My Speech
By Dr. Lynette Long on October 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM in Democracy, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Democrats Against Obama, McCain/Palin 2008, Misogyny, Obamatopia, Sexism
Here is the speech I will deliver in several places in New Mexico this weekend. (susanunpc’s note: Later today, Dr. Long will give us the precise locations and times so you can go see her if you live nearby. We’ll also look for her on C-Span and news networks, and try to find videos of her speech.)
NEW MEXICO SPEECH
My name is Lynette Long.
I am a feminist, a mother, a Democrat and an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter.
And I am voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin on November 4.
I want to start by saying something about the Democratic Primary. First, let me say that I have a Master’s Degree in mathematics and I am the author of 14 math books. I’m a numbers girl and I naturally calculate and extrapolate numbers in my head.
The primary process consisted of fourteen caucuses and thirty-nine primaries. Obama only lost one out of fourteen caucuses yet he lost twenty-one out of thirty-nine primaries. You don’t have to be a mathematician to realize something is not right. I first noticed something was wrong when I watched the returns from Texas come in.
Texas is unique in the Primary world because it has both a primary and a caucus. It’s called the Texas Two-Step. Hillary Clinton won the Primary by four points, yet she lost the caucus which was held on the same day by twelve points. That’s a sixteen point swing. Almost four million people participated in both the primary and the caucuses. If a poll with only 700 participants the margin of error is usually 3 or 4, then in a primary and a caucus, with millions of participants a sixteen point would be near impossible.
After questioning the likelihood of the Texas two step results, I decided to analyze the rest of the caucus results. Washington State, Nebraska, and Idaho also held a primary and a caucus and the results were even more divergent than Texas results. The divergent results were partially the result of the disenfranchisement that is inherent in the caucus process since the elderly, mother of young children and shift workers are less likely to attend. But they are also the result of voter fraud intentionally perpetrated by the Obama campaign and voter intimidation by Obama supporters. The result is that the primary was stolen from Senator Clinton.
Even without factoring in the caucus results, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama were only 27 pledged delegates apart at the end of the primary process. Obama, Pelosi, and other senior Democrats paid superdelegates to cast their votes for Obama. The Selection of Obama over Hillary Clinton by the Democratic Hierarchy was a miscarriage of justice and my reason for my original contact with the McCain Campaign.
After the last Democratic Primary was over and it was clear Senator Clinton was not going to get the Democratic nomination, myself, and a small group of Clinton supporters met with Senator McCain.
I personally explained to Senator McCain that women comprise well over half of the population, yet you will not see a single picture of a woman on paper currency. Women are underrepresented in every branch of government and there has never been a female president or vice president.
I personally asked Senator McCain to choose a woman for the Vice Presidential slot and to increase the number of women in the cabinet and on the Supreme Court. Senator McCain listened respectfully to my request.
Little did I know then that he heard me and the millions of women of this country who have gone unrepresented in the Executive branch of government for far too long.
When I made similar requests of the Obama campaign, I was laughed at by the canvassers outside my home, told there weren’t enough qualified women by a member of his Finance Committee, and asked by a member of a policy committee why I was making such a stupid request. Gender is the most fundamental human characteristic. The first comment made when a child is born is either, “It’s a girl” or “It’s a boy.” From that second on, boys and girls live in parallel universes in the same culture. You can’t learn what it is to be a woman, unless you are one. You can’t have a government essentially devoid of women that knows what’s best for women. You can’t legislate for women, without women.
But by choosing Governor Palin as his running mate, Senator McCain acknowledged that men can fully never know what it is like to be a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister - things Governor Palin knows all too well. Senator McCain chose the second only bi-gender ticket in American history reinforcing his image as a maverick. Choosing a Vice-President, was the first significant decision Senator McCain and Senator Obama had to make. Senator Obama talks about change but picked a running mate who is part of the Washington establishment. Senator McCain’s choice speaks for itself.
Obama is a brand just like any other brand. Obama the Brand has a logo, a tag line, and a song.
But Obama the man is not the same as Obama the brand.
Obama the brand talks about new style politics, while Obama the man used Chicago style politics in every election. Obama the brand is for women’s rights while Obama the man marginalizes women and his supporters wear Sarah Palin is a cunt t-shirts. Obama the brand is pro-Israel, Obama the man is not.
Obama the brand touts leadership while Obama the man voted present 130 times in the US Senate. Obama the brand claims change, while Obama the man picks a Washington Insider as his running mate.
Obama the brand is a post-racial candidate while Obama the man plays the race card at every turn, listened for 20 years to the racial teaching of Rev. Wright, and makes contributions exclusively to Trinity United Church of Christ, the NAACP and Care Africa. Obama the man and Obama the brand are not one.
I have given my loyalty to the Democratic Party for decades. My party, which is comprised primarily of women, has not put a woman on a presidential ticket for 24 years.
My party was disrespectful to all women when they refused to nominate my candidate, Hillary Clinton, for president or vice president, even though she received more votes than any other Democratic or Republican candidate in history.
My party stood silently by as Hillary Clinton was eviscerated by the sexist attacks of the mainstream media. My party’s candidate was mute when Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger openly mocked Senator Clinton from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ.
My party’s candidate was silent when the rapper Ludacris released a new song calling Hillary a bitch. My party’s candidate choose Larry Summers, the former President of Harvard, who said women can’t do science and math.
My party’s candidate pays the women in his office 77 cents on the dollar compared to me. My party’s vice-presidential candidate only pays women 73 cents on the dollar.
Neither my party nor its candidate has demonstrated in this election that they hold women in high esteem.
When it comes to women, sixteen is a special number. Did you ever hear the song 16 candles. Or the phrase “Sweet sixteen and never been kissed.” Eight plus Eight is sixteen, four times four is sixteen, and 2 x 2 x 2 x 2. But sixteen is special for other reasons.
- Guess what percentage of the members of the House of Representatives are women?
- Guess what percentage of the members of the Senate are women?
- Guess what percentage of the governors are women?
- Guess what percentage of equity partners in Law Firms are women?
- Guess what percentage of Science Professors at MIT are women?
- And guess what percentage of US Presidents or Vice-presidents were women?
- Not 16.
How can having a country composed of 52% women with only 16% representation be fair? How can it accurately represent the will of the people?
Sarah Palin is good for women. She has kept the debate about women in government and feminism alive. I happened to be on an Alaskan Cruise when Governor Palin was nominated for Vice-President. When we docked in Ketchikan my Blackberry was buzzing away with emails shouting, “It’s a girl.” I thought, “Who is a girl?” As soon as I stepped on-shore, I found out Sarah Palin was the VP pick. I can testify here today, that every person that I met in Alaska loved her. Alaskans are proud of their Governor.
I heard many people say they don’t think Sarah Palin is ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency since Alaska has only 750,000 people. Let’s get this straight. Sarah Palin is only one of only fifty governors in the entire country.
If Alaska were a country, it would be the twentieth largest country in the world. The unique topography, economy, population, and climate of Alaska, all make Alaska a challenging state to govern. Home of the Alaska pipeline, Alaska hosts the majority of our oil resources and some of the largest fiscal projects in the country. Alaska, home to Mount McKinley, which towers over 20,000 feet, is home to indigenous peoples and remote towns that are not on the electrical grid. Alaska is the only state in the Arctic climate zone and is directly impacted by global warming. It is home to diverse wildlife and consequently management issues. Alaska shares a border with Canada and ten miles across the Bearing Strait is Russia.
I don’t want to hear Sarah Palin is only governor of Alaska. There is nothing only about Alaska.
I do not agree with Senator McCain and Governor Palin on all the issues, but I don’t agree with any candidate on all the issues. I am emphatically pro-choice, yet it’s a choice I hope most women don’t have to make.
Being pro-choice doesn’t mean I am pro-abortion. I would not want to trade places with any woman trying to decide whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. It is not a choice to be made lightly. But even though I will defend a woman’s right to choose, I will not surrender by vote to the Democratic Party out of fear of losing that choice. I will not vote for a Democratic candidate I feel is unfit to lead, just to protect Roe V. Wade.
The Democratic Party has blackmailed and bludgeoned women with Roe v. Wade for decades. Women’s votes cannot belong to a single party, because if they do we are hostage to that party. Women make up 52% of the population and 56% of the electorate. If we band together, we can change the world.
No one knows what is going to happen during the next four years. In the recent past, the challenges to each President have been enormous.
When he took office, Harry Truman did not know that he would have to decide whether or not to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Lyndon Baines Johnson didn’t know that on April 4,1968, Martin Luther King would be assassinated, propelling the country into racial unrest.
George Walker Bush didn’t know that on September 11, 2001, terrorists would wage the greatest attack on US soil.
We need a President that is prepared to lead on day one - ready to handle any attack, any crisis, any financial emergency.
I cannot vote based on POLITICAL PROMISES and POLITICAL PANDERING. But I can vote based on PRINCIPLES and PATRIOTISM. In Senator McCain and Governor Palin, I find two people with personal integrity and a love of their county — individuals who not only talk the talk but walk the walk. I can work with that. I will vote for McCain-Palin. In fact, I’ve decided to try to win one vote a day for the McCain-Palin ticket. My new personal mantra is, “A vote a day, keeps Obama away.”
Make no mistake about it, we are in a war. I am not talking about the Korean conflict where our soldiers literally stand shoulder to shoulder with the troops from South Korea starring at the demilitarized zone the most heavily armed strip of land I the world. I am not talking about Afghanistan where our troops search for Osama Bin Laden and the other terrorists that perpetrated nine-eleven. I am not talking about Iraq, where over 100,000 of our young men and women are embroiled in a civil war. I am talking about a war on our own soil, a fight for our way of life.
This war pits socialism against capitalism. Barack Obama may call it “income redistribution” but socialism by any other name is still socialism. This war that if lost will undermine the underpinning’s of our economy and what we know as our way of life. This is a war between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Are you willing to fight for economic freedom or do you want to live in a socialist country?
Will you vote for John McCain and encourage everyone you know to do the same. Our country needs you. John McCain and Sarah Palin need you.
Join me on Election Day and save our country.
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God, I hate CNN and MSNBC with a passion!!!!!!!!!
Excellent Dr. Long!
You hit every point!!
That is good stuff, Dr. Long. I think the ‘brand/man’ idea is particularly effective. Good luck. Double your speeches. Go everywhere
yes Dr Long thank you so so much for all you do and are doing
I am sending on to GOP friends and DEM friends and family so they to can send it on….
Yes; this is quite intuitive.
Thank you, again, for all of your efforts on behalf of justice. I have relied on your work product bolster my advocacy initiatives, too.
Excellent, thanks Lynette. Every one should read this speech, especially all Hillary suporters. I will pass this to all my friends.
Thanks Dr. Long! Our Hillary said “second White House run is unlikely.” The DNC, MSM stole and gave the nomination to an unqualified and unAmerican person. I’m taking your advice: Just mailed in my CA ballot with a vote on McCain/Palin. If my lady can’t be the POTUS, neither can BO. Please keep up the good work. Thank you again.
Thank you, Dr. Long for your incredible analysis of the Caucus Fraud. With your speech, you have dealt with most of the issues that have convinced me as well to vote McCain/Palin and abandon the dem party until and unless they are willing to fix the damage caused by the over zealous dem leaders by removing caucuses as a substitute for primaries and making amends for the many other agregious acts they committed in the name of winning at all costs.
By the same token, as an ardent Hillary supporter, I was most disappointed in Hillary’s interview with Grechen from Fox and Friends this week when she was asked why some of her supporters are still not on board with Obama. She had a worried and puzzled look and then said, “I don’t know. Certainly, they ought to understand that the things I stood for are much closer to Barack than McCain. And if they supported me, they should support Barack.” I was quite offended by that. It sounded like what we hear from all the other BO supporters when they say, “When these women find out where McCain stands on the issues that are important to them, they will not vote for him”. Obviously, the people who have said this do not understand most of us are political activists as well as political junkies and are quite offended at the suggestion we don’t know these basic facts.
I realize Hillary basically has a gun to her head as far as being required to show enthusiastic support of BO, but I hope somebody will tell her it behooves her NOT to insult the intelligence of women who took the time to get to the bottom of the viciousness of the primary campaign that was launched against her by all of the guilty people with whom she now alligns herself.
Again, I understand she has to be part of the Obama team, but I don’t understand why she had to act as though something is amiss with her most ardent supporters when it is she who has chosen to pretend all the primary warfare was fair after all or didn’t happen.
2nd lawsuit challenges Obama’s citizenship
Man demands state verify birth records or remove senator from ballots
Note: It is incumbent on ALL Secretaries of State in all of the United States to BOTH accurately verify Voters AND candidates. Barack Hussein Obama has sealed his “Hawaiian” birth records and also records in Kenya.
Failure to verify and certify qualification for ALL candidates in a general election by any Secretary of State may be a cause of action (dereliction of duty) and criminal charges may be filed.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78111
Also:
The Video that could cost Obama the election
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=68
Remember, I had proposed early on that people who wish to challenge BO’s eligibility for POTUS should get to the S’s of S to file challenges to his nomination papers to get onto the general election ballots? In most states, the deadline for challenges has passed. But some states allow challenges up to the general election.
Another issue is whether the laws in the state give the S of S discretion to determine who is eligible. If determining eligibility is a ministerial function of the job as spelled out in the law then, citizens may file complaints in mandamus, which are lawsuits that say, ‘I am a citizen aggrieved by the decision of my state official not to do his or her job. Make her.’
(I will try to put together a posting on my (occasional) web site about this.)
Great speech. I have always felt that Obama was getting away with a great weakness in the general election: the fact that he is an illegitimate nominee to begin with and if his own party held an open election today he would not win the nomination.
Wow! I am speechless. What a speech. I hope this makes it to the TV and youtube and I hope NQ will post a video of this. But even just reading this was absolutely incredible.
Thank you! And I wish you a safe trip in NM.
“Vote a day, keeps Obama away”
Absolutely fantastic!
Thank you so much for posting it.
Brava, Dr. Long
There should be more like you out there making their voices heard.
Thank you for sharing this
We are in a war. We have been fighting this war for as long as I can remember. Hitler belonged to the National Socialist German
Wow, this is an EXCELLENT speech. Thank you.
AND…I look forward to hearing where you will be here in New Mexico. If I can, I will come.
I just received word that Sarah will be speaking in Roswell, NM on Sunday, but that is too far for me to attend
Tomorrow I have the good fortune to be attending a Victory event at a home here in SF, NM where Lady de Rothschild and Janine Turner will be.
I anxiously await.
And I should add, this is EXCELLENT timing considering some vile comments I had to listen to from a postal worker and an every day customer at the post office yesterday.
I almost told him when I got to the counter that I was mailing a stack of John McCain stickers to my sister and her friends, but I decided I wanted the stickers to arrive safely, so I kept my mouth shut.
A.C.O.R.N. AFRICAN CANT OVER RUN NATION. THEY NEED TO BE FULLY EXPOSED. ALSO, I READ THAT A 527 IS COMING ABOUT OBAMAS SUPPORT OF ILLEGAL DRIVERS LICENSES……WHAT A SOCIALIST BASTARD HE IS.
Ban this racist talk!
Yes, let’s cut the racist talk. It is completely unacceptable in any form or fashion.
Things are always easier to understand when explained in terms of beer!
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ‘Since you are all such good customers, he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $20′, declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right’, exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up!
The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
This is good but - the tenth man can skip beers but he can’t just not show up for the economy. And in most places overseas, it isn’t friendlier. So what does he do? He just pulls back his activity level. He doesn’t expand his business or add jobs, he shuts some down and lays off because the return just isn’t worth it.
All taxes are a drag on the economy. What do they think happens when the tax the rich? Are they forced to trade down to a smaller yacht or something? No, it just means that money that was in the system being invested and creating jobs is now in the government, the most wasteful place imaginable for it to be.
actually in terms of efficiency, US government administration is probably the most efficient and cost effective bureaucracy in the country (most likely do to the oversight it gets)
efficiently spending money on wasteful things?
wasteful to who? Just because you didn’t need the thing the money was spent on doesn’t mean the people who it was spent on didn’t.
ah. an economist…attempting to put it into terms the rest of us understand. (Bwah Ha Ha ) but it’s a story based on income tax and not on pay checks. Where it based on paychecks then a beer would cost what a beer cost which would mean the price of beer would rise for the poorest who couldn’t afford the buy much beer (because they are of meager means and have food, housing, clothing to buy also) so the bar would lose their revenue and the rich guy isn’t going to drink any more then he did before so the bar would lose his revenue too, which would mean to make up the lost revenue the bar would haver to raise the price of beer or go out of business which it would do driving more of the middle income people aways as the cost of beer rose and then more of their (the middle incomers) revenue would be lost raising the price of beer even more so that in the end on the rich guy would be alone drinking at the bar since beer would cost close to 100 bucks a glass but not a hundred because serving fewer glasses would mean the bartender would need to hire fewer people putting some of those guys who don’t drink anymore (because they can’t afford it) out of work.
LOL but what does it matter. The rich guy could always afford the beer anyway since the economist was giving him advice on how to take all the money for himself all along…. and he didn’t want to hanging around all the rabble to begin with.
Wildchild this is my response- If your paycheck is too small to buy your own damn self a beer- give up drinking.
then there you have it. Terms I can understand. Because the wealthy want to take all the money for themselves I can’t sit down and enjoy the simple pleasure of a frosty cold beer. LOL and this is the ideal you’re fighting for…
You don’t begin to understand wealth. The wealthy couldn’t find more ways to spend money on themselves, they are fully consumed and will be no matter what tax rates are. It is just a matter of scooping money out of the economy and giving to the government to redistribute. The economy shrinks, the government grows and only the apparatchiks benefit.
The wealthy can always find more ways to spend money. Dennis Koslowski spent $ 15,000 on an umbrella stand. I can’t even a imagine what the umbrella coast to have such a pricey resting place so when you tell me that I don’t understand wealth and that the wealthy are fully consumed, LOL you’re basically full of shit. Greed can always find a really expensive nothing to blow money on. You complain about inefficiency, the wealthy are the most inefficient users of money the planet has ever seen.
No, I am telling you to stop drinking and work instead. Perhaps then you would have some of your own damn money in your pocket instead of picking mine.
but all the people in that bar were working. This isn’t a issue of work. This isn’t an issue of pay and price.
correction… this is an issue a pay and price.
Okay my last exchange with you wildchild. Your logic is flawed because you make the false and erroneous assumption that wealth is finite and somehow constrained.
You want to re-slice the same pie in the same size pie plate over and over again instead of baking a bigger pie that will give more people bigger slices.
Wealth is finite. Basic accounting requires that the books balance. Every dollar taken in by a business or an individual must come from a dollar paid out by another business or individual. At the end of the day a guy is a dollar richer and a guy is a dollar poorer but the money in the system remains constant. Science refers to this simple truth as the law of conservation of mass and energy. It’s one of the physical laws of the universe that we are all bound by. LOL and even economics is bound by it.
That’s ridiculous. Wealth is not finite. Money in the system does not remain constant.
The law of physics is obeyed by natural sciences (biology, chemistry, geology.)
Economics is a social science, not a physical science, and is not bound by the law of physics but by the law of supply and demand.
The Federal Reserve has direct control over the monetary base, which is essentially all the cash in the economy. The Fed has the ability to increase or decrease the money supply.
And besides: The finiteness of any specific physical resource is made irrelevant by the presence of the ultimate resource: human ingenuity unleashed in a free society.
sorry, the physical laws of the universe apply to economics. That you say the fed can increase or decrease the money supply means the money in the system at anytime is finite. We can put a number to it. If it was infinite you couldn’t put a number to it. Nor could you add to it or take away from it.
Wealth and money are the not the same thing in economics. Just because a resource can be counted at any given time does not make it finite.
I can count the number of buckeyes on the tree in my back yard. So what? Next year it will produce more buckeyes. I will have more in the future than I do now. And nobody else had to decrease their supply of buckeyes for me to have more.
yeah but over the years your tress production of buckeyes will average out to an average number of buckeyes per year…which will be finite. To get any meaningful increase in buckeye production for yourself, you would have to get some buckeyes from your neighbor using fair means of foul but those additional buckeyes you have would mean fewer for your neighbor. Finality is maintained. Sorry but you can’t break the law of conservation of mass and energy. You can only do so in the world of economics because they create a fiction which creates the illusion.
but after you wake up from your dream, in the end it’s a zero sum game.
Wrong! I would plant another buckeye tree by using resources from my first buckeye tree.
I would then have more buckeyes for myself without taking buckeyes from my neighbor.
In fact, since I’m a generous person, I’m going to give my neighbor some buckeyes from my second tree.
Now he has more buckeyes too!
Of course no matter how many trees I plant, you will continue to jump over my fence and pick buckeyes that don’t belong to you because it’s easier than planting your own buckeye tree.
sure, you could plant another buckeye tree but the number of trees you could plant would be limited to a finite number by the size of your property which is a finite subset of a larger finite set. And then when you reach that point all your trees would once again be constrained to an average number of buckeyes per year which once you have attained it, the only way you could meaningfully increase the number of buckeyes is to get them from your neighbor using fair means or foul but those additional buckeyes for you would mean less for your neighbor.
LOL no matter how you try to rationalize the fiction created by the supply side economists, in the end you still hit the finite limit to a finite system which is bound by the constraints of finality.
There is no escaping it.
Wrong again.
I’m constrained only by the limits of my ingenuity. (My ingenuity is infinite.)
You are constained by a lack of ingenuity. (Your ingenuity is finite.)
We’re done. (This conversation is finite.) Argue your ridiculous theory with someone else.
I really can’t comment about your “ingenuity”. Though i can say that based on your willingness to believe in fiction as fact, your “ingenuty” might be made up of much of the same LOL. To be honest if you wanted to demonstrate your ingenuity you could have presented your scenario for squeezing more buckeyes out of your finite plot of land that would itself not hit a finite limit. But just as it is with the supply side economists, we are just supposed to take your word that the thing truly exists.
Contrary to Internet folklore, Dr. Kamerschen is NOT the author of “Tax Cuts: A Simple Lesson in Economics.” Additionally, he does NOT know who wrote it.
http://davidk.myweb.uga.edu/
I see nobody has posted the link to African Press International, who has claimed that Michelle Obama contacted them and implored that they do not provide any articles that are not favorable to her husband because our country is racist, and bribed them with an invitation to the inauguration party.
She did this knowing full well the federal lawsuit by a DEMOCRAT against her husband requesting that he provide his authentic birth certificate, which he is fighting. When John McCain’s eligibility was challenged, he did what any other person would do and that was produce the documents.
I am deeply troubled by this because Michelle is also alleged to have said “no law will keep” her husband from becoming POTUS. They are both lawyers and have been sworn to uphold American law and the rule of law. The US Constitution provides a standard of “natural born citizen.” I didn’t realize that the Obama’s believe that this standard is racist, and are willing to disregard the rule of law.
API has verified that they will make the audio of this phone call available soon. But virtually no one in the American media has reported on the lawsuit. Which is probably one of the most important legal challenges in our history.
Ask your sister, does she really want Gov Schwarzenneger to be able to run for POTUS?
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/recordings-and-information-leading-to-recent-api-story-on-michelle-obamas-telephone-call-is-now-being-cleared-for-release/
It’s been discussed ad-nauseum
This is most likely a distraction from something else they (the DNC and Obamas ) are worried about.
The whole story is an Obama tactic and so are half the people who are spreading it.
Crazy is crazy. Right or left………there are crazies in the world.
This API story has already been debunked. A distraction perhaps so that Obama’s positions and troubling alliances won’t be discussed.
Or his words, like:
Spread the Wealth.
Or Biden’s infamous line:
Paying taxes is patriotic.
Yup, I’m sure they’d like to take those words back.
So dump the story and the distraction, FemBot
I’m still trying to ascertain if its a mere distraction. I have seen that the API still hasn’t released the audio yet. Anyhoo, can you tell me where the story has been debunked? Don’t want to play to a distraction. This isn’t about the whitey tape.
Thx
Excellent speech and right to all of the critical issues. Thank you.
To this…
“Barack Obama may call it “income redistribution” but socialism by any other name is still socialism.”
I would add:
You can put lipstick on a pig…but it’s still a pig.
The wealthiest 5 percent-–those who would pay increased taxes under the Obama tax plan–-own almost 60 percent of the total wealth of the nation.
The bottom 60 percent of American families now own less than 4 percent of the nation’s total net wealth.
What seems more just? What makes more sense?
That the wealthiest 5 percent should pay more taxes, as Obama proposes?
Or McCain’s plan, that gives even bigger tax cuts to the wealthiest 5 percent than they received under George W. Bush?
Presumably you agree that we cannot continue running up the national debt as quickly as Bush did without total disaster. So we’ve got to get more revenues from somewhere.
Is is socialism to suggest that we should consider getting more of the money from the people who already have most of it? Shouldn’t the people who profit the most from our economic system be liable to pay higher membership dues? It’s in their self-interest. They rely on the rest of us to create their wealth. Their wealth depends upon a healthy, well-educated work force. Their wealth depends upon a modern, well-functioning infrastructure. Their wealth depends on our national security. Their personal security depends on civil rest and social security at all levels of society.
Whenever the government takes money out of the economy in the form of taxes no matter who the taxes are supposedly on, the economy shrinks and the government grows. So let the big government small economy advocates vote for Obama.
Is that actually true? The government takes money out of the economy. But the government spends the money within the economy, contracting with private businesses to provide roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, military equipment; to provide security and health care for the elderly, nutritional, health, and educational programs for our children, etc. The government is responsible for protecting our environment; for dealing with public health and safety; for addressing collective issues such as energy and climate change that no private industry, however large and well-meaning, could possibly deal with.
The federal government is a favorite target, but if you were to take it and all it does away the country could collapse into total chaos inside of a week.
Big government is inevitable. We’re a huge, highly complex nation, and becoming more so all the time. What we need isn’t a smaller government, but a more efficient, effective, responsive, and accountable one. We want real value for our tax dollars. Surely no one really thinks we can get by without paying taxes. The arguement is actually about who should be paying them, and to what degree.
Thanks for this list, just emailed it all the media listed on PumaPac’s website asking them to do their job.
that is SOCIALISM. You want to punish the people who are successful and give it to those who aren’t. Most people get out of life what they put into it. Based on the fact that 40% of Americans don’t pay income tax, I would say that is a good indication of their lack of ambition. A person can’t be successful without it. If a person wants more than they need to do more and earn it.
But the people who make the most don’t really do more. There are only so many hours in the week. They just get paid more. A lot more. And often times the people making the decision on how much the people getting paid more(a lot more)will get paid, are sitting on executive compensation committees, which themselves are made up of people getting paid more.
Do you honestly believe that as a general rule the wealthiest members of our society are those who have acquired their wealth by working the hardest and contributing the most?
That the wealthiest 5% of the population have actually produced 60% of the total wealth of the nation through their own personal creativity and labor?
I, personally, think that everyone who works should pay a fair share. If you don’t pay taxes, you cannot/should not get a tax refund. End of story. If you did not buy a sweater at Macy’s, could you and ask for a refund for what you never bought? If you want to call it welfare then call it welfare, ut don’t you dare call it a tax refund:
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I am not in support of handouts in this great country where if you work hard and do your best you can and will be anything you want to be. We already have programs that help people when they get in a bad spot. It is the people who don’t want to work for anything wh always get the handouts and it gives no incentive to better themselves at all. They just keep putting their hand out. I have worked hard for all that I have. I also help people out when I know they will use it well. I give to charity out of my checks because I feel it is important. I earn under $60,000 per year and I give a good chunk to taxes because I choose to and because I do well enough that I can.
I certainly hope democrats can take the pro-choice argument to other areas of concern. I am prochoice about charity. Who and how much I want to give. I believe that most people are good and giving people and if they do well and have made it through their own struggles, they are much more likely to give back to their communities. This is the foundation of America. Government handouts do not work! They do not! The Government screws up most that they touch. Let people helping peoplework on it’s own, at it’s best.
I meant to say I give a good chunk to charity not taxes!
That’s the 10% rule. 10% of any group are the dregs who screw things up for the 90%. You know the one person who talks in a movie theater the entire time the movie runs?
But, I think we need to keep some things in mind about the economic condition of so many people right now and make sure we don’t sound too punitive in our remarks against poor people.
Not that I might do any better, I just hope we can all keep in mind how many are really suffering and starving and above all desperate.
The thing that really pisses me off about this election and the Obamamania by usually rational people and the press is we can’t have any real constructive dialogue on how to really help people do better. And they need it.
The unemployment rate for Black men in my city is very high — over 50%. They were dependent upon manufacturing jobs which are virtually nil. And so many biofuel factories that were massively created recently have been shut down because of the marketplace. We have a chance to create some with Obama’s plan for green jobs, but he asks too much from us as a nation in return. He wants to create a mass form of govt created jobs, and that’s socialism. I could perhaps support Obama if he adopted FDR policies, but he’s not. He’s never talked about building up the infrastructure, like fixing city roads and bridges. He’s NOT talking about that. He’s talking specifically about taking money from the rich to give to the poor. Socialism. And he will use the people in his cabinet (like Pritzker and Raines) who aided this economic catastrophy.
It would be better if he just said he was going to add a lot of money to the welfare coffers so more people could get help, than what he is really doing which is passing it off as some bogus type of tax break or refund. Most of his credits don’t even apply to me. Obama feels he has to use this language because no self-respecting person wants to be on welfare. My boyfriend had a difficult time just going on unemployment which he is rightfully entitled to because of this mentality. But Obama’s shift of the tax burden is not going to work, because the wealthy will flee, that’s reality. He would have to end the war now to get more $ into our coffers, and he’s not gonna do it because it is a political unreality. And then when he does a drop down of troops he’s just gonna shift them to Afghanistan anyway.
I work for the govt, and its not the cure-all that people think it is. Things take time to get done, and if nonprofits are involved, oversight is crucial for programs to succeed. If oversight isn’t there people run amok because they feel they can. [There have been countless times where voucher schools were run by frauds and they embezzled huge amounts of money because of no oversight.] What oversight have we heard Obama discuss? None.
And then further, Obama will force women to register for the military and students dependent upon grants/loans must either do military service or a civilian corp service that would include nonprofits that are govt approved. WTF? More socialism.
Obama thinks he can just shove all these ideas and they will work miraculously because he wants them to. As far as I’m concerned, he doesn’t have any real grasp on the economy yet wants to impose more socialist techniques and untested remedies (without utilizing historical examples like FDR) and that’s what will hurt Americans more than John McCain’s policies.
just my two cents
A good one, Dr. Long. As a Hillary supporter myself, I think you covered the bases and pointedly made the argument for those of us who feel abandoned and betrayed by the Democratic Party. I have already voted for McCain/Palin [early voting], and I was afraid I was going to have to hold my nose to do it.
But as the days and weeks have gone on and more alarming materials have been released about fraud during the primaries, disturbing alliances, and the control and distorted [often vile] messaging from the Obama folks, I found it quite easy to vote for McCain.
Do I agree with him on all points? No. But I agree on enough. And I also agree with you: I’m not willing to hum the socialistic mantra. Obama is not who he says he is.
Remember that old movie with Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn?
The Rainmaker. The smooth, swift talker who promises everything but is basically a con artist, a fraud.
I’ll make my own rain, thank you very much!
Good luck with the speech. I’m sure it’ll be well received.
Good speech! I’ve emailed it to a niece who sent me an inane anti-Palin video the other day. It’s worth a try anyway. Thanks Dr. Long!
Wow! Excellent post Dr. Long! Thank you.
Independent for McCain/Palin
Mathematics, eh Dr. Long? No wonder you don’t “get” Obama! You know how to COUNT!
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Excellent speech Dr. Long. It was very emotional for me to read. I wish you well in your speech.
I would love to see John McCain win big in New Mexico and make Governor fat man in a little coat look the idiot he is and get Richardson in a heap of hot water with the democrats.
Well said, Dr. Long!
Thanks, Dr. Long! It’s nice to know that an accurate, truthful account of what took place during the Democratic primary is still going to see the light of day. This farce needs to be talked about again and again. I have not forgotten the fraud perpetrated by the DNC and I never will. While it seems that the DNC is willing to embrace racial equity (as it should) — issues of gender bias and blatant sexism have been unceremoniously shoved to the back burner.
Good luck on your trip.
Apparently you think that McCain is as good as Obama for women, if not better.
But what about how he is for LGBT people? Or don’t you care about us? The difference between the candidates is very stark when it comes to our rights, especially in light of what is happening with Proposition 8.
Proposition 8 in California is dangerously close to passing. Proposition 8, for those who don’t know, would amend the state constitution to band same sex marriage. If it does pass, not only will it invalidate all the same sex marriages that have already been performed in the state, but it will also send a chilling message to judges and legislatures nationwide. I will be the first instance of the popular vote overturning a court decision granting same sex marriage rights or civil unions to the residents of a state. Every time LGBT people have won equal relationship recognition at the state level, it has been by court decision. Proposition 8 may cause courts to be less likely to act on behalf of the LGBT community in the absence of popular support. Worse, Propostion 8 may cause legislators nationwide to become more reluctant about staking political futures on supporting our rights. And most significantly, a popular rebuke of the California Supreme Court may diminish the political will of that court to overturn the proposition on constitutional grounds.
What does all this have to do with the White House?
First, John McCain and Sarah Palin have come out strongly for Proposition 8, over the opposition of many gay people in the McCain campaign, including the general counsel. Obama is strongly opposed to Proposition 8.
Second, if the California Supreme Court doesn’t overturn Proposition 8 (and there’s no guaranty they’ll do anything), the only way to challenge Prop 8 will be in federal court on grounds that it violates the United States Constitution. The final decision in that instance will come from the Supreme Court. If we lose a liberal justice such as Ginsburg or Stevens, this decision will likely turn on who the next president nominates to the Supreme Court. If McCain is president, LGBT will likely lose. If Obama is president, we are much more likely to win.
This is not the same as Roe v. Wade which is a decision that was poorly written when it was issued and which has been whittled away over time. This is a critical issue that will be facing the Supreme Court for the first time.
You can vote for who you want and for whatever reasons you want. I just hope that at the end of the day, if LGBT people find themselves with a less promising future with John McCain as president, you’ll embrace the fact that you played a role in hurting the cause.
I hope that gay people do not vote for Obama based on this one issue. That would be very sad. It is similar to women voting for Obama because McCain and Palin are pro life. Is being gay the only thing that is important to you? It shouldn’t be. McCain and Palin do not want to take anyone’s rights away, they just don’t personally agree with everyone’s choices. My country comes before anything else.
Jeff I am a life long democrat and a gay male. I am voting for McCain/Palin and if they get in office I will be voting for Palin for President in 2012.
I have to state the obvious (to most of us here, if you are new here, then you would be surprised) McCain & Palin, they are better for women. The facts and past actions by the two are well spelled out throughout the blogs and especially here. Yes, you do need to look, read and verify but they do speak for them selves.
As far as gay & lesbian rights, McCain and Palin (yes Palin also) and more moderate elected officials than Bush is. Our community rights have moved forward (yes, not 100% everything we want, but moved forward) over the past 8 years and will continue to do so. Neither McCain nor Palin govern on bedroom politics. As a gay democrat you most likely will not like to believe that. Yes, they are endorsing the marriage bans but McCain has never supported it in the past where actions were required and Palin has positively taken action which have left gay & lesbian state workers in Alaska with domestic partner benefits. She is a friend to the community, much more then Obama. Please do not recite emails you have received, if you wish to dispute this please do so wit actions she has taken to prove otherwise.
Now Obama - according to two articles in the Advocate is a great friend to the community. In reading the last article they wrote on him, it was perfect and had an answer to every question we might have had about him. It is my personal opinion those fabulous articles were fabricated. His refusal for a photo with Gavin Newsom, his “reformed gay” choir director he took on tour to homophobic black rallies, his refusal for interviews with gay papers during the primary, his lies about supporting survivor domestic partner benefit transfer, and now he has changed his stand on DOMA and DADT, which he wants to leave up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is no different then McCain. In the state of Arizona we have had numerous “out” elected officials that McCain has stood by and supported. Neal Giuliani, president of GLADD, who was a great Mayor of Tempe went thru a recall election because he was gay. Senator McCain stood by him and up for him.
As a gay man I can say I honestly feel we will have friends in the White House. While they might not support us the way Hillary would have, they will not be a detriment to our way of life. Their previous actions are known to us, unlike Obama who will make a promise one day and change the next day for political gain.
If you watched any of the debate or Saddleback you would know how tupid you sound. Both sides have made it very clear that they are exactly the same on gay rights and gay marriage. There is no difference. None.
I’d also like to know if you can nameany gay friends of Obama he supports. Both Mccain and Palin admit to having gay friends and family. Obama is a homophobe and won’t speak of it hardly at all, let alone admit to knowing a gay person. He won’t even have a picture taken with them if he knows they are gay! Biden I have no clue.
Gay rights is a draw in this campaign. go watch Saddleback and the VP debate and see for yourself. And if this is your only area of concern, sorry, you are screwed and I suggest you move to another country ASAP!
Jeff - In the VP debate, Joe Biden let it be known what Obama hasn’t been willing to commit to out loud, hoping to rein in the LGBT vote before they found what he really thinks, saying the Obama campaign believes that marriage should be identified as between a man and a woman as well. In this instance, both candidates feel this way.
Sarah Palin’s best friend is a lesbian and they have a very mutually supportive relationship in which each very much respects the other’s beliefs. I think, given the choices, you’ll find you’ll have a friend on the McCain/Palin ticket who respects you.
Obama is a liar; you can’t trust any promise he makes or any statement in his platform. Do not trust his good will.
Hillary was your girl if this was your voting issue. Remember her? The one eviscerated by her own party? While the gay press fawned all over Obama?
Lie to yourself if you like, but Obama is no great friend to LGBT causes.
There is no way I am betting that Obama’s SCOTUS appointees will be socially more liberal than McCains. Obama is into judicial activism and hangs out with black racist evangelical Christians. FFS he did an evangelical tour right in my back yard.
I am just not buying it, sorry. No kool-aid is that powerful.
Love your speech Dr. Long! Just brilliant! Wish I could be there to hear it in person! All the best!
wow…excellent! Wish I could be there to hear it in person. Thank you!!
Dr. Long — you have summed it up all so well !
You are a numbers woman, and one thing is a fact, numbers don’t lie. Most people understand this. I’ve been wondering how come no other statisticians have been talking about the weird results during the primaries.
The Obama Brand is one no woman should buy!
And, I just like Sarah Palin. Growing up in a Republican household she reminds me of so many women I’ve encountered in my life. I might not like their politics, but they are great people, who I’ve been able to rely upon, have genuine concern for others, and are generally tolerant of others.
Besides, I’ve always questioned Dems commitment to pay equity and comparable worth especially. No viable formulary has been created that could make comparable worth work. So, as I’ve grown into my 30’s I came to see these as political tactics to get women’s votes, nothing more.
Roe v. Wade is important, but I feel like others having the right to an abortion won’t mean much if I have to encounter a daily barrage of comments from men that I can’t do the job because I’m on the rag! And then on top of it the person who made this comment about Hillary (periodic lows) doesn’t even employ women that much, have them in positions of power, and when he does pays them less than men.
Obama has sunk political dialogue to a new low, and the media just lets him get away with it.
Feminist Democrat for McCain/Palin
Gays have long been under Obama’s bus.
See Donnie McClurkin and the Catholic scholar for Prop 8 that Obama’s employing in his Faith tour.
No, Obama is not good for gays — especially those who have a modicum of self-respect.
Thank you Dr. Long it’s a wonderful speech. Good Luck and my prayers are with you. I hope you message is heard and Hillary’s dems are reminded what exactly happened in the primary and follow your lead.
She should have been our nominee.
Wonderful speech!! Thank you sooo much !
Ha hahhahahahahahha. So where is that video of Whitie that Michelle supposedly said.
Without a doubt this is one of the funniest websites in America. Sarah Palin has a vagina so I must vote for her. How profoundly retarded can anybody be.
Hey you loonies, keep whining to the other loonies as Obama crushes your pathetic little lives in the dust.
Ha hahahahahahahah
hmmm, so BOBO is all about crushing American lives into dust. That’s a nice piece of information to know just a few weeks before the election.
Well, it seems you came prepared to show us what you obamalobotobots are all about. Thanks for the information, mouth-breather. I can make good use of your sorry post.
Christina, your vagina is showing
What’s the matter? Nobody posting on your rag of a blog?
“Hey you loonies, keep whining to the other loonies as Obama crushes your pathetic little lives in the dust.”
Now all Americans have been told what Obama has planned for them. I’ll bet he won’t be too happy with the person that released that info before his thugs have secured his victory.
No way are we in a post-racial, post-sexist era. Some people mouth those words, just to sound PC. I am sick of this election cycle, sick of the hatred and posturing. As a non-hater, all I want are qualified individuals running for office who can prove their involvement in causes that benefit people, regardless of age, gender, race. Who has that proven record–who cares about people? Who cares about fairness? Who believes in equal opportunity? This is why I’m voting McCain/Palin.
Great speech!
The brand vs the man comments are really on target!! We in America have become such well trained, unthinking. instant gratification consumer. First we are easily sold on a new (hope) and improved (change) “branded president”. But when the brand starts to tarnish and we begin to have doubts, realizing that “hope & change” is just the same oldstyle corrupt politican with bright packaging and a catchy jingle, we are easily lulled back to demanding “hope and change” because its easier and makes us feel better. After all, the package clearly states its new and improved!!
How sad and how totally reflective of so much else that seems to have gone wrong in our society. The financial meltdown is a perfect example. We, as a society have stopped valuing hard work and responsiblity as part of our personal ethics. Now they are only a means to attaining the latest bright shiny object we’ve been told we deserve.
I LOVE this speech! It sure brought back every emotion I felt during the primary season. I have evolved in the same way so many other Hillary supporters have and agree with every point you have made in this writing. My eyes were blurry by the time I finished reading it.