Presidential Candidates?

[asterroc]

And my next question for y'all is a request for a summary of a few presidential candidates' stances. I am (in rough order)

1) pro-education (including science education/evolution),
2) pro-gay marriage, pro-environment,
3) pro-universal healthcare, pro-choice,
4) anti-interference in other nations, and pro-union

The candidates I am particularly curious about on these topics are now Clinton and Obama compare, and how Guiliani and McCain compare. I'm also curious about Huckabee, but a bit less so. Ideally I'd love to see a handy-dandy table that lists how all candidates stack up on these (and other topics). I'm sure this's out there on the internetz, even in the exact abbreviated table form that I want, but again, I don't know where.

Comments

[blahblahboy.livejournal.com]

I don't want to get into a row about political issues (or with anybody reading this), but I've been meaning to ask for your view on higher education. And it's about people who go to college just for the sake of going to college -- ie., their parents say "go to college and we'll pay for it". I think college is really what you make of it, and I wonder what percentage of college students actually learn their $100-200K of information there, as opposed to if they went directly to jail [workforce -- assuming it was allowed] and didn't pass college. Are we nurturing an optimally efficient education system?


Also, my view is that the government should be providing public services and tools to improve the general standard of living without infringing on one person's choices to please another. (read: little to no interference) Obviously gray areas abound. Should the government bail out home owners who did not read (understand!?) their shady mortgage terms and just signed it and are now about to lose their homes? Would that be fair to those of us who are still saving to buy a place, or those who saved diligently and bought within their means? An analogous argument is with universal health care. A lot of us work very hard for our health care benefits, and pay taxes for social security and medicare benefits, which is likely something we will never see come back. I don't understand why pro-choice people also want higher taxes, since that leaves citizens with less choice for how their dollars should be spent.