ROFL. Thought the same thing.

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Just look at who employs more woman and how they are paid. You will definitely see Obama not practicing what he preaches on this subject. Like Sam said, McCain has more women on his staff and they are paid well.

Seriously think about that before you make that your reason for voting for Obama.

When I read that....I was like....how in the he!! did they not make that connection. Unless they obviously don't any attention to ads whatsoever.

Isn't that like a federal crime to threaten the president's life? I know this person didn't actually threaten to kill Obama, but is wishing him to be assassinated enough to land them in jail?

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.

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.

right down to the fruit trees and the garden.

I will have to admit though that gardening is a huge hobby of mine, so it wasn't all about the coming depression.

They report on stories other networks ignore -- would that be the real ones or the ones they make up?

It's a sad day in America, and I hope we can hold out and hold on through the next stormy four years. -- I guess the last 8 years were a peach (the results of which we are seeing now).

I was thinking just a little more casual. Alcohol and dancing will be involved, so the heels are out. Love the halters, but I do believe polka dots are in order. -- Maybe a simple polka dot poodle skirt, plain tailored top, a scarf (of course), and some cat-eye glasses.

Joe the Plumber, Now Joe the War Correspondent in Israel, Is Still Joe the Clown

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, aka Joe the War Correspondent, has been in the Middle East on his new covering-the-war-as-a-reporter gig long enough to conclude that reporters should not be permitted to cover wars. Alas, I think he was referring to reporters not named Samuel J. Wurzelbacher.

To be honest with you, I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war [sic]. . . . I liked back in World War I and World War II, when you'd go to the theater and you'd see your troops on the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them. Now everyone's got an opinion and wants to down soldiers�our American soldiers, our Israeli soldiers. I think media should be abolished from reporting.

Memo to Joe the Propagandist: That's been tried. Do you remember Baghdad Bob? He was certainly good for entertainment, though I can't speak to troop morale. It's been tried by people in other countries as well, some of whom were the villains in those newsreels Joe the Historian recalls so fondly.

Let's skip the basic civics lesson about the role of a free press in a free society; and let's skip slippery-slope questions like: If Joe the Philosopher is right, then when engaged in a "war" without front lines, should independent media be abolished entirely? (Could we keep sports reporting?)

And while it may not occur to Joe the Television Consumer that people might have ever gotten their news in any fashion other than from a screen, war correspondents existed well before either of the World Wars. Reporters like Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pyle were revered and beloved by not only the soldiers but by families back home anxious for news�not propaganda�about what was going on at the front. The military worked to keep Pyle at the front lines for morale reasons during World War II�and he was killed there by sniper fire.

I covered the Pentagon�which is not to suggest that I was a war correspondent�for a couple of years for the Boston Globe. I once had the opportunity to see retired Gen. Harold Moore speak about military-media relations. Moore fought in Korea and Vietnam. Joe the Film Critic might remember Moore as having been played by Mel Gibson in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers about the famous IA Drang battle in Vietnam. The movie was based on a book Moore cowrote with�wait for it�a reporter who was there with the troops.

Moore told us that he had welcomed reporters in Vietnam. "I just loved for my troops to get bragged about and for the press to write up my troops," Moore told us. "I was so darn proud of my troops for what they were doing in that tragic war."

When we asked Moore about the notion that the media lost the Vietnam War by ginning up criticism at home, he replied: "That didn't bother me. People in America have a freedom to do that. I fought in a couple of wars for that freedom."

But I'm sure Joe the Military Strategist knows more about such things than does Hal the General.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/01/13/joe-the-plumber-now-joe-the-war-correspondent-in-israel-is-still-joe-the-clown.html

*You can hear a pin drop.*

Hey Rush, that's what it sounds like when people listen....

Has it ever occurred to you that you actually ARE an extremist and that the majority of the country thinks you're nuts? Sounds like Fox has you good and worked up and ready for the teabagging festivities....

I'm mad at ACORN...no, I'm mad at Pelosi....no, I'm mad at Obama.....I'm just mad....AARRRRGGGG.....