FactChecking Biden-Palin Debate

The reasoning behind some people???s ABSURD logic that since Palin didn't screw it, then she did well is nothing but MEDIOCRE. She definitely DID NOT DO GOOD ENOUGH and DID NOT PASS the VP standard TEST last night, period! The debate reassured my decision to vote for the Obama/Biden ticket. I am more confident now that Obama has the right partner. Biden definitely won the debate, he blasted and lectured Palin. Biden overshadowed her and looked much more knowledgeable about all the issues discussed. Just because she ???survived??? doesn???t mean she did well. Not at all. She looked like a college student and just managed to dodge the questions, generalize and smile. She was able to appear as if she knew about the issues by giving non-answers, reciting memorized answers, and winking to the audience (very professional, huh?). I???m sorry Sen. McCain but she is definitely not prepared to be a VP. On the other hand Joe Biden, is more than prepared, will provide the experience to back Obama's good judgment, and will be a great VP. Period!

The reasoning behind some people???s ABSURD logic that since Palin didn't screw it, then she did well is nothing but MEDIOCRE. She definitely DID NOT DO GOOD ENOUGH and DID NOT PASS the VP standard TEST last night, period! The debate reassured my decision to vote for the Obama/Biden ticket. I am more confident now that Obama has the right partner. Biden definitely won the debate, he blasted and lectured Palin. Biden overshadowed her and looked much more knowledgeable about all the issues discussed. Just because she ???survived??? doesn???t mean she did well. Not at all. She looked like a college student and just managed to dodge the questions, generalize and smile. She was able to appear as if she knew about the issues by giving non-answers, reciting memorized answers, and winking to the audience (very professional, huh?). I???m sorry Sen. McCain but she is definitely not prepared to be a VP. On the other hand Joe Biden, is more than prepared, will provide the experience to back Obama's good judgment, and will be a great VP.

The reasoning behind some people???s ABSURD logic that since Palin didn't screw it, then she did well is nothing but MEDIOCRE. She definitely DID NOT DO GOOD ENOUGH and DID NOT PASS the VP standard TEST last night, period! The debate reassured my decision to vote for the Obama/Biden ticket. I am more confident now that Obama has the right partner. Biden definitely won the debate, he blasted and lectured Palin. Biden overshadowed her and looked much more knowledgeable about all the issues discussed. Just because she ???survived??? doesn???t mean she did well. Not at all. She looked like a college student and just managed to dodge the questions, generalize and smile. She was able to appear as if she knew about the issues by giving non-answers, reciting memorized answers, and winking to the audience (very professional, huh?). I???m sorry Sen. McCain but she is definitely not prepared to be a VP. On the other hand Joe Biden, is more than prepared, will provide the experience to back Obama's good judgment, and will be a great VP.

Palin's attempt at portraying herself as just another hockey mom from middle America does not play well after one sees the photo shoot of her next to her personal airplane in Vogue Magazine. I know a few hockey moms, and none of them own their own airplane. She is just another wealthy Republican pretending, during election season, to care about those of us who really are middle America and have to struggle to make car payments...not airplane payments. She is not sincere about anything. Just trying to make us believe she is a uncomplicated, caring, friendly hick from Alaska. Don't kid yourself....she is an egotistical, aggressive and self-aggrandizing power monger.

The Bush Depression


In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, 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.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government 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.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical 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 to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for 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 didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown 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
even more destructive 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 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why isnt obama 25 points ahead

The chairman of McCains 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.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
Elect Obama Biden 2008





Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4i

The Bush Depression


In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future.
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
Also, 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.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States.
The government 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.

McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical 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 to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for 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 didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown 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
even more destructive 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 (trillion) dollars deficit.Bush created a national debt larger then the first 42 presidents combined
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why isnt obama 25 points ahead

The chairman of McCains 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.

Let's teach him we are smarter than that .

31 states are voting now, dont wait
Elect Obama Biden 2008





Check out this video of sarah palins interview before you vote



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4i

Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.
It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial crisis.

Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?

We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.

Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?

Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/10/03/do_facts_matter

Senator Joe Biden lied at least 14 times during the vice presidential debate according to those counting at John McCain???s presidential headquarters.

Tucker Bounds, a spokesman from GOP presidential candidate John McCain???s campaign said in a statement, ???Joe Biden graduated from his trademark verbal gaffe to outright lie in tonight???s debate.???

McCain???s blogger-in-chief Michael Goldfarb chronicled the 14 lies HERE.

On the foreign policy front, Biden challenged Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin when she said Barack Obama???s pledge to meet with any foreign leaders, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, without precondition ???goes beyond naivete and goes beyond poor judgment.???

Biden lectured Palin, ???That's just simply not true about Barack Obama. He did not say he'd sit down with Ahmadinejad.??? During the YouTube Democratic primary debate last July Obama was asked if he would meet the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea without ???precondition??? during his first year in office.

???I would,??? he replied.

Biden appeared to attack Obama for making that very statement in August 2007. While Biden was challenging Obama for the Democratic nomination for president Biden said he would not support such a pledge. ???Would I make a blanket commitment to meet unconditionally with the leaders of each of those countries within the first year I was elected president???? he said in an appearance at the National Press Club. ???Absolutely positively no."

Five of the lies Biden told were related to tax and energy votes. During the debate Biden adamantly claimed McCain voted the same way as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did on a vote to raise taxes on those making $42,000 a year. The legislative record shows McCain was not present in the Senate for either of those votes and is recorded as ???not voting.???

The RNC also takes issue with Biden???s assessment Palin supports a ???windfall profits tax??? and Biden???s claim McCain voted against alternative energy 23 times. The independent Factcheck.org has previously stated when Obama and other Democrats made similar charges about the 23 votes ???they???re overstating the case.???

The other lies detailed by Goldfarb were related to Biden???s characterization of McCain???s healthcare plan, stances on bank deregulation and the $700 billion financial bailout that recently passed the Senate.

http://townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/10/03/biden_tells_14_lies_during_vp_debate

You mean the Democrats? Fiscal mess is, and you know it,. Vysomething. Everyone has to have a house, whether you can afford it or not. Democrat plan. So - Fannie & Freddie did just that. And the CEO's made a gazillion dollars. Plague on both your houses & senates.

Dunno. Joes Constituional gaffes were unforgivable,as this man has spent decades in the Senate and should know better [ VP tiebreakers and Article I responsibilities]. HEZBOLLAH was never ''kicked out of South Lebanon''. Indeed,it never left.
The ''3.4 million children''under SCHIP expansion that ''McCain voted against''. Except for one detail. McCain and several Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats opposed the bill as it placed the ceiling at people making:

250,000$ per year.

The same people Biden and Obama call ''rich''.



The Biden ''ropeline coal gaffe''has been replayed on YOU TUBE,and yes, Joes comments are in full context.

More dishonesty on the ''tax breaks for oil companies''. As FACTCHECK helpfully observed,Biden and Obamas attacks were ''misleading'' as the tax break went for all American businesses.Not simply ''oil companies''.

The plan now for the legacy media,is to first acknowlage that the debate went better than planned,and then corral resources in order to wreck her surviving chances. We will fully expect more ''troopergate''stories to clog the place up.[while not mentioning in one place on these pages that Joe Bidens brother and son are under investigation and lawsuit for fraud], pushing the ''non-regulatory''angle in the wake of the bailout in the ''What Happened And Why"" meme [while pointedly ignoring Democrats Frank and Dodds ,even Bidens,role in the disaster], and small beer stuff that NEWSWEAK is already circulating about Palin [size and cost of home[but not Bidens], self-financial worth [But not Bidens], parents as sometime ''rat killers''[but not Bidens lobbyist sons role in the Bankruptcy Bill], fluteplaying,SNL,and Why Leftwinged San Franciscans Are No Longer Buying A Chilean Wine Called ''Palin'',which predates her very political career [while saying nothing on the Jim Jones-like singalong of brainwashed kids down the coast in LA who chant: ''Obama Will Lead Us,And We Will Follow''].

Another day,another dig at NEWSWEAK.