I always thought he looked like Alfred E. Newman

• For us old folks....(sm) - Just the big bad
  • You're right - Obama does look like a black Dickie. - Smothers
    • If you had any idea of what I was talking about....(sm) - Just the big bad
  • I think he looks like, well, - I guess I better not say because I
  • I always thought he looked like Alfred E. Newman - Bushwacked
    • Haha! I thought I was the only one who thought he looked - like Alfred E! - nm
  • I am right along with should not insult - Christine
  • You really shouldn't insult Dickie Smothes like that - LOL! - Zville MT
  • I hadn't thought about that............ sm - m
    • LOL....probably....(sm) - Just the big bad
      • I was just going to write that. No message - Obama has aged in months.
        • But you have heard, black don’t crack. - Christine
    • First Pres younger than me - skunko
      • Obama makes me think of "Webster." It's the ears. :-) nm - Confetti
        • I think he's HOT. - :o)

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when Obama said that we aren't a Christian nation.  I don't really agree with that given the number of Christians in this country and the fact that all of our money has In God We Trust on it....but whatever.  I understood that he didn't want to tick off the secular part of our country because, as we know by the hate stated on this board, many non-believes truly hate believers. 

However, when he said that we are a Muslim country.....I was like.....excuse me?  We aren't a Christian nation but we are a Muslim country?  Why couldn't he have just said that we are a country with many different religions and we have the freedom to practice whatever it is we choose or don't choose.  I would have respected that a lot more than....we are not a Christian nation......we are a Muslim country. 

I understand trying to make ties with Muslims who aren't extremists and want us dead, but to say something like that.....total BS.  I just don't know what games our President is playing.  You would even think that some of the atheists on this board who hate Christians would have a problem with Obama calling us a Muslim country too....but since Obama said it and some of them love Obama.....I'm sure they will, once again, give the big O a free pass as always.

and I've looked at McCain.  I wouldn't vote for McCain if you paid me.  Did you not HEAR him say he's the biggest free trader ever?

<groan" only 1 more day.

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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.

So refreshing to have someone on this board that can actually think for themselves.  I have such vivid memories of my dad dressing up in his class A's to go to war, and coming into my room crying at 4:00 a.m. in the morning to say goodbye, not knowing if we would ever see one another again.  Thankfully, he did 1 tour in Korea before I was born, two tours in VN, and we lived on an Army base 25 miles from the Berlin wall when I was 6 years old.  If there was ever an american girl, it is me and my brother.  That "american girl" posting on here all the time, if she had to earn her FFFF freedom she would learn to keep her mouth shut.

It seems like one of first major priorities would be to ensure fair voting practices.  I'm very worried about the accuracy of computerized voting and possible tampering.