http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
How Obama bought his home & paid for schooling.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
How Obama bought his home & paid for schooling.
OK after reading this story i find it leaves out one major fact. The obama campaign has spent more than anyone else in the history presidential campaigns on negative adds. Of which the vast majority are misleading or just plain untrue. Come on news week, lets report the hole story not just a part that happens to meet your political ideals.
Ha ha! the "hole" story. I'm so juvenile...
Brydges, thanks for pointing out how many ignorant less-than-human people there still are in our great country....most of those are the 24% that are still supporting Bush, you included. The Bush regime is THE most secretive, corrupt, self-benefiting regime ever....THAT is a fact. And go back to school you redneck, you can't spell half the words you post. D
Bush may have a 24% approval rating, but Congress (Dem contolled) have a 17% so Bush is doing better than Congress. Why? Because they are and have been turning their backs on controlling the poor mortgage loans in favor of letting those who can't afford to pay for a house (anybody can buy one, but who can pay for what they bought). Now that is costing those of us who did not put our trust solely on the hope that rates won't rise but our incomes would. Blame Congress for low control, unwilling to control. Not Bush. Remember Alan Greenspan as he says that he controlled the FED using a incorrect model of money control and lending leading us to this situation. Yes he served during Bush but also during Clinton.
Raise what it costs to do business, via raising business taxes, you raise the cost to give services and product products. Kennedy lowered cap gains and business taxes our economy improved, Carter raised these taxes we saw 16% to 21 % rates.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
This is how Obama paid for his schooling & home.
Straight from snopes, the real truth.
interesting that the many ads and claims by the obama campaig NEVER make it to the front page of msn. typical liberal hypocritcal left media.
because they are truths and not lies like the one pointed out by this story.
Bridges... why did the republican party choose the elephant as a party symbol? Cause it has a huge fat A@# and is happy working for peanuts.
desert dem son, you'll be able to meet him in the bathroom, he'll be in there scrubbing those toilets...a regular Joe the Plumber.
Hey Bidges , you sound just like MCCAIN and the rest of the REPIBLCANTs.. FIGHT..FIGHT..FIGHT FIGHT
I'l meet in the bathroom during afternoon recess. and Don't bring susy like you did last time!
That's awesome. At the flagpole! 3:30!
And really....people....why are we so afraid to adopt Universal Healthcare...it works quite well in England...trust me, I spent a night in the ER...so refreshing to not even be asked about money...to get top quality care....and given money for a cab when I was one......so we have to pay higher taxes......guess what people....thats how things get paid for
You better check other countries that have universal health care. People can't get needed procedures. Those that can afford it, pay for private insurance also to make sure they get timely care. I know for a fact that this happens in Italy and Canada....you are living in a dream world if you think universal health care is better than what we have now!!!!
Conservative Chick, BREAKING NEWS!!! The wealth is already being distrubted out to those crooked @ssholes on wallstreet. Being a republican, how do you feel about your money going to these rich @ssholes and to Sara Palins wardrobe?? In fact, how with a straight face can you support Sara Palin? She was put in there as a political stunt, and if anyone in the soon to be gone republican party has any real balls, they would ask her to respectfully step down. Glad to hear you want to keep the Bush Tax cuts for the super rich and to have continued growth seperating the super wealthy from the rest of America. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Breaking news...crooks on Wall Street come in all political persuasions...and usually both in order to hedge their bet. And another bit of breaking news: the Dems are in control of congress...both house and senate. Don't like deal? Then blame your own party.
You forget that the republicans have been in power a long time. It will take time to undo their damage. Not to mention that they do not have a tie breaking, veto-proof majority to really fix things.
Hey!!! All you Muslim haters out there! Did you see what was posted below! McCain might have a 3rd cousin that's a Sunni!!!!! We better check into that to see what kind of ties he has with terrorists....if his 3rd cousin is a terrorist, McCain must be one!!!!! Oh my god, what is everyone going to do?????
My cardiologist is a Native Syrian who is a Sunni. He has kept my Air Force butt alive and is a brilliant man. He was born in Aleppo. Since most Americans have not traveled much, Aleppo is a verybeautiful place with relative religious harmony. The people who leave there for the west are often Christians, who do not like Ba'athist Socialism.
I have to admit, Obama has a better tax policy than McCain. Obama wants to increase the capital gains tax rate to 20% from the current 15%. I just read that McCain intends to try to reduce the capital gains tax rate to 7.5% from the current 15%. I don't know about you, but I have very little capital gains. What I would like to see is a repeal of the 15% tax rate on dividends; dividend income should be taxed at ordinary income tax rates. I don't know about you, but I have very little dividend income. What income I have is mostly wages. How about reducing the income tax on wage income? People have to work for wages and they pay ordinary income tax rates on that income, but if you are wealthy and you buy stocks, you get a nice, reduced tax rate for your dividends and capital gains. Seems to me, the easy no-sweat income should be taxed at a higher rate, not lower.
Cutting the capital gains tax had a huge impact in the mid 1990's as it reduces the penalities for buying and selling homes, businesses, and investments of all sorts. It is not a tool soley for the rich guy, but one that absolutely spreads the wealth via the marketplace. Its good for all of us. And besides, there's simply something inherently wrong with the conversations surrounding finding new and/or more ways to tax, tax who more, and alike. Rather, it would be in the best interests of all wage earners if we reduced the tax need to begin with. And with the ballooned up budget we have today, it cannot be that difficult. If Obama wants this independent's vote, please start promising a reduction in spending...anywhere...everywhere, you name it!
The R's spent the last 8 years using every branch of the federal apparat handing out contracts to cronies, in a no-bid game. They have used war on terror exemptions to get it done. Those trillions in debt-financed payola are in the pockets Obama intends to tax.
I am supposed to fell sorry for people making money off graft? I am supposed to feel sorry for Wall St. barons who destroyed our currency, our credit, and our economy?
What pathetic scum.
Obama/Biden '08/12
desert dem son, you should have gone with the Sunni thing...it has worked so well for Atwater and Rove, I'm sure it would work the same for O'bama!
Quit your crying, McCain, and worry about yourself instead of what Obama is doing. McCain and Palin are cry babies and don't know anything about being in office. You're going to lose, McCain. We don't want the likes of you and your stupid side kick, running our country. Barack Obama is going to win this election and that's that. So live with it. Obama will do a much better job than you could ever do.
Obama admonished McCain for trying to use a hackett in "freezing spending" when you needed a scapel. 44% of the 95% Obama is promising a "tax cut" to do not pay any income taxes today. Many of these may need the money but how many of these 55 million people are receiving someone else's money that are not by definition the needy or handicapped. How many are lazy, how many are dealers that don't report income,...? This is nothing more than redistribution of weath with a hackett vs a scapel.
I forgot to add, our government redistrubutes wealth no matter who's the President. Under Bush, the redistribution favors the rich. There is also redistribution in that our tax dollars pay for our armed services, infrastructure, education and other things we benefit from as a society. The assumption that Obama is socialist based on making the tax code more fair is rediculous.
When I was a factory worker, I paid about 30% taxes. At the end of the year, I got most if not all of it back. That meant that overall, I did not pay any taxes, but yet I did pay taxes. If you work, but make a low salary, you do pay taxes, but you get them back. The way I understand it, Instead of paying 30% out of my check every week, they would take 25% out. I still pay taxes that are refunded at the end of the year. You can lower taxes on someone who pays no gross taxes.
By the way I was just kidding about Mccain's third cousin and Mccain's first wife. Shoul;dn't bring her into this since Mccain treated her so badly already. She's actually a class act.
Brydges, again, I ask why are you worried about 2million dollars on a house, when we have spent 10trillion on an illigitimate war??? Quit worrying about candidates past, focus on what they want to do. What do you not like about O'bama (specifically) besides that he's black, apparently a Muslim and apparently a socialist?? You think McCain will do better, I know O'bama will do better. We disagree and are not going to change each others opinion. You're a joke looking at the small picture of things.
Floridacadman, thanks for pointing that out. That may be something Brydges can understand...he seems to really like mentioning Hitler....Brydges some of your Hitler buddies were featured in the news yesterday, but they were too stupid to pull off their plot, did you give them directions?
The far right is killing people here in Arkansas. First our party chairman...
It is a form of intimidation.
This should stir up the pot a little.... I'm not for or against the Jewish People. I'm against the Jewish having their own country. Since when does a religion have to have their own country? Truth be told Jeruselum (Isreal) shoud be a christian country since that's where Jesus is from. Yea !! Let's have another Crusade and get those Jewish and arabs out of Jeruselem. It was ours 2000 years ago and should be ours now. Yea, really makes a lot of sense. How stupid to have taken land from others just to appease the jewish. What's even more stupid is Even if the jewish were to leave Isreal (palestine) the Arabs would continue fighting among themselves. I understand Mccain has a third cousin by way of his first wife that is a Sunni.
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