Deeds a proven leader; will boost education

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I am a member of the United Auto Workers Local 2807. I am supporting Creigh Deeds for governor because he cares about the issues important to working people in Southwest Virginia. He has strong support from the labor movement. He has received endorsements from UAW Region 8, the Virginia AFL-CIO and the United Mine Workers of America. He cares about the issue of health care and believes it should be more accessible and affordable. The unions are very passionate about this issue, on the state and national level.
Creigh Deeds cares about education. He wants teacher pay raised to the national average and more investment in early childhood education. He is an avid hunter. He has received an A rating from the National Rifle Association for fighting for gun rights.
I truly believe Creigh Deeds has a real plan to make things better for the people of Southwest Virginia. I encourage the voters of Southwest Virginia to vote for a proven leader, Creigh Deeds, state senator from Bath County, on Nov. 3, as our next governor of Virginia.

Mark Rose
Cleveland, Va.

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Flag Comment Posted by commonsense on November 03, 2009 at 10:37 am

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I understand for I lived EVERY day of my tour in Viet Nam too.  It is unforgettable and that’s just a fact of life.  If we forget our past mistakes we are more than just ‘prone’ to repeat them.  Placing troops in harm’s way and then not supporting them with complete and full conviction is tantamount to treasonous immorality.

As for Palin?  Well, Joe Biden is just short of a buffoon and he’s proven it several times since the election.  I suggest we don’t waste time on debating Palin & Biden…

Flag Comment Posted by Next ? on November 02, 2009 at 1:24 pm

common,
  I used Mrs. Palin as one example to prove to you that Mr. Obama wasn’t in the the “controversial” boat by himself. Mr. McCain had oar’s in the water as well.
  No I don’t have a child in our armed forces, but would be proud of them if they were.
  Here’s the answer to your last question, Yes! do you remember a place called Vietnam, I try to forget those days. So think again.

Flag Comment Posted by commonsense on November 02, 2009 at 11:37 am

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Yes, I do believe what I post here-

Further, you sure extract a lot of assumptrions from the simple statement I made, but that’s not unusual.  I’m not a huge Palin fan, but that’s not the subject here.

Obama is definitely taqking this country in the wrong direction and there are many, many controversial characters surrounding him.

He is not supporting the troops- he’s not even supporting McChrystal- do you have a son or daughter over there?

Did you ever serve in combat without full support?

I think not…

Flag Comment Posted by Next ? on November 02, 2009 at 10:27 am

Come on common, get rear here. Do you really believe everything you type or do you just type to give your fingers something to do. We all know why Mrs. Palin was choosen as Mr. McCains running mate. If Mrs. Clinton had not been a candidate and was attracting women to that side of the fence we would not even know who Sara Palin was. Do you still believe Mr. McCain’s choice wasn’t “controversial”, if you do then you’ve been living in a box.
  As to your remark about “our troops would be recieving support” (if Mr. McCain had been elected) you apparently forgot about the lack of support our troops recieved when we were thrown into this mess without a life jacket. Our troops could not continue the war in Iraq under McCains adopted Bush policies, fact not fiction. That old saying “If you are a hammer the world is a nail” applied to Mr. McCains military strategies in Iraq, hence one of the many reasons he lost the election.
  That was then, we need to look at now and toward the next three years. That being said here is a revelation for you to chew on. If things aren’t better three years from now than what it was a year ago there’s a good possibility I won’t be voting the way I did last year, will you.

Flag Comment Posted by commonsense on November 02, 2009 at 8:25 am

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That was the rhetoric on McCain, but only rhetoric…

At least McCain wouldn’t have surrounded himself with so many controversial people and our TROOPS WOULD BE RECEIVING SUPPORT !!!

Flag Comment Posted by scott cottrill on November 02, 2009 at 7:40 am

Dear FDR, Aside from Carlin’s crude language, he was pretty much right on, so why are you quoting him if you, as your handle indicates, believe FDR was right?  FDR was one of the club as has been every politician since then.  Carlin’s comments support what I have written in many previous posts and have borrowed from John Taylor Gatto’s writings, that government education was created to make the good little workers you wrote of.  That and all teh mindless entertainment shows on TV like DWTS, Survivor, etc.  They keep the people anesthetized so they don’t think about what is being done to them.  I pray for the day that people wake up to the fact that life is too important to let others control us with fasle promises and mind control politics.  Turn off your TV’s, use your brains and read a book for a change!

Flag Comment Posted by Next ? on November 01, 2009 at 11:15 am

commonsence
  You hit the nail on the head with only one thing you wrote and that was “You were warned prior to your vote” That’s right we all were warned, that’s how Obama was elected, now you are getting smart. We were warned that if we elected Mr. McCain we would only see more of the Bush failed policies and thousands of our young people laying down their lives toward a cause, twisted by our leaders, to make us believe it was all for freedom.

Flag Comment Posted by commonsense on October 31, 2009 at 5:53 am

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I’m not at all bothered by your comments- I’m independent from both Parties and abhor Party, partisan governance.

What I do have a problem with, is voting for any candidate you can’t endorse.  You should have stayed home, but now you’re stuck with his poor governance & policies.

You were warned prior to your vote…

Flag Comment Posted by The Curmudgeon on October 31, 2009 at 1:03 am

Who are you trying to kid? Deeds is a loser and I hope the Republicans take all seats in Virginia and New Jersey and that conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman takes NY23! Power to the people! Right On!

Flag Comment Posted by fdr wuzright on October 30, 2009 at 1:22 pm

Bottom Line: “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t.

You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the b—-s.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to get what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f——d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f—-in’ years ago. They don’t want that.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh—tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your f—-in’ retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f—-in’ place.

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.

The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich c—-suckers who don’t give a f—k about you. They don’t give a f—k about you . . . they don’t give a f—k about you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d—k that’s being jammed up their a———s everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it…“
— George Carlin

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