Obama: McCain Every Halloween Dresses Up as George W. Bush

I cannot believe America voted for someone as stupid as George W Bush. If they vote McCain, then God Bless America. How the mighty have fallen.

It is indeed true that McCain-Palin are scary as hell. Why didn't the Republicans offer a better, more credible ticket than these 2 losers?

If Obama wins, I hope he blames all his administration's shortcomings on Bush.

Question: remember when everyone was blaming Bush for high oil prices? Shouldn't they be praising his skilful leadership in bringing them down?

My point is the president does not have an oil prices dial under the desk.

Hey Obama, every halloween and everyday of your life you dress up in an empty suit.

There you go again with the class warfare. What do you care if wealth grows for the wealthy as long as wealth grows for you? Do your own hard work and quit trying to expect prosperity to be handed to you. It is so demeaning to lack self-reliance. Blame just avoids the issue. You act as if mysterious forces are preventing you from succeeding. That just smacks of paranoia. Do you think the wealthy desire the poor to be poorer? That's just ignorant. The wealthier that the poorest person is, the more that person has to spend, thus not only gaining personally but expanding the economy. When one prospers all prosper. When one capable person rests easy allowing others to do for him, that just sucks the life from all of us. Government is not here to assure us prosperity - wherever did that cockeyed notion come from? It is here to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The actual acquisition of happiness cannot be the responsibility of government (just who do you want to tell you what makes you happy and what does not?). We must rely on ourselves to find happiness. I should do nothing to compromise your access to happiness and you should do nothing (including redistributing my wealth) that prevents my access to happiness. The Democrats I have left behind insist on this microeconomic interpretation of the world where if an individual is better off everyone is better off. If we give everyone a dollar, prices will inflate until that dollar has no added value. Moreover, the cost of redistributing those dollars means everyone actually has LESS when the exercise is done. This is the essence of Obama economics. If we teach everyone to earn an extra dollar, and if they are willing to do the work to earn it, not only are we all actually wealthier, but the process of learning and earning continues to create wealth after the exercise is over. This is the essence of McCain economics. Think about it - when you do (if you are willing to suspend your hate and class warfare ideals long enough) you like I will leave the Democrat concept of government holding my hand so I cannot fall (or walk on my own) behind, and will vote for a future where all can walk together with each under his or her own power, and where prosperity can truly be shared. If this world makes sense (and how can it not?) you will also vote for McCain.

Another myth "Hard work will get you ahead" No, hard work will keep you alive. The wage scale has fallen so far in relation to purchase power that the one income household is forever a thing of the past for a majority. Two, even three workers are needed. For single parents with children it is grim.

So much of the country's wealth has been distributed upward.
If you go back to 1979, prior to the period when the growth in inequality really took off in the United States, the top 5 percent on average had 11 times the average income of the bottom 20 percent. If you fast forward to the year 2000, the most recent economic peak, you find that that ratio increased to 19 times. So over the course of those two decades, the gap between the wealthiest and the lowest income families grew from 11 times to 19 times.
If you divide the work force into quintiles, or fifths, based on their wages, in the bottom fifth, 18 percent of the workforce has pension coverage and one-third has health coverage. If you then look at the top fifth, you’ll find that 73 percent has pension coverage, and 81 percent has healthcare coverage.
Practically any variable that has to do with how economic growth is distributed — compensation, benefits, pensions, health insurance, quality of education, quality of housing, exposure to crime — will yield this kind of highly skewed result. Wealth disparity is far more concentrated than income disparity.
This was in 2000, now it's even worse.

Bush, I mean McCain, wants to make permanent the capital gains tax cut which will remove needed tax funds from
the government just when it needs them for infrastructure and stimulus for the economy. Rich people do not spend their money, they make investments in banking, like the bad investments we are now rescuing.
Rather than making cuts in spending, why not increase taxes for those reaping the most from our economic system?
For years we have been borrowing from foreign powers to run the government while the rich keep growing richer off our debtor economy.
Without these needed funds our country will go the way of Mexico.
I say viva Obama!

It's so interesting - when I stopped to really think about it I realized how strongly we have been deluding ourselves and how being a Democrat just doesn't make sense anymore. I'll give an example and try to keep in mind that when I am making racial generalizations it is because the facts generalize. Such generalizations don't apply to individuals, but they certainly apply to groups. Take your common immigrant family, say from Asia. Here in the land of opportunity for a relatively short time, and somehow the government gives them all the advantages, and they live in a large house with a 2-car garage and their children go to Harvard? So we should take a portion of their earnings just to redistribute it to those underprivileged who don't have as much so they can have to. What a bunch of crap. In this typical Asian family, all family members learn English, and Mom WORKS, and so does Dad, and the grandparents, aunts and uncles, if they are able. And some take 2 or 3 jobs to help the others. And the kids deport themselves well at school and come home and study and help around the house because they have been raised with substantive values. And they save and in time they prosper. They don't lose their sense of cultural identity but they do participate in the broader American community. This typical family doesn't have to be Asian, but it does contrast with the typical American Democrat family. They complain about their lack of privilege, and hate those with more, and persist in their ignorance, and abandon each other in times of need, and satisfy their own selfish whims, and spend their extra money getting instead of saving, and pin their hopes on lottery tickets and superstar politicos. They have the same opportunities and the same obstacles. They just see their fate as everyone else's problem to solve. If they all worked together, and worked 2 or 3 jobs when necessary, and saved instead of worrying about keeping up with some random standard, and gained an education, and looked out for each other and their neighbors, and taught substantive values at home, they too would prosper, and enjoy the fruits of American opportunity. They would prosper as Obama has prosper. Then Obama would take a share away, to give it to whom? Those that aren't willing to do the hard work to get ahead, well, tell me again why they should get ahead on my hard work? Because they hate loudly and with great production values? Hmm. Not so much...

Obama is a fake... If McCain does not win... We all are in BIG TROUBLE!

McCain/ Palin 08!

The only thing I have heard Obama, say he would do differently than George Bush, is revert to the Jimmy Carter years of spreading misery equally to all. He is going to tax job creators, spend a trillion more on welfare redistribution programs, walk on water, open blind eyes etc.. Like the billions of redistribution programs have worked in the past! In Rev Wright's words: God bless Barack Obama; I say ........

AFTER TUESDAY mccain can take his freak show on the road---(THE NW PT BARNUM)HIS CAMPAIGN IS THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN.

AND ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT THAT MCCAIN WAS THE (MUMMY)

And Obama goes as an ACORN every year! Maria, if someone is constantant lying about you, knowingly spreading untruths, wouldn't you want the story clarified? Why would that be considered attacking? I have heard Obama not answer or just flat out lie when asked questions. It's just the news media has decided this year and last not to do their job and just lets Obama slide. If you want to be an informed person lately you have to do your research, which I have and will continue to do, that's why I can flat out say, if Obama's lips are moving more than likely it's not true!!!

Nice zinger by Obama.

+ McCain = 5th from the bottom

Obama/Biden 08!

Okay, the dog is gonna have to cross his legs for a moment (he wants to go for his walk), because I have to respond to Maria's post before we go out.

Maria, you wrote your standard stuff about McCain and Palin. Of McCain, you claimed "He has a hot temper"-- and I would like for you to give me one example from the campaign this year where he has displayed this supposed hot temper. A temper, controlled, does not bother me, by the way. Passionate people often have hot tempers. But I have heard so much about his temper and how it could lead to trouble when he is elected president, and I just do not see any evidence of this.
You then seem to define hot temper differently than I do, as you go on claim that bully McCain constantly attacks Obama instead of being positive about himself. That's demonstratably not true-- see my previous post just below. So maybe you think of energy and enthusiasm and passion (the qualities I observe when I see McCain speeches onthe trail) with 'hot temper.' If so, then I would agree that he has one. *G*

Oh, and don't worry that widdle Barry can't handle a bit of criticism from big bad John, anyway. Obama has confidently asserted numerous times that he's from the streets of Chicago (his phrase, not mine, since he was born in Hawaii and raised there and in Indonesia, etc. and didn't get to Chicago until his adulthood, but I digress...) and he's tough. For example, in June in PHiladelphia, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Politico, etc., he asserted "“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" (How's that for well-sourced specifics, dlboggan?)

You then write of Palin "And Palin is no laughing matter. I am a woman & I was for McCain, until she came along." Too bad. I am a woman and I was for McCain before and after he chose her.

Of Palin, you claim "She avoids questions, because she doesn't know the answers- she is also a mudslinger."
Um, she may not have done a lot of press early on, but she's all over the airwaves now. Last night I saw her on both 20/20 and Greta van S. She is not avoiding questions-- that would be poor Biden, who seems to have been locked in the lavatory of his campaign plane by the Obama folks to keep him from answering questions. CBS recently noted, to their own great surprise, that Palin has become the most accessible of the four candidates.

" True, she is a beautiful person to look at, but I do not see much substance there." Well, I would respectfully suggest you take another look. Palin has excellent ideas about everything from energy policy to the connection between federal and state governmen to the politicization of the Endangered Species Act to how to battle political corruption and the old boys' network. I saw her give an excellent answer on immigration policy last night-- a subject that I despaired had fallen off the radar screen entirely during the campaign. Put aside your preconceptions and listen to her words; I hope that you will see the substance you crave.

And of course, I hope that you will then find it possible to revert to your support of McCain and vote Republican on Tuesday.

Use your brain/Vote McCain

MCCAIN IS WINNING DON'T LET THE MSM FOOL YOU...GET OUT AND VOTE REPUBLICANS!!!......Why has'nt he MSM reported early voting results???...BECAUSE McCAIN IS WINNING THATS WHY..... do you think for a minute if barry was leading the MSM would no be tooting their horn??? VOTE REPUBS

MCCAIN INS WINNING DON'T LET THE MSM FOOL YOU...GET OUT AND VOTE REPUBLICANS!!!......Why has'nt he MSM reported early voting results???...BECAUSE McCAIN IS WINNING THATS WHY..... do you think for a minute if barry was leading the MSM would no be tooting their horn??? VOTE REPUBS

Maybe we should invite dear Sen. Obama to a McCain rally, since he apparently has no idea what McCain really talks about on the campaign trail.

He claims that McCain only talks about him-- Obama. I know the man has a massive ego, but he needs to learn the world does not really revolve around him. McCain talks about the McCain energy policy ('all of the above,' nuclear power, offshore drilling, etc.), his mortgage plan (keep people in their homes by government restructuring of troubled mortgages pegged to current home values), his vow to eliminate pork and earmarks, his pledge to freeze nonessential government spending temporarily and to make massive cuts in the federal budget for the long-term, his tax plan (no tax increases for ANYONE, cut tax rates on corporations), his plan to give seniors tax relief (like taxing their pension withdrawals at the lowest rate and allowing them to suspend withdrawals from iras without penalty).... but this is getting long. You get the picture.

Of course, he also talks about how his policies differ from his opponent's and why his opponent's policies would not be as good as his own. That's the same thing Obama does; that's the same thing every good politician does. But even as Obama does the very same thing, as he should, he attacks McCain as if McCain were some fixated creature who does not talk about his own accomplishments and plans. Ridiculous-- and the press reports what Obama says without challenge and many in the public absorb it and parrot it back (as evidenced here). Repeating a falsehood at every campaign stop does not transform it into the truth.

Maybe later today I'll have time to address Obama's other misconception-- that McCain is no different from Bush in his economic plan. I've posted on this many times before, however, and the dog needs to go out for our morning constitutional. So stay tuned. *G* As Arnuld would say, "I'll be back."

I agree with Maria-
it is like McCain is grasping for straws. He cannot stay focused. He is all over the place attacking Obama.

McCain- tell us what you will do for us & stop attacking your opponent. What can you do for this country???

Why is it that Mc Cain constantly attacks Obama?

What are you going to do for the U.S., Mc Cain? All these proposals, but no idea on how you will do them? Sorry, but I do not have confidence in this guy. Much respect for what he has done as a soldier- for our country, but not too sure if he is up to the task of president.

He has a hot temper & he reminds me of the bullies in the school yard- they have to call names to make themselves feel better. He keeps trying to shoot Obama down, instead of building himself up- what gives with that idea.

And Palin is no laughing matter. I am a woman & I was for McCain, until she came along. She avoids questions, because she doesn't know the answers- she is also a mudslinger. True, she is a beautiful person to look at, but I do not see much substance there.
Great- she did things for Alaska, but I feel - GOD FORBID McCain gets elected & something happens. Boy she sure is NOT READY TO BE PRESIDENT.

You think it is bad under Bush- well, could you imagine if she was preseident! YIKES!!!