She did NOT say Obama was Marxist.

• Not only socialism.... - sam
  • I saw that interview - gourdpainter
    • I saw the McCain interview. - Marmann
      • Here's the link. - Marmann
        • WHOOOOBOY!!!!!! - gourdpainter
          • Gourdpainter, I love your common sense - lom
            • seems like rabid democrat common sense to me..... - at times...nm
          • The liberal media is biased in favor of Obama..... - mores the pity.
      • If you get the link - gourdpainter
  • More like food for the garbage disposal. - Hate speech "energizing" the frantic fervor
    • My God. Most of America really IS ignorant - and buying Obama's GARBAGE.nm
    • Bravo! - Marmann
    • Oh, snap! Slam dunk on that one! - lom
  • The whole thing was a set-up. - Marmann
    • Not only that, she is a HEALTH reporter and - lom
      • She did NOT say Obama was Marxist. - sam
        • Why should he lower himself to explain any such trash? - gourdpainter
        • sam, weak argument based on semantics, that reporter's - lom
          • When the O reality hits YOU uneducated people in - the face, you will wonder what you were thinking.n
            • Yeah, and why would you want to take from others - success? How disgusting can you be?nm
              • May I remind you, you are posting as an MT? nm - Mrs. M
    • Like Sarah Palin wasn't set up? Gimme a break. - sam
      • Sarah Palin has only to be herself to be disliked. sm - Mrs. M
        • WRONG! Palin did nothing to you, but I bet you - hate her. Hear it all the time, shameful.nm
        • Poster below is right...your comments here are ugly. - I feel sorry for you.
        • I like Palin and am proud to share her genitals...er...wait...that didn't come out quite right, d - Kendra
          • LMAO! nm - Chele
            • I enjoyed a little laugh at my own joke. nm - Kendra
        • Spoken like a true jealous, ugly woman. - sm
          • Mrs. M, are you a woman? - Dee
            • I have never mentioned anyone's looks!!! RU serious? never nm - Mrs. M
          • What on earth - Dee
            • No, she was calling ME ugly and jealous actually, read it again. nm - Mrs. M
              • I believe she said "spoken like" - sm
                • Once again, semantics -- is that all you got? - lom
                  • I was called jealous and ugly and that's not okay sm - Mrs. M
                    • MrsM, just remember where all this - lom
                      • You are right... they are upset because they are in a losing battle too, and sm - Mrs. M
            • If us McCain supporters were voting - Chele
              • But can she type? - Dee
          • Spoken like a true jealous, ugly woman??!! - Marmann
            • I bet she knows how many states we have though!!! - nm
            • Way to go, Marmann, I find it reprehensible - lom
              • you're funny - IMT
              • Sheesh! - Marmann
                • Funny how you don't think Mrs. M comments above are hateful..nm - as she is obviously hates palin
                  • It's okay to not like Palin. What is not okay is to attack other posters personally which is wha - Mrs. M
                  • Her comments are not hateful, considering - lom
                    • Palin has "hurt" McCain only because the liberals - say so. Biden says stupid things ALL the time.nm
                      • Wrong again. We know Biden for many years, Palin is new and constantly bloopering nm - Mrs. M
                        • WRONG! Biden gets away with saying idiotic - comments because of liberal media. period!.nm
                    • NM - IMT
                    • It is truly only the liberals - Chele
                      • Spoken like a truly twisted fool nm - Adeline
                      • more like - IMT
      • I'll ask again. - Marmann
        • He did not answer the question posed to him... - sam
          • It was a rather lengthy answer. - Marmann
    • honestly i don't care - IMT
      • What are you talking about?! - Marmann
        • Awwww....poor wittle joe biden - NOBAMA!!!!!
          • Again, Biden handled EVERY - Marmann
            • He was not honest. - sm
              • Yes, any money you have left, hide it!. Otherwise, - you may be asked to spread the wealth. Sad.nm
              • And our bank accounts are - Marmann
                • cut off your nose to spite your face... - dnh
                • Plus the democratic congress. Get your facts correct. - nm
                • Great, great post. Thank you, Marmann! nm - Stardust
                • Democrats killed our economy when they took - over Congress 2 years ago. Pay attention.nm
                  • "Pay attention". That is the problem. And to say - socialism is good is plain anti-American...sick!!!
              • go mccain!!! - NM - IMT
        • Of course not. She isn't in the tank for Obama. - sam

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After Iowa

Happy New Year and congratulations on a job well done. These have been trying times when the hyenas of war have again been turned loose on humanity by a greedy ruling class.

Now, beyond all the optimism I was capable of mustering, Mr. Obama won Iowa! He won in a political arena 95 percent white. It was a resounding defeat for the manipulations of the ultra-right and their right-liberal fellow travelers. Also it was a hard lesson for liberals who underestimated the political fury of the masses in these troubled times.

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.

The old pattern of politics as usual has been broken. It may not have happened as we expected it to happen but what matters is that it happened. The message is clear: we can and must defeat the ultra-right, by uniting the broadest possible coalition that will represent an overwhelming majority of the people in a new political dynamic. We must quickly shed yesterday’s political perspective and get in step with the march of events.

Frank Chapman  (letter to Communist Party newspaper People’s Weekly World.)
Via e-mail

Ever heard of the progressive tax system...the one the US has ALWAYS had?  That would be the same (regressive) tax system that redistributes wealth from top to bottom. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#History_of_progressivity_in_federal_income_tax

Check out the table here to see the history of progressive tax structure in the US and notice how much MORE of a percentage of tax the top income brackets have paid in the past as compared to what Obama is proposing.  Pay special attention to the prevailing rates between 1932 and 1981. 

The vast majority of US economists (81%) support this tax structure.  Before income tax was enacted, Theodore Roosevelt (McCain's hero) strongly advocated for progressive tax.  McCain has made no mention of repealing or changing its basic structure.  Your Marxist arguments about Obama's tax proposals are embarrassingly ill-informed, especially in view of the fact that Obama simply wants to restore the top bracket tax rate that was in effect in 2000 when Bush assumed office (39.6%).  That is hardly excessive, in view of US history which informs us that in the past, it has been as high as a whopping 94% and that same bracket rate ranged between 63% and 94% for 49 years (1932 to 1981) of the 95 years we have been paying income tax. 

By your logic, we are already a socialist country, and we have had 7 socialist republican presidents.  NOT.

come forward claiming that Palin is "a believer".  But I have seen some articles that she is not as for reform in politics as she wants us to think.  When she was elected mayor it seems that she fired the police chief because he didn't support her in the election.  Also, she had asked the librarian about censoring books.  I have read conflicting stories on whether that librarian was fired or not, but both articles mentioned she wanted books taken out of the library.  Palin claims it was just "rhetoric".  She also left the town with a huge amount of debt, I believe $20 mill. when she her mayoral duties were done.  She also supposedly hired some lobbyists. 

Before I get bashed about Obama's same-ole, same-ole, I am not disputing that fact either.

So, let me get this straight.  Obama is proposing a tax rebate funded by an oil company windfall profits tax.  President Bush's economic stimulus checks were also tax rebates, but they were funded by tax payers.  By the "logic" (and I use the term loosely) in your "all do respect" post below, wouldn't that qualify as redistribution of wealth and make Bush a black liberationist theological Marxist/Socialist?  Please help me out with this. 

The Bush redistribution of wealth is free market capitalism because it was funded by all of us, but Obama's similar policy scheme is black liberationist Marxist/Socialism because it redirects huge oil company profits back to the consumers who generate those profits for them in the first place?  After all, we ALL pay for gas, too.  So instead of energy cost relief for all of us, you think it is more appropriate for all that dough to be used to bankroll golden parachutes for oil company CEOs?  If that's capitalism in its purest form, it sucks and I want no part of it.  Sign me up for a little socialism.  Maybe those black liberationist theologians are onto something after all.    

Obama has shown great judgment in the people who surround him.  He picked a great VP choice, and his wife is impeccable as a helpmate and is a fantastic role model for the American children.   

I believe Obama has an awesome political future.  He sure is a bright light, and he would be someone I would seriously consider voting for.

Someone I like even better is Rep. Harold Ford from Tennessee.  Every time I hear this man speak, I like him more and more and more.

I think there are lots of good candidates out there who don't fit the profiles you outlined, which I also believe to be true, and I think we're well overdue in considering those candidates because, in my opinion, what we've been offered in the last several elections -- on BOTH sides -- has been pretty pitiful.  The "box" isn't working, and it's time to look outside of it.

If we get Obama or any of the other candidates we will get more of the same. War and taxes. Empire building. If you like that kind of stuff, vote for any of the candidates EXCEPT.......... RON PAUL. The only candidate for peace, limited government and minding our own business.

Haven't seen any posts here for awhile.  Very excited about the outcome of tonight's election.  I am so glad to see that people are not buying the "gimmicks" Hillary proposed.  Gas tax holiday?...give me a break!  Someone needed to ask her, "So what happens when the holiday is over", you charge back up the gas price! 

The big joke is that Bill Clinton raised the gas tax in his first year in office.  It was included in a package of tax increases that amounted to the biggest tax increase in history.  It was raised by 4.3 cents.  Not only did he raise the gas tax, but he wanted to raise it even higher.

So you should all get this straight...Hillary is "claiming" she would give drivers 3 whole months (wow - imagine that) 18 cent a gallon cut after her husband forced drivers to pay an extra 5 cents for 15 years.

Unfortunately there were some people who bought into her pandering (which by the way is another word for lying), but thank goodness enough people with an education and most important most of the with common sense could see right through her lies.

Way to go North Carolina - I'm so pleased.  And Indiana too.  It was a close race thank goodness.

Now she needs to step down.  Why?  Because its the right thing to do.  Do the numbers.  There is no way she can win and anyone who believes so needs to wake up.  What we need is for her to support Barack Obama (that is if she's telling the truth about the most important thing is nominating a democrat for president).  Somehow though I do not believe she has the best interest of the party or the american people in mind.  Her goal is to serve herself.  She needs to graciously bow out and put all her efforts into getting a democrat in the office.

P.S. - Note to the "ditto heads".  Maybe we should rename Limbaugh followers "dumbo heads".  Not only did your little plan fail Mr. Limbo, but it failed badly.  In a poll taken (and yes I know polls can be misleading), but not only did the republicans change parties to vote for a democrat but the majority of them voted for Obama.  Then on top of that over 75% of republicans that voted as democrats said that Obama could be McCain (or as I am hearing him being referred to as McBush), but only around 25% said they believed Hillary could win.  So not only does Hillary need to do the math, so does Mr. Limbo.

He's just a talking head, somebody's puppet, aint nothing without his teleprompter and written speeches...gimme a break!

help these people so they can continue to sit on their butts and do something while the rest of us bust our humps.  No thank you! 

With RNC behind us now, dems are faced with the daunting challenge of making the 2008 election a referendum on issues, not a personality contest.  Here are 2 links that got thrown under the bash bus. 

http://www.alternet.org/election08/97198/top_ten_most_disturbing_facts_and_impressions_of_sarah_palin/

http://www.alternet.org/election08/97350/8_more_shocking_revelations_about_sarah_palin/?page=3

Though the title of these articles may lead one to conclude it is more about Palin bashing, there is a gold mine of pertinent information to be found there.  Embedded within the articles are more links that are overwhelming on first inspection, but well worth the time it takes to review them.  Laid out there between the lines is a structured blueprint for facing the upcoming 60 days with effective campaign strategy. 

There is another post that also got buried in the mud which will be brought back up to the top momentarily on issues.  If it get buries again, it will be brought back up to the top again.  The bashes it may inspire will be ignored.  The issues will continue to get the focus. 

There is another battleground in this election aside from the issues push.  It is the one fought on the field of values and vision; specifically, the Obama vision versus the McCain/Palin vision of what kind of America they/we see in our futures and what sort of change each candidate promises to deliver.  The link below is an article that addresses this subject.  It is a self-effacing piece I believe dems should take to heart when considering how to frame their upcoming campaign tactics.  Here's that link.  

http://www.alternet.org/election08/97193/the_palin_choice%3A_the_reality_of_voters%27_minds/

The introduction to this post expresses a basic premise from which I will be operating.  I will not be diminishing the power of Obama's message by indulging in petty squabbles, dead-end distractions, one-upmanship and a race to get the last word.  There is important work here, people, and we best rolls up our sleeves and get started. 

Countdown Monday night.  Can't wait.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_craftiness.html

under your bed?  I read the black arms and then the rest and can only see the reason to post this on a politics board is . . .

a beard, honey.  Once again, you are mixing up Obama and Osama.  Not r-e-a-l bright.