Now Obama is a Marxist, socialist because supposedly he tells Joe the fake plumber he wants to spread the wealth around. The Income Tax Act was established and enacted to support the Civil War and was based on the basic principles of graduated or progressive taxation and withholding income tax at source.Ronald Reagan implemented the Earned Income Tax Credit to distribute the wealth amongst the so-called "working poor" as part of his trickle down economics. Was Ronald Reagan also a Marxist or a socialist?Remind everyone that The Income Tax Act was enacted in 1862 and saw the establishment of the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue so Barack Obama is playing by the rules of engagement, he's not doing anything that's socialist. If it was not socialism then, it sure ain't socialism now so don't let John McCain get away with this latest "slogan".
McCain-Bush Republican administration just gave $750B to Wall Street private corporations. The State taking a financial stake in private enterprise - what do you call that, McCain? Whose wealth is Bush spreading around and to whom?
In 1913, an amendment to the Income Tax Act gave Congress full legal authority to tax incomes of both individuals and corporations.
I have armed myself with a pencil that I will use as a pointer when I go to the polls and you should do the same. Don't use your index finger because it will trigger a vote for McCain. The machines are rigged to limit the space in the box for each candidate to the diameter of a pencil or ball point pen.
Walk into the elections booth with a pencil or a ball point pen and use it to select your choice of candidate so that they can't blame these faulty machines on voter error as they did in Florida in 2004.
Let people know not to use their index fingers - use a ball point pen or a pencil to make their selection. Beat them at their nasty, coneiving games - don't be outsmart by their tricks!
As it turns out from "Inside Edition" Joe the Plumber does not even have a plumber's license. Joe was actuately planted by the McCain campaign so that McCain would have something to use against Obama in the debate. While on the topic of what level Republicans will stoop to, in Columbus Ga they have began stealing Obama and other Democratic nominee yard signs. I think we have to work to ensure Obama gets elected no matter what acts Republicans commit. We need to make sure he has so many supporting voters that these acts do not faze Obama's outcome. I am challenging everyone to take at least five people to the voting polls with you that you know are voting for Obama. Please pass this on. We have to fight harder than ever to get Obama in his well deserving presidential seat. All the negative ads just make me want to work that much harder.
State-by-State Absentee Voter Guide
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Voter-Information-Center/Absentee-Voter-Guide
Special rules exist for First Time Voters voting by absentee ballot in MI, IL, NV, FL
If you are a first-time voter who intends to use an absentee ballot, you must register to vote in person. If you do not register in person but instead by mail or at a registration drive, then you must vote in person the first time you vote. If you vote in person for any election, you may vote by mail in all following elections.
Absentee voting in Ohio
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/15/copy/EARLY_VOTE.ART_ART_08-15-08_B1_I4B1IBC.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
The law allows absentee voting, for any reason, to begin 35 days before an election. Another law on the books for several years closes voter registration 30 days before Election Day.
That leaves a five-day period (Sept 30 – Oct 4) during which people can register and immediately vote absentee.
Erika Niedowski, Washington Bureau Chief Last Updated: September 14. 2008 12:21AM UAE / September 13. 2008 8:21PM GMT
David W Moore spent 13 years as a top editor and executive at the Gallup Organization, one of the most respected names in US polling. His time there led him to this conclusion: pollsters do not just capture public opinion, at times they actually create it. In his book The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls, he argues that polls are not a very accurate reflection of what the public really thinks.“We’re more interested in creating a public opinion that is plausible and that is useful for enhancing news stories,” said Mr Moore, a senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute who writes a blog called “Skeptical Pollster”.
David W Moore spent 13 years as a top editor and executive at the Gallup Organization, one of the most respected names in US polling. His time there led him to this conclusion: pollsters do not just capture public opinion, at times they actually create it. In his book The Opinion Makers: An Insider Exposes the Truth Behind the Polls, he argues that polls are not a very accurate reflection of what the public really thinks.
“We’re more interested in creating a public opinion that is plausible and that is useful for enhancing news stories,” said Mr Moore, a senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute who writes a blog called “Skeptical Pollster”.
I don't overreact to much of what I read in the online news, but the following article really hit home. I tend to agree with much of this assessment, that the George Stephanopoulos interview was more fizzle than sizzle.
Obama needs to put some life into his television appearances, some fire!
COHEN: OBAMA IS TOO COOL TO GET HOT September 8, 2008 Thank God for Sarah Palin. Without her jibes, her sarcasm, her exaggerations, her smug provincialism, her hypocrisy about family and government, her exploitation of mommyhood and her personal attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic base might never be consolidated. This much is certain: Obama could never do it.Not, anyway, the Obama who appeared Sunday on ABC's ''This Week'' with George Stephanopoulos. That Obama was cool, diffident, above it all -- unflustered, unflappable, unexcitable and downright unexciting. These ''uns'' ran on, a torrent of cool that frosted my flat-panel TV and had me wondering if, as a kid, Obama ever got a shot in the mouth on the playground, he'd glare at the bully -- and convene a meeting.Stephanopoulos vainly tried for some genuine reaction. In choosing Palin, did John McCain get someone who met the minimum test of being ''capable of being president?'' Everyone in America knows the answer to that. They know McCain picked someone so unqualified she has been hiding from the media because a question to her is like kryptonite to what's-his-name. But did Obama say anything like that? Here are his exact words: ''Well, you know, I'll let you ask John McCain when he's on ABC.'' Boy, Palin will never get over that.And how about this silly business that she's qualified for the presidency because she's commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard? Another softball. Another slow one, right down the middle. Obama reared back Â… and told Stephanopoulos that those questions should come from the press: ''It's going to be your job and Â… ''Pathetic.What Obama does not understand is that he is being Swift-boated. The term does not apply to a mere smear. It is bolder, more outrageous than that. It means going straight at your opponent's strength and maligning it. This is what was done in 2004 to John Kerry, who had commanded a Swift boat in Vietnam. Kerry had won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star and had emerged from the war a certified hero. It was that record his opponents attacked, a tactic Kerry thought so ludicrous that he at first ignored it. The record shows that he lost the election.Now Obama's opponents are going straight for his strength. At least twice at the GOP convention, speakers mocked Obama's service as a community organizer. ''He worked as a community organizer,'' Rudy Giuliani said. ''He immersed himself in Chicago machine politics.''And then Palin herself followed up with one of her aw-shucks low blows: ''I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.''In the biographies of both presidential candidates are episodes of pure wonderment. No man can read about McCain's time in a Vietnamese prison and not wonder, ''Could I do that?'' For most of us, the answer -- the truthful answer -- is no.For Obama, that episode has nothing to do with physical courage, but of moral commitment. At the age of 22 -- a graduate of Columbia University and already making good money as a financial researcher, he walked away to work with the unemployed and alienated in Chicago. Obama, who later went on to Harvard Law School, knew precisely what a valuable commodity he was and how much money he could have made. He turned away from all that -- or, at least postponed it, and not because community organizing was the route to political success. (Just name one.) Once again, ask yourself if you would have done it.So, Stephanopoulos asked, what was Obama thinking when Giuliani mocked him for doing something Giuliani -- the most ambitious of men -- would never have done?''It's a real puzzling thing,'' Obama said matter of factly. And then he went on to recount his experience as a community organizer, ending with the observation that ''I would think that that's an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree.''Oy!It is true that on the stump, Obama goes on the attack. But those are fragments -- maybe 15 seconds on the evening news. It is with extended interviews, such as the Sunday shows, that we get to visit with the man -- and that man, for all his splendid virtues, seems to lack fight. Maybe he's worried about how America would receive an angry black man or maybe he's just too cool to ever get hot, but the end result is that we have little insight into his passions: What, above all, does he care about? The answer, at least to the Sunday TV viewer, was nothing much.Richard Cohen is a columnist at the Washington Post. His e-mail address is cohenr@washpost.com
September 8, 2008
Thank God for Sarah Palin. Without her jibes, her sarcasm, her exaggerations, her smug provincialism, her hypocrisy about family and government, her exploitation of mommyhood and her personal attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic base might never be consolidated. This much is certain: Obama could never do it.Not, anyway, the Obama who appeared Sunday on ABC's ''This Week'' with George Stephanopoulos. That Obama was cool, diffident, above it all -- unflustered, unflappable, unexcitable and downright unexciting. These ''uns'' ran on, a torrent of cool that frosted my flat-panel TV and had me wondering if, as a kid, Obama ever got a shot in the mouth on the playground, he'd glare at the bully -- and convene a meeting.Stephanopoulos vainly tried for some genuine reaction. In choosing Palin, did John McCain get someone who met the minimum test of being ''capable of being president?'' Everyone in America knows the answer to that. They know McCain picked someone so unqualified she has been hiding from the media because a question to her is like kryptonite to what's-his-name. But did Obama say anything like that? Here are his exact words: ''Well, you know, I'll let you ask John McCain when he's on ABC.'' Boy, Palin will never get over that.And how about this silly business that she's qualified for the presidency because she's commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard? Another softball. Another slow one, right down the middle. Obama reared back Â… and told Stephanopoulos that those questions should come from the press: ''It's going to be your job and Â… ''Pathetic.What Obama does not understand is that he is being Swift-boated. The term does not apply to a mere smear. It is bolder, more outrageous than that. It means going straight at your opponent's strength and maligning it. This is what was done in 2004 to John Kerry, who had commanded a Swift boat in Vietnam. Kerry had won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star and had emerged from the war a certified hero. It was that record his opponents attacked, a tactic Kerry thought so ludicrous that he at first ignored it. The record shows that he lost the election.Now Obama's opponents are going straight for his strength. At least twice at the GOP convention, speakers mocked Obama's service as a community organizer. ''He worked as a community organizer,'' Rudy Giuliani said. ''He immersed himself in Chicago machine politics.''And then Palin herself followed up with one of her aw-shucks low blows: ''I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.''In the biographies of both presidential candidates are episodes of pure wonderment. No man can read about McCain's time in a Vietnamese prison and not wonder, ''Could I do that?'' For most of us, the answer -- the truthful answer -- is no.For Obama, that episode has nothing to do with physical courage, but of moral commitment. At the age of 22 -- a graduate of Columbia University and already making good money as a financial researcher, he walked away to work with the unemployed and alienated in Chicago. Obama, who later went on to Harvard Law School, knew precisely what a valuable commodity he was and how much money he could have made. He turned away from all that -- or, at least postponed it, and not because community organizing was the route to political success. (Just name one.) Once again, ask yourself if you would have done it.So, Stephanopoulos asked, what was Obama thinking when Giuliani mocked him for doing something Giuliani -- the most ambitious of men -- would never have done?''It's a real puzzling thing,'' Obama said matter of factly. And then he went on to recount his experience as a community organizer, ending with the observation that ''I would think that that's an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree.''Oy!It is true that on the stump, Obama goes on the attack. But those are fragments -- maybe 15 seconds on the evening news. It is with extended interviews, such as the Sunday shows, that we get to visit with the man -- and that man, for all his splendid virtues, seems to lack fight. Maybe he's worried about how America would receive an angry black man or maybe he's just too cool to ever get hot, but the end result is that we have little insight into his passions: What, above all, does he care about? The answer, at least to the Sunday TV viewer, was nothing much.Richard Cohen is a columnist at the Washington Post. His e-mail address is cohenr@washpost.com
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THE CHANGING WORLD OF INFORMATION RESOURCES In the "old days" before the internet we were confined to the information fed to us by the media organizations - television, newspapers and magazines. Digging deeper into a story meant buying a lot of books or spending time at the public library, and most likely there would not be adequate research data available until months after the fact. Things have changed. Thanks to a boundless archive of free information available on the internet, Americans who are willing to look for it can uncover the real story behind the groomed and edited news report issued by the media, in many cases within mere hours after the story is released. AND NOW, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR... It should be noted that the American public is not the naïve flock of sheep it was back around September 11, 2001. Again thanks to the wealth of resources available on the internet, we have become savvy to the influence of government and corporate funding on media organizations. What was once called Mainstream Media [MSM] is now more appropriately tagged Corporate Media. For those of you who are not aware of these influences, you owe it to yourself to do some research. Look into the funding sources of corporate media and how these sources influence the news we watch, read and hear, particularly politics. It’s a real eye-opener, trust me. While you’re at it, do some Googling for independent news sources. Compare their version of any given political news story to the version issued by mainstream/corporate media. The differences are glaring, if not stunning. Mainstream Media journalism is biased according to the special interests of the political and corporate sponsors attached to that particular media source. News reports are carefully groomed and edited to comply with those special interests. Our government has become the biggest political influence on the media, with strong funding and sponsorship ties. Media bias can be and is used to alter the reality of the world around us, covertly shaping our opinions and decisions to fit into the status quo. Propaganda, cover-ups, skewed facts, manipulated polls – powerful tools used by corporate media to control and deceive the American public.Today these machinations are working at a feverish pitch, focused on steering the presidential election to an outcome that will favor the corporate media, its special interests and the government forces controlling it.Let’s hope that the 21st century American is indeed wiser now than it was in the fall of 2001. God save America.
THE CHANGING WORLD OF INFORMATION RESOURCES
In the "old days" before the internet we were confined to the information fed to us by the media organizations - television, newspapers and magazines. Digging deeper into a story meant buying a lot of books or spending time at the public library, and most likely there would not be adequate research data available until months after the fact. Things have changed. Thanks to a boundless archive of free information available on the internet, Americans who are willing to look for it can uncover the real story behind the groomed and edited news report issued by the media, in many cases within mere hours after the story is released.
AND NOW, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR...
It should be noted that the American public is not the naïve flock of sheep it was back around September 11, 2001. Again thanks to the wealth of resources available on the internet, we have become savvy to the influence of government and corporate funding on media organizations. What was once called Mainstream Media [MSM] is now more appropriately tagged Corporate Media. For those of you who are not aware of these influences, you owe it to yourself to do some research. Look into the funding sources of corporate media and how these sources influence the news we watch, read and hear, particularly politics. It’s a real eye-opener, trust me. While you’re at it, do some Googling for independent news sources. Compare their version of any given political news story to the version issued by mainstream/corporate media. The differences are glaring, if not stunning. Mainstream Media journalism is biased according to the special interests of the political and corporate sponsors attached to that particular media source. News reports are carefully groomed and edited to comply with those special interests. Our government has become the biggest political influence on the media, with strong funding and sponsorship ties.
Media bias can be and is used to alter the reality of the world around us, covertly shaping our opinions and decisions to fit into the status quo. Propaganda, cover-ups, skewed facts, manipulated polls – powerful tools used by corporate media to control and deceive the American public.
Today these machinations are working at a feverish pitch, focused on steering the presidential election to an outcome that will favor the corporate media, its special interests and the government forces controlling it.
Let’s hope that the 21st century American is indeed wiser now than it was in the fall of 2001. God save America.
I was watching the forum last night and decided that since I hadn't eaten yet, I would try to listen to John McCain speak. I was doing OK with the "my friends" and the evil chuckle when I heard him talk about his POW story of the cross in the dirt. That was when I couldn't take it anymore.
It just sounded so fake and so contrived, so I did a little research about it. Someone on here said it sounded like a scene from Ben-Hur, so I did a google search about Ben-Hur and cross in the sand and such. No dice. But I searched around a little bit more and here is what I found. A story about Alexander Solzhenitsyn from his times in the Soviet Gulags.
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Shocking Racist Violation of USA "Freedom of the Press," when the only black reporter at event in Florida kicked out of event while reporting for Tallahassee Democrat; Mc Cain's staff: "I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that race had nothing to do with it." [http://www.prlog.org/10098337-sole-black-reporter-booted-from-mccain-event-showing-deep-racism-in-gops-security-concerns.html] [to be accurate, this was posted by 'THINKBRIDGE' at Dailykos.com, but ultimately derived from an article by Mr. Lemming in the Tallahassee Democrat]
Tallahassee Democrat senior writer Stephen Price was singled outand asked to leave the area reserved for media at a rally for John McCain in Panama City, Florida, on Friday. He had showed his media credentials and employee i.d. in order to enter the area when a member of McCain's security detail asked him to leave.
"I explained I was with the state press, but the Secret Service man said that didn't matter and that I would have to go," Price said. When another reporter asked why Price was being removed, she too was led out of the area. Other state reporters remained.
Price was the only black reporter among those surrounding McCain's bus; was he being"profiled"?
Tallahassee Democrat Executive Editor Bob Gabordi said the incident was unwarranted.
"We're deeply concerned and disturbed that our reporter — of all of those in that area — was asked to move," Gabordi said. "My understanding is that Stephen was the only reporter approached and asked to leave the area, and the only reporter in that area who is black. Another reporter who stood up for Stephen was then asked to leave."
Jonathan Block of the McCain campaign, who was not there at the time of the incident, expressed regret, but stated,
"I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that race had nothing to do with it."
Block said the area where Price was standing was restricted to members of the traveling national press corps that accompanies McCain on the campaign trail.
Wow. Really. There's this story line going around that McCain loves to be "unscripted" and was always wandering into unprepared situations, giving the impression of "getting down to the people." Why was the black man singled out? And then why was the other reporter ousted for defending him? Why couldn't they simply tell them right then and there that this area is restricted to press that travels with McCain, if that was, in fact, true???
UPDATE: The next line from the Tallahassee Democrat is:
"At the end of the day, your reporter was in the wrong place. I do not know why the other reporters were not moved. The rest of the local press should have been moved as well," Block said.
Which looks like the McCain campaign's excuse strategy, and typical of such things for him. OK, it was just one of those things. But why does this happen now, this way, why always something against blacks? It both excuses and points out the issues in this incident.
I'm sure McCain really needs this sort of stuff to keep those "swing voters" wondering. First, he backs a bill in Arizona that would wipe out affirmative action as "quotas", a "reverse racism"-style proposition, to coddle the right-wing racist White First bloc. Then he accuses Obama of racism for mentioning in passing something that could be construed to mean Obama is black. And if McCain infers that he is older, we're supposed to accuse him of "age-ism", right? Now, his security detail is weeding out "suspects"??
And this isn't the first weird incident with McCain's security. Here you can check out how they kicked a librarian out of a public rally for holding a McCain=Bush sign, and charged her with trespassing.
The event, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was billed as 'open to the public.' Yet Carole Kreck, a 61-year-old librarian carrying a 'McCain=Bush' sign, was taken away by police [on orders from McCain's security detail] for trespassing. A police officer told Kreck: 'You have two choices. You can keep your sign here and receive a ticket for trespassing, or you can remove the sign and stay in line and attend this town hall meeting.' Kreck received a ticket for trespassing and her court date is July 23.
Security trumps free speech. Security trumps reporters' access to a candidate. Dissent and being a person of color seem to always land in the world of "security risk". One of the Republicans' biggest ticket issues is "increase Security." It plays to fear. It plays to the military. But, as this incident is a small but notable example, it doesn't play to our higher goals of fairness, openness, and actual freedom (not rhetorical "freedom" as in "freedom fries"). For McCain, it's a pattern he can't break free from. For the rest of us, it's an election we must weigh in on, in historic numbers, for the other, security-by-freedom, not security-vs-freedom, side.
http://www.prlog.org/10098337-sole-black-reporter-booted-from-mccain-event-showing-deep-racism-in-gops-security-concerns.html
REMEMBER PEOPLE IS ALL VOTE THAT COUNT. WE DID A GOOD JOB SUPPORTING OBAMA THIS FAR, SO LET'S NOT GIVE UP LET'S KEEP DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR THIS COUNTRY TO MOVE FORWARD I BELIEVE IN OBAMA AND HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE, IT'S ABOUT SOMEONE WHO HAVE FAITH, AND HE BELIEVES HE COULD ME A DIFFERENT. THIS COUNTRY HAVE MONEY, AND IF WE HAVE THE RIGHT LEADER MANAGE IT WE ALL COULD BENEFIT FROM IT. REMEMBER PEOPLE BE SMART THIS ELECTION COULD MEAN SOMETHING FOR OUR FUTURE, OUR KIDS.
SO VOTE FOR OBAMA
To ALL Americans,
I for one do not understand why “the Clinton’s” and others in “her” campaign have and continue to run a dirty political campaign. The same goes for McCain, especially after his wife stated her husband promised to run a clean campaign. I will speak about him at another time.
Yet, I do remember H. Clinton stating the same facts at the beginning of this campaign over two years ago. Well, I see she did not keep her promise.As a 45 year old Caucasian/Latino woman (for those who care) and born in OUR “United” States of America. Who has finally gotten involved in politics because of Barack Obama’s stance regarding his, my, our issues. I am extremely proud of myself for getting involved because of Barack Obama. I am even more proud and honored to have Barack as OUR future President of “The UNITED” States of America.
It is unforgivable in my opinion, how “the Clinton’s” as well as others have used the race card time, and again. However, when the Clinton team, have been questioned regarding this topic they deny it, get defensive, or say Barack was doing this. Sadly, to state, B. Clinton has used the race card on several occasions and dares to deny it.
Geraldine Ferraro as well as others used the race card before the Pennsylvanian primaries. She tried to reverse it by stating, she was the one discriminated against because she is white. She later “quit” H. Clinton’s campaign and I use the word quit loosely because I do not know whom to believe anymore due to Mark Penn (which is another topic needing more serious discussion).
Thus far, H. Clinton has allowed others to do her dirty work for her. Recently, just prior to the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries, H. Clinton spoke. Stating, I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on. She as well stated she has support among “white” working, hard working Americans. White Americans is weakening against Barack. She then stated how “whites” in both states who had NOT completed college were supporting her. Then to top it off she said, there is a “pattern” emerging here, as well as stating she does better with independents than Barack does.
Yes I would agree with the Clinton’s and their campaign, there is a pattern emerging here, which would be you, the “Clinton’s”, your campaign, and a few select others that ARE THE ONE’S INJECTING RACE INTO THIS CAMPAIGN AND FEAR MONGERING TACTICS. I find this to be so incredibly LOW and SAD.
I FIND THESE TACTICS TO BE DISTASTEFUL, DEGRADING, AND PATHETICALLY SAD. DO YOU NOT REALIZE WHAT THESE DISGRACEFUL WORDS SOUND LIKE TO US, THE “UNITED” STATES OF AMERICA! IS THIS THE REASON BOTH YOU AND McCain CHOSE TO CALL BARACK OBAMA AN ELITIST? SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHTS – THINK – AMERICA – PLEASE THINK – PRIOR TO VOTING!Thank you,
Patti
Why is the price of OIL so HIGH? Let us begin with the fact that the U.S. of A., buys our oil from Canada (#1), secondly from the Middle East. The later disturbs me to no end, why are we not buying more from Mexico, as they EXPORT 85% of their oil. If we want the price we pay to go down I would believe it would be MUCH CHEAPER to buy more oil from Mexico as opposed to the Middle East. We would not have to put up with this "CHEAP" offer of .18 cents (federal tax) that McCain/Clinton want to offer the American people, which will equal to approx. $30.00 throughout three months. This how the Clinton/McCain "team" want to help us the people of the "UNITED" States of America? By the way STOP using OUR FOOD to "supposedly make oil cheaper"! I ask these questions to see how the rest of America feel.
I then question how McCain/Clinton dare call Barack Obama an Elitist and OUT OF TOUCH with the Middle and Working Class. I'm sorry, elitist and out of touch? By this point we have all seen ALL of their taxes, so who are the elitist within these three candidates? If anyone knows what the working and middle class are going through, more over than Clinton and McCain is Barack Obama. Besides his taxes, he and Michelle recently finished paying off their school loans and one other point, Barack has not been tainted by the "Usual" way our government has worked, even though this is what "the Clinton's" want, I for one completly disagree. Barack is the only one who will accomplish so very much with our help as well as with the people he chooses to be a part of his team as President.
Regarding "ELITIST" as one other point, what about when "the Clintons" made light of Barack's wins and let us not kid ourselves, when B. Clinton injected race into the picture as well as Geraldine Ferarro (she as well as others did this in Pennsylvania). Barack is NOT out of TOUCH WITH the Working or the Middle Class, if anything Barack Obama understands US more than the other two. They may talk a good game at times however to state it bluntly they (especially Clinton - who loves to play pretend) do NOT have a CLUE.
My last statement on this blog will be; Pennsylvania was Clinton's State and Barack closed the gap from 25 points to 10 (better yet by 9.4). I give Barack alot of credit for having done that in PA.
Thank you,
Barack Obama is the one for "OUR UNITED" States of America for the change that is needed with OUR help. He is the one for me, I hope anyone that is new here will join me, as well as the rest of the United States of America. Thank You
Well here we go again... McCain and Clinton "teaming" up (again) for this "Federal Gas Tax Holiday". 18.4 cents is what "they" are speaking of, approximately $30 within three months.
America, if McCain and Clinton truly believe this Federal Gas Tax Holiday is supposed to make us the American people happy, they are sorely mistaken. A $30 savings from Memorial Day to Labor Day, THIRTY DOLLARS FOR a FEW months. Frankly, I find this an insult to OUR intelligence. It is up there with this "lovely" Bush economic stimulus package, $300 or $600 per person, Bush wants us to spend it all, again out of TOUCH with The "United" States of America.
The OIL companies are still making profits in the BILLIONS as well others... Yet, we will get a McCain/Clinton break of $30. But they do NOT speak of what happens when OPEC and their little brother's and sister's the oil companies decide to raise the price at the pump - literally wiping out the "Wonderful" Federal "Gas Tax Holiday". Or OPEC and the oil companies will wait until this lovely "gas holiday" is over and increase gas prices once again, either way WE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL PAY FOR IT!
Short term propositions are NOT the solution for a "LONG" term problem, especially when it comes to OIL! By the way, WHEN WILL the U.S. stop using oil? Now that the Winter is over - heating oil is down, therefore the price to fuel our cars skyrockets as does our electrical bills. No matter which way the American people turn, we are getting hit with astronomical prices.
Try contacting your local Utility company - THEY DO NOT HELP WHAT-SO-EVER, unless you consider them sending another company that offers, well let us simply state - NOT MUCH! Yet McCain and Clinton think $30 (for THREE months) is a great help. NO, it IS MORE OF THE SAME -- AN INSULT TO US ALL. Well at least for most of us, WE ARE realizing THESE lovely "offerings" are simply ridiculous!
Nothing is more disheartening than the media assault that ties our Senator Obama's ideals with Rev. Wright's perceived ideas - distorted by the barely minutes-long media "coverage". Long articles are written, but they consist of quoting themselves and each other - no new information, no analysis of the history of black churches, no question of how they are feeding into threats to the pastor and the congregation.
My gift has been voters' and supporters' letters and comments in response to this pathetic media feed frenzy. They inspired me to write my own, but first, their encouraging words:
I am a soldier reading all this from Iraq. I cannot tell you how disturbed I am at this moment. I have spent 34 of the past 48 months in battle or training for battle... and all my country can do is squabble about Jerimiah Wright. I believe in Barack Obama. Not just his policies, but the process in which he will go about implementing those policies. Unity, sitting down at the table, transparency, diplomacy, empathy... and all I see are my fellow citizens behaving like children, fighting for the tablescraps of power. I understand what a McCain presidency will bring... another tour here, sigh. I understand what a Hillary presidency will bring. 4 years of partisan bickering, more stories of Bill, mudslinging from the Right and on and on and on. This is almost like a movie, a living nightmare that won't end. Everything is topsy turvy. I'm losing faith in our political system. I have yet to hear a single hate word spew from Sen Obama's mouth. Not one. I have not heard a single hateful character bash come from his words, not one. I have read his books. Beautiful, sound, in depth, visionary, truthfull, articulate... sigh. I am this close to resigning my commission. Our government IS broken. I no longer feel inspired to serve my country. Why am I fighting here? Why are we fighting at home? We can elect George Bush twice, and yet sling this amazing American possessed with tremendous talent in the garbage. If Obama is not elected, we get what we deserve. Either more war, or more of the same Rush Limbaugh bickering. April 28, 2008 4:05 PM Link
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