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richie2044 Posted: Wed, Sep 24 2008 7:16 AM

Are these leading questions?

"A poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, asking a different question, found that Americans, by 57-30 percent, favored government action to save financial companies.

The Pew poll told respondents that the government is ``potentially investing billions to try and keep financial institutions and markets secure'' and asked whether that's the right thing to do. The Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll asked whether ``the government should use taxpayers' dollars to rescue ailing private financial firms whose collapse could have adverse effects on the economy and market, or is it not the government's responsibility to bail out private companies with taxpayers' dollars?"

 

I also find interesting how respondents in the Bloomberg poll want no government intervention, but trust Obama more to better handle the "financial crisis". Is that not contradictory?

 

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richie2044:
I also find interesting how respondents in the Bloomberg poll want no government intervention, but trust Obama more to better handle the "financial crisis". Is that not contradictory?

 

Everyone trusts Barry for no reason at all.  The only thing I would trust Barack Obama to do is to traffic illegal drugs for me, because he already has a pretty good background in that.

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Jonathan:

richie2044:
I also find interesting how respondents in the Bloomberg poll want no government intervention, but trust Obama more to better handle the "financial crisis". Is that not contradictory?

 

Everyone trusts Barry for no reason at all.  The only thing I would trust Barack Obama to do is to traffic illegal drugs for me, because he already has a pretty good background in that.

I would trust him to ruin our economy. Wait, I would also trust McCain to ruin the economy. Unless by some miracle neither McCain nor Obama wins we are screwed. I am voting for Charles Jay. http://www.cj08.com/

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