The Case for Barack Obama

Three surveys -- from the Associated Press-GfK, George Washington University and an Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll - - show McCain closing the gap with Obama.

The AP poll puts Obama at 44 percent to McCain's 43 percent, compared with a 7 percentage point advantage for Obama in their September survey. The GW Battleground poll showed Obama's edge at 2 points, down from 7 points in the middle of October, while the IDB/TIPP tracking survey has the margin for the Democrat narrowing to 1 point from 5 points at the start of the week.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWRlkNLTILM8&refer=home


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27324419/

AP poll: Candidates running nearly even 10/22/08

Neck-and-neck results are a departure from many recent national polls
WASHINGTON - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as Republican-leaning voters drifted home to their party.

In the most recent Newsweek Mr. Zakaria wrote a lengthy article about the economic crisis. He concludes that the last thing the economy needs are tax cuts for individual taxpayers. Yet, every time Obama speaks in public he promises 95 percent of the public a tax reduction.
What is in the water? Mr. Zakaria is normally an astute observer. Now he and millions of Americans are ready to select an untested junior senator as president of the United States. Obama speaks well and reads a teleprompter with much greater skill than Senator McCain.
Is everyone, Zakaria included, simply star struck?

Zakaria and much of America is lurching toward electing a junior senator with no significant credentials or accomplishments as president of the United States.
Yes, Obama reads a teleprompter better than McCain and is a better public speaker...
Without a record to assess Mr. Obama's abilities, we're relying on debates about health plans and tax plans that will never exist in reality and who has the best sound bites as a basis to choose the leader of our nation.
I have no idea what has Zakaria, much of the media, and millions of American's so star struck.
I'm concerned about the judgement of American voters. FIrst they elect and re elect George Bush, a night mare from the take no prisoners, far right wing of the Republican Party. Now they're veering toward a very far left Democrat. Can't we elect a qualified centrist? No wonder our standing in the world is diminishing.

What Bin Ladin, Putin, Ahmadinejad, and others know from history, and Biden admits will be quickly tested if Obama wins:

Cuba, Vietnam. Laos, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, Somalia, Iraq. Let our friends, allies and the innocents die, by the millions if necessary. Just so long as they are not Americans. We are the Democratic Party, and for 50 years, from the Bay of Pigs to the Basra Highway and beyond, we have never met a fight we could not pressure our government to run away from, or friends and allies we could not abandon. It's the story of our generation. Only the French are more defeatist than we, but together America, we can change that and become number one. And its change we can believe in. Come on America, and vote Democrat. Together, we can re-live that pride we haven't felt since the 1970's. If we just blindly pull together, we really can make this like it is Jimmy Carter's lost second term. Yes we can!

Only seven months until my subscription to Obamaweek is finished. This once-proud publication has shamed itself this election season. Should BHO be elected I wonder how Obamaweek will cover his administration? I will have to read about it in The Economist.

FactCheck.Org is owned by the Annenberg group of Chicago! Talk about a conflict of interest! And Obama has been telling people on the trail to check out the site to verify his opponents claims. Funny, every time that he endorsed something, it turns out to be a part of his spin machine! Like he raised objections in the primaries when Indiana required photo I.D. to vote. He Protested that It took away people's right to vote! I
knew then and there that he was up to no good! America, wake up from the MASS HYPNOSIS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related

Who "Joe the plumber" may be is not the issue, though it's easy to see why the Dems want it to be. That's because the real issue is what Obama's comments to him revealed about Obama. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" we find out that Obama really is as radical as his early political acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Obama's tax and spending plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

And whether McCain won or lost the third debate is also not relevant. He succeeded in the first half hour to plant the seeds of a Reagan style wipeout. Reputable historians and economists overwhelmingly agree that the taxation imposed by Hoover and FDR, and the "stimulus" spending and public works programs of FDR, actually deepened and prolonged the Great Depression. It was the production demands of WWII that got the economy going again. And when the war was over, the economy promptly went into recession.

See e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/03/opinion/main4499465.shtml
And
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx

Point is, Obama's programs require him to tax, and his health care plan is a hidden tax on all business, large an small. In reality, it does not really matter who he taxes, those taxes are going to be passed through the economy. He has to tax, because it is they only way he can pay for his massive social engineering experiments. Any first year economics student knows that taxation is a tool used to contract an economy experiencing inflation, because it reduces demand by reducing the amount of money individuals and businesses have to spend. It is contractionary, which is exactly what you do not want to do when the problem is that the economy is contracting already into recession. Like Hoover and FDR, Obama's plans will only make it worse for longer.

See: http://www.newsweek.com/id/164972
Stating that Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act wasn't what caused the meltdown, and noting that "economists on both sides of the political spectrum have suggested that the act has probably made the crisis less severe than it might otherwise have been." And also:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/who_caused_the_economic_crisis.html
Look and listen for yourself. Hear Obama in his own words discusses his links to both ACORN and the mortgage meltdown, and praises bundling and securitizing mortgages by banks as a means to float loans to the poor and spread the risk world wide. Never mind the link commentators point of view, just listen to what Obama says in his own words. A picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe more in the case of Obama comments in the last half of the first youtube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

See also:
http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?threadid=808692&boardsparam=Page%3d2

Below is a link to C-SPAN video clips of the Congressional hearings at roughly the time McCains attempt at S.190. to fix Fannie and Freddie. See for yourself who said what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
See also
http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732 from this web site. (oops!) stating that Freddie Mac was spending tax payer money to target Republicans in 2005 who were trying to regulate Fannie and Freddies fraud. Democrats were not targeted, as the were all in the tank with Fannie and Freddie to kill the regulations. Hear that, the article admits that Republicans were trying to regulate, and Democrats were trying to stop it from happening as a means to facilitate the Community Reinvestment Act.

The link below contains a purported list of the top 25 in Congress who got contributions from the folks at Fannie and Freddie. Obama is listed third, after Dodd and Kerry, even though Obama is just a junior Senator. Obama is followed next by Clinton. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are on the list as well.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&artnum=1&issue=20080918

And the link below describes how some Democrats in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See: Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Let me make this as pithy as a I can:

cut taxes / cut spending / KILL TERRORISTS = John McCain

raise taxes / increase spending / NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS - Barry Obama

Now choose wisely....

Conservativevalues1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27324419/

AP poll: Candidates running nearly even 10/22/08

Neck-and-neck results are a departure from many recent national polls
WASHINGTON - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.

The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as Republican-leaning voters drifted home to their party.

We have a clear choice before us. A hero or a zero. An American citizen or a "citizen of the world." Greatness or grandiosity. I have always been proud of my country or "I had never been proud of my country." Opportunity or redistribution. Americans are the most decent people on this earth or Americans are "bitter and cling to religion." God Bless America or "God Damn America." Americans know best or I know best. Truth or political correctness. We have a clear choice. How will you choose?

BARACK OBAMA IS JUST TELLING YOU WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR.... THAT'S ALL

John McCain will do nothing with foriegn leaders what so ever. He will have a bunker mentality just like Bush. McCain just wants to warm a seat with his ass in oval office. If he is elected he will be a lame duck President just like Bush with an all democrat congress. Vote Barack Obama for the change we need. Vote Obama for new ideas this country needs. Obama has shown leadership to take on world leaders when crisis arise. The polls aren't moving for McCain, I believe the country has made it's mind up who will be the next President of the United States. Barack Obama. 13 days to go.