Posted on 10/09/2008 8:33:31 PM PDT by BAW
Not only fun, but also quite constructive IMHO :}
The video today in Waukesha was interesting, cannot say that I have ever seen such energy in a campaign right now. McCain just does not get it, if he would get off of this “reaching across the aisle” crap, he would have more people's confidence.
Broken glass Republicans are back. This is going to be a wild ride!
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While it is “seductive” (?) to us Conservatives to be passionately outraged by his “association” we may have bypassed the biggest, most telling, and irrefutable transgression exhibited by BO. On that on its own may make a much larger dent with all political stripes.
That is this point: Ayers (aka Bomber Boy) comes into a huge grant to go and do something (do his Bomber Boy stuff) in Chicago and he CHOOSES Barry to LEAD his effort...and Barry accepts?!!
Instead of focusing on a back and forth about how “much” or how “well” did they know each other (cuz we will never find out the truth and our enemies will say we are bitter) should we simply take that outrage and put it aside and make the important question to Barry about “why in the world would you ever lift a finger to participate with a terrorist who sought to kill the men and women of our Armed Forces”?
Cuz he did. There's no fuzz on that its cut and dried, he can't silver tongue devil his way around this fact.
What does it say about a person who is CHOSEN (hand picked) by a terrorist to LEAD his “Project”, and what American worth their salt would ever accept that to even do one thing to assist, in any way, a former terrorist who bombed the Pentagon?
THAT is the flaw we should be exploiting, he can't avoid the fact that he indeed accepted a terrorists invitation to LEAD Bomber Boy's Project.
If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed got out of the slammer and was had been given Millions by Ahmanutjob to educate poor Kuwaiti children would it be a GOOD thing to be CHOSEN by him to help and would be a good thing if you accepted?
Barry's acceptance, IMO, is an irrefutable exhibition of dangerously flawed judgment and we need to bring that tag home to him.
THAT’s what we should be hammering.
You’re thinking like a conservative (redundant, I know). Liberals, esp. the hard core lefties that are the majority of Dems these days, simply do not think in the moral terms we do. They are perfectly, entirely fine with the fact that Ayers was a “radical” and even if they don’t like it, well heck, that was so long ago and he’s into education now and that’s really the only connection he and Obi share. Just tonight I saw a guy (Abdon something or other) on Greta V.’s show who finally conceded, and this is pretty much a quote, “well, yes, it would help Barack Obama if Ayers would say he was sorry for bombing those buildings”. Cuz you know, if you say you’re sorry, *poof* everything bad goes away.
America is looking to blame someone for the mess we're in, and they don't have to look far.
Education (spelled INDOCTRINATION) is a key for socialists. Hence Ayers, hence O’s refusal to name education as a program he would cut if the budget fell short.
I’m not ruling out a Manchurian type scenario. Way too much evidence to support it.
Is this author 16? I remember when it was unimaginable for the DJIA to exceed 1,000.
“Is this author 16? I remember when it was unimaginable for the DJIA to exceed 1,000.”
Let’s put it in a different context, then.
In the last several weeks or so, we are witnessing the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind. The people who are losing out are not the speculative, hot stock-pickin’, BOO-YAH Mad Money types. I could care less about them.
The people I am concerned about are the otherwise prudent, hard-working, wage-earning Middle American conservative savers. Even after contributing huge amounts to Social Security their whole lives - knowing full well they would see very little of it - these folks also planned for their own self-sufficient retirement through tax-deferred investing in broad-based mixed portfolios, including equities in blue chip/indexed balanced mutual funds. These were not casino gamblers, these were prudent, conservative investors. They were also doing what they were advised to do. Oh by the way, they are precisely the people who have put Bush or his daddy in the seats of power for 20 of the last 28 years. You can likewise say the same for Senator McCain.
But at least when you gamble in a casino, they don’t change the odds or the rules of the game after you put your money down and the wheel spins. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the stock market.
Myself, I’ve got the “buy and hold” luxury to wait it out for retirement in about 10 years or so. Not everyone is so fortunate. Many of the widows have had to switch out and take their hit.
I know, I know...Cui bono? - Cui gives a shit? It’s a jungle out there. Somebody has to win, somebody has to lose.
But there’s always been some assumption that there would be at least some semblance of economic order out there, especially with a Republican President’s Administration. Unfortunately, President Bush reminds me of the Joe Bob Briggs character in “Casino”: Either he knew the machine was rigged (he’s crooked) or he should have known (he’s stupid). Either way, he’s gotta go.
But what if...? Better yet, not IF but when...? What happens when the market tanks low enough for the George Soros-type capitalist vultures to swoop in and bottom out the market. As oil prices continue to fall, the market stages - SHAZZAM! - an amazing recovery and the subsequent transfer and windfall of trillions of dollars from generations of workers to a privileged few.
Who have no problem with sharing some of their “fair” portion of such a windfall with President Obama and the Democrats who control the Government in the form of increased taxes on their income and capital gains.
Which can then be distributed by the Government to the loyal Obama base. At that point, the transfer of wealth is complete. And the poor bastards who got hosed in the stock market can’t even deduct their losses, as most of it was pre-tax money anyway.
Oh, I agree with the general point. I was just struck by the author’s poorly-chosen hyperbole.
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