I thought she did a fine job, And I guess...

• my apologies about that link below, here is a good one - MTPockets
  • I thought she did a fine job, And I guess... - sam
    • Sam, I think you are letting your views of - mo
    • sam - you seem to have a better grasp on these - still undecided
      • She did not dodge the question. ... - sam
  • Thank you -- I need all the help I can get! - still undecided
    • You really need to look at the bigger picture - me
      • That's what I've been trying to do -- - still undecided

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This is a truly offensive comment:  liberals...they really could care less about the soldiers.  You appear ignorant of any true knowledge of liberal beliefs.

You state that it is impossible for Muslims to ever live next to a Christian in harmony.  Your ignorance is astounding.  Too astounding to even address as you have obviously never traveled to any major city in the U.S. or in many, many cities of the world.  Hey, we couldn't even keep peace in New Orleans after there was a breakdown of police control. 

60 Minutes unbiased?  Did I claim anywhere that it was?  Of course it has a bias.  Duh.  Thought I was posting on the liberal board.

Please, take your trash talk over to your other trash-talking conservatives.  Please!!! 

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.

... but I will put my flag up on the 4th of July. 

I find it so sad that our country is so very divided and the ugliness and meaness has come out of everyone's mouths.

It seems that some of it is the religious versus the nonreligious, the gay and the hetero, our way or no way..

no matter who is president, we are all equal and should all be treated wiht respect.

Peace.

you've made there. 

I am more than happy to vacate this board. I was just waiting for proof of the heinous allegations that were made against Laura Bush, but obviously you don't have any and can't be bothered.  I will not post here again.  It might be nice if you stopped your pot shots on the Conservative board as well.