'American Idol’ Meets ‘Northern Exposure’

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You know the difference between Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin?

Lipstick!

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Sarah Palin is a politician who actually works for the "people" not the party ... which is the way it should be. She is a rarity and breath of fresh air, not just for the republican party, but for the country. It's about time this country has someone who will work for us. I applaud John McCain's choice for VP. Obama is an egotistical idiot who didn't want Hillary Clinton "stealing his show" ... little did he know that another "woman" would come on the scene to do just that. The best part is not that she is a woman, however, the best part is that she is real... she isn't just another corrupt politician from Chicago who is trying to promote himself for his own agenda's. His association with Rezko (a Syrian born criminal who had all the Chicago politicians in his back pocket), Wright (one of the most radical racist people of out time, who defamed and damned America on a regular basis in front of thousands of followers), Ayers (an admitted and known terrorist who participated in terrorist acts against our government) speaks volumes for who Obama really is. I hope that America will weight all the facts and take the time to get to know each candidate before they go to the polls instead of letting the media sway and influence their votes.

John McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin because he intends to follow through and make his Project Lexington for United States energy independence the dominant issue in this campaign. Governor Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of increased offshore drilling and she knows that Alaska has an offshore coastline greater than the rest of the country combined and is also comes in second among the states in oil production. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and John McCain understand that Obama and the Democrats would never consider government loan guarantees or tax breaks for a sure thing that will produce energy for the American gas tank. In fact Democrats are trying to put together a so-called windfall profits tax which will have the effect of discouraging future investment in the United States oil industry. John McCain also knows that Governor Sarah Palin family situation also illustrates that longterm Democratic leadership hostility and policies toward United States owned energy companies have caused our current energy crisis. Her husband works for British Petroleum but instead should be working for the former American owned Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company developed and explored the Alaska North Slope and formerly owned eighty percent of our proven Alaskan reserves. With its substantial oil reserves Arco Oil Company should have bought British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company during the second Bill Clinton administration. With the right business environment and support from both political parties in the United States, Arco Oil Company might have been more successful and been able to buy out British Petroleum instead of British Petroleum buying out Arco Oil Company.

Look at Apple Computer and Microsoft. Their success in the computer world have made them bullet proof to corporate takeovers. Longterm Democratic hostility and opposition to offshore drilling and periodic talk of windfall profits taxes contributed to the takeover of Arco Oil Company.

Before she was chosen by McCain, Palin came very close to endorsing Obama. Take a look at this video.
http://tinyurl.com/5vkuoj

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!



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!

ENERGY

In this aspect Obama isn't a TOTAL MORON! I agree this country NEEDS to look for alternative energy sources. I doubt there are ANY people who don't agree with this.

Where Obama goes wrong is to NOT DRILL NOW.

For those who don't understand international economies and how prices are set let me explain.

Oil prices are set in the OIL FUTURES markets. It's not just supply and demand that has traders setting prices its the FUTURE EXPECTATIONS of supply and demand as well!

Did anybody notice that the price of oil fell from about $150 per gallon to under $110 per gallon ever since President Bush released the executive order against offshore drilling?

For those of us who occassionally trade energy WE HAVE NOTICED!

Yes its true that allowing more drilling is NOT THE LONG TERM SOLUTION but if America makes the commitment to doing it the OIL FUTURES markets will price oil lower NOW and keep it less than it WOULD BE.

So in a nutshell drilling will keep gas prices lower.

This is a policy that will HELP THE POOR. An extra $20-50 per week LESS GAS PRICES can go a long way to helping the poor and middle classes!

Now on Obama's side we also need wind, solar, geothermal, NUCLEAR, clean coal technology as well.

We also need to INVENT the low cost, light weight, high performance electric car battery.

The good news on that is Japanese automakers have already done this and it won't be long before those cars are sold in the US ONCE electric companies increase their capacities and work out the logistics of this. The Japanese have done this in Japan and they are rolling their cars out globally from 2010 to 2012!!

http://news.uk.msn.com/newsweek.aspx?cp-documentid=9496081


We need to focus on nuclear energy which is the cheapest and improving the car battery to allow power, performance and GREATER distances per charge of 50 miles. THis will happen soon WITH OR WITHOUT OBAMA!

Obama KNOWS this technology is already near completion and wants to claim credit once he's President for this! It's crazy to give him ANY credit for hybrid or electric cars and green energy sources, the decades of work and research happened well before him and continues now and will into the future even with Mc Cain as President!

Why has the press not pressed Palin about her totally irresponsible and extremely dangerous act of putting her unborn baby at risk by flying from Texas to Alaska AFTER her water broke. Why did having the baby Alaska mean more to her than the safety and life of her baby? That is what fuels people's suspicions that she really wasn't pregnant in the first place, especially after she went back to work after three days. Were those the actions of a "super mom" or super cold and stupid woman?

On Election Day, they will only say...

"It was beauty killed the beast."

Sarah Palin. De profundis. Tennyson knew you 150 years ago. Odysseus knew you. Our Athena.

Well written and generally unbias. However, I take issue with your statement "Palin has a knack for weaving novel biographical details into an irresistible creation myth." Her speechwriters have a knack, not her. If and when she ever gets untethered from McCain and put on stage or at a table with out any handlers is when we'll see a truer picture of how she handles herself. Myth or magic.