The American voter
Truth is scarier than fiction
Today, Senator John McCain exhibited a great deal of class and sanity. A sea of torch-weilding supporters, apparently from the 1600′s, did not. The next horror movie coming to a theater near you: “THE AMERICAN VOTER”
Each time he tried to cool the crowd, he was rewarded with a round of boos.
“I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States,” McCain told a supporter at a town hall meeting in Minnesota who said he was “scared” of the prospect of an Obama presidency and of who the Democrat would appoint to the Supreme Court.
“Come on, John!” one audience member yelled out as the Republicans crowd expressed their dismay at their nominee. Others yelled “liar,” and “terrorist.”
One woman, in the course of a question to McCain said of Obama: “He’s an arab.”
McCain, who had shared his wireless microphone with her, yanked it out of her hand.
that’s what this campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].”
The public display of fear and unease over Obama comes at the end of a week in which other Republicans at McCain and Sarah Palin events expressed similar frustrations, a product of exasperation at the prospect of the Illinois senator becoming president and their own nominee not doing enough to prevent it.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Some speculate that were obama white, his lead would be substantially larger. There is still an underlying aspect of racism in our country, and as we get closer to election day many are now lashing out at the very real likelihood of a black president.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Hey, please talk more about politics. This is the most important election of our lives; it is historic. Are you a Democrat? Please say yes. What do you think about Susan Collins? I think it is time for her and many of her other Republican friends to leave Washington and make way for a new America that returns us to the roots that the founding fathers set out for us: respect and adherence to the Constitution, accountability (yes, and that includes addition and subtraction, something the Bush Admin. couldn’t do), integrity in our dealings with the world at large (no more Bush Doctrine), and a return to a government that is not Business, but the people’s business.
I wish I had an audience, alas.
Anonymous was a Woman (Virginia Woolf)
kay (anon)
October 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
The public display of fear and unease over Obama comes at the end of a week in which other Republicans at McCain and Sarah Palin events expressed similar frustrations, a product of exasperation at the prospect of the Illinois senator becoming president and their own nominee not doing enough to prevent it.
Powerful words.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Yea, it’s time for Bush and his cronies to leave. It’s also time to rid ourselves of the shackles of Capitalism and Democracy. Two key ingredients that have made this land the greatest country in world. Yes, let us adopt Barry’s plan for socialism. After all, it was a key ingredient in the rise, (and fall) of the Soviet Union. Look how well China has prospered. You can only have 1.2 kids and you can’t breath the air? WTF, you can’t have it all.
Socialism, yea, LBJ attempted that with his Great Society plan of the 60′s. Certainly did work. We have more welfare recipients now then prior to it’s inception and it has created alot of government jobs.
Yea, socialism, it worked well during the 30′s with FDR. Thank goodness for WWII, made it look sucessfull.
Yea, lets put more democrats in charge of the Federal governement, after all look how well it’s worked in Augusta.
Yea Kay, let’s put Barry in charge so he can repeat the mistakes of the Carter debacle and let’s not forget the Clinton clan. How many time was our contry attacked?
Yea, it’s time for carnage, it’s time for a change, vote for Barry!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:58 am
slightly bitter overreaction there pal
October 11th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Wow, well said.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I don’t get why helping poor people is called “socialism” like some kind of social evil, yet it’s not socialism to bail out Wall Street and give tax breaks to rich & big businesses?
October 11th, 2008 at 10:35 am
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialism
Never said that the bail out was a form of socialism. However, if we did not bail out the institutions that loaned cash to folks that did not have the means to pay back (due to pressure of the liberals to put “POOR” families into homes) the loans it would create a domino effect of financial problems.
By all means, our Country practices many forms of socialism by the way we have created programs to feed and house the mass hordes that are crossing our borders illegally or otherwise without the ways and means to care for themselves.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
McCain alone is not too scary. McCain with Sarah Palin, the fear rises. This is a woman who doesn’t believe in evolution. Who wants to ban books. Who describes the war in Iraq as God’s will. We want to give her the nuclear codes?
The strident conservatives who like to stress Obama’s middle name and insist that is evidence of a bad person are frightening, too. As suggested above, these are the people who hung innocent people as witches in the 1600′s. The American Voter indeed.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
well,,, his middle name IS hussein, isn’t it? he’s a muslim, why should we not be allowed to pont that out?
October 11th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Preston, get your facts straight
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/06/the-bogus-sarah-palin-banned-books-list/
Or do leftist not care about the truth
October 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
And speaking of frightening…….talk about a thirty’s throw back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy09UpI60F8
Atleast they got rhythm!
October 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Fuck the leftists and their asinine socialist views! They have created all the havoc that we are constantly cleaning up (read, spending taxpayer dollars) by playing on the emotions of the dumbass American Voter. Kay, you are without a doubt one of the stupidest people ever posting on here. Respect of, and adherence to, the Constitution is the last thing that a Democrat government wants. That why they constantly have to use the courts to get their bullshit agenda pushed through, because using the Constitution as a guideline, they would never succeed in getting the electorate to buy into their Socialist dream. The left considers the Constitution as a “Living document” because that gives them the right to interpret it as they see fit. They are are horrible when it comes to Foreign policy, and even worse at waging war. The only thing the left cares about is getting power and keeping power. That’s why they constantly play the race and class envy cards to incite idiots like you and Preston to regurgitate whatever they say. They know that you are too busy watching American Idol and the other scripted “reality” shows to be bothered to pay attention and actually research something before opening your astoundingly, moronic maw.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
You have no idea how cathartic that was. I would love to post that on the SJ to the maroons who post on there, but Rex would kick me out for sure. Thanks for the space Mark. Flame On!
October 11th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
And another thing Preston, you myrmidonic asshole, try reading and researching something before posting. You’ll look less like an uneducated dumbass.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Gil, don’t feel lonesome, my IP address was banned along with some other conservative friends.
When I complained to the paper, they denied it.
The only idiots that can express an educated, but emotional response are flamming leftists,(no harm meant Flammer).
October 11th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
So here’ s your choices. Two candidates. One is the son and grandson of decorated war heroes. A war hero himself, he flew combat missions in a fighter over Vietnam. He was shot down and kept for over 5 years as a POW at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. While a guest of the Communists, he was beaten and tortured to the point he sustained injuries that were life lasting. He was offered the chance to leave and chose to stay with his men. He could have come home a hero and stopped right there. But he stayed in the Navy, retiring in ’81. He ran for and won as a Representative for Arizona and was re-elected. He ran for the Senate and won and was re-elected 3 more times.
Then we have a boy growing up as a Muslim, being enrolled into 3 different schools as a Muslim. As a youth he claims that the man who we would consider one his greatest influences and mentors was known communist Frank Marshall Davis. He begins his political associations as a Community Organizer, another way of saying agitator, of the same ilk as ACORN, playing the race card to uninformed voters in Illinois. He launches his political career in the living room of domestic terrorist William Ayers, a man who set off bombs in the a NY Police Headquarters building, the Capitol Building, and the Pentagon. A man who had planned to set off nail-embedded pipe bombs at a dance hall in Fort Dix in order to kill and wound US Soldiers and their girlfriends. A man who stated the he felt no remorse about the bombings and wished they had done more. Barack then decides to get street cred that he believes a half white may need in order to get elected. He drops the name Barry and returns to the more Arabic/African sounding Barack, and joins the Black Liberation Theology church overseen by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. A reverend that he listens to every Sunday he can, A reverend that marries him to his wife, and baptizes his two daughters. A reverend that spews venomous hate-filled screeds against America in general, and against whites in particular. A virulent racist who screams ‘Goddamn America!”, blames whites for introducing AIDS as a way of controlling the black population, and other completely absurd accusations. Barack listens to these sermons for over twenty years, often praising Wright as one of his greatest influences, almost like a father. Then, when confronted with the situation, tosses his beloved, influential, father-like mentor under the bus for political gain. There are our two choices. Now tell me with a straight fave that you want Barack Hussein Obama to be your leader and not only will I tell you that you are without a doubt the stupidest sonofabitch I have ever met, I will also call you a liar. No one can actually be that fucking stupid.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Man, that was fun.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Jesse James KILLED my father
October 11th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
What happened, did he come, armed with a knife to a gunfight. Kind of like YOU, unarmed, to a battle of wits?
October 11th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Gil, are you former military? How did you become so brainwashed? Jesus, check your left temple for an inserted device. You express yourself well, but you don’t have one opinion that doesn’t come directly from the conservative playbook. Good God, you make me sad.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
tying to lighten things up my friend…seemed like perfectly inane brady bunch reference at the time…As for your battle of wits, I find your comments way too inane to respond to…you seem like a cliff claven type…love to hear yourself talk do ya…catch ya later man…much
October 11th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Lessons learned from treehugger, gil and ilk: all muslims are bad. Barack Obama is a secret muslim. Thus, Barack Obama is bad.
Morons. This is your next president of the United States. Get used to it.
My God, you make me sad.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I
m sorry, who said all Muslims are bad?
Jihad bad, Muslim good. In spite of the insanity of their religon.
You know, the whole, women are subservient, anybody but Muslims are infidels.
The left can slam God, Jesus and the Jews, but make one little crack about Mohammed or Barry O Bama………death to the infidels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go
October 11th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
But none of you fear spouting elephants attack Obama for his stance on things. You only froth about his heritage, his background, his obvious ties to the devil himself.
From Gil: “Then we have a boy growing up as a Muslim, being enrolled into 3 different schools as a Muslim… Barack then decides to get street cred that he believes a half white may need in order to get elected. He drops the name Barry and returns to the more Arabic/African sounding Barack, and joins the Black Liberation Theology church overseen by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright…”
Oh, my Gil! Thank you for identifying the bogeyman for us! All this time, I thought it was Bush and his “torture, chaos and ten thousand deaths is okay as long as we get oil” campaign.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Vote for Palin? You betcha! Not!! She’s a nut case.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Well, hell. If you people enjoy political desperation this much, why aren’t you rushing right out to buy Dirt: An American Campaign? Here. Let me help you out.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Great book! I give it five stars. Read it, you bunch of Orps.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Gee, I don’t know. Maybe because some of us feel the future of the world is more important that books sales.
And also, TREEHUGGER: “Jihad bad, Muslim good. In spite of the insanity of their religon.”
What, as opposed to good old witch-burning, child-molesting, war-starting Christianity?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Preston, WE ALL feel the future of the world is more important than book sales. But, once in a while it’s nice to take a break away from the everyday stress of living in this world. So, why not buy Mark’s book, and
release some stress?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Yeah, you bastard. What SHE said.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Rather masterbate…….
October 11th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Treehugger, I’m NOT sending you anymore pictures.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Oh Tony, I could care less about him being a Muslim or not.
If you check out his voting record, (or lack of), the fact he is drawing from American hating Zealots like the reverend and the bomb thower, not to mention he is going to tax the shit out of us on top of the taxes we pay in (breath) this state, that is why I won’t vote for him.
Also, he flows with polls. Surge bad, surge good.
AO what is so evil about Palin.
Besides being very easy on the eyes, she has morales, ethics and she is not an insider.
Oh, forgot, if your on the left, thats bad.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
AO, meant to ask, did you trim
?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
http://thefeldmanblog.com/2008/02/03/barack-obama-lies-about-legislative-recordbacked-nuclear-industry-but-claims-he-didnt/
October 11th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
AO, turn on your web cam pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee
October 11th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, Treehugger. My toenails are always trimmed. Fingernails filed. How about you? How are you’re toenails?
October 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Freshly painted thank you.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I’m going to steal the term and point out that Treehugger is AN AMERICAN VOTER. Obama should be scrutinized because of people he associated with back in the 1960′s. But Sarah Palin, with her MANY flaws, should be given a pass because she’s got that neat hair and perky tits.
THIS. THIS is how the conservative mindless think.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Bite me Preston. Of course I served in the military. I gave up my rights to defend yours you jackass. Not that it has anything to do with how I feel politically. Barack Hussein Obama has done enough and said enough in his short, unproductive political career that there is no need for a playbook, the shit writes itself. As for Tony, bite my left testicle you jackass. I prefer my Presidents not to be ashamed of their religious past, and not to make up what religion they are as they go. I met plenty of Muslims that I like a hell of a lot better than the liberal asshats like you I deal with every day. They treated me well and paid me an obscene amount of money to do my job. It’s the extremists that I am not too thrilled with.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Oh, sorry about those scratch marks. I’ll try to be more careful next time. *SMOOCH*
October 11th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Woohoo, this is much more fun than the polite pc fights on the Urinal.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Obama should fall on his knees and apologize for his openmindedness, is that right, Gil? But George W. is okay with his reckless, draft-dodging, coke-hazed past and his war-mongering, economy screwing present?
Brainwashed. That’s what I meant.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
You know, we can all fight, get onto our political soap boxes, argue about who’s right, and who’s wrong. It really doesn’t matter in the long run. Most politicians are going to tell us what they think we want to hear, then, they’re gonna turn around and do whatever they damn please.
My one stance is that McCain should have picked someone else as a running mate. WTF was he thinking? What if something should happen to him? She’s NOT qualified to run this country. She’s delusional. You betcha! Sorry. If he would have picked someone more qualified, I may have voted for him. Not now, though. Not ever.
Now..I’m voting for Cotton!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Cotton? Did somebody say Cotton?
October 11th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Ambe Waterman for VP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Oh Tonyyyyyyy, 1st Lt. George W. Bush , he was a fighter P I O L O T.
You know, a Guardsman, a kid, like the kids that are fighting and dieing for your right to make a A S S H A T out of yourself.
And PULESEEEEEEEEE, don’t even try to come up to our level and THINK like a conservative.
Now, Amber Waterman, those are perky tits!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
And PULESEEEEEEEEE, don’t even try to come up to our level and THINK like a conservative.
Now, Amber Waterman, those are perky tits!
Spoken like a true conservative. Perky tits.
You are an asshat.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Flamer is tring to sell a book and I am trying to help!
You don’t like Amber ??????????
October 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I have nothing against Amber. Though, I think she’d have something against you and your views of her anatomy!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
She could hold those views right up to me and we can see how they stand up!
For me, I am going to watch a very PC movie………
Blazin’ Saddles followed by the Replacements!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
John McCain is old and he’s become a puppet of Bush Republicans. His running mate is a zealot joke. Talk about tits and ass while you can, people. If these people take the White House, you’ll be fried on a cross for talking that way.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I highly doubt she’d want to hold them up to you! I’m glad I’m not on the same political ticket as you, Treehugger. Enjoy your movies!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Not to mention more war, more hatred for the US, more troubled economy, more environmental death, more stifling of science… Republicans suck!
October 11th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Amen, Tony!
October 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
flaming liberals in here. fuck you all.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Enough of you asshat liberals who have no idea of what the fuck they are talking about. Your idiot hero Dan Rather was discredited and sent packing over the bunch of lies concerning W’s National Guard status and still numb fucks like Tony spew the fetid crap that they hear on Air America and read on the Daily Kos, too vapid and way too stupid to research something for themselves. Wake the fuck up Tony, your leaders don;t give a ratshit about you or this country. Their interest lies in obtaining and retaining power for which they will gladly throw you under the bus if you don’t goosestep right along with their program. Their agenda of weakening the American citizenry has been going on since that asshat in the wheelchair came up with the New Deal (or as it should be known – the Screw Deal). Put more and more of our citizens under government control by causing them to become dependent on Government and you can always have power. Scare the seniors by lying about evil Republicans cutting their SSI checks. Go after parents by telling them that the mean old GOP wants to steal their kids lunches. Keep the perpetually lazy and the perpetually criminal on your side by providing them with food, clothing and shelter at the expense of those evil rich bastards who had the gall to make something of their lives. Use idiot, vacant minded fucks like you and those shit for brains at ACORN to commit voter fraud across the nation. Demand that ID’s are not necessary to vote to allow illegals looking for their drink at the government teat to vote. Scream like little girls and wail if someone so much as questions your choice for {resident. These nancies have gone so far as to accuse someone describing BHO as ‘skinny” of being racist. Have they never heard of Fat Albert? Sarah Palin wears a white coat and that’s a signal that she is a racist using codes in her wardrobe to incite the Klan that lurks in every white person. This is the leadership you pick to follow and you question me? Like someone said, Tony, fuck you all.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama – as Prepared for Delivery
Chillicothe, Ohio
Friday 10 October 2008
“… Just as we make lending more available, we need to relieve the tax burden on small businesses to help create jobs. That’s why I’ve proposed eliminating all capital gains taxes on investments in small businesses and start-ups. And today, I’m proposing an additional temporary business tax incentive through next year to encourage new investments. Because it’s time to protect the jobs we have and to create the jobs of tomorrow by unlocking the drive, and ingenuity, and innovation of the American people. That’s what I’ll do as President of the United States.
Bottom-up growth also depends on a tax code that doesn’t just work for the folks at the top. You’ve heard a lot about taxes in this campaign. Well, here’s the truth – my opponent and I are both offering tax cuts. The difference is, he wants to give $200 billion in tax cuts to the biggest corporations in America, and he wants to give the average Fortune 500 CEO a $700,000 tax cut. But he gives nothing at all to over 100 million Americans.
I have a different set of priorities. I’ll give a middle-class tax cut to 95% of all workers. And if you make less than $250,000 a year – which includes 98 percent of small business owners – you won’t see your taxes increase one single dime. Not your payroll taxes, not your income taxes, not your capital gains taxes – nothing. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.
We know that it’s time to create the good-paying jobs of tomorrow. Ohio is hurting. 12,000 jobs have been lost this year. You’ve got 7.4 percent unemployment. Wages are flat-lining. But it doesn’t have to be this way. That’s why I’m going to stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, and start rebuilding the middle class by helping companies create jobs here in Ohio. I will be a President who puts you first, Ohio. Because I believe in the American people and what we can do together. And if we want to turn this economy around and lead the world in the 21st century, we have to create the high-wage jobs of tomorrow right here in America.
If I am President, I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new, green jobs over the next decade – jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and fuel-efficient cars; jobs that will help us end our dependence on oil from Middle East dictators.
I’ll also put two million more Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, schools, and bridges – because it is time to build an American infrastructure for the 21st century. We will work with the Building Trades to expand apprenticeship programs so young workers can develop their skills. And if people ask how we’re going to pay for this, you tell them that if we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some money to rebuild America.
If I am President, I will finally fix our broken health care system. This issue is personal for me. My mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 53, and I’ll never forget how she spent the final months of her life lying in a hospital bed, fighting with her insurance company because they claimed that her cancer was a pre-existing condition and didn’t want to pay for treatment. If I am President, I will make sure those insurance companies can never do that again.
My health care plan will make sure insurance companies can’t discriminate against those who are sick and need care most. If you have health insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. And if you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress get for themselves. We’ll invest in preventative care and new technology to finally lower the cost of health care for families, businesses, and the entire economy. That’s the change we need.
And we’ll give every child, everywhere the skills and the knowledge they need to compete with any worker, anywhere in the world. I will not allow countries to out-teach us today so they can out-compete us tomorrow. It is time to provide every American with a world-class education. That means investing in early childhood education. That means recruiting an army of new teachers, and paying them better, and giving them more support in exchange for higher standards and more accountability. And it means making a deal with every American who has the drive and the will but not the money to go to college: if you commit to serving your country after you graduate, we will make sure you can afford your tuition. You invest in America, America will invest in you, and together, we will move this country forward.
Finally, I will take on the corruption in Washington and on Wall Street to make sure a crisis like this can never, ever happen again. I’ll put in place the common-sense regulations and rules of the road I’ve been calling for since March – rules that will keep our market free, fair, and honest; rules that will restore accountability and responsibility in our corporate boardrooms.
And just as we demand accountability on Wall Street, I will also demand it in Washington. That’s why I’m not going to stand here and simply tell you what I’m going to spend, I’m going to tell you how we’re going to save when I am President.
I’ll do what you do in your own family budgets and make sure we’re spending money wisely. I will go through the entire federal budget, page by page, line by line, and eliminate programs that don’t work and aren’t needed. We’ll start by ending a war in Iraq that’s costing $10 billion a month while the Iraqi government sits on tens of billions of dollars in surplus. And we’ll save billions more by cutting waste, improving management, and strengthening oversight.
These are the changes and reforms we need. A new era of responsibility and accountability on Wall Street and in Washington. Common-sense regulations to prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again. Investments in the technology and innovation that will restore prosperity and lead to new jobs and a new economy for the 21st century. Bottom-up growth that gives every American a fair shot at the American dream. And above all confidence – confidence in America, confidence in our economy, and confidence in ourselves.
I won’t pretend this will be easy or come without cost. We will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together. This country and the dream it represents are being tested in a way that we haven’t seen in nearly a century. And future generations will judge ours by how we respond to this test. Will they say that this was a time when America lost its way and its purpose? When we allowed our own petty differences and broken politics to plunge this country into a dark and painful recession?
Or will they say that this was another one of those moments when America overcame? When we battled back from adversity by recognizing that common stake that we have in each other’s success?
This is one of those moments. I realize you’re cynical and fed up with politics. I understand that you’re disappointed and even angry with your leaders. You have every right to be. But despite all of this, I ask of you what’s been asked of the American people in times of trial and turmoil throughout our history. I ask you to believe – to believe in yourselves, in each other, and in the future we can build together.
Together, we cannot fail. Not now. Not when we have a crisis to solve and an economy to save. Not when there are so many Americans without jobs and without homes. Not when there are families who can’t afford to see a doctor, or send their child to college, or pay their bills at the end of the month. Not when there is a generation that is counting on us to give them the same opportunities and the same chances that we had for ourselves.
We can do this. Americans have done this before. Some of us had grandparents or parents who said maybe I can’t go to college but my child can; maybe I can’t have my own business but my child can. I may have to rent, but maybe my children will have a home they can call their own. I may not have a lot of money but maybe my child will run for Senate. I might live in a small village but maybe someday my son can be president of the United States of America.
Now it falls to us. Together, we cannot fail. Together, we can overcome the broken policies and divided politics of the last eight years. Together, we can renew an economy that rewards work and rebuilds the middle class. Together, we can create millions of new jobs, and deliver on the promise of health care you can afford and education that helps your kids compete. We can do this if we come together; if we have confidence in ourselves and each other; if we look beyond the darkness of the day to the bright light of hope that lies ahead. Together, we can change this country and change this world. Thank you, God bless you, and may God bless America.”
October 13th, 2008 at 8:14 am
You idiots really believe this jackass don’t you? Who the fuck do you think pays the taxes in this country? The poor? The “working” poor? 97% of the entire tax burden of this country is paid by the top 50% of earners. Remember, taxes are paid on income, not wealth. If you are going to give a true tax cut to anyone, wouldn’t it be to those who pay the most? That’s why McCain’s proposal leaves out around a million people because THEY DON’T PAY TAXES IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Junior’s proposal is nothing but a straight up attempt to incite more class envy amongst the poor, rallying them to the left, because that’s who cares for them. Not the mean old right where they reward your hard work. On the left where they reward your mediocrity. Bottom up growth does not work. when is the last time a homeless guy gave you a job? Kennedy knew it, Reagan knew it, GWB knew it, and they all proved it. Lower the taxes on the ones who pay the most and tax revenues raise. GWB’s capital gains tax cut alone generated over double the expected tax revenue. Lower taxes to the ones paying it and spending raises, creating more jobs and growth. Raising taxes on the same people has the negative effect of less spending which actually nets in cut jobs and stagnant, if not negative, growth. Pandering is all this snake oil salesman knows. It’s how the left always works in order to gain power. Eyebrows Peosi pandered to you myrmidons on the left, promising you a secret plan to lower gas rices and create jobs,to make the economy better and to cut your taxes. Did she actually do any of that? No. In the 2 years since the Dems took control of Congress, gas went through the roof, the economy plummetted and your taxes are the same they ever have been. She constantly dodges the question when asked about her secret plan, because there never was one. Doesn’t matter, you libs have short memories and when your asinine leaders tell you it was GWB’s and the Republicans fault, you’ll eat it up like good little syncophants and wave your “O” banners and beam upon the messiah and the hope he brings for you. For the sake of this country that is still the greatest this planet has ever seen, I hope your messiah goes down in flames in November.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
One person can’t make the changes alone, we all need to work together on making the changes we need.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Franklin Raines, Tony Rezco, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dorhn, ACORN, Frank Marshll Davis, Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, Raila Odinga, Father Pfleger, the list just goes on and on of the psychos, terrorists and communiists this guy is associatedwith. This is your messiah? Nice choice.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:31 am
This shows how much the voters actually know about the messiah. God help us, these people are going to vote. (A little strong language in the intro – from Howard Stern)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg
October 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I listened to the clip from Howard Stern’s show, and it pretty much proved what I’ve been saying all along; People are fucking STUPID – and they’re stupid BY CHOICE! Thanks, Gil!