An Apostle of Alaska

Interesting that Newsweek can write so much on Mrs. Palin's history and experiences as an elected official while their articles on Mr. Obama are much less detailed on things he actually has accomplished. This just confirms what the Republicans have been saying all long Mr Obama, while a good orator and potentially a good leader, does not have the background or experience for the job of President of the United States.

Those of you posting that Obama supporters have cut and run..wrong, we have not... we have other things to do besides keeping vigil over our candidate..he doesn't need babysitting to win the election. In Nov. ,Obama wins.. check the Electoral College votes... enjoy your little McCain party..it will be over soon. Oh, I saw all the insults directed at Obama supporters here flying around. Grow up! I don't bad mouth McCain supporters the way you people bad mouth all Obama supporters because one-, the man I love is a McCain supporter who also posts here and I don't want to hurt his feelings, and two- I try to be respectful to others here.

Even Chuck Norris believes Sarah is tough, smart, competent, credible and confident enough!

http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2008/09/09/the_maverette?page=full&comments=true

SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES

Right now an employer has to pay BOTH sides of the Social Security
tax on himself. Workers only pay half, their share!

Obama wants to raise the 12% we small business owners pay on the
first $102,000 of our incomes to $250,000 or MORE!

For any small business that makes $250,000 in income this is a
$18,000 PER YEAR additional TAX!

This will further reduce new jobs, investment spending toward
the company and possibly cause some employees to be FIRED.

The money has to come from SOMEPLACE! Democrats seem to think
money grows on trees!

Now Obama said this ADDITIONAL tax by raising the cap may be up
to $500,000 of income.

So for those like me that will mean $47,760 MORE taxes each year.

This will DEFINITELY cause FEWER NEW JOBS!

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CAPITAL GAINS TAXES

This may be Obama's WORST policy. Did you know that under
the lower 15% capital gains tax rates that MORE TAXES WERE
COLLECTED by the IRS than under the old 28% tax?

Even though Obama has been TOLD this he STILL wants to raise
this tax.

What it will do is tax any profits you make on your retirement
accounts, savings accounts, and college savings accounts for
your kids. Because you will pay nearly DOUBLE the taxes
you will have MUCH LESS MONEY for retirement due to the effects
of COMPOUNDING!

What this will also do is reduce money INVESTED IN AMERICA
which means fewer new businesses, and FAR FEWER JOBS.

Summary: Fewer new businesses, less growth, definitely fewer jobs
and also some firings due to this!

You know, it's all well and good to say that cutting taxes for the rich will result in more jobs and a stronger economy. It's just not that simple in practice, and that's where it really counts. As an example, the world would be a much better place if we lived in a utopian socialistic commune where every individual was self motivated to acheive their potential, but it absolutely broke down in practice because it's an oversimplification of reality. With Reaganomics we also get huge national debt and Enron, weakening dollar over time, and a general slumping of the economy in the long run.

Statistically this country has always done better under the democrats when it comes to holistic economics, and you can take that to the bank.

................................Sarah Palin can not campaign by herself because the McCain Campaign knows that she will show herself to be the Unqualified Candidate that she really is when she makes gaffes that embarass McCain. Palin knew very little about National and International matters three weeks ago when McCain chose her because of her looks to be his Public Relations Assistant. McCain and Palin campaign constantly together because McCain has no appeal or charisma and looks....well, like an old geezer. Palin has the looks like she could be be a TV News Anchor and more charm but she has little knowledge that would qualify her to be President at this point. Palin is now being constantly coached on what to say in public in hopes that she will learn enough not to get laughed at before the election. Is this how we want our election process to be handled to give us a chance at a fair election to pick a qualified leader for the next 4 years???

I am registered republican and I am disgusted by the turn that the McCain/Palin campaign has taken. I have always respected McCain as a man of honor and strong ethics, but I now question motives and his actions. McCain and Palin need to stop their smear campaign and focus on how they plan to actually execute on their new promise of "change." I heard very little substance in any of the campaign's speeches about how to turn this country around, especially since Sarah Palin was announced. Hopefully voters will spend time to determine what facts are and what rhetoric is. The last eight years have been dismal, but McCain and Palin fail to acknowledge that it was their party who has led us into the mess. Sarah Palin has been delivering parts of a powerful and passionate speech, just as any good actress could. As a woman, I applaud her hard work for the things she believes in and the progress she has made. But she is not qualified to be VP, and God forbid, president. Her speech sounds like it was written by Karl Rove. It was written by a Bush speech writer, and it was sarcastic and attacking but provided no new ideas. How is that change or progress for our nation? Why is she not allowed to take questions or speak on her own? She has provided no solutions for the failing economy, education, health care, or ending the war. I assume that the people who are so impressed with Palin do care about all of those issues. She can wrap herself in the American flag and she may be patriotic, but she does not have the capacity to lead this country. Stop the mud slinging. Focus on the issues and facts not the fan fair.

LETS DISCUSS THE ISSUES.

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ECONOMY

To create jobs you have to have a PRO BUSINESS Government.

Here's an Economics 101 Lesson for those of you who just don't understand
business or the economy!

The MORE regulations you have the FEWER JOBS.
The MORE taxes you have the FEWER JOBS.

Simple stuff!

Why is this?

Well if businesses are taxes (small business owners are the majority
of who Obama will rape with his crazy tax plan) we will PASS THOSE
TAXES along to YOU in the form of HIGHER PRICES of what we sell.

If we are in competitive industries where we can NOT pass those
along we will fire some employees and try to get more productivity
from those who are left. There certainly WILL BE NO NEW JOBS!

Obama's $11,000 per year per employee healh insurance plan will
further REDUCE jobs and CERTAINLY REDUCE NEW JOBS!

London Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Obama would be better to lead America out of it's problems. He said that he reviewed each candidates plans and he likes Obama's more. The Republicans jumped on that and basically told Brown to mind his business. If World Leaders can see the truth, why can't Americans see the truth. I pray that race has nothing to do with it.

SECOND POSTING - Come on Democrats I've been on here calling you STUPID, IDIOTS, MORONS for the last few weeks. Not ONE of you has debated the Issues.

Here's your chance to show us rich, smart, Republicans that there is ONE Democrat with a BRAIN!!!


LETS DISCUSS THE ISSUES.

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ECONOMY

To create jobs you have to have a PRO BUSINESS Government.

Here's an Economics 101 Lesson for those of you who just don't understand
business or the economy!

The MORE regulations you have the FEWER JOBS.
The MORE taxes you have the FEWER JOBS.

Simple stuff!

Why is this?

Well if businesses are taxes (small business owners are the majority
of who Obama will rape with his crazy tax plan) we will PASS THOSE
TAXES along to YOU in the form of HIGHER PRICES of what we sell.

If we are in competitive industries where we can NOT pass those
along we will fire some employees and try to get more productivity
from those who are left. There certainly WILL BE NO NEW JOBS!

Obama's $11,000 per year per employee healh insurance plan will
further REDUCE jobs and CERTAINLY REDUCE NEW JOBS!

(continued from above)

Many are now saying that McCain-Palin are different but I do not see that. McCains political career has actually been mostly without anything really impressive and has only demonstrated being a Maverick when flip-flopping for necessity/advantage. Palin shows she is feisty and aggressive but also extreme, bazaar and really totally self-focused. They are dependent on, committed to and patronizing all of the same interests that support Bush-Cheney and, for all of the obvious reasons, are incapable of any real change which they falsely offer. In all of that, in all that is constantly coming out, in their attacks on Obama-Biden and in what they find necessary to offer in their effort to avoid the issues, which would expose they are just more of the same, their blatant and arrogant dishonesty is totally evident to any objective and rational observer. The Republican Party is simply not what it was under Ronald Reagan and has steadily sunk to the depths, especially in dishonesty, ever since. The only way to give them the message that is not acceptable is to vote them out of office. My frustration is people just seem not to be able to get out of themselves and to see or admit the very apparent truth. That is it for me - have fun and good luck to all of us.

Feminist columnist Tammy Bruce wrote recently that Obama just didn???t compare Hillary Clinton to actress Glenn Close in ???Fatal Attraction.??? He actually said: ???I understand that Sen. Clinton, periodically when she???s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.??? He effectively reduced her strong electoral challenge to premenstrual syndrome.

???Obama himself has condescendingly referred to Palin???s motherhood to deflect voter attention from her successful role as governor. ???She hasn???t been on the scene, you know, she???s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who???s looking after five. I???ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out,??? he smarmed.

Why would someone like Obama, presumably from the ???enlightened??? liberal branch of the Democratic Party, stoop to such apparent misogyny in lieu of confronting Palin as a political opponent?

It???s not merely that she???s got a stellar record as governor that eclipses his record by comparison, but perhaps the crude identity politics of the Democratic platform as well.

Democrats don???t see voters as individuals, but as special interest groups. They pigeonhole them into narrow agendas and identities, and anyone who dares to stand outside that is considered a nonperson. They can be degraded.

In Denver, the main spoil Democrats offered to women was abortion on demand, not party power. No small wonder, then, that a Democrat leader Wednesday said McCain chose Palin, ???whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn???t had an abortion.???

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305938635299185

This election is too important to be sidetracked by this nonsense. Sarah Palin is not running for President. McCain is. We need to quit focusing on the Jerry Springer Show that is Sarah Palin and focus on the real issues--the economy, the wars, education, global warming, skyrocketing energy costs, unemployment, the failing banks, etc. McCain is part of the party that brought us this nightmare;before this year he was proud to be photographed with George Bush, to be seen as an ally of our current President. So how is this man going to even begin to get us out of this mess? Why would he want to? His constiuency of lobbyists and rich people are doing just fine--it's the rest of us who are suffering. Do you really want to return to a time like that of the robberbarons--a time when the middleclass was practically nonexistent, and working people were basically chattel to be abused for their employers' astronomical profit margins.

The Republicans over and over again use these cultural wedge issues to keep working people from voting in their own economic interest.They are laughing all the way to the bank. The Republicans were in charge of all three branches of government for six years, and they didn't ban abortion or ban gay marriage or make Christianity our state religion or make English our national language, etc. They wouldn't have anything to distract the populace with if they actually moved legislatively on these issues. They need poor and middle class people who believe in these cultural issues to continue to support them even though it means that they get poorer and poorer. And don't think they sincerely believe in these issues as well. Look at the way many, if not most, Republicans live, look at the scandals that Republicans have been associated with--they want the vote of cultural conservatives, but after the lever has been pulled in the ballot box, those voters can be forgotten until the next election when the Republicans will rile them up again, and get folks to cut off their noses to spite their faces.

The Bible talks about straining gnats and swallowing camels. It also says that it is harder for a rich man to enter heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. The rich Republicans are giving us plenty of gnats to strain in terms of cultural issues that we can't resolve through legislative means, and meanwhile we just keep swallowing those camels--the economic problems that the Congress and Senate and White House COULD resolve, so that real wealth could be earned by a multitude of American citizens willing to work hard if given real oppotunities. Just think, we could help some of those rich folks get into heaven by reducing their profit margins and taxing the wealthiest among us at a higher, fairer rate. Vote economics first, and work within our churches to address cultural issues.

Women in America need to do their research. When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, she wanted women who were raped to pay for a rape kit when you went to the hospital. That really sounds like somebody who is out of touch.
I want to give my prayer to all the victims in 9/11 and please remember that we need to bring our allies back and bring the respect we use to have. We need to be a leader once again and not beggers like we are now. Obama can bring that change and McCain can't. He was ready to go to war with Russia. Is that smart? Sarah Palin just received her passport last year so she wouldn't even know what to do if her phone rang at 3am.