Posted on 02/22/2006 1:42:25 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina
Doubly so due to the fact that ZERO ports are being sold. This is simply the contract for port operations (in Baltimore, for instance, 2 of 12 terminals).
"With that kind of inane, childish showmanship, she should be running for the head of the DNC.
Presisely, the fact that she may be running for governor explains a lot.
"Your CAFTA vote is going to sink you, no matter how hard you try to appease after the fact."
Did she vote for or against CAFTA?
It would be fitting if Haliburton were to buy the UAE company and then they would be the hero.
Since foreign companies already run ports, such as China running LA, wouldn't this bill be a Bill of Attainder based on race?
"Did she vote for or against CAFTA?"
We're in NC. Which do you think would be problematic, here?
The ports are ran by P&O now... which is based in the UK. Why is selling them a travesty?
Nah... no split.... most are too cowardly to lead and the rest have too hard a time following along without being distracted by a noisy dim or a loose headline.
Way to go Sue!
Poor thing must have lost her way or forgot where she was.
It's a loss of orientation thing.
Those objecting to the acquisition of Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. of London by Dubai Ports World are displaying irrational fear and political demagoguery. Perhaps they would like to stop all trade with the Middle East, and ban all Arabs from investing in the U.S.? One Arab prince owns millions of shares of Citibank - should he be forced to sell it all right now? Perhaps the morons in Congress would like to stop importing oil from Arab countries? Hey, why not stop all trade with Communist China too?
If anything, the acquisition will bring increased scrutiny to port activities. The sale is in accordance with free enterprise, economic sense, and the rule of current law.
"Which do you think would be problematic, here?"
I guess that means she voted for CAFTA, and if she had voted against it would have been a tie and another expensive trade agreement wouldn't be bringing the third world a little closer to home.
But of course emotive hysteria and political grandstanding is SO much easier then THOUGHT for the Whine All The Time crowd. Hard to determine which is more appalling, the Port Deal foes ignorance or their bigotry.
Except that "foreign Company is OWNED by the government. So in effect it is a contract that ceded those posts to a foreign nation .. and according to the news Bush was clueless on this deal, as were the congress and the senate.
Our enemies do not need to attack us, we will give them anything they want
It is not a buy, it is a lease.
Sorry my man but I just can't get excited about that old time populism. It reeks of small mindedness. It reeks of cowardice. It's just so Al gore.
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