The World That Awaits

Here's a video in which Obama discusses fiscal responsibility. Anyone who cares about the economy should see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4a6RNhCUo

On this web page, you can calculate the amount of your TAX RELIEF under Obama's plan (This tax calculator is for personal income, not for businesses. Remember that if you itemize, your tax cut will be higher than what the calculator shows. However, Obama's new 1040EZ allows people to get credit for some itemizations without having to fill out the long form and schedules.)

http://taxcut.barackobama.com/

You can get even more information on Obama's economic policies from the Blueprint for Change.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

Kwansi Mifune unmasked. It was revealed today that his real name is Billy Budd and that he had changed his name after his religious conversion while serving time for tax evasion. I guess Obama will have to disown him too.

Mr. Obama on the defensive. "When I told ACORN to register the dead to vote, I meant the Grateful Dead." said the candidate today in Philadelphia.

McCain is calling for Stevens to step down? But, if it's true that he ran someone over and killed them in Virginia in 1964:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html

Then shouldn't he step down? It seems he is a menace land, sea or air. Is that what Mavericks do? Anyhow even if he didn't take a life with a car - and the news services are pretty sure he did because the Navy is covering it up with great diligence - he is still looking a little "run-down".

McCain is calling for Stevens to step down? But, if it's true that he ran someone over and killed them in Virginia in 1964:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html

Then shouldn't he step down? It seems he is a menace land, sea or air. Is that what Mavericks do? Anyhow even if he didn't take a life with a car - and the news services are pretty sure he did because the Navy is covering it up with great diligence - he is still looking a little "run-down".

This is a great article which is quite successful at addressing the issues in a rational, level-headed manner. If the next administration can make every effort to attack issues in the same manner the health of the country will benefit.

McCain to rename several departments; Department of Treasury to become Department of Debt for Everyone but Big Oil, Department of Defence to become Department of Dead Teens and Open Wallets, Department of Education to become Department of Who Cares about the Kids, We're Gonna Kill em at 18 Anyway.

Bary, I am soooooooooo worried. What if that fat guy Murtha is right and rural America is full of rednecks? Then all your hard work will have been for nothing. I think I saw some outside of Harrisburg the other day by the side of the road changing a tire. There was a woman in the back seat holding a baby. And the baby was wailing and wailing. I think it was must have been crying because it had realized that it had been born a redneck. What future does that baby have in our society? I felt so sorry for it. What chance does that baby have of ever getting into Harvard or Princeton, Middlebury, or Bowdoin? I hope Murtha is wrong and that you will be our next President.

Free trade theory is like derivatives theory, they both are elegant and look good on paper, but they do not work as proclaimed in the real world.

When the dust settles, it would not surprise me if it was discovered that all the economic gains made by Asia came at the expense of the middle and working classes in the US. Basically a zero sum game camouflaged by imaginary profits made by the financial sector.

Bush and his ilk (including McCain) have put us in a serious bind, both economically and politically. It will be a hard fight to get out of the hold Bush and his spawn have put us in.

Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your priorities.

You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

Who is bested suited to lead in these difficult times? The two candidates have had to deal with both a major presidential level decision and a global crisis in the past couple months.

We just witnessed as good a side by side crisis test as you could ask for. Both candidates had to respond to the global financial meltdown, which John's campaign manager Rick Davis called "the worst financial crisis in our nation's history." It was John McCain who was late to recognize what was happening and then couldn't figure out how to respond. He made a dramatic show of suspending his campaign because he knew he needed to seize the initiative politically, but then didn't seem to have any coherent position once he took charge. It doesn't inspire confidence when you say you're going to do something and then back down within days.

On the critical matter of selecting a VP who would step into the Presidency in an emergency, John McCain gives us an unintelligent mediocrity without knowledge or experience in national and international issues. Palin clearly was chosen to fire up the religious right base, but she has little appeal to the vast swath of America. Obama's VP pick is Sentor Joe Biden, who clearly has foreign policy chops and could legitimately step into the Oval Office should the need arise.

John's horrendous POW experience did nothing to prepare him for the job of president. A captive soldier must cope with a situation in which he has no control and can decide nothing. A President of the United States must make good decisions over and over again. Barack Obama has demonstrated the intelligence, calmness and good judgment we so desperately need in a leader for these troubled times. He has been tested repeatedly in this marathon campaign and he has risen to meet every challenge, sticking to his message of hope and change, and not falling into the low-life mud slinging we have seen from McCain.

Obama has better judgement, better temperament, better manners and better ideas that John McCain. I'm a middle-aged white female Christian Republican, and I am voting for Barack Obama.

Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your priorities.

You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

Haas fails to understand an important fact about "trade". Billions of people in the world subsist on less than $ 2 a day. These people cannot buy US products. Furthermore, for a so-called "Christian" nation to ignore the beggars both outside and inside our borders is a violation of the bacis precepts of Christianity.
Our current trade deals are lousy arrangements for many of our trading partners. NAFTA decimated the Mexican middle class, and our subsidzied agricultural exports drove many Mexican farmers out of business. Columbia is not our "friend." The Columbian government continues to look the other way as right wing goon squads, often supported by the Columbian government, murder union organizers. We need trade deals that guarantee workers a decent standard of living and the right to organize unions, Our trade deals must insist on environmental protection. If countries are unwilling to abide by these terms, no trade deal. The European imposes a number of standards that a country must follow to obtain membership. We should do the same.
In addition Hass does not seem to understand the concept of a sustainable global economy. Our current global economy is a one-way ticket to global mass destruction. We must reduce the carbon emissions in our atmosphere. We must re-cycle all of our resources. We must de-carbonize our energy supply ASAP (We do not have a 30 year lag time.) And we must institute and encourage wide-spread family planning. The problems I mentioned in this paragraph are a far greater threat to the future of the planet than many of the issues Haas outlined in his article. Maybe both Haas and McCain need to be retired.

Barry. i soooooo worried. What if that fat guy Murtha is right and rural and suburban America is full of rednecks? All your hard work will have been for nothing. You were so right when you said that all they do is cling to their Bibles and guns. I think I saw some of them on side of the road on 95 the other day changing a tire. They looked so creepy. I could not weight to get back to Poughkeepsie. I am taking a course here at Vassar on heroes of the Cold War. I am reading about Julius and Ethel Merman. Have you decided what you are going to wear on Election Night? I think it is fabulous that you are moving the party outdoors to Grant Park. I hope the cops behave themselves this time. My dad is kind of upset with you because you have not called him since he helped raise those 2.5 million for you. He is hoping that you will name him Ambassador to Thailand. Can't wait till you become President. Well gotta go.

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