An Apostle of Alaska

Oh yes, let's discourage investment and savings. And let's make the retirees selling the investments they live on pay even more taxes. That will certainly turn our economy around a lot faster.

And don't you dare give businesses tax breaks to retool and retrain for tomorrow's jobs. That would just be horrible, wouldn't it?

More Obama saying one thing and doing another:

"Instead of having all of us pay our fair share, we've got over $1 trillion worth of loopholes in the corporate tax code," he said. "This isn't the invisible hand of the market at work. It's the successful work of special interests."

Obama has lambasted lobbyists and moneyed interests who "have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play."

"It's an entire culture in Washington -- some of it legal, some of it not," the Democratic hopeful told a New York crowd in June. But last year Obama introduced nine separate bills exempting foreign chemical company Nufarm from import fees on a range of chemical ingredients it uses in the manufacture of pesticides and herbicides.

Nufarm wasn't the only beneficiary of Obama's efforts to reduce customs fees and duties. In early May of 2006, two Washington lobbyists registered to work on behalf of Astellas Pharma, a Japanese-owned drug company which also has offices in Illinois.

Together, Obama's obscure measures -- known as tariff suspensions -- steered more than $12 million away from federal coffers, according to government estimates.

While legal, Obama's bills on behalf of Nufarm and other companies are part of the special treatment machine Washington rolls out for special interests, say good-government watchdogs. With a dozen tariff suspension bills to his name, Obama stands out as the most prolific of any presidential hopeful on the topic. Sen. John McCain introduced none.

"If you have a company...there's a whole factory set up to help you get these suspensions," said Steve Ellis, president of the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "It's a pay-to-play system you have to rev up and work." Hire the right lobbyist, pay the right fee, and you can save millions, he explained.

"We need a president who sees government not as a tool to enrich well-connected friends and high-priced lobbyists, but as the defender of fairness and opportunity for every American," the candidate said in his June speech. "That's the kind of president I intend to be."

But his actions speak louder than his words.

Obama says I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis ??? this is a Lie. He and his campaign buddy Penny 'Sub Prime Bank Collapse' Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash - Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST - Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream,
Then how did FANNIE MAE Director Jim Johnson end up on Team Obama?[and then have to quit after it was found that COUNTRYWIDE Loans gave him cut-rate mortgage interest deals]?
It is also important to acknowlage that Obama has embraced Rubinomics in fact. Not in theory. Indeed,Rubin serves as Obamas top economics ''wise man''directing the reins of his policy,eclipsing Goolsbee. Yet responsibility for the impending financial disaster,must be fairly laid at Rubins feet.
For over six decades,the GLASS-STEAGALL Act ,crafted during the New Deal in a masterpiece of Keynesian economics [the godfather of modern economics,Maynard Keynes,was often in direct opposition to many FDR policies. Roosevelt picked those ideas from both liberal and conservative economic philosophies leaving those in which would have the greatest effect. He would scrap the NRA,but kept this in place,[FDIC] as it did two things. First ,it would stop mega-mergers between bank consortiums ending the spectre of a ''National Bank''[a fear shared by the American people going back to Andrew Jacksons presidency]. Then,it would also create a wall between private non-banking lenders,insurance companies,and main financial institutions.
So far,so good. But in 1999,President Clinton at the urging of Robert Rubin [Treasury Sec.].repealed GLASS-STEAGALL,virtually setting up the sub-prime mortgage entity and the nightmare it would become. ''Ecomomic policy and its health would flow from financial sectors rather than trade and commodities'' noted critics from the UCLA School of Business,BLOOMBERG, and Investors Business Daily at the time. Preciently,it was found that Rubin would be the one who,having rammed through his repeal, garnering Republican support through Texas' Phil Gramm through a series of compromises worked out between him,Clinton and the Republican leadership,would go on to find his reward as chairman of CITIGROUP,where he immediately merged it with TRAVELERS Insurance,creating the first large, of many species, of the subprime mortgage lender.
That he just happens to be on Team Obama,should be neccesary cause for worry.
PBS FRONTLINE. May 03,2003:''The Long Demise Of GLASS-STEAGALL''
The NATION.Nov.05,2007:''CITIGROUP:Too Big To Fail?''
The United States Senate www.senate.gov Feb.24,1999:Testimony of Treasury

No less qualified than Obama. What has he EVER accomplished? NOTHING!

Yeah, Yeah...I know, you're upset because Bill Gates isn't sharing his fortune with you; but did you help him with the brilliant ideas that created his fortune? No? Well, there you go! You probably still think he is a selfish miser who should be busy sending you part of his $$$ for no other reason than you exsist, and he is wealthy and you aren't. Sounds like a personal problem to me. Anyway, all this political banter is giving me a headache, so I'm going to take a couple of asprin, and have a sandwich. Good luck with your efforts to get the wealthy to share with us less fortunate.

fpruben, you sure used a lot of words just to say you like Obama, you don't like Palin. O.K. we're cool with that. Your choice. But just state it plain & simple and stop playing the drama game as though there is something scary behind your choice. Unless its proven that Sarah palin is the spawn of Satan, we will continue to support her & Senator McCain. Your blathering about church or patriotic stands won't change that. Fewer words, more honesty. .

HUH?? I hear what you are attempting to say---I think. Maybe her sister is just confused, or maybe a tad envious of all the attention her sister is getting, or maybe she just doesn't want to comment on it. Stop speculating on something you know nothing about. Some people just do not like the limelight focused on them even if their sibling is a public figure, and resent being questioned, or feel uncomfortable with it.

IV, somesone in the White House before Bush second guessed the enemy, he second guessed that they were just harmless little guys playing games, and we saw the results of that, so no, no more trying to second guess and being wrong, now its time to take action the minute we suspect any suspicious activity from countries which are negative toward us. I'm not saying we should go drop a bomb on them, and I don't think that was what Sarah Palin was saying either, but that we should monitor their activities very closely and if things start to look like they intend to use agressive force against us, then we do whatever is necessary to prevent that. We can't afford to play the wait & see game anymore, too many lives are at stake. Please don't take Governor Palin's statements out of context.

Yeah, Waite, real cave people, so I would advise you not to get too colse, or your pelt could end up on the pile. Seriously, how is it any of your business? I love animals, too, but even God made clothing for Adam & Eve out of hide or skin, so will you be so obnoxious as to argue with Him? No, we don't need to do that any more for clothing, but do you eat meat? If you do, where do you think it comes from---a meat tree?

Goodin, so what you are, essecentially, saying, but used a lot of un-neccessaty words, when it would have been so much easier, and more to the point to say: "We're not agaist Palin, we just for Obama." Yeah, we can read between the lines. Why does the left feel they have to go into great depth to explain their reasons for their choices? Who cares? It all boils down to the same thing: No matter what Palin says or does or doesn't say or doesn't do, you will find a reason to not approve. Just be honest, you like Obama because he will encourage you to keep on having irresponsible sex and if, Uh Oh, you "happen" to get preggers, well, hell, no problem, we'll just murder the baby and be on our merry way, to do it again! Now, isn't this fun! Don't be such a hypocrit, and go off on what you think is an acceptable spill about your reasons, as though anyone will actually believe you. Just get to the bottom line. No matter how you try to sugar coat it, its still BS.

I love your website, well done. You go girls!

Obama/Biden '08

Jlakin, she has more background than you have teeth, try chewing on that for awhile before it chokes you.

I thought you were going to talk about the MOTHER *** BEAR IN THE BACKGROUND! RUN PALIN, RUN!