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[QUOTE]Originally posted by irishchieftain: [QB] [QUOTE]As far as the election was concerned, when McCain said that cutting off all federal funding for Amtrak was a "non-negotiable issue", that was all I needed to know[/QUOTE]So you are a one-issue voter? Technically, this is a one-issue forum, but translating that one issue to the rest of life's matters, and what a presidential candidate might or might not do in office, does not happen so smoothly. McCain has already demonstrated flexibility and, dare I say it, inconsistency in regards to his positions, making him much more like his former opponent than he himself would confess to. To borrow a talking point from the 2004 election, although the phrase stayed out of the media this time, this was indeed the "year of the flip-floppers" on both sides. If anyone has been looking at the newswires, the president-elect is being pounded by our "allies" from a whole host of directions, from Russia, Iran, China and the EU, the last of whom is insisting on actually renegotiating the Bretton Woods agreement. If Obama is even given any [i]time[/i] to think about domestic infrastructure, never mind Amtrak, and where to get the money to pay any for it, then that will be a triumph for his handlers and himself, although I myself expect the pressures to only escalate and take away time from much of those matters. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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