Remember the calls for a presidential debate on science? Well, Science Debate 2008 didn’t end up getting a live event, but its “top 14 science questions facing America” get extensive answers from John McCain and Barack Obama on topics from water to stem cell research to biosecurity.
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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Obama puts out the message of change at the tax payers expense…
While McCain actually has and shows his plan on what he would do to support, promote and advance science.
Obama, the candidate of fluff.
I think both candidates did a pretty good job. One charge that is regularly made against McCain by Democratic partisans is that McCain would be “McSame” in comparison with Bush. I don’t think he would. Bush was disinterested in learning anything once he came to a conclusion on a matter, which is why he was such an awful president, especially on scientific matters. I don’t think either presidential candidate is like that (I do have substantial concerns that McCain’s VICE-presidential candidate would be like Bush, but even worse).
Bringing this issue of science closer to home, here are Tiahrt’s answers to science-related questions:
http://sharp.sefora.org/people/house/todd-tiahrt/
And, here are the answers Betts gave to the same questions:
http://sharp.sefora.org/people/house/donald-betts/
If you begin at the click provided in the thread header you will find a wealth of information available. Looks like I will have a great Sunday afternoon of research and reading ahead. ;-)
If you would like to see the answers Obama and McCain gave side by side go under their pictures (at the link provided in thread header) and click on one of the categories listed:
Innovation | Climate Change | Energy | Education | National Security | Pandemics and Biosecurity
Genetics | Stem Cells | Ocean Health | Water | Space | Scientific Integrity | Research | Health
Once there you can read each candidate’s answer and even have the opportunity to comment or vote on how they did with their answers.
I was as amused as I was horrified by the opinion line caller who said that he was voting for McCane specifically because he’s computer illiterate. Stupidity always votes for more stupidity, and we wonder why government doesn’t function?
Add that along to the person interviewed on the street who stated they would vote for McCain because Sara Palin is a hunter.
Given that the average American only reads on an 8th grade level, I’m not too surprized.
I predict Palin will drop out of the race before the debate on Thursday.
If Palin doesn’t drop out, McCain is toast. I hope she stays in.
Maybe she has watched her own interviews and dedicated herself to at least a few answers that aren’t rambling and are coherent. If she concentrates maybe she could memorize them and repeat them verbatim at the debate. She, of course, will not be able to expand or explain, but a few sentences hung together that are clear and understandable would be a great improvement.
She has set the bar low enough that might be enough. Whatever her performance, whether she improves or not, we will hear from some on this blog that she was ___________ (fill in the blank with your most glowing compliments).
What an amazing prediction Linda.
Let me make one too:
Whatever her performance, whether she improves or not, we will hear from some on this blog that she was ___________ (fill in the blank with your most negative criticisms).
Mary,
Just like those interviews with people who say they are voting for Obama because he is black.
If Palin drops out it will only serve to give you liberals vindication and confirm what you have been saying.
You will only attack McCain even more for picking her in the first place and use that to say he has no judgement.
Even if we accept the premise that Palin is not good enough to be VP, dropping out will hurt McCain more at this point than help him.
Either way, if she were to stay or to go, you and the other liberals will not be happy and will continue to attack McCain.
“Nathaniel” –
At least you admit that our criticism of the Moose-Dresser has been focused on her weaknesses and not her gender.
You should also admit that Palin wasn’t a policy choice, but a political ploy. A Hail-Mary play to gin up interest in the Republic Party convention.
Just as when John S (for Senile) McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) “suspended” his campaign one day and unsuspended it the next. He’s zigged and zagged so much on issues the Straight Talk Express is plunging off the cliff.
MonkeyHawk,
Actually, about 90% of the things I have seen here by the left has been pushing the lies and rumors which have been debunked many many times now.
I see you have been brainwashed with the liberal media by using the “hail mary” phrase. Do you have any original ideas of your own?
I would hardly call saying he wanted to postpone the debates and then go forward with it as being contrary to the Straight Talk express or aiding him in going off any cliff.
Typical liberal no win argument. You attack McCain for wanting to postpone the debates and then attack him for going forward with the debates.
Nathaniel posted September 28, 2008 at 5:26 pm
“Typical liberal no win argument. You attack McCain for wanting to postpone the debates and then attack him for going forward with the debates.”
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Prove the “liberals” wrong Nathaniel.
Post your “valid reasons” for McCain to have weaseled out of last Fridays debate.
Then post how those “valid reasons” went away, allowing McCain to go to the debate.
And he’s attacked for trying to weasel out of the debate — possibly to bump the VP debate to a later date.
That’d give Sarah ‘I have foreign policy credentials because I’m Gov of Alaska’ Palin more time to memorize her talking points.
Nathaniel,
Aren’t you going to list the “valid reasons” last Wednesday for McCain to weasel out of the debate, that went away Friday morning?
Because of the Bush Administration, the dead end, bottomless pit of tax dollar funded, mainstream scientists and pharmaceutical companies rejected embryonic stem cell research was prohibited on the Federal level. Because of this it was soon after discovered that adult stem cells could be made to do what embryonic stem cells were blindly believed to do in the far off future! At least that’s what the unscrupulous little research entities with their hands out waiting for those unlimited billions of dollars of government tax money predicted anyway.