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“a plywood gazebo and a field of weeds”

Sounds like a great campaign slogan! Better than “40 acres and a mule”!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Making the country as totally corrupt as Obama is counts as change.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Are you guys going on record opposing earmarks/porkbarel after R108 elegantly made a case that they are not worth talking about?
I suggest y’all take a closer look what some of our expert coservatives wrote about earmarks/porkbarel.

He rose to the top of CHICAGO politics.  Half the country expected something else. 

Shakes head… Mumbles…

Are you guys going on record opposing earmarks/porkbarel after R108 elegantly made a case that they are not worth talking about?

I think earmark reform is needed, but I don’t think it’s nearly the problem entitlement spending is.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I think earmark reform is needed, but I don’t think it’s nearly the problem entitlement spending is.
Rob on July 17, 2008 at 10:30 am

Is it your answer then that the ones that elegantly defended earmarks are talking out of their anus?

...after R108 elegantly made a case that they are not worth talking about?

Not what I said; I suggest you speak for yourself and stop trying to speak for me.  Making “earmarks” a political bizzword simply distracts from the truth about entitlement spending.  I don’t think govt should be confiscating and spending our money for anything other than the legitimate purposes of the federal govt, as described in the Constitution.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

That should be “political buzzword”.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

When are you going to talk about the Keating 5 scandal.

When are you going to talk about the Keating 5 scandal.

What does that have to do with Obama’s corruption?
When are you going to talk about the House banking scandal?

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

When are you going to talk about the Keating 5 scandal.[sic]

We covered that about 20 years ago.  The Senate Ethics Committee, chaired by a Democrat, cleared both McCain and John Glenn of all charges.  Next?

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

The Senate “ethics” committee found that McCain used poor judgment when he tried to intervene with regulators to benefit a donar.

Clearly that was inappropriate.  The ethics panel acted as a whitewash because both parties would have been hurt by a real investigation.  (In fact McCain was the only nominal Republican along with four Democrats.)

Clearly McCain should have been kicked out of office then, shouldn’t have received the nomination and certainly isn’t going to win the election when the Democrat surrogates resurrect the story this fall when it will do the most damage.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

There is nothing in this report about Obama’s generosity with taxpayer money that should come as any sort of surprise.  Despite all the rhetoric about “new politics” and “Change”, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old-school, corrupt, Chicago politician who has always rewarded his friends and supporters by helping them feed at the public, tax-payer funded trough.

From ABC News:

In a speech to the Urban League last July, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., boasted of his efforts in 2001 to help a handful of African American-owned investment firms in Chicago get a larger share of business with Illinois state pension funds. “And in six months, they got about a half-billion dollars’ worth of business simply on their excellence,” Obama said.

What he did not say in his speech was that the owner of one of the investment firms, John Rogers of Ariel Capital, is a principal campaign fundraiser. Nor did he reveal that employees of the firms he helped have since contributed to or helped to raise more than $765,000 for his campaigns, according to campaign documents. Nor did he mention that two of the firms have allowed him to use their private jets. Nor did he mention that two of the firms have since been dismissed by the state pension fund for “underperformance.”

John Rogers was a college roommate and basketball teammate of Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Again, this doesn’t justify or excuse Obama’s corruption in any way.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

Of course you’re right.  Obama is even worser than McCain.

However the corruption angle is going to hurt McCain this fall because the press will focus on it.  Obama will be able to keep his hands clean.

It’s easy pickings for them to do so because all the dirt on McCain is a matter of public record.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

What part of “I think earmark reform is needed...” didn’t you understand?

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

John Rogers was a college roommate and basketball teammate of Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson.
Bat One on July 17, 2008 at 11:45 am

Washington connections. Corruption. Scratch my back, I’ll scrath yours. The nature of the beast.
Let him who hath no sin cast the first stone.

Let him who hath no sin cast the first stone.

And yet, you lefties keep gibbering on about “Republican corruption”.  Hypocrite.

Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

Washington connections. Corruption. Scratch my back, I’ll scrath yours.

ellinas,

Not exactly!  This isn’t a Washington story.  Obama hasn’’t been in Washington long enough for that, and these events, and many more, took place when he was merely an up and coming corrupt Chicago political hack.

The thing to remember is Obama is the protege of the Chicago machine… he’s Dick Daily’s boy, and not his own man at all!

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”