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Obama's Fair Tax

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:34:57 GMT

clipped by: Rustee
clipper's remarks:

Mr. Warren, a man of the cloth, has done us a great service by asking the candidates to answer a pretty secular question: What kind of income makes an American "rich"? Maybe in the more secular setting of an upcoming debate, one of our nonpastor moderators could ask the candidates the moral question: What specific rate of individual taxation would it take for the rich to be paying their fair share?

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

He talks about it as a general theme: "It is time for folks like me who make more than $250,000 to pay our fair share."

He invokes it as a solution for Social Security: "[W]e will save Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share."

He points to how it guides his energy policy: "The first part of my plan is to tax the windfall profits of oil companies and use some of that money to help you pay the rising price of gas."

And he stuck to it on capital gains, even after ABC's Charlie Gibson noted that the record shows increased taxes on capital gains -- which would affect 100 million Americans -- would likely lead to a decrease in government revenues: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness."

It's not about robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Robbing from the rich will do, especially if it's done in the name of fairness.

Tags: taxes, election

Can We Really Risk Trusting Obama?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:35:40 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: I don't, but...

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Ain't this the truth...

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:37:56 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: This is clipped from a strong piece by David Gergen, in which he argues that Obama must introduce a game changer in order to turn the momentum back his way. The two most powerful game changing events he sites are announcing either Hillary Clinton or Al Gore as VP. Either would be very smart in my opinion

Clip Source: ac360.blogs.cnn.com

Say what you will about Republicans making a muddle of governing, but they sure know how to campaign.

In just a few short weeks, they have not only thrown Barack Obama on the defensive and made him seem smaller but they have also made McCain seem larger and more commanding.

Tags: obama, politics, clinton, gore, vice president

Limbaugh: nobody would "say no to a black guy"

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:15:51 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Attributes Obama primary wins to affirmative action.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Limbaugh: Obama won primaries because no one ‘had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.’»

Yesterday on his radio show, right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh said it’s “striking how unqualified Obama is and how this whole thing came about within the Democrat Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy.” Limbaugh continued:

I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative action has reared its ugly head against them. It’s the reverse of it. They’ve, they’ve ended up nominating and placing at the top of their ticket somebody who’s not qualified, who has not earned it. […]

It’s perfect affirmative action. And because of all this guilt and the historic nature of things, nobody had the guts to say, well, wait a minute, do we really want to do this?

Media Matters has the audio.

Tags: obama, limbaugh

Bill Maher on Larry King

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:36:54 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Anybody see this last night? Altho I'm even lefter than Bill Maher, I enjoy most of his thinking and he's pretty funny. Mostly. This was a good show, especially his comments about Obama and the left's disappointment with The One's move towards Replundercan-Lite politics. He nailed McCain, too. Check it out. (no commercials).

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Larry King: Bill Maher 22:30

The Audacity of Socialism

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:47:53 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT

Clip Source: www.ibdeditorials.com

Barack Obama has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim?

In this series, we examine Senator Obama's past, his voting record and the people who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years. We'll show how the facts of Obama's actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.

Part One

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

Part Two

Obama's Global Tax

Part Three

Obama Wants You

Part Four

Obamanomics Flunks The Test

Part Five

Young Obama's Red Mentor

Part Six

Obama Finds An ACORN

Part Seven

Reparations By Another Name

Part Eight

Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse

Part Nine

Obama's Radical Roots And Rules

Part Ten

Like Father, Like Son

Tags: obama, socialism, government

State of Hawaii confirms Obama birth certificate

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:45:15 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: From Politifact.com: Hawaii Department of Health confirms it is exactly as Obama campaign represented it.

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

SUMMARY: For months we've been asking for a birth certificate to sort out rumors about Barack Obama's real name. Confirmed by the state of Hawaii, here it is.

See it for yourself here.

Shortly after we posted this document on June 12, 2008, some PolitiFact readers questioned its authenticity.

To verify we did indeed have the correct document, we contacted the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records.

"It's a valid Hawaii state birth certificate," spokesman Janice Okubo said June 13, 2008, after we e-mailed her our copy.

Tags: obama, birth certificate

McCain Team Shoves William Ayers Cover-up Into The Spotlight

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:13:17 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Some highlights:

While the University sits on the complete Annenberg Challenge records, several months ago I was able to obtain certain key records of the Challenge - including board minutes, annual and semi-annual reports and financial records - from Brown University's Annenberg Institute. Brown housed the national Annenberg Challenge program that was set up in 1993 by a gift of $500 million from Walter Annenberg.

While the material I was provided is helpful it is no substitute for the complete documentary record that is apparently housed at the University of Illinois and thus that public University should immediately make available to the public those records.
Below is an analysis of what I found in the documents I was able to obtain.

Clip Source: justoneminute.typepad.com

Rich Lowry reprints this press release from the McCain campaign

“The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?”

—McCain spokesman Brian Rogers

That will make it harder for the media to ignore this. Pete Yost of the AP reported on this (sort of) yesterday; today the Chicago Tribune local politics blog reported that Mayor Daley would rather not be involved:

Jake Tapper of ABC News repeats the Brian Rogers statement

Rogers the raised the fact that, as the Chicago Tribune reports here, the University of Illinois this week refused to release records related to Obama's work with Ayers on the education project the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, at the request of an unnamed donor of the materials.

Diamond, the main man on this story, has also gone though some of these missing documents and posts his thoughts

Tags: william ayers, "weather underground", education project, university of illinois, mayor daley, chicago annenberg challenge, documents

Zogby has McCain up by 5

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:07:04 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election.

That margin reversed Obama's 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain, an Arizona senator and former Vietnam prisoner of war who has admitted a lack of economic expertise and shows far greater interest in foreign and military policy.

Tags: poll, mccain, obama, politics, election

Obama campaign caught selling 'free' tickets

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:27:38 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners

Clip Source: www.redstate.com

Channel 4 News in Denver, CO is reporting that the Obama campaign has been lying about tickets to the Obama speech at Invesco Field in Denver, CO.

Reporters discovered a hidden link on the Obama website targeted to known high dollar donors. The Obama campaign solicited those donors for $1000.00 in exchange for tickets to the event.

This is directly contrary to what Obama's campaign claimed.

See the news story here:

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Tags: obama, election, campaign, politics, lies, money

How to Start War with Russia--101 (Lesson from the Neoconservatives)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:10 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: Bush Implements Neocon Lesson: Have Condi go to all the satellite states and sign missile placement deals about 100 miles from Russia, then sit back and watch Russia "invade or attack its neighbor" to disarm the threat. Meanwhile, this is precisely what the US was provoked by from Russia in the Cuban Missile Crisis!

Purpose? This is part of the neoconservative plan for "global hegemony" which Bush is now implementing just prior to leaving office, ensuring sparked conflict into the next presidency (which would also help McCain, although Obama is a CFR shill too), setting a continuation of the neocon agenda for another four to eight years.

Early in his pResidency Bush met with Putin in blue jeans at his Texas ranch. Now he will stab him in the back as he leaves office.

This is normal if one reviews US foreign policy since the 20th century and sets the stage for WWIII based upon dangerous absolute Alliances, as Condi refers to with Poland "as much as if it was a US territory"

Clip Source: www.breitbart.com

Russia warns of response to US missile shield

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy.

The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost fringe.

WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.

Rice dismissed blustery comments from Russian leaders who say Warsaw's hosting of 10 U.S. interceptor missiles just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost frontier opens the country up to attack.

Rice said. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."

Tags: bush, condi rice, neoconservatives, russia, nato, cold war, wwiii

McCain now winning small majority of simulations

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:12:41 GMT

clipped by: n2sooners
clipper's remarks: This race is a dead heat with both conventions and the debates still to go. Seems like only a few weeks ago Obama was doing his European prepresidential tour.

Clip Source: www.fivethirtyeight.com

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

McCain Now Winning Small Majority of Simulations

Full update coming shortly.

Clip Source: www.fivethirtyeight.com

Tags: obama, mccain, election, politics

Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Civil Forum

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:45:36 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: McCain added the two appointments Alito and Roberts are his recent favorites.

When asked does evil exist and if so how would handle it? Ignore it, negotiate with it, confront it or defeat it

Obama: verbose, wordy ..... he would confront it but also equivocated on what evil is. "We have to have some humility on the issue on the of confronting". Evil has been been committed in the pursuit of good. *sigh*

McCain: "DEFEAT IT" huge applause. McCain went on to describe Radical Islam as the greatest threat of the 21at century. He said he would pursue bin Laden “to the gates of Hell,” Gotta love that.

Obama's most important advisers: Michelle (the "proud" wife, the grandmother "a typical white person", and then a bumch of politicians - Ted Kennedy, Nunn, Biden et al

McCain's most important advisers: Gen. David Petreaus, head of US troops in Iraq; US Rep. and veteran civil rights leader John Lewis, D-Ga.; and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a top adviser to his campaign.

Clip Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

When Obama was asked on Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Political Forum, who Obama would not have nominated for Supreme Court Justice, Obama said "Clarence Thomas". He then goes on to denigrate Thomas's intellect ("not a strong enough legal thinker or intellect"). Wow. By G-d this man has hubris. Have you read Clarence Thomas's, "My Grandfather's Son"?

The audience applauded (was that racist? I'm confused.) John Bolton, the intellectual's intellectual, has called Clarence Thomas "an outstanding Supreme Court Justice".

And Scalia? Only the greatest living justice on the bench. lol

So Obama applauds terrorists rights, eminent domain for private enterprise and leniency for child rapists. Good luck with that America.

When the Pastor asked about his no vote on John Roberts, Obama stood behind it. I kid you not.

When McCain was asked the same question, he said without hesitation Ginsberg, Souter, Beyer, and Stevens (bing, bang, boom)

Tags: pastor rick warren, obama, mccain, saddleback political forum

Barack Obama's Half Brother Found In Kenya, Lives On Less Than A Dollar A Month

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:35:00 GMT

clipped by: pitim

Clip Source: wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com

Reporters have tracked down Barack Obama's youngest half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, living in Kenya, where he spoke of his life which is a stark contrast to his well-known older brother.

According to The Telegraph, George Hussein Onyango Obama has only met Barack Obama, his older brother, twice in his life, once when he was five years old and again in 2006 when Obama toured East Africa and visited Nairobi.

Obama speaks of his brother in his autobiography, saying he was a "beautiful boy with a rounded head".

George Obama was found by Italy's Vanity Fair in a home which is described as a "two metre by three metre shack," that has football posters, a calendar of exotic beaches of the world and a front page newspaper picture of Barack Obama.

when he asked about his name, Obama, he denies that he is related to Barack Obama, stating "I say we are not related. I am ashamed."

Not ashamed of Barack Obama, but of his own extreme poverty

Mayor Bloomberg advocating alternative energy for NYC

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:11:34 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: This is an example of the forward thinking, innovative leadership that Mayor Bloomberg has provided to New York City. I'm certainly a fan of term limits, but this is one person i sure hate to see move on...although i would love to see him be a major player in the next president's cabinet. I imagine that if Obama wins, that is a very real possibility.

Clip Source: biz.yahoo.com

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed putting windmills on city bridges and rooftops as part of an ambitious push for renewable energy.

On Tuesday, the city also issued a formal request to companies around the country for ways to build wind, solar and water-based energy sources in the city.

Tags: mayor bloomberg, alternative energy, wind, solar, new york city