Posted on 10/15/2008 2:02:46 PM PDT by TonyInOhio
I think it was a calculation. Reportedly, they’re going to sock it to BO next week. This builds up the intensity regardless.
Thanks for the elaboration! I would have loved to see Ayers face last night.
Teleprompter or Ayers I guess. I think you are correct -- probably some coaching going on after the debate too.
I just got hit with the mantra again:
“It just won’t matter.”
How many times have you heaard that the past few weAks? Modified my tagline:
Plenty! They're a bunch of thumbsuckers!
Do You Want a Left-Handed President?
Last Updated Oct 2008
A surprisingly high percentage of Oval Office occupants are southpaws.
By David Grossberg
They say that a week in politics is like a year in anything else. The unpredictability of the world, good old-fashioned mudslinging and the fickleness of voters make prophesying election outcomes a tricky business. But this year’s presidential election holds one certainty: Your next president will be left handed. Yes, both John McCain and Barack Obama are southpaws.
Only about 10 percent of the population is left-handed. In the early 20th century with Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, a remarkable one-third of our nation’s presidents have been left-handed. With the guarantee of a leftie winning this year’s election, the percentage will increase to 36.
The 1992 election was particularly interesting, as the main contenders were George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot. All three are left-handed. The other presidential lefties include Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan.
http://autographmagazine.com/tabid/73/itemid/208/Do-You-Want-a-LeftHanded-President.aspx
$$$$
Reagan wrote with his right hand, but was a natural lefthander. As a lefthander, who switched my writing hand, I have followed this peculiar attribute of US presidents for years.
I think I understand most of what you are saying, and generally agree. However, $12,000 may not be so far off, after all, for a group / employer (partially) paid plan: I pulled out my 2007 W2 again, and the difference between my “Federal” wages and my “State” (and “Local”) wages is about $12,000. I believe that $12,000 represents what my employer and I were paying for the health care plan for my family and I.
By comparison, in 2003, the Federal and State wages figures were the same, as the health care premiums were not deducted off my (Federal) gross income.
That all brings up another question: Obama keeps saying that health care benefits have never been taxed. Huh? That health care premium “difference” that was not taken off my (Federal) gross income a few years back most certainly DID contribute heavily to my income tax burden. Taking that off the (Federal) gross helped lower my taxes quite a bit in recent years. It certainly helped more than the tax rate cuts (which also helped significantly, and I have a very average income and situation.)
Anyway, Obama could argue that we should not reverse that recent years’ subtraction off the W2 “line 1” gross income. But, noting that my employer paid for most of my own health insurance, and I paid the rest, and everything for the rest of my family, in previous years, I was most certainly taxed on my family’s health care premium.
I absolutely agree. McCain missed a real opportunity to point out that education is a CLEAR example of a problem not solved by throwing more money at it.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I sent this e-mail to pbs:
David Brooks needs to apologize for his comment after Wednesday’s debate that McCain looked tight in the shoulders, while Obama looked loose. Brooks said he couldn’t imagine America wanting to “look at that” for the next four years. Sen. McCain received permanent shoulder injuries due to torture by the N. Vietnamese. For one, I don’t mind being reminded of his and our other soldiers’ sacrifices in that and other wars. What vacuous and insensitive “commentary” from a so-called intellectual.
Chat thread on Ayers at debate. Unless the media reports it as news, it will be in chat.
Thanks! Somewhere between our two posts, someone said that FOX news reported it, but only very briefly.
David Brooks will probably reply, "Oh, I didn't realize he was in the miltary!" He think tries to act intellectual and impartial, but this shows where he REALLY is coming from. I saw him say this and was repulsed.
"Hey, Chuck, stand up!"
Excellent!!
And any good lefty reporter would add, "But, all that said, it is obvious obama won this debate."
[ that McCain looked tight in the shoulders ]
Just another example of how uninformed these people are. Remember the comment about McCain not even using a computer?
His fingers don’t work well enough. His left arm is damaged from torture.
You would think if people want to write commentaries on politics they would be well informed about both candidates.
You would think.....
I’ve been noticing your comments. All of them have been negative. I take it you don’t like Senator McCain much. Not trying to tell you what to do but maybe we should not try to discourage the folks when everyone is so happy about McCains performance at last nights debate.
I have no reason to doubt what you say. But who is TEO?
And for whatever it’s worth, regarding your comment about supposedly “good” people with bad auras, well, one of the pastors I greatly admire is Tony Evans and Tony has an old quote that goes like this, “Where does the Devil sit? In the first pew.”
A lot of truth in that.
That’s great!
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