Republican Congressional candidate Ari David made attempted to make an iPhone app recently, only to have it turned down because the “content in the app is defamatory of my opponent”. I’ll let him talk about what points he was trying to make here:
HENRY WAXMAN…
SUPPORTED Cap & Trade legislation that would have brought us $7 a gallon gas and as President Obama has stated would make electricity rates “necessarily sky rocket.” (This one is well known considering that Waxman sponsored the bill in the House and President Obama is famous for making the statement about the need under his plan for “skyrocketing” electricity rates).
VOTED TO CUT Medicare spending by a half a trillion dollars which would severely hurt seniors. Time to go Henry! (This one is also well known since the Health Care Reform bill just passed a few weeks ago).
VOTED AGAINST missile defense funding, which jeopardized the US and Israel (Waxman is famous for voting against missile defense program funding going all the way back to 1983 when Reagan first proposed the SDI system).
TRIED to make over-the-counter vitamins and supplements prescription only (On this one, Waxman’s original bill was defeated a few years ago but last week, lo and behold, Waxman inserted this language into the House version of the Financial Reform Bill AFTER IT HAD ALREADY PASSED!).
TRIED TO STRANGLE family farms with insane Soviet-Style regulation (Many people have not yet heard about this one so here is the documentation on it. My only problem with calling it “Soviet Style” is that even the Soviet’s would have been challenged to come up with something so stupid to do to our farming industry:http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3878/pub_detail.asp).
This is not a political blog, so I’m not going to discuss the statements themselves, except to say using the term “Soviet Style” really does nothing to further the political discourse in this nation, nor does it show an understanding of the underpinnings of the Soviet governance style. The comments on the article are…interesting.
Plus, he calls the device an “I Phone” [sic].
To the best of my knowledge, Apple has intentionally shied away from political apps, on both sides of the aisle. I don’t think there are any apps for individual candidates up for election.
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“Soviet Style” is an accurate characterization of Waxman’s proposed regulation of family farms. I think the analogy does further the political discourse in this nation, because this type of government regulation will promote backward economic policies similar to those that bankrupted the Soviets. I don’t need further understanding of the underpinnings of the Soviet governance style—it is obsolete—other than to know what governance style should be avoided. Waxman’s style should be avoided as obsolete. Interesting you said you weren’t going to discuss the statements themselves, yet chose to put them down. How does a random unsupported snide remark such as that further political discourse? What a typical liberal socialist double standard…makes me contemplate removing my link to this website from my list of favorites.
I think you should definitely remove the link to this site.
I also think it’s is almost a necessity that Apple deny any political apps. Can you imagine what the app store would look like?! Imagine, too, all the abandoned apps after elections are over? Not to mention the fact that modern politics has greatly devolved into little more than party line name calling, fear mongering, and finger pointing. Trying to manage and moderate the content of a bunch of adults with adolescent behavior would be a nightmare!
As far as the statements made by the candidate in this example – discourse is not exactly the right term as it means an extended conversation (not necessarily good or bad). It doesn’t promote intelligent discourse. It DOES promote discord. It also ensures that any meaningful progress won’t be made for the betterment of our nation until the idiots engaged in such activity are drummed out.
I don’t want or need to have discourse with people whose political philosophy is “soviet style”—that’s an example of the discord between socialists and conservatives. I also don’t want to “coexist” or be “inclusive” with socialists—it is enough that I pay the taxes that support their worthless meaningless existence. I want to avoid them as much as possible, and to the extent that visiting this website promotes the financial success of the owners, if said owners espouse a fondness for socialism, I will avoid this website. My opinion is luckily in the majority, hence socialist-leaning media outlets are going bankrupt (thousands of liberal newspapers, etc) and conservative-leaning ones are thriving (WSJ, Fox, talk radio)—free market capitalism at its best! To see socialists lose their jobs, their homes, and wind up on foodstamps makes conservatives like me feel warm and happy. And yes, I’m smug—I’m rich, b****, and all you pukey socialists AIN’T. <>
Good luck in your narrow minded ignorance, then. Tell Rush and Glenn hello once you all buy your own little island somewhere so you can participate in tickle parties and circle jerks without public ridicule. And please hurry and remove the link to this site, it’s taking far too much valuable energy from the obviously limited intellectual resources you need for things like breathing and pooping…
…breathing, and pooping, and paying YOUR taxes, sucka, don’t you forget as you suckle on the socialist teat that I support…
I like to pull up next to a Prius driven by some Homer Q. Milqtoast (aka minivini) on the highway and drop the hammer in my Porsche Turbo 911, instantly burning more fuel than that Prius manages to save all week, and blowing my exhaust gases all over the Prius to add insult to injury. Meanwhile, Homer Q squints his beady little eyes and mutters “oh nubbins.”
Wow, you’re quite the big talker, aren’t you? You’re a very good stereotype for the overcompensating self important moron that is trying to choke our government. How old are you, like 12? Meanwhile, since you brought it up, I’ve outdriven more Porshes on the autocross circuit in my ’73 Mini than you’d care to admit. You’re nothing more than a lazy, pathetic, ignorant, scared little man who’d rather be told what to think by a loud fanatic than actually research and form your own opinion. Now, go back into your room and finish your little tantrum with the only person who really cares what you think – your reflection in the mirror.
For the record, please don’t label yourself a republican as they would undoubtedly be ashamed to have you listed among their ranks.
You race an old mini? That’s cool—NOT. If you don’t pay federal taxes, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote in federal elections, and your opinion won’t matter. Like I said earlier: SUCK ON THE TEAT.
NEW MOTTO: NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION!
Your circular, inane comments have grown tiresome. As you are likely well accustomed, you are now all alone with nothing more than your delusions. You should consider leaving political discussions to people with at least some intellectual prowess. To your credit, you’ve done an outstanding job proving your lack thereof.
Now for the public service announcement – for the sake of mankind, please refrain from breeding. The population needs fewer imbeciles and you appear to be one of their leaders.
I suppose this discourse is proof of why we don’t need political apps in the App Store. One can imagine the ratings, comments, petitions to have apps removed…makes the head spin.
I’m glad this is a tech blog, and that not all posts are swamped with this sort of garbage.
Broke-ass socialists who drive old minis are thankfully kept out of the gene pool, ipso facto, or as is more likely in minivini’s case, “ipso fatso”.