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‘Ask Not What You Can Do For Barack Obama, Ask What Barack Obama Can Do For You’
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Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 09/30/2008 1:17:26 PM
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Posted By: paproudmom @ 09/30/2008 12:28:52 PM
I was born at the end of the baby boom generation. We did not believe we were owed anything. We also were not so easily swayed by someone new who claims to be "change". What your generation should be asking is why are you being pandered to by the media and the Obama campaign. As much as I am impressed with our country's young Americans, you are the least experienced and least mature of the generations. Of course, I generalized but I'm talking norms. Whenever a party or a candidate claims to have the youth vote I shudder. I am so much more mature and have learned much since my 20's. I am pushing 50. I was probably mature for my age in my 20's, but still I had much too learn. I'll take a candidate that has the support of people who have experienced life over one who has the youth voting in mass. Ignore Obama's pandering and really look closely and ask questions. You may not like what you see. Especially in these times question the media they have totally lost their credibility and perspective.
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Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/30/2008 10:53:15 AM
Did you see that Rezko's cutting a deal with prosecutors?
http://www.newsweek.com/id/161581
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Posted By: calebnum13 @ 09/29/2008 10:12:48 PM
When are you going to do an article that explores the racism implicit in the 90%+ black support for Obama?
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Posted By: tmitch10 @ 09/30/2008 10:24:39 AM
When are we going to have an article that explores the racism explicit in the 100% of whites voting 100% white before this election cycle?
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Posted By: realisticvoter @ 09/30/2008 10:06:40 AM
We, the baby boomers, have created a generation of revolutionaries. While we have created confidence in our children, it would appear that we did not create the ability to make a sound judgement on choosing a chief executive. It is always wonderfully refreshing to have a young fresh face running for the oval office (of course, we flash back to JFK).
However, SUBSTANCE in the form of true ability is the key to making the executive branch successful. Should Obama win the oval office and after the celebrating is over by this generation--then what? Will they fade away to their iPods and video games, forgetting the real reason for voting on a President? This is on American Idol. You are not voting on the best looking or most charasmatic. You are voting on your future and your ability to make a living in this country.
When your parents are gone or retired, what will have been the affect of an Obama presidency, that you voted on, and where will you be economically? Who will be taking care of you then?
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Posted By: arbucle @ 09/30/2008 2:26:55 AM
Lets see your generation in Detroit public schools and many other big cities such as Houston have a 75% drop out rate and thats for a free education.Nobody owes you a dam thing, you have not worked or paid taxes to demand anything.Most of you have grown up thinking your special instead of busting your asses learning math and science which will determine if you will be poor or not in the future.No President now or later will make your life better because the country is now broke trying to promise something for eveyone.Get over it and stick your noses in the math and science books in high school and if you do well you will find a better life in the end.
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Posted By: arbucle @ 09/30/2008 2:25:15 AM
Lets see your generation in Detroit public schools and many other big cities such as Houston have a 75% drop out rate and thats for a free education.Nobody owes you a dam thing, you have not worked or paid taxes to demand anything.Most of you have grown up thinking your special instead of busting your asses learning math and science which will determine if you will be poor or not in the future.No President now or later will make your life better because the country is now broke trying to promise something for eveyone.Get over it and stick your noses in the math and science books in high school and if you do well you will find a better life in the end.
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Posted By: forceflow @ 09/29/2008 11:01:19 PM
Wow, you may be as old as I am but I've accomplished quite a bit. Your self-serving, naive article really falls short of any mediocre standard for journalism. I volunteered for Mr. Obama's campaingn in 2004 while attending the University of Chicago and I'll tell you, his focus is on the future. He sees our generation as the one that can be shaped into a societally-focused, green, sustainable generation. We are malleable because of our "migration to HTML." Mr. Obama has proposed many items specific to our generation including: making college affordable again through community service credits, pell grant funding, and other programs. He will rehsape the anemic job market to focus on new service and tech based jobs including green collar jobs (solar, clean coal, nuclear, as well as future tech), as well as jobs that won't be shipped overseas such as community, teaching, and other vital services to civil society. I recommend that you learn a bit more before writing your articles (although kudos on convincing Newsweek's apparently tone-deaf editorial staff to carry this anemic, vapid article).
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Posted By: TruthBhad @ 09/29/2008 7:08:10 PM
Yes..IT does say it all....
Go here:
www.youtube.com/user/TheMouthPeace
Play the following videos:
"Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? V2 "
and
"Covering Your Fannie, Who Really Caused Our Economic Crisis?"
These videos speak to for themselves.
The democrates are guilty in starting this sub-prime mortgage mess.
WHY DOESN'T NEWSWEEK REPORT THIS?????????????????????
McCain tried to stop it and was blocked by the Democrats.
TBH-
Posted By: Vypurr @ 09/29/2008 10:50:34 PM
Quote: "Why doesn't Newsweek report this"?????
Newsweek would go out of business before they would actually be fair with both candidates. Actually, their subscriptions are down 30 percent as it is.
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Posted By: slowe @ 09/29/2008 7:14:03 PM
First of all Clinton managed in a way that there was a surplus. If that is not doing something for future generations then I don't know what is. Bush spent it!!
Secondly if you young people are so smart then you should know just asking for more things doesn't help anything. Realistically who ever is elected is going to be faced with managing this hugh debt that we find ourselves in. If you have ever managed anything you know when you are in trouble what you do is cut back not just keep adding. Again GWB has been doing this for the last 8 years and look at the mess we find ourselves in.
You can call it protectionistic if you want to but if we don't bring some jobs either home or create new technologies to offer meaningful jobs to people living in the US you can bend over and kiss you ----- goodbye.-
Posted By: Vypurr @ 09/29/2008 10:11:47 PM
Clinton raised taxes and decimated the military to get his so-called surplus, which of course, was a myth.
Yes, a myth. And it is now widely known.
http://www.letxa.com/articles/16
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Posted By: kdallas999 @ 09/29/2008 4:46:12 PM
Excellent article. I agree that regardless of the economic bailout, the war in Iraq, etc.. the next President HAS to invest in the U.S.. We are falling behind in technology measures, like Internet usage. We are falling behind in science and in math as our education system remains rooted in the agricultural culture it was built for (not even industrial!) Our numbers of "have nots" are getting so large that a continued policy of ignoring them or offering them the most minimal assistance possible will create a safety risk that we personally and crimal justic system-wise will not be able to sustain.
Oh yes, we must ask A LOT of Obama.
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Posted By: varacefan @ 09/29/2008 4:31:39 PM
That is the reason 90% of these new voters are supporting Obama! They think somehow he will make their life easier. Granted many are new to politics and do not realise how most politicians lie. They will find that out soon enough. No one will ever make your life better other than you! Many of these people remind me of the people standing on their roofs in New Orleans waiting for the goverment to save them. They will be standing around waiting for Obama to save them. NEWS FLASH!! It ain't going to happen!
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Posted By: ObamaBidenNOW @ 09/29/2008 2:04:42 PM
In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future. I follow a economist named bob proctor who has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly. He perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown ,and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years Is terrifying. He thinks it will be worse then the great depression. Banks in the US are going under one after the other. Country wide the largest morgage bank in the world Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers , and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. And now Fanny and Freddy which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States. The goverment took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash And we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before The future of these companies will fall into the hands of our next president
Bush just like Mcain doesn't understand the economy.
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it
He does not understand exactly what is broken. Its no surprise that he doesnt. The people that make up these
securities use complex math models very few people understand.
Bush and mccain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks take risks with all of our future.
Now Phil Graham is the head of mccains economic policy ,and mccain wants to make him the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time bush met with his economic advisors was in march. He either didnt realize or didnt care that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as bush has done mccain would be
incredibly worse because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 deficit. Most of Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will do get what you have always __________
When it comes to policy bush and mccain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
The chairman of mcains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues
they vote on a personality composite which means. He is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
He believes people will vote against there own self interests.
Lets teach him we are smarter then that .
Hold them accountable now while it will still help
Elect Obama Biden 2008-
Posted By: varacefan @ 09/29/2008 4:24:30 PM
Are you trying to fool us or yourself. Look it up. Two years ago a regulator called into question what was happening at Fannie and Freddie. He was attackted by the Dems and told to shut up. I just heard the audio on the radio. This guy was made out to be a nut and nearly run out of town for warning about what has now happened. The leading Dems are on record bashing this guy and his message. How can you turn a blind eye to what your party has done. The Rep. party has done there share also, but to post here and give a totally one sided version is dishonest.
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Posted By: macdoodle @ 09/29/2008 3:36:39 PM
WHAT IS THIS FAR RIGHT FUNDAMENTALIST ARMAGEDDON STUFF ?
"Many of you know how Armageddon is coming through simple math" that's Palins ideology complete with religion trumps science.!
AND AS most US VETS KNOW -McCAINS STANCE has always been I GOT MINE.!
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Posted By: Limey @ 09/29/2008 2:12:58 PM
I wish everyone over the moon about Obama would read this article. The points made are what I've yelling at my TV screen for the past few months!!! Time to get past the carefully manicured image.... MSNBC jumped the gun and said the bailout deal is a sign of ushering the new Obama reign and for once wrote some truths about their annointed one (see below).....oooops the deal just got voted down...can't wait to see how they will backtrack now.
;;;;;;;"And Obama does represent something new ??? or, rather, something old that is new again. He believes it is the role of government to help people and regulate the markets. He is a lawyer by training, and believes in the use of the law (and the courts) for the common good. **He doesn???t, frankly, know much about economics or the profits ??? those were not his specialties in law or life.**
In fairness, Democrats (the ???soft money??? hedge-fund crowd of the Clinton 90s and the party hacks who got rich at Fannie and Freddie) are as guilty as the Bush-era Republicans (who argued against ANY regulation of anything).
The mainstream media is actually pointing fingers at democrats too...I think I may faint.
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Posted By: sharkman @ 09/28/2008 11:57:47 PM
This boy bowled a 35 and you think he can fix something?Wake up when I was in 3rd grade we took a field trip to the bowling ally I think most of us 3rd graders bowled higher than Nobama did send this geek back to Chicago and fix that sespool down there.
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Posted By: KeriTail @ 09/29/2008 2:03:13 PM
Who cares if he can bowl? That isn't really a top priority for a President.
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Posted By: befair @ 09/29/2008 10:52:09 AM
Sen. Obama is not a good bowler and he is not a BOY. He is a real human being and an adult and he deserves to be addressed as such. He is a fantastic basketball player. Thankfully sports scores are not what determines someones readiness to be President. You seem to have a very negative view of Chicago. It is one of our most beautiful cities and is filled with good people who love their families and raise them to be good human beings. It is no different from any other town or city, other than the fact that it is very large. The size and the number of people mulitplies both the best in human nature and the worst.
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Posted By: relleck92 @ 09/29/2008 1:05:14 PM
The "youth vote" will get to demand promises when it puts candidates in the White House -- by showing up to vote on election day-- as consistently as seniors and unions. I agree that this election is crucial Gen X-Y and the Millenials because of tax issues and entitlement programs, but anyone who thinks McCain will be more progressive or "forward-looking" hasn't studied the candidates' (or their parties') positions and track records.
Gen X voter
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Posted By: Barbie123 @ 09/29/2008 12:57:09 PM
Well what vote for 4 more years of Bush's failed policies, give me a break, I don't have Stupid tattooed on my head
Obama 08
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Posted By: misterharban @ 09/29/2008 12:29:02 PM
You know, I have reached the point where I don???t care who the next generation elects. I am retired, afraid of what the consequences of continued fiscal irresponsibility will be to me, but assured that before long I will be dead and the generation who elects the next president and his cohort of senators and representatives will be the ones who will continue to live with the consequences of their decisions long after I am gone.
I know with mathematical certainty that we cannot, as individuals or as a country, continue to amass debt beyond our ability to repay it. With a Federal debt in excess of $10 billion and a total public debt far in excess of that, one would think that intelligent people would cringe just a little. But voters seem to be continually swayed by arguments that further increases in spending are investments in the country and in the future. This, as we become more and more of a country consisting mostly of baristas serving each other pricey cups of coffee in the endless strip centers which vend cheap crap made by people who really work hard in countries far away from us.
We currently spend one dollar in six of the total national income on healthcare (soon to be one dollar in four). Yet our candidates offer nothing more than cheap talk about ensuring health care to everyone and ignore the immorality of devoting too much of our wealth to health and not enough to the other essentials which also make our lives rich. They are willing to talk about the equity of appropriately distributing health care, but not the extent to which we become a country where health care becomes our biggest single expenditure. Our candidates talk about the value of education as if education was an end in and of itself. They do not talk about the need to work hard and work productively to fulfill the needs that other people are willing to pay for. Our leaders, and our youth have come to view education as the key to getting and having rather than as an essential element of contributing and doing.
So to the young people who are keen on reshaping the world, understand that you have inherited a country which will require each of you to devote much more of you efforts to paying for the debts which we have already amassed than your parents ever did. If you wish to continue living on credit, rest assured that you will never be able to retire and that your parents will have nothing to leave you. There really is no tooth fairy ??? not even confiscating money from the rich. Fiscal irresponsibility will be the lasting legacy of my generation. Your generation has a choice (maybe the last chance at this choice) between embarking on a path of fiscal responsibility (both personal and public) or total fiscal destruction. Your great-grand parents learned this the hard way. Your parents never did.-
Posted By: misterharban @ 09/29/2008 12:37:50 PM
$10 trillion, not $10 billion. Sorry.
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Posted By: bojack27 @ 09/29/2008 12:15:18 PM
Obama's voting record in Illinois
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4240
Ensign Amdt. No. 4240; To require wealthy Medicare beneficiaries to pay a greater share of their Medicare Part D premiums. No Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4192
Bunning Amdt. No. 4192 as Modified; To repeal the tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. No Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4204
Conrad Amdt. No. 4204; To add a deficit-neutral reserve fund for repealing the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits. Yes Agreed To
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4191
Kyl Amdt. No. 4191; To protect small businesses, family ranches and farms from the Death Tax by providing a $5 million exemption, a low rate for smaller estates and a maximum rate no higher than 35%. No
Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4189
Upon Reconsideration Specter Amdt. No. 4189; To repeal section 13203 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 by restoring the Alternative Minimum Tax rates that had been in effect prior thereto. No Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Motion to Reconsider S.Amdt. 4189
Motion to Reconsider Amdt. No. 4189; To repeal section 13203 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 by restoring the Alternative Minimum Tax rates that had been in effect prior thereto. No Agreed To
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2008-02-12 S. 2248
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 3907
Dodd Amdt. No. 3907; To strike the provisions providing immunity from civil liability to electronic communication service providers for certain assistance provided to the Government. Yes Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4170
Graham Amdt. No. 4170 as Modified; To protect families, family farms and small businesses by extending the income tax rate structure, raising the death tax exemption to $5 million and reducing the maximum death tax rate to no more than 35%; to keep education affordable by extending the college tuition deduction; and to protect senior citizens from higher taxes on their retirement income, maintain U.S. financial market competitiveness, and promote economic growth by extending the lower tax rates on dividends and capital gains. No Rejected
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2008-03-13 S.Con.Res. 70
On the Motion S.Amdt. 4242
Motion to Waive C.B.A. Cornyn Amdt. No. 4242; To protect the family budget by providing for a budget point of order against legislation that increases income taxes on taxpayers, including hard-working middle-income families, entrepreneurs, and college students. No Rejected
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