But I never thought he might be thinking about his grandmother.

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      • But I never thought he might be thinking about his grandmother. - Backwards typist
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but did he quit campagning since he worships her?

I'm sorry, but if my grandmother died, I'd be one of the first people there and cancel everything.  In due respect, did he go to Hawaii? Who knows? All we're hearing is the same old, same old.

I feel bad that she died on the eve of th election. It's really sad.

My grandmother said they did not agree on politics and she would never vote for the same person he did, so therefore her vote would cancel his out and she felt like that was wrong because he was the head of the household!!!  Can you believe - as soon as he died, she never missed voting again for who she wanted.

I feel very bad that she is terminally ill.  I have lost many close relatives myself and those have been the worst of times for me. 

But, I feel his campaign has used this situation to his media gain.

Put it this way, if it was me and I found out my grandmother was so sick, I would have been on the first plane there (I don't have my own jet).  What if she died before he got there?  As I said, there were a few days of a delay in there where the situation has been reported repeatedly.  If she was so sick, he should have just gone.  Everyone would have understood.

There.  I said it.  Many may think it was heartless thing to say, but wouldn't you have just dropped everything and gone? 

Biden could have taken on more in his absence.

Down the drain?  Beware of Obama's plan to 'spread the wealth around'

By Betsy Newmark
High School History and Government Teacher/Blogger

If the McCain campaign can’t use this Obama quote to raise doubts about his attitude towards wealth and success, then they deserve the shellacking they seem headed for.

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Plumbers of the country, unite! Forget about the work and effort you put into building up a business or the scummy work that you do that many of us don’t know or don’t want to do. If you have succeeded, you should be willing to give up more of what you earn to help those who haven’t had the great good luck that you have had to be a successful plumber. Remember how Obama is going to give 95% of all of us a tax cut even though over 30% of the population doesn’t pay taxes?

He might call it a tax credit, but what he’s really doing is his vision of “spreading the wealth around.” It sounds a lot like Huey Long’s 1935 plan to “Share the Wealth.” And when he finds that he can’t tax the top 5% of the population to gain enough wealth to spread to the 95% of the rest of us, do you really think that he’ll stop with that 5%?

Remember…This is the guy who said in the ABC debate during the primary season that his approach to raising tax on capital gains is not based on whether it would provide more revenue but on his idea of what is fair:

GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,” which was 28 percent. It’s now 15 percent. That’s almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.

But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.

So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.

Just what we need in these fragile economic times — a guy who wants to raise taxes because he thinks it’s a matter of “fairness” and time to “spread the wealth around.”

That will be some incentive for other plumbers who want to work hard and build up a successful business.

But don’t worry - according to Joe Biden, it’s the patriotic thing to do.

Subject: Thinking is > dangerous > > > > > > It started out innocently enough. > > I began to think at parties now and then -- to loosen up. > > Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than > just a > social thinker. > > I began to think alone -- to relax, I told myself -- but I knew it > wasn't > true. > > Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking > all > the time. > > That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I had turned off > the > TV > and asked my wife about the meaning of life. > > She spent that night at her mother's. > > I began to think on the job. > > I knew that thinking and em! ployment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. > > I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. > > I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, What is it > exactly > we are doing here? > > One day the boss called me in. > > He said, Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your > thinking > has > become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have > to > find another job. > > This gave me a lot to think about. > > I came home early after my conversation with the boss. > > Honey, I confessed, I've been thinking... > > I know you've been thinking, she said, and I want a divorce! > > But Honey, surely it's not that serious. > > It is serious, she said, lower lip aquiver. You think as much as &! gt; college > professors, and college professors don't ! make any money, so if you keep on > thinking, we won't have any money! > > That's a faulty syllogism, I said impatiently. > > She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to > deal > with > the emotional drama. > > I'm going to the library, I snarled as I stomped out the door. > > I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche. > > I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big > glass > doors... > > They didn't open. The library was closed. > > To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that > night. > > Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster > caught > my > eye. > > Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life? it asked. > > You probably recognize that line.! It comes from the standard Thinker's > Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. > > I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational > video; > last week it was Porky's. Then we share experiences about how we avoided > thinking since the last meeting. > > I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. > > Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. > > I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me. > > Today, I registered to vote as a Republican...

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of relocating down south, but I think it's prudent to steer clear of it because I don't want to live amongst people like that any more than they would want me to live amongst them.  Feels very much like a new age of segregation, only based on religion/politics instead of race.  If you visit the Conservative board, it's clear to see the tactics they use, and it shows depth of character to me.  I've made a list of people who aren't worth the click of a mouse because they've proven themselves to have no credibility, and I don't feel like wasting time.

People's views vary on a number of issues, and I usually really enjoy reading opposing views if they're presented in an intelligent, credible manner without insults or attacks or falsehoods.

Anyway, it's great to see someone who's a NICE, cheerful, venomless person post, regardless of your views.  I hope you keep visiting.

decent steak and baked potatoes if the budget would handle it. If not, they shoulda made hot dogs and baked beans.

We're paying for this, ya know. That's what's so sickening. We down the tubes and they're feasting as if nothing is wrong.