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May 17, 2008
 
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The Democratic Party has learned from its past two mistakes. Dumb whites are vile and easily duped That will never change. Hillary Clinton went about the country and came back with her catch of ignorant whites and laid them at the feet of the Democratic party leaders. They rightly said "no thanks!" You ignorant whites betray your party anytime the Republicans blow a dog whistle.

The Democratic Party will not put themselves at the mercy of the stupid mob that will vote against Hillary the moment an abortion commercial airs. OBama will destroy the map to victory that runs through the voting districts populated by the dumbest Americans in our country.

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May 17, 2008
 
YOUR CANDIDATE FLUNKED ECONOMICS 101:

The Economy Needs Some Spare Change
The stock market is a grand exercise in public perception - entire businesses are built on the ability to predict what a company's future earnings or share price will be based on an array of factors.

These markets and many others have been brutalized by President Bush's economic and military policies. An Obama Administration would be the boldest statement we as a nation could possibly make to the rest of the world that we are serious about breaking with the failures of the past eight years.

And for those who say that they don't care how foreigners perceive us, it is important not to forget that we live in the age of the global economy. Foreign governments and institutions are heavy consumers of our products and large investors in our markets. In my own industry, I've heard that Saudi money accounts for somewhere between 3 and 9 percent of all investment capital.

A McCain Administration by contrast, would signal to the world that we have learned nothing from two terms of Dubya, and we would almost certainly face a hard slog to recovery. Just the prospect of war with Iran, a major supplier of oil to the world market, would provide more upward pressure on world oil prices. Ready for $5 per gallon gas? If you think I'm overstating it, ask yourself if you would have guessed 4 years ago that gas prices would now be approaching $4 per gallon. Rising gas prices will increase the price of everything else, and we run the risk of experiencing the stagflation of the ‘70s all over again.

Before I get accused of oversimplifying, an Obama Presidency would not be the panacea that would instantly deliver us from economic hardship. There are fundamental problems with our economy that need to be addressed and will take time to heal. But the one part of the equation we as voters have control over is who represents us to the rest of the world. Like Bill Clinton was in the ‘90s, Obama is the exact change our economy needs.
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May 17, 2008
 
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unemployment rate is up to 5.1%. I don’t call that psychological, that is called a Reality Check.
Did you know in 1996 when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the unemployment rate was 5.1%, a percent that Clinton campaigned on PROUDLY calling it an accomplishment. Read about it here :http://www.americanprogress.o rg/issues/2004/09/b186379.html

Why is a 5.1% unemployment rate a disaster when its under a Republican president, but considered a great accomplishment under a Democratic president ? Please explain.
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May 17, 2008
 
Jim wrote:
Facts about Obama;
1. He is known by his voting record to be the single most liberal of all 100 Senators, and that is truly saying something with many that are there.
2. He is known to have a very close long term relationship with someone whom Obama has said is his spiritual mentor, close personal advisor, and until recently political advisor, in a known anti-American, racist, Marxist preacher in Wright whom Obama said is as close as his uncle.
3. He is known to have an ongoing admittedly "friendly" relationship with an unrepentant terrorist in Bill Ayres. He even launched his political career at a fund raiser at Ayers's home.
4. He is known to have a close financial relationship with an indicted, known briber of politicians, in Tony Rezko. So much so that Rezko went halves with the Obama's on buying Obama's family home.
5. Obama's campaign manager just resigned due to a relationship with the Hamas.
6. Obama's Internet campaign manager is a known Communist from France.
7. Obama today reiterated that he would meet with terrorist leaders without any conditions, diminishing the prestige and value of the American Presidency and giving international propaganda credit to those same individuals. This proves either that his sympathies lie with terrorists or that he is simply totally naive and inexperienced. Either way has no business anywhere near the White House.
Beyond that his policies he is proposing, by the way the same that are proposed by Hillary would bankrupt America.
1. The socialized health care would destroy the quality and availability of our health care in this country while bankrupting America trying to pay for this scheme.
2. The policy ideas of increasing taxes on individuals at all levels by letting the Bush tax cuts expire would give every working American a 33% tax increase.
3. The policy of increasing taxes on the top producers will have the effect of lowering the tax brought in from these same people and putting more of a burden on lower income taxpayers while shutting down the economy as these top producers lack the incentive to produce.(this happens ever time this policy is tried.)
4. The policy of increasing taxes on corporations with "windfall profit" taxes will shrink growth, cause massive job losses, and will increase costs of goods and services to all Americans.(This happens every time this is tried.)
5. The policy of increasing taxes on foreign companies through tariffs, cause shrinking supplies, higher costs for all Americans, and a depression of business growth in America.(This happens every time it is tried.)
The last time these policies were tried were under the democrat controlled House and Senate under Jimmy Carter. It produced the worst economy next to the Great Depression.
The time before that it was tried was by Herbert Hoover and it caused the Great Depression.
This Change that Obama is talking about is nothing but the failed policies of Hoover and Clinton come back to life.
Bravo!!! that's a pretty detailed list you've scraped up there... how many minutes did it take you to type that up, about "8" ?.... well, thats how many years it took Bush to tear up the entire world, so, for Americans to read a biography is a treat compared to those who's biographys read "Qualified" but yet, that qualified person is the very reason we are logged on venting! wheeeewwwww..... WORDS can't frieghten this already terrified country anymore, we are more interested in what we have seen, not what some oval office hogging typist has dreamed up!

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May 17, 2008
 
Florida1 wrote:
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JOHN MCCAIN'S economic instincts may be sound—he is, after all, the only solid free-trader in the race, and a genuine hater of government waste—but on present form he is not turning out to be much of a salesman. In two recent speeches, he has laid out his economic vision. He addressed
HE has no vision and neither do you! LOL

McCain thinks we're in recession, reminds of his TR worldview

Asking for a dose of straight talk, AP's Liz Sidoti asked McCain if the country had entered recession.

"I certainly think so," McCain replied.

He added that the word is a "technical term" and that the important thing is that "Americans are hurting."

This assessment will likely capture the headlines, but comments he later made will stand out to conservatives.

Continuing where he left off in his economic talk last week in Brooklyn and foreshadowing his major speech tomorrow on the topic tomorrow in Pittsburgh, McCain said "there is a role for government" in improving the economy. "There always is."

"I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republican," he reminded.
First he was a Reagan republican, now he is a Roosevelt republican, next he is going to claim allegiance to the Whig party. "McCain's promise to keep American troops in Iraq for a hundred, a thousand, or a million years shows he offers nothing but a third Bush term on Iraq."

2003: McCain Said Bush Led With "Clarity" And Did Not Exaggerate the Case for War.
2005: McCain Said That Another Year Will Prove "Stay the Course" Is Working.
2006: McCain's Top Political Advisor Says McCain's Support for the War is "Stay the Course, No Matter What."
2006: McCain Said That Iraq Was "On The Right Track" As The Country Moved Closer To Civil War.
2007: McCain Claimed There Were Neighborhoods Safe Enough for Him to Walk Through. McCain claimed there were neighborhoods safe enough for him to walk through in Baghdad but then toured a Baghdad market wearing a bulletproof vest while accompanied by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead."
2007: McCain Called Iraq the "Premier Issue" of Our Time, But Missed Iraq War Votes to Campaign for President.
2007: McCain Claims Political Success, Pleads for More Time for Surge.
2008: McCain Would Spend 'a Hundred Years' or a 'Millon Years' in Iraq.
PTSD at work here people!!!
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May 17, 2008
 
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America is in Recession: Admit It
85,000 jobs have been lost this year. Owners’ equity in their houses hasn’t been this low since 1945. U.S. Consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2002. Inflation and economic worry is headline news in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.
President Bush said Friday that “it’s clear our economy has slowed.”
At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC we are “slow.” For two small business owners I know we are tragically in economic failure: but there are no buyers for the businesses.
On Friday, the economists at JPMorgan Chase — who only last week had told clients they thought the economy was still growing — reversed course and said a recession appeared to have started earlier this year.
On January 10, 2008, we wrote in Peace and Freedom and Now Public:“Home sales are in crisis, unemployment benefit applications are at an all time high, and retail sales in December were the worst in 5 years. Recession? The Federal Reserve says no. The Wall Street traders we spoke to said,“Yes. Absolutely.” To say the U.S. is not in a recession is to deny the trouble – the problem – and not face the urgency of our difficult times. The question is not ‘Are we in a recession?’ The question is ‘When will it end?’”
Two months on the President and his White House are a combination of illusive and evasive. Why?
Because just saying “The ‘R’ word” can make things worse. And because we are in an election year. Republicans saying “The ‘R’ word” may cause voters to go the other way.
To me, this is an unforgiveable lack of forthright honesty from the President and his White House. Because I own a family business myself and it is slipping into oblivion.
If you don't believe that a recession is already in progress, come take a walk with me down mainstreet where every shopowner will tell you the same thing: they are hurting.
Here's seven year's worth of U/E rates, all indicative of the month of March, from The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which takes the below figures directly from the U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics:

March 1993 UE rate: 7.0
March 1994 UE rate: 6.5
March 1995 UE rate: 5.4
March 1996 UE rate: 5.5
March 1997 UE rate: 5.2
March 1998 UE rate: 4.7
March 1999 UE rate: 4.2

Hmmmm, 1993-1999...boy, some of those figures sure are high, aren't they? Indicative of a recession and even a depression. Was George W. Bush the president then? I'm pretty sure he wasn't.
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May 17, 2008
 
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HE has no vision and neither do you! LOL
McCain thinks we're in recession, reminds of his TR worldview
Asking for a dose of straight talk, AP's Liz Sidoti asked McCain if the country had entered recession.
"I certainly think so," McCain replied.
He added that the word is a "technical term" and that the important thing is that "Americans are hurting."
This assessment will likely capture the headlines, but comments he later made will stand out to conservatives.
Continuing where he left off in his economic talk last week in Brooklyn and foreshadowing his major speech tomorrow on the topic tomorrow in Pittsburgh, McCain said "there is a role for government" in improving the economy. "There always is."
"I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republican," he reminded.
First he was a Reagan republican, now he is a Roosevelt republican, next he is going to claim allegiance to the Whig party. "McCain's promise to keep American troops in Iraq for a hundred, a thousand, or a million years shows he offers nothing but a third Bush term on Iraq."
2003: McCain Said Bush Led With "Clarity" And Did Not Exaggerate the Case for War.
2005: McCain Said That Another Year Will Prove "Stay the Course" Is Working.
2006: McCain's Top Political Advisor Says McCain's Support for the War is "Stay the Course, No Matter What."
2006: McCain Said That Iraq Was "On The Right Track" As The Country Moved Closer To Civil War.
2007: McCain Claimed There Were Neighborhoods Safe Enough for Him to Walk Through. McCain claimed there were neighborhoods safe enough for him to walk through in Baghdad but then toured a Baghdad market wearing a bulletproof vest while accompanied by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead."
2007: McCain Called Iraq the "Premier Issue" of Our Time, But Missed Iraq War Votes to Campaign for President.
2007: McCain Claims Political Success, Pleads for More Time for Surge.
2008: McCain Would Spend 'a Hundred Years' or a 'Millon Years' in Iraq.
PTSD at work here people!!!
Did you know in 1996 when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the unemployment rate was 5.1%, a percent that Clinton campaigned on PROUDLY calling it an accomplishment. Read about it here :http://www.americanprogress.o rg/issues/2004/09/b186379.html

Why is a 5.1% unemployment rate a disaster when its under a Republican president, but considered a great accomplishment under a Democratic president ? Please explain.
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May 17, 2008
 
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Did you know in 1996 when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, the unemployment rate was 5.1%, a percent that Clinton campaigned on PROUDLY calling it an accomplishment. Read about it here :http://www.americanprogress.o rg/issues/2004/09/b186379.html
Why is a 5.1% unemployment rate a disaster when its under a Republican president, but considered a great accomplishment under a Democratic president ? Please explain.
Well, at that time we didn't have the other ten million problems. So many other catastrophes piled upon that 5.1 % mixed together made a national disaster! Since prices has sky rocketed even the employed are bleeding out of the eyeballs, thats the diffrence. A gallon of cooking oil was $6.00 when Bill was in office, for years after that it was 8, now thats to oh Georgie boy, cooking oil is considered to be industrial oil at $12.oo a gallon, visualize a difference yet? I see it vividly...
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May 17, 2008
 
Stuipd Citizens wrote:
YOUR CANDIDATE Like Bill Clinton was in the ‘90s, Obama is the exact change our economy needs.
What will Obama do for the economy ? Try not to copy and paste.

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May 17, 2008
 
McCain: Theres Been Great Progress Economically Since Bush Took Office

Earlier this week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) delivered a speech on the economy in which he outlined his ambitious plan to cut taxes and balance the budget. McCain's plan would extend President Bush's tax cuts, reduce corporate tax rates, repeal the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and increase exemptions for dependents. But unfortunately for McCain, "economists and nonpartisan analysts" have dug deeper into the details of his plan and concluded that the numbers simply "don't add up." The offsets he proposes will not cover the estimated $3.3-$5.7 trilllion cost of the proposal and would end up ballooning the federal deficit.

In January, Sen. John McCain said that economic problems were just “psychological.” Last week he said that last week, America had “great progress economically” during the tenure of The Worst President Ever. Maybe he's learned a few things from Economics for Dummies since then. Via Think Progress: This morning on NBC’s Today Show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attempted to distance himself from President Bush on the economy. When host Meredith Viera asked McCain whether Americans are “better off, by any means, than we were eight years ago,” McCain replied,“Oh, no. No.”Be afraid, be very afraid.

IRRATIONAL PSYCHO BEHAVIOR, FLIP FLOP ALL DAY LONG, HE'S NUT!

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May 17, 2008
 
CAN YOU SAY CRAZY! BIPOLAR AND PTSD, SENILE TOO!
Announces Second in Series of McCain vs. McCain Debates
WASHINGTON, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- Today, the Democratic National Committee announced the second in a series of McCain vs. McCain debates to be broadcast today on www.mccaindebates.com . The debates, which show Senator McCain debating himself, make it clear that even John McCain doesn't agree with John McCain on the vital issues confronting the American people. No matter which McCain the American people hear, they'll see a third-Bush-termer and pandering politician who will say or do anything to win and has no qualms selling out his principles for political purposes.
During today's debate, the American people will have the opportunity to hear the old McCain and the new McCain face off on the economic issues facing America, such as the possibility of a recession, interest rates, and Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy. But the two McCains will have a lot of explaining to do to the American people, considering that with a sliding economy and job losses hitting a five year record high, 81 percent of Americans now think our country is on the wrong track -- the same track McCain would keep us on. And with McCain himself saying that he doesn't really understand economics and that he's not "smart enough" to come up with a plan for the mortgage crisis, it will take a lot to prove he is capable of fixing the economy, the number one issue on voters' minds this election.[New York Times, 4/4/08; AP, 4/4/08; Boston Globe, 12/18/07; American Banker, 3/11/2008; http://www.youtube.com/watch... ]
Today's debate is the second in a series of McCain vs. McCain debates launched March 24 by the DNC and continuing in the coming weeks. The debates will concentrate on the issues most important to the American people this election season, with the first having concentrated on the war in Iraq. Additional details regarding specifics for the coming debates will be announced at a later time.

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May 17, 2008
 
"We are so glad to have John McCain and John McCain back for a second debate today," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. "Since McCain has made it clear that he doesn't understand economics and is willing to switch his position on just about any issue in order to win an election, these debates are a wonderful opportunity for Americans to see the political opportunist speak for himself. We wish him luck as he tries again to argue for a third Bush term and convince voters he won't keep us on the same track so many Americans think is wrong for our country."
To watch the debates, go to www.mccaindebates.com .
Script of McCain vs. McCain Debate #2
The Economy
Round 1: Are we in a recession?
McCain A: "I don't believe we're headed into a recession." [GOP Debate, Myrtle Beach, FNC, 1/10/08]
McCain B: "I would say that it's very likely and more and more economists are saying that, that we are probably quote in a recession." [CNN Live Feed (Atlanta, GA), 3/7/08]
Round 2: Are you well versed on the economy and interest rate cuts?
McCain A: "I'm not -- don't have that kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates sufficiently or not." [CNBC/Wall Street Journal Debate, 10/9/07]
McCain B: "I'm very well versed in economics." [MSNBC Debate, Boca Raton Florida, 1/24/08]
Round 3: Do you believe in George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy?
McCain A: "I believe that until we find out the cost of this war and the reconstruction that we should hold off on tax cuts." [Meet the Press, 3/30/03]
McCain B: "Well, for a long time, I have said that I thought the tax cuts ought to be made permanent." [ABC News This Week, 2/17/08]
McCain A Counterpunch: "I want to briefly discuss why, at this time, I cannot in good conscience vote in favor of tax cuts, irrespective of their size or to which segment of the population they are targeted." [Senate Floor, 3/18/03]
McCain B Counterpunch: "I'm disappointed because I think it's very important that we make the Bush tax cuts permanent. I voted to make them permanent twice already." [MSNBC Debate, Boca Raton Florida, 1/24/08]
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May 17, 2008
 
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HE has no vision and neither do you! LOL
McCain thinks we're in recession, reminds of his TR worldview
Asking for a dose of straight talk, AP's Liz Sidoti asked McCain if the country had entered recession.
"I certainly think so," McCain replied.
He added that the word is a "technical term" and that the important thing is that "Americans are hurting."
This assessment will likely capture the headlines, but comments he later made will stand out to conservatives.
Continuing where he left off in his economic talk last week in Brooklyn and foreshadowing his major speech tomorrow on the topic tomorrow in Pittsburgh, McCain said "there is a role for government" in improving the economy. "There always is."
"I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republican," he reminded.
First he was a Reagan republican, now he is a Roosevelt republican, next he is going to claim allegiance to the Whig party. "McCain's promise to keep American troops in Iraq for a hundred, a thousand, or a million years shows he offers nothing but a third Bush term on Iraq."
2003: McCain Said Bush Led With "Clarity" And Did Not Exaggerate the Case for War.
2005: McCain Said That Another Year Will Prove "Stay the Course" Is Working.
2006: McCain's Top Political Advisor Says McCain's Support for the War is "Stay the Course, No Matter What."
2006: McCain Said That Iraq Was "On The Right Track" As The Country Moved Closer To Civil War.
2007: McCain Claimed There Were Neighborhoods Safe Enough for Him to Walk Through. McCain claimed there were neighborhoods safe enough for him to walk through in Baghdad but then toured a Baghdad market wearing a bulletproof vest while accompanied by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead."
2007: McCain Called Iraq the "Premier Issue" of Our Time, But Missed Iraq War Votes to Campaign for President.
2007: McCain Claims Political Success, Pleads for More Time for Surge.
2008: McCain Would Spend 'a Hundred Years' or a 'Millon Years' in Iraq.
PTSD at work here people!!!
Lol, girl let me tell you! poor oh Mccain is old and brain damaged, and believe me, all of his supported knows that. They are just using him as the scapegoat to hold the doors open for the Republicans to stay in office, because he is the only one who can offer them a gleam of hope right now. The Republicans do not want him as a president anymore than we do, they know his age is affecting his mind just by listening to his inconsistant shuffleing statements. The Republicans are only backing him hoping that he will win, then like the back-stabbing double-crossers they have always been, they will all sit around, and hope he dies in the next two or three years so they can replace him with a younger more competent character, hell they might even knock him off themselves, they are so desperate! believe me, they can't tolerate him anymore than the rest of the world... again, they are using Mccain as a door-stop... just to hold the door open...
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MCCAIN HATES MLK HOLIDAY:
On 40th year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. It's a day when many of us will celebrate his legacy, the values he espoused, and his vision for a better America....[The media will likely focus a great deal on politicians who give speeches where they try to align themselves with his legacy.
McCain will brought his "Service to America" tour to Memphis in April, but many people don't know the service he touts includes voting against the federal holiday honoring Dr. King. In August 1983 he fought the holiday, voting to block a piece of bipartisan legislation honoring him that was supported by even conservative Republicans--including Dick Cheney--and signed into law by President Reagan.
McCain went on to resist recognizing a King holiday in his home state of Arizona. When Arizona's state legislature failed to pass a bill recognizing a holiday honoring Dr. King, the governor at the time, Bruce Babbit, created the holiday by executive order. Babbit's successor, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded the order as his first act in office, doing away with the holiday. John McCain's response? He defended the governor, not Dr. King.(After undoing the holiday, the same governor went on to publicly support referring to Black people as "pickaninnies")...
In 1990, seven years after his initial vote, McCain went along with establishing a King holiday. On the campaign trail in 2000, facing questions about his history on this issue, McCain declared he had "evolved."
Looking at the rest of McCain's public record, even recently, it's hard to see much evidence of an "evolution". In fact, McCain has consistently opposed a civil rights agenda:
• He voted an amazing FOUR times against the Civil Rights Act of 1990--a bill designed to make it easier for employees to prove job discrimination and imposing harsher penalties on bosses who discriminated.
• In 2004 he opposed affirmative action in college admissions--a key component of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that is among King's key legislative victories.
• He has voted at least 8 times against raising the minimum wage.
• And as recently as last month, he argued against federal intervention to help Americans, disproportionately Black Americans, who have faced foreclosure during the housing crisis.
For more info on McCain's record, read this factsheet:
http://colorofchange.org/mccain_facts
Are you implying McCain is a racist ? Now I've heard it all ! Imagine a presidential candidate being touted as racist. Imagine if he had hired a white supremacist as his campagin spiritual advisor, who also presided over his wedding, inspired him to name a book after one of his sermons, and baptizde his kids. Imagine that ??!!What an Audacity!

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May 17, 2008
 
Florida1 wrote:
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Well, YOU are a What? A Liberal Common Sense Elitist or a Plant?
I am a cactus.

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May 17, 2008
 
Welcome to the Bush-McCain Recession
This is what happens after eight years of Republican mismanagement of the economy:
The U.S. has finally slid into recession, according to the majority of economists in the latest Wall Street Journal economic-forecasting survey, a view that was reinforced by new data showing a sharp drop in retail sales last month.
"The evidence is now beyond a reasonable doubt," said Scott Anderson of Wells Fargo & Co., who was among the 71% of 51 respondents to say that the economy is now in a recession.
The survey, conducted March 7 through March 11, marked a precipitous shift to the negative from the previous survey conducted five weeks earlier. For example, the economists now expect nonfarm payrolls to grow by an average of only 9,000 jobs a month for the next 12 months -- down from an expected 48,500 in the previous survey. Twenty economists now expect payrolls to shrink outright. And the average forecast for the unemployment rate was raised to 5.5% by December from 4.8% in the previous survey.
As important as the sentiments of these economists on high are, even more important are the views of actual Americans who overwhelmingly realize that the policies espoused by George W. Bush -- and overwhelmingly embraced by John McCain -- have done great harm to the American household. According to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll (.pdf), just 34 percent of Americans say that they are better off than they were four years ago -- the lowest mark in the poll since 1992.
With this in mind, it's good news and good politics that the Democrats, and Barack Obama in particular, are hitting McCain for toeing the Bush line on the economy. Keep it up. McCain should not be allowed a pass on the economy, particularly when he advocates for a continuation of just the policies that have led America down this troubled path. In the end, the question before the American people should be made a simple one: Do you want more of George W. Bush in John McCain, or do you want change? And with the American economy apparently in recession and Americans worried about their financial security, I think the answer to that question will be very easy for voters.

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May 17, 2008
 
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If you think having anger issues, and sudden out burst cussing out all his fellow senator's is performing and functioning pretty well then you don't understand the disorder at all.
Then the Rev. Wright is seriously one fucked up fellow!

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May 17, 2008
 
Lisa wrote:
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Why does everyone continue to ask for our reasons for supporting Obama while not giving legitimate reasons not to OR reasons to support their candidate?
Why do people who support McCain not have valid reasons for said support?
What subjects or issues has McCain commented on the same way twice?(can you say flip flop?)
When will McCain start to run a clean campaign as he promised on the Daily Show just last week?
And finally when will the people who still support Bush get their heads out of their asses and realize this country is in dire need of a decent president, a Democrat who will have the interests of all the citizens at heart? Not a candidate who thinks he knows what is best for us and tries to push his will upon us in the form of lies like GWB.
It probably has something to do with allegiance.
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May 17, 2008
 
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The republicans can win the election in a failing economy with a man who claims the economy is 'not his strong suit'? Are you serious?
There are four levels of competency.

1. Unconscious incompetence, they don't know but they don't know that they don't know.

2. Consciously incompetent, they don't know and are now aware that they don't know.

3. Conscious competent, they know, but they have to think it through each time to get it right.

4. Unconsciously competent, they know, and know so well they no longer have the think about it, it is simply part of them.

In this race we have two candidates who are unconscious incompetents whose ideas they are promoting are the exact ones that Carter used to destroy the economy, and Hoover used to create the Great Depression. The really scary thing is that they don't know that they don't know what they are doing.

We also have a conscious incompetent who knows he doesn't have all the answers and is willing to seek those who do to guide him. I will gladly take that over the two who don't know, but don't know that they don't know.

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May 17, 2008
 
TypicalWhitePerson wrote:
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Are you implying McCain is a racist ? Now I've heard it all ! Imagine a presidential candidate being touted as racist. Imagine if he had hired a white supremacist as his campagin spiritual advisor, who also presided over his wedding, inspired him to name a book after one of his sermons, and baptizde his kids. Imagine that ??!!What an Audacity!
NO I don't have too, his record on this issue speaks volumes and stands alone without me having to say a word. Reading is fundamental!
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