The Case for Barack Obama

"Spreading the wealth?" That's what ordinary Americans like me have done with Bush's tax cuts on the already wealthy. The Wall Street Journal even notes how the gap between the top 1% of the households & the other 99% is greater today than at any time in more than 85 years. Scared of socialism, bunky? What's your name for rewarding Wall Street bankers & other despicable capitalist fools for their unprecedented greed & poor judgment w/taxpayer wages. Your "trickle-down" time has come & gone, & 99% of us are worse off.

>>Posted By: reallyfedup @ 10/20/2008 12:13:38 PM

>>Comment: It's precisely when too many people start to
>>believe that there is such a thing as "fresh thinking"
>>and "new realities" that we all go running off a cliff.
>>Reality NEVER changes, human nature NEVER changes.
>>There hasn't been any fresh ideas in the last 2000
>>years. We just forget the past and believe someone is
>>genius when they resurect the same stupid ideas that
>>have always proved wrong in the past. What has caused
>>our present crisis is greed, arrogance and lack of
>>vigilance. It ALWAYS leads to the same result, crisis.
>>Sen. McCain's may be from a bygone era but they have
>>the virtue of being correct. Despite his youth Sen.
>>Obama's ideas are also from a bygone era and they have
>>proven wrong in every era.




You've got to be kidding me. Reaganomics has been correct? This economic crisis began in 1980 when your utopian Friedman-omics and Goldwater conservativism was bought hook line and sinker by a gullible electorate.

Did you read Zakaria's article? Its not old Leftist ideas, its new practical ideas - green technology, education reform, and realistic foreign policy in the context of globalization. If McCain were dealing with these issues he might stand a chance. You're right, its impossible to change society completely. Hence, Obama is not talking about a Leftist conspiracy to overthrow American life. That would be unrealistic, stupid, and evil, none of which obama is. It would be almost as stupid as trying for 30 years to engineer a Right Wing conspiracy based on Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism and Evangelicalism.

Actually, I think this article was accurate, on point and well written.

First, the attack by Dencal26 is quite racist and promotes fascist propaganda that there are Americans who are Anti-American, accuses others of supporting terrorism because they don't agree with the ruling party (Bush Administration) and using fear-mongering to control others.

Americans first and foremost should be remembering that ???all men are created equal??? and that all American's are entitled to express their opinion (First Amendment). When one is attacked as unAmerican, supporting terrorists, and unpatriotic because they don't agree with the author denies the right of another the freedom to speak without retribution. Attacks like the one by Dencal26 inspires only hate for the author, encourages hate for Jews, and is reprehensible. This is exactly the divisive attitude and speech that been tearing away at the very fabric of this country and the authority of the US Constitution for the past 7 years.

Secondly, the economic policies of the Republican party for the last 8 years have worked only for the ultra rich and responsible for the economic bind we find ourselves in. It is precisely because Americans, it's Government and it's Corporations DONT pay-as-you go. Our economy has been largely based on borrowing and speculating over that borrowing that has collapsed wall street. Obviously, that has been working quite well.

One of the big problems with the Republican Party, Campaign and those who support Bush and the Republican Party (Including McCain) is that they are not the least bit objective and don't concern themselves with the very tenets of our Constitution or the well-being of the majority, never mind being unbiased or putting any real value on truth.

I read most of your articles and find them very informative. But by the time I was done reading this one I was moved to tears. I also have a boys and they has great aspirations. So when you said, "I admit that I will feel more confident about his future if a man named Barack Obama became president of hte United States" I connected. I don't want either of my boys' future limited by their last names or skin color. If they work hard they too can be rewarded with the american dream. I am a hispanic mother living in the south working a full time job & going to school at night doing my part for those boys. My husband has a full time job and is working to complete his masters. Now I want a president that will do its part.

Four wretched years ago, I watched as my country re-elected a deplorable leader after he had demonstrated gross misjudgment and a world view that most kindergartners would probably have no trouble grasping. I watched the face of America--once the leader of the globalizing world, and a respected hallmark of progress--become bloodied and muddied and disfigured by our we-don't-need-ya international policies. What I see in John McCain is a continuation of that same mindset: bully the world, win through brute force. Barack Obama, on the other hand, comes to us with an intelligent, savvy, modern mind. Yes, he is eloquent. Yes, he projects an air of confidence and conviction in calculated reason. That is exactly what we need in a president at this time. Up until Dubya???s first election, I felt like we were heading toward the future???a future of scientific advances, greater social prosperity, and ideological maturity. We were the world???s best friend. Eight years later, we are the bottom of a terrible backslide into ignorance. Electing Barack Obama is our first step back up the mountain.

Four wretched years ago, I watched as my country re-elected a deplorable leader after he had demonstrated gross misjudgment and a world view that most kindergartners would probably have no trouble grasping. I watched the face of America--once the leader of the globalizing world, and a respected hallmark of progress--become bloodied and muddied and disfigured by our we-don't-need-ya international policies. What I see in John McCain is a continuation of that same mindset: bully the world, win through brute force. Barack Obama, on the other hand, comes to us with an intelligent, savvy, modern mind. Yes, he is eloquent. Yes, he projects an air of confidence and conviction in calculated reason. That is exactly what we need in a president at this time. Up until Dubya???s first election, I felt like we were heading toward the future???a future of scientific advances, greater social prosperity, and ideological maturity. We were the world???s best friend. Eight years later, we are the bottom of a terrible backslide into ignorance. Electing Barack Obama is our first step back up the mountain.

Well we're getting down to the final countdown and its not suprising to see daily endorsements popping out of the Newsweek bureau of the Obama campaign. In the last 2 weeks what we've seen out of the Obama campaign and its surrogates in the media is the following: 1. Scream Racism, like they did with Hillary, at every criticism or question posed to them. 2. Make sure no swing states are lost by a few 10s of thousands of votes...aka...ACORN Fraud. 3. Obama did sum up his economic policy in an innocent answer to poor Joe the Plumber..."Share the Wealth". Using the tax code to play Robin Hood. That is hardly a cutting edge proposal its just one that has led to disaster every time its been tried, however, I have to say I'm intrigued...if it means I can get a couple of million from Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who don't need it...then I'm in favor, however, the normal pattern is for it to get swallowed by government and payoffs and nobody ever sees it. Hardly new cutting edge policies. However, unlike the democrats in 2000 unless Obama wins through clear voter fraud I will support him as a member of the loyal opposition. I think the country is probably strong enough to survive Jimmy Obama II, and Jimmy I led to Ronald Reagan.....the country just had to go through a lot of risk and pain first.....but we should all be agreed that if the election is honest....the country doesn't need to kind of behavior the democrats displayed.

I can hardly wait for US to take our rightful place as leader of the socalist world. Where do I sign up for my share of the wealth?

You are dead wrong!

Take a good look at this guy. If this is what you want America to be, vote Obama.

The claim is that the MSM has a strong Obama bias. Well, many of us do. We are tired of the call for smaller government so that the eye of the country can grow stronger and exercise more powe. The irony of the Republicans wanting smaller government (with their party and ideology at the certer) is really a grab to give their party more power by virtue of a tighter control of the power. In other words, they deisre to be a category 5 government with the eye of the government being narrow and stronger. Thank God the world is awakening to the danger of this clarion call to spin into ourselves.

Most firms pay no income taxes - Congress
Study finds that the majority of domestic and foreign corporations in the United States avoid paying federal income taxes.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Nearly two-thirds of U.S. companies and 68% of foreign corporations do not pay federal income taxes, according to a congressional report released Tuesday.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined samples of corporate tax returns filed between 1998 and 2005. In that time period, an annual average of 1.3 million U.S. companies and 39,000 foreign companies doing business in the United States paid no income taxes - despite having a combined $2.5 trillion in revenue.
The study showed that 28% of foreign companies and 25% of U.S. corporations with more than $250 million in assets or $50 million in sales paid no federal income taxes in 2005. Those companies totaled a combined $372 billion in sales for the largest foreign companies and $1.1 trillion in revenue for the biggest U.S. companies.
Full article: http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/
August 12, 2008

WHERE IS THE PRESS? NOBODIES IS TALKING ABOUT THIS REPORT!

WHAT ABOUT THIS DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?? And these are FACTS, not suppositions.........

HAPPENED UNDER BUSH WATCH, WHO ARE THE SOCIALISTS HERE?

Actually, I think this article was accurate, on point and well written.

First, the attack by Dencal26 is quite racist and promotes fascist propaganda that there are Americans who are Anti-American, accuses others of supporting terrorism because they don't agree with the ruling party (Bush Administration) and using fear-mongering to control others.

Americans first and foremost should be remembering that ???all men are created equal??? and that all American's are entitled to express their opinion (First Amendment). When one is attacked as unAmerican, supporting terrorists, and unpatriotic because they don't agree with the author denies the right of another the freedom to speak without retribution. Attacks like the one by Dencal26 inspires only hate for the author, encourages hate for Jews, and is reprehensible. This is exactly the divisive attitude and speech that been tearing away at the very fabric of this country and the authority of the US Constitution for the past 7 years.

Secondly, the economic policies of the Republican party for the last 8 years have worked only for the ultra rich and responsible for the economic bind we find ourselves in. It is precisely because Americans, it's Government and it's Corporations DONT pay-as-you go. Our economy has been largely based on borrowing and speculating over that borrowing that has collapsed wall street. Obviously, that has been working quite well.

One of the big problems with the Republican Party, Campaign and those who support Bush and the Republican Party (Including McCain) is that they are not the least bit objective and don't concern themselves with the very tenets of our Constitution or the well-being of the majority, never mind being unbiased or putting any real value on truth.

Gone is any pretense of objectivity. You have shown your true, liberal colors in this piece. Now just go ahead and admit that you are a liberal