That Other Rogue VP Nominee

You left out that Biden said, “And they are going to find out this guy has got steel in his spine.”

I fully believe that Barack Obama will carry through with his plans to raise taxes on the wealthy. Since I’m not wealthy, it won’t affect me. His supposed “tax cut” for people making less than $250,000 (or $200,000 or $150,000 – depending on what speech he or the gaffe machine is making) will affect me. It would be great – except I’m not stupid enough to believe that Obama will give a tax cut to ANYONE. He has no intention of cutting taxes for anyone. He’s pandering to get votes because he knows the country is full of people stupid enough to believe him.

Appearing on Face the Nation back in June of 2008, Lieberman predicted that “our enemies will test the new president early.”
“Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration.”
Will you report this, as well?

Obama is going to bring this country together and make life better. What’s wrong with that? I think some on the republican side are just afraid. They claim McCain and the republican party share there values and faith. Really?? Does that include the war in Iraq which has killed how many of our soldiers? Does that include not helping the poor in this country? What about Bush approving torture? Bush has allowed special interests groups to take over this country and put us into a war that we shouldn’t even be in and for what? All he cares about is money and power. He doesn’t care about the people or seem to stand for any values. Bush only looks out for number one. McCain says country first, it’s campaign first for him. If country came first then why has he voted so many times against veterans benefits? Why did he vote against healthcare for children?

All presidents are tested at some point during their presidency. Name one that hasn’t been tested. Some more than others, but there has always been some crises. Some the public knew about and some we didn’t. I knew what Joe meant. It’s the Fox news bunch that has made this some sort of revelation by Joe.And turned into some kind of smear. It’s nothing but fact. All presidents are tested. It’s a no brainer really.

momof2…you also forgot the current finacial crisis and brakedown of our economy…including everyday Joe’s 401k. McCain voted for deregulation in 2000 and then didn’t bother to vote on the ammendment which still included the deregulation of Wall Street.

Ed from MA,
I love your posting. Everyday it is something new with the GOP. First is a lefists, then a socialists, marxists but on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, they will all be eating their words.

McCain has also increased his nonstop lies about Obama’s tax plan. Go to FactCheck. McCain started in June or earlier. In June, he was lying in every Town Hall Meeting and has increased the lies.
Palin immediately continued the lies, as does every McCain surrogate. It took the media until the end of September to realize McCain’s lies, but some still do not challenge the lies.
The trickle down theory does not work. The wealthy keep the money. The CEO and some lower were making multiple million per year, some even above a billion.
Who received a bailout? Wall Street and the wealthy that have enough savings last the rest of their life if they lived like the average citizen, except they are too greedy
People are also falling for the Joe the Plumber farce. Joe would get a bigger tax refund under Obama. Joe lied to Obama; he is nowhere close to being able to purchase a business.
Joe also does not know the difference between gross and net income for businesses. Small businesses get many deductions and often deduct things that are actually personal expenses.
99% of true small businesses make less than $250,000 NET income.
The spread the wealth and socialist charges are also not accurate. The US has always had an incremental tax plan where the people with more income paid more taxes.
Bush’s tax cuts where larger for the wealthy. It is time for people on the lower end to receive a break. The small amount could mean the difference in staying in their home or going to a dentist.
A governor was just on TV talking about the government putting a limit on garage sales. People were selling their belongings in an attempt to survive.
Do you think people making more than $200,000 or $250,000 are having garage sales to survive.
Do you think the greedy people that caused the economic crisis are selling their belongs to survive.
AIG used government bailout money for a staff party in another country. They are supposedly paying back the money, but the nerve to spend our money in lavish ways is unbelievable.
Do you think former Senator Phil Gramm, nation of whiners, foreclosure Phil, is having money problems? Both Phil and his wife took lobbyist money from Enron and investment banks for years.
McCain’s surrogates refused to answer a question a few weeks ago about whether McCain would make Phil Gramm his Treasury Secretary.
Gramm belongs in prison. McCain said he is a genius and honorable man.
Please people do some search on Gramm and “credit swap defaults” or Gramm and subprime.
McCain plans to continue the policies of helping the wealthy. He is giving himself a yearly tax cut of $400,000 a year. How many people will ever see that much money in their entire life?

Ok, first Barack’s a muslim, then he’s a terrorist, then he’s a socialist, then a communist and now he’s a marxist.I think that’s about all of them isn’t it? From the rediculous to the truly ridiculous. No wonder McCain is losing.

Pentagon Panel: Biden Was Right, Prep for ‘Crisis’
Either candidate will be tested.
The chairman of a key Pentagon advisory panel is sounding a similar warning, telling the next administration to “prepare for a likely first-270-days crisis.”
The Insider, a twice-weekly report on the Defense Department, Congress and the defense industry
For me it is scary to have hot head erratic McCain being tested. He was on TV and radio on September 11, 2008 selling the Iraq war, even worse, he was selling war in Iran and Syria.

McCain said they wouldn’t test him, he would test them. First of all, this is a completely arrogant statement by McCain egging them to practically bring it on.
Second, didn’t President Bush “test” our “enemies” in Iraq? I’m tired of that kind of testing.

The Arizona Republic Jan. 17, 1995 – “About 300 guests turned out Saturday night to celebrate the 90th birthday of Joseph ‘Joe Bananas’ Bonanno, retired boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family. He retired to Tucson in 1968 . . . John McCain, R-Ariz., and Gov. Fife Symington sent their regards by telegram.”
McCain can play war hero, good husband, and country first all he wants. He is not morally fit to run this country and neither is Palin. We will be another laughing stock if he’s elected.

oh bill – whatever are you thinking/ you are so yesterday – like john too old, to crabby – out of touch all of the issues are bogus and you know it. but do let us talk about the keating 5 where little john was up to his neck in. what he did was 10 times worse than anything obama ever thought of. Thousand of people lost their savings – including my family – makes Enron look like a walk in the park.
Mccain, kemp gramm the deregulators of the century are responsible for the credit crisis we are now in. why would anyone want to put these people back in power??

Let’s all meet back here on November 5th.

cjr – Read your facts, Obama, Barnet Franks, Chris Dodds, Pelosi all are proven to be behind the credit problem.
They are on tape saying all is fine we do not need to regulate, But McCain and even Bush are on record for saying something needs to be done!
Oh and Obama in 2 years received the 2nd most donations from the Fannies then all congress since 1989
he has on his economic staff two disgraced Fannie mae employees force to rescind after cooking the books – Raines and Johnston (names may be spelt wrong) and the two walked away with over 90million dollars each Where the investigation by congress!!

cjr:
“whatever are you thinking/ you are so yesterday – like john too old, to crabby – out of touch all of the issues are bogus and you know it. but do let us talk about the keating 5″
BS. McCain was cleared of any wrongdoing and of breaking any senate rule. Deregulation started in 1977 and was fostered in various forms by both parties. Probably clinton advocating packaging of loans to be traded as commodities was the worst decision. Clearly you are too young and wet behind the ears to know these things.
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Looks like Obama got caught on tape bashing Israel.
The LA Times is refusing to release the video.
Story is breaking.

spock:
“cjr – Read your facts, Obama, Barnet Franks, Chris Dodds, Pelosi all are proven to be behind the credit problem.
They are on tape saying all is fine we do not need to regulate, But McCain and even Bush are on record for saying something needs to be done!”
cjr is too young to know these things, note.
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To USVet: So what? The only country any American has to be loyal to is America.

Americans need to put pressure on the L.A. Times to release this tape. We have a right to see who Obama and his wife are associating with. Apparently he is bashing Israelis, another case of Obama caught in LIES, LIES, LIES. Right in line with Wright, Ayers and the rest of his marxist friends.
LA TIMES.. RELEASE THE TAPE.

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. (See grant number 5180, “West Bank: CPRS” on page 14 of this PDF.)
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi’s group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of “sociopolitical attitudes.”
Of course, there’s seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain’s organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi’s ties to Obama.

ml: “Apparently he is bashing Israelis, another case of Obama caught in LIES, LIES, LIES.”
Actually all we have is a case of the McCain campaign making up random ‘maybe’ lies about Senator Obama.

Yeah, right! McCain is a hot head himself…I certainly do not want him to be contemplating “to push or not to push” the button! We need, cool, calm and collective Obama to decide!
Obama/Biden 2008!!!

Hmmmmmm… I think I saw something fromt the AP about Obama speaking with the Israelies a few weeks/months ago….so, this is not breaking news AND it was a good meeting regarding Iran and Israel!
Obama/Biden 2008!!!!!!

Yes, we should continue putting this kind of Obama story in this kind of title in the important place of ABC web site.
As long as the media is fair to both candiates, Obama should not win.
We’ve already made mistake in the primary that Hillary was not the nominee, we should not make same mistake again in general election.
Obama should not be president!

I will not be taken off the blog Obama is wrong for the country

Palin lied about the Troopergate report when she stated it cleared her of any abuse of power. That is a direct lie.
The Troopergate Report stated she abused her power in the continued attempts to get her ex-brother-in-law fired.
Palin is a liar. I don’t trust her at all.

Whoa! Have I mentioned lately why I have a soft spot in my heart for Joe Biden…?

Unlike the straw man in the Wizard of Oz, I do have a brain. And I don’t trust John McCain, the hot head, to have his finger on the country’s nuclear launch button! Forget Palin and any launch codes.

Joe Biden’s comment was quite correct. Why aren’t we hearing about all the examples of Presidents that have been challenged. Examples are there. Experts have already said and verified statement was quite correct and good chance this will occur. John McCain too, publicly stated transitional period between Presidents is time when enemies may cause a crisis. This is ridiculous attack!