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OBAMA SUPPORTERS UNDERCUT CANDIDATE'S CRITIQUE OF MCCAIN
...All this screaming about "Lies" and tanning beds... Here's all that matters:
McCain's economic guru, Phil Grahmm created this mess - Plain and simple. McCain thinks he's a genius.
McCain keeps talking about CEO's walking away with golden parachutes yet his advisor, Carly Fiorina did just that. She was fired for screwing up Hewlitt Packard, yet walked away with 40 million dollars. And she's out there saying who is and who isn't qualified to run a company. Good one, Carly. You finally did something right.
Then you have McCain's answer to the economic crisis - form a 9-11 style commission.HAHAHAHAH!
This day will be remembered for all time as a comedy of errors for the republican party. And a tragedy for the rest us who finally realize that the republican "let's de-regulate everything" is a really bad idea.
This is the beginning of McCain's massive defeat. And we couldn't have sealed it any better than him. Truly remarkable...
He actually had me scared for minute there.... Obama is going to pummel him all the way to November!
Comment Posted By Tim On 17.09.2008 @ 00:08
No, DK... I don' think this is about class warfare Its just that right now, the balance is tilted in favor of the rich, the smallest segment of our society. Obama does not want to raise corporate taxes, he wants to eliminate some corporate tax breaks. And yes, he does want to raise capital gains. But most people who earn capital gains make over $200,000 a year.
If you are running a business, how are you going to survive if the largest segment of society can't afford to spend a dime? I understand you want to keep what you have but someone's gotta pay for it. As a business owner, you probably have ways to limit your tax liability like no working joe has ever dreamed of.
But if that working joe keeps getting squeezed how will your business survive anyway?
Personally, I think corporations have become irresponsible in how they handle money any way. Does a CEO really need to walk away with 400 million dollars like exxon did for its CEO? Jeez - cut executive pay and pay your share while cashing in on this country. The disparity between the average worker and the average CEO/executive has skyrocketed. Sadly some have become used to it and don't want to lose it.
This argument is about greed - plain and simple.
I wish you wouldn't call it a death tax - it is a windfall inheritance tax. Small business es and farms are already exempt from paying the estate tax.... So what are we doing by killing it? Rescuing heirs so they can more easily join the idle rich?
So I see we agree on earmark spending...That's good.. Too bad Palin was for it before she was against it.
I don't think McCain is going to change anything... He owes too much to the people who want to keep things just as they are.
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 20:12
DK, the napkin thing is very scientific. Really.
But isn't the kind of experience one gets equally important? McCain branded himself a maverick and bucked his party when he had designs on the white house in '00. He thought that would work for him. Now, He's realized that's not the best approach and it got him in plenty of trouble with his own party elite. He has since reversed. He was opposed to Bush's tax cuts, now he's for them and wants to make them permanent. He stood up against torture but now can't find the balls to stand up against gitmo. He's become quite a weather vane now. His pick of Palin seems to be his latest wet-finger in the wind. And he has shown that he'd rather lose his integrity than lose an election...He's got flip-flopping experience down pat.
To me, Obama's policies are right in line with when he was a puny community organizer... I like that..That's for me..
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 18:49
DK -We have differing opinions of what elitism means. Yours seems to be about how ivy the alma mater is. - Old gop trick to infuriate the middle class.
My version of elitism measures how much richer the rich get and how much poorer the middle class gets. The numbers speak for themselves for the past 8 years. So in my opinion the current policies of the republican party show them to be the biggest elitists America has seen since the gilded age... Under Bush, It's been a great time to be rich. Not so much if you make say...$65,000 / year.
Obama's tax plan will cut taxes for more middle income Americans than McCain's will. That's not elitism... That what most people need...
I wish you guys would stop parroting that "elitist" thing... It's false and meant only to distract from who really sucks up to the rich and powerful..the GOP.
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 18:30
Michael I agree...and I don't mean to denigrate his service. I can't imagine being locked up in a cage for 5 years. I applaud him for that. It is just that the story of his military career is less than conventional. Most freshly commissioned ensigns wouldn't make it to the cockpit, much less Vietnam with his flying record and his academic record. And when people are bashing Barack Obama over his so-called "lack of experience", I feel a need to point out the differences of where these 2 men came from...
One came with a silver spoon, one a plastic spork... One achieved notoriety through a fateful incident of war, (which thousands of other brave men have faced) one built his notoriety with his own will.
McCain survived torture and imprisonment. That is something to be honored and appreciated. Does that story make him presidential material? What about all the others? should they be president too?
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 18:15
Wlliam -
All I have to look at is his resume up until he became a state senator...Hardly any need to go further but you can if you want: Just look it up on Wikipedia...Or any other site you choose...
Looks great to me..All the things I believe in...helping regular folks instead of just keeping lobbyists in business and kissing Bush's #ss. He's accomplished more before 1997 than McCain has his whole career...
No Smears...all documented facts... I don't need to smear McCain... The facts are plain as day...
Obama is a self-made man. McCain isn't. He is so much older and if he is so much better and wiser, shouldn't he be beating Obama handily right now? What's up with that?
McCain seems like your 2nd or 3rd choice. I've seen that sentiment on this blog many times during the primaries...
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 17:58
And...Oh I know this is going to p*ss some of you off...but nevermind McCain's computer skills...he crashed 5 fighter plains - not just one over Vietnam. He crashed 5 of them... He may be the only naval aviator in history to make Ace by splashing himself - 5 times.
..m'kay?
Probably never should have been allowed to fly aerial combat in the first place but his father and grandfather were admirals. Remind you of any other privileged sons of government-military? Hmmm?
McCain came from very prominent stock. The son of an admiral. Barack Obama was raised by a single mother sometimes and his grandparents most of the time..
One graduated 894th in his college class
The other graduated #1One lost his first run for his party's presidential, nomination..
The other won it the first time...We all clear on who's who here?
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 17:13
Yes ...that's right, Larry. The mainstream media is terrified that President Bush's failure to find Osama bin laden and do more to root out Islamic terrorists in Pakistan is going to hurt Obama. Of course...Good analysis...
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 16:43
KP - What? Are you begging to get schooled?
Obama is unaccomplished? Really? An average kid from less than modest means who went to Harvard versus the Son of an admiral who graduated 894 out of 899 students? Really? Does the bottom of the class really get to be president? Obama Law school rank - #1.
Obama was a constitutional Law Professor, and helped get 150,000 people registered to vote. I know that's a bad accomplishment for your party...but for mine it's pretty damn good.
Won "ALL" of elections by disqualifying "ALL" of his opponents? Better check your facts or sit quietly at the kids table, KP. Obama disqualified 1 opponent and any political expert knows that's the first thing you check after you know who your opponent is.
Dumbo ears? What the hell are you blabbering about? Wipe your nose and get a grip on yourself, you child.
Failed Lib? The president you elected couldn't get elected to a job washing dishes.
You own this failure, KP. Iraq, mortgage crisis, gas prices...reputation of our nation around the world.
You own it. Who's a failure?
Run along now...Take Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley and that dirty senator from the Minneapolis airport bathroom with you, you sniveling little simpleton...
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 16:29
More false-outrage from the republicans. Should anyone be surprised? You guys are so dishonest, about as honest as "iraq was connected to 9-11".... The lipstick on the pig outrage is more phoney-baloney, littering our airwaves with useless, manufactured distraction. Same old GOP!
You know what is really outrageous? The continued effort to disqualify black and poor voters from getting to the polls. It is all right here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/158392
That's right - another election year, another republican effort to ditch voters from the rolls. How incredibly un-American. The GOP a is threat to democracy...
Repugnant...
McCain and Palin's lies will catch up to them in November and we will beat the pants off you. America is sick of what you brought us the last 8 years...now you bring more of the same...Running against the truth, running against voter equality....running the wrong way again.
Comment Posted By Tim On 13.09.2008 @ 15:10
