Jiminey Crickets is this black racist dangerous to America and her economic success.
God help us all if he wins.
Posted on 05/08/2008 6:06:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
By Amanda Carpenter
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama flatly promised to raise taxes in a television interview Thursday afternoon.
“I will raise CEO taxes,” Obama told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.”
“If you’re a CEO in this country you’ll probably pay more taxes,” Obama said. Obama speculated his CEO tax rates “won’t be prohibitively high, you’ll pay roughly what you did in the 90’s when they were doing fine.”
Obama also said he would eliminate the Bush tax cuts and install what he called a “middle class tax cut.”
Blitzer asked Obama to define “middle class.”
Obama replied, “You know, I think the definitions are always a little bit rough” and said “if you’re making $100,000 a year or less, then you’re pretty solidly middle class…On the other hand, if you’re making more than $100,000 and certainly if you’re making more than $200,000 or $250,000, you’re doing pretty well.”
The CNN interview was the first one Obama has held since Tuesday’s primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. In it, the Illinois senator also discussed his judicial philosophy. Obama, who has delivered constitutional lectures at University of Chicago Law School, said he thought Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was “a very sensible judge.” He also hinted he would place special emphasis on civil rights protections when appointing Supreme Court judges if elected President.
“We’ve got to make sure civil liberties are protected,” Obama said. “Because oftentimes there are pressures placed on politicians to want to set civil liberties aside, especially at a time when we’ve had terrorist attacks. Making sure we maintain our separation of powers so that we don’t have a president who is takes over more and more power, I think those are all criteria by which I’d judge whether or not this is a good appointee.”
So very true, worth repeating.
What defect of mind or character is it that democrats carry that keeps them locked into zero-sum thinking around money?
It is very similar to flat earth thinking...a stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality or even be curious about how it works. Are they so pinned to their jealousies and do-gooderism that they just can't grasp something so intrinsic to freedom?
The way I see it, capitalism illustrates spiritual law -- freedom with responsibility. Anyone who gets this close to the presidency should at least have some semblance of an idea about how banks work and how money is created. There are consequences to economic naivete, and Obama appears to have bitten so deeply into his (fellow traveler) mom's world view that he is completely incurious about how capitalism works.
I went back and looked and if you are in the 250-300 range you can expect another 20-25k added to your tax bill. Does he think people who have grown accustomed to that money won’t miss it when it’s confiscated? That pulls a kid or two out of private school or college Mr. Wealth Redistribution.
excuse me, Mr. Obama, but given the cost of living in NYC, a $100-250k family household income is pretty decisively middle class, bordering on working class for the lower end of that range. What is this man thinking?
Very true! And Reagan was running against a much better man than Obama is as well.
Holey Moley!!
The 527s are going to have a picnic with this one!!!
I will raise your taxes was such a successful campaign theme for Walter Mondale, I’m sure it will play as wells with the American people with Obama.
Didn’t another democrat presidential candidate once say he would raise taxes and then lost the election to our boy Reagan?
There’s plenty of spam for sure - and most of it is not getting posted by McCain supporters.
Yep. The claim that someone or some entity is "making too much" sure gets thin when they set their eyes on your paycheck rather than going the indirect route and claiming they are taxing the "excess" profits of some corporate entity which will just pass the tax on to the consumer anyway.
I am glad to see you 'get it', and wish more people did.
You bet they would. Anything to assuage their guilt and show off their supposed open-mindedness. Plus, they CAN afford it.
They don't give a cr*p about us little people who will be hurt by a tax increase. You know, the one's who made them rich in the first place. Hypocritical Hollyweirdos.
It’s a statement of McCain’s Supreme Court appointments position. I thought it might answer some of your questions about that. It’s not intended to be pro or con McCain.
Jiminey Crickets is this black racist dangerous to America and her economic success.
God help us all if he wins.
This is not news.
Yep.
“I’M sorry if you would rather play games with reality and squirm and twist here rather than admit that your guy sat on the Senate floor and voted YES to confirm this semi communist ACLU lawyer bitch”
So did just about every other Republican in the Senate at the time.
Wasn’t the vote something like 98-2?
You could make the same accusation against nearly every other Republican senator, conservative or otherwise.
The fact is, that traditionally, Senators pretty much voted to confirm appointments by the opposing party as a matter of course.
The Republicans vote for the Democrat’s nominees because they respect that principle, based on the assumption that if someone had gotten elected to the presidency, they had enough judgement through which to pick qualified candidates (even MARGINALLY qualified candidates).
It is the ‘RATS who have “politicized the process” in the last twenty-five years, and they have now degenerated to the point where they will vote against Republican judicial nominees simply BECAUSE they were nominated by Republicans. Or do anything possible to prevent Republican judiicial candidates from ever reaching a full-Senate vote, period.
The only way to fight this fire is with “return fire”. That is to say, Republicans should now attempt to block any and all ‘rat judicial nominations, filibustering them if necessary.
If the Pubbies dare do this, watch a Democratic-controlled Senate pass “the nuclear option” in two minutes - along with a provision that such option last only until the current Senate session ends (to prevent such a tool from falling into Republican hands if they ever regain control of the Senate).
But your beef with McCain that he voted for Ginsburg simply doesn’t hold water. The rest of his Republican colleagues DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
- John
Should we be surprised? After all, they’re all paid by tax money. I’d be happier if he was willing to tax himself into oblivion.
Obama is now TOAST. Promising to raise taxes is a BIG NO-NO.
Thanks for your post.
The left believe they ARE God. They know better than you how to raise YOUR children, know better than you to spend YOUR money, demand that you surrender to their group think and surrender your GOD-Given sovereignity as a human being. However, when it comes to them, oh no, THEY want what’s “theirs.” (what they stole from you and me).
You can kiss my ass!”- Ted Nugent, “Kiss My Ass”
I prefer another version of that tune....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYyHNgeFA8
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