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Not Coming Clean on Coal

A McCain-Palin ad claims the Obama-Biden ticket opposes clean coal. Not true.

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  • Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 7:46:50 PM

    Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!


    Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.

    The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
    Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."

    Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.

    Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.

    Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.

    Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.

    It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.

    Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}

    Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.

  • Posted By: eightyearsweary @ 10/12/2008 7:52:29 AM

    how surprising now they attacking obama in the coal states over an issue he does support. obama was at the ceremony celebrating the choice of mattoon illinois as the site for the futuregen clean coal plant that was going to also sequester co2 under the ground.the same plant that bush's home state of texas was vieing for.the same plant the department of energy was all for untill illinois (a blue state) won.tehn a few weeks later the d.o.e. chief (a bush crony) with zero experience in any of the energy fields i.e oil,gas,coal etc. pulled teh money promised to the consortium for futuregen.this plant has the potential to revolutionize the coal industry.13 other coal bearing staes supported illinois in getting this plant,mostly because their geology is the same as illinois (for the co2 sequestering underground purpose)so this attack is more republican crap, buisin(ass) as usual

  • Posted By: DUMPLIN @ 10/10/2008 12:36:47 PM

    THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN WRONG ON ALL ISSUES. MAINLY BECAUSE THEY PUT POLITICS AND POWER BEFORE COUNTRY AND AMERICAN CITIZENS. THEY ONLY THING THEY DO BEST IS BLAME REPUBLICANS KNOWING THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE OF THE LIBERAL PRESS HELPING THEM. ACORN WILL TRY TO STEAL THIS ELECTION FOR THEM AND THE PRESS WILL SQUASH THAT STORY AS WELL OR BLAME REPUBLICANS. NO ONE IS TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH WILLIAM AYERS. YEH, HE IS A PROFESSOR BUT HE DOESN'T TEACH ENGLISH UNLESS TELLING STUDENTS TO KILL THEIR PARENTS, BOMB ALL CAPITALIST SYMBOLS, PRAISE COMMUNITST LEADERS SUCH AS CASTRO AND CHAVEZ AND TEACH THEM, IN ENGLISH, HOW TO SOCIALIZE AMERICA'S SOCIETY IS TEACHING ENGLISH. OBAMA IS UNFIT AND HE DOES NOT LOVE AMERICA AND HE ESPECIALLY HATES THE WHITE RACE. READ HIS BOOK, LISTEN TO HIS PREACHER, LEARN ABOUT AYERS AND WHAT HE BELIEVES. OBAMA IS GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION.

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 7:57:40 PM

    They harassed her until she registered to vote six times!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3145562&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/09/2008 12:05:38 AM

    "Not all Democrats agree with Mr. Frank that such policies are off-limits to criticism. Last week Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama said in a statement: 'Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership, when in retrospect, I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.'

    "Mr. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus."

    'Rank snobbery'

    Camille Paglia, who supports Sen. Barack Obama, has nothing but scorn for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin.

    "The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses," Miss Paglia writes at www.salon.com.

    "The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality."

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/06/2008 6:17:26 PM

    The Antichrist!:
    When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn???t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the ???bubble of American supremacy,??? because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global ???equilibrium.??? So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.

    And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms ???regime changes,??? is through very difficult economic conditions.

    America has not yet felt the full force of Soros style economic shock treatment. But others have.

    Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.

    When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an ???economic war criminal??? who ???sucks the blood from the people.??? Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a ???third way??? toward economic stability.

    Wake up, America, before it is too late!!!!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 8:40:16 PM

    he ACORN does not fall from the tree:
    http://justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/05/2008 1:13:22 AM

    This is one of the few Democrats that I am proud of!:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR5ekEuGyvk

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 9:18:39 PM

    Day 5 of stealing Ohio's election!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3130656&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:35:22 PM

    EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 3:35:03 PM

    EVEN MORE ON THE VOTER FRAUD THAT IS GOING ON IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES!:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3129737&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    DON'T SAY THAT I NEVER WARNED OF OBAMA'S NEFARIOUS CAMPAIGN!

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 10/03/2008 2:53:09 AM

    Elect Obama NOW.....he has taken over 200K in illegal money for his campaign so far......He has the "wright" stuff to lead this nation!

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/03/2008 6:43:01 AM

      Z...good post....LMAO.

      NOBAMA!!!

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 10/03/2008 6:41:35 AM

    FactFree at it again.....ya'll should be sued for false advertising.

    NOBAMA!!!!

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 10/03/2008 2:49:43 AM

    Of course Biden "meant" something else....so why can't they tell us what he meant?

    Oh wait they can't....

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/03/2008 1:18:07 AM

    You may not like Bill, but sometimes you have to love him!
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/02/2008 2:34:51 PM

    More on the voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3128354&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:41:46 PM

    voter fraud in Ohio:
    http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3126975&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 10:18:50 PM

    A man of great wisdom:
    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

  • Posted By: Krohn @ 10/01/2008 9:51:07 PM

    Obama's dirtiest, darkest secret!:
    http://larrysinclair.org/

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/01/2008 2:53:32 PM

    Heh. But in order to do that,Biden will have to explain his own lies regarding this energy substance.

    The DC Examiner Sept.25,2008:''Joe Bidens Coal-Fired Gaffe Machine''

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