Thought of that, but Obama is running for the top

• Well, I've had it. sm - Backwards typist
  • I am curious about something you said. - sm
    • That was a good one! - Touche !!!
  • I think a lot of the hate spewing on this board is racist...sm - oldtimer
    • Not me - Peggy
      • Question: When repubs. speak (or write), why is every - other word 'god' or 'pray'? -nm
        • I have faith - Peggy
        • You should try it sometimes, it really - works, and sure makes
    • Especially among the radical and oh-so-holy - right-wingers.
    • I for one don't care what color he is.... - sam
      • I hope you hold him to it if he gets elected. If Obama...sm - oldtimer
        • How?? - NM
        • Once either one is elected we are pretty much powerless... - sam
          • speaking of powerless - EyesWideOpen
            • I agree 100%. Other great examples of.... - sam
          • Good, I think we should all be watching. It is in ,,sm - oldtimer
            • I agree with that! If more people would do that... - sam
        • oh yeah? and just how are you going to do that? - I would really be interested to know. nm
          • If he does not keep his promises, I will not...sm - oldtimer
    • Racism on this board? Not fair to assume that. - Where is the evidence? nm
      • I agree - have never read one post of racism - me
        • You have to read between the lines. It's rampant. - Their whole tone creeps me out.
          • If you think that is fair, well okay. I think it is - extremely unfair and judgmental. nm
            • 'Like a Republican'? Now THAT's - 'unfair & judgemental'.
  • Feel the same and won't be voting for - Palin & sidekick McCain. (nm)
  • Please don't base your decision on who you vote...sm - oldtimer
    • My vote is based on issues, -include character.nm - Independent
      • If that's the case, then one thing you might - want to take into account is...sm
        • Thought of that, but Obama is running for the top - spot. SP is running for VICE pres. nm
      • Yeah, I don't trust Obama's character - Several questionable associations. nm
        • Wise choice on your part - and poor judgement on O's! nm - Kathy
  • Not voting for Obama either. Will write someone in instead. nm - indemt
  • Feel the same and wont be voting for Obama. nm - Independent

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for the following reasons:

A.  He's had his face in the public trough for half a century and so has lots of connections and many favors he can call in for his boss.

B.  He has zero charisma and so cannot challenge Obama for the worship of the masses.

C.  He is a complete dips**t, and so poses no intellectual threat to his boss either. 

The guy is the perfect ''second banana''.  And I love that during the primary campaign Biden kept insisting that Obama had insufficient experience to be president.  Now Biden, with a straight face, has to work for the man.  That must really chafe, but at least he caught the bouquet!

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.

Whatever we hear, read or see on TV MUST be fact. 

VOTING A WRITE-IN VOTE FOR LOU DOBBS!!!

Downhill................

    From the faux populist gibberish mouthed by speaker after speaker, you would never have known that the Republicans have been in power over the past several years and used that titanic power to lead the country to its present sorry state.

http://www.truthout.org/article/running-from-reality

quit trying to deflect the issue.  McCain a poon dog.

Okay, I have an idea.  If you were able to run for President or even be the top adviser for the next President, what would your plans be for getting us out of this economic crisis?  Everyone seems to hate Obama's plans, and nobody really knows McCain's plans, so help us out here - what would you do?

nm