Obama Claus

One thing I have not seen covered in the MSM is Obama's promise to start a
"Civilian National Security Force" that he says will be "just as large, just as powerful and just as well funded" as our current US Military.

This is such an astounding idea that I am flabbergasted that NO ONE seems to ask him what the purpose of this huge force would be and how he would fund the more than $500 billion dollars it would cost.

I don't want to be paranoid but a "civilian national security force" sounds frightening to me.

Now you're telling us this!? Why didn't you wait until next Friday. We all knew he couldn't pay for his pie-in-the-sky dreams but at least we could pretend. Now you've ruined it. When I vote Tuesday I'll actually have to consider reality when pulling the lever.

You're late, brave Jake, but it's better now than never to speak Truth about the Emporer with no clothes. Just watch your back, fellas, you and Stanley Kurtz, and thank you for the report.
As amazing as this election year has been, one of the biggest surprises is that John McCain has become the nation's one and only Hope.
My prayers are with him.

Hillary can make promises she knows she can't keep, because she's just another politician.

McCain can make promises he knows he can't keep, because he's just another politician.

So there's nothing wrong with Obama making promises he knows he can't keep. He's... just... another.... Oh, wait. I forgot. Hope. Change. Political Messiah.

The new definition of changing Washington: Don't just make promises you can't keep. Change things up by making infinitely more promises you know you can't keep. Keep promising that you can pay for it all by soaking only those who deserve to be soaked. And hope no one connects all the dots. Now, that's change we can believe in!

Heh, you could add a bunch more to the list.
Like:
Huge new foreign aid commitments

New very well funded mandatory volunteering program.

That’s just off the top of my head, I'm sure there is a lot more.

I just want a pony. Will Obama Claus bring me a pony?

Dee:
Thank you for making me laugh.

I too, want the "ONE" to provide dental and a pony

More great work Jake! You should definitely get more air time.

Maybe Obama really wants to lose.

Better to lose and blame racist white people than to fail as president and risk losing his messiah image.

If BO loses he will be a martyr.
But if he wins BO risks seeing his approval sink to that of Pelosi, Reid, and Frank.

Obama feels perfectly safe in making these promises. When he cannot deliver, he will blame the evil Republicans ( or conservative judges if the courts block any of his unconstitutional actions ). The lapdog media will support him regardless of the facts.

Every Democrat since Kennedy has promised unicorns and fuzzy bunnies. War would end and justice would be absolute. Only the rich would pay taxes and everyone's favorite team would win the Super Bowl. They are never held to account because the media believes their excuses. Obama differs only in that he promises more and is questioned less.

Obama's promises are so over the top that they don't make sense. Consider his promise to create 5 million jobs from renewable energy.

I offer two observations:

1. Almost all renewable energy is in the firm of electric power (solar, wind, geothermal).

2. Current employment in the entire utility sector is only 542,200

So isn't this promise just BS?

I was pretty much going to sit this one out, on the assumption that both O and M are just different categories of big-government open-border washington-centric politicians, but in the last 24hrs I've moved to McCain. Seeing Obama's supporters talk about how the government is going to pay their bills for them scared me some, but what really put me over the edge was some truly unhinged emails I've been getting from friendly Obama supporters basically alleging that the last 8 years have been hell on earth and Obama is the miracle salvation. I don't know about you, but I don't think the last 8 years have been all that horrible. When I think about what the future looked like on September 12th, 2008, and how it turned out. . . it looks pretty miraculous. Best of all, I'm thrilled that tens of thousands of jihadis from all over the islamic world were lured to Iraq where they could be efficiently removed by American soldiers. And I'm pretty amazed that we now, finally, have an Arab democracy in the middle east. The first one. That, to me, feels like the real hope and change. Domestically, I don't think growing government bigger, and leading poor people to think it (i.e. the taxpayer) will pay for their gas and mortgage is very smart. Feels rather third world to me.

What? No chicken in every pot?

"you got what you asked for with the last 8 years with Bush....."

Except I voted for Kerry. I'm a Democrat. What I won't do is make a bad situation not of my making worse by allowing myself to be conned because of revenge for Bush.

I repeat what I've said since January here: I want a competent executive.

Obama is not competent. He isn't capable, and he lacks experience. Better a minority white house than a supermajority of fools.

It's time to return the tax structure to what it was before President Clinton passed the biggest tax increase in American history.

President Reagan's tax reform eliminated credits and deductions, widened the tax base, and as part of that same reform, the top marginal rate was lowered to 25%. President Bush (senior) got hornswaggled by the Democrats into raising rates from there, and then Clinton came in and blew it all up. Since then politicians of every stripe have been piling on credits and deductions, which all narrow the tax base, and raising the marginal rate on the few taxpayers left.

Let's go back to the original reform: a wide tax base, with few or no credits or deductions, and lower marginal rates. That formula produced 25 years of economic growth.

Not to mention that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which 40% of working people pay no income taxes at all. Obama wants to raise that to 50%. Everyone ought to pay something; everyone benefits from the Government, and so everyone who has an income ought to pay some income tax, even if it's only a token amount, say $50 or $100 per year.

How Reason Works

What if Obama had the strongest record of bipartisanship in the Senate, with major bills to his credit like the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign reform, the 2003 McCain-Lieberman climate stewardship and the 2007 McCain-Kennedy immigration reform acts.
What if McCain had the most extreme partisan voting record in the Senate?

What if Obama offered a broad, sensible energy policy that embraced both emerging and current resources, including building the greenest power plants possible with nukes?
What if McCain declared that the nuclear waste technology we've invested hundreds of billions in over the last three decades is unacceptable, and refused to build nukes until we invent something better than Yucca Mountain?

What if Obama offered sensible tax policies that have historically led to healthy business growth and financial freedom for more Americans?
What if McCain promised to cut taxes for 95% of us while proposing almost a trillion dollars in new spending?

What if Obama had called for reform and oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2006 that could have prevented the current financial collapse, only to have his efforts squashed by the opposition party?
What if McCain was the second highest recipient of political donations from Fannie and Freddie in his short Senate career, and had the former head of Freddie heading up his VP-vetting team, and the WaPo published the fact that the disgraced former head of Fannie was a financial advisor to his campaign?

What if Obama had been the leading supporter of the surge strategy that has won the war in Iraq?
What if McCain's primary claim to fame was his leading the charge to lose the war by withdrawing all our forces in Iraq where Al Qaeda declared their new caliphate?

What if Michelle Obama devoted her time and wealth to charitable organizations over the last couple of decades, and she adopted a Bangladeshi girl with a cleft palate on a visit to one of Mother Teresa's orphanages?
What if Cindy McCain got a $200,000 raise in her job as a Community Relations Director in a hospital when her husband became a Senator, and once in the Senate her husband put in a $1M earmark for her employer U of Chi Hospital, and she declared that when her husband won the nomination for Presidency was the first time she was really proud of her country?

What if Joe Biden had a proven record of opposing his own party and winning, and confronting Big Oil and winning, and sharing the revenues he levied on Big Oil with the citizens of his state?
What if Sarah Palin imagined we and the French "kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon" and said President Roosevelt "went on TV in 1929" (before TV existed) to talk to Americans about the Depression (before FDR became President in 1933)?

Well, hell, I'd vote for Obama. There's nothing racist about it.

if mccain wins

mccain wants victory in iraq.
whatever that will look like, and however long that will take, and how many more will die.

mccain wins=more brave soldiers will die.
mccain wins=country will go into deep depression-trying to pay for his war

we have been living the trick
and now we will not be fooled again

mccain will not continue to trick,
bush tricked us.

Ha, ha, ha ----Trick or Treat!
Obama will trick you into the treat of higher taxes, less income, higher unemployment, and bigger government...but a weaker military.

i would rather be living in a van down by the river in peace with obama claus

than seeing my children and grandchildren die in iraq because of the mccain the grim reaper.

if mccain wins
more of your loved ones will die
what does a mccain VICTORY in iraq look like?

how many more will have to die?
do you have someone to send?

rummy said we would be greeted as liberators, and people dancing in the streets, mccain must still believe that, and he is going to try and make it happen. but at what expense. we have no more money, we have no more souls to send.

mccain will not win.
we don't need to have another brave soldier murdered in iraq for mccain