The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich,” Obama said in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday. “I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American way, that’s terrific.
“The point is, though, that—and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class—it’s that when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of the United States of America.
“John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic,” Obama continued. “You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”
And then we’re going to make him do some biceps curls to beef up those scrawny little arms. But if he could only do something about putting some meat on his ideas. Senator McCain on the other hand is built like a rock. His character and his views are solid.”
“John McCain’s character has been tested as no other presidential candidate in the history of this nation,” Schwarzenegger said. “He has spent five and a half years as a prisoner of war. He has been tested under torture, under temptation, under deprivation, under isolation.
“He has proven what kind of a man he is. We don’t have to wonder if he’s ready to lead. We don’t have to wonder is he ready to be president of the United States. John McCain has served his country longer in a POW camp than his opponent has served in the United State Senate.”
AND HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET UNDER AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION:
THREE NEWSPAPERS ENDORSE McCAIN; COINCIDENTALLY, THEIR REPORTERS ARE DUMPED FROM OBAMA’S PLANE:
The Barack Obama for president campaign has kicked off three newspaper reporters its campaign plane.
The campaign says it was a tough decision deciding to boot the working reporters for the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News and the Washington Times. But, they say, there are only so many seats on the plane that the spunky new Christian Science Monitor politics blog calls “O-Force One.”
And somebody had to go for these last few campaign days.It’s probably just a simple coincidence that all three newspapers recently endorsed Obama’s Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, for the White House job.
“It feels like the journalistic equivalent of redistributing the wealth,” quipped John Solomon, executive editor of the Times, which lost its seat after three years of travel with the candidate and just 72 hours after endorsing McCain.
The Barack Hussein Obama campaign has given every indication that the ability of you to enjoy complete Free Speech will be, at the very least, diminished. There will be an effect, a repercussion: to BLOGS.
There will be The King.
BZ
I am a computer programmer for a grocery chain. Our profit margin is about 1-2%. Obama wants to raise the business’ taxes above the profit margin. Um… how is it selfish to not want a tax hike?
The tax revenue to the government has not been outside of 7.9% – 9.1% of GDP since the end of WW2. This is when the upper tax rate was 91% all the way down to 28%. The only way to increase revenue to the government is to grow the economy. Low taxes do just that.
TUO: thanks AGAIN for taking the time to view my blog, much less take the time to comment.
Grocery stores’ profit margins are close indeed.
TAX and SPEND does NOT grow an economy.
Does ANYONE have a grasp of HISTORY?
BZ
I am a combat veteran, and a proud Republican all my life … until Bush 43. I voted for him and I supported (and still support) our presence in Afghanistan. But the bloodshed in Iraq, the consistent unraveling of the Constitution, the unwillingness to act on the deficit, and the monumental mess made of the Justice Department … I just can’t sit by and watch this anymore.
As embarrassed as I am to have been a part of foisting W on this country and this world, I despair even more at the lack of choice presented to me by the mainstream candidates in this election. Vote Democratic? I don’t think so. But vote for McCain and Palin? Never!
McCain has gone ’round the bend. Where he once had a modicum of good judgment, he’s been a lapdog for the Bush administration for the last seven years. And he’s now a desperate man. So desperate he picked Sarah Palin — a caricature! — for a running mate. God help us if they win. I can’t NOT vote, but I can’t vote for these two at the top of my party’s ticket. This year, I’m voting for Libertarian candidates Bob Barr and Wayne Root, and I’m asking like-minded conservative Republicans to join me.
My economic condition is such that a NObama tax cut might possibly mean that my tax return would exceed my tax witholdings. As far as I’m concerned, that would mean that I would no longer be a tax”payer”, but a welfare recipient. HEY NOBAMA, if I want to go on welfare, I’ll apply for it!!!!!!!!!
Justice: there are those who are voting their conscience. Good for them and you. But I’m still of the opinion that a vote for anyone other than McCain/Palin = a vote for Obama. I’m not a big fan of McCain; but we CANNOT stand as a nation with an Obama presidency.
BZ
BZ, I gave this a quick mention as well on my blog, but the great news this morning is that in a one day polling McCain is ahead of Obama by one point!! I think this ‘spreading the wealth around’ and Obama trying to make it sound palatable is what is killing him.
Independants and others who are moving toward McCain in these last days aren’t stupid.
BZ,
‘Justice’ may be one the hired ones on the Obama campaign to look like he is a Republican in order to discourage voters who are ‘reluctantly’ voting for McCain. I don’t trust that comment.
Another fake conservative who would rather see their country destroyed than vote for the lesser of two evils.
The time for idealism is during the primaries.
I don’t trust that comment either, BZ. It reeks of phony to me!
Shoprat is right. The time for idealism is definitely during the primaries. We have two candidates, and anyone voting for anyone other than those two candidates is simply throwing their vote away. They may as well not vote!
Thanks BZ, for having what is getting more rare with each and every passing day: Good old-fashioned common sense.
Thanks Gayle and Shoprat. It’s time to CONTINUE to hold our mud!
BZ
Yeah, don’t trust Justice, he’s likely a FAKE Vet, a paid *shill*, a professional writer for the Dems, ALL that shit…
Holy fuck Gayle, don’t you EVER look in the mirror and see what kind of IDIOT you became??
All of ya, Rivka, Shoprat, the guy says he voted for Barr and all of a sudden he’s all that??
You guys are as bad as the left that you so heartily denigrate, you’re fucking hypocrites, that’s ALL you are, ya yak about this being a free nation but if someone doesn’t suck YOUR ass and consider YOUR opinion to be THE opinion, they’re fakes and paid by the opposition… And I know what’ll be said about me, more of the same, “Oh, you see how he is if you don’t agree with him??”
That’s BULLSHIT, this isn’t about AGREEMENT, it’s about freedom and you hypocrites are seriously fucked up!
FUCK all of ya… You’re a goddamned bunch of hypocrites…
BZ is the only one that has the whereto to stand and say OK, vote your conscience, but I am voting THIS way, the rest of you assholes talk about the guy like he’s a goddamned leper simply because he doesn’t say the words YOU like…
So much for freedom of thought. I myself cannot in good conscience vote for Barr due to his direct involvement in the implementing of ex post facto law.
McCain tried to throttle freedom of expression, and Obama is off the meter for trashing the Constitution.
Vote for who you believe in, not any party line. It is a thing called personal honor…
Nothing more, and nothing less.
All: you have to vote for whom you must, when you must. But throughout all of this I’m still of the opinion that we may be in for a rather shocking surprise when we awaken Wednesday morning. All day Tuesday I’m shutting off the radio and the TV. I’ll not be following the election minute-by-minute. I’ve cast my vote. But I WILL be continuing to shill for McCain/Palin because I believe that Obama does NOT have it “all sewn up” or “in the bag” as the DEM/MSM would have you believe.
BZ
If there is a God in heaven, BZ you may right…
But, if that son of a bitch doesn’t win, lock and load, the ‘hood will explode…
And I am glad that you’re not at ALL like a few of these ASSCLOWNS with the automatic *must be a fake* bullshit…
TF: but let’s be realistic. If the “hood explodes,” quite frankly, it ain’t MY hood and it ain’t YOUR hood and, moreover, that’s ALL you and I care about! There’s a REASON that I moved 75+ miles away from where I work.
“Let them eat cake.”
BZ
The “hood” is going to explode whether NObama wins or not. Those people will rape, pillage, and burn at the drop of a hat. It’s like they’re “entitled” to their welfare checks disguised as tax refunds, and they’re entitled to whatever they can loot during civil unrest. Disgusting!
Oh, I almost forgot, McCain IS GOING TO WIN!, so stop arguing and get over it.