personally, i wish Obama wouldnt have such a harsh stance on Nuclear energy... now, if he had it where he would Expand our Nuclear energy, WHILE funding research into renewable energies, then he'd have my vote. lets face it, we need the energy soon, research and development for new technology takes YEARs..
The trouble with nuclear energy is that it's quite a paradox. In theory it should produce cheap electricity. However, due to the necessary safeguards and complexity of the systems, it turns out to be very expensive. It's sort of like the rockets we used to reach the moon, but now development has been stifled due to cost and long ignored but still viable technology. Human greed, laziness, corruption, errors, and substandard workmanship, show up all too easily in a nuclear power plant, with the potential of widespread disaster. I lived through the doom and gloom issues of the meltdown at Three Mile Island, in my home state of PA. I'm a big advocate of nuclear power generation, but I have a very dim view of the people who would be charged with bringing it about. It's a great idea, but everyone connected with the construction of a new nuclear facility, would need a serious attitude adjustment, and quite frankly. I don't think we've evolved that far yet.
The idea of "putting people to work and creating jobs " in the field of new methods of generating power is great, but where does the money come from. It seems to me that it would, by necessity come from increased taxes, or printing more currency, since for quite some time you would be locked into a profitless business model. After which, there wouldn't be a salable product for years and years.
I sort of disagree with the idea that Obama isn't qualified to be president. Actually no one person is. That office is sort of like the manager's job in a sports team. There's a lot of delegating to be done, and I think the biggest part of the office is making the right decisions about who does what, not doing it yourself. Anyone who remembers Donald Rumsfield, should be aware that those delegations can go horribly wrong as well.
It is a sad commentary on our politics that ideas and principles come in packages. This is the biggest flaw in the system that someone is for abortion, must be against nuclear power. Opinions that come in prepackaged bundles really cripple the system. Why not have "conservrabrels", ant then rein them in to do the actual will of the electorat?. See, now I sound like another crackpot huckstering a book on "Utopia".
Anyway, John McCain presents himself as a smirking, condescending @#$%^&*(/. If he can' present a civil face in a nationally televised debate, I wonder how he would fare with dignataries of foreign states. Probably about as well as Geoge Bush, but with a bad attitude.
A final thought: One of the big questions about JFK was, whether or not he was too young and inexperienced to be president. Or, since he was a Catholic would the Pope be running the Whitehouse. Another example might be, was Ronald Regan just an actor. What do you think?
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