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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat for a lifetime! Maybe all politicians should have this tattooed on their foreheads so they can see it every morning.
Mr. Obama is a Progressive Liberal. It is their belief that giving people fish is the correct approach and doing so through income redistribution is the preferred method. This hasn't worked at any time in history! Socialism (which is where this is all headed) has failed time and again because it destroys incentive.
If Mr. Obama is truly a Progressive Liberal maybe he should sell his 4 million dollar mansion and give the money to the Kenyan Village he promised to help do in 2006 when he visited. The village and school are still waiting. His 4 million dollar home is about 40 times more than they were asking for. This I am sure would still leave the Obama's with more than most of the people writing here!
As a business owner I can tell you raising payroll taxes and my income taxes will not help the economy in any way. I will simply terminate an employee, eliminate our 401K and it's match and work a little harder to maintain my meager living. I see businesses that were around for 10-20 or 30 years closing because they simply can't pay the bills and taxes (let us not forget the property taxes, utilities and excise taxes, fuels and excise taxes on it, sales taxes on everything we buy). For anyone to think that raising any form of taxes is going to help the economy is absolute insanity or worse yet ignorance.
Mr. Obama thinks Mr. McCain is out of touch with the Middle Class. I have a feeling the Obama Mansion is not located in a Middle Class suburb. He is out of touch with the middle class and the lower classes as well as the business world. In his Bios I don't recall him telling us about his business and economic experiences. This guy hasn't even run a lemonade stand. Running a campaign is much different. He isn't writing the budget and counting the pennies and when he needs more money he goes to a Hollywood cocktail party. Try that when you live in Levittown and you can't pay the 400.00-dollar LIPA bill.
This guy represents the democrats who control 2 of 3 branches of our Government and have done NOTHING. They had a ridiculous approval rating (if you want to call it that) If I recall correctly it is 9%. George Bush is in the 30's so who is the problem here?
Mr. Obama talks about Earmarks that Palin may have tried to facilitate for her state. Ahhhh duhhhhh that is a Mayor or Governor’s job! They get money for projects and it puts people to work in the state, which generates more tax revenue. If a Mayor or Governor doesn't bring home the proverbial pork they don't get re-elected. But having no administrative experience he wouldn't understand that. read more »
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According to Libby Quaid of the AP, Senator McCain has instructed his campaign to cease it's fire on the NY Times.
"I don't have any more comment about this issue. I had a press conference yesterday morning, and I answered every question," McCain said.
"I'm moving on. I'm talking about the issues and the challenges of America and the big issues that Americans are concerned about. I addressed the issue and addressed every question that was addressed to me.
"I do not intend to discuss it further," he told reporters.
His aides had spent Thursday attacking the Times, but McCain said Friday: "My campaign is not doing that anymore."
Hat tip: Jonathan Martin
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Ed Morrisey of Captain's Quarters believes that it has.
Instead, the Times ran a piece of gossipy nonsense that doesn't even have the courage to allege what it only implies. Two self-described "disillusioned" former staffers who won't go on the record alleged -- what? -- that McCain had an affair? No. That McCain did favors for a romantic paramour? No. The Times reported that these two staffers somehow got past Mark Salter and John Weaver to stage a confrontation with McCain over their concerns that McCain might have possibly started to get close to thinking about a romance with Vicki Iseman.
For this, the Times offers no corroboration. They report on a confrontation between John Weaver and Vicki Iseman, but neglect to report that Weaver explained to them that he had heard Iseman brag about her connections to McCain and the Commerce Committee, not about any alleged affair. That didn't make it into the Times' report. Neither did the fact that McCain often voted against the interests of Iseman's clients, and that votes in favor of them matched McCain's often stated policy positions held long before Iseman became a lobbyist.
Bill Keller's crew threw in a rehash of two old scandals to pad out the piece, one legitimate but over 20 years old, and the other discredited when the Times first brought it up in 2000. McCain has acknowledged his role in the Keating 5 scandal repeatedly in the time since, so it's not as if this broke any new ground. And in the second scandal, even Clinton administration figure Lanny Davis claims it baseless, as Hot Air noted yesterday.
So what do we have? We have salacious but completely unsubstantiated gossip, combined with a rehash of at least one old Times smear, placed on the front page of what used to be the premiere newspaper in America. And what exactly does that do for the Times' credibility for the rest of this electoral cycle? They can't run anything on McCain now without it being seen in the context of what the Times itself calls a "war" between the Times and McCain. Keller and company declared war on McCain yesterday, and it fired a bazooka of effluvium as its opening salvo. They've marginalized themselves for the next nine months.
He's right. From now until the election, any instance where the Times attacks Senator McCain will be viewed as biased and partisan. The Times with this blatant hit piece, has basically shown their cards. They no longer have a strong hand to play.
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Here's an e-mail sent out today to supporters from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.
Dear John,
Well, here we go. We could expect attacks were coming; as soon as John McCain appeared to be locking up the Republican nomination, the liberal establishment and their allies at the New York Times have gone on the attack. Today's front-page New York Times story is particularly disgusting - an un-sourced hit-and-run smear campaign designed to distract from the issues at stake in this election. With John McCain leading a number of general-election polls against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the New York Times knew the time to attack was now, and they did. We will
not allow their scurrilous attack against a great American hero to stand.The New York Times -- the newspaper that gave MoveOn.org a sweetheart deal to run advertisements attacking General Petraeus -- has shown once again that it cannot exercise good journalistic judgment when it comes to dealing with a conservative Republican. We better get ready for more of the Democrats' attacks over the coming months as the Democrats pick their nominee, MoveOn.org starts spending their unlimited soft money, and the liberal media tosses standards aside in an attempt to stop our momentum. We need your help to counteract the liberal establishment and fight back against the New York Times by making an immediate contribution today.
John McCain has a 24-year record of serving our country with honor and integrity. He has led the charge to limit the money and influence of the special interests in politics and stomp out corruption. His life and his record prove just how preposterous the smear by the New York Times really is.
Objective observers are viewing this article exactly as they should - as a sleazy smear attack from a liberal newspaper against the conservative Republican frontrunner. Sean Hannity said, after reading the article three times, "It was so full of innuendo and so lacking of fact, and so involved in smear, I came to the conclusion that the goal here was to bring up a 20-year-old scandal." Washington attorney Bob Bennett, who was the Democrat counsel during the Keating investigation, said, "This is a real hit job." Joe Scarborough called the allegations "outrageous." Even pundit Alan Colmes -- not known for his conservative leanings -- concludes "this is a non-story."
Yet, it is there, right on the front page of the New York Times. It is now
dominating the cable news coverage. We can only expect these sorts of baselessattacks to continue as we move into the general election cycle. We are going to needyour help today, and your continued help in the future to have the resources to respond. We'll never match the reach of a front-page New York Times article, but with your immediate help today, we'll be able to respond and defend our nominee from the liberal attack machine.Sincerely,
Rick Davis, Campaign Manager
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