The definitive quote of the campaign for me has belonged to Sarah Palin. She had me during her convention speech when she looked right in the camera and said, "There has only been ONE MAN in this campaign who EVER really fought for you...and that man is John McCain."
No lie, Sarah. After the Obama infomercial it would be easy for anyone who watched that to think that America is a depressed and dying country waiting only for Obamessiah to come save it. He highlighted four families, each in some degree of misery, and guess what? He has the answer to their problems, or so he would want us to believe. I don't believe.
Sarah Palin nailed it. John McCain believes in this country. He has fought for this country and he understands everything that means. Obama has no conception of that; you can defend him on issues that suit you as long as you want to try, but Obama has NEVER EVER fought for his country. Not for THIS country.
There are many important issues in this election that matter to me. I'm concerned about the economy, about jobs, about free trade, about who might get appointed to the Supreme Court and shape the course of the nation for years to come. But a big one is national security. Obama has voted against our troops at every turn. He has verbally criticized our troops (who he says are "bombing civilians and air-raiding villages"). He voted against the surge; in the only major foreign policy decision of his 143 day Senate career, he failed. Had he prevailed in his vote against the surge, our guys would have come home in defeat, Iraq in tatters and we would be facing a return to the region under even more dire circumstances. And should he get elected he proposes to cut military funding. What a slap in the face Obama is giving those soldiers and what a slap the American people supporting Obama are giving them.
After the Obama infomercial and after observing this entire campaign, there REMAINS no question in my mind that this man does not like America. He does not. If you need resassurance of that, review his list of America-hating friends and associates: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, Khaleed al-Monsoor just to name a few. Everyone he has associated with hates America; is this coincidence? I don't think so.
I'm not ready OR willing to turn my country, the country my own father fought for, over to this man. No way. Sarah Palin nailed it. John McCain loves our country, has fought for it and will continue to fight for it. He has a moral compass, a moral code, and he has the experience this country needs in these dark times.
If you don't believe me, listen to this guy. Even if you KNOW you're voting for Obama, or even if you already have. You owe this guy a listen, trust me:
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America IS a depressed and dying country - so much so that the government has been forced (cuz lord knows the Republicans don't want to give wealth to folks that didn't earn it right?) BILLIONS and continue to do so and will b/c - umm - the country is on the verge of "recession" and dying.
However - yes - there is little bad to say about McCain - he is a very honorable man - minus his political campaign which both were as ugly as any.
God, if it's depressed and dying then WHY give it to a guy that already hates it and hangs out with people that hate it and will raise taxes on the very people that can save it? WHAT has he done to prove to you that he can FIX it?
With attitudes like that, we all need to stick our heads in our ovens and turn on the gas.
This country was in worse shape in the late 70's when the senate, house, and White House was controlled by Democrats. The economy came back around. The economy goes up and down. Always has, always will. The problem with America is that we keep voting for people and don't hold their feet to the fire. Because we are too worried about abortion rights, gay rights, or gun rights or whatever. So instead of putting someone in office that may go against our precious little right but would do well on all the other issues, we will put in some idiot that is bad on all issues but will support our particular little kwirk. Everybody is talking about this country's economic woes. Has anyone realized that the bad economy is "Global"?
If you think it stinks now, wait till Obama gets in there.
I have heard just about eveyone I know talk about pulling their money out of the stock market if he wins because they don't want to give their money away to the a bunch of people who refuse to work, live off the government now and sit on their asses all day long doing noting but watching Jerry Springer and Oprah. And I'm not wealthy; I'm a mechanic in the oil fields and we do okay but I'm far from wealthy. So, if I struggle to pay bills, why would I want to make it harder on me to pay them, by giving to bastards who won't work?
I do agree alot with what Rick has to say to say, but gas is a little too slow for me. :)
I agree that the economy is cyclic, and it will come back around. But since we are now in a global econonmy, we need to do everything we can to garner economic growth instead of chasing businesses away with over burdening taxes. Labor cost is the highest overhead of any business, and we don't need to compound that problem with higher taxes.
Obama's view of gloabl trade is askew. We are in a global economy and to get out of it will really cause our economy to collapse. We can't compete against the global markets alone, so we better get use to it. (I don't like it any better than anyone else.)
A lot of people blame the government for their economic woes, but a lot of the blame lay on their own shoulders. They couldn't live within their means and kept wanting higher wages. The higher the wage, the higher the labor cost, the higher the labor costs, the better places like Mexico, Costa Rica, Vietnam, China, and the Dominican Republic looked for the businesses. (Places where a lot of our lower tech manufacturing went.)
As for my concern over what Obama is saying, I don't get my concern from what "Right Wing Hate Mongers" are saying. I get my concerns from Obama's own words.
Yesterday he said something about transforming America. Transforming America? I don't want him transforming America.
Another bit of information. When Clinton took office, it wasn't exactly an up time in the econonmy. The upside came around 1993, when a Republican Congress came in and controlled spending.
I will agree with my liberal friends concerning the Republicans and Bush. When they turned away from their conservative values and started spending like a bunch of liberals, the economy started turning downward. But it really started to nose dive in 2007, when the Dems took total control of Congress.
Rick - you wouldn't be paying for anyone to watch Jerry Springer. YOU would get a tax cut and get to keep more of the money you earn. There is not ONE thing in Obama's plan which calls for an expansion of welfare. That's simply what the right wing tells the people who need their money the most to anger them into voting against the left.
The great achievement of the modern Republican Party has been its ability to convince the working class (the middle class) that it was the party of the people, while its policies prove otherwise. Your income taxes stay low under the Republicans, inheritance taxes stay low, capital gains taxes stay low, but your payroll taxes have continually increased. Its not coincidental that the taxes which affect the wealthiest of Americans have stayed low under the modern Republicans, BUT the average American's tax bill (payroll, not income) has slowly increased. As a tax structure, this would all be well and good, if the prosperity of the economy made its way down to YOU (if you wound up with more money in your pocket), but it hasn't. Like you said, you struggle to pay your bills. Meanwhile, over the past twenty years, the wealth of this country has been absorbed by a smaller and smaller percentage of our population....hence, the old term, "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer". The tax cuts of the past eight years have not helped you, they've hurt you. You work harder for less. That increased productivity translates into profits for your company which go into someone else's pocket, not yours, and definitely not into the pocket of the guy watching Jerry Springer on the couch.
So when Obama proposes a tax cut for the middle class, the working class, the average American; When he has the audacity to suggest that the average American should be reaping more of the benefit of their hard work, rather than simply the highest tier of wage earners. The Republican Party attacks him.
The Republican candidate looks out onto a sea of low-to-middle income earners, working class people, and says - "Senator Obama wants to take your hard earned money and redistribute it to everyone else as he sees fit." Well who is this anonymous "everyone else" that would be getting all of this "redistributed money"? Its all of the people standing there applauding him! Guess what, its not the people at these rallies who will have their money taken away and given to someone else, they'll get to keep more of their money, because they are "everyone else"! And yet, the Republican party has successfully convnced its base, those who would benefit MOST from Obama's tax plan, that he's going to take THEIR money and give it to an anonymous class of lazy non-workers! Genius!
Oh, and by the way, he's also a terrorist, secretive muslim, with anti-american, anti-soldier, baby-killing tendancies. True Genius!
"And yet, the Republican party has successfully convnced its base, those who would benefit MOST from Obama's tax plan, that he's going to take THEIR money and give it to an anonymous class of lazy non-workers!"
I'm sorry but no one convinces me of anything. I do my own homework, make my own choices, and I'm willing to bet most people do the same. I often wonder if the left gets so memorized by the numbers Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc. pull in that they think we're all just a bunch of brainwashed morons waiting for them to tell us what to do or think! I'm sure some people are like that ON BOTH SIDES but most people are not.
(and this is not just to Texan for Obama) Debate the issues, but don't be insulting or condescending. That just makes you a jerk who no one takes seriously. I am to the point where I don't even want to read the comments on Pat's blog anymore because many of them are disrespectful and/or immature.
My take on the Obamamercial:
Ok, Im not TRYING to slam anyone here, and I sure do "feel" for people who are going through tough times, but for all the people fallin on hard times in the Obama infomercial, I have a hard time with really believing their stories.....
The football mom:
Drives a brand new Ford minivan
wears a London Fog coat
has all brand name foods in her frige.
The elderly black couple:
have a new leather couch,
have 3 vehicles.
the box full of meds had many brand name otc's in it
The teacher:
nice professional manicure
nice leather jacket on her kid
So, in my opinion a lot of this was either staged very well or sloppy depending on how you look at it. I have more off brand items in my house than those people had put together.
I have hard times to go through to, but I make the concessons necessary and work PROactivly to change it, Im not looking for a handout from other people!
Perhaps Obama followers need to learn how to live within their means and not expect government handouts. So, at least if you are fallin on hard times make a few concessions, like off brand, like sell one of the 3 vehicles, ect ect.
What Obama wants to do will leave me without a job
Obama wants to yank our troops out and create a giant place for all the terrorists to plot against us
Sarah Palin and John McCain, now they have a real plan that will work..... lower taxes, let us keep more of the money we earn. If these people think that keeping more of the money they earn is wrong...... well, I just dont know why they would think that way!
Sarah and John will, when appropriate; bring our troops home in victory. They will leave a region with peace and not in tatters
Sarah - Sorry if that came off as condescending or disrespectful, i never once said that you or anyone else on this blog doesn't do their own research. And yes, the same goes for people of all political leanings.
But there's enough non-sensical and absolutely incorrect information out there to satisfy anyone's political leanings. So, doing reseach is only half of the work. Debating the issues, like you said, is the most important part. Debating the issue of taxation on the average American was the point of my last comment.
For me to suggest that politics (to some degree) is about manipulating the masses is no huge revelation. And yes, that goes for the right AND left. Democrats have to find a message to gain votes, just as Republicans do. There's no doubt in my mind that just as many Democrats as Republicans vote without knowledge of what they're voting for. That will never change, so there's not much to discuss in that regard.
People are asolutely free to base their opinion of the candidates on whichever issue they choose. So i don't dismiss everyone who votes Republican, as that choice might just better suit their needs and beliefs. I do, however, question (not criticize) the working-middle-class who deeply believe that the conservative tax structure which we've experienced for the past eight years is better for their lives than a less conservative approach (posed by Obama, and called a Socialist approach).
My only point was that the Republicans have successfully fashioned a message which convinces those who would directly benefit from a less conservative tax structure, that the more conservative tax structure is better for them. When McCain is talking to a crowd of ten thousand people, telling them that taxes need to stay low so that they can invest it and start a business, he's really not talking to them directly...because the average American standing out in that crowd typically makes just enough to get by. Those tax cuts are protection of the income and wealth of the highest wage earners, which he truly believes promotes a trickling-down of wealth for all, but haven't proven to do so in the past eight years. I have nothing against classes of wealth in this country, some having more than others doesn't phase me one bit. If keeping taxes low on the highest wage earners proved best for our economy and the lives of the average American, i wouldn't criticize it at all, but the past eight years is evidence to the contrary.
Why would anyone be surprised that welfare recipients buy name brands stuff and driving big cars. I've been seeing that stuff for years.
When I am at the store I use a hand basket. You can tell welfare recipients, they and their bunch of kids are pushing two or three buggies.
When I'm at the meat counter picking out the finest cuts of hamburger, they are grabbing all sorts of meat and throwing them in the buggy without looking at the price tag. Hell, they ain't paying for it so why worry about the cost.
Then they fill a buggy full of Cokes, chips, cookies, ice cream and the list goes on. No wonder they waddle when they walk.
Then they get up to the checkout stand and with great pride pull out their food stamp card and fuss about how much everything costs. I want to say, "Lady, don't worry it's on us. Just buy your groceries and go on home and watch Jerry Springer."
Then I walk out into the parking lot after spending $50.00 on hamburger and five other items, to get in my old pickup, and I see them loading their groceries in the trunk of their big car.
The best part is watching the car lower about 9 inches when all of them pile in.
If Obama wins I pray they are right, which I seriously doubt. Obama's own words scares the ever living crap out of me.
If he wins I will be within a few months after him taking office, the people that voted for him will be as excited as all the people who bought Yugos 25 years ago.
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