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Since Obama's response to the protestor was "You don't like it, do it yourself then" paraphrasing, yet same difference. The young man, was not allowed to respond to that because the crowd cheered Obama, as they jeered the kid. When the kid was questioned by the MEDIA he answered he "Was not satisfied with Obama's (dismissive) answer and so he won't be voting for Obama. As someone said in another post, that with all that money from HUGE donors monthly installments from little rich college kids why is Obama turning into such an EXPENSIVELY, High media backed LOSER?

John McCain = $540 shoes

The best defense against the Schmidt/ Rove/ McCain offensive. Focus on the people behind the negative strategy, the new McCain campaign. Use their strength (the negative campaign) against them, repeatedly.

1. The takeover is now complete. The McCain campaign is now run by the Schmidt/ Rove/ Cheney/ Neocon/ Haliburton/ Swiftboat/ Smear apparatus. The same team that gave us Bush, the same dirty politics, the same distractions, the same disaster awaiting the country and economy, is now controlling the McCain campaign.

2. They know how to win Presidential campaigns. And when let loose in the Whitehouse in just 8 short years – they will also run the economy into the ground, lose 50,000 jobs per month to China and India, send billions a month in US wealth to middle east oil despots who stoke terrorism, lose prime US assets to our enemies, lead us into record national debt, the subprime crisis, Enron and more.

3. They must think we are stupid. Will we vote against Rove, Cheney and the neocons and show them that you can fool all the people all the time? Will we tell McCain it is sad that he is embracing the same dirty politics and desperate Bush strategist that smeared McCain, his family and his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget in 2000?

Some of you are Democrats, some are Republicans, and some Independents. It doesn't matter the party, we all need to wake up and think about our pocketbooks when looking at McCain vs Obama on tax agenda.

Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.

OBAMA
28% on profit from ALL home sales

How does this affect you?

If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain in taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will also adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

Posted by: Nobama | Aug 3, 2008 1:54:46 PM

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If you believe any of the things politicians
promise, BEFORE the election,then I have a bridge
in Brooklyn I want to sell you.
All bets are off on spoken promises
"READ MY LIPS !!!" Have them put it in writing
and watch them squirm like snakes.

Don't you know he got more money than any candidate has collected and that still doesn't help him at all, he's still at or worse in the polls than he was before. So u can continue to give all you want but money isn't gonna buy more voters. You people are delusional if you think voters can be bought. Obama is an empty suit full of promises duping you into thinking your lives will get better with him being president. Your lives should be better already, cause he's going around acting as if he was the president already.

Obama flip flops again about the debates. He first say it would be a great idea to old town hall meetings with McCain besides the 3 standard. Now he says no so far. He's playing it safe and don't want to stumble or make mistakes. Why are we letting this happen? Why are we giving Obama a free ride on this election? What is he hiding from the voters? Obama cannot be trusted, he's dangerously inexperienced and is afraid that negative issues will come out to the public in debates. He also shun Hillary and the debates she proposed. This is our country, we cannot elect someone that is not coming to us transparent and with nothing to hide.

Some of you are Democrats, some are Republicans, and some Independents. It doesn't matter the party, we all need to wake up and think about our pocketbooks when looking at McCain vs Obama on tax agenda.

Proposed changes in taxes after 2008 General election:

CAPITAL GAINS TAX

MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.

OBAMA
28% on profit from ALL home sales

How does this affect you?

If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain in taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will also adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.

DIVIDEND TAX

MCCAIN 20%/15% (no change)

OBAMA 39.6%

How will this affect you?
If you have any money invested in the stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned in taxes if Obama become President. The experts predict that higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.

INCOME TAX

MCCAIN (no changes)
Single making 30K -- tax $4,500
Single making 50K -- tax $12,500
Single making 75K -- tax $18,750
Married making 60K -- tax $9,000
Married making 75K -- tax $18,750
Married making 125K -- tax $31,250

OBAMA
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K -- tax $ 8,400
Single making 50K -- tax $14,000
Single making 75K -- tax $23,250
Married making 60K -- tax $16,800
Married making 75K -- tax $21,000
Married making 125K -- tax $38,750
How will this affect you?

Pretty straightforward. Under Obama your taxes will almost double if you're making $30K -- is this the "middle class" that Obama wants to help?

INHERITANCE TAX

MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)

OBAMA Restore the inheritance tax

How does this affect you?

Many families have lost businesses, farms and ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will subject those assets to these taxes.

NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA

* New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet

* New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already)

* New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating, gas, water, electricity)

* New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not least ...

* New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries.

THE MESSAGE of McCain's ad is spot on! We could have done without Brittany and Paris, but the MESSAGE is clear: No matter how much of a celebrity you are, it doesn't qualify you to be the leader of the free world, Commander in Chief and the president that the American people would be proud to have lead them!Obama has such a THIN RESUME!!!!! He's running on "change" and hope for the future. McCain has a lifetime of changing things that are not working right, even if it has meant going against his own party. He is nothing like Bush. He is his own person. You couldn't find a politician more independent if you tried, on either side. He probably holds the record for putting out more bi-partisan pieces of legislation than any public servant in history. He will make a fine president.

What a week!! The Bush-McCain people were reduced to issuing the most childish ads in the history of American politics and Obama's fund raising from ordinary folk soard!!

Wouldn't it be interesting if all message posters on this subject were sent off to a deserted island somewhere and told that the only way to survive was to come to grips with reality?

I am a 39 year old man. I have never voted. I wasnt even registered. And I NEVER gave money to political campaigns.

Today - I registered online, I gave a large chunk of change to Obama's campaign. And I will Vote this fall.

Truly - it was inspired by McCain's ads. I was planning on voting, but not planning on giving money. But this joker McCain is an embarassment.

Irma, you wrote: "Grant, his answer was, to include helping everyone of all colors, then dismissed the kid with a "If you don't like it...you can run for President." So, if we have a problem with the candidate, rather than analyze any issues, our sole offer from this man in his job is to run for his job as a solution to the way he runs things. Sounds pretty RIGID."

Umm, Irma, you might want to check your facts. Senator Obama said that he had put forward his views on all the issues that the protester incorrectly said he had been silent about. Then he acknowledged that the protester might not agree with him, which seems pretty reasonable, not rigid. He then pointed out that the protester, or anyone else, could vote for a different candidate or run for office (he didn't say for president) themselves.

I guess you feel that instead, he should have abruptly adopted the views of a local fringe group that is reduced to heckling to get attention, and abandoned his own considered views based on a lifetime in the policy field? Sorry, I don't think so.

Gosh, after reading your comments, I feel like donating to Obama again now -- but I agreed to donate and volunteer on his birthday (Monday) as part of a volunteer-led initiative, so I think I'll save it til then.

mcaine is to old and full of old resentments in his war times to even think he has a chance to win this election he might want to get even like bush did and further weaken the economy

why all of a sudden, nearing bushs end in the whitehouse this administration is trying to get something done. why was drilling for oil, and all these other favorable options for energy efficiency talked about last year or the biggining of this year?

Grant, his answer was, to include helping everyone of all colors, then dismissed the kid with a "If you don't like it...you can run for President." So, if we have a problem with the candidate, rather than analyze any issues, our sole offer from this man in his job is to run for his job as a solution to the way he runs things. Sounds pretty RIGID.

Hey, Obama, I guess marketing yourself to entice juvenile interests is okay though huh?

One of the key questions in this campaign is whether we as a nation can collectively discuss controversial topics like race in a mature, sophisticated, and civil manner, or whether we must inevitably decline into immature point scoring, 'gotcha' politics, and ad hominem attacks.

I would venture to say that Senator Obama's campaign has been betting on the former. Meanwhile, the increasing influence of former Karl Rove staffers in Senator McCain's campaign is a clear sign that the McCain campaign is betting on the latter holding true.

Just because you talk about (let along obliquely mention) race doesn't mean you are "playing the race card."

Race is an important issue and a legitimate topic for discussion. Some people may want to bury their heads in the sand and ignore the issue, or pretend it doesn't exist, but it does.

The key is how you address race.

Obama was using humor to obliquely reference his own race while addressing the larger issues of some of the rumors and skepticism that have been circulating about him.

Meanwhile, the McCain campaign shows its immaturity in talking about race, by immediately categorizing the mere mention of something remotely racial as "playing the race card." In doing so, they show that they are willing to drag the level and standard of public discourse down to the lowest level.

"If the way Obama handled the protesters is any indication as how Obama would handle an international crisis... WE'RE IN TROUBLE!!!" Aug 1, 2008

WHAT???? He allowed them to ask their question after he was done talking and answered it in full. He also let them stay for the entire event!!~

Nice way to ask for more money from Americans who have to choose between gas and food on the table! Just keep the money rolling in!

I would like some thorough research into where Obama's contributions are really coming from. I have heard that although he claims most of his donations come from first time, small $ contributors, that he is really getting funded by a number of powerful people with hefty agendas and favors that need filling. .

Posted by: Nikki | Aug 2, 2008 8:58:07 AM

Nikki,
These filings are required by the Federal Elections Commission and when they do the numerical breakdowns the percentage of "small" donors that Obama touts is in fact true. Several CNN reporters and even one broadcast on FOX have verified the numbers.