Oral Exam, Part II

Can anyone tell me what will the Republicans do for me here at home in their "country" besides fight wars. I would love to know how much money Cheney and Bush have made off of this war. We know Iraq has 80 billion dollars; I have to believe someone in the USA have profited from this war based on a lie.

Take out the insults, the lies, and the references to Palin's once off-limits family and what are you left with? Very, very little. Americans are losing their homes and their jobs. Gas is unaffordable and the Middle East is a disaster. And she wants to give us a George Bush-style speech--all smugness and no substance? This country is in trouble and the Republicans don't seem to get it.

Joe Lieberman is a fizzle. He's the spare tire that is flat, you carry around because everyone has to have a spare tire.

If you say anything positive about the Republican Party on this left-wing website be prepared to catch flack from the angry left.

I feel strongly about Obama running this country. I have been keeping track of this election from the word go. I am a African American female and I would never in my wildest dreams want John McCain and Sarah Palin in the White House. I think the Republican party is full of crap. This country is ready for change and the sooner people wake up and realize that John McCain is old and not it. Obama is a strong leader that will lead this country back to victory. Go Democrats!!!!! Obama for President.

"The natural human response to a mother in Sarah Palin's circumstance is compassion and sympathy" would be true if Sarah Palin was an ordinary citizen but she is not. She proposes to enact laws imposing her will and judgement over those of other people found in the same circumstance as her daughter. This opens the door to others questioning her decisions just as she has questioned other.

Waldman writes: "After bragging about her own ethics bill in Alaska, she zinged Obama by noting that he had written two memoirs but no major legislation, ignoring his coauthorship of the federal ethics bill."

Erm, Obama co-sponsored the Lobbying and Ethics Reform Act of 2007, not co-authored it. He did manage to get a single amendment added to S. 1, a major ethics reform bill, but this hardly counts as "coauthorship." In addition, to date, no specific bill with Obama as its primary sponsor (author) has passed the Senate. He has passed a number of nice resolutions and gotten a few other amendments added. Waldman gets it wrong here.

Also, since it's at the top of the list, HarleyisHere not only asks a false question (the usual slippery reference to "equal pay" and the ridiculous charge of not letting a woman defend herself (?)) but adds the quaint "repigs" to the conversation. Barry would be so disappointed in you, Harley.

The line from Thompson that garnered the biggest response was "we need a president who doesn't think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade." When he made the original remark to pastor Rick Warren, Obama meant that only someone at God's pay grade--i.e., God--knows when life begins. Who else is above the President?

Should we conclude that Thompson and the audience didn't comprehend what Obama said...or do they think McCain would be at or above God's pay grade?

Would someone be willing to confirm the information that I have seen that the brother in law / state trooper used his TASER gun on his TEN year old step son? If I were Palin I would want this dealt with also. Seems the State Police didn't deal with it appropriately since I think this trooper with a really bad case of really bad judgement still has his job!

Democrats talk at the Denver convention about creating and keeping American jobs. Ironically the building that housed the largest research and development division of Arco Oil Company in Texas was sold by British Petroleum to Perot Systems and now serves as its headquarters. Perot Systems was founded by Ross Perot who previously created EDS Electronic Data Systems and who most importantly has been credited with throwing the 1992 Presidential election to Bill Clinton by drawing off many independent voters who would have voted Republican for George Bush senior. Perot Systems derives a significant amount of its business from state and federal contracts. A building that used to house American engineers, geologists, scientists, logistics people and ordinary employees who worked for an American owned oil company that strived to fill the gas tank for the average American now houses a company that focuses on giving computer support on state and the federal government social service contracts. This is the Democratic Party version of a success story. Outsourced government work under Bill Clinton replaces a former American owned world admired jewell of the oil industry that had provided gas for the American gas tank and many good American jobs for many years. So if you need reasonably price gas for your car, contact Bill Clinton and Perot Systems and ask them to give you a gallon of gas. This is the Democratic version of a success story, outsourced government work replacing a real American owned company that produced a real needed product at a reasonable price for the average American household.

Sarah Palin - The Reason Why Democrats Are Cowering

Sarah Palin was already in elected office while Obama was merely a community organizer.

Sarah Palin has more executive experience (as a successful business owner, Mayor, and Governor) than both the democrat candidate for President and the one for Vice President.

Sarah Palin has actually served a longer term as a Governor than Obama has served as a Senator who almost immediately upon becoming a senator, decided to run for President.

As a Governor, Sarah Palin has actually set and balanced budgets, whereas Obama and Biden have, as Senators, merely proposed more spending without any concern for how their proposals would bloat the federal budget.

Sarah Palin has actually decided to and achieved a reduction in her Governor???s salary and fringe benefits, whereas Obama merely fixates on his pay grade.

Sarah Palin has actually reduced government spending by selling on eBay the Alaskan Governor???s airplane, thereby returning the money to the citizens, whereas Obama and Biden have merely talked about reducing spending in an unspecified manner.

Sarah Palin has actually opposed her Republican Party by defeating a corrupt incumbent Republican governor, whereas Obama and Biden have never even denounced an unscrupulous democrat, let alone attempted to remove one from office.

Sarah Palin has not resorted to throwing any of her past and current supporters under the bus, whereas Obams has discarded several, including one convicted felon.

Sarah Palin demonstrates a loving respect for and appreciation of her parents, whereas Obama exhibits repulsion toward his promiscuous father who abandoned him, and contempt for his grandmother who he has described as being a typical white woman.

Sarah Palin will be consistent in her statements voiced throughout the many cities and towns in the US, whereas Obama says one thing in Scranton and then the opposite in San Francisco.

Sarah Palin has actually voted in favour of, or against bill propositions, whereas Obama, on 130 occasions, has lamely voted present.

I am an independent voter, I have voted for as many Democrats as I have Republicans in the past. I want to tell you a story about the last time I fell for "the middle class tax cut" offered by a Democratic President back in 1992. I have a wife and a child and in the years past before 1993 I used to get about $400-$600 for my Federal tax refund each year. To give you an example of my income my income for that year was about $16,000 and my wife worked too and she made about $10,000 and we both worked full time. My wife worked at a day care center and took our baby with her to work for a "discount" which wasn't much of a discount at all off of the normal day care rates. So together for a family of 3 we made $26,000. My son was born very sick and had to stay in NICU for over two weeks, he ended up having to have 5 eye surgeries and now he still needs major ankle and foot surgery. All of his bills from the hospital and surgeries amounted to over $50,000 of which I had to pay 20% and any costs that were above what the insurance pays. Needless to say when it came time to file my taxes I desparately needed that $450-600 in tax refund to keep the wolves away from the door. It got so bad leading up to tax time that when my wife and I got paid we would immediately pay the bills due and then would have maybe $30-40 to last us two weeks to the next pay check. That was with WIC and any financial help we could get from the state. When I filed my taxes, our total income hadn't gone up much at all because our raises were about 2-3% for the year. Due to Clinton's "middle class tax cut" he passed do you know what my Federal income tax refund was for that year?? $2-that is TWO DOLLARS!!!!! That is because of the severe marriage penalty and other tax increases that were passed by the Democratic Congress and signed off on by President Clinton. They tax the income of your spouse double the rate than that of the head of house hold. The Democrats reasoning? It encourages mothers to stay home and take care of children. My question to all of the Obama supporters-can you afford to be a single bread winner of your house hold? Can you get along guys or gals on your income alone and let your spouse stay home with your children? I know I can't. Even though my son is now 18 years old he has a diability that doesn't allow him to work and he still needs his surgery. My family needs every dime my wife and I make. The reason why I ask is because Obama has already stated that he intends on letting the Bush tax cuts expire. That amounts to a huge tax increase alone and will reinstate the marriage penalty on all of us who need two incomes to make ends meet. He will let them expire and he will say that he didn't pass a tax increase, he just let the tax cut expire. I have never received a tax cut from a Democrat in my lifetime. YOU CAN'T TAX YOUR WAY OUT OF A ENCONOMIC SLOWDOWN. I can't afford Obama's form of change. I'm sorry, I