Distorting Obama

Why Obama is the Better Candidate,look at his impressive senate record.His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These inculded 1.
1. **the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 - became law,
2.**The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, - became law,
3.**The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
4.**The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, - became law,
5. **The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, In committee, and many more.
In all, since entering the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096.
An impressive record, for someone who supposedly has no record according to some who would prefer that this comparison not be made public.
He's not just a talker.
He's a doer.

Why is every criticism or flaw of Obama's classified and reported as "misrepresentations" or racist? Why are his representations of Senator McCain's record not reported as well.... Let's try to keep the reporting unbiased, shall we?

I am a 30-year retired sailor who was in A-4 Squadrons flying out of NAS Lemoore when Lt. John McCain was in a Lemoore squadron and wound up getting shot down over North Vietnam. His father, Admiral McCain pinned a medal on my chest during an awards ceremony aboard the USS Coral Sea in 1968. I proudly followed McCain's career for many years. When he was getting his own version of "Swiftboating" from Bush's minions during the previous campaign, I felt bad for him. Whan he cqalled the far right evangelical wingnuts "Agents of Intolerance" I agreed with him. But when he bent down to kiss the collective asses of Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and thier ilk,to beg for thier support I lost all of the respect for him that I once had. I am not crazy about Obama, but will no longer support a man who I no longer respect.

Obama, the man to ruin the US. Where is he going to get the money for thes multibillion projects. Thats right, out of our pockets. When are the people in this country going to stand up and say enough is enough. We are taxed to death for these personal projects of our government. And we in truth get no say in what they do. This is no by the people for the people, this is by the people for the politicians.

Sooooo, in so many words, this article is saying what we all knew already..........

McCain's a LIAR!!!!!!!!!!

For those who slept through World History 101...here is a condensed
version.
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic
hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer
and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were:
1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel.
The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.
These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were
the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals.
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of
agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet,
so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be
invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were
formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BB Q at night
while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as
the Conservative movement.
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off
the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the
sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal
movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became
known as girlie-men.
Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats,
the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the
Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to
divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most
powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by
the jackass.

Hey willnotvote,

Is Rushbo paying you to write this crap or are you just a racist white boy?

America has ALREADY voted for change! They were going show Bush in 2006! And we sure got CHANGE!

Before Democrats controlled Congress:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high.

2) Regular unleaded gasoline was $2.19 a gallon.

3) Unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet.

2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.00 a gallon.

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase).

4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses).

5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; 1% of American homes are now in foreclosure.

6) Oil was 63 dollars a barrel the day before the newest congress convened. It closed last Friday at 126 dollars a barrel. That is doubled for those with fuzzy math.

7) Economic Growth for the 4th quarter of 2006 in GDP was 3.5 percent.

8)1st Quarter 2008 0.6 percent.


Remember it's Congress that makes laws, not the President. The President has to work with what is handed to the Administration.

will not vote,

none of this has any relationship to the 2006 elections. When have the Democrats been able to push through a bill that the president has not vetoed? They lack the majority necessary to overcome the Bush veto so life goes on as it has since 2000. Republican deregulation of the investment and banking industry is mostly responsible for the subprime mortgage debacle and that started under President Reagan. One can hardly blame the Democrats for those Americans who drive muscle cars, unnecessary trucks and those huge SUVs for driving up the price of fuel in America. Have you checked the price of fuel in Germany? I doubt that the Democrats can control fuel prices all over the world. Unemployment is up because purchases are down. The rising costs of refinancing subprime mortgages plus the huge increases in fuel costs are driving out disposal income. American's have reigned in their spending and that is why unemployment is rising. That and the propensity of corporate America to outsource both high and low paying jobs to foreign nations.

Remember, Congress can pass no laws that cannot clear the Presidential veto pen and that has been the case since Bush has been elected.

Actually, will not vote, you need to read a few good books on economics and study the facts before you come back to your personal blog.

This is a good article. I am a McCain supporter, but we need to keep all politicians honest. i normally do not believe much of what I read in Newsweek, but I see this article is written by factcheck.org - makes it much more believable.

John McCain does seem to be one to extrapolate interesting interpretations (aka gross exaggerations) out of the comments of others. He torpedoed Romney in the primaries with that tactic, and I thought it was pretty tacky.

On the other hand, Obama's guarded "I would not rule out Nuclear" comment is not what I am looking for in a leader. It shows a lack of commitment and decisiveness. He seems to want us to wait until he is in office before he makes any real commitment on what he will do. Obama's plan to fund alternative energy research from decreased war spending, or by raising taxes on gasoline (indirectly through higher taxes on oil companies) doesn't make much sense to me. Once we do get out of Iraq, that money needs to go into reducing the debt we incurred as a result of the War.

Of the two, McCain seems much more decisive on energy policy, and his plan better thought out, although the tax holiday is a pretty ridiculous idea.

If one of these guys would come up with a plan to use energy revenue to develop future technology without costing the people more money, they would have my attention. Here's the plan to do just that. We can immediately begin releasing 2 million barrels of oil per day from our reserves, and use the income from that oil to fund our push for alternative energy. This will also relieve the current price pressure we are seeing at the pump. We could release oil at that rate for 10 years, and still maintain enough in reserve to replace our imports for 3 years at current import rates. During those 10 years, we move to eliminate foriegn dependence by drilling for our own oil. That way, we are off of foriegn oil in 10 years, and will have put hundreds of billions of dollars towards the development of cleaner and safer energy technology. We will once again lead the world in energy development. With such an effort, I am confident that by the end of the initial 10 years, we will have found ways to make alternative energy cost effective, and will be in a position to begin the very lengthy process of converting our society to the new energy sources.

Anything through Newsweek has to be pro Obama and anti McCain just as it was pro O and anti-Hillary.

Nothing new here. Just the same old one slided slamming by Newsweek!

Anything through Newsweek has to be pro Obama and anti McCain just as it was pro O and anti-Hillary.

Nothing new here. Just the same old one slided slamming by Newsweek!

I'd like someone to ask Obama if he feels that we NOW have the technology and capabilities to create new nuclear power plants "cleanly and safely". I'm guessing the answer to that would be some sort of comment to the effect of we aren't there yet. That equals no new plants. Talk about waffling on a major issue, I'd bet the McCain camp ad is actually quite accurate.

Futher Food for thought: If Obama said in plain english, "we now have the capability and safety procedures to build new nuclear power plants and I will support opening new plants during my presendency", He would NOT be the Democratic nominee. Plain and simple. He won't (or cannot) support this.

This is a make or break election and we must be critical of the attack ads and spins of each campaign less we regret like we did with Bush!!!.
First Mccain's proposals to achieve energy independence are:1) to drill, drill, drill on protected wildlife refuge areas, all federal lands and on off-shore.2) develop powerful battery to power electric cars.Build 45 to 100 nuclear power plants. Very long and impressive policy proposal list to the uninformed, economically and politically illiterate!!!.
First, drill here, drill there, drill everywhere was George Bush policy and we all know what we achieved with that.Nothing close to energy independence!!!. Even if Mccain's policy is implemented NOW; it will take the USA between 15 to 30 years to bring any of his oil drilling online.Even then the new USA production will not make a dent or much difference on gas prices now or in the future.But we would have destroyed the last environmentally protected areas and our beautiful coastal areas.Has Mccain ever thought of the environmental and societal costs of these irresponsible policy???. Worst of all, what then will we offer and to children and grandchildren???. How irresponsible can a desparate candidate go.Mccain is alll a league onto himself!!!.
Build unsafe and unclean 45 to 100 nuclear plants. But that will not lower gas prices.Worst we will be stuck with unsafe and unclean nuclear plants long after Mccain is dead. Remember the near melt-down at long Island in Pennsylvania.We were very lucky.And remember the Soviet Union Cherobly, they were not very lucky and we know the environmental and humanitarian costs of having irresponsible leaders like those in the Soviet Union.They believed and had the same "mind-set" and "disregard" for "policy rooted in good science". My God $300 million bounty for a battery?. Suppose a Japanese or Chinese scientist come up with that battery, will Mccain pay up???. The old republican goat is losing his old mind.He's illusionating and imaging things. America doesnt have the oil reserves to talk of oil independence.It doesn't matter whether we drill ourselves to oblivion!!!.
However, the correct understanding of energy independence means the USA must "diversify" into alternative energy sources like green energy:ethonol, bio-diesal, electric, wind, solar, coal and nuclear. The catch-word is "diversity and mix" of alternative energy sources!!!.