Now Obomb-a is going to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb in this election. Guess he should not have measured the drapes quite yet.
He is feeling the squeeze. During the debates among the democrats before the DNC Obama said those who were rich and those who should be taxed was at 97,000 it just keeps getting lower and lower.Biden said 150,000 you can???t trust these two bozo's at
Bobo the clown Obama will do anything it takes to become the first world leader. When he doesn???t make it in the USA that is what he will be gunning for.
The Case for Barack Obama
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Posted By: kittykat9 @ 10/29/2008 9:06:34 PM
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Posted By: Nitin M.V. @ 10/29/2008 6:41:13 PM
Totally agree with Zakaria. The current US election has been the best thing that happened in years. Wish we had a similar electoral system in other countries. It really brings out the character of the candidates and an understanding of face of the coming four years. Obama seems to be a character lept straight off the pages of Ellison and Baldwin. This time its visible, real and the world knows his name.
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Posted By: cny32212 @ 10/29/2008 6:39:35 PM
When are true journalists going to investigate the truth about Obama's ties to Arabs; has anyone looked into where the huge amounts of donations are coming from? What about Dr Surhan the Islamic radical who used influence to get him admitted to Harvard. How about the huge interest in Obama from Europe and the British college students who came to Ohio to fraudulently register young voters?? Why is England, which now is 33% Islamic so interested in the US elections?? Just follow the money trail. Think about it.
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Posted By: epryor @ 10/29/2008 4:54:05 PM
If you want endless war with Iran, Syria, along with war against the insurgents in Afganistan and Iraq, then vote McCain. If you want another Cold War with Russia, vote McCain. Look at his foreign policy advisors. These people will run our country into the ground with their endless blood thirst and quest to spread democracy to places where it won't work.
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Posted By: gilka @ 10/29/2008 2:29:37 PM
What is the average IQ of Sarah Palin McCain supporters? 82.
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Posted By: billtill @ 10/29/2008 3:00:11 PM
Did Obama tell you that?
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Posted By: billtill @ 10/29/2008 3:02:53 PM
Don't you guys feel guilty for targeting and prepetuating the plight of the less fortunate? You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.
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Posted By: billtill @ 10/29/2008 2:22:33 PM
You guys are hypnotized. This hypnosis is whats keeping you from seeing the obvious problems with this mans friends and associations. Wake up before its too late.
http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama's_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf
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Posted By: samval @ 10/28/2008 2:17:20 AM
Add Concerned Canadian to that list of liars,nut-jobs, haters, fanatics, and ignoramuses
PS CC: here in the USA we don't post in all caps -- that is considered rude ( as if you were a real Canadian -- ha!)
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Posted By: samval @ 10/28/2008 2:10:37 AM
It is pathetic. Posters like NowfortheTruth and star3 are all that is left of the McCain supporters -- idiots spouting conspiracy theories and nonsense. The cyberspace equivalents of that emotionally-disturbed girl who carved that backwards-B on her cheek.
Obama doesn't have a valid birth certificate -- Michael Savage says so, so it must be true.
Obama voted 'present' on mortgage reform -- you can't vote present in the US Senate, moron.
These are the right wing -- liars,nut-jobs, haters, fanatics, and ignoramuses
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Posted By: haynessemperfi @ 10/27/2008 10:34:39 PM
C-SPAN THIRD PARTY DEBATE
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/includes/templates/library/flash_popup.php?pID=281952-1&clipStart=&clipStop=
C-SPAN THIRD PARTY VP DEBATED NOVEMBER 2
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 6:30:16 PM
In this video, Obama, who claims he has "no ties with Acorn" notwithstanding the $800,000 paid to an Acorn group during the primaries, is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President and pledge to meet with leaders of Acorn and the others in his first year, Obama says, quote:
"Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."
See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and a couple of other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected even before he is inaugurated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU
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Posted By: sjbrock80 @ 10/27/2008 6:24:01 PM
What a horribly written, factless, and biased article!! You've done it again, Fareed.
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 8:38:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
2001 Chicago Public Citizen Radio Interview criticizing the Warren Court as not radical enough for not pursuing redistribution of wealth.
Says that community organizing is for the purpose of assembling the political power to force redistribution of wealth.
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Posted By: firetheprincipal @ 10/26/2008 2:43:21 AM
(CNN) -- Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin likes to portray herself as an average American working mother.
But how many typical moms get $150,000 worth of merchandise from stylish stores and have strangers pay for it?
This week's revelation about the purchases was just one more surprise in the fast rise and apparent fall of the Republican Party's sudden superstar.
Remember, it was only two months ago that Palin was just the popular governor of Alaska, still an obscure figure in American politics. That changed in late August when John McCain chose her as his running mate.
Within days, she was generating the biggest excitement the McCain campaign had ever enjoyed, captivating the Republican Party, swelling the crowds at its rallies and drawing media coverage that overshadowed the Democrats.
One McCain advisor told me then that one of the practical problems she discovered as she criss-crossed the country was that she didn't bring enough clothes.
It seems her family didn't have enough clothes either, because suddenly there was some serious shopping.
A single visit to the fashionable department store Neiman Marcus cost more than $75,000, but that was only half of the total. The bills ultimately went to the Republican Party, which means that although they probably didn't know it, party donors paid for them.
Palin's problems go beyond clothes, though, to her very candidacy. In recent days, prominent Republicans, from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, have publicly criticized her lack of experience.
Ordinary Americans agree. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that in early September, when Palin was just starting out as a candidate, 47 percent of voters had a positive opinion of her, compared to 27 percent who felt negatively.
Now 47 percent have negative feelings, compared with 38 percent who feel positively.
And the new poll found that concern about Palin's qualifications is voters' top concern about McCain, ahead of every other issue in the election.
Voting day is less than two weeks away and most polls suggest that Barack Obama is headed for victory. The surprise is that Palin went from being McCain's best asset to his biggest problem. And the Republicans don't have much time, or an obvious way, to fix it.-
Posted By: star3 @ 10/27/2008 2:39:34 AM
Oh Fire...Big Woo...we've got bigger problems than Sarah Palin's clothes. Check out this website: htt://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256
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Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/25/2008 6:45:27 PM
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL SUFFER FROM THE "NOBAMA EFFECT???...TOO BAD...HE WILL LOSE!!
TODAY, AT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S DAMAGE CONTROL PRESS CONFERENCE HE ATTRIBUTED TO JOE BIDEN'S "RHETORICAL FLOURISHES" RELATING TO HIM NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THE PENDING CRISIS IF HE WERE ELECTED. OBAMA MADE HIS BEST ATTEMPT TO SPIN HIS WAY OUT OF THIS BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE BUYING THIS BS ARE THE NO BRAINS OBAMABOTS.
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GOES ON TO PROMOTE HIS ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF "SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND" SO THAT HE CAN CREATE AN AMERICAN SOCIETY WHERE ALL CITIZENS ARE AS EQUALS AND ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD IN ORDER TO PURSUE PERSONAL PROSPERITY. WELL, IN OTHER WORDS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS TELLING TO EVERY AMERICAN'S FACE THAT HE WILL BE "DICTATING" YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES. AND ALL YOU GUYS ARE EATING IT ALL UP.
THIS POLITICAL DOCTRINE THAT OBAMA WILL IMPLEMENT IS KNOWN AS SOCIALISM, MARXISM, COMMUNISM, OR WHATEVER TERM ONE WANTS TO USE...BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA...CAPITALISM.
TO IMPOSE THESE DRACONIAN MEASURES SUCH AS RAISING TAXES TO SUPPORT THOSE IN SOCIETY WHO DO NOT EVEN WANT TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES BUT OBAMA DECLARES "SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND" WILL LEAD TO AN ECONOMIC ABYSS.
IS THIS THE IDEOLOGY OBAMA ADOPTED FROM HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM AYERS WHO ALSO IS A BIG PROPONENT OF MARXISM?
AMERICANS, IF INDICATIONS ARE CORRECT AND OBAMA GETS ELECTED, IT WILL PROVE TO BE THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW THAT AMERICA REGRETS WHO THEY ELECTED AS PRESIDENT.
AN OLD WISE MAN ONCE SAID ..." BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR ...."-
Posted By: star3 @ 10/27/2008 2:32:27 AM
CC, ok, we get it, but your repetitious ranting will not convince anyone, so please calm down, and we will all find out on Nov. 3rd what the results will be. Thank you.
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Posted By: firetheprincipal @ 10/25/2008 8:01:05 PM
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH GO BACK TO CANADA AND STOP BEING A REPIG IMPOSTER
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Posted By: star3 @ 10/25/2008 8:14:11 PM
Anyone who is interested in learning the truth please go to this website:
http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256
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Posted By: firetheprincipal @ 10/26/2008 2:44:19 AM
(CNN) -- Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin likes to portray herself as an average American working mother.
But how many typical moms get $150,000 worth of merchandise from stylish stores and have strangers pay for it?
This week's revelation about the purchases was just one more surprise in the fast rise and apparent fall of the Republican Party's sudden superstar.
Remember, it was only two months ago that Palin was just the popular governor of Alaska, still an obscure figure in American politics. That changed in late August when John McCain chose her as his running mate.
Within days, she was generating the biggest excitement the McCain campaign had ever enjoyed, captivating the Republican Party, swelling the crowds at its rallies and drawing media coverage that overshadowed the Democrats.
One McCain advisor told me then that one of the practical problems she discovered as she criss-crossed the country was that she didn't bring enough clothes.
It seems her family didn't have enough clothes either, because suddenly there was some serious shopping.
A single visit to the fashionable department store Neiman Marcus cost more than $75,000, but that was only half of the total. The bills ultimately went to the Republican Party, which means that although they probably didn't know it, party donors paid for them.
Palin's problems go beyond clothes, though, to her very candidacy. In recent days, prominent Republicans, from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, have publicly criticized her lack of experience.
Ordinary Americans agree. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that in early September, when Palin was just starting out as a candidate, 47 percent of voters had a positive opinion of her, compared to 27 percent who felt negatively.
Now 47 percent have negative feelings, compared with 38 percent who feel positively.
And the new poll found that concern about Palin's qualifications is voters' top concern about McCain, ahead of every other issue in the election.
Voting day is less than two weeks away and most polls suggest that Barack Obama is headed for victory. The surprise is that Palin went from being McCain's best asset to his biggest problem. And the Republicans don't have much time, or an obvious way, to fix it.-
Posted By: star3 @ 10/27/2008 2:25:33 AM
Fire, did you go to the website I suggested above, and watch them video? Obama is not even legal to run for president of the U.S.A. He was not born here, so can not legally run for this office; his own grandmother said she was present in the room when he was born in Kenya, and he was taught the Muslim
religion. If you or anyone really want the truth, and are not afraid of hearing it, then go to this website: htt://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256
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Posted By: freedom4all @ 10/26/2008 4:18:33 PM
I've been reading Fareed Zakaria's articles for years, and his articles are always thoughtful and balanced. I wish he could be president. Barring that, I think the next president (hopefully Obama) should make him top foreign policy advisor.
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Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/26/2008 11:45:22 PM
Maybe that's the main reason Mr. Zakharia is cheering up Obama: he got all arranged to become advisor...
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 9:32:55 PM
The Kennedy tax cut.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg1765.cfm
About half way through the article.
"President Kennedy proposed massive tax-rate reductions, which were passed by Congress and became law after he was assassinated. The 1964 tax cut reduced the top marginal personal income tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent by 1965. The cut reduced lower-bracket rates as well. In the four years prior to the 1965 tax-rate cuts, federal government income tax revenue--adjusted for inflation--increased at an average annual rate of 2.1 percent, while total government income tax revenue (federal plus state and local) increased by 2.6 percent per year . In the four years following the tax cut, federal government income tax revenue increased by 8.6 percent annually and total government income tax revenue increased by 9.0 percent annually. Government income tax revenue not only increased in the years following the tax cut, it increased at a much faster rate.
The Kennedy tax cut set the example that President Ronald Reagan would follow some 17 years later. By increasing incentives to work, produce, and invest, real GDP growth increased in the years following the tax cuts: More people worked, and the tax base expanded. Additionally, the expenditure side of the budget benefited as well because the unemployment rate was significantly reduced.
Using the Congressional Budget Office's revenue forecasts (made with the full knowledge of the future tax cuts), revenues came in much higher than had been anticipated, even after the "cost""of the tax cut had been taken into account. Additionally, in 1965--one year following the tax cut--personal income tax revenue data exceeded expectations by the greatest amounts in the highest income classes.
Testifying before Congress in 1977, Walter Heller, President Kenned''s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, summarized:
What happened to the tax cut in 1965 is difficult to pin down, but insofar as we are able to isolate it, it did seem to have a tremendously stimulative effect, a multiplied effect on the economy. It was the major factor that led to our running a $3 billion surplus by the middle of 1965 before escalation in Vietnam struck us. It was a $12 billion tax cut, which would be about $33 or $34 billion in today's terms, and within one year the revenues into the Federal Treasury were already above what they had been before the tax cut.
Did the tax cut pay for itself in increased revenues? I think the evidence is very strong that it did."
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Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/25/2008 8:26:35 PM
Obama in this video is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President and pledge to meet with leaders of Acorn and the others present at the convention in his first year, Obama says, quote:
"Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."
See and hear it for yourself. Obama has promised that Acorn and other groups like it will a part of his transition and setting his agenda if elected:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU-
Posted By: simonanunhappydem @ 10/26/2008 9:14:35 PM
Well, McCain gave the keynote speech at the 2006 Acorn meeting and praised their work to high heavens...Does this mean that MCain supports the fake voter registration or that he is complicit in it? The last time I checked Acorn worked for both dems and republicans, they are an equal opportunity registration firm, with all their pros and cons. And, they reported the fraudulent forms themselves.
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Posted By: firetheprincipal @ 10/26/2008 2:45:02 AM
(CNN) -- Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin likes to portray herself as an average American working mother.
But how many typical moms get $150,000 worth of merchandise from stylish stores and have strangers pay for it?
This week's revelation about the purchases was just one more surprise in the fast rise and apparent fall of the Republican Party's sudden superstar.
Remember, it was only two months ago that Palin was just the popular governor of Alaska, still an obscure figure in American politics. That changed in late August when John McCain chose her as his running mate.
Within days, she was generating the biggest excitement the McCain campaign had ever enjoyed, captivating the Republican Party, swelling the crowds at its rallies and drawing media coverage that overshadowed the Democrats.
One McCain advisor told me then that one of the practical problems she discovered as she criss-crossed the country was that she didn't bring enough clothes.
It seems her family didn't have enough clothes either, because suddenly there was some serious shopping.
A single visit to the fashionable department store Neiman Marcus cost more than $75,000, but that was only half of the total. The bills ultimately went to the Republican Party, which means that although they probably didn't know it, party donors paid for them.
Palin's problems go beyond clothes, though, to her very candidacy. In recent days, prominent Republicans, from former Secretary of State Colin Powell to Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, have publicly criticized her lack of experience.
Ordinary Americans agree. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that in early September, when Palin was just starting out as a candidate, 47 percent of voters had a positive opinion of her, compared to 27 percent who felt negatively.
Now 47 percent have negative feelings, compared with 38 percent who feel positively.
And the new poll found that concern about Palin's qualifications is voters' top concern about McCain, ahead of every other issue in the election.
Voting day is less than two weeks away and most polls suggest that Barack Obama is headed for victory. The surprise is that Palin went from being McCain's best asset to his biggest problem. And the Republicans don't have much time, or an obvious way, to fix it.
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Posted By: The Dominican @ 10/26/2008 12:22:40 PM
Hey Mr Zakharia: Is not fair to use your journalist position to try to bend people's choice for President, and you halt to the truth when you say that you feel more secure with Obama for your child's future... that it's outrageous and racist, so you will cast your ballot for Obama? and unless you are beind paid for promote Obama's change you must left people decide for who cast their ballot, Shame on you!!! Biased
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Posted By: freedom4all @ 10/26/2008 4:32:48 PM
Why are you surprised? The title of the article is clearly stated. Zakaria is not biased; he is stating an opinion, backed up by a clear and reasoned argument. I've read articles by him that covered the (few) things Bush managed to get right. Fareed Zakaria calls 'em as he sees 'em, with no agenda for either the right or the left.
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Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/25/2008 6:52:23 PM
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL SUFFER FROM THE "NOBAMA EFFECT???...TOO BAD...HE WILL LOSE!!
TODAY, AT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S DAMAGE CONTROL PRESS CONFERENCE ATTRIBUTED TO
JOE BIDEN'S "RHETORICAL FLOURISHES" RELATING TO OBAMA NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THE PENDING CRISIS IF HE WERE ELECTED. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA GOES ON TO PROMOTE HIS ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF "SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND" SO THAT HE CAN CREATE AN AMERICAN SOCIETY WHERE ALL CITIZENS ARE AS EQUALS AND ON A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD IN ORDER TO PURSUE PERSONAL PROSPERITY. WELL, IN OTHER WORDS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS TELLING TO EVERY AMERICAN'S FACE THAT HE WILL BE "DICTATING" YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES. AND ALL YOU GUYS ARE EATING IT ALL UP.
THIS POLITICAL DOCTRINE THAT OBAMA WILL IMPLEMENT IS KNOWN AS SOCIALISM, MARXISM, COMMUNISM, OR WHATEVER TERM ONE WANTS TO USE...BOTTOM LINE IS THAT THIS IS AN AFFRONT
TO THE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA...CAPITALISM.
TO IMPOSE THESE DRACONIAN MEASURES SUCH AS RAISING TAXES TO SUPPORT THOSE IN SOCIETY WHO DO NOT EVEN WANT TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES BUT OBAMA DECLARES "SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND" WILL LEAD TO AN ECONOMIC ABYSS.
IS THIS THE IDEOLOGY OBAMA ADOPTED FROM HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH WILLIAM AYERS WHO ALSO IS A BIG PROPONENT OF MARXISM?
AMERICANS, IF INDICATIONS ARE CORRECT AND OBAMA GETS ELECTED, IT WILL PROVE TO BE THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW THAT AMERICA REGRETS WHO THEY ELECTED AS PRESIDENT.
AN OLD WISE MAN ONCE SAID ..." BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR ...."-
Posted By: freedom4all @ 10/26/2008 4:25:38 PM
Why are you throwing Obama's middle name around as if it were significant? Looks like scare tactics to me.
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Posted By: firetheprincipal @ 10/25/2008 7:59:27 PM
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH GO BACK TO CANADA AND STOP BEING A REPIG IMPOSTER
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Posted By: sirhc @ 10/25/2008 7:47:19 PM
WHAT ABOUT IF PEOPLE WOULD'VE TOLD YOU UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE(WHITEHOUSE AND CONGRESS UNTIL 2006)
1. 911 WOULD HAPPEN AND THE ACTUAL ATTACKER(BIN LADEN) IS STILL ALIVE AND SENDING AUDIO TAPES TALKING TRASH
2. 150,000 JOB LOSS A MONTH
3. THE NEAR CRIMINAL RESPONSE TO AMERICANS DROWNING TO DEATH DURING A FORESEEABLE HURRICANE(KATRINA)
4. MASSIVE TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH WHILE THE MIDDLECLASS IS DYING OUT.
5. INVADE A COUNTRY FOR SEEMINGLY NO DAMN REASON. COSTING US 4100+ AMERICAN LIVES AND 3 BILLION A FREAKIN WEEK- THIS AFTER MCCAIN PLED FOR THE COUNTRY TO GO AFTER SADDAM LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AFTER 9-11 WITH ABOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE AT ALL.
6. THE TOP 5 REPUBLICANS(BUSH, CHENEY, BERNANKE, PAULSON AND MCCAIN). WOULD CREATE, PUSH AND SIGN A LARGE 700 BILLION DOLLAR SOCIALIST BILL BECAUSE THE TRICKLEDOWN THEORY DIDN'T WORK.............................HECK, BUSH'S OWN FATHER CALLED IT VODOO ECONOMICS IN REAGAN'S FACE.
7. BUSH WOULD EAVESDROP ON AMERICANS
8. CHENEY WOULD CREATE HS OWN WING OF GOVERNMENT
9. THAT MCCAIN WOULD PICK AN OMEGA LEVEL AIRHEAD AS HIS RUNNING MATE WHEN HE SHOULD'VE PICKED MITT ROMNEY(AN ECONOMIC GENUIS EVENTHOUGH I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM POLITICALLY) BUT COULDN'T PICK HIM BECAUSE HE HATES HIS GUTS.
10. THAT MCCAIN WOULD TALK ABOUT BUSH AND MAKING A CHANGE-YET-VOTED WITH HIM 90% OF THE TIME.
SORRY-REPUBLICANS HAD THEIR CHANCE-THEY BLEW IT. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS
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