wonkier and wonkier, and let us know in very specific detail just what it is you can do to fix this unlawful government.
1) We need 2, 3 or 4 broadcast channels set aside for FREE (FREE FREE) political campaign advertising–24 hours a day, 365.25 days per year (rounding for leap year). You can introduce, and maybe even pass, right now, in this 110th Congress, legislation to do this. The "airwaves" are "the people's airwaves.
And dropping the cost out of broadcast campaign advertising — which I think is the very largest expense of our profoundly broken election system — would go at least a couple of baby-steps towards neutering the influence of money in politics.
2). Here's a totally Quixotic proposal: We need to impose a windfall profits tax on ROPI–Return on Political Investment. This will take a good bit of work–honesty would be simpler, but we know that's no longer in the human repertoire–but it would be well worth it, both in terms of revenue and in terms of "transparency."
Here's the drill: All legislation would have a new section, called The Return on Political Investment, or ROPI, section. This section would have two sub-sections.
Subsection A, the Political Investment Section, would set out exactly what companies, countries, individuals or any other entities who have an interest in this legislation donated in campaign funds, free airplane trips, parties, the fair market value of the salaries of any family members hired by corporations that are in any way affected by federal legislation or regulation.
Subsection B is the "Return on Investment, or just "Return" subsection. In this subsection would be the calculated, quantified, listed benefits the interests listed in Subsection A are expected to receive, upon the passage of the legislation and its being signed into law and taking effect.
We would probably need a citizens' ROPI Commission to watch over these sections of every bill. And they would be required to track the impact of the legislation for no less than 30 years (the length of what used to be a standard household mortgage)
Companies, individuals, etc., enumerated in Subsection A of the ROPI section would be permitted a 15% return on investment. That is, if they donated, caused to be donated, etc., 100,000 dollars to any given governmental individual, entitity, party, coimmittee, etc., they would be permitted to receive, tax free, 115,000 dollars' return.
Any benefit they received from their Sub-A investments above 115,000 dollars, would be taxed at a flat rate of 100%. The goal here, obviously, is to eliminate the exorbitant ROPIs that are a thousand-fold greater than the original "donation" or investment.
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