Hell hasn’t exactly frozen over but the overall temperature surely dropped a couple of degrees. Check out what’s on CNN Money. http://tinyurl.com/nu4hxr Next thing you know, MSNBC will be sponsoring a Palin love-fest straight from Wasilla.
Being the comic book nerd that I was back in my misspent youth, I remember reading about Bizarro World in Superman comics. In Bizarro World, up is down, bad is good, stupid is brilliant etc. And folks, that’s where we are right now.
Obama insists that his health care plan will save money. However, the Congressional Budget Office says it will add $230 billion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years. http://tinyurl.com/muzhx2 Additionally, the CBO says that Obama will save $2 billion over the same amount of time but the plan itself will cost $1 trillion. http://tinyurl.com/lqrteg Obama says that people will be able to keep their existing health care plans should they so desire. Wrong again. Although couched in esoteric legal-speak, page 16 of the bill says that no new private health insurance policies can be sold after the bill becomes law. http://tinyurl.com/myotwp
Those who have waded through more of the bill state that you would not be able to make any changes to your existing policies after the bill passes. Such changes would knock your health care policy out of the “grandfather” exemption. Did I mention that you would be penalized by the IRS for not having any health insurance? http://tinyurl.com/krct49 Oh, and small businesses who don’t provide health insurance will have additional taxes, too. http://tinyurl.com/lbr8rb
Ultimately though, this isn’t about health care. This is about the government taking away your freedom to make any kind of choices for yourself and inserting itself into every facet of your life. Huge taxes on guns and ammo for people lawfully purchasing them? You bet, gunshot wounds cost the gov’t money at the health treatment centers. Doubling “sin taxes” on alcohol and cigarettes. Sure, it takes $$ to treat the ailments brought on by such things. Ditto with outrageous taxes on sugary products, fast foods, etc. Surely you didn’t want to keep that money you worked so hard to earn.
Think I’m full of crap? Here’s a precursor of the kind of thing that would take place under the health care reform bill. The cap and trade bill passed by the House a few weeks ago has provisions that would prevent home owners from selling their houses unless they meet a certain energy efficiency standard. Of course, such improvements would force homeowners to raise their selling prices or have a bite taken out of their potential profits. A small price to pay for helping stave off global warming, right?
The only good part out of all of this is that Daddy O’s numbers are falling. http://tinyurl.com/5tnd2b Hope and change, baby.
I deleted my post from earlier this morning, since I found out that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. did indeed present his Harvard ID card when the arresting officer (repeatedly) asked him for some identification. Most of the full story (including links to the police reports) can be found at http://tinyurl.com/m3p48r
The fact remains that a double standard was very much in evidence. After Gates showed the policeman his ID, he continued to yell and scream at the cop, calling him a racist. It’s never a wise move to harass a police officer, whether you are in your own house, on your front porch, or wherever. This led to Gates’ arrest on charges of disorderly conduct.
Would a white guy have been busted by this policeman for doing what Gates did? I’m thinking so. Would our beloved president have criticized the police force for arresting a white guy in a similar situation? I’m thinking not. Does it make perfect sense that Obama is friends with a black guy who seems to have a chip on his shoulder? Oh, yeah.
Watch the clip of Obama from last night at the link in the top ‘graph. His whole condemnation of the police in this instance was centered around Obama’s own racial bias, not the facts of the case. Hope and change, baby.
1. The Economy.
Obama and Biden keep lowering the thresh hold for what is considered “rich” and consequently subject to increased taxation. Obama started with a $250,000 ceiling, lowered it to $200,000 last week, and Biden recently said that those making $150,000 or less wouldn’t see increased taxes. Obama has gone on record with the San Francisco Chronicle saying that he would bankrupt the coal industry if it attempted to build new plants by using harsh cap and trade regulations. Obama has no interest in helping the economy, he wants to advance his socialist policies and damn the consequences.
2. Education.
No Child Left Behind was largely a liberal effort, since Bush let Teddy Kennedy write a large part of the bill. Liberal efforts fail, that’s just the way of the world. McCain endorses a voucher program which would allow parents to send their kids to better schools and break out of the cycle of failure caused by increased funding of failed programs.
3. Health Care.
Obama’s health care plan is vague and nebulous. He supports socialized medicine for kids, which has already been proven a failure in Hawaii. What happened? The people who were paying for the free health care decided they didn’t like paying everyone else’s way and ditched their insurance to let the gov’t provide health care for their kids, too.
4. Iraq.
The majority of the benchmarks in Iraq have been met, so the U.S. is closer than ever to getting out of there. When Bush finally decided to try something new and started pushing the surge, Obama and his fellow democrats opposed it. Obama still has trouble admitting that he was wrong about this. The clearly defined goal is to destroy the terrorists’ ability to make war on us and get Iraq back to a state that dealing with these religious nutjobs can be handed over to the Iraqis – fairly simple.
5. Palin.
She is more ready to be president than Obama is, never mind Biden. Obama has failed to release his medical records-among several other documents. He just has a doctor who vouches for his clean bill of health. How are we to know that he won’t be incapacitated due to lung cancer in a few years and Biden will be in charge? This man doesn’t know what decade he’s living in (check out the fact check on all of his lies during the vp debate)- much less how to run a country. Palin has a refreshing, conservative attitude that the country desperately needs and actually has experience as an executive.
Bonus Point – Obama Himself
Yeah, he’s a radical socialist of the first order, an unrepentant liar, etc. But he’s also completely without class, despite the aura he tries to project. Check out the video of him scratching his cheek after complementing McCain on a hard-fought campaign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMdWxcFXQg
For quite some time, I ignored those who said Obama might not be a natural born citizen of the U.S. It sounded a little off the deep end, like the desperate ramblings of folks who operate a little too close to the edge of reality.
Here are the facts pertaining to Obama’s birth certificate, as I understand them. I ask that you try to read the links cited below with an open mind.
The copies of the birth certificate posted on the net to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii were fakes. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/such-a-liar-oba.html
Obama refused to turn over the documentation that would prove where he was born and whether or not he renounced his citizenship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs
He has chosen to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii after she was released from the hospital but on the same day that a suit was filed to obtain Obama’s birth records. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/obama-goes-to-hawaii/
Why is this a big deal? Because the Constitution states you have to be a natural-born U.S. citizen to become President. What does Obama have to do to make this all go away? Just release the documents requested by Philip Berg and Andy Martin in their suits. So, the question is, what does Obama have to hide?
The answer could have something to do with Indonesia. http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/obama-is-indonesian-is-anyone-investigating/
The democrats are for the little guy, so long as he doesn’t do too well, then he’s fair game.
Joe The Plumber: Obama Tax Plan ‘Infuriates Me’
October 16, 2008 2:46 AM
ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports:
John McCain may have found a blue-collar face to help him argue that no American — not even the richest 5 percent — should pay higher taxes.
“Joe The Plumber” has weighed in on Wednesday’s presidential debate and he says that Barack Obama’s tax plan “infuriates me.”
“To be honest with you, that infuriates me,” plumber Joe Wurzelbacher told Nightline’s Terry Moran. “It’s not right for someone to decide you made too much—that you’ve done too good and now we’re going to take some of it back.”
“That’s just completely wrong,” he added.
Wurzelbacher, who says no one from the McCain campaign got in touch with him before Wednesday, was a centerpiece of the third and final presidential debate.
The plumber’s brush with fame began on Sunday when he confronted Barack Obama outside of Toledo, Ohio. Wurzelbacher challenged the Democratic candidate on his plan to raise taxes on the top five percent of earners — a policy which would, by the Obama campaign’s own estimation, mean higher taxes for 184,000 small businesses.
“I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year,” Wurzelbacher told Obama. “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”
Under Obama’s plan, individuals making more than $200,000 per year, or couples making more than $250,000 per year, would pay higher taxes on income, capital gains, and dividends. Starting ten years from now, Obama supports an additional 2-4 percent tax on individual income above $250,000 per year to help shore up the Social Security system.
To evaluate how Wurzelbacher and his wife would fare under Obama, one would need to know his wife’s income (if any) plus what the plumber meant when he told Obama that the company he is getting ready to buy “makes” $250,000 – $280,000 per year.
Was Wurzelbacher referring to gross revenue or net profits?
Obama’s higher taxes on small businesses would be leveled against those whose net profits exceed $250,000 per year, according to Obama’s campaign.
While at least 184,000 small businesses would face higher taxes under Obama, the Illinois Democrat is also proposing a series of tax credits that could aid small businesses.
Obama has proposed a $3,000 tax credit for every new job that companies create in the United States over the next two years, a small business health tax credit on up to 50 percent of employee premiums paid by employers, and elimination of capital gains taxes on investments in small and start-up businesses.
Regardless of how Wurzelbacher would personally fare under the candidates’ plans, he suggested to ABC News’ Nightline that he is against all forms of progressive taxation.
During his telephone interview with ABC News, the Ohio plumber argued that the government should not tax some more than others and argued that this principle should extend not only to Americans at his income-level but also to the world’s richest man.
“I don’t like it,” said Wurzelbacher. “You know, me or — you know, Bill Gates, I don’t care who you are. If you worked for it, if it was your idea, and you implemented it, it’s not right for someone to decide you made too much.”
If this is true, we better start getting the word out, pronto.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/10/021724.php
After thinking about it for a minute, however, I don’t think this information would dissuade many hard core Obama-ites. There are too many of them that think the same way he does and, for the rest, they tend to subscribe to a “nothing can be worse than the last eight years” mentality. Little do they know.
Yet more proof that Obama and his bunch aren’t so sure they really have this election in the bag.
From James Hibbard’s The Live Feed
Exclusive: Obama buys half-hour of network primetime
83178871 Barack Obama has purchased a half-hour of airtime on CBS, sources confirm.
The Obama campaign will air a half-hour primetime special on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.
Sources say the Obama camp is also in talks with NBC and Fox. NBC is said to be very near a deal. With Fox, the matter is likely to remain uncertain as the time period could conflict with Game 6 of the World Series.
A CBS spokesperson declined comment. The buy will push comedy “The New Adventures of Old Christine” to 8:30 p.m. and pre-empt “Gary Unmarried.” The buy is being placed by Washington-based ad firm GMMB.
The direct purchase of such a large block of national airtime right before an election used to be more commonplace before campaigns began to focus their end game strategies exclusively on battleground states. Such a move is not without precedent in modern presidential politics, however — Ross Perot did a similar purchase in 1992.
This year has seen the first time in many years that presidential campaigns have bought national broadcast TV advertisements. In the past 12 years, much of the billions of dollars in political advertising spent has gone to local TV stations in battleground states. While some money has gone to national cable channels, the thinking has always been that it would be more prudent to target battleground states’ voters instead of addressing the entire nation, including states that reliably vote for one party or another.
The first instance was in August, when Obama spent $5 million and McCain spent $6 million, each to advertise in NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics from Beijing. The networks’ evening newscasts have also seen campaign ads for the first time in years. Before that, the last nationally broadcast campaign ad ran in the 1996 campaign.
The Obama campaign earlier this year opted out of the public financing system, which meant that it was free to raise and spend as much as it could. It has, in states like Michigan, outspent the publicly financed McCain campaign by a margin of at least 3-to-1.
It’s not unprecedented for a candidate to buy longform broadcast network time, though it hasn’t happened in a while. In October 1992, Perot drew audiences of 16.5 million and 10.5 million for 30-minute lectures/campaign ad aimed at voters. But in Perot’s second run in 1996, the candidate was rebuffed by the Big Four networks in an attempt to sell airtime. The FCC backed the networks in denying Perot airtime, saying that they acted legally in refusing.
Earlier this year, the Hillary Clinton campaign bought time on the Hallmark Channel, a nearly fully distributed cable channel, for a town-hall meeting before Super Tuesday.
Obama has run many 30-second spots across the country, and one two-minute spot that was particularly effective among experts where Obama directly faced the camera and spoke to viewers about being able to feel their economic pain.
While broadcast networks in the past have given presidential candidates free time for campaign statements in the final days before the election, those were done in the news programs — outside the expensive primetime hours.
From the start, Obama has been more focused on primetime than any other Presidential candidate. Defying conventional wisdom to have political ads clustered around local news, during the primary season the Obama campaign poured 40% of its TV cash in primetime, compared with about 18% for Clinton.
More details to come …
— Nellie Andreeva and Paul J. Gough contributed to this report
Ya know, I think sufficient conservative turn out could overcome the usual democrat voter fraud, but this is getting ridiculous.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/30613864.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_ge/voter_fraud
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/news/politics/nuts__132771.htm
Once again, why are the dems going to all this trouble if their man is a shoe-in for the big chair in the Oval Office? Liberals never trust the people to vote the right way.
And, as usual, Rush is right.
The Obama campaign gets its knickers in a twist because McCain called his opponent “that one” in their most recent debate. And they’re really pissed off and start launching legal investigations when people use Obama’s full name.
Please find an opinion and stick with it! Then again, these are Obama-ites we’re talking about.