By Arnab Datta

Oct 28, 2008 9:26pm

Obama Outmaneuvers McCain on Taxes

ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Rigel Anderson, and Arnab Datta Report: With one week to go until Election Day, the McCain campaign finds itself in an uncomfortable position on taxes.

According to the latest polling by ABC News, Obama currently maintains a ten-point lead over McCain on an issue which Republicans typically own.

The last Democratic candidate for president to have that kind of lead was Bill Clinton in 1992.

As George Stephanopoulos noted on the Tuesday edition of “World News with Charles Gibson,” “When Democrats win on taxes, they tend to win elections.”

So how did Obama get the upper hand?

For starters, he went beyond the targeted tax cut approach of Democrats Al Gore and John Kerry and hammered home the message that his plan would cut taxes for “95 percent of Americans.”

The key to this promise is his sweeping proposal to offer a rebate for payroll taxes of $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples which starts to phase out for couples at $150,000 or for non-joint filers at $75,000 per year.

Second, he promised individuals making less than $200,000 and couples making less than $250,000 that they will not see their taxes go up.

Third, when McCain and RNC began pounding Obama for backing a budget blueprint which envisioned higher taxes on Americans making as little as $42,000 per year, the Obama campaign circulated reports by FactCheck.org saying: “No taxes were increased, and the vote that the McCain campaign refers to could not by itself have resulted increase on anybody.”

And finally, Obama had the good fortune of running against a GOP opponent who could be portrayed as favoring a new broad-based tax on the middle class.

Non-partisan experts say that the refundable heath-care tax credit proposed by McCain would (at least initially) result in a lower tax bill for most Americans.

Obama understood, however, that voters are more attuned to what they stand to lose than what they stand to gain. With that in mind, Obama ran a series of ads which eviscerated McCain for wanting to end the income tax deduction for employer-provided health care.

All four of these points have helped Obama gain the upper hand in the debate over taxes.

He even looks good relative to McCain on the issue of the deficit: according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, over a ten-year period, McCain’s tax policies would lead to $1.6 trillion more in debt than Obama.

(Obama’s tax policies would add $3.5 trillion to the debt; McCain’s tax policies would add $5.1 trillion to the debt over ten years).

While Obama appears to have outmaneuvered McCain on taxes, some of the Illinois Democrat’s own backers are wondering if he will face a situation similar to Bill Clinton in 1992. The newly elected Democratic president found it difficult to keep his promise to cut middle class taxes, boost public investment, and cut the deficit at the same time.

Harvard Prof. John White, an Obama supporter who wrote Perot’s ’92 balanced budget plan and later endorsed Clinton, thinks the Democratic nominee is going to have trouble cutting taxes and increasing public investment once the government is done bailing out the banking and auto industries.

“He is going to be told that the deficit is too high,” White told ABC News. “I think he is in a real box.”

User Comments

Mr. Obama lies a lot, almost 9 out of 10 times.

Posted by: young_voter | October 28, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

The media bias is awful! That being said, I want to point you to a video that is important for all women to see. I am a former democrat now independent who is voting for McCain/Palin.
If you go to You tube and then after the .com/ paste watch?v=dHxT5UjKWe0&eurl=http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/ you will see a video that may change your vote.
I am sick of corruption and sexism ruining women’s chances.
I am only 30 and yet I have seen young men get promoted over women who were more qualified, time and time again.
During the primaries I saw this happen to Hillary Clinton. Not only was the media overwhelmingly sexist but the democratic party was too. In addition ACORN and the Obama team participated in voter fraud and completely took over the caucuses.
My vote for McCain was initially a protest vote against Obama’s corrupt rise to the top. Then, I saw the way that Palin was treated by the press. The sexism was disgusting.
Obama has close to ZERO experience and has done nothing to create real change in the country but he did have a lot of time to prepare to run for office, so he has all the right answers. Palin had no time to prepare. Even though she has executive experience, and Obama has none, the media accused her of being unqualified to be VP.
The difference is the brilliant marketing strategy of DAVID AXELROD. He has marketed Obama as this brilliant leader who will fix all of the country’s problems. How? We don’t know because his vision of “Hope” and “Change” is vague enough to let people believe that their “hope” and “change” is the same as Obama’s. Then you have the celebrity endorsements. Those are priceless. Oprah made Obama what he is today. Obama is like the hot new product that is flying off the shelf because Oprah said it is good. The problem is people forgot to read the fine print. “* Experience and judgment not included, corruption included in every box.”
I guess that is all I have to say for now. I just hope that I can change at least one vote.
I am a woman and a former democrat who is proud to vote McCain/Palin

Posted by: emma | October 28, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist
The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and ’80s.
According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a “friend and frequent dinner companion” of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,1780231,full.story
Does the man have anyone in his life that isn’t controversial?
He is not what he pretends to be.

Posted by: HH | October 28, 2008, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

And for a second I thought you wrote “I am a former woman amd a democrat.” Silly me.

Posted by: mortimer snerd | October 28, 2008, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm

HH, you don’t have all the facts. Google the Rashid Halidi name and see what McCain did to help fund his cause.
Then get back to us.

Posted by: Majus | October 28, 2008, 9:48 pm 9:48 pm

Update America:
Investors Flee From ‘Change’ Obama Hypes
By JACK KEMP AND PETER FERRARA | Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Are Barack Obama’s proposed tax increases adversely affecting our financial markets? We say yes, unambiguously. The senator has done a masterful job distracting attention from his tax increases with his $500-per-worker tax credit supposedly for 95% of Americans.
Obama has also set forth more than half a dozen additional refundable income tax credits targeted to low- and moderate-income workers for child care, education, housing, welfare, retirement, health care and other social purposes.
These tax credits are devised to phase-out based on income, which will ultimately increase marginal income tax rates for middle-class workers. In other words, as you earn more, you suffer a penalty in the phase-out of these credits, which has the exact effect of a marginal tax rate increase. That harms, rather than improves, the economy.
With the bottom 40% of income earners not paying any federal income taxes, such tax credits would not reduce any tax liability for these workers. Instead, since they’re refundable, they would involve new checks from the federal government.
These are not tax cuts as Obama is promising. They are new government spending programs buried in the tax code and estimated to cost $1.3 trillion over 10 years.
Obama argues that while these workers do not pay income taxes, they do pay payroll taxes. True, but his planned credits do not involve cuts in payroll taxes. They are refundable income tax credits designed to redistribute income and “spread the wealth.”
Meantime, Obama has proposed effective tax increases of 20% or more in the two top income-tax rates, phasing out the personal exemptions and all itemized deductions for top earners, as well as raising their tax rates.
He wants a 33% increase in the tax rates on capital gains and dividends, an increase of 16% to 32% in the top payroll tax rate, reinstatement of the death tax with a 45% top rate, and a new payroll tax on employers estimated at 7% to help finance his health insurance plan. He’s also contending for higher tariffs under his protectionist policies.
Finally, he would increase corporate taxes by 25%, though American businesses already face the second-highest marginal tax rates in the industrialized world, thus directly harming manufacturing and job creation while weakening demand for the dollar.
Obama argues disingenuously that his tax increases would only affect higher-income workers and “corporate fat cats.” But it is precisely these top marginal tax rates that control incentives for savings, investment, entrepreneurship, business expansion, jobs and economic growth. While he wants to tax the rich, the burden will fall on the poor and the middle class.
In their new book, “The End of Prosperity,” Art Laffer, Steve Moore and Peter Tanous argue that the threat of this tax tsunami is already destabilizing our financial markets and causing capital flight from America.
They write, “Hot capital is escaping over the borders out of the United States and flowing into China, India, Europe, and even Japan. . . Starting in late 2007, foreigners started pulling their money out of the United States, and Americans started investing more abroad. Global investors are losing confidence in the U.S.”
The American economy was in shambles when Reagan entered office in 1981. Inflation had soared by 25% over the prior two years, unemployment was heading toward 10%, the prime interest rate hit 21%, poverty was on a 33% upswing and real family income had decreased by almost 10% due to the stagflation of the late 1970s.
Reagan cut the top income-tax rate from 70% to 50%, adopted an additional 25% across-the-board rate cut and sliced capital gains taxes in half. The 1986 tax reform left us with just two tax rates of 15% and 28%. Reagan slashed spending growth, lowered tariffs, reduced regulatory burdens and promoted anti-inflation monetary policies.
The result, the authors explain, was actually a 25-year, noninflationary economic boom, with only two brief, mild recessions in 1990 and 2001. “We call this period, 1982-2007, the 25-year boom — the greatest period of wealth creation in the history of the planet,” they write. “Adjusting for inflation, more wealth was created in America in the 25-year boom than in the previous 200 years.”
By 1989, the economy had grown by almost one-third, the equivalent of adding the entire economy of West Germany to our U.S. economy. In 1984 alone, real economic growth boomed by 6.8%, the highest in 50 years. Nearly 20 million new jobs were created in the 1980s, increasing U.S. civilian employment by almost 20%. Unemployment fell to 5.3% by 1989.
Spectacularly, inflation was slashed to 3.2% by 1983. The prime rate fell to 6.25% by 1992, even though opponents had argued that Reagan’s tax cuts would increase interest rates. Family income reversed its decline, poverty reversed its rise and tax revenues actually doubled.
This is the “Change We Need” today.
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Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

ABC WORKS FULL THROTTLE FOR OBAMA..
NO QUALMS, NO RESERVATIONS, NO SHAME..
EVERY HEADLINE ON OBAMA IS POSITIVE.. 3 TIMES day you run headlines on gov Palin that are all negative.

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 28, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm

Update America:
Obama supporters fail to tell everyone about this Obama $500,000,000 failure that did not give the deserving voters in the 13th district good safe housing.
Where did all the money go? I guess all the money went to the contactors and nothing went into corrupt pockets.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/follow-money-more-on-rezkos-slum.html

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

So he’s bribing me for my vote?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102802955.html
We’ve heard a lot this month about how Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plans would affect Joe the Plumber — the Ohio man who recently asked the Democratic nominee whether Obama planned to raise his taxes. Opponents of Obama seized on the incident to argue that his middle-class tax cuts are a scam. Some have even claimed that he has proposed tax increases for people with incomes as low as $32,000. Obama’s supporters responded that the tax cuts are real (and noted that Joe is not a licensed plumber). The entire episode has only added to the confusion over what Obama is proposing for middle-class taxes.
How should an honest fiscal conservative see the situation? For those making less than roughly $200,000 ($250,000 for couples), Obama would not only make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent but would also offer an array of new tax credits. Nobody should deny this.
To be sure, these “tax cuts” contain some sleight of hand. More than $400 billion of the money over the next 10 years would take the form of refundable tax credits paid in cash to people who already pay no federal income tax. It would be more accurate to refer to these cash outlays as cuts in payroll tax or — even more accurately — as transfer payments. Regardless of what the credits are called, though, they would put more money in the pockets of some American families. That sounds great in these tough economic times. Who can be against a boost to spending power and consumption?
We can. While a few of Obama’s proposals may be sensible, the overall package would be bad for the economy. Unlike rate cuts for high incomes or reductions in investment taxes, most of Obama’s proposed tax cuts would do little to reduce the tax penalty on work and saving. For some households, the penalty on work and saving would even increase because the new tax credits would be phased out as income rises. These proposals wouldn’t deliver the economic growth that incentive-based tax cuts would.
Furthermore, there is no free lunch. Obama’s middle-class tax relief would have to be paid for, either now or later. Middle-class tax cuts might make sense if they were paid for by spending cuts, but that is not Obama’s plan. Like his opponent, Obama points to vague savings from reducing waste, the kind of savings that never seem to materialize. He also hopes to reap savings by accelerating our redeployment from Iraq, a project with an uncertain fiscal impact. At the same time, he proposes a wave of new spending on health-care, education, energy and infrastructure programs and declares his opposition to reforms that would reduce the growth of Social Security and other entitlement benefits.
So where would the money come from for the tax cuts and new spending? Largely from raising other taxes: the ones that have the biggest impact on economic growth. Obama would let key parts of the Bush tax cuts expire, causing the top tax rate on ordinary income to go back to 39.6 percent, up from 35 percent today. The capital gains and dividend tax rates would rise to 20 percent from today’s 15 percent. Obama might also impose Social Security tax at a rate of up to 4 percent on wages and self-employment income above $250,000, starting in 2019.
These tax increases are not as bad as some Obama statements during the Democratic primaries suggested they would be, and they fall well short of what some of his conservative critics claim. For example, Obama does not propose to tax dividends at 40 percent or to impose the full 12.4 percent Social Security tax on high earners.
His real proposals, however, would still be plenty damaging. If rewards for America’s entrepreneurs and firms are reduced through higher marginal tax rates, their incentives to earn, invest and create jobs will be diminished. Americans will have less incentive to save, and firms will have less incentive to pay dividends. Tax avoidance will become more profitable. A smaller capital stock will mean a less productive economy and lower wages for middle-class and other workers. These disincentive effects also mean that the revenue gain is likely to be smaller than Obama envisions.
In sum, Obama may very well give Joe the Plumber a tax break, but only if Joe does not become too successful. Obama is offering real tax favors for the middle class, but not real benefits for the economy.

Posted by: Brad in FL | October 28, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Update America:
Obama’s Hawaii Trips Cost More Than Palin’s Clothes
Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:21 PM
By: Ronald Kess
Barack Obama’s trips to Hawaii on a chartered Boeing 757 each cost more than twice the price of Sarah Palin’s new clothes.
Brad Blakeman, who was in charge of scheduling for President Bush, says a Boeing 757 costs about $20,000 an hour for fuel, crew, and maintenance. Since a trip to Hawaii entails 10 hours of flying time from Chicago, the total cost for each round-trip comes to about $400,000.
Obama used the Boeing 757 for trips to Hawaii over the summer for a vacation and again last week to see his failing grandmother. Admirable though that visit was, “By Obama using a private jet to go on a purely personal visit to see his grandma, he’s wasting not only energy, but he’s using the money that his supporters have given him for campaign purposes,” Blakeman says. “It’s a purely personal visit paid for with campaign funds.”
On the other hand, the media are highlighting the Republican National Committee’s purchase of $150,000 in clothes for Palin, even though the dresses will be donated to charities. The New York Times played the story on page one.
“They’re picking on Palin, who was provided a wardrobe by the RNC strictly for political purposes, and it was always intended that these garments would be then given to charity,” Blakeman says. “So there’s a benefit that’s going to charity, not a benefit that Palin will have after the election. There was a need for it because she’s a modest person who didn’t have an extensive wardrobe to do 24/7 campaigning.”
To pick on Palin without going after Obama’s plane trips is “an absolute journalistic abuse,” Blakeman says. “This is the same plane that he took to Hawaii when he went on vacation. In the summertime, when gas was soaring and Americans were having to pinch their pennies, this guy gets on his campaign plane and goes to Hawaii on vacation. He did a couple campaign stops in a state that is not a swing state and is a guaranteed win for Obama. That was clearly to cover the tracks of this vacation.”
Blakeman notes that at the height of the gasoline price surge, Obama suggested that Americans check their vehicle’s tire pressure as a way of conserving fuel.
“I wonder if he checked the tires on his jumbo jet before taking off for a purely personal visit?” Blakeman says. “The way he spends campaign money is a direct reflection of how he will spend ours. He could have easily flown commercial or taken a much smaller corporate aircraft that would cost a fraction of a 757.”
Ironically, it was Palin as governor who saved money for Alaskans by selling the state’s jet and instead flying commercial.
Kellyanne Conway, one of the most respected Republican pollsters, says the media’s attack on Palin’s clothes is an example of elitist snobbery or “classism.” Noting the media’s treatment of her, “I can’t believe her own family still approves of her, after the unprecedented, personal and relentless attacks that this woman has undergone,” Conway says.
Besides attacks on Palin over her clothes, Conway cites snide remarks about “the way she speaks, her husband’s lack of a college degree, the barefoot and pregnant 17-year-old daughter, you know who hunts moose anyway? The classism is so raw and unapologetic, so unconsidered and so undisguised.”
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com.

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Obama is gonna win folks so you can cut down on the made-up hysteria. Some of you are really reaching……still blaming the media and everyone else for the failed McPalin failin ticket

Posted by: seansatx | October 28, 2008, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm

McCain is and looks so foolish at his rallies. What a desperate old man who looks like he doesn’t have a clue what is going on around him. He couldn’t speak in the rain today. I bet his wife canceled that rally.

Posted by: democratic | October 28, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

Hey Emma, are McCain and Palin going to support my right to choose? No? Then they’ll never be pro-women enough for me. And they have NOTHING in common with Hillary Clinton, so don’t bring her into this. If you want to vote against your own interests and vote for McCain fine, that’s your choice, but don’t drag women into this. Because I couldn’t have less in common with McCain/Palin.

Posted by: notadino | October 28, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

Are you cynics still whining with defeat looking you right dead between the eyes?
I wonder what level of whining will manifest itself once Obama has drank all of your little political milkshakes down to the last drop. THEN WHAT?
You keep whining while we keep WINNING.
See you at the inauguration McChicken Fans..
POTUS OBAMA – Making History on Your A**!

Posted by: Malcom Z | October 28, 2008, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

I am a former democrat too who has seen the light and it isn’t Barrack Obama. He is the most cunning, smooth talking candidate I have ever had my displeasure to watch. I am amazed at the number of people who idolize him and would immortalize him if they could. Unfortunately, America will have a really sad awakening if he is elected. Too many people are drinking the Obama kool-ade.I don’t really understand how so many people have fallen under his spell and have been taken in. Mark my word, he will out into the Supreme Court judges who are radicals and far-left thinkers. If he wins, his tax ideas will move us from a recession into a depression like we have never seen before. Please, wake up America.

Posted by: Fran | October 28, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Here’s something from April 2008 that shows how “pro-woman” McCain is:
McCain: Women don’t need equal pay
The presumptive Republican nominee said the ‘Ledbetter Fair Pay Act’ — which allows women to sue their employers for pay discrimination — ‘opens up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems’.
“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else; and it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them,” explained the 71-year-old senator.
“It’s a vicious cycle that’s affecting women, particularly in a part of the country like this, where mining is the mainstay; traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work, to say the least,” he added.
Senior Democrats have criticized McCain for opposing the bill, saying the defeat of the bill ‘has thwarted efforts to restore balance in the law and allow victims of wage discrimination to seek justice in the courts’.

Posted by: notadino | October 28, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

I absolutely love to see cynics on their knees attempting to reach for straws that just happen to be on the back of a 8 foot Clydesdale. HIGH, ISN’T IT?
Keep reaching suckas. You’ll only pull air. Thinking of swinging like McChicken? He reminds me of a drunk sailor swinging aimlessly at the air and inadvertantly smacks himself in the face.
That’s been his whole campaign. PITIFULL. He’ll go down as the laughing stock of all Presidential campaigns.
POTUS OBAMA – KEEP REACHING SUCKAS

Posted by: Malcom Z | October 28, 2008, 10:23 pm 10:23 pm

MY FELLOW PRISONERS……
Please line up, hold hands and sing together…….
Row, row row your boats, gently to DEFEEEEEAT!
Merrily merrily merrily merrily, John MCcain is who you don’t want to BEEEEEEEEE!
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!

Posted by: Malcom Z | October 28, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

Republicans are much, much better at handling money than democrats. For instance, republicans know that spending 150,000 on clothing like $2500 silk Valentino blazers is exactly what poor women who get their clothes from charity need. Yes, that silk jacket will look excellent when she goes to work at her minimum wage job. Especially if it’s Mcdonalds – that lovely cream color will look nice with fry grease on it. Plus every poor woman just loves the exorbitant dry cleaning bills that come with silk clothing, and all high-end designer clothing. She’ll be happy to spend her entire day’s wages just to dry clean her clothing. And to think that dems would have shopped at Macy’s for a respectable $80 blazer and saved $2420, perhaps to feed some kids or something else stupid like that.
I hate democrats because of that.

Posted by: robthomaseyes | October 28, 2008, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm

In the economic climate we face, Obama’s tax cuts are needed more than ever, for struggling families and to help stimulate the economy.
It is unfortunate the McCain campaign has become so desperate. There are not many plumbers who make over 250,000 dollars a year, but the Republicans use him to pretend Obama will hit ordinary workers and trades people.
Of course multi-millionaire McCain who cannot even remember how many houses he owns probably never deals with plumbers who make under quarter a million – after all his own campaign gave Palin a hairdresser that charged 34,000 for just two weeks work.

Posted by: Tommy Ross | October 28, 2008, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm

Dems, let’s get off these posts and go VOTE!
If we don’t vote in landslide numbers the slimey righties will throw our ballots in the trash, scare poor people away from the polls and STEAL this election.
VOTE! Don’t take it for granted. Don’t believe the hype. We CAN get our country back. This is not over. VOTE!

Posted by: VegasForTheVote | October 28, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

Obama/Biden ’08/’12 for a diverse unified America. I’m a military wife and sppove this message.

Posted by: Didi | October 28, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

Obama/Biden ’08/’12 for a diverse unified America. I’m a military wife and sppove this message.

Posted by: Didi | October 28, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

I am a republican, not a former one, who will be voting for Obama. McCain and Palin have not been convincing about fixing the economy. I do not even trust their support cast to be as good as those working for Bush. I will vote for Obama because I really put the country first. Obama/Biden will be be better on the economy.

Posted by: Jack P | October 28, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm

Obama has outmaneuvered McCain on every possible issue. He’s even called McCain risky on Iraq! OUCH! The Big Bad John Wayne fighter pilot, errrrrr fighter crasher has been minimized and reduced to Bozo the Clown.
McCain has shot all of his bullets early in this campaign and he’s now down to the last squirt in his little political water gun. HOW PATHETIC.
LESSON: Never underestimate an opponent and when in doubt in Las Vegas, ALWAYS BET ON BLACK! Hee Hee
POTUS OBAMA – Making History on your A**

Posted by: Malcom Z | October 28, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

How do you outmaneuver a tax plan that’s better than yours? Obama’s plan stinks. Anyone making less than 100k a year is going to see their income taxes go through the roof.

Posted by: Campbell | October 28, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

I’ll see your increase in personal tax exemptions (McCain) and raise you a middle-class tax cut (Obama.) Dollars to donuts neither will be reality…
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other…….(Oscar Ameriger)

Posted by: curiousindep | October 28, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

Update America:
Why can’t Obama spread the wealth? The United States is essentially BROKE and there is no wealth to spread around to anyone. Spreading the wealth is an Obama LIE.
Clearly, eradicating either disease or “terror” by throwing money at it doesn’t work. The U.S. health care spending, which topped out at $2.1 trillion in 2006, should be ample proof of that.
Yet, it’s the same principle at work, both within the conventional health care paradigm and the interventionist foreign relations agenda: Take a pill; drop a bomb — you’ll feel better and you’ll be safer for it. Keep taking those foreign chemicals for the rest of your life; set up a permanent presence in foreign lands and tell them how to run things – why are you complaining? We’re fixing you!
Folks, both of these systems are set up in such a way that nothing really gets better, nothing is really resolved; the “disease” is never conquered, only complicated.
More dollars need to be printed and inflation will rise to decrease the value of the dollar. The money Obama promises you will be worth about 45 cents on the dollar on the foreign market. Maybe Obama plans to print more money and then the dollar will be worth 10 cents on the foreign market. Obama will be spreading worthless money and you will be lucky to by a loaf of bread with the spread the wealth program.

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 10:46 pm 10:46 pm

So what’s new on the McCain conspiracy board?
Obama the socialist? Obama the terrorist? Obama the Manchurian Muslim? Obama the extraterrestrial? Obama the radical Christian?

Posted by: Paul | October 28, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

Obama kicks puppies, and makes his daughters eat vegetables. And he snores.
I’m John McCain and I approve this ad.

Posted by: Paul | October 28, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

McNixon LIES in every other breath. Easily the most dishonest candidate since Nixon.

Posted by: iii | October 28, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

To all you turncoats:
If McCain was running w/ Joe P. would you still be voting for McCain? It’s only because he’s running with a woman that you people are in a frenzy. She can’t even govern her own home.Why then would I trust her to help govern a country. It seems to me that if anyone is cunning it’s McCain. Why did he choose someone he only met a few times? Was it because he’s after the women votes? Or is it because of the off-shore drilling prospects in Alaska?

Posted by: fedup | October 28, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
October 28, 2008 04:34 PM
“In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.
During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.
A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.”
Those filthy people.

Posted by: pefros | October 28, 2008, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm

What do you expect from someone who is well versed in Chicago style crooked politics?
Obama will turn this country into a welfare State! He’s going to kill innovation, because companies will no longer invest in r&d. They’ll be setting up off shore operations and all their profits will stay abroad. The rich will figure out a way to get their money out of the country, so you will find a mass flight of capital.
There will be fewer jobs, and the US will be in a deep recession for years to come. A Democratic controlled liberal Legislatve & Executive Branch indeed guarantees this.

Posted by: BJ | October 28, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

Everyone has plans, and when they start to implement them, they find out changes have to be made. You need the most trustworthy person to set the direction and tone, create the best cast of intelligent and unintimidated supporting players, react to the times and events, and never stop when one extremist or another starts shouting. If you think McCain has any of these capabilities, or can somehow manage the USA better than he has managed his priorities, his campaign, or either party by living life as an angry maverick, it’s clear you should vote for him. When it’s all over, ask yourself what’s good, what’s bad, and what you can do to help.

Posted by: Doug | October 28, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

Posted by: ENOUGH! | October 28, 2008, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

Emma:
If you are sick of corruption and sexism ruining women’s chances why are you voting for McCain/Palin? Seriously.
Any woman who works should vote against McCain because he voted against them. Check out notadino’s post. Also, please take a look at this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/23/mccain-opposes-equal-pay-_n_98342.html
McCain voted against equal pay for women (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act). The Act was based on a case involving Lilly Ledbetter who was a supervisor at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Gadsden, Alabama who sued for pay discrimination just before retiring after a 19-year career there. By the time she retired, Ledbetter made $6,500 less than the lowest-paid male supervisor and claimed earlier decisions by supervisors kept her from making more.
McCain voted against the Ledbetter Act and the Senate Republicans killed the Act.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/feminist-leader-eleanor-smeal-responds/story.aspx?guid=%7B0467F1C7-A317-4759-B380-AC8CF0747296%7D&dist=hppr

Posted by: Rachel | October 28, 2008, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm

fedup: “…Why then would I trust her to help govern a country.”
You know, when a campaign’s own staffers start calling the running mate a “wack job,” I have to think that campaign is completely out of compelling selling points.

Posted by: Paul | October 28, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

Posted by: pefros | October 28, 2008, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

the level of ignorance in some of these posts is really quite a shock. Palin is not a ‘woman’ of humble means–check the tax records–if you don’t know how to find that information ask at your public library (assuming you know where that is). Also, visits to visit family in Hawaii with funds that were not generated from US citizen election fund tax donation is different than buying a facade to try and sell a pig to the population. When was the last time you new of a company that hires someone who can’t buy the required outfits and then buys them their start-up clothes. Get real, they tried to make her look like a Jackie O/Nancy R. and ended up with a grizzly adams/mommy dearest freak.

Posted by: myohmy | October 28, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Update America:
Hershey, Pennsylvania:
More Afro-Americans voting for McCain because Obama is of POOR character. As one man said, “I celebrate Martin Luther King Day every year. Martin Luther King said it is not the color of a man’s skin, it is the character of the man”.
There is no need to say anything more about Obama. The character of a man is more important than the color of his skin. Obama’s shields his true character, restricts his true self from view of the voting public.
Posted by: Update America | Oct 28, 2008 11:05:19 PM
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LOL! If it makes you sleep well at night … that’s probably the 3% McCain has been polling! The other 95% is happily voting for Obama!

Posted by: ENOUGH! | October 28, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

When Bill Clinton won in 1992 I remember that my father was convinced the country would collapse, turn socialist. Clinton was going to take our guns, there’d be abortions for everybody, marshal law. Scarrrrrry. Well, none of those things happened. This time around Republicans were in charge long enough to cause a lot of problems for me and my countrymen and now we’re kicking them out. This is how politics works and it’s not scary. It’s good.

Posted by: Hilary Smith | October 28, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

Let’s look at the record.
During the 20th century, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 7.3 percent per year on average under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it rose 10.3 percent – which means that investors gained a whopping 41 percent more. And the stock market declined further during George Bush’s two terms.
Moreover, according to research from Professor Larry Bartels of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president, contrasted to that growth under a Republican president.
Since World War II, Democratic presidents have increased the national debt by an average of 3.7 percent per year, and Republican presidents have increased it an average of 10.1 percent. During the same time period, the unemployment rate was, on average, 4.8 percent under Democratic presidents; it was 6.3 percent under Republicans.
That’s the historical record.
What about economic policies over the past 15 years? The Clinton-Gore administration presided over the longest peacetime economic expansion in our history. The national debt was reduced dramatically, the industrial sector boomed, wages grew and more Americans found jobs.
How has the Bush-Cheney team fared? In the past seven years, we have experienced the weakest job creation cycle since the Great Depression, record deficits, record household debt, a record bankruptcy rate and a substantial increase in poverty. We have gone from being the nation with the biggest budget surplus in history to becoming the nation with the largest deficit in history.
The Bush administration, supported by Republicans on Capitol Hill, pushed through a sweeping tax cut in 2001, under which the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans reaped 43 percent of the gain. In less than a year and a half, the federal government’s 10-year projected budget surplus of $1.6 trillion had vanished. In 2000, we had a surplus of $236 billion. In 2004, we had a deficit of $413 billion. This dramatic reversal is the direct consequence of Bush’s tax cuts – and McCain wants to pursue the same bankrupt policies.
Since the conventions, McCain and his surrogates have been pounding away at the Democrats, labeling them as the “tax and spend” party. Yet recent research has shown that more than 70 percent of our national debt was created by just three Republican presidents: Reagan and the two Bushes.
There’s an old expression in Las Vegas, “Figures don’t lie and liars figure.”

Posted by: JonnieB | October 28, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

Update America:
Hershey, Pennsylvania:
More Afro-Americans voting for McCain because Obama is of POOR character. As one man said, “I celebrate Martin Luther King Day every year. Martin Luther King said it is not the color of a man’s skin, it is the character of the man”.
Update America:
Hershey, Pennsylvania:
More Afro-Americans voting for McCain because Obama is of POOR character. As one man said, “I celebrate Martin Luther King Day every year. Martin Luther King said it is not the color of a man’s skin, it is the character of the man”.
There is no need to say anything more about Obama. The character of a man is more important than the color of his skin. Obama’s shields his true character, restricts his true self from view of the voting public.
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This post repeats because Obama supporters constantly distort the truth. Obama is of POOR Character as said by a Hershey, Pennsylvania McCain Afro-American voter. This post will repeat as necessary.

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

Interesting. Looking at the comments it seems we have quite a few republican volunteers doing there work.
http://www.johnmccain.com/actioncenter/bloginteract/bloginteract.aspx
Anyway, hmmm.. do I want to counter each point. I won’t bother. Ok, I will address one issue. What is the engine of the economy. The middle class. To get proof you just need to look at the great depression. In the great depression, supply was not an issue (This means capital was available, and businesses were willing to invest). However, you ordinary Joe (ie.e person not making much cash) could not afford many items. The net result great depression, as industries realized they could not sell their goods and started cutting back.
And if you want to promote savings its quite simple. Make it such that if you earn income and save it for 5 years it is tax free. Saving will skyrocket.

Posted by: Ciceroji | October 28, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

Looks like there’s a lot of panicking right wingers on here right now- closely matching their candidate whom is also flailing miserably. You people amaze me. The simple fact is that if you make under 250k- which I know most of you who probably work at crappy jobs at Wal-Mart and tire shops don’t come close to- then YOU will see a tax cut.
I come from a Conservative family and am voting for Obama because frankly, right wing imposters have ruined the Republican party.
Its over right wingers, and your tax argument is totally lame.You lose.

Posted by: bob | October 28, 2008, 11:20 pm 11:20 pm

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:21 pm 11:21 pm

Come to think of it, Ciceroji is onto something. All day long I’ve noticed that almost all news stories with responses are immediately full of the SAME comments… LA times and the supposed video they already released 6 months ago ( lame) The slew of Ayers/Islamic/whatever BS, claims that Palin is a genius… yadda yadda yadda.
The comments are so ridiculous that nobody could possibly believe them or care.

Posted by: bob | October 28, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

To Update America
Is the article you referred us to by Jack Kemp, the former football player? No thanks.
I am sticking with Obama endorsed by Warren Buffet the richest man in the world. I think Buffet knows a bit more about finance and taxes than Kemp. I also see that the CEO of Google is stumping with Obama and that the co-founder of Facebook is working with Obama. These are solid people who have built successful companies. I am voting for Obama.

Posted by: Abigail | October 28, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

Update America:
Philip J. Berg is Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as Obama is “NOT” qualified to be President of the United States Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed from Philadelphia Federal Court
For Immediate Release: – 10/25/08 – Contact Info at end.
UPDATE: Ruling attached at end. It’s a really poor copy, but it is all we have for the moment. Willl put up a better copy when we get one.
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/25/08) – Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he is immediately appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Berg said, “I am totally disappointed by Judge Surrick’s decision and, for all citizens of the United States, I am immediately appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is a question of who has standing to uphold our Constitution. If I don’t have standing, if you don’t have standing, if your neighbor doesn’t have standing to question the eligibility of an individual to be President of the United States – the Commander-in-Chief, the most powerful person in the world – then who does?
So, anyone can just claim to be eligible for congress or the presidency without having their legal status, age or citizenship questioned.
According to Judge Surrick, we the people have no right to police the eligibility requirements under the U.S. Constitution.
What happened to ‘…Government of the people, by the people, for the people,…’ Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address 1863.
We must legally prevent Obama, the unqualified candidate, from taking the Office of the Presidency of the United States,” Berg said.
Our website obamacrimes.com now has 71.8 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website – and forward to your local newspapers and radio and TV stations.
Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, “we” the people, are heading to a “Constitutional Crisis” if this case is not resolved forthwith.
* * For copies of all Court Pleadings, go to obamacrimes.com

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

Why is it that whenever a person has his/her act together, they are accused of being a smooth talker and cunning? And, as for people linking him with terror groups, etc.: these people are mal-informed and perhaps racist. If this were the case, Colin Powell and many other International experts of all parties would not be endorsing him.
Obama has worked hard his entire life, Juris Doctor degree from Harvard (not an easy thing), top of his class no less…opposed to McCain’s 4th from the bottom. Obama has love in his heart and kindness in his eyes. McCain has “good ol’ boy” written all over him, despite his choice of running mate, who said (when defending her position as a “hockey Mom”)”the only difference between a hockey Mom and a pitbull is lipstick. McCain’s reasons for choosing her are transparently obvious and insulting to all women and people of this country. As for the “experience” argument: Obama was has been involved in Global civil rights for well over a decade and served the Illinois senate for 8 years prior to his most recent national position for 304 days (not counting campaigning, which would bring the tenure of his current position up to 3 years). He has a good balance between excelling in his education and over a decade of relevant work experience. His enthusiasm and desire to excel are evident in everything he does. He’s blown McCain out of the water as a public speaker, global representative, fund raiser, reformer, and other areas too numerous to mention.
I don’t think McCain is a bad guy, but I don’t think he or Sara have the ability to get America back on track. Obama is a breath of fresh air. For the highest job in the land, let’s pick the most capable candidate.

Posted by: Obama supporter | October 28, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

I voted 2 weeks ago for OBAMA, For the People!
Y’all need to get up and Vote now for Obama-Biden, and help get out the vote in your neighborhood. The time is now to finally take back this country from the amok corrupt McSame GOP.
McPailin party (the Drill baby Drill folks, remember?) are in bed with all the lobbyists especially Exxon who just made record profits this year. While our economy has tanked. Insanity is republican doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different outcome. Vote democrat for sustainability and sanity, intelligence and people empowered to make a positive difference in this world. For our economy, our health care and environment, for our kids and families, for the planet.

Posted by: D Ohio | October 28, 2008, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm

I am for Obama all the way.I think McCain/Palin campaign is getting desperate. To use the fact of his heritage and his name against him is a low blow. Grow Up. I think that is dirty politics. Whats next. Are they gooing to say not to trust him because he is African-American. && did you know that McCain is a former affiliate of the Ku Klux Klan. OOOh heck no. Make the right decision and Vote for Obama. If you vote for McCain you would be voting for Bush all over again or what i call him Beatty eyes. VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Posted by: obama_22 | October 28, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Update America:
Axis Of Bias
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Media:
A major newspaper suppresses damning video of Barack Obama partying with pro-terrorism radicals. Meanwhile, Obama punishes news outlets that do their jobs. Fairness Doctrine anyone?
There is a hint that Obama posters know nothing about Investor’s’ Business Daily and the paper printing true reports that are not politically influenced

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:33 pm 11:33 pm

“In sum, Obama may very well give Joe the Plumber a tax break, but only if Joe does not become too successful. Obama is offering real tax favors for the middle class, but not real benefits for the economy.” Brad in fl
AND if Joe becomes TOO successful, then he shouldn’t be too upset then. MY God, what dummies show up here is amazing. They are like savants, that possess the ability to be good writers, well formed sentences, but when they get all that information, they can’t synthesize it into a meaningful analysis. THIS is why our country is in trouble. Priorities are upside down.
Sure there is no free lunch, no matter which plan you take, however with mccains plan he make Americans suffer. He says he will NOT cut any taxes. Sure he doesn’t cut taxes directly, but he indirectly taxes health care! So 95% of the middle class end up paying! Then instead of it going to help the economy, where does it go? It gets funneled to the oil companies in the form of a $4 billion tax cut. Not for the middle class, but yes the oil companies.
Why do you think McCain’s campaign manager has been hailed as one of the biggest CEO’s of big oil? Why are some of mccains largest donation from oil companies? Do you think they love the guy? NO! They want something in return! The money he ripped from the middle class will also go pay for more tanks in a failing war. Remember how mccain was a pow? This is part of the problem. With his hidden anger problems he still thinks he’s in a war in some sense.
mccain will do almost nothing for the middle class. And that means people making under 250k per year. Yet he wants people to think he’s doing them all a favor and that it’s obama you have to watch out for. Basically mccain needed a plan like obama’s to win, but he couldn’t because he’s connected to the oil companies. So the best he can do is pretend that he’s the one with the great plan and then say obama is either a terrorist or a liar. He also likes to take anything he might be accused of and then blame obama for it first to draw attention away from him self and put it onto obama. and around and round it goes. …

Posted by: shells | October 28, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

Johnnie B wrote, and I agree that
more than 70 percent of our national debt was created by just three Republican presidents: Reagan and the two Bushes.
There’s an old expression in Las Vegas, “Figures don’t lie and liars figure.”
Clinton balanced his budget, W ran up record deficits to give tax cuts to the rich. The republican dog just won’t hunt anymore here.

Posted by: D Ohio | October 28, 2008, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm

Axis Of Bias
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Media: A major newspaper suppresses damning video of Barack Obama partying with pro-terrorism radicals. Meanwhile, Obama punishes news outlets that do their jobs. Fairness Doctrine anyone?
Los Angeles Times owner Sam Zell must have thought of the Chicago Cubs when he OK’d the layoff of 75 editorial employees this week. Zell owns the lovable loser Cubs, who haven’t won the World Series in a century, and the liberal media are turning into the Cubs of modern communications.
But news-hungry consumers don’t find it lovable when the media elite keep important stories to themselves. John McCain has demanded that the L.A. Times release its videotape of a 2003 farewell party in Chicago at which Obama is said to have grandly toasted guest of honor Rashid Khalidi, the late PLO head Yasser Arafat’s spokesman. (Ex-terrorist Bill Ayers may have been there too.)
But the Times apparently doesn’t think Americans are entitled to see Obama praising a terrorist mouthpiece before they decide whether to make him president for four years. Similarly, major news outlets buried this week’s story of Obama calling for “major redistributive change” in a newly discovered 2001 radio interview.
But if you think we’ve got an unholy alliance between liberal Democrats in Washington and this country’s media elite now, just watch what happens if Obama becomes president with a Democratic Congress — especially if it features a filibuster-proof Senate.
Major Democratic congressional leaders like Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois, 2004 presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want the reinstitution of the outdated, pre-Internet “Fairness Doctrine.” They want to counter the news revolution in which blogs and talk radio have taken on the Big Three TV networks.
The Obama campaign claims Obama opposes a new Fairness Doctrine, but City Journal editor Brian C. Anderson doesn’t think a President Obama would veto such a bill. Moreover, Obama and most Democrats want to impose more “local accountability” on broadcasters, “setting up community boards to make their demands known when station licenses come up for renewal,” as Anderson notes.
This measure is “clearly aimed at national syndicators like Clear Channel that offer conservative shows,” Anderson says. “It’s a Fairness Doctrine by subterfuge.” Obama would pair that with relicensing stations every two years instead of the current eight.
We have already seen that Obama’s forces have no scruples about punishing media organizations who do not act as disciples of “The One.” Newswomen with both WFTV in Orlando, Fla., and the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia dared to ask running mate Joseph Biden about Obama’s plans to “spread the wealth,” as he infamously told Ohio’s Joe the Plumber. The Obama campaign let the journalists know they were now personae non grata.
With both the executive and legislative branches firmly in the power of the most liberal leadership ever — Obama, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — it is naive to think they would not move against those who most threaten their prospects in the midterm elections of 2010. And that is Fox News and conservative talk radio, supported by the blogosphere.
The establishment media and liberal Democrats constitute an axis of bias, arming to threaten the free speech of Americans. George Orwell, call your office.
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Update America Break
SLAVERY ANYONE? OBAMA SUPPORTERS WILL BE THE FIRST TO RECEIVE THE NUMERICAL TATTOO OR THE NEW UNDER THE SKIN MICRO CHIP IDENTIFICATION. Let’s see, was that the Nazi Party that gave the Jews a number tattoo?

Posted by: Update America | October 28, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm

Since when is Lying about your tax
plan called Outmaneuvering?
The truth is coming out about Obama’s
tax plan! First the threshold was
$250,000, then $200,000, and now
Joe Biden says it’s $150,000!
Obama is Done!
His tax plan has been exposed by the
candidate himself as a redistribution
of the wealth plan, taking money from
hard-working Americans and giving it
to bums on the street or Acorn workers.
He says that people making less than
$250,000 a year will get a tax cut,
or is it less than $200,000, or is it
less than $150,000?
Obama is the Joe Isuzu of the 2008
campaign! McCain/Palin 08!

Posted by: reaganfan | October 28, 2008, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm

VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!! I am a young Voter. Send our troops home. We spend millions possibly billions to keep those troops over there and not only are we spending money we are also losing some of our families. Its not that I hate John McCain but we are the future. I am a successful young lady but I am not about to pay 100% in the taxes for other peoples mishaps. I am willing to help but OBAMA is trying to make everyone happy. Pay 25% to still help instead of the full 100%. VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Posted by: obama_22 | October 28, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

When the going gets rough for Republicans, first they become victims (its the media’s fault), then denial (polls don’t matter) followed by blaming (Palin the Whacko). Well, we are seeing all three and the election is a week away.

Posted by: Lou R | October 28, 2008, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm

If Obama’s tax policies would lead to a deficit of $3.5 trillion over ten years and McCains tax policies would lead to a deficit of $5.1 trillion then if Obama were to win and was told “that the deficit is too high” does that put him in a box? But if McCain were to win and was told “that the deficit is too high” does that put him in a coffin?

Posted by: Anth L | October 28, 2008, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm

Update America:
President Ronald Reagan quotes that make Obama a ZERO:
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
Reading the endorsements of Obama in the liberal media should strengthen the determination of all believers in American self-government and greatness to fight this election campaign to the end. Time magazine’s Joe Klein tells us that Obama “seems a grown-up, in a nation that badly needs some adult supervision.” To the contrary, we are a nation of adults. We don’t need the “supervision” of a conventionally liberal and totally untested junior senator whose most impressive lifetime achievement has been the construction of an effective narrative about himself.
But wait. Obama does have one great achievement. He’s run a good campaign. The New York Times tells us, “After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.” And how has he proved this? “Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change.”
The “challenges” Obama has met have been political and electoral. He’s met them well, and we’d be the first to pay tribute to his disciplined and effective campaign. Still, is this “proof” of a capacity to be president? Obama has run the most impressive campaign by a non-incumbent since George W. Bush in 2000, and by a non-incumbent Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Do the Obama acolytes want to hold up the Bush or Carter administrations as models for the proposition that a good campaign translates into a good presidency?
We also hear a lot of squeaking from rats deserting the McCain ship about Barack Obama’s exemplary temperament. So what? If he’d had his way, Obama would have lost the war in Iraq–with equanimity. He would have been calm, cool, and collected as U.S. interests were sacrificed and U.S. honor besmirched. Neville Chamberlain also had a fine temperament and a good intellect. Joe Biden, by the way, has neither. But he did–much as he now wishes people to forget it–support the Iraq war. These days, he can barely be bothered even to mention Iraq. Oh well, start a war, lose a war. Gotta move on.

Posted by: Update America: | October 29, 2008, 12:02 am 12:02 am

I just want to tell Update America that I hope you not talking that slavery stuff. Thats so inappropriate and you should be ashamed of yourself to say something that deragatory. VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!

Posted by: obama_22 | October 29, 2008, 12:02 am 12:02 am

I can’t help but notice that people seem to think that reverting Bush tax policy back to Clinton will destroy America… We seemed to do alright back in the 90′s. And these lower/middle class tax rebates are meant to help those who are really getting the crunch in this mess. Say what you will about incentives, but when a family can’t A.) afford to eat or B.) get a better job, there’s a problem which needs attention.
And, just as an FYI, until McCain decided to run for president, he earnestly supported Tax policy eerily similar to Obama’s proposed plan… Strange, that.

Posted by: Brian | October 29, 2008, 12:07 am 12:07 am

Update America:
Here is shame that some want to forget and some want hidden. Look at this shame:
http://www.theobamafile.com/
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/barack-obamas-church-ultra-left-and-afrocentric
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/follow-money-more-on-rezkos-slum.html
Here is shame!

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

If obama had been in office before there wouldn’t have been Any war. Sara Palin cant run her household. The only reason why people want her in office is because she is hip and so-called happening. PLEASE! She only got that way because of the money she spent to get a makeover. OBAMA went to see his ailing grandmother. So you want her to be cute rather than for him to see his family. WOW you people! && im sorry but John McCain is how old. Was he here when Abraham Lincoln was in office. lmao. jk…He wouldn’t know what change meant if it bit him in the anus. WE NEED A CHANGE!!! so VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!

Posted by: obama_22 | October 29, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

Quotes that make Update America a retard;
“You’re a retard!” – LOL, 10/29/2008

Posted by: LOL | October 29, 2008, 12:15 am 12:15 am

Update America:
You Betcha Palin Is A Tough Governor: This is Governor Palin Way Of Spending Oil Tax Money.
During the oil crisis of 2007, Palin fought to raise taxes on oil companies. As fuel prices skyrocketed in the lower 49 states, Palin complained that her state wasn’t getting its share of the windfall.
Palin successfully pushed for a law that raised taxes on oil profits. The increase amounted to an estimated $1.6-billion annually more for the state: double the amount it received the year before. Then she gave the money to the people.
It’s true: we’ve already checked her claim that she sent “a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska.”
On Aug. 7, 2008, the Alaska Legislature approved a measure she promoted. The administration of Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin now gives $1,200 to every single Alaskan. This comes to about $741-million for state residents. In addition, each resident will receive an annual dividend of $2,000 from an oil-wealth savings account. That comes to about $741-million for state residents
For a family of 7 (Gov. Palin has 7 members in her family) that means an additional $22,400.00 in income sent from the state of Alaska. WOW, who needs a job! Back to the trailer, Billy Bob!
Sarah Palin is more ready for the Washington, D.C. crowd than Obama. Obama has proven he cannot even take care of a simple housing project. How can YOU expect Obama to run the country?
Obama gave the people in Illinois broken down housing and dangerous living conditions. Where did the money go? What pockets were filled with tax payers’ money from Washington, D.C.? We know where Governor Sarah Palin’s tax money is. The tax money is in the pockets of the residents of Alaska.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:17 am 12:17 am

I’m italiana, I love obama !!

Posted by: fifi | October 29, 2008, 12:18 am 12:18 am

The only good thing about McAngry is that he’s old and he’ll be dead soon…
…waitaminute….
That’s the worst thing about him….

Posted by: HUH | October 29, 2008, 12:18 am 12:18 am

Though I think both McCain and Obama are capable, I am voting for Obama because I have really come to dislike the mean nationalistic fervor that we have seen come from the McCain campaign. Notice how many crazies on the left have resorted to violence compared to those on the left – Unibomber, McVeigh, KKK, and now nazi skin heads. What draws these people to the right? Evil, hate, greed, and power.

Posted by: James | October 29, 2008, 12:18 am 12:18 am

Racist men, women and male chauvinist FEAR Sarah Palin because they know she can succeed and that frightens men more than Obama’s questionable terrorist friendships. The world is changing and women are equal to men and men cannot take the competition. In all history, men have been the puppets for women.
There is a long list of successful women business leaders and successful women leading their country.
Michelle Bachelet, a moderate socialist who is Chile’s first female president and only the second woman ever elected to lead a South American nation, was sworn in last March. Reformer Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female president on the African continent, now runs Liberia and is helping to put Charles Taylor, the disgraced former president, on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity related to the conflict in Sierra Leone. And Han Myung-sook, a former dissident who was once jailed as a political prisoner, became South Korea’s first female prime minister in April.
Margaret Beckett became the U.K.’s first female foreign minister in May, replacing Jack Straw, who had been Prime Minister Tony Blair’s key spokesman leading up to the war in Iraq. Also in May, Tzipora Livni was appointed as Israel’s second most powerful politician, adding the vice prime ministership title to her foreign ministry post. Dora Bakoyannis is the first women ever appointed to a senior cabinet position in Greece. Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, after a cabinet reshuffle in June, moved from her post as finance minister to foreign affairs; she is considered a presidential front-runner in the next election. Don’t forget the little giant that runs the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who deals with terrorists on a daily basis.
Women continue to gain ground running foreign affairs. Condoleezza Rice, for example, continued hammering away as the U.S.’s top diplomat, attempting to midwife a cease-fire in the Middle East as well as stitch together an international compromise to get Iran and North Korea back to the nuclear negotiating table.
On Aug. 7, 2008, the Alaska Legislature approved a measure she promoted. The administration of Alaska’s governor Sarah Palin now gives $1,200 to every single Alaskan. This comes to about $741-million for state residents. In addition, each resident will receive an annual dividend of $2,000 from an oil-wealth savings account. That comes to about $741-million for state residents
For a family of 7 (Gov. Palin has 7 members in her family) that means an additional $22,400.00 in income sent from the state of Alaska. WOW, who needs a job! Back to the trailer, Billy Bob!
Sarah Palin is more ready for the Washington, D.C. crowd than Obama. Obama has proven he cannot even take care of a simple housing project costing in excess of $500,000,000. How can YOU expect Obama to run the country?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1
Obama gave the people in Illinois broken down housing and dangerous living conditions. Where did the money go? What pockets were filled with tax payers’
money from Washington, D.C.? We know where Governor Sarah Palin’s tax money is. The tax money is in the pockets of the residents of Alaska.
Sarah Palin is four times the better candidate when comparing to Obama. Obama who could not even run a housing project in Illinois. He will never be able to run a country that has a lot more houses.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=1

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

Update America,
Why are you such a retard?
Signed,
America
PS – We are all sooo tired of you cut and paste blog spamming a$$wipes! Go away!

Posted by: LOl | October 29, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am

Update America is furthering a Republican smear campaign that shames McCain’s legacy. The McCain campaign and its supporters can’t win on the issues so they lie, they distract, they slander, they fill threads with malicious rumors and try to crowd out rational political dialog. Voters are no longer fooled by those tactics. They’ve looked at the issues, they’ve looked at the candidates, they’ve looked at the political parties, they’ve looked at the last eight years, and they’ve said, We’re Voting Obama. It’s time for a change!

Posted by: TChris | October 29, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

Update America:
Hawaii governor says nation wouldn’t be safe under Obama (says Obama “touts” he is from Hawaii)
Besides mentioning McCain’s history of crossing party lines, Lingle hardly touched on the Arizona senator’s record and instead focused on Obama.
Policy wasn’t mentioned. In fact, she said the two candidates can “talk all they want” about their plans on issues such as health care and energy, but it “really comes down to: Who do you want to be sitting in the White House when it comes down to the security of America?”
McCain’s campaign has come under fire recently for what some have called scare tactics, and McCain was forced to diffuse the fears of his supporters and defend Obama at a recent rally: “He’s a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
Lingle, though, repeatedly framed the presidential election in terms of the physical safety of Americans and painted Obama as a mysterious figure who is uncomfortable with leadership.
She said voting for Obama would put the safety of the country’s children in the “hands of someone we hardly know.” (She also added that despite Obama’s touting he is from Hawaii, she has never met him and he has “never called me on the phone.”)
Ultimately the country judges the president by how he deals with the unexpected, Lingle said, and Obama “is not a person who will make the tough calls.”
Obama must have given all his supporters classes on how to post empty rhetoric..

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:31 am 12:31 am

OBAMA IS GOING LANDSLIDE THIS ELECTION!
MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT ADMIT IT BECAUSE OF FEAR AND RETALIATION, BUT THEY WILL VOTE OBAMA INTO OFFICE IN A RECORD BREAKING VICTORY FOR ALL AMERICANS!
FOR EVERY PERSON ADMITTING A VOTE FOR OBAMA, ANOTHER OBAMA VOTE HIDES IN THE SHADOWS…

Posted by: VICTORY | October 29, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

Update America:
Many big company plants closed and Dana Corporation lost jobs to Canada. The Dana Reading, Pennsylvania plant closed because the union wages and benefits were the direct cause of jobs going to Canada. The people of Canada welcomed the Dana Corporation jobs from America. Dana Corporation finally emerged from bankruptcy. Guess what? Their Korean plant is doing fine. The huge property that once belong to Dana Corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania is for sale with Dana never to return from Korea or any other foreign country.
Thank You Unions for Not Supporting American Jobs. Obama supports unions for all America.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

thank you update america for informing us of how sara’s husband(billy bob) can afford to support the family. she makes it possible for billy bob to keep them in the finest igloo in juneau.you’re right he doesn’t even have to work. it seems like sara and billy bob are benefiting nicely from sara’s taxes.sara should try to focus on caring for her two youngest children so they don’t grow-up to be pregers @16/17 or a drug addict.

Posted by: fedup | October 29, 2008, 12:40 am 12:40 am

It was Sarah Palin herself who showed how unqualified she is for Vice President. The media s not treating her unfairly.
She did not know the Bush doctrine when asked and spoke some nonsensical rubbish to Charlie Gibson. She stumbled again in the Katie Couric interview, and when asked about the V.P. job in the CNN interview she did not know what she was talking about.
She was campaigning for three months. How she not know the job description in all that time!?
When you take into account that she has been overly protected by her handlers, and that even John Mccain was sitting next to her like a protective parent in the later interviews, it’s clear this woman is not yet ready to take over as Commander in Chief if something were to happen to McCain.
The choice of Sarah Palin by John McCain was a very dubious choice and quite frankly very bad judgement on his part.

Posted by: alex Rivers | October 29, 2008, 12:47 am 12:47 am

I don’t know about all of you but there are certain things that completely END THE ARGUMENT for me. Like OJ and the White Bronco Chase; That was IT, game over, nothing more to discuss. I didn’t care what blood was found where, who had what kinda shoes, what glove did or didn’t fit… It was OVER with the White Bronco Chase. Period. Because NOBODY can explain that in a way that would EVER make sense to me. The same sorta thing happened here… When Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin for the names of some periodicals she read to inform herself of world news and events, SHE. COULD. NOT. NAME. ONE. MAGAZINE/NEWPAPER! NOT ONE!!! That was it! That was –in my opinion— Sarah Palin’s White Bronco Chase!!! (Although there were others…) But… To be literally UNABLE to name even ONE newsmagazine of ANY kind!!! That was it, my friends. Case closed, stick a fork in ‘er, and send her home. And that John McCain SELECTED that maroon as his running mate… Well… That’s HIS White Bronco Chase!

Posted by: SkyDotCom | October 29, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Update America: apparently you cannot read and understand your own words.
You state categorically that it is not the business of the government to interfere with the lives of private citizens.
The Republican Platform wants government interference in your sex life, your reproductive choices, which religion is permitted, and last but not least what you can say and think.
They do not believe in equality for all, equal justice for all if it does not meet the moral code they preach and then fragrantly ignore
States Right’s is the GOP’s code for the reestablishment of racial discrimination, sex discrimination, religious discrimination, class discrimination and anything they believe interferes with their right to dishonor the spirit and the letter of the Constitution.

Posted by: Robert Mc Gillen | October 29, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

Update America
Obama supporters do not elaborate on the 13th district and how $500,000,000 was wasted on unsafe dilapidated housing. Governor Sarah Palin helps ALL ALASKAN TAX PAYERS BY SUPPORTING ALL ALASKAN TAXPAYERS and not just her husband. Unlike Obama sharing his wealth from taxpayers dollars with only his wife.
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/03/follow-money-more-on-rezkos-slum.html
I wish Obama supporters would learn how to read.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 12:55 am 12:55 am

Don’t waste time arguing with some of these fools — particularly the so-called Update America. I think her real name is Outdated American!
Most states will turn BLUE on November 4!

Posted by: Real American | October 29, 2008, 1:03 am 1:03 am

alex rivers:
It was Sarah Palin herself who showed how unqualified she is for Vice President. The media s not treating her unfairly.
She did not know the Bush doctrine when asked and spoke some nonsensical rubbish to Charlie Gibson. She stumbled again in the Katie Couric interview, and when asked about the V.P. job in the CNN interview she did not know what she was talking about.
She was campaigning for three months. How she not know the job description in all that time!?
When you take into account that she has been overly protected by her handlers, and that even John Mccain was sitting next to her like a protective parent in the later interviews, it’s clear this woman is not yet ready to take over as Commander in Chief if something were to happen to McCain.
The choice of Sarah Palin by John McCain was a very dubious choice and quite frankly very bad judgement on his part.
I agree.But because Obama did not choose Hillary to run with him, McCain figure I’ll get a woman, any woman to run with him. It’s soooooooo obvious what he’s trying to do. I’m sure that there are other qualified people he could have chosen ,but instead he chose someone that he can’t leave alone to do a simple interview. What’s gonna happen if she has to take over as Commander in Chief? Who will be there to babysit her then?

Posted by: fedup | October 29, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

Update America:
More proof that Obama supporters know nothing about Obama’s programs. The very essence of the National Health Program, the National Work Program, interference with free markets with excessive taxation, restriction of trade, more regulations to govern the free people and business is the worse kind of government interference of a free people.
The National Health Program can force any and all prescribed pharmaceutical drug or vaccine onto the users of the program. Patients will have no free choice. Obama and Powell both advocate a National Work Program in which the unions call slave labor. The government will do for you and you will have to do in return or receive nothing..

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am

I’ve been reading all the comments and why is it that the Obama supporters have no problems taking personal shots at McCain/Palin and families, yet the Republican supporters are not making those same personal comments about Obama/Biden and family?

Posted by: Never3putt | October 29, 2008, 1:15 am 1:15 am

On the Oct. 26, 2008 edition of NBC’s Meet the Press, McCain stood by a comment he made in 2000 that “there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more” in taxes when you “reach a certain level of comfort.” “You put into different, different categories of wealthier people paying, paying higher taxes into different brackets,” McCain told host Tom Brokaw.

Posted by: Jane | October 29, 2008, 1:15 am 1:15 am

Update America:
A fine example of a National Health program:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/02/big-pharma-ties-wants-to-shut-down-vaccine-conspiracy-theories.aspx?source=nl
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/09/23/history-proves-many-doctors-recommendations-are-disasters.aspx?source=nl
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/04/when-the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease.aspx?source=nl
Get ready for your medications Obama supporters.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 1:17 am 1:17 am

to update america:
You say you wish Obama supporters would learn to read. Ohhhhh! maybe that’s why Sara couldn’t name not one newspaper or periodical when asked the “trick” question by Katie. She coulndn’t read.

Posted by: fedup | October 29, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

Well Well Well
ABC is FINALLY letting McCain-Palin proponents speak!
Hey ABC- how come Barbara West – the WFTV Reporter in Florida had the “nuts” to ask Biden the hard questions and none of YOUR so[called journalists DON’t?
(Guess you are afraid that THE ONE will Cut you off!- Like HE did in Orlando and Philly!
Grow a pair and get that tape that the LA Times is suppressing.
The American people are P.O.’d at the way you have been “in the tank”
Now you can vindicate-
Who’s paying you off?

Posted by: Alec Martin | October 29, 2008, 1:24 am 1:24 am

Update America:
A trick question for Obama and Biden:
Why did Obama request and Pastor Joel Hunter say for everyone to pray to their OWN GODS?
There is only one GOD when you are a Christian. I guess the Democratic Convention and Obama do not support GOD.
At the end, Democratic sympathizer Pastor Joel Hunter gave the benediction and shockingly invited everyone to close the prayer to their own (false) gods. This was surely an abomination, but it was compatible with Obama’s expressed theology, and Hunter’s leftist leanings.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 1:32 am 1:32 am

John McCain is 72 years old. A notorious flip flopper on the issues, and has anger management problems to boot. Put this guy in a Cuban Missile crisis situation, and he’ll turn this planet into a lifeless mudball.
If he were to die in office and we were left with Sarah Palin to lead the nation, leaders like Vladimir Putin and Mohammad Abedinejad would see her as a very weak leader, and it might put us in a crisis situation that she’s completely out of her depth to handle.

Posted by: alex rivers | October 29, 2008, 1:32 am 1:32 am

Update America:
Some posters like to talk about a presidential candidate’s age, but age is really a misconception for some people.
On a Barbara Walters special, we saw a 103-year-old woman caring for her seriously-ill 80-year-old daughter, who later died. Barbara Walters even visited a centenarian club, where people over 100 years of age congregated so they could meet others in their age group.
President John Tyler had eight children with Letitia, and seven with Julia. Their child, Pearl, was conceived when Tyler was 70 years old.
Ageless Advice on Making the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life by Art Linkletter and Mark Victor Hansen. “They celebrated Art Linkletter’s 94th birthday by beginning their 50-city book-promotion media tour. There was about dozen media interviews they had planned for this muggy 100-degree day. Art had just walked up 35 flights of stairs and he was in his usual humorous form. The synergy between these two dynamic coauthors creates an absolutely contagious and ageless energy that will make you look forward to your senior years. Whether you’re 24, 44, or 94, the myths you’ve been holding onto about growing old have gotten old. I loved the book myself and I’m sure you’ll want a copy for yourself and any senior in your life“.
One of our staff members is 70-years-old and has a son 8-years-old, a daughter 5-years-old and a daughter 3-years-old. Age makes no difference to those in the know.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 1:45 am 1:45 am

McCain’s tax plan IS a budget buster, becuase his plan just piles onto the national debt.
McCain says he’ll rein in spending and “reduce costs” in medicare (ie. cut benefits). That’s the same thing that George Bush said he would do. And what happened? He added $5 trillion to the national debt.
What is perhaps not so surprising is that McCain’s plan adds the same amount – $5.1 trillion to the national debt. So, he trully is offering McBush economics.

Posted by: Bud | October 29, 2008, 2:03 am 2:03 am

Palin is sexist herself. Good grief. And, I a m a woman. How any woman could vote for McCain because of Palin is beyond me. She can’t even answer questions, she is not a good role model for women. Feminism is for equality for both sexes and at its base is humanistic. Palin does not care about the environment nor ethics nor children nor education. She’s out for herself and for power.

Posted by: Chris | October 29, 2008, 2:05 am 2:05 am

Posted by: Chris | October 29, 2008, 2:06 am 2:06 am

McCain has had 4 cancer removal procedures. He drank booze like it was water in his youth and he probably smoked as well. He was mistreated for 5 years in Vietnam, and has post traumatic stress disorder. Not something you want from a leader in a stressful job like The President of the USA.
This all this should be a cause of concern if he were to die in office and we end up with Caribou Barbie as Commander in Chief.

Posted by: alex river | October 29, 2008, 2:08 am 2:08 am

TheBible
Barack, Sarah, and the Bible
Jim Bramlett
Sep 1 2008 07:54PM
Dear friends:
Barack Hussein Obama has taken the nation by storm. From obscurity, with zero executive experience, or much of any kind, he has vaulted into the position of Presidential frontrunner. It is stunning. On the surface, it appears attributable only to his eloquent oratory and his race. But an invisible factor may be a strong spiritual force behind him, causing some people to actually swoon in his presence.
I have been very concerned that he has publicly said that he does not believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. This makes both the Bible and Jesus a liar, and it means that Christ has died in vain. A person cannot be a true Christian who believes that there are other ways of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life with God. Only Jesus has paid the price for that.
Therefore, there is, indeed, another spirit involved. And this spirit has come into our national life like a flood. Last week at Obama’s acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena. Omama was portrayed as god-like. His voice thundered as a god’s voice.
At the end, Democratic sympathizer Pastor Joel Hunter gave the benediction and shockingly invited everyone to close the prayer to their own (false) gods. This was surely an abomination, but it was compatible with Obama’s expressed theology, and Hunter’s leftist leanings.
God was not pleased.
And God says, “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19).
Enter Governor Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere. Her shocking selection as John McCain’s running mate stunned the world and suddenly took all the wind out of Obama’s sails.
We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.
Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.
Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel’s little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin.
Today I did some checking and discovered that both her first and last names are biblical words, one in Hebrew the other in Greek:
Sarah. Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. In Hebrew, Sarah means “noble woman” (Strong’s 8283).
Palin. In Greek, the word means “renewal.” (Strong’s 3825).
A friend said he believes that Sarah Palin is a Deborah. Of Deborah, Smith’s Bible Dictionary says, “A prophetess who judged Israel…. She was not so much a judge as one gifted with prophetic command…. and by virtue of her inspiration ‘a mother in Israel.’”
Only God knows the future and how she may be used by Him, but may this noble woman serve to bring renewal in the land, and inspiration.
Jim
Update America:
Update America saw posts from Obama supporters referring to TheBible post as being hateful. That is strange because all Update America sees is hate and misconceptions of a women that has shown the kind of strength needed in Washington, D.C.
Barack Obama snorted heroin, an illegal drug, and his brain could be fried. Moreover, Obama still smokes cigarettes and that is a sign of oral gratification needs that are much like a baby

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 2:24 am 2:24 am

Your campaign’s pretty pathetic when you have just one crazy lone supporter (Update America) posting obsessively…and occasionally posing as someone else to post more of the same crap.
Poor guys.

Posted by: d | October 29, 2008, 2:34 am 2:34 am

I am amazed at how ignorant many McCainites are. Where do you people get these numbers, raising taxes on people earning 42,000 or more, then there’s the one idiot saying that as your income rises, your benefits will be lower with Obama’s tax plan. It’s amazing you people actually spend time typing this non-sense. Get a life–Obama will be our next President, and if that isn’t good enough for you, I have one suggestion: America, love it or leave it.

Posted by: Aycee | October 29, 2008, 2:36 am 2:36 am

1. If corporations and higher-income individuals who run businesses are taxed more, they will pass the tax increases on to the rest of us in higher prices (and/or lower quality).
2. So even IF (and that’s a BIG IF) Obama lowered taxes by $1,000 for some people, I guarantee you that we’d pay much more than that in higher prices!
3. We would also see many businesses have to cut jobs because of the higher taxes for corporations.
4. More unemployment payments eventually means more taxes for everyone.
5. Just a note: Of course Hollywood celebrities support Obama and the higher taxes. These people feel guilty that they make truckloads of money (millions and millions) for each movie and feel a need to resolve their guilt. Moreover, they can make back any extra in taxes by just charging a few million more to star in the next movie. Simple enough. And you? You’ll pay more for your movie ticket Joe.
You betcha.

Posted by: Michelle | October 29, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am

Looks like a lot of repubs here. McCains gang who work the blogs.
Tell me, why has Sen Obama been able to raise eg 150 Million $$ just in Sept. And not from the rich people, but from the ordinary middle class who gave $10 to $100 for the most part?
Because Americans are sick and tired of Bush-economics, where the wall street people made tens and hundreds of millions, is perhaps what turned out to be the grandest ponzi racket scam in history. Just a version of the Enron catastrophe writ larger then life.
And the people are even sicker of McCain’s negative campaign. We’ve seen too much of Bush the Tyrant having total control for 6 years, and being able to block almost any Democratic bill via the filibuster in the Senate, since you need 60 votes to get a bill to the floor, and the dems only have 51.
The negative stuff extends to calling Sen Obama a Muslim, Terrorist, unpatriotic, and socialist. Though he isn’t a Muslim, but has lived in a Muslim country and probably understands these people better then Bush, or McCain ever will. The socialist stuff goes back to the 1930s when the last (Hoover)Republican great depression took 10 years out of Americans economic life. FDRs attempts to use the govt to get the economy rolling were booed and hissed at and called socialist by those who were still rich. While ordinary people who lost everything were jumping out of windows, my uncle was an accountant and saw it happen live in Boston and NYC.
So, essentially everything McCain is saying is just plain lies, charged words, and diversions. His campaign is desperate beyond words. His super-rich buddies who selected him, as they selected Bush to run for Pres, are afraid that their rape and pillage of our economic system and the middle class will come to an end.
Which it should.
Our Children will be paying for this disaster most of their lives.
And if America is poor, except for the small group of republican super-rich, just how do you think we will be able to prosecute the war on terrorism. Iraq alone is burning $300,000,000 per DAY.
And for every extra dollar you paid for gas each year, the oil companies, the speculators, and the arabs shared a $1 TRILLION bounty.
And now the bill has come due – the wild west false prosperity of our nation has been exposed, it’s Enron like super scams have collapsed, and you, the middle class will pay most of the bill.
And it sure seems fair that those making perhaps a million $$ a year, or $10 or $50 million a year should pay higher taxes, rather then the average Joe and Joan, the Middle Class family, struggling to make ends meet. While also wondering when his and his wife’s job will disappear or be farmed out to a near slave labor nation like China.
The history of western civilization has been the struggle to build a middle class. FDR really helped here, as did others, including some repub. Presidents.
But the republican party of Bush and McCain has been taken over by a cabal of the super-rich of America, who worship the God of Greed. The same people who chose Sen McCain and Ms Palin, in smoke filled rooms, to continue their hegemony.
To H with them. Let a smashing victory for Sen Obama become the beginning of saving the middle class, and those who aspire to it.
And the super-rich will still be super-rich, even if they have to pay an extra 5 or 10% tax for a decade. The people, some of whom earn more in a week or month that the average American earns in a lifetime. Who McCain seeks to protect.
And don’t forget, dear reader, that when Bush’s Buddy, the CEO of Exxon, retired about a year ago, he got a $410,000,000 going away present. For which you paid at the pump.
And similar to those who saw their electric rates double in the last 2 years. While in MD the retiring CEO of BG&E got only a measly $40,000,000 going away present.
And that gang is almost solidly republicans.

Posted by: SteveMD2 | October 29, 2008, 2:41 am 2:41 am

To all of those who are writing novels in the comments section. All most of us do is to read your bias in the first line and skip the rest. Anyhow, why bother? Obama has one hands down.

Posted by: Geddy | October 29, 2008, 2:45 am 2:45 am

Here is an interesting reference that discusses Republican and Democrat tax policies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31view.html?ex=1377921600&en=100869b16f8f1a09&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
This is an article by Princeton economics professor Alan S. Blinder. Here’s an exerpt:
“The stark contrast between the whiz-bang Clinton years and the dreary Bush years is familiar because it is so recent. But while it is extreme, it is not atypical. Data for the whole period from 1948 to 2007, during which Republicans occupied the White House for 34 years and Democrats for 26, show average annual growth of real gross national product of 1.64 percent per capita under Republican presidents versus 2.78 percent under Democrats.
“That 1.14-point difference, if maintained for eight years, would yield 9.33 percent more income per person, which is a lot more than almost anyone can expect from a tax cut…
“The two Great Partisan Divides combine to suggest that, if history is a guide, an Obama victory in November would lead to faster economic growth with less inequality, while a McCain victory would lead to slower economic growth with more inequality. Which part of the Obama menu don’t you like?” “

Posted by: Ordinary Jo | October 29, 2008, 2:51 am 2:51 am

Posted by: Said it | October 29, 2008, 2:54 am 2:54 am

i remember
McCain said he’s not good with the economy. and of course republicans want him to be your president because suddenly he is not just good in economy but better than ‘that one’ who has the endosrsement of a number of nobel prize winners in economy and a handful of men who are successful in business and who knows a quite a lot about improving the economy.
check the each presidential ticket team members.
and by the way capacity to lead according to me is:
1. 1st rate temperament
2. 1st rate intellectual
you decide.

Posted by: e | October 29, 2008, 3:17 am 3:17 am

“Top Economists Overwhelmingly Favor Obama Plan: 80% Say He Has Better Grasp of Economics.”
”The Economist magazine surveyed members of the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and responders overwhelmingly think Obama far surpasses McCain in his grasp of economics and think Obama’s plan is superior.”
http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/10/nber-for-obama.html
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/nber-economists-on-the-candidates-economic-plans/

Posted by: Look it up | October 29, 2008, 3:29 am 3:29 am

A survey of 523 economists who are members of the American Economic Association shows 66% voting for Obama’s tax plan, 28% for McCain’s, and 6% for “other.”
http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/09/66-of-economists-are-economists-for.html

Posted by: Look it up | October 29, 2008, 3:29 am 3:29 am

Just in case you missed this rather “fascinating” discovery.
(Obama is literally fuming)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Obama’s Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered–Marxist Angry at Fox News
Watch video:
http://americasnewstoday.com/stories/10272008-oBAMARADio2001iNTeRVieW.html

Posted by: Natasha | October 29, 2008, 4:36 am 4:36 am

The Wall Street Journal
Obama’s Tax Plan Is Really a Welfare Plan
Barack Obama’s tax plan is the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities.
Moreover, the tax credits would mostly go to those who pay little or nothing in federal income taxes. His trick is to make the tax credits “refundable.” Thus, if the tax credit is for $1,000, but the taxpayer would otherwise only pay $200 in taxes, the government would write a check to the taxpayer for $800. If the taxpayer pays nothing in federal income taxes, the government would pay him the whole $1,000.
Such credits are not tax cuts. Indeed, they should be called The New Tax Welfare. In effect, Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand a slew of government spending programs that are disguised as tax credits. The spending on these programs is then subtracted from the total tax burden, in order to make the claim that his tax plan is a net tax cut overall.
On the tax side of the ledger, the details released by his campaign last week confirm what a President Obama has in mind for our most productive citizens. The top individual income tax rate, for example, would be increased by 13%, to 39.6%; the next-highest rate would be raised to 36%. The top rates on capital gains and dividends would rise by a third, to 20%
The Social Security payroll tax would be raised between 16% to 32% for families making over $250,000 a year. This means that the real returns these people get from their lifetime payments into the retirement program will be driven below 0%, according to my own previous research, which was published by the Cato Institute and elsewhere.
Mr. Obama also wants a permanent federal estate tax, with a top rate of 45%; his health-insurance plan includes a new payroll tax on employers; and he also contemplates several increases in the corporate income tax, including a new so-called windfall profits tax on oil companies.
Then there is the spending side of the ledger. Mr. Obama proposes a fully refundable Making Work Pay Tax Credit, which would have the government pay out $500 to each worker and $1,000 to couples — reminiscent of George McGovern’s 1972 election proposal for the government to send a $1,000 check to everyone.
His American Opportunity Tax Credit would provide a $4,000, fully refundable tax credit for college tuition expenses. His Mortgage Interest Tax Credit would provide a 10% credit — refundable — to offset mortgage interest payments for lower- and middle-income families. His Health Care Tax Credits, which the campaign says “will ensure that health insurance is available and affordable for all families,” include “a new refundable 50 percent health tax credit on employee premiums paid by employers.”
Currently existing tax credits would also become spending programs in the Obama tax program. The Savers Credit would be made fully refundable, and would be expanded, according to the campaign, “to match 50% of the first $1,000 of savings for families that earn under $75,000.” The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit would be made refundable and expanded to allow “low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit on the first $6,000 of child care expenses.”
The Earned Income Tax Credit is already refundable. Mr. Obama would expand it to “increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefits available to noncustodial parents who fulfill their child support obligations, increase benefits for families with three or more children, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty, which hurts low-income families.” In short, welfare spending is to be increased by paying more money out to low-income income tax filers.
The latest Congressional Budget Office data shows the bottom 40% of income earners already pays no income taxes. Indeed, they receive a net payment from the federal income tax system — meaning from the taxpayers — equal to 3.8% of all federal income taxes, because of the refundable tax credits under current law. The middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, pays 4.4% of federal income taxes.
Overall, the bottom 60% of income earners pay less than 1% of federal income taxes on net. When “tax credits” primarily go to this group in the form of checks from the government (rather than a reduction in their tax burden) it is simply an abuse of the language to call the spending a tax cut.
Consequently, to say, as the campaign does say, that the candidate’s tax plan is a tax cut on net — and that it would limit taxes to 18.2% of GDP — is grossly misleading. The Obama tax plan would sharply increase real taxes. It also would come nowhere near to paying for the massive increases in federal spending he has proposed, including the spending that is disguised in the form of refundable tax credits.
The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html?mod=most_emailed_day

Posted by: Natasha | October 29, 2008, 4:45 am 4:45 am

Obama admits he supports Marxism during an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News…
*** The Obama [KGB] Squad has blocked the video but the text of the interview is still posted.
By Scott Miller
Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto, penned the recap of his basic economic philosophy below:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
Barack Obama, in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, admits that he shares the above Marxist economic theory. Watch this (5:47 into the clip, but watch the whole clip):
“If am sittin’ pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say I’m going to pay a little bit more… that is neighborliness”
No Senator, that is Marxism. What kind of dementia makes these liberal Marxists think they have the right to tell someone else, another free human being, how much money they should or should not have? It’s none of your damn business Barack… but the hell out!
And some of you thought I was exaggerating when I said this clown was a Marxist…
Obama Admits He Supports Marxism
http://theconservativepost.com/WordPress/?p=550

Posted by: Natasha | October 29, 2008, 4:47 am 4:47 am

Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
America wake up! The American Marxists/Socialists/Communists have posted this proclamation right on Barack Obama’s official website (see link below)
Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama
“This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency. By no means is he a true Marxist, but under Karl Marx’s writings we are to support the party with the best interests of the mobilization of the proletariat. Though the Democratic Socialists of America or the Communist Patty of America may have more Socialististic values, it is pointless to vote for these candidates due to the fact that there is virutally no chance they will be elected on a National level. The members of this group are not Leninists, Stalinists, etc. and do not support or condone the actions of North Korea, China, Cuba or any other self-procalimed “Marxist States.” They do not in anyway represent the Marxist philosophy nor do they represent Socialism/ Communsim. We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!”
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/MarxistsSocialistsCommunistsforObama

Posted by: Natasha | October 29, 2008, 4:51 am 4:51 am

Natasha, Obama isnt marxist. His agenda is truly America first.
Posted by Bobba
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-invokes-s.html?cid=135660873
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Reply to Bobba:
Obama’s political ideology is shaped by the “Carl Marx Doctrine” – do you even know what that is?
You are deeply confused my friend. McCain’s agenda is truly America first.
Obama’s agenda is truly his “Big Ego” first. (common characteristic among Marxist leaders).

Posted by: Natasha | October 29, 2008, 4:52 am 4:52 am

Has Joe ‘the plumber’ who isnt a plumber paid his taxes yet? Until he does, he needs to shut the f*** up and go home and polish his billiard ball head.
If he doesnt believe in ‘socialism’ he needs to pay his damn taxes, cos right now… hes a f***ing freeloader.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 29, 2008, 6:34 am 6:34 am

Obama wants federal WELFARE. He wants to spend an additional trillion dollars. He wants to share your wealth.He changed his views just to win. We can not trust him.

Posted by: Duane Z | October 29, 2008, 6:40 am 6:40 am

McCains healthcare tax rebates will also be sent out to people who DONT pay tax?
WELFARE?

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 29, 2008, 7:00 am 7:00 am

Once more I’m amaze just how low the McCain supporters will go to win. They sprout out false sayings just to make Obama look bad. These guys might as well put Reagan as a ‘Socialist’ too since he supported taxing the wealthy to give back to the middle and low income people and families.
BTW, McCain’s healthcare tax rebates will not benefit everyone. Just those who do have healthcare. A good percentage of Americans just do not have healthcare since they can not afford it anyway. The best way to curb the high cost is to stop the wasteful overexaggerated cost hospitals and other health institutions are billing. Do we really need to pay such huge prices for evene a single medicine pill?
Gee, it is better off to just give a cut in the regular income bracket than in the healthcare bracket. McCain’s plan just will benefit few, especially when he will keep that Bush tax cut for the extreme wealthy. That cut will not benefit the 95% of Americans, only that 1%.

Posted by: GWP | October 29, 2008, 7:49 am 7:49 am

When is the MSM gonna ask McCain why is he raising taxes on everybody by taxing health benefits? Clearly he’s adding a new tax when he’s hammering Obama by accusing him of doing the same. So who in the MSM has the integrity to ask that?

Posted by: McCain/Palin = Corporations First | October 29, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

The only person that really knows who we are is God. Mc bush is just ticked off because this man can’t be swift boated like Kerry.

Posted by: Rose Szymanski | October 29, 2008, 8:59 am 8:59 am

Update America:
PRINCETON, NJ — A Gallup update based on more than 21,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Poll Daily tracking in October shows that registered voters’ religious intensity continues to be a powerful predictor of their presidential vote choice. John McCain wins overwhelmingly among non-Hispanic whites who attend church weekly, while Barack Obama dominates among whites who seldom or never attend church.
Non Hispanic White that attend church weekly: Obama 28%…..McCain 65%
White Hispanic White that attend church weekly: Obama 43%…McCain 46%
Looks like Mr. Wright using the name of God in vain, Obama and Pastor Joel Hunter praying to (false) GODS lost the race to control religious people that believe in one GOD. AMEN.

Posted by: Update America | October 29, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

Did everyone read the last three paragraps of the article above? Do you
understand what it says? Obama is feeding the lamb before slicing it’s throat. If you elect me, I will cure
your ailments. Oh, the knife in my back
pocket was a gift from my father. Didn’t
I mention it in one of my books?
Bill Clinton campaigned on lowering taxes for the middle class just to raise them two months after taking office. Bill Clinton also signed into
law the provisions requiring banks to
issue sub-prime mortgages. They were
then bundled and sent to Freddie and
Fannie and credit default swaps were
created. The rest is unfortunately
history.
These loans are what destroyed our
economy, causing the current
administration to bail out the banks
with $750,000,000,000.
The “last eight years” was about war,
but the Sub-Prime lending crises rests
on the shoulders of Democrats. This one
small social correction program took
27% of my 401k, ten years of
contributions and earnings. It also
decreased the value of my home by 40%
after making 286 out of 360 payments.
The modest retirement that was nine
years away is now dust in the wind.
If Obama is elected, he will run into
the same fiscal problems that Clinton
did after taking office and you can
kiss your little tax savings goodby.
He will still want some of his social
egineering programs and the money comes
from the middle class. They will cost
trillions of dollars that US Businesses
can not afford and inflation will return
to the Carter years. The younger folks
do not remember double digit inflation
rates, and interest rates above 12%. If
you think borrowing is expensive now,
you will puke in a bag.
The Baby Boomers won’t take it sitting
down. We know what a knife is for and
we see the lambs. We will fight tooth
and nail to prevent the SOB from
destroying America, it’s past, and all
that it stands for. We will be active
with our representatives in both parties
and show them how hot it really is in
Hell. Some promises do come true.

Posted by: Boomer | October 29, 2008, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

McCain vs. Obama: Which Candidate Can You Afford? How Could the Next President Affect Your Financial Plan?
Voyant:
http://www.planwithvoyant.com
I am loving this tool. I created a better plan than my financial planner gave me. I fired him. I’m done with paper financial plans.

Posted by: Jim Tallby | October 29, 2008, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm

Barack Obama wants to “cut taxes for 95% of Americans” – those with incomes below $100,000 – while undoing G.W. Bush’s tax cuts “for families making more than $250,000 a year.” So when John McCain claims that “Senator Obama wants to raise your taxes,” why do large numbers of voters feel threatened?
For as long as we’ve been a nation, most Americans have understood that when some of us are hungry or homeless, all of us are less than we can be. That cultural tradition stems in part from the experience of shared adversity, and in part from words attributed to Jesus, “Whatever you have done unto the least of these, you have done unto me.” Over the past 40 years, however, Republicans have worked very hard to stand that sympathy on its head, asking us to believe that raising taxes for the most fortunate will harm us all.
Let’s look at this mythology a little closer. Republican orthodoxy holds that reducing taxes on the wealthy will allow them to invest in creating new jobs, increasing prosperity for everyone. That version of “spreading the wealth around” sounded pretty good, so we tried it. And over the past 7 ½ years, income growth for the top 5% has been outstanding (at least until this fall, anyway.) Meanwhile, as bridges collapse and infrastructure crumbles, real incomes for the working poor and the middle class have declined. Sen. McCain and his allies slam Obama’s proposal as “income redistribution”, but where do you suppose that increased wealth at the top has been coming from?
Sen. Obama’s actual proposal is to restore the topmost two tax brackets to the percentages in effect during the Clinton years, a time of general prosperity. The actual increase would be 3 or 4% of incremental income beyond the first quarter million. Whether that’s a deterrent to hard work depends very much on your point of view – but let’s not forget that the cost of life’s basic essentials does not scale up (or down) with income. If I make $20,000 a year, I have no choices at all. Every last dollar goes for food, shelter, transportation to work, and keeping warm – if I’m lucky. If I make $200,000 a year, I can choose whether to eat out, how big a house I want, and what kind of car to drive.
“From him to whom much is given, much is expected.” That’s why I believe that Sen. Obama’s proposals are responsible, and Sen. McCain’s are not.

Posted by: Irv Thomae | October 29, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

And how will he prevent the next wave of
Sub-Prime mortgages from imploding the
economy? Will he require borrowers to
put down 20% when buying a home? Will
he tell the person earning $33,000 that
they shouldn’t buy a house larger than
their means? And will he tell them to
sell the big SUV and buy something more
affordable? Or will he just tell them to
do whatever they want? Responsibility
falls on one’s self first.

Posted by: Boomer | October 29, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

To Update America. Seriously. You need to get off the kool aid.

Posted by: Ariel | October 29, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm

McCain likes to talk about how we don’t need a President like Obama getting on the job training. Problem is, McCain as been getting on the job training of his own, from Bush! He’s been such a good student, he’s voted 90% of the time! And now he thinks he’s ready to take the training wheels off and ride solo, and this in Bush style! The same policies as Bush. Look at where this has taken the nation the last 8 years. Be careful of what you wish for.

Posted by: alex rivers | October 29, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Why do conservatives post so much trash on the internet?

Posted by: Bob | October 29, 2008, 7:39 pm 7:39 pm

This is aimed directly at young_voter: you are, beyond any doubt, an idiot. That video you linked.. utter rubbish. You believe Obama is a terrorist conspirator? Really? Palin’s “executive experience,” hah.

Posted by: Roro | October 29, 2008, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm

I listened to that clip and it did nothing for me!!!! OBAMA 08!!! 12!!!!!!

Posted by: dancer | October 29, 2008, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

ENOUGH OF REPUBLICAN LIES AND MANIPULATIONS.
ENOUGH OF REPUBLICANS IN POWER.
GOD HAS BEEN TELLING AMERICA FOR 8 YEARS TO GO DEMOCRATIC.
YET MANY AMERICANS DO NOT LISTEN…THEY WANT MORE DISASTERS THAN THE 8 YEARS OF DISASTERS WE ALREADY HAVE.
IT IS TIME TO BE ON GOD’S SIDE…
DEMOCRATS THIS TIME!

Posted by: Bill | October 29, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

THE ONLY REASON CAIN DOES NOT WANT TO TAX THE RICH IS BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WANT TO HAVE TO HELP PEOPLE HAVE MEDICAL INSURANCE OR PAY TAXES HIMSELF SINCE HE IS RICH.
AND POOR AMERICANS BELIEVE HIS LIES AND HIS MANIPULATIONS….
GOD BLESS THEM!

Posted by: Bill | October 29, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm

Emma, you’re correct to say that Governor Palin has been subjected to some disgusting and sexist press. But I have to say that the party somewhat brought it on her themselves. Starting at the GOP convention where attendees wore badges that proclaimed the fact that the GOP had the hottest candidate. And every time there is any critisism of her or question asked of her on a serious issue, the campaign screams foul. She has told some of the vilest lies and when her opponent’s camp disputes her facts, they are accused of attacking Palin. Believe me, she can take care of herself. Just read some of the articles in the Alaska papers or some of the Alaska bloggers and you’ll see Sarah Palin looks after Sarah Palin just fine. As far as Obama being corrupt. I just don’t know where you got that idea. His record is open and he’s written two books. Both his and McCain’s Senate voting record are on the Senate website. Go and see who stands up for Veterans, for women’s issues, for immigrants, for middle class workers, for affordable healthcare and lower taxes for everyone but the richest for a change. Once you look at their records side by side, you’ll know that Obama is the honest one in this race. Please check it out before you vote. You might be surprised.

Posted by: Deb | October 30, 2008, 1:54 am 1:54 am

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