The Dead “Unmoved” By Palin’s Debate, Continue To Vote For Obama

Priceless.

I’m convinced that the major world financial powers have collaborated to put Obama in as POTUS. Obama has been, and continues to be shoved down our throats by the MSM. He is, and has been, asked soft ball questions. The Obama leftist have been bamboozled. They truly want to believe they are fighting the major powers (i.e., which put Bush/Cheney in power). They are wrong. Obama supporters have been fooled.

Obama supporters won’t look at the evidence; they won’t dialogue on the issues. Clear and simple: they are either fools or soulless individuals.

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The game is a-foot!

I see dead voters?

OH MY GOD…THAT SAYS IT ALL

Harp is your first name start with a “D”

Harp does your first name start with a “D”

I’ve been saying this for a while

http://hillaryorbust.com/obama-neocon/

You should be worried about the millions of Democrats that don’t support NoBama! Especially in States like VA where I live…. and hell my partner and I should be a shoe-in vote for NoBama I’m gay man who is continually told that the Democrats protect me….. That’s a load of BS! LOL

You have a photo of a dead man with a DOA tag on his toe and you are concerned about a photo shop video?WTF?

ScottVA – I agree. I thought the Democrats were supposed to be the ones who protest women too. That’s a load of BS too.

Not today

thanks, your comments of past sounded like a “D-Harp” I know.
from other blogs. Just curious.

This PISSES ME OFF, so, I am posting it again.

As bad as the Financial Rescue is, When people start to realize that Obarky/Biden want to give people who bought homes they could not afford a few hundred thousand, to make those homes “Affordable”, I doubt they will have the same support for O’barky/Imbibin.

If you missed it in the VP Debate, Biden said Obama wants to reduce the interest rate, and the PRINCIPAL people owe on their subprime home loans.

So the 90% of us that were not stupid enough to live beyond our means can take it up the ass again.

Or as MEchelle says, we have to give up some of our pie so someone else can have a bigger slice of pie.

I was at a Palin rally in Carson California today. The stadium held 8,000 and the crowd was over capacity!! They had overflow seats outside!! The crowd was WILD about SARAH!!!!! Sorry, the Obama/axelgrease talking points are a bunch of BS and you know it!!! By the way, I met soooo many Hillary supporters at that rally!! They didn’t blog and they didn’t call themselves PUMAS, but they were not voting Obama!!! hahahahaha NObama in NOvember!

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/10/battle_for_the_12.html

OT
People are tracking Electoral College Votes in this campaign.

Be vigilant against fraud in this area.

It is not the voters who vote for president- IT IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MEMBERS who do so- based upon the popular vote however…

There are such categories as ‘Faithless Electors’ who can vote against the popular vote of their state.

If Sen Obama loses the popular vote in USA, he might still win election IF HIS CAMPAIGN HAS MANAGED TO SWAY/COERCE/BLACKMAIL/BRIBE state electors to become Faithless Electors and give their vote to him instead of the candidate that won the popular vote in that state. This is legal and it has been done in the past.

Based upon how Sen Obama has gotten this far in his political career, I would not put this past his campaign to do this.

We need to be on the alert. Republican party electors have to be prepared for this possibility occuring and they should go public IMMEDIATELY if anyone approaches them to do this (become a Faithless elector and vote for Obama if McCain has won popular vote in their state)

McCain and Palin Can’t be bought either.

Obama is not a Neo-Con though. His history is all Socialism and Totalitarian experience.

Obama can be bought, and that is what his backers are counting on. He will deliver anything they want as long as they deliver the money and votes.

God Help Us.

Johnny at Work….What kind of pie?

From Hillar 44

nteresting blog article on skewed polls. Here’s an excerpt:

PPP just released a poll in Colorado which puts Obama up +7
Now what the issue is here is that the party split was

Dem 40
Rep 36
Ind 24

However August voter registration number per the spreadsheet available from the Secretary of State show the registration breakdown is
Dem 30.6
Rep 34.8
Ind 34.5

Details on the poll in question can be found here. Just this week American Research Group (ARG) also released a poll for Colorado (which is not used in the RCP poll of polls strangely). Its voter model was Dem 32%, Rep 35% and Ind 33%, very close to the ACTUAL voter registration levels noted by MerlinOS2. The result: McCain 48%, Obama 45% – a McCain lead of +3%. (Note: this polls also shows McCain tied with women)

These polls were taken at basically the same time in the same state. But we can see how the voter model can really change the bottom line (a 10% difference).

Who “has the Con” on Saturday/Sunday?

Wow!
I totally missed that!
Good to hear, since I don’t see so many McCain/Palin signs here.

harp has never been inapropriate

That’s five down and forty-five dollars to go…
Dorothy Kilgallen…

Why worry about Obama.

Give those you know the reason to vote for MacCain ticket. One person at a time.

I am doing that let us hit the road, talk the to people and be polite.

One voter at a time. Do not under estimate you power when you believe in something.

You know, I don’t see many Obama signs either! I don’t think people are putting signs in their yards this year!! I certainly saw a lot of McCain/Palin bumper stickers as I was leaving the rally….but that’s to be expected.

Thanks.

Johney,

In considering how corruptive Washington is, and how mush we are sick of it, McCain and Palin must emphasize that they are CLEAN, cannot be bought. On the other hand, Obama has been bought all way long. Only God knows Obama is in how many people and company’s pockets.

COSTA MESA, CA-

In front of an estimated crowd of 13 thousand Orange County supporters, Gov. Sarah Palin again slammed Sen. Barack Obama

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/04/palin-obama-pals-around-with-terroists

FoxNews has a new hour long special they are showing this weekend called, “Economy”, about the bailout and how it started. The first half hour is what everyone needs to see because it highlights Obama’s involvement in the ACORN Federal Housing Programs in his community organizing days. It explains how lower income people were able to qualify for loans they should not have gotten and laid the blame at the feet of democrats who are trying to blame it all on the Bush Admin. The second hour is a great synopsis of last week. It is excellent.

It is supportive of John McCain and indicts Obama, Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Schumer, and other democrats who fought to keep Fannie & Fredie deregulated for ACORN type projects and refused to see that there was a problem in 2006. You don’t want to miss it. For late-nighters, it is coming on at 2 a.m. ET. Will be on again Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.

Thanks HARP!
An analysis of actual corrected data. This is, in my opinion, what true numbers are showing nationwide. If it is as I guess, this Poll Dance is endemic and reflects a bias in the general demographic. Base data is corrupted and then analyzed incorrectly as the only way to show Obama ahead.
If the truth were to come out, the kiddies would throw down their toys and go home to the basement, hit the bong and pout.
Could still happen…

Sorry, I meant to say second half hour is about last week. It is an hour program.

HARP,

I interpreted the photo as a voting fraud tactic. Acorn has helped dead people to register as voters. The dead guys certainly will vote for Obama; hence, put an Obama label on the dead body is nothing wrong.

They should run it every day until the election.

AND make sure they show Imbibin saying that he and O’barky are going to give a few hundred grand to all those who bought hmomes they could not afford with Bad Subprime Loans.

What is going on?

I can’t get up in the middle of the night to go to the john and not swing by the computer to see if you guys are still up? Well it is lyric time again.

When I’m dead please bury me
In downtown Chicago
So I can still keep casting my vote
When I’m dead
I can make up all those years
I didn’t vote

Please assign your after death voting rights now:

http://www.governuts.us/death.html

And, sing along with Mitch:

http://www.governuts.us/music/WealthyPolitician.mp3

PKJAYNE a/k/a HARP.

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/04/oh-oh-expect-fireworks-big-time/#comment-2233420

LA Now exec. supports mcCAIN/Palin

Reportedly, ACORN has done voter registration for dead guys.

Just watched “Recount”. Up is down and down is up. Democrats have become Republicans and Republicans have become Democrats. We have repeated history but with a new party.

See also SCI. Bush’s no 4 career contributor in 2000.
HQ in TX. They do a lot of work in Florida as well.

Wrongly interred Jewish remains, missing Katrina bodies through subcontract work.

Cheney shot the TX Funeral Commission man in the face when hunting with him.
Interesting Secret Service work they subcontracted on in the 1960′s as well.

I saw lots, lots of Mccain/Palin yard signs in Michigan. I put 4 in my front yard. I hope McCain will not give up Michigan and hope to see Sarah in Michigan soon. She should talk to the auto workers and I am confident she will win many votes.

Thanks for that reminder, Fran.
Also, Sunday night I believe Sean Hannity is supposed to have an hour-long special about Bill Ayers.

AAR: ACORN has been caught registering at least one dead person in Indiana.

SORRY, No link to this, obviously. Taken from PUMApac:

bythelake on 10.04.08 at 9:36 pm Hi Pumas, I feel compelled to share this email I received from a neighbor just a short time ago. This may be a repeat of information you all have seen but I want you all to know that if my neighbors are questioning Barack Obama, then why isn’t the entire country!

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Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8:15 PM

This frightens me.

All,
Forwarded from a short string of reliable “source friends”. At a minimum, these are interesting questions that all should be attempting to answer — both the media types and voters.
Bill

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This letter is from a friend of ours who we believe wrote this with great concern. Both Jan and I think it is important to send this on so anyone that is open to ideas and wants what is best for our country can have good information to use when making up their mind regarding who to vote for. This is not a political slant, but a REAL person doing research on an individual who will be in charge of our country. Just read it and make your own decisions. G & J

To All My Friends, this is every important, please take the time to read it.

This election has me very worried. So many things to consider.

About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than.

I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with.

About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’.

I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life.

Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies.

‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.

During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ’round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.

My question – Where did he get the money for this trip?

Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college.

When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York.

It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack -not Barry.

Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It’s not cheap! to say the least. Here did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe.

After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York.

By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year.

Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’.

About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans?

After Law school, he went back to Chicago.

Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.

Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which Rezko’s firm.

Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago.

In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ’seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race.

In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price).

With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property?

On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price.

The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Now, we have Obama running for President.

Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?

On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ’sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran.

This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ’small’ Internet campaign contribution for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East?

And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos.

Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he make a mistake’. Some mistake!

All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.

Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this?

A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – ‘Beware of the enemy from within’!!!

Agust—Next time you swing by, bring food!

Johney,

You heard it right. Biden said that he and Obama wants to reduce the “principal” too. So, if a “poor” guy bought a $300,000 home and can not pay it, Obama will reduce the principal to, say $150,000, we tax payers will pay the $150,000 difference. How nice to be a “poor” person in the great Obama’s Age.

Obama and Biden said this is “economic justice.” Justice? Justice for whom?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewmvkaTXHU

Even as it was destroying our economy Obama thinks giving people mortgages who couldn’t afford them was a good idea.

Why on earth would the economic crisis favor Bobo? People are hearing that bleeding hearts in government pushed lenders into giving mortgages to poor and minority people who, at times, didn’t even have to have an income! The Obamaniac MSM is trying to paint the hard times as something that will help their Precious One when he stood by and tossed off, “They’ll call if they need me.” I believe that anything that transpires will be trumped up as advantageous to him. But why would voters put an unknown quantity into power when times are so uncertain? And anyone who thinks there won’t be a Bradley Effect (whether it’s people lying to pollsters or racially nervous whites refusing to take surveys) should read about the polls that preceded several other black candidates who were thought certain to win and didn’t. If the GOP isn’t bringing out the nukes, you can be certain it’s because they think they don’t have to! Does anyone really believe they’re wooses?!

I was encouraged today about McCain’s chances when I was emailed about the Denver Group is going to be running some ads in the battleground states talking about who BO really is and some of the primary tactics used to get him the nomination.

Also, in light of the polls, McCain & Palin are going to do the same as far as BO’s friends and associates. Palin talked about Ayers today in CA.

They have got to hit BO with all fours if they are going to be able to move public opinion back to where they were prior to the bailout. How unfair it is that BO is not doing ONE thing to cause those polls to move in his favor. It is simply that McCain represents the party that “looks” like it caused it all when the democrats are more to blame for the Subprime problem where unqualified buyers were given home loans. The democrats are the ones who kept fighting for deregulation of the Fannie and Fredie type loans for low-income people.

OK. Who are you.

That was funny.

Wings or Sliders?

What about those of us that were responsible and bought within our means in the last few years, but the value of our house went down $100K? I won’t be able to sell my house for what I bought it for, but I guess since I continue to make my mortgage payments on time I’ll just be SOL when its time to move.

Actually all the Dems did was threaten women this year — vote for O or Roe v. Wade will be overturned.

Can you imagine?

That’s all they have to say.

Two Bushes and Reagan did not — McCain certainly will not.

DNC threatens with R v. W and the race card. They must be desperate.

I just saw a piece of it now. Then I flipped to SNL.

Absolutely Obama is bought and paid for by big money. His supporters have been bamboozled.

Hey, let’s ALL run out and buy a $750,000 home when we can only afford a $100-250,000 home and let Obama’s policies take care of it! Who’s with me?

I see dead people responding to surveys.

That is a typical Chicago election tactic. it is so common in Chicago that we all ask friends if they saw their dead relatives at the voting precints.

I’m not surprised that Obama is using the same tactics. it’s the classic Chicago Machine politics playbook being implemented.

Ya, im stumped too about how a tanking economy with frozen credit favors Obama’s massive spending programs over McCains budget cut approach. I suppose that we actually thought about the economy long enough to forget that it is all the Republican’s fault. Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t be partisan about that!

To say nothing of a GOP-controlled Congress for almost 12 solid years. Anti-abortion legislation could NEVER pass a floor vote in spite of an outright House majority and not nearly enough Senate Democrats with spines to fight the GOP, yet abortion was never made illegal.
Unless, of course, you were looking at the STATE level, where more and more RESTRICTIONS were being placed on abortion and women’s access to abortion with almost none being overturned by the Supreme Court. (Surprisingly, the “center” on the Court always split their votes–there would several instances where one of the “center” Justices would vote that a restriction was Constitutional, then turn around and vote another restriction to be unConstitutional. And none of them were absolutely steadfast in their voting, except to keep abortion safe and legal.) And, it should be noted that a couple of DEMOCRATIC Governors (most notably former Pennsylvania Governor Casey–whose name was on the Court case which began the increasingly allowed restrictions on abortions) have been in the forefront of the restriction movement. (So much for the Democratic Party’s “protection of abortion”. It may be a party platform plank, but that doesn’t make every Democrat abide by the terms.)

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

sowsear – I have wondered about this, too. WHERE DID OBAMA GET THE MONEY TO TRAVEL THE WORLD LIKE HE DID???? He claims his mother was on ‘food stamps’ for a while, yet he was able to jet-set around the world; something NONE OF THE REST OF US WILL BE ABLE TO DO. Where did he get his money for airfare/hotel/food??? Oh, excuse me – he’s ‘supposed’ to be like the rest of us, everyday Americans – yeah, right!

Us everyday Americans vacation for a week in Florida or California; Obummer spends MONTHS flying around the globe. Didn’t he have a JOB during that time???

see, that’s the biggest scare tactic that the Obamatons are giving out in order to get the women vote.

Roe V Wade will never be overturned. McCain is the most liberal of all Republicans and will never appoint a supreme court judge from the extreme right if given the chance.

McCain might even surprise everyone and appoint Hillary to the SCOTUS.

Obama and the rest of the dems who stole the nomination from Hillary are trying so hard to paint McCain as a right winger when in fact, McCain’s political leanings are a lot closer to Hillary than Hillary is to Obama’s.

McCain and Hillary are centrists, Obama is from the far left wing nuts sector of the democratic party. that’s why Obama is so hard pressed to keep saying that McCain is the same as Bush when in fact McCain doesn’t even think like Bush 95% of the time (also McCain can actually think, unlike Bush, LOL! ).

hootnannie – the ones voting for Obummer are the wealthy whites who can afford to pay for minorities’ mistakes (that’s so cool and politically correct, don’tchyaknow; they did their ‘good deed for the day’); the other ‘whites’ are just stupid – they ‘think’ Obummer is going to give them free insurance or reduce the cost of the insurance they’re now paying or somehow his sky-high taxes are going to create jobs for them, and the others are just racists – blacks who are voting for Obummer JUST BECAUSE HE’S BLACK. Of course, this does not include ALL blacks (the smart, intelligent, decent blacks) – it’s just the ‘racist’ blacks.

Bring me a pop on the way back. Oh yeah, I’m originally from the Midwest, they say soda down here in Florida.

oh yeah hi father of 3, where’s all those goodies you assured so many people were coming out?

doesn’t seem to be working so well.

As long as it’s cold.

I just ate some leftover chicken and lemonade… Mmmmm good.

And do it with auto loans too and with credit card debt. And it tells you that it has no end. And it means disrupting and disturbing the moral fiber of the American society. And then some people say that he will not be able to overturn our way of life and change it. But we are looking at chaos in the eyes. And we don’t know how that will look but Obama knows how it looks because that’s what he knows very well. And it will look simply like nothing you have ever seen or heard and always thought you would never see or hear. It is simply the unbelievable made reality.

Because we want to believe that the nightmare will never happen, but it will.

Unrepentant. Since Obama is unrepentant of anything, obviously having unrepentant friends matches the bill.

But what is the meaning of unrepentant?

It obviously mean invested in doing it again.

Destroying the economy. There are so many ways of doing that. One best way is to trash it.

Obama usually asks this question of J McCain. John McCain, what economy are you talking about?

Jay, he was talking about your economy. The economy of Jay.

What economy does Obama talks about? The economy of the collective.

What is the economy of the collective?

Excellent. Old guard fems waking up? Welcome all who love our country and want to stay free.

Wish Sarah was coming to the Central Coast. I’ll call Rep HQ tomorrow and find out. If so, I’ll be there.

No doubt funded by the Arab who got him into Harvard by getting his US friends to write recommendations. Don’t have the names at hand but do have the video and record or that little transaction…which seems not to interest the MSM.

Obama’s law school expenses were funded by a wealthy Saudi, Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tario Al-Mansour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcC0QAd0Ug

Percy Sutton, NYC political icon in the African American community, tells a news reporter that Dr. Khalid al Mansour solicited favor and recommendation on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama in order to secure Barack’s entry into Harvard. Think about that.

http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/who-is-khalid-al-mansour-and-why-was-he-backing-obama-in-the-1980s/

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/obamas-benefact.html

Those are good explaining. But the true reason is that there are not good explanations that are worth.

You said,

Obummer is going to give them free insurance or reduce the cost of the insurance they’re now paying

Few people understand insurance and market forces and how insurance responds to market forces.

Obummer is lying because he does not understand insurance himself. So he blabbermouths.

McCain’s proposal is given with the understanding of what insurance consists of and how market forces affects it.

One simple explanation goes like this.

If you put on the table 25 hundred dollars per person or better yet, 5 thousand per family, ‘ON THE TABLE,’ there are going to be takers. Then there are going to be many takers. Many many takers.

Is the same as the concept of rebate or kickback.

And that’s only pertaining to dollar bills. Not about insurance itself.

At 25 hundred per person or 5 thousand per family there will be a rush to market of many health insurance products that will market programs at par and many others at par plus X number of dollars.

Yes, there will be many deceptive programs and many fools who will buy into them and then those same fools, usually but not always Democrats, will ask their government for protection or a bailout.

But then there will be many good programs benefiting many good people. Like everything else in life or insurance if you will.

Employers or employee insurance groups. The way we know health insurance, through employer/employee groups is a way that works well for insurance companies, actually very very well, exceedingly well, but does not work well for society as a whole. It damages the universe while bending the rules for those in the group.

One needs to understand what and how employment works and rules of the employer and how health insurance manipulates working groups to design a health insurance plan. The best example to understand the problem is to look at WalMart.

WalMart employs a very large host of ‘defective people.’ That is high risk health insurance subjects. If you at the WalMark employee pool you will see it abounds with obese people, minority and black women, extremely thin people, and many others that just by looking at them you know they are prone to health problems. So.

So WalMark employer/employee group is exactly the opposite of a typical employer/employee work group. In a typical employer/employee health insurance group you see young healthy subjects. Those that are unhealthy are expelled from their jobs. The group works well to keep insurance rates low for those employer/employee groups.

Rates then blow up out of proportion for the remainder of the universe.

Why Oblabla’s health care insurance proposal does not make sense? Why bother? It simple doesn’t. The sum of its parts adds to Zero. He is a pathological liar. Hillary’s plan, although a bad plan, could work. But it would tax the American economy quite heavily. It would increase the affect health care would have on GDP. Hillary like Greespan et. al. are very inclined to increase GDP through a SERVICE ECONOMY. So she wouldn’t mind, increasing the part of health care to 20, 25 or even 30 percent of GDP. That means that health care would be by far the most important and highest expense of every American family. We would always be at the doctor’s office or getting some kind of medical therapy.

Is that what you want for the future of America, the future of your children and grandchildren?

In other words, instead of growing the economy through a housing bubble, grow it through a health care bubble.

And how would that bubble burst?

Ah yes, that’s the one…thanks. But wasn’t Al-Mansour the one who gave the recommendation due to the message that the wealthiest Saudi in the world wanted the “genius” to go to Harvard. I’ll watch the tape again. Gotta go to sleep now.

Sounds as if he’s been groomed for a long time. How else has he paid off all those school loans he and MEchille said were just finished and also bought the big house?

Susan, you may want to look at the Defenders of Wildlife web page & everythingsarahpalin.blogspot I know you care about animals

George Bush has been in office for 7 years and 8 months. The first six years the economy was fine, and moving at a stable predictable rate
A little just over one year ago:

· Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;

· The Dollar was strong;

· Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;

· The unemployment rate was 4.5%;

· Most businesses were thriving in our country;

· The DOW JONES hit a record high of 14,000+, and American’s were buying new cars, taking cruises, buying second homes and vacations houses, we were living large!…;

· The USA was still respected and recognized for our global commitment!;

· The Dollar was strong, and the world wanted to invest in the good old USA ;

· Many did not agree with our tactics, but the world saw a unified America , never seen since world war II.

But American’s wanted ‘CHANGE’! So; in 2006 they voted in a Democratic Congress & yep; we got ‘CHANGE’ all right.

In the PAST YEAR and some months:

· Consumer confidence has plummeted;

· Gasoline got to over $5 a gallon, and we have not seen the end yet!;

· Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase)and rising;

· Americans have seen their home equity drop by $12TRILLION & prices are

still dropping;

· 1% of American homes are in foreclosure, more to come;

· As I write, THE DOW is probing another low at 11,508;

· $2..5 TRILLION DOLLARS have evaporated from our investment portfolios;

· The Dollar is at our history’s weakest margins;

· The current US Congress (Led by Nancy Pelosi & Joe Biden) made it a partisan agenda to stall, block, and fight any project of law that could help the incumbent party in any way!

· Congress has since received the LOWEST public approval record

in history! Lower than that of their one and only nemesis which they have set out to destroy with rhetoric and lack of support; Our President.

YEP, IN 2006 AMERICA VOTED FOR CHANGE!…AND WE SURE GOT T!!!….Only in America can our own government institution (Laden by the self serving scum of our society) bring us down to our knees as our Congress has in 18 months!

NOW OBAMA, SAYS HE’S REALLY GOING TO GIVE US CHANGE!!….

· Increase Income Taxes;

· Increase Capital Gains Taxes;

· Reinstate the Inheritance Taxes to higher levels;

· Withdraw our forces from Iraq (Possibly reversing our hard won victory);

· Nationalize Healthcare (Now I know I’ve heard this before?Yes Michael Moore!) neither have a clue, it just sounds good!;

· Wants to “Dialogue” and “Understand” our worst enemies, and does not want to seem insensitive by wearing our flag;

· Obama fails to see the need to protect infant life; even after live birth!

· He is going to achieve all this by crossing “Party Lines”!!! An inexperienced Democrat President, with a failed Democratic Congress in power at the same time? Why would he need to cross any lines? Obama must think that we are all really stupid!

· Obama denies his Muslim origins by calling himself a Christian, yet writes in his own book; The Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’

Obama’s change means a Great Depression!!
Of course Obama would welcome that to push his Marxist revolution.

Going back to a market approach for health care insurance. The McCain approach.

1. Place the money on the table.

2. Welcome takers.

3. Define risks by categories or groups.

4. Offer products by risk assessment and groups.

5. Push for one universe. That means eliminating employer/employee groups.

Is that clear or is that confusing?

Can the McCain approach to health care work?

If it is understood correctly and after being understood it is allowed sufficient time to adjust and implement, it will work.

Could it work better?

Yes, it could work better. But only after it works well. It cannot be better before it is well.

It was an amazing rally. Mandell from NOW introduced Palin and said, “This is what a feminist looks like.”

The absolute and unmitigated truth.

And more.

If Obama wins he will also in my estimation, and these are only my guesses.

1. Reduce military expenditures by half in his first quadrennial.

What effect would that have in the economy?

Effectively take it deeper into a ‘SERVICE SECTOR.’

2. Effectively risk our resources of energy.

But 3. Effectively risk our liberty and freedom.

And how can that be, risk our liberty?

With an increase in socialism we would have less conflict with socialists states such as Russia and China.

With less friction comes new alliances.

With new alliances come stronger central government.

With stronger central government comes new rearrangement of alliances.

I predict an alliance between the U.S., Russia and China and a disengagement from the U.N.

And eventually a One World Government.

That is how paranoid I am.

Is just a prediction.

My life time prediction accuracy stands at 51.4. My last 10 years accuracy at 58.3.

In this economy there is no way Oblah blah can raise taxes to pay for health care or anything else in his one trillion dollar plus goodie bag.

Any taxes on top of already poor earnings and income will without a doubt lead to a recession, and possibly a DEPRESSION.

1 out of 8 jobs is in the housing industry. With Housing in dire straights, increasing taxes is not going to get the US back on track.

A simple example we can all relate to is any company we have ever worked for. When that company was making money, raises were more frequent, new people were hired, and business expanded.

But when the company was not making money, the opposite occurred, there were no raises, and layoffs were frequent.

So, when the economy is bad, and businesses are not making much money, what will happen if taxes are increased? What could happen if taxes are decreased?

The simple reason for tax incentives and investment is that it grows industry, which increases wealth, and CREATES JOBS.

Joe Biden was WRONG. It is not patriotic to pay Taxes. It’s patriotic to Invest in America.

In the US, we should be investing more in industry not less. And we should be proud to do it. It’s called Capitalism.

Investing in Obama would be Socialism.

THE ILLUSION THAT IS BARACK OBAMA – plaese read

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23643866-5013948,00.html

The illusion that is Barack Obama
Fred Siegel | May 05, 2008
POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.
So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he’s done a fair amount of zigzagging.
He engages in doubletalk when, on free trade and Iraq, he tells the yokels one thing and the policy people another. He overstates when he presents his minimal accomplishments in the Illinois Senate as proof of his stature. He engages in systematic deception when he says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
He presents a lie as metaphorical truth when he says it was the 1965 bloody Sunday attacks on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, that inspired his parents to marry. (They had been married for years already.)
All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional. What makes it different is that there’s not just a gap but a chasm between his actions and his professed principles, which would normally kill a candidacy. And because his deeds are so few, the disparity is all the more salient.
Obama, far more than the others, is the “judge me by what I say and not what I do” candidate. He wants to be the conscience of the country without necessarily having one himself.
The disparity between Obama’s rhetoric of transcendence and his conventional Chicago racial and patronage politics is a leitmotiv of his political career. In New York, politicians (Al Sharpton excepted) are usually forced to pay at least passing tribute to universal principles and the ideal of clean government.
But Chicago, until recently a city of Lithuanians, blacks and Poles governed by Irishmen on the patronage model of the Italian Christian Democrats, is the city of political and cultural tribalism.
Blacks adapted to the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics that accompanied it. Historically, one of the ironies of Chicago politics is that the clean-government candidates have been the most racist, while those most open to black aspirations have been the most corrupt. When the young Jesse Jackson received his first audience with then mayor Richard Daley Sr – impervious to the universalism of the civil rights movement in its glory – offered him a job as a toll-taker. Jackson thought the offer demeaning but in time adapted.
In Chicago, racial reform has meant that the incumbent mayor, Richard M. Daley, has been cutting blacks in on the loot. Louis Farrakhan, Jackson, Jeremiah Wright and Obama are all, in part, the expression of that politics. It hasn’t always worked for Chicago, which, under the pressure of increasing taxes to pay for bloated government, is losing its middle class. But it has served the city’s political class admirably.
For all his Camelot-like rhetoric, Obama is a product, in significant measure, of the political culture that Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass described: “We’ve had our chief of detectives sent to prison for running the Outfit’s (the mob’s) jewellery-heist ring. And we’ve had white guys with Outfit connections get $100 million in affirmative action contracts from their drinking buddy, Mayor Richard Daley … That’s the Chicago way.”
At no point did Obama, the would-be saviour of US politics, challenge this corruption, except for face-saving gestures as a legislator. He was, in his own Harvard law way, a product of it.
Why, you may ask, did the operators of Chicago’s political machine support Obama? Part of the answer was given long ago by the then boss of Chicago, Jake Arvey.
When asked why he made Adlai Stevenson – a man, as with Obama, more famous for speeches than for accomplishments – his party’s gubernatorial candidate in 1948, Arvey is said to have replied that he needed to “perfume the ticket”.
Obama first played a perfuming role as a state senator. His mentor, Emil Jones, the machine-made president of the Senate, allowed him to sponsor a minor ethics bill. In return, Obama made sure to send plenty of pork to Jones’s district. When asked about pork-barrel spending, Jones famously replied: “Some call it pork; I call it steak.”
Obama repaid the generosity. When he had a chance to back clean Democratic candidates for president of the Cook County board of supervisors and Illinois governor, he stayed with the allies of the Outfit. The gubernatorial candidate he backed, Rod Blagojevich, is under federal investigation, in part because of his relationship with Tony Rezko, the man who helped Obama buy his house.
The Chicago way has delivered politically for Obama even this year. Ninety per cent of his popular-vote lead over Hillary Clinton comes from Illinois, and two-thirds of that 90 per cent comes just from Cook County.
Some of this advantage came from the efforts of Obama’s political ally, the flame-throwing reverend James Meeks, a political force in his own right. Meeks, who mocks black moderates as “niggers”, is an Illinois state senator, the pastor of a mega-church and a strong supporter of Jackson’s powerful political operation, which has put its vote-pulling muscle squarely behind the Obama campaign. It was only with Obama’s remark about bitter, white, working-class, small-town voters that we saw his difficulties appealing beyond the machine’s reach. He won his US Senate race in 2004 not only because his opponents self-destructed but also because of the machine’s ability to deliver votes.
In Pennsylvania, he has lacked such assistance and the campaigning has not gone nearly so well. First, Obama pretended to be a tenpin bowler and scored a 37. Then, appearing before a supposedly closed San Francisco audience, he complained that small-town Pennsylvanians “cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations”. This is the man who belongs to a church built on bitterness, rancour and conspiratorial fear. During the Wright affair, Obama not only repeatedly lied about what he knew and when but violated the spirit of the civil rights movement in its mid-1960s glory.
When, as a young man, I was on the periphery of the movement, there was an unwritten rule that if people told racist jokes or speakers engaged in defamatory rhetoric, you needed to register your immediate disapproval by confronting the speaker or ostentatiously walking out.
Wright’s “black theology” is essentially a Christianised version of Malcolm X’s ideology of hate.
But for 20 years, Obama, who had planned to run for mayor of Chicago, kept silent about the close, if at times competitive, relationship between Wright, whose 8000-member mega-church gave him his political base, and Farrakhan. His ambition overrode his moral integrity.
As part of his “black value system”, Wright attacked whites for their “middle classism”, materialism, and “greed in a world of need”. Obama sounded similar notes in his recent address at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, in which he laid the blame for the sub-prime mortgage crisis on those who had “embraced an ethic of greed, corner cutting and inside dealing”.
But that’s exactly what Obama did in buying his luxurious house. Given the choice of purchasing a less expensive home or getting into bed with his fundraiser-cum-slumlord-cum-fixer Rezko, Obama chose the latter. Then again, the oppressed of Trinity United Church of Christ are building Wright a $US1.6 million ($1.7million), 960sqm home complete with four-car garage, whirlpool and butler’s pantry. This house, which backs on to a golf course, is to sit in Tinley Park, a gated community in southwest Chicago that is 93 per cent white.
The Obamas’ charitable giving is consistent with Wright’s talking Left while living Right. Obama and his wife are quite well off. They had an estimated income of $US1.2 million from 2000 to 2004. But the man who preaches compassion and mutuality gave all of 1 per cent of that income to charity during those years. Most of that went to Wright’s church.
There is a similar chasm when it comes to Obama’s claim to post-partisanship. His achievements in reaching out to moderate voters are largely proleptic. But words are not deeds and, although Obama has few concrete achievements to his name, his voting record hardly suggests an ability to rise above Left v Right.
In the Illinois Senate, he made a specialty of voting present, but after his first two years in the US Senate, National Journal’s analysis of rollcall votes found that he was more liberal than 86 per cent of his colleagues. His voting record has only moved further Left since then. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 97.5 per cent rating, while National Journal ranks him the most liberal member of the Senate. By comparison, Clinton, who occasionally votes with the Republicans, ranks 16th.
Obama is such a down-the-line partisan that, according to Congressional Quarterly, in the past two years he has voted with the Democrats more often than did the party’s majority leader, Harry Reid.
Likewise, for all his talk of post-racialism, Obama has played, with the contrivance of the press, traditional South Side Chicago racial politics. The day after his surprise loss in New Hampshire, and in anticipation of the South Carolina primary, with its heavily black electorate, South Side congressman Jesse Jackson Jr – Obama’s national co-chairman – appeared on MSNBC to argue, in a prepared statement, that Clinton’s teary moment on the campaign trail reflected her deep-seated racism.
“Those tears,” said Jackson, “have to be analysed … They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head to South Carolina, where 45 per cent of African-Americans will participate in the Democratic contest … We saw tears in response to her appearance, so that her appearance brought her to tears, but not hurricane Katrina, not other issues.”
In other words, whites who are at odds with, or who haven’t delivered for, Chicago politicians can be obliquely accused of racism on the flimsiest basis, but pillars of local black politics such as Wright, with his exclusivist racial theology, are beyond criticism.
Liberals love Obama’s talk of taking on powerful financial interests. But here , too, he is rather slippery. In his Cooper Union speech, he denounced in no uncertain terms the “special interests” of people on Wall Street (who are well represented among his campaign donors).
He, of course, had an opportunity to push for repealing the privileged tax treatment of private equity firms when that question was before Charles Grassley’s Senate subcommittee – but he simply made a pro-forma statement in favour of doing so and disappeared.
Nationally, as in Chicago, Obama the self-styled reformer never crosses swords with any of his putative foes. To pick another example, he has attacked “predatory” sub-prime lenders while taking roughly $US1.3 million in contributions from companies in that line of business.
Obama is the internationalist opposed to free trade. He is the friend of race-baiters who thinks Don Imus deserved to be fired. He is the proponent of courage in the face of powerful interests who lacked the courage to break with Wright (until Wednesday). He is the man who would lead our efforts against terrorism yet was friendly with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s terrorist. He is the post-racialist supporter of affirmative action. He is the enemy of Big Oil who takes money from executives at Exxon-Mobil, Shell and British Petroleum.
Obama has, in a sense, represented a new version of the invisible man, a candidate whose colour obscures his failings.
But so far, the wild discrepancy between Obama’s words and his deeds, and between his enormous ambitions and his minimal accomplishments, doesn’t seem to have fazed his core supporters, who apparently suffer from a severe case of cognitive dissonance. Like cultists who rededicate themselves when the cult’s prophecies have been falsified, his fans redouble their delusions in the face of his obvious hypocrisy.
That is because Obama, in the imagination of many of his fans in the public and the press, is both a deduction from what was – the failures of the Bush administration and the scandals of the Clintons – and an expression of what should be.
The ideal, the aspiration, is so rhetorically appealing that it has been assumed to be true. They remind one of Woodrow Wilson’s answer when asked if his plan for a League of Nations was practicable: “If it won’t work, it must be made to work.”
Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal. He teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

You are right.

One, Obama’s would increase our march toward a larger ‘SERVICE SECTOR.’

His health care plan would not work. But even if he goes for Hillary’s plan, that would be costly. Employers would still go for a healthy work force and government would pay for all higher risks so called catastrophic plan. Very very expensive. But… Oh wouldn’t that look good on GDP? Very good.

More work, higher taxes, lower standard of living.

I was at the Palin rally as well and it was GREAT!

Obots tried to spoil it with loud chanting and, believe it or not, two or more cars were stolen from the parking lot while attendees were inside. GRRR!

I drove this a lady all over the parking lot and she never found her car, finally got it reported to law enforcement. Unbelieveable! She was all alone with noone else to help her too.

McCain/Palin08

Wooohoo! I will go back and support my local chapter of NOW now. I’m so thankful someone over there finally figured it out. This is what the second wave of feminism was all about, women from all walks of life coming together to lift each other up.

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo
With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh, yes, I am wise
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to
I can face anything
I am strong
I am invincible
I am woman

We have paid the price since the beginning till today. Now it is the time to shatter the second highest glass ceiling in the land. To say to our daughter, GO FORTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS! There is no longer anything standing in YOUR WAY! In 2012 WE WILL HAVE two very strong women standing toe to toe and we will then have achieved it all.

We’ve been to space, now is the time…
Helen Reddy~I am woman with statistics to just how much women/and some men still suffer today.
http://tinyurl.com/3uq5cd

more from the Chicago Machine politics strategy manual – dubious political donations to the Obama campaign:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/162403

The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less. Aides say that’s an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don’t have to be publicly reported. Consider the cases of Obama donors “Doodad Pro” of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and “Good Will” of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000—both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit. In two recent letters to the Obama campaign, Federal Election Commission auditors flagged those (and other) donors and informed the campaign that the sums had to be returned. Neither name had ever been publicly reported because both individuals made online donations in $10 and $25 increments. “Good Will” listed his employer as “Loving” and his occupation as “You,” while supplying as his address 1015 Norwood Park Boulevard, which is shared by the Austin nonprofit Goodwill Industries. Suzanha Burmeister, marketing director for Goodwill, said the group had “no clue” who the donor was. She added, however, that the group had received five puzzling thank-you letters from the Obama campaign this year, prompting it to send the campaign an e-mail in September pointing out the apparent fraudulent use of its name.

Dang those feet on the dead guy look better than mine. Ive been wearing moisturizer under my socks all day.

He looks like he has got good ankles – they wil be sawn off 7 transplanted.

Nobody would want my feet.

Susan I know this is OT but you all have to see this beautiful video someone made for Sarah, dedicated to Women everywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCofbNqRJY

Many years ago, in “controlled” Southern cities (I assume the same went on elsewhere — Chicago, maybe?), the “machine” paid $X a name on voting day for people to come down to whatever “unofficial” HQ the machine boys had set up to pick up “names” and precincts to go vote. They were given names from the rolls of dead people. And, it was an open secret.

This was relayed to me by an elderly gentleman who used to be one of the young fellas who went down and did this for a few extra dollars. He said you walked in (in this case it was the Knights of Columbus Hall), got your name and off you went. Then you’d come back and get another one.

So, it’s not a new practice.

But, I’ve assumed it was a long-ago abandoned practice, an historical artifact from the days of dusty streets where hound dogs chased the cars.

The old Dixie Mafia would no doubt be proud of Barack Obama (though they would probably be thrown by the name) and his Chicago cronies and resourceful ACORNS for continuing this quaint tradition. Reminds me of the ascendancy of Lyndon Johnson who won his first Senate seat by stuffing the ballot box of the last reporting precinct. The famous photo of the “boys” standing proudly next to the ballot “box” with the number (of votes LBJ got) in the precinct written on the side in white paint.

After all, what have things come to when you can’t steal an election.

After all, BHO’s already stolen a primary. Why not the grand prize, the Presidency.

I bet the old machine down South would be pleased and stupefied to see a sort-of black fella from Chicago using their tactics to win the White House. Not sure how they’d feel about it. But, in the end, they’d probably give him props. After all, birds of a feather…..

Obama is a fascist: the cult of personality.

obamatons are thugs! You should see them at the universities. Unbelievable.

Obama is a political Trojan Horse. Look up the term “taqiyya” and have pleasant dreams.

Why on earth would the economic crisis favor Bobo?

People have noticed the Republicans were in charge of all three branches of government from 2000-2006. They suspect the Republicans may have engineered the Second Great Depression with their ccrackpot economic theories and are trying to spread the blame to the Democrats, like they always do.

Here’s your problem.

Conservatives always say the same thing about every Democratic candidate. It’s just weird.

Economic issues are a perfect example. Republicans always say Democratic economic policies will be disastrous, and they’re always wrong. Republicans warned us of the dire consequences of Bill Clinton’s economic polices and how Clinton would raise taxes and mess everything up.

Of course, we chose Bill Clinton and enjoyed the longest sustained economic growth in U.S. history, with higher income at all levels, lower poverty rate, higher real income—the whole bit.

So now—after eight years of the worst economic policies ever conceived, a depression looming, and money hemorrhaging out of the country by the nanosecond—our friends on the Right are once again warning us of the dire consequences of a Democratic President’s economic policies, when history has JUST SHOWN that they are full of sh*t.

In light of this, do you why this kind of critique of Obama might strike people as somewhat ludicrous?

It’s call Redistribution. They get the house. You pay for it while you pay for your too.

My latest YouTube clip about Obama “The Democrats’ Answer to George W. Bush”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvNkRJ1x-6g

The value of my house went down too. Can I get a rebate? Everybody’s value went down and now we are going to help out the folks who caused it all?

When you buy property the value is not guaranteed. That’s the gamble you take for being stupid enough to buy high.

Yes. The pollsters are polling more democrats than republicans. Gallup is doing it too. Unfortunately, that looks like fun to them, but it won’t change the votes on election day.

Just being able to cross state lines to purchase health insurance will reduce my premium drastically—for the SAME coverage.

Investing in Obama would be Socialism.

Two important points:

1. You misuse the word socialism. (By the way, it is incorrect to capitalize the word.) People on the political right seem to have their own meaning for this term. I urge you to brush up on your government class, or—if you never had government class—do a quick Wikipedia on what socialism is. Believe it or not, it doesn’t impress people to hear us misusing key political terms over and over again.

2. Americans want more socialism. Once you find out what socialism really means, you’ll notice that Americans like it and are clamoring for more of it. Look what happened to GWB when he made a move on Social Security. Meanwhile, a growing majority of us want a universal health-care system. In poll after poll, Americans say the opposite of what conservatives say. They want the government to more, not less. They think government should watch over private enterprise more. They are even willing to pay higher taxes.

Since this information contradicts right-wing ideology, the right simply ignores it.

Socialism scares the right. But the rest of the country wants it. That’s just the way it is.

(By the way, it is incorrect to capitalize the word.)

No it isn’t.

And you don’t know the first thing about socialism, Goober.

From Marx:
“From each according to his ability”. Ok, I can go along with that one.

“To each according to his need” Nope–it falls apart for me there.

Is that what you want, asshat? Fine–you work your silly bot ass off and get nothing in return, manly because you don’t have what anyone wants.

the person in the photo is not dead. a dead person does not have pink feet this person is alive . it is a photo made to get the point across.

Wow! that was an awesome video..ty for sharing it Diana.

It is important to always refer to Barack Hussein Obama as a LEFTIST and a SOCIALIST in all references to him. also as a proponent of A WORLD GOVERNMENT with the final plan of DISMANTLING Americas entire defence umbrella with the plan of letting all of the Islamo-fascist and communist governments loose to run rampant like a pack of rabid dogs in order to destablize any remaining non-leftist -socialist Communist Islamo fascist governments . Thereby finalizing the unfinished work of Stalin, Mao,Kohmeini and Osama Bin Ladin as well as blending Racist totalitarian NAZI racist(anti white),(anti Hispanic, anti Chinese) doctrine into his ‘re-education plan” for our children in our public schools. His mentor, rev. Jeremiah Wright inculcated him with the poison of hate for whites. Latin Americans and Asian Americans. Wright: “Latin Americans take jobs and housing from AA s, Asian Americans Exploit AA s with their Shops and small buisineses in the “community” ” Note; if you are AA he will screw you as well just like he abandoned you in his own district for his pal Rezko who F@#Ked over 3000 AA.s who lived in public housing! Obama is NOT AA he is an Arab Muslim.

If you don’t like socialism, get off of my sidewalk.

This’ll sell like hotcakes to the wingnuts. But normal people will just laugh.

This is Larry and Susan’s sidewalk in case you haven’t noticed. No one here wants socialism but you, Perry. That is why we are definitely opposed to 0bama. We wanted HILLARY in case you have forgotten the raison d’etre of so many of us clinging to this last little spot of blogosphere green. So. There are plenty of social BS places for you to go. I am tired of you pissing in this one.

The Carson location seats 27,000 for soccer games. You can easily add another 8-10 thousand for standing/sitting on the field area and you get an accurate picture of the crowd. Seating capacity info from:

http://www.homedepotcenter.com/venues_soccerseating_int.php

SusanUNpc,
that is perfect! Change we can believe in, right? do the obamabotz really believe the obamessiah will bring the dead back to life like lazarus?

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes will discuss the close relationship between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi – Palestinian supporter and the professor at Columbia University – on a special broadcast of ”Hannity’s America” which will air tonight at 9:00 PM eastern time. Khalidi is a former professor at the University of Illinois and was a close friend of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. Khalidi himself has given vocal support to suicide bombers.

And about that 1981 trip to Pakistan, what passport did he use since travel was banned by the US; non-muslims were not let in unless supported by their embassy, the country was under martial law…answers anyone???

Ha! Love the photo. Tootsies a bit rosie for corpse status, but funny anyway.

The FEC is “questioning” the origin of as much as $200 million in “suspicious” donations including 1000 donations from a man named “Goodwill Hunting” all charged in increments of $25 or less to the same credit card. There was an additional $900K from Kenya that was prevented when it became public information, add $90K from Palestine, $30-40 million from Soros and the list goes on and on. Entire sections of names from phone books have made donations of less than $200. They don’t know they made the donations, but they did.

blah blah blah..geez..recycling the same ole drivel that you post, and post, and POST ad nauseum. Cmon PL be honest..you LOVE Barry, you want to vote for him. Cmon be honest for once in your life!

yes, the wingnuts this year would be the Democratic party, enjoy your breaksfast Perry.

That’s what can prevent your sidewalk running through the middle of my house.

Great article.

McCain/Palin 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton 2012

John Fund write of voter fraud from the NY Post:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10052008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/voter_fraud_expected_to_be_rampant_132170.htm

Hey don’t try to blame the “South, old South or Dixie Mafia” for 0bama’s corruptness.

They are not birds of a feather

That’s very interesting HARP. Thanks for the info. and your comment. The polls are very strange this year….

Obama’s “mother on food stamps” did the same kind of traveling as a college student and that is also found on the internet.

If Ann Dunham and Barry/Barack Soertoro/Obama weren’t financed by mysterious “someones” then the IRS should investigate why the money wasn’t declared as income because “gifts” were limited to $10,000 per year.

And the food stamp program didn’t start until 1964 and Ann Dunham was supposed to be Mrs. Soertoro, immigrating to Indonesia (dates differ) which would disqualify her from receiving food stamps. And when Barry lived with his grandparents and attended the Hawaiian prep school he would not have been eligible unless his grandparents were qualified and they were his legal guardins.

You are right Susan…It is up to us.

Ever noticed how thick a file gets after a few days of work? It all started with one thin sheet of paper. We are that paper and we are our own 527 ad everyday. I am taking two teenagers with me to the Sarah Palin rally on Tuesday in Jax.

What can you do for your country? Like JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Right now we are reaping the seeds of destruction that our country has done for us and to us.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry

“Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country.” tomorrow may be too late.

Let Freedom Ring….

I agree!

In fact, if there are any people directly tied to John McCain’s campaign reading this blog, I’m asking you:

Please send Sarah Palin to Michigan!

She will make a huge difference.

I have been thinking of buying a new home and letting my old one go into foreclosure. Apparently it’s a very American thing to do. Biden would probably say it’s patriotic.

We all need to stop the World Poverty Act sponsored by Barfy.

I think his reparations plan is not just for blacks. I think he wants America to pay reparations for the entire world.

Yes, Harp has always been one of “us” Maybe it is standard to remove photo shop or photo bucket items? Keep in mind Harp the middle name of a certain candidate shall remain unspoken as well

Perry – I have to agree with you in that one of the fears about giving the Executive to the GOP is that they are going to continue their crusade to privatize Social Security. In light of current market volatility and large deficits (and also harkening back to the ’80s and Reaganomics) the desire to eliminate social safety nets seems reckless and inhumane. It is only the common sense qualities of the McCain/Palin GOP contenders, the probability of congressional gridlock in a GOP administration, and the unethical behavior of the DNC during these last primaries, that makes the prospect of GOP executive endurable.

If you’re not Hillary, leave my health insurance alone!

But then again I didn’t see the photo…

Finally, Isikoff from Newsweek picked up the campaign finance funny money story:

Obama’s ‘Good Will’ Hunting
Michael Isikoff
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Oct 13, 2008

The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less. Aides say that’s an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don’t have to be publicly reported. Consider the cases of Obama donors “Doodad Pro” of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and “Good Will” of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000—both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit. In two recent letters to the Obama campaign, Federal Election Commission auditors flagged those (and other) donors and informed the campaign that the sums had to be returned. Neither name had ever been publicly reported because both individuals made online donations in $10 and $25 increments. “Good Will” listed his employer as “Loving” and his occupation as “You,” while supplying as his address 1015 Norwood Park Boulevard, which is shared by the Austin nonprofit Goodwill Industries. Suzanha Burmeister, marketing director for Goodwill, said the group had “no clue” who the donor was. She added, however, that the group had received five puzzling thank-you letters from the Obama campaign this year, prompting it to send the campaign an e-mail in September pointing out the apparent fraudulent use of its name.

“Doodad Pro” listed no occupation or employer; the contributor’s listed address is shared by Lloyd and Lynn’s Liquor Store in Nunda. “I have never heard of such an individual,” says Diane Beardsley, who works at the store and is the mother of one of the owners. “Nobody at this store has that much money to contribute.” (She added that a Doodad’s Boutique, located next door, had closed a year ago, before the donations were made.)

Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said the campaign has no idea who the individuals are and has returned all the donations, using the credit-card numbers they gave to the campaign. (In a similar case earlier this year, the campaign returned $33,000 to two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip who had bought T shirts in bulk from the campaign’s online store. They had listed their address as “Ga.,” which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.) “While no organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will continue to review our fund-raising procedures,” LaBolt said. Some critics say the campaign hasn’t done enough. This summer, watchdog groups asked both campaigns to share more information about its small donors. The McCain campaign agreed; the Obama campaign did not. “They could’ve done themselves a service” by heeding the suggestions, said Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Politics.

URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/162403

Please everyone go to the local Republican headquarters and volunteer. I am working in the “fraud division.” The give everyone a cell phone to use. We were calling absentee ballot people to see if their phone number was correct to their name. If it was non working or out of state, we flagged it to send to Tallahassee. They are trying to instill doubt with their skewed polls, shake off the doubt and be pro active.

Excerpts from a letter by a well known professor in response to protest reagrding the Milton Friedman Institute. He makes some very good points about free markets and government intervention. I have included almost the entire piece for better understanding of the points he wants to make. The last few paragraphs are the most important:

Comments on the Milton Friedman Institute Protest letter

John Cochrane-Myron Scholes Professor of Finance, University of Chicago

July 12 2008

(A group of University of Chicago faculty wrote a petition to our President opposing the foundation of a Milton Friedman Institute to support economic research. The full letter is here. These are my personal comments on that letter. I do not speak for or represent the Institute, the faculty committee, the University, or anyone else.)

• Many colleagues are distressed by the notoriety of the Chicago School of Economics, especially throughout much of the global south, where they have often to defend the University’s reputation in the face of its negative image. The effects of the neoliberal global order that has been put in place in recent decades, strongly buttressed by the Chicago School of Economics, have by no means been unequivocally positive. Many would argue that they have been negative for much of the world’s population, leading to the weakening of a number of struggling local economies in the service of globalized capital, and many would question the substitution of monetization for democratization under the banner of “market democracy.”

Yes, there are people left on the planet who write and think this way, and no, I’m not making this up. Let’s read this more closely and try to figure out what it means.

“Many colleagues are distressed by the notoriety of the Chicago School of Economics, especially throughout much of the global south, where they have often to defend the University’s reputation in the face of its negative image.”

If you’re wondering “what’s their objection?”, “how does a MFI hurt them?” you now have the answer. Translated, “when we go to fashionable lefty cocktail parties in Venezuela, it’s embarrassing to admit who signs our paychecks.” Interestingly, the hundred people who signed this didn’t have the guts even to say “we,” referring to some nebulous “they” as the subject of the sentence. Let’s read this literally: “We don’t really mind at all if there’s a MFI on campus, but some of our other colleagues, who are too shy to sign this letter, find it all too embarrassing to admit where they work.” If this is the reason for organizing a big protest perhaps someone has too much time on their hands.

“Global south”

I’ll just pick on this one as a stand-in for all the jargon in this letter. What does this oxymoron mean, and why do the letter writers use it? We used to say what we meant, “poor countries. ” That became unfashionable, in part because poverty is sometimes a bit of your own doing and not a state of pure victimhood. So, it became polite to call dysfunctional backwaters “developing.” That was already a lie (or at best highly wishful thinking) since the whole point is that they aren’t developing. But now bien-pensant circles don’t want to endorse “development” as a worthwhile goal anymore. “South” – well, nice places like Australia, New Zealand and Chile are there too (at least from a curiously North-American and European-centric perspective). So now it’s called “global south,” which though rather poor as directions for actually getting anywhere, identifies the speaker as the caring sort of person who always uses the politically correct word.

“The effects of the neoliberal global order that has been put in place in recent decades….”

Notice the interesting voice of the verb. Let’s call it the “accusatory passive.” “Has been put in place…” By who, I (or any decent writer) would want to know? Unnamed dark forces are at work.

“Many would argue that they have been negative for much of the world’s population… weakening … struggling local economies”

I can think of lots of words to describe what’s going on in, say, China and India, as well as what happened previously to countries that adopted the “neoliberal global order” like Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Billions of people are leading dramatically freer, healthier, longer and more prosperous lives than they were a generation ago. “Weakening…struggling local economies” is just factually wrong about events on this planet.

Of course, we all face plenty of problems. I worry about environmental catastrophes, and their political, social and economic aftermath. Many people are suffering, primarily in pockets of kleptocracy and anarchy. Political oppression is still a fact of life in much too much of the world, and China in particular. Life’s pretty bleak about 5 blocks west of the University of Chicago. In my professional life, I worry about inflation, chaotic markets, and their possible death by regulation. There is a lot for thoughtful economists and social scientists to do. But honestly, do we really yearn to send a billion Chinese back to their “local economies,” trying to eke a meager living out of a quarter acre of rice paddy, under the iron grip of some local bureaucrat? I mean, the Mao caps and Che shirts are cool and all, but millions of people starved to death.

This is just the big lie theory at work. Say something often enough and people will start to believe it. It helps especially if what you say is vague and meaningless. Ok, I’ll try to be polite; a lie is deliberate and this is more like a willful disregard for the facts. Still, if you start with the premise that the last 40 or so years, including the fall of communism, and the opening of China and India are “negative for much of the world’s population,” you just don’t have any business being a social scientist. You don’t stand a chance of contributing something serious to the problems that we actually do face.

“the service of globalized capital..”

I was wondering who the subject of all these passive sentences is. Now I’m beginning to get the idea. This view has a particularly dark history. A hint: “Globalized capital” has names like Goldman and Sachs.

“many would question the substitution of monetization for democratization under the banner of `market democracy.’”

What a doozy! What can this actually mean? Given the counterpoint “market democracy” (what we live in, I presume) I suspect “democratic” here means “democratic” as in “people’s democratic republic”, i.e. the government runs everything. Monetization is democratization; it means things are accessible to anyone, not just the politically connected. That observation was, among many other things, Milton Friedman’s genius.

Once again, the awkward language and vague subjects are telling. “The substitution.” Who did this substitution? Maybe globalized capital, or the international banking conspiracy? Maybe it’s the trilateral commission.

The closing bullet point is fun as a reminder of how petty academic squabbles can be after we strip off all the big words, fancy pretentions and meaningless jargon.

• In the interests of equity and balance, many of us feel that the University ought to reconsider contributing to the proposed Milton Friedman Institute, which will inevitably be a powerful magnet for scholars and donors who share a specific set of interests and values to the exclusion of others, whether this is openly acknowledged or not.

Translation: we publicly charge the faculty committee who put this thing together, and promise a non-partisan non-directed research institute (me included), with lying through their teeth. This sentence adds a – well let’s be polite and call it a “factual inaccuracy.” The whole point is not “University contribution.” The whole point is to try to get private donors who see the benefits of Milton Friedman’s legacy to support economics research here. If the writers understood the first thing about money, that it is fungible, they might understand which side of their bread is buttered.

Still others believe that, given the influx of private contributions to the MFI, the University now has the opportunity to provide roughly equivalent resources for critical scholarly work that seeks out alternatives to recent economic, social, and political developments.

Finally, we get to the point! We can get over our “distress” at admitting where we work, but what we want is to do some of our own “substitution of monetization for democratization.” And with none of the niceties about non-partisan, non-ideological, open-minded research in the Milton Friedman founding documents either – this money is reserved for people who can get the right answers and belong to the right clubs. And we’re not planning to ask our sympathizers to pony up money either. Basically, we want the Friedman Institute money.

Virtually all of us are distressed by the position the University has taken and by the process through which decisions have been made.

And we end with good old “process.” When you can’t really complain on the merits, you can always gum up the works by complaining about “process.” Now you know why it takes so long for a university ever to do anything.

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If it’s sad to see what 101 professionally distinguished minds at the University of Chicago think about free markets at all, it is to me sadder still how atrociously written this letter is. These people devote their lives to writing on social issues, and teaching freshmen (including mine) how to think and write clearly. Yet it’s awful.

The letter starts with two paragraphs of meaningless throat-clearing. (“This is a question of the meaning of the University’s investments, in all senses.” What in the world does that sentence actually mean?) I learned to delete throat-clearing in the first day of Writing 101. It’s all written in the passive, or with vague subjects. “Many” should not be the subject of any sentence. You should never write “has been put in place,” you should say who put something in place. You should take responsibility in your writing. Write “we,” not “many colleagues.” The final paragraphs wander around without saying much of anything.

The content of course is worse. There isn’t even an idea here, a concrete proposition about the human condition that one can disagree with, buttress or question with facts. It just slings a bunch of jargon, most of which has a real meaning opposite to the literal. “Global South,” “neoliberal global order,” “the service of globalized capital,” “substitution of monetization for democratization.” George Orwell would be proud.

I’m not a good writer. I admire great prose, and I attempt to fill the spaces between equations of my papers with comprehensible words. But even I can recognize atrocious prose when I see it. Really, guys and gals, if a Freshman handed this in to one of your classes, could you possibly give any grade above C- and cover it with red ink?

I was quoted as saying “drivel,” and I meant it, not as an insult but as a technically correct description of a piece of prose. We can – and should – happily disagree on all sorts of matters of fact and interpretation, clearly stated, and openly discussed. But there’s nothing here to discuss, it’s just mush. The saddest aspect of this whole sorry affair is that 100 faculty at such a distinguished institution can sign their names – and with them their intellectual reputations and their sacred honor — to such utter drivel.

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Milton Friedman stood for freedom, social, political, and economic. He realized that they are inextricably linked. If the government controls your job or your business, dissent is impossible. He championed economic freedom as much as a means to political freedom as for its own sake. He favored, among other things, legalizing drugs, school choice, and volunteer army. To call him or his political legacy “right wing” is simply ignorant, and I mean that also as a technically accurate description rather than an insult.

(Of course, Friedman also has a legacy in economics as possibly the best research economist of the 20th century, which is what the MFI will do and honor. The consumption function and the monetary foundations of inflation, are as important to 20th century economics as the discovery of DNA was to biology, quantum mechanics to physics or plate tectonics to geology. But the letter-writers didn’t have anything to say about any of this, so neither will I, here. )

So here’s my question: If you’re embarrassed by Milton Friedman’s legacy, if you worry that it will tarnish the University’s reputation, just what is it that you good-thinking guys and gals have against human freedom?

“They could’ve done themselves a service” by heeding the suggestions

And turn off that free money spigot.

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no, normal people will be horrified. what ever makes you think you are normal? I’ve looked at your increasingly desperate drivel here for months. you think you are having an impact? you are tolerated here, not much else. I look forward to the day when you realize that your very abnormal self ought to go back to the orange sewer, where everything republican is to blame for everything and mccain-palin are a convenient target for your juvenile, idiotic fantasies and unresolved adult angst. go away perry, do yourself and us a favor.

Bill Clinton was a DLC Democrat and ran as a centrist. That’s how you get the best economy. Obama ran to the left of HRC and is a leftist, and that’s how you end up with a high-tax high-unemployment Jimmy Carter economy.

mr murder, take a hike!

Took less than 24 hrs for someone to steal my sign! But I will be at the Sarah rally at the Jacksonville landing Tue