Troopergate: Not Over Yet

OBAMA'S TAX POLICY: MIDDLE CLASS AND SMALL BUSINESS TAX CUTS!

LESS THAN $250K = 3x MORE TAX CUTS for MIDDLE CLASS under Obama's plan.
SMALL BUSINESSES= NO CAPITAL GAINS , $3K PER HIRE TAX CUT, 50% BENEFITS SUBSIDY
OVER $250K= ONLY 3% increase

BARACK OBAMA ECONOMICS 101: MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUTS = CUSTOMERS WITH MONEY = SMALL BUSINESS PROFIT + SMALL BUSINESS TAX CUTS + AMERICAN JOBS= STRONG ECONOMY AND GROWTH

Check it out at www.barackobama.com for the real truth about Obama's Middle Class and Small Business plan to build this economy for the 21st Century!

Palin is going to have a hard time justifying this one but she will try. I can't trust McCain/Palin because it seems like everything they say is a lie and both have been slapped on the hand for ethics violations (Palin=Troopergate, McCain= Keating 5).

I see all these comments below about taxes. Barack's tax plan is similar to Clinton's. He just wants to roll back the Bush/McCain tax cuts that aren't working and give a little more to the middle class and small businesses to grow the economy and consumer confidence. Small business do get tax cuts to grow their business and DO NOT have to pay capital gains tax. Middle class workers get 3x TAX CUTS under Obama. When businesses have customers that have money to buy things/services, businesses make a profit and the economy grows. It is simple supply and demand economics 101.

Those making over $250K will only pay 3% more than now.

See for yourself so you know the facts before voting. You want to do what is best for you and the Country. www.taxcut.barackobama.com.

Jim Johnson: you have no real understanding of capitalism, socialism or communism for that matter. All you did here was provide the same crap rhetoric the replublican party is providing. No one is saying capitalism is bad. It is the best system and no one is trying to change that.

Even in the current system, those who make more money pay more taxes. Are you not aware of the current tax brackets based on income? Maybe you haven't filed taxes recently or in a lower bracket.


I'm sorry to break your simple ideolial bubble but the fact of the matter is we don't live in a pure capitalistic society and never have. What do you think social security is? How about continous fed injections to the market system that have happened currently and in the past regardless of republican/democratic stance. Did you forget savings and loan scandal of 1980s, Enron, bears stearn or even the latest 700 billion dollar bail out package? You consider this capitalism?

You mention "Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.". Are you trying to convince people of the utopia world of capitalism? This is one of the drawbacks of capitalism is greed which leads to fraud. Without proper regulation, human greed which is a double edge sword also causes the collapse of a capitalistic economy. Have you forgotten our past and present crisises?

I think you need to study up on capitalism and the history of it in our country than blurting out party sentiments that really don't resonate with current practice of capitalism in our country.

Simply stating Obama is socialist with ideological utopian view of capitalism shows your lack of understanding of the current economic system.

RoboHate.

The McCain/Palin campaign is now combining our analog (or digital, cell) telephones with computers, and has produced RoboHate calls against his opponent, to enliven hatred wherever possible.

Hate is not good for the country. And McCain/Palin uses hatred too often. However, McCain/Palin stumbles grossly on unity.


This country needs unity in difficult times. Yes We Can. Obama/Biden is right for this country right now.

McCain is connected to Nazi supporters and Central American death squads.. so says
FoxNews and Washington Post (two Republican news publishers)

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/attention-ayers-renew-focus-mccains-iran-contra-connection/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100700025.html

The old guy has a long infamous past.

To all who support Obama make sure you get out and vote.The polls dont mean anything. if you can vote early. We cant afford to loose again. THANK YOU

On October 10, the Alaska Legislative Council found Sarah Palin guilty of abusing power. Immediately Ms. Palin said "if you read the report you'll see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member." This quote by Palin is only 50% true. The Legislative Council report says it was LEGAL for her to fire Commissioner Monegan, since as Governor she has the right to hire and fire her staff at will. The report also says that her firing of Commissioner Monegan was an UNETHICAL abuse of power.

Palin tells you half of the truth, and lies outright about the other half. You know the old saying: If you tell a lie, make sure it contains some truth so it will be believable.

From the report:

Palin tried to force the Commissioner to prosecute Trooper Wooten (her former brother in law) for illegally shooting a moose. The Commissioner explained to Palin that if they charged Wooten they would also have to bring charges against Palin's sister, who was present on the hunt, had the moose permit and illegally let her husband use it. They would also have to prosecute Palin's father, who cut up the moose and stored it in his freezer, sharing the meat with the Palin family. In other words, the Palins were OK with Wooten illegally shooting the moose when it happened. They participated in the hunt and kept the meat. But a year later when Wooten was divorcing Palin's sister, suddenly the Palins turned him in for illegally killing a moose.

The Palins turned Wooten in to the State Troopers disciplinary commission about a year and a half before she became Governor. The Troopers investigated Wooten, finding that some of Palin's allegations were true and some were false. The Troopers disciplined Wooten with a few days' suspension. When Palin tried to get Monegan (the new Commissioner) to re-open the case once she was Governor, Monegan told her he couldn't do it. All the allegations had already been investigated and Palin had no new evidence. Trooper Wooten belongs to a union, and he can not be fired just because the Governor doesn't like him.

So, the Palins hired a private investigator to trail Wooten, trying to catch him doing something wrong. The investigator took photos of Wooten dropping his kids off at school, using his patrol car. The Palins file a complaint, saying it is illegal for him to ferry his kids in a patrol car. They try and get him fired for this, except it turns out that since Wooten was working a swing shift, his Commander had given him a waiver to bring his kids to school in the car.

Wooten and Palin's sister have been divorced 3 years, yet the Palins continue to persecute Wooten. Palin just can't forgive and get past this family drama.

Read the report yourself (it takes a few seconds to load):

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/Politics/Election2008/branchflower
_report_to_the_legislative_council.pdf

Freeper troll NowForTheTruth correctly reports that Sarah was not found guilty of wrongdoing for firing Commissioner Monagen. But he hides the OTHER finding of the Alaska Troopergate investigation, which is that Sarah violated the law by abusing her power for personal reasons by trying to get trooper WOOTEN fired.

When John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, I went on-line and researched her record. Within two days, I knew about this investigation and all the evidence against her, I knew she had lied about 80% of her record, because there are public records online that state otherwise. I knew she had absolutely no experience for the office she is running for. At that point, I lost whatever respect I had for John McCain.

Palin certainly acted unethically. Dismissing the findings as the result of a "fishing expedition" is ridiculous. The committee running this investigation had 10 republicans to 4 democrats.
Note that she refused to comply with a subpoena in the investigation. She could be found in contempt and sent to jail for this in January when the legislature goes into session.

Wouldn't that be nice? On inauguration day, a prospective VP in jail or a fugitive from justice. Just imagine.

This is *relatively* small potatoes, in truth. The bigger issue is that McCain was shockingly reckless to pick a VP who was in the midst of an ethics probe. Palin is a shockingly inappropriate choice for this role. McCain has proven himself to have terrible judgement.

The Palin investigation was about whether she abused her powers in firing Monegan. THE REPORT FOUND:

"I find that, although Walt Monegan's refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety. IN SPITE OF THAT, GOVERNOR PALIN'S FIRING OF COMMISSIONER MONEGAN WAS A PROPER AND LAWFUL EXERCISE OF HER CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY AUTHORITY TO HIRE AND FIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH DEPARTMENT HEADS." (Report at 8, emphasis added).

Once that finding was made, the remaining findings, placed out of order for clearly political reasons, are nothing more than a fishing expedition , or rather, investigator Sen. Hollis French's promised "October Surprise." ,

The investigation was bipartisan, right up to the time Palin was selected to run as vp. Then Democrat investigator Sen. Hollis French gave a September 2 interview in which he warned the inquiry would yield an "October Surprise" for the GOP. Any judge in the country would be recused for making such a remark. Hell, the left demands the recusal of justices simply because they went fishing, never mind predicting the outcome before the evidence. Yet French did not recuse himself, and both French and the person responsible for oversight, Democratic Sen. Kim Elton, are both in the famous "Obama Headquarters" photo"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2078771/posts

Or see:

http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/20903021/troopergate.htm?pageid=23043&seek=105.499

Rep. John Coghill, a Republican who criticized the handling of the investigation, said it was "well-done professionally." But he said some of the conclusions were judgment calls by Branchflower, and recommended readers should view them with a "jaundiced eye." Somehow, this second part gets dropped out of the main stream coverage. I wonder why?

THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
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 how its been broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
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 are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that
Stand up and hold them accountable
Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
Elect Obama Biden 2008






Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
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 how its been broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
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 are the polls even close then ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that
Stand up and hold them accountable
Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
Elect Obama Biden 2008






Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

Wouldn't it be nice if all investigations were as quick as this one? Wonder who might be pressing the issue?