Some of the polls have tightened a little, but most are holding steady and we have some outliers showing a huge lead for Obama. The state polls also look great.
Meanwhile, the McCain campaign has finally started to talk about the economy, but they can’t even get that right.
If McCain had not opposed the Bush tax cuts in the past, and if he was proposing a flat tax, he might have some credibility on this idiotic charges of “socialism.” One wonders whether he really is senile. Also, when you add in the economic genius of Sarah Palin (she must have shaken hands with Mitt Romney), your argument looks even more ridiculous, given that Sarah Palin raised taxes on the oil companies in Alaska in order to redistribute the tax dollars to all Alaskans in the form of a check.
Of course, she’s too stupid to understand the irony here, and McCain has no trouble repeating any charge trumped up by his idiotic advisors. So, they continue to stomp around the country calling Obama names and revealing themselves as utter fools.
This campaign is a disgrace. Many conservatives have already come to that conclusion. Others are so blinded by their own idiology that they drink up the silly name-calling, hoping for a dramatic comeback. Fortunately, their numbers seem to be shrinking.
well stated! I had forgotten about the palin oil tax and her use of the word redistribute. That’s just too perfect.
2001 Chicago Public Radio:
OBAMA: “If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that, uh, I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and — and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.”
He’s complaining about the checks and balances of the role of the Supreme Court. He is complaining that the Supreme Court “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice.” legal justice is an entirely different thing than political and economic justice, and Obama wants the court to be concerned with economic justice. He wants judges on federal courts and the Supreme Court to look at economic and political aspects of the case, not the legal definition of justice, because the legal definition of justice is not what he’s interested in. Economic justice. Punishing achievers. Now he complains that the Warren Court was not radical enough and calls the Constitution “a charter of negative liberties.”
OBAMA: “I think we can say that, uh, uh, the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day and — and, uh, — and, uh, that the framers had that same blind spot. I — I don’t think the two viewers are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now and to say that, uh, it also, uh, reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”
“The fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day,” Fundamental flaw! You’ve got to be kiddig me. A belief that he still carries By the way. He’s affraid for the average American to find out his true beliefs, which is why he will not release any records; financial, schoolastic or otherwise. The framers of our constitution agonized over what to do about the slave population, but they were trying to put together a union. There were slave states and the northern states. They agonized over this, and they left a system to get rid of it, which is what has happened. But as far as Obama is concerned, the U.S. is flawed and has never fixed anything. and if he gets the judges that he wants on all the federal courts, he’ll be able redistribute wealth from those he thinks have too much to tose he thinks need it the most.
The funny thing is, I don’t see any Liberals freely righting checks to the government. But they happily want to force had working individuals to give up what they earned.
If anyone was interested in being truly fair we would have a flat tax, 5% or so with no exemptions no deductions. Whether you make 10,000.00 or 10 million you pay the same percent. Talk about an easy tax form.
Obama and his radical friends want to “change” this country alright. He is a socialist by definition. His idealogies are already in place in France, move there.
For the record I’m upset at McCain’s”socialist statements. But, a lib pres with a lib legislature is scary. Government is not the answer. There are 2 other times we ha a dem pres and a dem legislature. That gave us “the great society” and the Carter years.
The constitution of the United States is one of the greatest documents in history, right up there with the Declaration of Indepndence.
But, that document kept slavery alive, and it defined black people as 3/5ths of the person as a compromise for counting population.
That is a fundamental flaw. I can’t imagine anyone defending that part of the constitution. That is what Obama was talking about.
Also, you are misinterpreting his quote on the Supreme Court. He was not arguing that the court should have addressed economic disparity. He was just citing a fact, and then he went on to argue that the civil rights movment cannot just rely on the courtswith respect to economic issues.
The right is deliberately twisting his statements for purposes of this election. I understand that. Voters need to see throuh the spin.
You can call him a socialist, but then so is Ronald Reagan, John McCain, Warren Buffet etc. Pure capitalism, without regulation or higher taxation of the wealthy, has never worked. Someone needs to pay for all the benefits that the middle class takes for granted. We are now $10 trillion in debt!
Also, as for the flat tax, you are just talking about income. What about sales taxes? Energy taxes, etc. The tax code outside of income taxes is REGRESSIVE. Meaning the working class pays a higher proportion of those taxes. So a flat tax would actually make most people pay a higher pecentage of total taxes than the rich.
Finally, under the current system, Warren Buffet pays a lower effective rate than his secretary. He thinks that is wrong. That’s why he is supportng Obama.
Let’s not forget that John McCain was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them. So he too is a socialist, if that’s his criteria.