Obama’s Fairness Doctrine, Iran/Russia gas cartel and Palin, some “character” concerns, race-baiting for Dummies, and Secret Service finds NO ONE yelled “kill him”
By LisaB on October 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM in Arrogance, Ayers, Backtrack Obama, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Campaign promises, Hispanic vote, John Lewis, John McCain, Keith Olbermann, Latinos, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Race, Race Card, Racism
While pundits talk endlessly and badly about the debate (that CNN panel is ridiculous – isn’t anyone embarrassed to be there? They should be), I thought I’d look around and see what else is out there.
1)The NYPost talks about Joe the Plumber today. It calls Obama’s “economic plan” a wealth redistribution scheme.
Obama’s plan isn’t about sinking hooks into Wall Street CEOs and other fat cats, as he usually says. Fact is, there’s not enough of them to raise the cash necessary to finance his other grand plans.
No, to do that, he’ll have to go after ambitious working-class guys like Wurzelbacher – who’s been a plumber for 15 years and is looking to better himself and his family while just maybe creating a few jobs.
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Heretofore, Obama has sought to paint himself as a tax-cutter – claiming he’ll slash taxes for 95 percent of Americans.As we noted yesterday, that’s a flat-out lie – not least because nearly half of all tax filers pay no income tax at all. So how can he “cut” their taxes if they don’t pay any to begin with?
Answer: tax “credits.”
To wit, in part:
* A $1,000 “make work pay” credit.
* A $4,000 college-tuition credit.
* A $6,000 child-care credit.
* A $1,100 bump in the earned-income tax credit.These aren’t to be income-tax deductions – which would be worthless to those who pay no income taxes.
These are to be checks from Washington – with the subsidies expected to grow to more than $1 trillion in 10 years.
That’s a massive transfer of wealth.
How does Obama justify it?
“Fairness,” he says.
But that’s an absurdly radical view of what’s “fair.”
Read the rest ->
“Fair” has nothing to do with it. But, luckily or not, depending on how you look at it (gallows humor there), our economic situation may make this “plan” go the way of Obama’s principled stands on NAFTA, FISA, etc. etc.
2)Today’s IBD has an article about Iran and a potential natural gas cartel – featuring Iran and Russia – to function somewhat like OPEC. Except a forward thinking elected official is taking steps to nullify any effect of such a gas carte. Sarah Palin.
Energy: Iran resurrected its idea of a “gas cartel” to control gas markets like oil. But even if it succeeds, the U.S. won’t be vulnerable. If you wonder why, look to the governor of Alaska.
That’s right, Gov. Sarah Palin took a powerful preemptive step in August to shield the U.S. from a coming gas cartel. Palin’s effort to create the Trans-Canada Alaska gas line — which would provide a vast new trove of natural gas each day to the U.S. — effectively nullifies the emerging gas cartel’s potential impact on America.
If OPEC strikes you as a bad group, the new cartel for natural gas, led by Russia and Iran, will be even worse.
Russia has made standoffish statements about the plan, but won’t repudiate it. “A gas OPEC is an interesting idea,” then-President Vladimir Putin declared last year. Based on Russia’s moves since, the Heritage Foundation’s Ariel Cohen believes it’s a stealth move from the Kremlin to keep buyers unperturbed as the cartel slowly forms.
He’s right. This week in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quietly drew up the organization’s charter and will take it to Moscow next week.
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. . . The market is changing fast. Global trade in liquified natural gas, or LNG, which requires no pipelines, will grow sharply. The U.S. will see a 58% increase in LNG imports in just two years, according to the Energy Department.As the U.S. uses more natural gas, Iran’s Gas Exporting Countries Forum is taking off. Instead of the tough task of controlling prices right away, the group will first gain control of reserves through state firms in 14 countries, including hostile states such as Venezuela and Bolivia.
The next step will be “cooperative” ventures to strengthen the network. The final goal is to control production.
It’s nothing but a scheme to carve up monopoly spheres of influence that can tell customers whom they can buy from. That will kill competition and create incentives for meddling. Russia, which readily cuts off gas to neighbors over political disputes, has signaled that it will keep using gas as a political weapon.
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As for U.S., already fairly self-sufficient in natural gas, we will be in a more solid position to defy the coercion. Palin’s pre-emptive step to foil Ahmadinejad’s scheme is in the Alaska gas line. In an Amazonian move, Palin effectively beat back the ambitious petrotyrants 10 years early with her $40 billion, 1,715-mile gas pipeline across Canada that will bring 4.5 trillion cubic feet of gas a day — nearly one-fifth projected needs — to the lower 48 within a decade.Almost entirely off the news radar, Palin mowed down 30 years of legislative squabbling in the Alaska statehouse and then triumphantly signed off on the pipeline in August, stating her aim was energy independence.
“Alaska should be the leader of an energy policy that gets us there,” she told IBD over the summer.
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Her gas line shows . . . foresight, this time aimed at neutralizing enemies that will otherwise grow in strength. Palin’s pipeline will be a critical strike for energy security against petrotyrants intent on extending their influence. It will come online at precisely the moment the gas cartel could develop into a power.
This isn’t to say petrotyrants will go away, that the U.S. won’t be in the crossfire. U.S. self-sufficiency in natural gas will be roughly equivalent to Brazil’s in oil. The South American country which sees few problems from petrotyrants in the wake of its oil independence based on its willingness to drill. The U.S. likely will have the same strength in natural gas.
Energy security is a peculiar concept. Conventional wisdom holds that the U.S. has too few resources to bother drilling. But a nation need not have massive oil reserves for independence; all it needs are competitive alternatives — such as natural gas. Heading off the gas cartel is an important move, and Palin deserves recognition.
Palin’s foresight is a major contribution to U.S. energy security that will reverberate well beyond the election, no matter how it turns out.
In a couple of years when it is clear how the economic mess will fall out and whether or not the US works to change its energy use patterns, this pipeline will probably be one of very few examples of foresight. And hopefully I’ll be around to remind MSM idiots this is the official they said couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. That’s our press – always fighting the last war.
3)The San Diego Union-Tribune has an op-ed saying Obama’s truthfulness should be questioned.
Any day now, I expect Barack Obama to call a news conference, wag his finger to the cameras, and announce with all the sincerity he can muster: “I did not have a substantive relationship with that Weatherman, Mr. Ayers.”
Of course, the way things are going, Obama may not have to lift a finger, let alone wag one. He might be able to run out the clock and avoid comment on continuing questions involving his involvement with a Hyde Park neighbor and unrepentant domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
————–. . . here is what the voters should care about: Obama’s truthfulness, which is now in question. Over the last few months, we’ve learned that Obama and Ayers had more than just a “flimsy” relationship that included Ayers hosting a political gathering at his home for Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and the two serving together on various panels and boards. Ayers was also a founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group. Obama served as chairman of its board from 1995 to ‘99, using the position to launch his political career.
Recently, Obama pulled back the curtain an inch. He told reporters that, during his association with Ayers, he had heard about the English professor’s radical past but assumed Ayers had been rehabilitated. Ayers’ ghoulish comments about not setting enough bombs suggest otherwise.
I put no stock in the politics of guilt by association. And even associating with ghouls should not hurt someone’s bid for the presidency. But lying about it is another story. It could be a warning of things to come.
Yeah. Kinda late, dude. Wish you had been there earlier. Then your op-ed might have been meaningful.
4)At the Boston Globe, another op-ed saying something quite similar. It begins by talking about other public figures who have been “guilty by association” such as Ronald Reagan (using the phrase “states’ rights” in MS). Then he goes here:
In none of these cases was there anything like the long relationship that Barack Obama had for so many years with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the incendiary, America-damning pastor he described for years as his mentor, his sounding board, and his friend. In none of them was there anything comparable to Obama’s significant involvement with William Ayers, the domestic-terrorist-turned-extremist-professor with whom Obama worked closely at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, channeling more than $100 million into radical education projects.
Nor was anything in the Reagan, Bush, or Alito episodes akin to Obama’s highly profitable relationship with Tony Rezko, the crooked Chicago businessman and political fixer who was convicted in June on multiple counts of fraud, corrupt solicitation, and money laundering. In the course of their 17-year relationship, Rezko directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Obama’s political war chests; he also facilitated the Obamas’ purchase of a $1.6 million mansion by agreeing to buy the adjoining lot from the same seller.
————But it isn’t ridiculous to question the values of a candidate whose political career got its start in the Chicago living room of violent traitors like Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, who have never expressed remorse for the brutal crimes they committed in the Weather Underground. There is nothing unfair about wondering how Obama could have worshipped for 20 years in Wright’s church, yet never objected to the fanatic pastor’s virulent messages: that AIDS was created by the US government as an instrument of genocide, that America is the “US of KKKA,” that the 9/11 slaughter was “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”
Guilt by association? Not when the associations have such deep roots or raise such troubling questions about Obama’s character and judgment. It was only in the heat of a presidential campaign that Obama finally repudiated his alliances with Ayers, Wright, and Rezko. It isn’t irresponsible to ask what those associations tell us about a man poised to be the next president of the United States. It would be irresponsible not to.
What two of these editorials now? Think some MSM are issuing these “just in case” or what? Yeah, thanks for this insight dude. Should have been around, what, oh – months ago.
5)Fox had a roundtable on the John Lewis spew and how race-baiting has worked this election cycle. Charles Krauthammer explained how it works – just as we’ve been talking about here at NQ all along.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: When John McCain runs an ad with a white woman, Paris Hilton in it, he is accused of racism. He runs an ad with Franklin Raines, the former head of Fannie Mae in it, who is African-American, and that’s racist. And then he runs an ad with William Ayers, who is a white male in it, and that’s racist.
If it weren’t so comical, these promiscuous accusations of racism, it would be tragic.
The Obama campaign has been playing the race card over and over again. Look, this is a campaign that in the primaries succeeded in painting Bill Clinton as a racist.
Now, Clinton, with all of his flaws, this is a man who throughout his career from Governor of Arkansas to president of the United States and beyond, has been a great and sincere friend of African-Americans who shared and tried to advance their aspirations. So if you can pull off a trick like that on Bill Clinton, you can pull it off on Republicans.
And look what Obama has said. He’s the one who raised the Barack Hussein Obama a year or two ago in which he said the Hussein is actually an asset and would be an asset in dealing with Muslims abroad.
He’s the one who openly said that the Republicans will say I’m black, they will say he’s scary. They will say he’s different. They will say he doesn’t look like the guy on the dollar bill.
That is Obama preemptively accusing McCain of racism, which is a scurrilous charge. Racism is a serious charge in our country, and a false accusation is doubly serious. As we saw in the Duke lacrosse case, it can destroy lives. Given our history, it ought to be used with great care.
And to accuse preemptively McCain of racism even before there is any evidence of it, and there has not been any evidence of it before or since, is scurrilous.
They say patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Accusations of racism is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel, and it has been used again and again on the part of the Obama campaign.
You’ve got to admit, it’s been a neat trick to race-bait an entire race from start to finish AND get away with it too. Of course, Jesse Jackson already warned that electing an “AA” president (Obama’s not REALLY AA – he’s white, African and Arab) won’t come close to shutting down the “race question.” So sorry if you think this will show that America has “come a long way.” I think the Obama campaign just naturally assumed race would be his “problem” because, you know, ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST and so they devised a way to make it “work for him.” Cynical and not at all hopey changey. Think this will continue into an Obama admin? Stay tuned. I kind of think not.
6)Commentary has an opinion piece that reminds us of what we used to say about “questionable associations” before it became a racist thing if used to question Obama. “If you lie down with dogs, you’re going to get fleas.”
Still, in our wiser moments, we have always understood that character, broadly defined, is important to possess for those in high public office, in part because it tells us whether our leaders warrant our trust, whether their word is dependable, and whether they are responsible. And one of the best indicators of character is the people with whom you associate. This is basic, elementary-school level common sense. The odds are your parents wanted you to hang around with the “right” crowd instead of the wrong crowd because if you hung around with the latter it meant its members would be a bad influence on you, it would reflect poorly on you, and you’d probably end up getting into trouble.
What applies to 10-year-olds also applies to presidential candidates.
Over the years, Barack Obama hung around with some pretty disturbing characters, and what we’re talking about aren’t isolated incidents. It has happened with a slew of people on a range of issues. He has connected himself with domestic terrorists (William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn), with an anti-American and racist minister (Jeremiah Wright), and with corrupt people (Antoin “Tony” Rezko) and organizations (ACORN). What we see, then, is a pattern.
—————-For those who say that these associations don’t matter, that they’re “distractions” from the more urgent problems of our time and an example of “Swift-boating,” consider this: if John McCain had sat in the pew of a pastor who was a white supremacist and launched his political career at the home of, and developed a working relationship with, a man who bombed abortion clinics or black churches and, for good measure, was unrepentant about it, McCain’s political career would be (rightly) over, and he would be (rightly) ostracized.
A political reference point may be helpful here. Senator Trent Lott was hounded out of his post as Majority Leader because of a few inappropriate comments — made in bad taste but in jest — at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. Much of the media and the political class were outraged. Yet we have a case in which Obama has had close, intimate relations with some really unsavory folks, and we’re told it doesn’t matter one bit.
This is the crux of the “associations” argument. Obama has, throughout his life, chosen to work with, pal around with and otherwise promote and be promoted by people whose background is unsavory at best. And this pattern of behavior is not apparently relevant to people. That says a lot about him as a person, but it says more about his supporters. The bar has been lowered for him.
7)And lastly today, don’t expect to see THIS story anywhere but here today.
The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”
News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.
Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.
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He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton
So, a reporter claims he heard someone in the crowd say this. The Secret Service, no slouches when it comes to protecting US Presidents and wanna-bes, conducts an investigation and finds nada, zip, zero and nothing at all.
But the reporter “stands by his story.” Yep. That’s our media these days. And don’t look for any retractions or revisions from the national lapdogs either. Think that “reporter” was Jayson Blair?
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BTW everyone how is BOs 4000 dollar credit for college any different then the on already in place. I took it last year. It is called the college tuition credit of all things. I do not understand how this is a new deduction.
It is new because now you’ll have to volunteer your time in order to receive it.
That’s also another BS from 0Bama. The military already get GI Bill that provide more than his credit proposal(it was over 7k a year when I used). And to tell people to sign up for service and give them 4k tax credit is total BS.
We have three kids in college, a bit of an expense! We’re upper middle class, can’t afford to retire. I bet we don’t get one penny of college tuition benefit from Obie because we don’t make under $60,000.
No, it’s different.
This is a REFUNDABLE tax credit.
That means that a student’s parents whose income is too low, with deductions, to pay ANY income tax, will be REFUNDED the extra amount in deductions.
Those parents or that student will get a check from the IRS for the “refundable tax credit,” even if they haven’t paid any taxes that year.
What YOU took was a tax credit, but it wasn’t a REFUNDABLE one.
Barak’s plan is an chance to cut checks to people who don’t even pay taxes, and “spread the wealth.”
It’s not a tax “deduction”-its a credit against your tax.
Usually these “phase out” once you hit a certain income level, and Obama is not saying what income levels will qualify.
In other words, it’s possible that not everyone who pays tuition will necessarily benefit.
Comparing with Obama, Nixon is an like an angel.
Obama surrogates, MSM pundits and presstitutes – even Fox News pundits – keep LYING about Obama’s tax plan – asserting he will raise taxes on incomes over $250K!
NOT!
He will RAISE TAXES on individual incomes over $200K - $250K for families.
Let me tell you something, we make 250. We already don’t have one single deduction and we have to pay alternate minimum tax–usually comes out to around $40,000, we pay 1/3 of our income in regular income taxes (aside from the AMT). We are taxed to death. If you make over $60,000, less than $1 million, you pay everything for everyone. Then, all your relatives think you’re rich so they’re always hitting you up for something.
Seriously, it doesn’t pay to keep working hard to try to make more money. I don’t hear Obama talking about taxing the corporate elite or the corporations, just the upper middle class.
That’s why they kept using the bogus tax cut.
By pointing the finger on upper middle class and call them rich, he can make those dumb 20 something college crowd feel good about their choice. Those people have a real job and never hear of AMT.
As I had said before, if you live in a place like NYC and SF Bay, 250k a year for a family of 4 is just middle-middle class. You are lucky to be able to keep 50% of that money after tax. Living in these area on 100k isn’t even upper middle class, and definitely far from being rich.
The tax code was created to confuse people so that politician can use it to manipulate Obot type voters. It’s just my opinion, and I am sticking with it, ha!
Class warfare — them against us — This gimmick has been used by humans forever.
Obama is speaking to the primitive part of the human brain — where loyalty to group is innately triggered by the psychological manipulation of the Cult leader Obama.
Those that do not instantly agree with everything Obama says are the OTHER and thus the enemy.
The need to be part of the group is very primitive — found in many complex social species — Primates, canine, birds, rodents etc.
Some people fall for this psychological manipulation repeatedly — and others see the Cult leader for what he (she) is — a con artist.
wow mccain is killing obama on spreading the wealth right now on fox
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/big-lies-obama-on-ayers-born-alive-bill/
Hot Air raises the point directly — how could Obama deny his political career started in Ayers’ and Dohrn’s living room?
With Obama truth is optional. He can and does deny anything damaging or inconvenient. And the MSM lemmings go right along with it.
At this point — does Obama know truth from fiction??
He’s at the point — if he says it — then “it” must be true.
The reason for Obama’s stuttering and uh, hummm, etc is because he is so tangled up in his alternative reality.
Obama was moved around a lot as a child — he might use this as his excuse for getting confused. However, McCain was exposed to being uprooted and plopped down in a new culture and new school repeatedly as he was growing up. McCain had the typical upbringing of a military brat.
One skill many military brats pick up is the ability to spot a phony & frauds very quickly. We learn to make fast character evaluations — choosing friends who know the system of the new place helps adjustment to an alien environment. McCain has skills from his childhood and he knows a phony.
Obama learned the flip side of making his way in a new social environment — he learned to latch on to the people who could take him up the social ladder. All he had to do was be as good at graft and corruption as the powerful people he wanted favors from. So rather than being repelled by the slim balls he has been drawn to the dirty underbelly of politics — he views these people as very successful — because they command a certain kind of respect. In other words he has chosen the worst sort of mentors throughout his life. As many have observed Obama shows a pattern in his choice of mentors. And this goes directly to Obama character.
Now Obama is trying to play the role of clean and wise politician — and it merely a role for him it doesn’t come from his true character. Thus his ah – humm.
How many people will be able to hear the words — rather than the VOICE?
Which reminds me of DUNE — and the use of the VOICE which had authority and most people could not resist the VOICE. Where did Obama learn to use the VOICE?? McCain nailed this in the debate — but he used simple words which we can all comprehend. Listen to the words used by Obama’s voice — what is he really saying?
For Obama to use the voice he needs to use a teleprompter and speak the words without really thinking about what he is saying. When he has to speak at a debate or off the cuff — he cannot hold on to the VOICE without the ah, humm etc.
It’s amazing how modern mythology — the DUNE series of books and Lord of the Ring speak to human themes and how nothing much is really new.
No kidding – I mentioned that in an upcoming piece, too, katmandu. I mean, REALLY – does he seriously believe that NO ONE has a record of this anywhere? Or is it that he feels so comfortable that the MSM will protect him, he can spew whatever bald-faced lies he wishes? Sadly, it seems to be too much of the latter…
I think McCain finally focused the election.
Choose your poisen.
Yes, indeed.
This election is the Senator Government vs. Joe the Plumber, election.
Pay attention, America to what the word REFUNDABLE in tax credits actually means.
REFUNDABLE tax credits “spread the wealth.”
This song pretty much sums up this election:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qu94CwR0EM
It’s one of my favorites, but it gets ignored by many because it was recorded by the Monkees.
Please read The Integrity Gap.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Joe_the_Plumber_No_new_taxes__and_no_old_oneseither.html
Informative post. It’s funny that it took so long for the media to start commenting on his questionable associations (or should that be collaborations). It didn’t take them but a couple of days to start digging for dirt in Joe the Plumber’s past.
Ah, yes, what a media we have. Any citizen who dares to speak out or even ask questions can expect to have journalists digging through his past to discredit him. Obviously, “they” fear Joe, just as they fear Sarah.
BREAKING!!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/111211/Gallup-Daily-Obama-49-McCain-43.
Registered voters (expanded model): Obama 49, McCain 43
TRADITIONAL MODEL: Obama 49, McCain 47
I am telling you all that THIS ELECTION IS NOT OVER
John McCain actually blistered Obama last night and his message, combined with his new one minute “I’ll fix the next eight years” commercial, has fully pivoted the discussion for the remaning two weeks.
John McCain may, in fact, WIN THIS THING. Of course, I’m from Western Pennsylvania, so..well…Murtha says…
Take care,
Patrick
I hope all these are read and spread around in time. It does make you angry that it took unitl this time in the campaign to get anybody in the MSM to open their eyes.
MSM is now starting the smear on Joe the plumber. Check out politico and hotair.
how dare Joe says that Obama’s plan sounds like socialism! Go Joe go!
I don’t think it will work.
I agree. I think it will backfire, just like the Palin attacks. I think most people will be disgusted that they’re now attacking ordinary citizens.
last week on hannity he did a series called the obama chronicles in which he connected the dots regarding obamas associations. last monday nite, in the final 5 minutes of his show, was the picture the dots formed, (it was an interview with a muslim film director who claims islam will infiltrate the u.s. from within) yet no seemed to notice. am i alone here?
b mathews:
One of the hardest, but best things I did was to watch the anti-jihadist utube going around. I am totally convinced that this “racist” meme is misplaced fear of just what you are talking about.
Twice the Secret Service has investigated threats at McCain rallies. Both investigations were initiated by newspaper reports of crowd members yelling “kill him,” the first by The Washington Post, the second, The Scranton Times-Tribune. Neither story turned out to be true, as far as can be proven, no one ever said “kill him” at a McCain rally. Maybe the Secret Service should investigate the press.
Maybe the press should retract their story. Oh, except this fairy tale was the basis for John Lewis conflating McCain with Wallace. Yep, it worked the same way. No facts should get in the way of a good smear job.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14632.html
JOE BIDEN SAYS JOE NOT A REAL PLUMBER AND SHOULDN’T GET TAX CUTS….MAN JOE BIDEN IS AN IDIOT…MCCAIN SHOULD PUT JOE ON THE FOREFRONT OF HIS CAMPAIGN
ANYONE who dares to ask THE PLASTIC JESUS ODINGOBAMA a question will be smeared by the MSM ASAP
….NO EXCEPTIONS….MUST NOT LET PEOPLE SEE THE GREAT SCAM.
Free speech is not free if you say ANYTHING about Odingobama…
you will suffer!!!
Has the MSM made this clear enough for you all??
Yea but Joe the plummer hasn’t said who he is supporting. He is smart! He knows what the media would do to him! But he looks tough enough to handle it. I can’t wait for him to come out and slam them!
So, a reporter claims he heard someone in the crowd say this. The Secret Service, no slouches when it comes to protecting US Presidents and wanna-bes, conducts an investigation and finds nada, zip, zero and nothing at all.
That is hilarious! The “well educated” “creative” class went nutz yet again. This there is proof! they shouted. Ha!
Now more than ever: Don’t blame me I voted for Hillary
Now Obama declares war on an American citizen who asked him a question….
do we have any more questions about where this administration is going??
I just watched a clip on Yahoo with Diane Sawyer interviewing Joe the Plumber. He’s a smart man, encourages people to do the research about the candidates and says not to take anyone’s word about the candidate. Dianne set it up for him to agree with her and he slammed her. She said $250K is the top 5% but what about the ones making millions. He said why should people be taxed more for being more successful, that sounds socialist. LOL, Dianne didn’t follow up on that comment.
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Well we knew it would be a very short time before Joe the Plumber was forced to endorse Senator Government or feel the wrath of the Obozoids. Stay strong Joe. If it’s okay for Senator Government to have a convicted felon help fund his house purchase with money wired from Syria, via a convicted Iraqui billionaire, a $1000.00 lien is probably not too much to worry about, unless Senator Government sends his black boots to arrest you.
Ummm I dont know whats on the Dems mind but Obama attacking “joe the plumber” is political suicide. Because this guy questioned him, the ACTUAL candidate attacks him? Just a regular citizen of the good ol USA? He just insulted the damn people he needs to vote for him! If this does not prove the type of government Senator Government will have I dont know what will. Teachers maybe?
Did Obama slam Jo? Of course, the college crowd will love it. Jo’s over 18.
That’s what they do. That’s what Obama and his campaign do. They attack their political enemies until they are completely discredited.
Sarah Palin, anyone?
Hillary Clinton, anyone?
The press aids and abets.
The Obama campaign is becoming unhinged if they are now going after this guy. Do they honestly believe EVERYONE just automatically want to vote for him? His supporters think “plant” every time someone does not choose him.
Obama is not for everyday harworking Americans like Joe the plumber. Obama wants to penalize hard work in America. My God, Obama’s radical tax scheme is the antithesis of the American dream and what America stands for!
Obama is out of touch with the very core ideals of America!
Obama is the clog in the drain! Let’s flush him down the toilet on election day!
Country First!
McCain-Palin ‘08
Joe was just on FOX again ..he is a great pundit..
and lucky for him he is a big hunk of a man who looks like he can take care of himself.
WOW, look at the Gallup likely voter numbers.
MCCAIN – 46%
OBAMA – 49%
This is before the debate.
The AP is digging into Joe for not having a license he doesn’t need to have. I thought we were supposed to be talking about the issues. Guess not in Nobama’s world.
Andrew,
This was posted yesterday. It’s still a great article, written quite a detailed way, but has potential for helping to fight the poll wars. Written yesterday, Oct. 15, 2008.
http://www.zombietime.com/lefts_big_blunder/
Did Obama attack Joe? If he did, that is it. Obama should keep his mouth shut before any more of his socialism and fascism leak out.
His campaign managers should tell him: “No more talking without the teleprompter, Sen. Government!”
HAHAHAHA that is so funny urban hillbillly. I love this blog. Everyone here has such great lines. It relieves my tension when I get stressed about Ohblabla.
Say what you will
“Me for McNasty”
Why, just as any other leader with a fire about them, Martin Luther king, your local minister, or even a parent standing up to protect their kid.
Obama is expressionless and you can not read his heart or impression.
If someone came up you front lawn to harm your kids, would you not get fired up to protect what you hold dear?
McNasty McCain has been fighting for his country all his life, I may not agree 100% with either of them, BUT you can’t say McCain is completely mean. There is a difference when someone is trying to make a point don’t tread on my country like that.
McCain has a plan, just like other great people “Have a Dream”
The main point I am trying to make is at least you can see McCain’s heart and what he believes emotionally when he’s coming in your direction, Obama 90% of the time is emotionless.
President with emotion bad? NO!
Was Ronald Reagan mean and nasty showing the U.S.S.R. when he raise his voice and put a frown on, and said “TARE DOWN THIS WALL”, NO!, he expressed what he felt!
For COLLAGE SCHOOL KIDS:
Many collage kids have parent’s back home running the family business which gives them the base tuition money. These kids only stand on that they said is Obama will make school cheaper? Yet he will take the money from your family business first! Go ahead vote for Obama, let him give you an untold amount towards you schooling. BUT First he will take the money from those parents who are putting you there in the first place.
Out come: Then family business may not even have the money to come up with the base amount of your school tuition,
Selfish:
But I am sure you kids (not adult thinking) think Obama will be able to gather up enough money from families in you area to make up the difference, while you get to watch other families say to their kids, Sorry, our family business can not send them to school, maybe if we save up for a few more years and THEN we can have a dream to make our kids better off then us.
Obama kills every other hard working family trying to make better for their kids. And NOW their own kids voting for obama are driving the steak in the family business heart which is trying to (save up) put them (now) and their younger bother and sister in collage
the upcoming few years?
I call them kids, be cause they don’t get it, How can we help others when Obama wont let us help ourselves, take away our dreams for bettering our kids educations. $250,000 taxed at 35% is much more then $5000 he will give you!
IF OBAMA takes from one family to give to another, he takes away the hopes and dreams of parents for their own kids.
Sorry obama there has to be a better way.
I am for McNasty
“Joe the Plumber” will now be referred to by the Obama campaign as “Joe the Racist” for questioning Obama’s tax plan.
LOL!
The CNN panel has just become such a snarkfest, ton of crosstalk; that’s why I can’t watch it anymore. And Roland Martin…OMG, please, there are surrogates (Begala, Alex (however you spell his last name)) and then there is the point blank Obama tool just munching up on pro-Obama airtime. 99.9% of what comes out of Martin’s mouth is guaranteed pro-Obama, and he always filibusters, much the same as Jamal Simmons used to do–CNN finally ridded themselves of Jamal, they should have long ago done the same w/Martin. I watched the last two debates on C-Span and the after phone calls from actual voters. A pity really (viewing of actuaul debate) because I get CNN in HD but did not want them to bank the ratings.
Oh my GOD! What is wrong with this country. A private individual comes out against Nobama and now he is going to get smashed. It is a terrible time to be an American. They did the same thing to Palin, raked her over the coals, but she was running for office, Joe is trusting trying to get by. I hate the media. I hate Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have gotten vicious. Now they are saying that Joe is a tax cheat and that he is related to Charles Keating. It is completely outrageous. The media is evil.
The difference between a real campaign and a meta campaign. Obama’s is a meta campaign. It’s all coming tumbling down Nov. 4.
Obama bots just posted Joe’s address on GretaWire. They will stop at nothing.
This is our country and we will protect it by voting on Nov 4th. Country first,always,and forever. Then we will see some of these a–holes crawl under the bus by themselves…
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/4148/sign-a-mortgage-and-acorn-gets-a-cut-its-the-law/
By Law, Groups Like ACORN Will Get Money When You Take Out A Mortgage.
By Andrew Riley • Oct 15th, 2008 • 426 Views
This is what Congressman John Culberson said on Glenn Beck the other night.
“From this day forward we will all be paying 4.2% basis fee of $420 for every $100,000 mortgage in your closing paper will have papers. You’ll have a new little line in there, a new fee that we’re going to all pay to go straight to these affordable housing funds which the states then hard wire to La Raza, ACORN, groups like that.” – Congressman John Culberson in an interview with Glenn Beck, October 13, 2008
I did a quick google search and could only find a few scattered references to this, none of them citing a source. So I picked up the phone and called Congressman Culberson’s office in Washington D.C. The staffer who answered the phone confirmed that the Congressman had said that, and was able to tell me where to find the language in the bailout bill that backed up the Congressman’s claim.
This is from the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. You can read the bill on the Library of Congress website. It’s dry reading, but I’ve picked out the parts relevant to this topic.
H.R. 3221, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
While I couldn’t find any language allocating this money specifically for La Raza or ACORN, those organizations clearly fit the bill for nonprofit organizations having as 1 of their principal purposes the development or management of affordable housing.
On the ACORN website, you’ll find this ACORN is working to make affordable housing available so people in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods can be homeowners.
La Raza has a subsidiary called Raza Development Fund, or RDF.
I just read on Michelle Malkin yesterday about a RICO suit filed in Ohio against ACORN. They’re under investigation in at least fifteen states right now for voter registration fraud. Why are we giving this group money?
http://www.allamericanblogger.com/4148/sign-a-mortgage-and-acorn-gets-a-cut-its-the-law/
Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.
A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93RNJOG2&show_article=1
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Forget Bill Ayers – Here Are Over a Dozen More Anti-American Obama Friends
The following commentary was written by fellow Family Security Matters.Org contributing editor Doug Edelman. At the bottom of the article, I’ve included a link to my own FSM article regarding Barack Obama and ACORN:
Forget Bill Ayers – Here Are Over a Dozen More Anti-American Obama Friends
Doug Edelman
The Obama defenders are complaining that William Ayers’ radical bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s are dismissible as “old news.” They declare Obama’s associations to be “irrelevant.” (Somehow I’m prompted to wonder what they’d say if McCain were a friend of a 1940s Nazi prison camp guard.) Yet Obama’s associations are relevant, as they are in fact current news, and they speak to his judgment, character and to his political proclivities and inclinations. And we can never forget that a man is known by the company he keeps.
Here is a brief accounting of over a dozen of Obama’s long-time colleagues, associates and friends.
Khalid al-Mansour: the anti-Semite Black Nationalist racist who changed his name from Don Marshall and converted to Islam, was a patron of Obama’s and helped advance Obama’s candidacy to law school. He was instrumental in starting the violent Black Panthers group, became Kind Saud’s attorney and represents OPEC. No wonder Obama doesn’t want to drill anywhere, although he changed that tune in last Tuesday’s debate in an apparent attempt to drill for votes.
As an article in FrontPageMag.com reported, “And why is it that black racists such as al-Mansour constitute a significant proportion of these hate mongers? In large part, it is because blacks have been specifically and aggressively targeted for recruitment by leaders of the worldwide jihad, just as they were targeted for recruitment by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s. Black grievance, combined with the evangelism of the Nation of Islam over the last seventy years, has established an audience for the ideology of hate.”
It is notable that Khalid al-Mansour is an advisor and friend to Prince al-Walid bin Talal, the Saudi sheik to whom Mayor Rudy Giuliani returned a $10 million check right after 9/11 because bin Talal stated that America brought the bloodthirsty attack on itself due to our foreign policy.
Rashid Khalidi: an enthusiastic supporter of the Palestinians, fervent critic of Israel (which he calls a destructive “racist” state), an admirer of suicide bombers and a driving force behind the Arab American Action Network (AAAN). This so-called pro-Palestinian “community organization” in Chicago is another beneficiary of the Obama-Ayers team at the Woods Fund. It promotes an agenda that would horrify Obama’s Jewish supporters and any normal person. In fact, both Sen. Obama and Mr. Ayers actually spoke at a testimonial dinner for Rashid Khalidi.
According to Jack Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ” ‘Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and the two families dined together a number of times,’ a source on the University of Chicago faculty told WorldNet Daily. ‘The Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.’ ”
Ingrid Mattson: President of the troubling Islamic Society of North America, a group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist trial, and a woman whom Obama invited to lead prayer at the Democrat Convention, which she did.
Frank Marshall Davis: another of Obama’s mentors mentioned in his book, a well-known Stalinist Communist whose devotion to the Soviet Union and hatred for an America which he described as racist and imperialistic put him under FBI surveillance for at least 19 years. It is quite possible that Davis did more to shape Obama’s world view than many in his entourage.
Tony Rezko: convicted felon of fraud and shady dealings, he and Obama were very close. Rezko helped get Obama a sweetheart mortgage, and he bundled tons of money for Obama’s campaign. Rezko bought property (under another sweetheart deal) to be Obama’s neighbor. As of today, it appears Rezko is willing to talk to reduce his sentence.
William Ayers: Ayers is still today (this is not an “old news” story) an unrepentant terrorist. He was quoted (coincidentally on September 11, 2001, in the New York Times) as being proud and unapologetic for the bombings of the Pentagon, the Capitol and the New York City Police where several police officers were murdered as a result. In fact, he stated that his only regret was that they hadn’t done more. For a smug thug like this, Sen. Obama – unbelievably – did the favor of writing a dust-jacket blurb forMr. Ayers’ 2001 book, “Fugitive Days”.
Ayers and Obama served on the board of the Annenberg Foundation together, overseeing the expenditure of tens of millions of dollars. Currently, or rather, inexplicably, all the related records remain “unavailable.”
Interestingly, the Annenberg Foundation runs the “Factcheck.org” site that Obama uses as his only source of “facts” on his “fight the smears” website. Why or how factcheck.org is given any mainstream media credibility as a fact source is laughable. The mainstream press should be ashamed of itself for using them.
Saved from jail, unfortunately, by legal technicalities, Ayers is married to Bernardine Dohrn, another Weathermen terrorist once on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, who did serve time for refusing to testify about the death of other Weathermen when a bomb they were building blew up prematurely. J. Edgar Hoover called her ”the most dangerous woman in America” and ”la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left.”
Bernardine Dohrn, who in the 80’s worked at the same time with Michelle Obama for the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin,was also a fan of Charles Manson:
At a 1969 “War Council” in Flint, Michigan, Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman “fork salute,” she said of the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and a Folgers Coffee heiress and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion were brutally stabbed to death: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” The “War Council” ended with a formal declaration of war against “AmeriKKKa,” always spelled with three K’s to signify the United States’ allegedly ineradicable white racism.
ACORN: An organization so fraught with voter fraud they should be closed down and indicted under RICO. Where you’re never too dead to vote twice. Ever wonder what a “community organizer” is? Think ACORN. For whom was Obama a “constitutional lawyer”? ACORN. Currently, numerous ACORN offices are being raided by the FBI and investigated for ongoing and major voter fraud.
Fannie/Freddie: Obama was the number two campaign contribution recipient from Freddie and Fannie execs, behind Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd. And bear in mind, those are numbers compiled over nine years. Obama has been a senator only for four of those years and raked in almost as much dough as Dodd did in all nine years.
Franklin Raines/Jim Johnson: Former heads of Fannie Mae, both men were removed for impropriety. Both made tens of millions of dollars from their time at the helm, helping to pilot the economy onto the rocks. Are there two people more responsible for the current economic mess? Besides Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, they may have had more to do with creating the problem than anyone else… and they’re in Obama’s inner circle giving economic advice; Jim Johnson was actually chosen to vet Obama’s VP Pick.
Rev. Wright and Father Pfleger: radical, fervently anti-American, and anti-Semitic. The Rev. Louis Farrakhan, also an anti-Semite and black racist, was recently honored by Rev. Wright for “Lifetime Achievement”. And Obama called them mentors, friends and/or spiritual advisors. What did he learn from them over the decades of their association? And why did he not reject their views until it was politically expedient for him to do so?
Michelle Obama: Mrs. Obama seems to hold radical separatist views consistent with a 20-year attendance and tutelage under Rev. Wright. Her college thesis was on assimilation vs. “the black culture,” and she was openly dismayed that so many blacks were choosing to assimilate into the American melting-pot culture. She also stated on the campaign trail that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country. This, from a possible First Lady of the land.
From anti-American at best, to virulently anti-American and criminal anti-American at worst, this is the rag-tag crowd with whom Obama has chosen to build his career and personal relationships for the past few decades. That such a person – and crowd – could end up holding the fate and deepest secrets of our most precious jewel, America, in their hands – as well as all our futures – is deeply troubling, to say the least, and it would be an unspeakable tragedy if it were to transpire.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Doug Edelman is a political commentator whose work has been featured at The Conservative Voice, News By Us, The American Daily, The Post Chronicle, New Media Journal, Capitol Hill Coffee House and others. He maintains a blog at http://edeldoug.blogs.com.
Also, read Jim Kouri’s column appearing in Family Security Matters » Publications » Exclusive: Obama – The Acorn Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1443/pub_detail.asp
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This is great. I am trying to convince a cousin not to vote for Obama. My main argument is that I don’t trust him. This is a great resource. Compact but complete! Thanks!
This isn’t the first time Obama has said his life has been threatened. Geeze, give him some meds and send him to bed. Obviously some pretty high level paranoia goes on in his tiny little brain.
We can do better than this for prez. We have to.
Michelle said that he could be killed just going to the gas station, but he would certainly improve his chances, especially at gas stations, if he really would give up smoking.
Great roundup Lisa. What I want to know is, where were these guys MONTHS ago, when we were all saying:
“it’s about the lie, stupid!”
Well, well, well, look at this:
Conversations with an internal pollster for Obama…
Very enlightening indeed!
Posted by: David_Rasbold
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 10:09AM CDT
I have an interesting story to relay that took place earlier this week between my boss (a senior VP in the company I work for) and one of the Obama campaigns’ internal pollsters.
Just to note, my boss is a republican and was meeting the Obama rep over lunch for other reasons. Politics obviously came up due to his line of work.
He asked my boss what her political leanings were and they did some chit chat around the issues and the impressions each had on the state of the race. What happened next was more than fascinating and should be a reminder to all of us to buck up and remain strong. All is not lost. In fact, we may be in a much better spot than we think – despite the national polls and what the daily media drumbeat to give up.
He asked my boss what she thought about Sarah Palin. While my boss is a republican she hasn’t been nearly as enamored with her as most of our base. She noted concern about Sarah’s experience, but said that she is still voting for McCain.
As she was explaining her perspective it dawned on her to ask why he (the Obama internal pollster) was interested in her view of Palin. He replied that Obama’s campaign is extremely nervous about the energized republican base and what he called the “unkown factor” regarding Palin’s draw as a candidate.
In the polls they’re conducting around the country, and my boss wasn’t able to relay specific numbers, the Obama campaign is very, very worried about how Palin appears to be energizing whole groups of people who don’t typically get energized about politics, precisely because she appeals so strongly to the middle class, as well as women and dissatisfied republicans that stayed home in 2006.
More than that, they don’t know how to guage and predict the support of people typically turned off by politics, but that are enamored with her “up from the bootstraps” appeal.
I say all of this because this pollster conveyed strong concern about their standing going into the homestretch. They are very concerned about winning the vote of the middle class and whole swaths of the electorate they consider the “unkowns.” In fact, and based on her conversation with this internal pollster for Obama, he’s not ahead in the polls as we’re being told. He’s at best tied.
Look, take it for what it is. But what I know is that we’re being sold a bill of goods by the media. Why? Not to be conspiratorial, but they likely just want to dispirit us, precisely because Obama has yet to seal the deal. He should be way ahead this season, but he’s not.
I’ll close by saying that we have several weeks left. The Obama camp internally knows they haven’t wrapped this thing up. Let’s keep on fighting (and even if we have to drag McCain over the finish line – as Rush fondly exhorts us to do – let’s do it) and let’s win this thing!
http://www.redstate.com/diaries/david_rasbold/2008/oct/16/conversations-with-an-internal-pollster-for-o/#c57508
educatedwhitewoman,
Check out this essay on the manipulated campaign called meta.
http://www.zombietime.com/lefts_big_blunder/
Anyone with an IQ of 50 can see that Bobo had to be lying about sitting in Wright’s church for 20 years and not knowing his philosophy. They know he lied about Ayers being just a guy in the neighborhood with kids in the Obama girls’ school. He can’t answer a simple effing question without dissembling and outright LYING! His technicality arguments about the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, for instance, are so convoluted and ridiculous that I wish the media would have a special just on them! And, at the last debate, he spoke of having an exclusion for partial-birth abortion to save the life of the mother! Now, how can reaching into the birth canal and killing a baby save the woman who is almost finished with the birth process?! If anything, she might be accidentally stabbed with the instrument being used to slaughter the infant! I cannot believe that the American people will put this terrible excuse for a man into the White House!!
I cannot help but wonder why Obama’s supporters believe anything he says. If Obama wants to take profits from companies or people making $250,000..I just wonder how long it will take him, to lower that bar, then say that “being rich” starts at oh, $50,000?
And as for the people he wants to give others’ wealth…since he told LaRaza he will grant amnesty, which means they can bring in Mom,DAD,Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle, Aunt, cousin, nephew, niece……they will get part of this socialist agenda, as well as they will be on his new health plan.
I must say, one who used to work for HUD, said they gave home loans to 5 million illegals, HUD says it’s not that high, but won’t talke about it…
What wants to bail out illegal aliens?
Fuck illegal aliens.
That’s my concern, Bobc. Many people in South Carolina or Mississippi would think that someone with my income is upper middle class. It would be, in some areas of the country. However, it’s not too far from the median income in the area in which I live.
[begin personal circumstances rant]
My 500 square foot studio apartment costs $1000/month (and I have a great deal – similar ones on other floors go for $1100-$1400). I could save a bit by moving to a less-safe city in the area, but as a single woman living alone, that’s a risk I don’t want to take (I took it some years ago and it didn’t work out well). Even homeshares run at least $450 per bedroom, and that’s not necessarily for a large bedroom or in a safe part of town. Gas prices are higher. Food costs more (a can of beans is 89 cents on sale), and none of our local supermarkets double coupons like some do back east. Our sales tax is nearly 10%. Because I live in such a small place, I rent a storage unit for anything I don’t need during the next 30 days. I send a few dollars each month back east to help a retired family member, and give to charity and my church because it’s the right thing to do. I go to a couple professional conferences a year on my own dime because my employer won’t send me and I find them to be a good investment in my career and personal network.
Oh, and I know it’s been out of fashion for the past few years, but I save. I’m still rebuilding my savings after a divorce and the dot com crash, so $20,000/yr goes to that. (Note: I *own* the decisions that led to my losing what I did, and never expected or cried for a government bailout like those who made naive or greedy investment decisions on homes are now doing.) I’m not too far from retirement myself, and have recently amped up my IRA contribution to help make up for the 25% decline in value of my retirement savings I’ve seen this year. About 20% of my income goes straight into a 401-K or IRA, because of the reality that I’ll have no family to take me in or make up for financial shortfalls when I’m older.
The federal, social security and medicare taxes I paid in 2007 were about $42,000. I live comfortably, but nowhere near luxury. I still have to budget somewhat carefully. For example, I don’t have cable, and I use a less-expensive, slower broadband ISP. I’m an artsy sort of person, so my place is furnished in a creative combination of craigslist IKEA, leftovers from a divorce a few years ago, and display tables from a store that went out of business. I live within my means. I use my ONE credit card only for convenience when travelling or when buying a piece of electronics to get an extra year of warranty, and I pay it off within 30 days. If I were raising a family, the kids would have to be in public school and they wouldn’t be dressing in Abecrombie & Fitch every day.
[end personal circumstances rant]
It boggles my mind that Zero is thinking that I need to be giving $$ to his idea of the underclass instead of saving it for my own retirement, because that’s where any extra taxes collected from me would have to come from. The monthly retirement contribution is the most flexible part of my budget, because prices have gone up about 15% over the past 3 years (rent is up 33%) while my income has remained relatively constant. All that reducing that would accomplish is putting me INTO the underclass once I retire. If Zero gets in and tries something like this, I hope that Congress screams loudly to raise the ceiling on tax-free retirement savings, even if it’s only for the next 5 years, to encourage people to rebuild their retirement accounts. Alas, they probably won’t, because that would cut the consumption that they want to encourage with their trickle-up policies.
I’m intrigued that Zero now says his plan to increase the tax on the top 5% applies to individuals making over $200,000. Not too many days ago, the figure was $150,000, which is in the ballpark of my income, and a large percentage of incomes in my area. So many people that I know at work are part of dual-income couples that would get hit (just barely) by the $250,000 limit, that I have to see this as a slippery slope that likely has its sights set on me.
So ya see, any non-McCain Democrats who are watching, I AM voting my economic interests by voting McCain. I’m voting against the foolishness of Fannie/Freddie/ACORN. I’m voting against Robin Hood Obama’s redistribution of “wealth” when I’m still trying to rebuild my asset base after the dot-com crash and a divorce. I’m voting against the spectre of monetary policies that will further stagnate my income when they result in fewer customers for my employer’s products, since most of our sales come from businesses rather than consumers. Just thought I’d make that point since I’d heard from a couple Democrats lately that I was voting for vague foreign policy ahead of my own social and economic interests, and that’s just not the case.