Obama: "Spread the wealth around..."

[DanFZ1]

Do I see the Vader emoticon alot? HAHA not really. Why do you ask? Are we locked in some epic battle to the death or what? HAHA!

No, I just thought it was a bit obvious, so I figured someone on this board must have done it already. Any time I think I coming up with something original, it's usually been done before.

[The Black Knight]

actually I've used it before in discussions. I think it's a hilarious emoticon and it fits most of the time.

[DavidofColorado]

I exceeded the 10000 character limit.

I am deeply offended by the leftists attempt to turn a vote against Barrack into something racist. WTF? Can't I vote for McCain because of his policys? And can't I vote against Barry because of his? How, in anyway, does that have to do with the color of his skin? I am voting against all of him too BTW, even the white half. What does that make me then?

Maybe he should turn his back on those that use the race card on his behalf just like he did with his reverand of 20 years.

[Shea]

I am deeply offended by the leftists attempt to turn a vote against Barrack into something racist. WTF? Can't I vote for McCain because of his policys? And can't I vote against Barry because of his? How, in anyway, does that have to do with the color of his skin? I am voting against all of him too BTW, even the white half. What does that make me then?

Maybe he should turn his back on those that use the race card on his behalf just like he did with his reverand of 20 years.

Obviously, a vote for Obama is intelligent, rational, enlightened, loving towards your fellow man, grounded in a firm understanding of history, economics and psychology. Further it shows that you have an open mind/heart and understand that paying taxes to redistribute your ill-gotten wealth is patriotic.

If you vote for McCain, however, you are racist, greedy, uncaring, cold, heartless, warmonger hamster-f**ker who will rot in a nondemoninational-nonreligious pain-based afterlife (probably vegan, I'll have to get my brochure). You fail to understand the nuance and brilliance of Obama and are just a hate-filled son of a bitch.

Of course if you're a Republican just move some words around and it works the other way as well...

[puckstr]

Has it come to this already?

[DanFZ1]

I found a funny a picture and posted it to a message forum. I am smart now and know all the the issues.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...politico/14414

I think Sen. Obama does understand Sen. McCain all too well.

[DavidofColorado]

Oh we are going there alright!!!

[DanFZ1]

"Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." <==Fruedian Slip?; " And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent." --Bethlehem, Penn., Oct. 8, 2008 (Watch video clip)

"Not you, Tom." --to debate moderator Tom Brokaw, after being asked who he might name as Treasury Secretary in his administration, Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7, 2008

"I have not had a chance to see it in writing, so I have to examine it.'" --on the Bush administration's Wall Street bailout plan, which was a three-page document that McCain said he received the day before, interview with WKYC in Cleveland, Sept. 23, 2008

"Sure. Technically, I don't know." --asked if the U.S. is in a recession, "60 Minutes" interview, Sept. 21, 2008

"The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the president and, in my view, has betrayed the public's trust. If I were president today, I would fire him." --apparently unaware of the fact that the SEC chairman, as a commissioner of an independent regulatory commission, cannot be removed by the president, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008

"Honestly, I have to analyze our relationships, situations and priorities, but I can assure you that I will establish closer relationships with our friends, and I will stand up to those who want to harm the United States. ... I have a clear record of working with leaders in the hemisphere that are friends with us and standing up to those who are not. And that's judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America and the entire region." --after being asked if he would invite Spanish President Jose Rodriguez Louis Zapatero to the White House, casting an ally of the U.S. as a potential enemy while simultaneously confusing Spain for a Latin American country, interview with Radio Caracol Miami, Sept. 17, 2008

"I also know, if I might remind you, that she is commander of the Alaska National Guard. In fact, you may know that on Sept. 11 a large contingent of the Alaska Guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them. So I think she understands our national security challenges." --touting Sarah Palin's foreign policy credentials by confusing the Alaska National Guard with the U.S. Army, where Palin's son is currently serving, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2008

"I understand the economy. I was chairman of the Commerce Committee that oversights every part of our economy." --ignoring the fact that it is actually the Senate Banking Committee which is responsible for credit, financial services, and housing -- the very areas currently in crisis, CNBC interview, Sept. 16, 2008

"[Sarah Palin] knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America. ... And, uh, she also happens to represent, be governor of a state that's right next to Russia." --after being asked about Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience, interview with WCSH-6, Portland, OR, Sept. 12, 2008

"I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time." --explaining at an Oct. 2007 debate why Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are not qualified to be president

^^^Flip Flop^^^

"She's a partner and a soul-mate." --on his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, whom he had met only once before offering her the job, "FOX News Sunday" interview, Aug. 31, 2008

"Could I just mention to you, Jay, that in a moment of seriousness I spent five and a half years in a prison cell. I didn't have a house, I didn't have a kitchen table, I didn't have a table, I didn't have a chair." --once again playing the POW card to deflect a question from Jay Leno about how many houses he owns, "Tonight Show" interview, Aug. 25, 2008




"I think -- I'll have my staff get to you. It's condominiums where -- I'll have them get to you." --after being asked how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own, interview with Politico, Las Cruces, N.M., Aug. 20, 2008



Is that Joe the Plumber I see?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/berman_ames

Nope, It's just a convicted con-man on the McCain-Follieri Love Boat.

John McCain: A desperate man for desperate times.
...and here we see John McCain beating a donkey with a stick.

[DavidofColorado]

Yeah I hope to have 7 times more things when I am 72 then what I have now. It shows that my life wasn't completely wasted.

Cunnuck, what did you have a problem with? You can PM me if you want to? But if you think that silencing me because I don't share your change, hope, unicorn vision of the world you should find a better way to go about it then abusing your moderator privileges.

I can only guess at what you didn't like because you just said I was spreading hate a irrelevant stuff. That you just didn't like my hopes and dreams so you had to smash them. I think you should relax, pop in a copy of the Flinstones turn lights off and well do what comes naturally!

[DavidofColorado]

"Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners." <==Fruedian Slip?; " And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent." --Bethlehem, Penn., Oct. 8, 2008 (Watch video clip)

I feel like a prisoner sometimes whats the big deal? Besides didn't Frued only deal with sexual topics aside from psycho-analogies? e.g. 100k to find out you were pissed at your father and loved your mother.

"Not you, Tom." --to debate moderator Tom Brokaw, after being asked who he might name as Treasury Secretary in his administration, Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 7, 2008

Ha, he told him. What's the big deal?

"I have not had a chance to see it in writing, so I have to examine it.'" --on the Bush administration's Wall Street bailout plan, which was a three-page document that McCain said he received the day before, interview with WKYC in Cleveland, Sept. 23, 2008

Again what's the big deal here?

Are you just pointing out mistakes that he made for a reason? I think I see where the rest of this is going so I ask you this. If you hate McCain and refer to Sara Palin as "That Bitch" all this is good to further your hate for him. But you are aware that Uh-bama makes mistakes too, right? Although his are different slips about being Muslim and the 57 states of Musilmness. Does that mean that he is to old too?

[DanFZ1]

Again what's the big deal here?

Are you just pointing out mistakes that he made for a reason? I think I see where the rest of this is going so I ask you this. If you hate McCain and refer to Sara Palin as "That Bitch" all this is good to further your hate for him. But you are aware that Uh-bama makes mistakes too, right? Although his are different slips about being Muslim and the 57 states of Musilmness. Does that mean that he is to old too?

my point

You simply do apply the same standard to both candidates.

[DavidofColorado]

my point

You simply do apply the same standard to both candidates.

Oh Well then let me help you out here...

Endorsements you don’t want: “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy... Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate... And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you—not financially to help him—we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” —Joe Biden **It won’t be apparent because you won’t be right.

What about the law?: “I will look for those judges who have an outstanding judicial record, who have the intellect, and who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through.” —Barack Obama

Getting it exactly backwards: “John McCain has been a party to the most significant redistribution of wealth in American history and it has been all the wrong way... [McCain believes in] trickle down, government is bad, markets are right [economics].” —Joe Biden

Speaking of redistribution: “Yes, I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.” —Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

From the Head Cheerleader: “One hundred percent Barack Obama is going to win! He’s going to be our next president and a great president at that. We’re all excited to work with him.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Thanks for clearing that up: “What I said, that indicted everybody, that’s not what I meant at all. What I mean is there’s still folks that have a problem voting for someone because they are black. This whole area, years ago, was really redneck.” —Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) “apologizing” for calling Western Pennsylvania racist **“I never said most of the things I said.” —Yogi Berra
INSIGHT

“[W]e must choose from among our guardians those men who, upon examination, seem most of all to believe throughout their lives that they must eagerly pursue what is advantageous to the city and be wholly unwilling to do the opposite.” —Socrates

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
UPRIGHT

“[Joe] Biden’s erratic and gaffetastic behavior is the least of America’s worries. He’s worse than a blunderbuss. He’s an incurable narcissist with chronic diarrhea of the mouth. He’s a phony and a pretender who fashions himself a foreign policy expert, constitutional scholar and worldly wise man. He’s a man who can’t control his impulses. And he could be a heartbeat away.” —Michelle Malkin

“Socialism and communism have failed everywhere they’ve been tried in the world, yet die-hard socialists, such as William Ayers, still smarter than God, insist on cramming them down our throats in the name of ‘fairness.’ Unreconstructed radicals always say that true socialism hasn’t been given a real chance. Well, if Obama is elected, we may get that chance.” —David Limbaugh

“People who put faith in government to solve national or even individual problems are headed for deep disappointment, if it hasn’t already arrived. Still, that doesn’t stop politicians from attempting to sell political snake oil to the gullible. No one ever lost money betting on the ignorance of the uninformed masses.” —Cal Thomas

“[b]y ‘redistributing wealth,’ as Obama wants the government to do, he’s actually reducing overall wealth in the economy by taking away capital from those who can invest it efficiently in direct job creation. And the real irony is that if Obama is elected and succeeds in raising taxes on the top 5 percent, he’s likely to collect less tax, not more, if history is a guide.” —Linda Chavez

“It was the Republican Party that demolished the shining city on the hill my father built. It was the Republican Party that was 100 percent responsible for the end of the Reagan Revolution...[T]he Republican Party abandoned the trail leading to that shining city on the hill to become itself a quasi-Left-wing organization which looks at the Democrats’ welfare programs and says ‘me too’.” —Michael Reagan



EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“What happened to the Democratic Party? Just a few generations ago, the party of Franklin Roosevelt went to bat for the little guy, the common man, the everyday Joe the plumber. Not anymore. Now, the wealthy elites who run the Democratic Party have declared war on working-class Americans while pretending to defend them against greedy and heartless Republicans. Those would be the same Republicans whose vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, doesn’t just talk about working-class people but actually embodies one and yet has been savaged by liberals. And those would be the same Republicans who have devised a tax plan that might just appeal to ‘Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher, the Ohio resident who dared to confront Barack Obama over the unfairness of his tax plan. In a candid moment that could well lose him some votes, Obama acknowledged to Wurzelbacher that he intended, if elected president, to take the wealth of those making more than 250,000 per year and ‘spread it around’ to others making less. That wasn’t very smart, and the Obama campaign knows it. So they’re trying to change the subject by making Joe the Plumber the issue. They’re doing so, with a little help from their friends in the news media and labor unions, by digging into Joe’s background in search of something embarrassing... That will teach Joe to keep quiet. Let’s hope the country learns a lesson as well—about what the Democratic Party used to be and what it has become.” —San Diego Union Tribune

[DavidofColorado]

DEZINFORMATSIA

Asking the tough questions: “People have called you ‘The Savior,’ ‘The Messiah,’ ‘The Messenger of Change.’ The expectations have been raised to such a level... If you are, as you just say, lucky enough to be elected the next president are you going to have to consciously manage expectations during the first several months of your administration?” —NBC’s Matt Lauer to Barack Obama

Talk about Looney Toons: “Sometimes I think I’m watching Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd here. You know Bugs Bunny is driving him crazy. He’s laughing, running away and Elmer just can’t keep, can’t keep, can’t get his eyes off the guy.” —Daffy Duck, er, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews likening Obama to Bugs Bunny and McCain to Elmer Fudd

Europeanness envy: “While we’re on the symbolism, let me remind you how many Europeans see U.S. voters—as a trigger-happy bunch with a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other... Does either of you senators have any serious plans to reduce the number of guns available in the U.S. or even dare to suggest it? That really would impress the Europeans, that you stand for change.” —CNN European political editor Robin Oakley to Obama and McCain

Good thing the rest of the world can’t vote here: “[P]olls show the image of the U.S. has improved slightly this year simply because President Bush is leaving. And, that if the world had a vote, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. Regardless of who wins, the world is clamoring for a new America in 2009.” —NBC’s Dawna Friesen

And it’s called “redistribution”: “Obama’s tax cuts only go to people who work, so by definition, it’s not welfare. Some working people eligible for Obama’s tax cut make so little, they do not pay income taxes. But they do pay payroll taxes and other taxes.” ABC’s Jake Tapper
Newspulper Headlines: We Blame Global Warming, or Not: “Alaska Glaciers Grew This Year, Thanks to Colder Weather” —Anchorage Daily News “Federal Report: Arctic Getting Warmer and Warmer” —FoxNews.com

Finally, Some Good Economic News!: “Baby Boomer Deaths Could Fuel Funeral Industry” —Associated Press

They’re Always in the Last Place You Look: “Obama, McCain Camps Look for Florida Votes in Israel” —Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)

They’re Trying to Disenfranchise Aliens!: “GOP to Continue Efforts to Shut Down Satellite Voting Centers” —Times (Munster, IN)

Help Wanted: “Hunt Under Way in Chicago for Creepy Clown Who Stalks Children” —FoxNews.com

News You Can Use: “Shortage of Money Could Cost Us Millions” —Indianapolis Star

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Albright Says Obama Is Presidential” —Las Vegas Sun (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)
VILLAGE IDIOTS

More endorsements: “I have some concerns about the direction that the [Republican] party has taken in recent years. It has moved more to the right than I would like to see it... I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration.” —former Republican Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell endorsing Barack Obama **Too far to the right? What party is he talking about?

From the Glitterati: “Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palin... and now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama? I’m asking who is Sarah Palin?” —who is Barbra Streisand?

More tripe from Hollywood: “I don’t think Sarah [Palin] would understand the picture... It has a lot of complicated dialogue. George Bush is an intellectual compared to her... It’s very fair. It’s based on a lot of research. It was not done with malice.” —director Oliver Stone on his movie “W”, insisting that the movie is NOT an attack on President Bush “It isn’t Bush bashing, but it should be. He will have a long and healthy life and hopefully spend most of it in depositions. Hopefully, history will be unforgiving.” —actor Richard Dreyfuss, who portrays Dick Cheney in the movie “W”



SHORT CUTS

“Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats, I can’t shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me. I’m delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary!” —John McCain at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner Thursday night

“This must be the first time in Western civilization that being a plumber was considered too ‘high brow’ to represent the vox populi... Then again, with all the political sewage in Washington, maybe more plumbers are just what our nation’s capital needs.” —Elisabeth Meinecke

“Colin Powell is in the news, of course, because he endorsed Barack Obama. Wonder how John McCain feels about Colin Powell endorsing Obama? He is probably all right with it. Men his age are used to having colon problems.” —Conan O’Brien

“Washington, DC, was named in a health survey as having the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases of any city in the United States. Blame it on the Wall Street bailout plan. You can’t screw that many taxpayers and not catch something.” —Argus Hamilton

Jay Leno: If you watched the debate [Wednesday] night, you know John McCain kept talking about this guy Senator Obama met on the campaign trail named Joe the Plumber. Do you know the saddest part about the Joe the plumber story? Last month, he was an investment banker. ... Are you buying this whole Joe the plumber thing? McCain said he’s worried about Joe the plumber’s income. His income? Anybody here ever gotten a bill from a plumber and go, “Well, this is way too low. Put a few more zeros. Put something down there for yourself.” ... A married congressman from Florida, Tim Mahoney, is under investigation for paying $125,000 to his mistress to keep her quiet. Well, that worked out well. Well, listen, yesterday it was reported he was having a second affair at the same time. What kind of sleazeball cheats on his mistress? ... And in a statement with his wife standing next to him—only in politics do the wives stand next to you when you do this kind of stuff—Mahoney said this is a private matter. The most important thing to him now is his wife. Well, that’s got to make her feel special. Of all the women he’s sleeping with, she’s number one. ... This week, President Bush announced a $250 billion—everything’s billions now, millions don’t even count, have you noticed that? Millions is like chump change—plan for the government, to directly buy shares of the nation’s leading banks, to make sure they’re run properly. Because one thing we know is the people who gave us a $9-trillion debt, they know how to handle money.

[DanFZ1]

I am not sure if the typo in my post is confusing. I was trying to type "You simply do not apply the same standards to both candidates."

As far as "endorsements you don't want" goes, all that seems to be negative? is that you don't like the actual people? themselves? What your quoting them as saying doesn't seem to be anything that a candidate would distance themselves from.

Under DEZINFORMATSIA? are you trying to make the point that the entire media is in the tank for Obama? As I have already pointed out, the media used to love John McCain. Now that they have found themselves "another", McHypocrite cries Foul!

The editorial EXEGESIS fails to provide any kind of comparison and contrast from a historical point of view, but William F. Buckley Jr. (Republican) started the National Review partly because he felt that it was the "Well Fed Right" who had the same problems attributed to the Democrats in the article you quote. Back in the 1950's, it was Republicans like WFB that were considered the radicals.

R.I.P. W.F.B.

His son Christopher (Republican), who was the editor after his father died, recently quit the National Review, and now endorses Sen. Obama. Considering his place in history as both a writer (satireist), editor of Forbes Life Magazine for 15 years, and also as a prominent Republican within the party, I think it is quite telling that someone with an inside track as to what is really happening regarding Repubilcan politics over the last eight years, actually cites the last eight years as a prime example as to why the party needs reform. From what he has seen first hand, he obviously believes that the Republican party does not have the ability to reform its self from within. Christopher Buckley is still a Republican though. He's not changing parties. He does however have a concsience that will not let him turn away from the damage that the extreme right has done to the GOP (Grand Old Party).

[wankel7]

So, I was thinking about Obama's windfall tax on the oil companies. He wants to take their money and spread the wealth around when they are making money.

What happens when their profits drop?

Is Obama going to want the tax payers to give the oil companies money to help them through these tough times?

[Shea]

So, I was thinking about Obama's windfall tax on the oil companies. He wants to take their money and spread the wealth around when they are making money.

What happens when their profits drop?

Is Obama going to want the tax payers to give the oil companies money to help them through these tough times?

Of course the brilliant minds in the Obama economic team fail to understand that corporations do not pay taxes, consumers do. Taxes are just another cost of doing business (just like raw materials, labor, transportation) and they get passed on to the end user.

And to answer your question directly, of course not. In the Democrats world, corporations are evil, bloated things that take advantage of people and use them to make PROFIT <shutter>. If they all fail it just opens the door for them to control more of the economy (case in point, the recent bailout package).

[DavidofColorado]

They have already seen what we are forced to pay for gas. Those prices will become permanent. The taxes will be passed onto the consumer just like cigarettes. You will have to pay or quit. And in the case of gasoline that is just fine with them since they are doing it for the environment.

[dchd1130]

If they all fail it just opens the door for them to control more of the economy (case in point, the recent bailout package).

Im sure someone will jump all over that because the cowboy signed off on it, but I would like to point out that it is still a democratic plan. I think Bush is trying to make people like him better by leaning to the left. Instead of sticking to his conservative morals.

[Shea]

Instead of sticking to his conservative morals.

I honestly don't believe he really had any...

[dchd1130]

I honestly don't believe he really had any...

Apparently not, along with just about every other politician out there. right or left. Its funny that no one liked the bill until it had a bunch hand outs included. Then it was Ok. Then the markets tanked anyway. Every time one of these idiots opens their mouths it gets worse.

[rforsythe]

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[Nick_Ninja]

I honestly don't believe he really had any...

Probably the only statement from you that we both will ever agree on.

[CYCLE_MONKEY]

Man, I was worried there. I was so busy with the other crazy sh!t in my life I didn't register, but I called Larimer county and they said it was no biggie, just go down and vote, that I was in the system under an old address. So, I'm gonna go vote for McCain/Palin tonight.......45 times or so....

[Nick_Ninja]

Man, I was worried there. I was so busy with the other crazy sh!t in my life I didn't register, but I called Larimer county and they said it was no biggie, just go down and vote, that I was in the system under an old address. So, I'm gonna go vote for McCain/Palin tonight.......45 times or so....

You are a sick individual Frank.