What Michelle Can Teach Us

In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama unintentionally revealed that he really is as radical as his early political mentors and acquaintances, Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi etc., (gee, there sure seem to be a lot of them) and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now there is absolute proof. In 2001, Obama, the "community organizer" turned legislator, said in an interview:

"And I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was that the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that,"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview.

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

Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGnSAlqjoU

See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

Obama's ill-conceived programs will require him to tax, and his health care plan alone is a substantial 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 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


The democrats failed social engineering policies in the housing market are what brought us to ruin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1M1T2Y314&feature=related
Even Bill Clinton says so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE
Obama and a supermajority of Democrats simply is not the change we need, nor is it change we can afford.

As if "mainstream publications" often do "in depth features' about "regular" NON - African American women. No, Faith Hill, Jennifer Anniston, and Katie Couric don't count.

I'm a white woman who really doesn't care what color Michelle Obama's skin is. My problem with her is the huge chip on her shoulder that she seems to have. I resent her comment about being proud of her country for the first time...this woman is in her forties. That's horrible. I was totally turned off when she announced early on in the campaign that Americans better elect Obama because this was our last chance to have him as President. He would never run again. Was she kidding? The arrogance of that statement totally astounded me. I don't think she's has anything special to emulate and if little African-American girls have only her to look up to...I'm really sorry for them. Michelle Obama is run of the mill...nothing special. An angry woman who needs a few lessons in being gracious.

I'm a white woman who really doesn't care what color Michelle Obama's skin is. My problem with her is the huge chip on her shoulder that she seems to have. I resent her comment about being proud of her country for the first time...this woman is in her forties. That's horrible. I was totally turned off when she announced early on in the campaign that Americans better elect Obama because this was our last chance to have him as President. He would never run again. Was she kidding? The arrogance of that statement totally astounded me. I don't think she's has anything special to emulate and if little African-American girls have only her to look up to...I'm really sorry for them. Michelle Obama is run of the mill...nothing special. An angry woman who needs a few lessons in being gracious.

let's not forget that condi rice also added something to the spectrum of 'the black woman'.

Cindy McCain let her "personality and experience shine" and motivate others to give back.....you have got to be joking......ice lady ....proves money can buy looks...style no....

Michelle's, confidence and intellect will go a long way in changing an image that all women need.

Michelle is an inspiration just the way she is. She doesn't need to work hard to please anyone. It's obvious that she's black, so interjecting her race is a mute point. It appears that the writer can only see that about her. I haven't heard her pop off about anything. Other First Ladies have spoken their minds and race has never been an issue. Let's get past this!! I'm sure she has so much to give. We just need to be open to it!

This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

In desperation the McCain-Palin camp is stepping up their negative ads and dirty politics, again totally concentrating on the disgusting scare and smear tactics. They are depending on throwing out a lot of garbage and really just hoping something sticks. Voters??? common sense should prevail and simply render the low-class efforts as recognized and rejected. There are so many clear indications of the true nature of their continuing efforts that they should simply reflect negatively on McCain and Palin, such as: the obvious desperate attempts with previously discredited attacks; attacks of a highly fictionalized nature; their own neglect to address the issues with real specific solutions; their trying to fault Obama-Bidden and then just expecting voters to trust McCain-Palin, as if they have some (unproven) creditability; John McCain???s over use of the pronoun ???I???, as if it is just all about him; Sarah Palin???s obnoxious and arrogant disregard for honesty; John McCain???s poor judgment, with examples being displayed as the financial crisis unfolded and in his selecting Sarah Palin; Sarah Palin???s displayed lack of any real qualification; their grabbing at faulting George W Bush after strongly supporting him for eight years and even recently declaring that they ???had the same philosophies???; their copying most everything Obama identifies as being a problem and a needed direction; their changing their positions frequently; their lack of class and quality throughout their campaign, especially after John McCain promised better; their really offering only more of the same covered over with the very empty promise of change; and on and on. It is all there for any objective and rational person to see and then, we really just can???t withstand more of the same!

Why just black women?

???Nowforsomethingotherthanthetruth??? exemplifies the measures employed by the McCain campaign starting with the anonymous smear emails that began when McC hired the Bush propaganda machine.

This deception campaign tries to benefit from party loyalties. It preys upon hate, prejudice and fear, and on the ???unanswered questions??? fabricated by the anonymous emails this campaign perpetrated. Links to debunks of many of those fabrications are in an earlier posting.

This is by far the greatest extreme ever in American politics. It is a fundamental threat to our political process. It would further entrench the Bush operatives who took over the McC campaign, and the republican lobbyists who represent only the megarich who looted our economy.

McC was a maverick. He promised to root out the lobbyists he said are what???s wrong with Washington. He said he would not take the low road employed by the Bush machine when it smeared him. He sold out when he got behind and subscribed to the ideology that the end justifies the means.

McC would continue the Bush tax give away to the rich that McC previously opposed and called ???irresponsible??? because ???it only benefits the rich.???

McC now wants to give more billions in tax give aways to oil companies that have just reported the largest profits in history for two consecutive quarters, while he claims that lowering taxes for everyone under $250k in after-deduction income will somehow keep businessmen from starting businesses.

???Nowfor??? has employed many of the themes in the anonymous viral emails. He recently said it was ???revealed that Obama has PLO buddies??? referring to Rashid Khalidi to whom McC donated $440k:

http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html Guilt by association.

"Nowfor" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people.

Alan Greenspan said the cause is that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation; "we trusted" these self-interested looters ???to regulate themselves???. Credit Default Swaps resulted. They increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under R stewardship.

The legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to McC's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to while he has been McC's campaign manager.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1

Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. The Rs, including McC's campaign manager, are in the pockets of big money.

Without solutions, it is necessary to campaign with deception, misdirection, fear, smears, hypocrisy.

Attempts to hijack our political process with deceit and abuse of the trust of party loyalties are reasons I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never voted for a Dem.

A 40

???It???s way too soon. He hasn???t done anything yet.??? -- Michelle Obama's on her husband running for president