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  • Posted By: Amusedone @ 10/29/2008 5:01:24 PM

    The fear of the far right is the raising of tax rate to 39.1% on people who make over $250,000 a year. They are calling this socialism. Which, by the way is interesting. Some historical facts. Income tax was instituted in 1913. The modern U.S. income tax was enacted in 1913, following ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment
    to the Constitution. For about 30 years thereafter, until the advent of World War II, the tax applied only to high-income individuals. With the advent of World War II exemptions were sharply reduced and graduated tax rates for ???regular tax??? were sharply increased, the top rate, at one point, to 94 percent for American Citizens earning over $200,000 a year.

    94% folks - according to the IRS schedule this tax rate was applied to anyone earning over $200,000 a year. And, you are moaning over a tax rate of less than 40% on income over $250,000 a year.

    Now I will let all of you figure out how much you would pay in taxes in 1944 (that is when we had the 94% tax rate on income over $200,000.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/29/2008 5:00:32 PM

    I think we can all agree that Senator Obama has the potential for being a great President. He is disciplined, smart, charismatic, articulate. Where we disagree is on the question of his potential for being a very poor one.

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 4:43:16 PM

    A former staffer for an affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now testified today that the organization was provided a "donor list" from the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in late 2007 for fundraising efforts.

    Anita Moncrief, a former Washington, D.C. staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of ACORN, said her supervisor told her the list of campaign contributors came from the Obama campaign. Moncrief said she has a copy of a "development plan" that outlines how Obama contributors who had "maxed out" under federal contribution limits would be targeted to give to Project Vote, and that it was her job to identify such contributors.

    http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_595810.html?source=rss&feed=1

  • Posted By: JMERRION @ 10/29/2008 3:44:06 PM

    WHY DONT SOMEONE GO TO OBAMAS PASSPORT APPLICATION YOU HAVE TO HAVE A BIRTH CERT. UNLESS THEY ARE SCARED,BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WILL SAY(ONLY BECAUSE HES BLACK

  • Posted By: JMERRION @ 10/29/2008 3:37:21 PM

    WE WILL HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE VOTERS GET TO THE POLLS/THATS THE ONLY POLL ANYONE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT

  • Posted By: Andjelko Galic @ 10/28/2008 8:33:05 PM

    Obama was born in Kenya . Where is his US birht certificate? Now that the case is going to ghe US Supreme Court and that there are 5 other suits filed in other states, the media (Obama's) will not be able to ingore this any furhter.

    Imagine if Sarah Palin was not born in the USA. Oh, my God, would we hear about it!

    So, yes, apply though criteria, but apply it equally to all candidates otherwise we are undermining the entire selection process.

    Andjelko Galic

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/28/2008 9:03:29 PM

      Obama was born in Kenya?? Is it possible that anyone could be this ignorant??

      Senator Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. Hawaii is one of the United States in case you don't know that either.

      • Posted By: Andjelko Galic @ 10/28/2008 9:29:41 PM

        You must be talking about yourself....

        • Posted By: the-commish @ 10/28/2008 11:28:59 PM

          McCain ACTUALLY was not born in the U.S. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

          • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/29/2008 1:35:57 AM



            In regards to McCain being born in the Panama Canal zone. . .

            Based on the original meaning of the Constitution, the Framers??? intentions, and subsequent legal and historical precedent, Senator McCain???s birth to parents who were U.S. citizens, serving on a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936, makes him a ???natural born citizen??? within the meaning of the Constitution,??? the review found.

            The issue was examined by former Solicitor General Ted Olson, a Republican backing McCain, and Harvard Law Professor Laurence H. Tribe, a Democrat backing Barack Obama.

            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23841816/

            * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

            As for Obama, apparently that issue has not been put to bed yet technically. It looks like the lawsuit that was filed against Obama, the DNC and the FEC will most likely go to Supreme Court re: the validity of his birth certificate. It may end up following him inot the White House if he is elected. Guess time will tell whether this lawsuits stays active or fizzles out:

            LATEST ON ATTY. P.J. Berg, Esq, suing Obama, the DNC and the FEC:

            Here is a Professional documentary video - Interview with well-known attorney in Philadelphia, Philip J. Berg, Esq, who explains the concerns he has about Obama not being a natural born U.S. Citizen (making him ineligible for the presidency) and goes into much details as to WHY he believes this is the case:
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTs1YyhFRg&feature=related


            BACKGROUND ON PHILIP J. BERG, ESQ.- Suing Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Committee. Currently awaiting the judge???s response to said lawsuit filed. Mr. Berg is set to go in front of the U.S. Supreme Courth with this lawsuit if need be. My question is, why doesn???t Obama just present the necessary paperwork in front of this attorney he would not pursue a lawsuit. Why wont Obama just honor the request?

            Background on Attorney P.J. Berg as stated in the video:

            * Practicing Attorney for 37 years in State of Pennsylvania
            * Former Deputy Attorney General of Penn
            * Lifelong democratic 31 years as a committee person
            * Chairman of the Democratic Party Montgomery County, PA
            * Member of the Democratic State Committee for 8 years
            * Candidate on the Democratic ticket throughout Penn in the office of Governor and US Senate
            * Licensed to practice throughout the Commonwealth of Penn, including Supreme Court and the Federal * Court system which is the eastern district of PA and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals and licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.



            • Posted By: neos @ 10/29/2008 3:27:58 PM

              I see that you haven't had the time to amend your description of Philklip Berg to incude the fact that this is the wingnut who is suing Cheney and Bush for being responsible for 9/11. I mean, i assume it is just an oversight AGAIN. Certainly you don't want people to think that you are being dishonest here... Right? RIGHT???

    • Posted By: jiml1956 @ 10/28/2008 8:55:48 PM

      Anyone with $150 or so can file a lawsuit for anything. Isn't that the same lawyer that wanted $6,000,000 from the dry cleaners that lost his pants?

      • Posted By: Andjelko Galic @ 10/28/2008 9:32:23 PM

        That is a classic example of an argument ad hominem. Let's talk about this particular claim: is he a US citizen or not. If Obama is a US citizen it should not be that hard to put shuch allegations to a rest. Let's get serious.

      • Posted By: neos @ 10/28/2008 9:07:18 PM

        The lawyer is Phillip Berg. This is the same lawyer who has sued Cheney and Bush for being implicated in the 9/11 attacks. He demands that they turn themselves in to a neutral country to be tried for war crimes. Yeah. isn't that special....

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/29/2008 3:24:27 PM

    Now Barack Hussein Obama is a close friend of and praises a PLO supporter in Rashid Khalid
    and the LA Times has the video tape proof.

    Obama makes Bill Belichek look like an angel with all these disturbing videos floating around of
    Obama's radical associations.

    It???s pretty easy for Obama or anyone else to attack George Bush on his economic policies but Obama can't attack George Bush on his record on fighting terrorists to protect America while he
    is busy wining and dining with terrorists !!

    Barack Hussein Obama should be tried for treason and being a threat to US national security.

    Barack says he has the right to distribute your money the way he sees fit. That???s dictatorship.

  • Posted By: Andjelko Galic @ 10/28/2008 9:27:38 PM

    Let's take a close look at what Barak Hussein Obama has to say about his brith. He claims that he is born in the USA. Ok, but what does his birht certificate say, the one he published on his website. This certificate was issued in 2007 and does not mention the the time and the place wher he was born. It also does not say much about his parents.

    Why is his grandmother, one in Kenya (she has been recorded), claiming that he was born in Kenya and that she was there when he was born?

    What is Obama doing going to see his other grandma in Havaii? His step brother and his stepsister are also telling the world tht he was born in Kenya....

    What is the big deal about a birth certificate? Why is his birthcertificate sealed?

    What about his Indonesian passport. He used it to travel to Pakistan. Indonesia does not allwo for dual citizenship. He used several different names and it appears that he lost his US citizenship ( if he ever had one) when his mother married a gentlemen from Indonesia.

    Questions, questions, constantly more questions about Barak Obama on such basic issues. What do we really know about him?

    What if it turns out that he is not qualified to be the president? Take a look at the 20th Amendment for some direction.

    Andjelko Galic
    www.blogihrvati.com

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/28/2008 10:54:39 PM

      OK, here's the thing. If you want to grow up to be a professional smearer than one of the first things you have to learn is to tell effective lies. Now the lie that you gave about Senator Obama's birth certificate on his site not showing time or place of birth can be easily disproved by someone simply giving the link to that site. For example, Here is the link.

      http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate

      see? Now when people go to that site they will see right away that you are a liar and you lose all future credibility. Too bad.

      So to sum up, try a more clever lie next time! Best of luck!

      • Posted By: Andjelko Galic @ 10/29/2008 8:37:38 AM

        I said (sorry if I should not have assumed that a birht certificate shuold have all of that information) that the information on that alleged birth certificate issued in 2007 is very incomplete. Relevant information is missing on it: like hte hospital he was allegedly born in, like detailed information about his parents. You are playing games here. some of standard information is on that document but the document is very incomplete. go figure..

        Andjelko Galic

        • Posted By: neos @ 10/29/2008 3:24:07 PM

          http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate

          The link has all the information that you say it doesn't, except the hospital. Guess what , neither does my birth certificate. Hmm.. maybe that makes me Kenyan. LOL. Seriously, smearing is just not your thing. Here's a thought, how about talking about real issues?

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 10/29/2008 2:32:25 PM

    THE REAL JOHN MCCAIN

    Make-Believe Maverick ; A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 1:57:36 PM

    Sometimes irony is subtle, other times it slaps you in the face. This is an example of the latter. Despite Democrats consistent whining that photo id requirements for voting would disenfranchise poor and minority voters, the Obama campaign has decided photo id would be necessary to attend his election night party.

    question: If photo id is a requirement to ensure a Presidential candidates protection, why can???t it be required to ensure the integrity of the voting process which would elect him?

  • Posted By: greyfold @ 10/29/2008 1:55:19 PM

    I want to know why the media is beating up John McCain and side stepping on the issues with Obama. Is this one sided or what? I believe NC would make a horrible mistake if Obama won in this state. Hold him off Carolinians, Hold him off!!

  • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 1:51:47 PM

    The first item that caught my attention this morning was Nancy Pelosi, who provided us with yet another laughable statement. In Pelosi???s America, the term ???bipartisan??? appears to be synonymous with totalitarianism.

    ???Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan,??? said Pelosi.

    Pelosi idea of bipartisanship, is giving one party complete and total power to make decisions as they see fit, without the possibility of the opposing party amending the legislation. This coincides with Pelosi???s previous demonstrations of ???bipartisanship???, such as when she changed the rules of the House to prevent a vote on a free trade agreement. Or when she passed the so called ethics bill, by refusing to close the vote after the bill had failed, in order to strong arm junior Representatives into voting her way. And let???s not forget when Pelosi attempted to change rules which have been in affect since 1822, so she could raise taxes and government spending without having to vote on it.

    Now Pelosi is asking the American people to grant her party more power, so she can avoid all of these pesky little rules which require both parties to vote on legislative changes.

  • Posted By: Imidclss @ 10/29/2008 5:20:03 AM

    Everybody is talking about Senator Obama's past and the people he has associations or not have associations, who and what his pastor speaks from the pulpit. If everyone was to listen to Reverend Wright's entire sermon then people who criticized the snippets that the media so gladly played over and over across the airways would understand the snippets that were played. No, one has commented about John Mc
    Cain's past especially about how he treated and disrepected his marriage and vows to this first wife. No one speaks of how Senator McCain graduated 5th from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy; the class was 899 and McCain was number 894. So many people have criticized Senator Obama for all the things that he is not, and thank God that he is not ! Do, people really know that Senator Obama is a man who worked his way through college along with receiving scholarships for having and maintaining excellent grades. He graduated Magna *** Laude, Barack Obama is a very intelligent man who does not boast about his intelligence, just look at the campaign he has been running. On the otherhand, we Senator McCain and Governor Pailn................and intelligence is not even in their vocabulary! Who would you rather have as a leader of the free world, "Barney and Betty Rubble" or a real leader..........Senator Barack Obama?

    • Posted By: Skallywag @ 10/29/2008 12:11:06 PM

      How is it that nobody gets it? I do not support either BHO or MCC, but who really gives a rats tushy about where they graduated in their class, what classes they took in college, how much they paid in taxes or how much they spent on wardrobe? Suffice it to say each graduated from college (though that holds no water - in the USA its BS, MS, PhD - Bull s**t, More S**T Piled high and Deep), each paid their taxes as required by the law in efffect at the time and they each wear clothes that don't make them look like hippies, hobos, or the opposite sex. What REALLY matters is how good of a leader is the candidate? What does a candidate really bring to the Oval office in terms of knowledge, leadership experience and guts? Well, lets see, BHO has a little, zero, and zero. MCC has zero, a little and a lot. Well that solves that, neither is qualified to lead this country. BHO has no leadesrhip experience and MCC has very little - which is very surprising because after 20 years in the Navy, he should have something, and he obviously didn't pay attention to his chief petty officers (re - the last debate), if he did, he'd know how to lead. Neither of these Bozos has the knowledge to lead this country out of the sorry quagmire of failure that GWB has put us in and guts alone isn't enough.

    • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 10:42:04 AM

      Since he refuses to release any information from his college years, it's very difficult to prove or disprove his scholarship or academic achievement. Currently its just his word and we've seen how that changes.

  • Posted By: jiml1956 @ 10/28/2008 10:01:50 PM

    Based on my very unscientific poll of tonight's blogs, can anyone say capitulation?

    Unless the news source's servers are crashing, I don't see a lot of Republican bs flooding the boards like it was the past week or so.

    • Posted By: mickeyj @ 10/28/2008 11:25:20 PM

      We right wing nut jobs haven't had time to blog we had to find a second job so that we can support you deadbeat treehuggers who don't know how to take care of yourselves so we have to be "patriotic" and support you losers!!!

      • Posted By: neos @ 10/29/2008 12:06:31 AM

        Who are you channeling now, Rush or Sean? I get the two confused.

        Actually all the ultra right-wing nutjobs I know are alcoholics, old farts living off the government, or working on FOX.

        • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 11:33:13 AM

          Don't get out much do you.

    • Posted By: neocon @ 10/29/2008 11:30:57 AM

      Been busy meeting with my accountant to hide my money.

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/28/2008 10:57:39 PM

      The moderate republicans are leaving their party as well. The ultra right-wing nutjobs are taking over.

  • Posted By: mickeyj @ 10/29/2008 10:45:20 AM

    So the LA Times won't release the video showing Hussein Obama at a dinner/fundraiser with a spokesperson for the Palesteinianns yet they will discuss more serious matters like Sarah Palin's wardrobe. In no way is the media biased. They just report the news that affects Americans!!

    There is such a bias for Obama that is has created blind faith to a point that the Messiah could ax murder someone during his 30 minute infomercial tonight and his supporters would claim it didn't happen or it was Bush's fault or it was just another attempt by the McCain campaign to take the focus off the issues.

    One can only wonder what Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, and the rest will do once the knob Obama is elected. Who will they crucify? What guest will they hammer? Will it turn to an American lovefest since the Dems will be in control and God knows they are the party of the perfect!! My suggestion to the folks who have seen Obama as the fraud that he is is to turn off the television for 6 months to let everything settle down and then start watching the left leaners again to see how they approach your new President. I say your because anyone who fraternizes with the Palestinians and prefers (using Obama's own words) to associate with black activists and Marxist Professors will never be my President.

    Start the Impeachment proceedings now!!!!

  • Posted By: VoteforMe @ 10/29/2008 10:04:04 AM

    Those who still focus on the birth certificate prove their appetite for triviality. BO is a US senator who is provided secret service for campaigning to be president by the US government. The fact these GOP fans are still talking about his birth certificate prove to us that the agree that George War Bush is an incompetent if he gives a guy with a false/wrong birth certicate secret service to run as his replacement.

    GOP followers, stop digging your hole!

  • Posted By: Newsybopper @ 10/28/2008 4:42:08 PM

    You, my friend are a shining example of the "holier than thou" crowd that all of a sudden think BUSH has done a great job....why? because someone is finally wanting to even the playing field and take away your enormous profits at the cost of lower income americans. You are also the example why it will be a very difficult battle to unite this country. Talk about racist!!! You're only upset because what you have done to minorities, is now being done to you!! And by the way, I AM an informed voter, who makes over the 250K income mark and have watched every minute of this election. And I'm voting Obama/Biden because I want my country to come out of this better than we are now, and I want to restore our dignity and respect with the world. Have you looked at the polls from European countries and our allies? They show that 50% of all the disrespect (harbored by Bushmanics) will just go away.....immediately. Why? Because they all see us as YOU and if we vote for Barack it will show them our unity and respect for all, no matter race, creed or religion!!

    Get with the 21st century, man, and join the majority!!

  • Posted By: Imidclss @ 10/29/2008 4:40:05 AM

    Any one who takes McCain's promises seriously will be grasping at straws. This is the same man whom at the beginning of the presidential campaign that said the United States economy is better of after 8 years of George Bush. This is the same person who stated that the average middle class income is 5 million and do any up you really think that this is a person you want to respresent the middle class as the leader of the United States of America? Come on.........what a joke!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 10/29/2008 2:37:12 AM

    Agreed! osama, if he wins, which I don't think he will, will not have any power.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/29/2008 2:20:09 AM

    ELECTION 2008
    Obama worked with terrorist
    Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence

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    Posted: February 24, 2008
    5:44 pm Eastern


    By Aaron Klein
    © 2008 WorldNetDaily

    JERUSALEM ??? The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.

    The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.

    In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.

    Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.

    Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

    Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

    The $40,000 grant from Obama's Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group's reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN's reported grants for that year.

    The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago's Palestinian immigrant community, describes itself as working to "empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other communities."

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