John McCain offered Republicans vision rooted in reality, not
Barack Obama's empty promises »
Posted By Spinward 2 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As the thousands of red, white and blue balloons, the tinsel and
the tickertape descended from the rafters on the Republican
convention moments after John McCain had finished addressing it, I
at last worked out what had been the key difference between this
event and the Democratic beano the week before.
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Spinward2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama parades around the country telling us how terrible things are and his big solution is... RAISE TAXES?
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He thinks raising taxes on businesses and corporations, empowering unions, and mandating free benefits will HELP them hire more employees? Nobody with an IQ above 50 would fall for this.-
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hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago
John McCain is up to his ears in corruption and war hysteria and the best he can do is offer us a corrupt "theocracy wacko"?
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McCain himself has criticized Palin's corruption (on earmarks) and we have also seen Palin abuse political power for personal vendettas. Worse still are palin's connections to ugly religious fanatics. She is right out of our very own "christian madrassas" and voting for her would be like voting for Osama Bin Laden.
We must either assume that McCain has become senile and lets extremists force wackos on him or he has sold out american democracy for power hunger/corruption (or both).
Sarah Palin used AK tax dollars to fund dominionist churches
Over the past few days, I've done reporting on Sarah Palin's extensive dominionist connections--including the attempt to run her as a "stealth" dominionist candidate and her connections to some scary dominionist groups including not just "Joel's Army" folks but a far-right Christian Reconstructionist political party linked to domestic terrorism.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/06/sarah-pa...-
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hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is this the kind of "americans" you support Spinward?
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'Arming' for Armageddon - Militant Joel's Army Followers Seek Theocracy
Joel's Army believers are hard-core Christian dominionists, meaning they believe that America, along with the rest of the world, should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law. There is no room in their doctrine for democracy or pluralism.
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FSU92grad2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hey hyperbono?
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her alleged connections or affiliations to any religious finatics is nothing compared to Osama's connection to Rev Wright and his "Black Dominion" preaching....You know the "God Damned America" clown who blamed the government for creating AIDS to kill off all the black folk ? That guy ?
The one Osama said that he sat in the pews for 20 years and claimed never heard Wright preach "white hate" from the pulpit....You know, THAT guy ? How about the connections Osama had with our favorite, friendly terrorist William Ayers, head of a radical left organization called the "Weatherman", who claimed that he didn't do enough in regards to the setting of bombs....
No, hyperbobo.....I think you need to check your greek God Zeus on his affiliations and relatioships.....In fact, wasn't it you that said that affiliations and connections to radicals doesn't mean that person actually believes it ?
Yes, I think that's what you stupid libs said about Osama.....
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inverse2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bush raise our national debt to such an extent that is far more damaging than to merely raise tax. It is a future tax with interest compounded. It would be interesting to see what kind of effective tax (the additional tax we need to pay if we have to pay off Bush's deficit spending )will be.
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Klarissa2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama will invest $1 billion over five years in transitional jobs and career pathway programs that implement proven methods of helping low-income Americans succeed in the workforce.
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Obama will create a program to directly engage disadvantaged youth in energy efficiency opportunities to strengthen their communities, while also providing them with practical skills in this important high-growth career field.
Obama will double the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program to ensure that additional federal public transportation dollars flow to the highest-need communities and that urban planning initiatives take this aspect of transportation policy into account.
Obama will work to ensure that ex-offenders have access to job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and employment opportunities. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program and reduce barriers to employment. -
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tiredofwhiners2 months, 2 weeks ago
There you go again thinking like a liberal. Did less federal spending ever enter your mind? Cut half a trillion dollars per year in useless programs and pork and use it to pay off the debt. Let's look ahead and figure out what to do about the debt instead of looking back at every administration since Hoover in the 1930's that caused the debt and never repaid it. Has congress ever paid back their IOU's to social security? (trillions of $$).
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corl642 months, 2 weeks ago
" Did this writer just get their prophet's license? Evidently, he/she thinks they can predict the future."
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I think this writer went to school with Obama! Who says there is no value in an Ivy League education? -
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mesodude2 months, 2 weeks ago
It actually is the original title but what I find hilarious from cons like spin is that they slam every Canadian or other "foreign" poster here who doesn't agree with them. How many times do we read some silly wingnut's refrain that poster from country x "can't vote in our election" (and therefore said poster's opinions don't matter)? However if Osama Bin Laden himself said he "supports the troops or something they thought sounded patriotic, they'd bow at his feet. LOL Hypocrite cons are a scream when they're lying and backpeddling. ;-P
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mesodude2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama is giving you reality and, like the President he voted in line with 95% of the time for the past 8 years, McCain is giving you mind warping delusion. Like Bush, he wants you to believe that the so called global war on terrorism is exactly like WWII--only with tax cuts as far as the eye can see, no draft, no rationing, no driving our cars less (so that we can at least pretend we know Americans are dying to protect our oil interests in that region) and no shared sacrifice as a country. Obama is offering us hope. McCain is offering us Fantasy Island.
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Cons need to understand that the reason we're in the mess we're in now is because shockingly poorly educated right wingers allowed themselves to be duped into believing that we could have multiple wars costing trillions of dollars and still go on with our lives as normal. No President in the history of the US has doled out war time tax cuts for the least needy Americans because no President in his right mind would ever subject Americans to a misguided disaster of this scope without obliging all Americans to share in the sacrifice. Why won't cons simply acknowledge that they'd be singing a whole different tune if this WERE like WWII and they actually had to expend some effort beyond flapping their gums endlessly and begging for us to destroy the planet so they can have cheap gas? I dare a con here to tell me that you'd be begging to stay the course if you were being sent on tour after tour after tour and getting shot at every day. No con will do this because you realize that McCain is a joke and Palin is an embarrassment to women everywhere. ;-(-
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Klarissa2 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama will increase the number of working parents eligible for EITC benefits, increase the benefits available to parents who support their children through child support payments, increase benefits for families with three or more children, and reduce the EITC marriage penalty
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Obama will raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation
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Obama will provide all low and middle-income workers a $500 Making Work Pay tax credit to offset the payroll tax those workers pay in every paycheck.
Obama will also eliminate taxes for seniors making under $50,000 per year.
Obama will sign into law the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act to remove some of the government penalties on married families, crack down on men avoiding child support payments, and ensure that payments go to families instead of state bureaucracies. -
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tiredofwhiners2 months, 2 weeks ago
meso - "McCain is giving you mind warping delusion"
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"shockingly poorly educated right wingers"
"McCain is a joke and Palin is an embarrassment to women
everywhere"
"if Osama Bin Laden himself said he "supports the troops or something they thought sounded patriotic, they'd bow at his feet. LOL Hypocrite cons are a scream when they're lying and backpeddling."
"we have also seen Palin abuse political power for personal vendettas. Worse still are palin's connections to ugly religious fanatics. She is right out of our very own "christian madrassas" and voting for her would be like voting for Osama Bin Laden."
Who wrote these smears. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
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ADAGUY2 months, 2 weeks ago
Okay Spinward, show me your brains, no!, dammit pull your pants back up and turn around!
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Look,
This nation is currently in debt to the tune of 10 trillion dollars thanks to your party. The interest on the national debt is just about the same as the defense budget. (around 1/2 trillion dollars per year) This has been one of the major contributors to the weakening of the US dollar.
We are paying massive amounts for health care.
Many don't have health care.
We are running out of energy.
The best jobs in the nation are being sent overseas.
Something has to be done.
So lets start with the debt. We currently have three choices. Since the budget is greater than the tax revenue that is generated annually, we can either :
1. Raise taxes
2. Print more money
3. Borrow from China, thereby raising the debt even more.
Which one do you suggest?
McCain's answer: Lower taxes
Medicare will be broke by the year 2010 because the Bush medicare bill requires that medicare pay retail prices for drugs. Congress tried to revoke this bill, but Bush promises to veto any efforts to do so.
McCain's answer: None offered yet
We must stop our dependence on foreign oil.
McCain's answer: drill now, in 10 years we may have more oil.
Jobs going overseas.
McCain's answer: "the automotive jobs aren't coming back!"-
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FSU92grad2 months, 2 weeks ago
We must stop our dependence on foreign oil.
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Osama's answer: Inflate your tires and get tune-ups
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Osama's answer: Raise your taxes even more and more spending
McCain: Cut your taxes and reduce spending (btw, Palin has done just that in Alaska...Sold her unnecessary jet, got rid of her cook, and many other things that tax payers were paying for...Do you think Al Gore would do that, Pelosi, Hillary, Osama ? Hell, no !)
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Osama's answer: Tax the rich and big oil
McCain answer: Cut taxes so the rich invest in small businesses and start-ups which is good for anybody's economy...Drilling here and now will create a mulitude of many new jobs not to mention the new jobs created from nuclear plants, clean coal and natural gas facilities....But I guess those jobs don't count....
The main contributor to the weakening dollar and the sluggish economy, dipchit, is the housing market and high gas prices which you libs have single-handedly prevented us from solving....
It's like you want to solve all these problems, but then you create new ones by not allowing the very solutions to fix the problems....And then you blame Bush for not fixing the problems...
You, my friend, and your liberal cronies are the problem, not us.....
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