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Questions About The Inauguration And My Thoughts

Steely Dan

By Steely Dan
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Religion In Presidential Choices  

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  1. 1. To me the President of the United States must be...

    • A member of a mainstream religious group and represent my views
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    • Must be Christian, Protestant or Catholic or Mormon and represent my views
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    • Must be Christian Protestant or Catholic and represent my views
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    • Must be Protestant and represent my views
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    • Must be religious: Christian, Jewish or Muslim and represent my views
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    • Must be religious: Christian or Jewish and represnt my views
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    • Must be Jewish and represent my views
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    • Must be Muslim and represent my views
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    • Can belong to a non mainstream religion and represent my views, please explain
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    • A guy who believes in God but doesn't subscribe to any organized religion and represent my views
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    • Must be atheist and represent my views
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    • I really don't give a crap as long he seems intelligent and represents my views
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    • Must be Catholic and represent my views
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Why do all of your options have "represent my views"? Why does the president have to represent my views? Why are my views right? I'm smart enough to know that I don't know everything. Anyone who thinks their views are always right is a fool.

 

Goodness, all I want is someone very intelligent and full of integrity in office. The rest is just gravy.

 

This is not meant for you conner, specifically, but I find it curious that a lot of people are saying that the person they vote for doesn't have to represent their views? If you don't care about issues enough to take them seriously. Then, IMO, you shouldn't vote.

 

 

The fight for independence was about the right to control your own destiny. No taxation without representation, something the American leadership would have had the right to had their ancestors not moved to the colonies.

 

The reason for the increase in taxes at that time was to help pay for the (very large) costs of the war which had ended the threat to the American colonies from the French. So the taxation was for something that had ALREADY benefitted the American colonies.

 

The excessive bit is not really accurate as well (the tax burden on Americans was comparatively pretty small, a merchant in Boston would pay about one twentieth the amount in taxes as a merchant in Liverpool, with the only difference between them being their location).

 

So the whole "taxation without represntation" thing is just a big lie? :worthy:

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