Political Punch

I'm so comforted that the National Women’s Leadership Initiative is being held to support the male/male ticket.

Quoting Madonna "Sara Palin's not invited to the show." (rythmic clapping optional)

I guess, any man with far left views is the "new" woman. Where was the support for centrist Hillary?

It's really sad to see Oprah sell her soul down the river in the name of race.

"Her ratings have dropped since she first had obama on her show."

She first had him on the show in 2005 and again in 2006.

She has not had him on the show since endorsing him.

Yet again, right wingers lie.

Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 9, 2008 5:06:22 PM
-----------------------------------------Like I said Ryan, her ratings have dropped since she had obama on her show, no matter what year it was, you can spin and spin, but it won't change a thing. Her ratings have DROPPED!!! God, don't know what would happen to this world if right wingers didn't lie..the left wingers wouldn't have anything to complain about or anyone to blame.

Very dissapointed in Oprah I thought she had more class then to use her celebrity to promote and candidate when we don't all have that chance. So much for her argument about equal rights . I have nevr felt it was fair for these celebrities to influence voters when the public that watches and supports them doesn't have the same opportunity. Oh well one more show to avoid. I haven't gone to one Susan Sarandon movie in years,George Clooney, now Matt Damon, Madonna(never liked her anyway),Ashley Judd(this one bothers me always liked her)etc. Anyway I know they have right to their opinions but it's not fair they have the media and celebrity to flaunt them. Oh,almost forgot Alec Baldwin.

Say what you will about Oprah....if given the chance, 90% of you would trade your lifestyle in a nanosecond for Oprah's!!! Eleanor Roosevelt said: "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."....quit being small minded republicans!!!

"Her ratings have dropped since she first had obama on her show."

She first had him on the show in 2005 and again in 2006.

She has not had him on the show since endorsing him.

Yet again, right wingers lie.

An Oprah spokesperson tells CNN the show's ratings have been climbing all year and issues of O, the host's magazine, continue to fly off newsstand shelves.

Posted by: Ryan C | Oct 8, 2008 3:59:37 PM
----------------------------------------
Sure they would say that. Have seen in the past lots of o mags in waiting rooms, but have not seen them lately, so maybe the sales are off. Hope so. Her ratings have dropped since she first had obama on her show.

A recommendation from this racist woman would not made me vote for obama or anyone else she supports, nor would I read a book she recommends. She is no better than any other woman, she puts her pants on one leg at a time just like the rest of us.

I wasn't a Hillary supporter but, felt she got the short end of the stick from Oprah. In this case color over gender played a big roll.

"Ryan C.....Kerry was ahead by 11 points at this time against Bush....polls right now are nada."

Kerry was never ahead 11 pts at any point in the race.

At this time in 2004, Kerry was losing to Bush by a few points nationally and was losing or tied in many battleground states.

Again Hanna lies.

Oprah is-a-looser, more like it. Just like her buddy Obama. She is the one funding his campaign. One of the richest women in the world? Get real.
By the way MR. TAPPER... where is the reporting on ACORN??? Obama is heavily involved in the organization that is being investigated for voter registration fraud. PLEASE REPORT FAIRLY. Obama is a scary dude my friends, we have a right to know.

Here's Obama's next unfair move in this election:

Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 9:12 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By BILL DRAPER Associated Press Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

"I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy," Davis said. "We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify. Some have no address at all."

The nonpartisan group works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Polls show Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an edge in bellwether Missouri, but Democrat Barack Obama continues to put up a strong fight.

Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn't done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards — 85 of them duplicates.

"They keep telling different people different things," he said. "They gave us a list of 130, then told someone else it was 1,000."

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.
"It's a matter we take very seriously," Patton said. "It is against the law to register someone to vote who does not fall within the parameters to vote, or to put someone on there falsely."

On Tuesday, authorities in Nevada seized records from ACORN after finding fraudulent registration forms that included the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

In April, eight ACORN workers in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards for the 2006 election. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said they submitted cards with false addresses and names, and forged signatures.

Ordower said Wednesday that ACORN registered about 53,500 people in Missouri this year. He believes his group is being targeted because some politicians don't want that many low-income people having a voice.

"It's par for the course," he said. "When you're doing more registrations than anyone else in the country, some don't want low-income people being empowered to vote. There are pretty targeted attacks on us, but we're proud to be out there doing the patriotic thing getting people registered to vote."

Republicans are among ACORN's loudest critics. At a campaign stop in Bethlehem, Pa., supporters of John McCain interrupted his remarks Wednesday by shouting, "No more ACORN."

According to its national Web site, the group has registered 1.3 million people nationwide for the Nov. 4 election. It also has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and battleground states like Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, where new voter registrations have favored Democrats nearly 4 to 1 since the beginning of this year.

Missouri offers 11 electoral votes; the presidential candidates need at least 270 to win the election.

Ryan C.....Kerry was ahead by 11 points at this time against Bush....polls right now are nada.
October surprise yet to come.

Now that Oprah got her boy out in front, and kicked Hillary in the teeth, it's O.K. to do something "just for women" at this fundraiser. She sucks...haven't watched her since her endorsement.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN, EVEN BEFORE THE PALIN PICK.

Just to remind the farewell Oprah fans. She is a billionaire!!! You can't touch that. I believe Oprah have the same rights as every American and that is the right to support the candidate of her choice. I say good for her. One of the things that has been consistent with Oprah is her concern for women and the education and independence of women. It gives me a sense of confidence to know that Oprah supports Obama a statement to me that Obama is a worthy candidate for US president. When women such as Oprah, Caroline, Maria Kennedy, Ledbetter, and Albright give support to Obama it gives him great credibility.

These results, based on Oct. 5-7 polling, are the best for Obama during the campaign, both in terms of his share of the vote and the size of his lead over McCain. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

Nearly all interviews in today's report were conducted before Tuesday night's town hall style debate in Nashville. Any movement in voter preferences as a result of this debate will be apparent in coming days.

Voter preferences seem to have stabilized for the moment, as Obama has held a double-digit lead over McCain in each of the last three individual nights of polling.

Ryan C-"Ignorance is defined as the absence of knowledge -Stupidity is defined as having the knowledge, but not using it wisely." Hmmm...

"Yes as a fellow right winger pretending to be a Hillary supporter I understand you have the same experience."

Ryan -
Having a hard time believing it, huh? Like we care! :D

ROFLMAO!!!!

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” - Susan B. Anthony

"HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN BEFORE HE EVEN PICKED PALIN"

"Does anyone believe her?"

Well, actually, a lot of us believe her, we have had the same experience.

Better get some windex for that crystal ball of yours - you aren't "seeing" anything! :D

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” - Susan B. Anthony

"HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN BEFORE HE EVEN PICKED PALIN"

Hanna the FoxNews defender, the caller for restriction of voting right, the tireless defenders of all things mcCain continues to claim she is a clinton supporter.

Does anyone believe her?

ACORN Offices raided in several states provided the FBI with ample evidence/proof of voter fraud.

Where are the headlines on this?

What does Obama have to say about this organization that he was intimately involved with?

More importantly, will the MSM find its journalistic integrity and interview/ask questions/press for answers of Obama on this matter - or are they going to ignore this like they do everything else concerning The Tainted One??

Jake, what say you????

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” - Susan B. Anthony

former soviet:

Let McCain get elected and you might see the same thing happen here that you saw in Russia, read about the "New World Order".

Not only that you maybe drafted to go fight a WWIII against your family.

Just my thoughts.

I love it accept: Madeleine K. Albright.

Obama better steer clear of Madeleine, she is bad news. She is the one who told Clinton that the Genocide in Rwanda was not in America's best interest to stop.

In other words let them die, 800,000 and a million people died, and we proud Americans stood by and said and did nothing.

Hillary and Bill are publicly doing what they have to, but we all know they are voting McCain/Palin in the booth....she wants another go at it in 2012.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN BEFORE HE EVEN PICKED PALIN.....OBAMA UNACCEPTABLE.

Meanwhile Carville says if Obama goes into this thing with a 5 point lead and loses, we're are in for a scene like we've never seen (paraphrase).....threatening riots?

hanna,

Okay, you hate Oprah. But show me the similarities in Hillary's and John McCain's policies, judgement, and temperment that convince you John McCain is the right person to lead this country and take it in a new direction? If you can still support McCain then you were never a Democrat. A Clintonite maybe but not a Democrat. Even Hillary and Bill have moved on...

"Her popularity has crashed with this election"

That reasoning isn't good enough for the Florida Federation of Republican Women, which has launched a nationwide boycott of all things Oprah.

It doesn't seem to be working.

An Oprah spokesperson tells CNN the show's ratings have been climbing all year and issues of O, the host's magazine, continue to fly off newsstand shelves.

I wish I had $28,500 to spare. I would love to be a part of that scene for a couple of hours.

Oh well, I donated $275.00 and got a couple of t-shirts, an Obama water jug and a nice union made tote bag (that all my co workers are jealous of)........

The vomit comes up in my throat when I read this, as our country is in an economic crisis, but clearly not Obama's celebrity crowd. Oprah won't have Gov. Palin, I stopped watching Oprah the day she endorsed BO....me and thousands of women who put her where she is. Her popularity has crashed with this election, but she still has her money......HOWEVER SHE HAS LOST OUR RESPECT AND VIEWERS....HER NUMBERS ARE DOWN EVERYWHERE.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN PALIN!!!

I'm an Obama supporter, but I would not pay one cent to attend this event.

"I'm still outraged about the stinking Missouri Truth Squad"

I'm sure you are. After all being a lemming for FoxNews while pretending to be a democrat carries some emotional baggage.

Ryan C: I've despised the way Obama cult supporters have conducted themselves since they trashed Hillary Clinton. I've seen your posts before that read a little bit of knowledge is dangerous. I also despised how Obama Democrats trashed Sarah Palin's family because she dared to speak out. The Obama Democrats are slowly but surely turning the party into a zero tolerance of anyone that disagrees with their chosen one. Well, he wasn't my chosen one. What used to be a party for the little guy has turned into lets squash anybody we think gets in our way. I'm still outraged about the stinking Missouri Truth Squad. I don't call that Democratic, I call it Communism. And Bill Ayers is right, the movement is moving.

"Wrong again, RyanC. I'm from St. Louis, live in S. Illinois(for the last 20 years) and am a fed up Democrat."

Yeah totally believe you are a Democrat when you spew right wing talking points.

ROFLMAO.

Why do right winger pretend to be Democrats?

Do they know that if they identified themselves as right wingers they woudl not be taken seriously? Is that it?

the University of Chicago hospital earned $121,910. In 2005 her salary rose substantially to $316,962.
What happened to merit such an increase?"

It brought her salary in line with other VPs in the hospital and was a reward for her work reducing emergency room congestion.

'In 2005 Barack Obama became a US Senator from Illinois, and he promptly earmarked funds for the University of Chicago Hospital"

The earmark was asked for in 2006.

The lesson as always, right wingers lie and do not care about lying.

"RyanC: when was the last property tax bill you've gotten here? You seem to always know everything."

I don't live in IL.

I looked up the tax burdens as calculated by tax organizations.

I prefer statistical analysis to made up right wing bs like you dish.

mhh, it is expensive when you lie.
Covering lies costs lots of money.

Wrong again, RyanC. I'm from St. Louis, live in S. Illinois(for the last 20 years) and am a fed up Democrat.

Ryan C--“Even more interesting, in 2000, Obama went to the Democratic National Convention in CA. When he got to the airport, his credit card was declined because he had been using it to fund his run for Congress. When he got to the convention, he couldn't get credentials and get in.
A mere 6 years later, he and Michelle bought a house for $1,600,000. What changed? He got elected to the Illinois Senate, then the U.S. Senate, a job that pays $165,200.
It is interesting that in 2004 Michelle Obama as an employee of the University of Chicago hospital earned $121,910. In 2005 her salary rose substantially to $316,962.
What happened to merit such an increase? In 2005 Barack Obama became a US Senator from Illinois, and he promptly earmarked funds for the University of Chicago Hospital".

Oprah has lost 1000s of viewers and the respect of 1000s more. Those of us with jobs don't watch her anyway. She will still have the unemployed she can cry for.

RyanC: when was the last property tax bill you've gotten here? You seem to always know everything. Truck drivers PASS THROUGH Illinois for gas. I noticed you didn't dare comment on the rest of the post. Did you see that the ethics bill got passed after they got the word from O?....Long after he's been gone. Kinda wanted to hurry up and make THAT call since Tony's been talking to the Feds. Only makes sense that his sentencing "just happened" to get delayed. Wouldn't want anything messy to come out days before the election.

Ryan C---FYI---About Michelle and her hospital and how they treat poor people who don't have insurance--- "David Axelrod's firm did polling and found that some of the university's primary-care doctors feared the hospital was turning its back on surrounding poor neighborhoods, according to a May 2007 report the firm gave the university.

Axelrod's firm also suggested the program's name be changed. "Some participants view the word 'urban' as code for 'black,' " according to a poll the firm commissioned."

"Illinois has the highest taxes in the country? I guess Obama's saying we won't have to pay for all the people on public aid anymore. It's ironic that my property taxes, sales taxes and gasoline taxes are so high in order to pay for all of this yet my daughter-with a 2 year old-who's husband gets laid off alot between jobs cannot get any relief when she works 2 jobs."

While sales tax in Chicago is the highest in the nation, Illinois ranks 30th in terms of tax burden.

"Then there's the people who get turned away from Michelle's hospital even though Obama got it government money and Michelle's paycheck tripled."

Sigh right wing lies again

Michele developed a program that moved people from the emergency room for more routine stuff to local clinics. This alleviated the strain on the emergency rooms and made sure people got better, more urgent care no matter their situation.

For that Michele saw her salary doubled.

1 year later Obama asked for an earmark to build a pavilion at the hospital.

The earmark never went thru.

How do we even know about this earmark?

Obama disclosed it.

The lesson as always is that right wingers lie and do not care that they are lying.

Wouldn't it be great if Obama came out and said that all the funds raised from this event would go to start some significant U.S. educational foundation or other good works initiative instead of being spent on negative advertising? That would send a much better message. Every time I see how much money is being spent on this election, it makes me shake my head in disgust given the tenuous financial situation so many Americans find themselves in these days.

Oprah is a phony-never thought I'd say that. Her first reaction to the backlash of campaigning for Obama was 'deal with it', ladies-it's color before gender. She was a little more defensive after the Sarah Palin incident and she and Gail claimed they had never been contacted. This is funny because she's defiant but also knows that her ratings will go down even more if she's there. She doesn't need the money, but ego? Chicken out much? Well, good for all of them. In this case it's more telling who isn't there. One fundraiser's in prison and I wonder if the other friends and mentors got invited? If he has the race won, why does he continue to raise this much money? Don't tell me about Sarah Palin fundraisers. McCain had to pull out of Michigan from lack of money. Does Obama get to keep it as do Illinois state politicians? Is he raising all this to donate to his unrealistic healthcare program-the one that promises everything to everybody? Then there's the people who get turned away from Michelle's hospital even though Obama got it government money and Michelle's paycheck tripled. They all need to take a quick limo drive over to his old district where the rat infested buildings without heat are crumbling down and the people are on public aid. Maybe charity should begin at home. Illinois has the highest taxes in the country? I guess Obama's saying we won't have to pay for all the people on public aid anymore. It's ironic that my property taxes, sales taxes and gasoline taxes are so high in order to pay for all of this yet my daughter-with a 2 year old-who's husband gets laid off alot between jobs cannot get any relief when she works 2 jobs.

The question I have(without sarcasm) is what purpose would that serve?

It would serve the exact same purpose taxing any business serves. Money for the general good of the nation.
It shouldn't go into any special campaign fund or anything, just the general funds.

""Aren't we supposed to be a part of the world community? It wouldn't be fair to keep all of the good jobs here. What would Europe think?"

LOL so this is the new Republican talking point?

Sorry, Joe SixPack we shipped your job off to China because they need good jobs too!"

Buy American whenever you can, or is that too jingoist?

Hilarious about the Joe-mentum mentions vs Palin.

Especially since Lieberman's approval rating went below 50% for the 1st time this summer.

Guess he really wanted his buddy Joe versus the piece of fluff that was designated to him.

Another scoreboard on last night's debate. Number of references by Sen. McCain to ...

Joe Lieberman: 3

Sarah Palin: ZERO

Senator Christopher Dodd's amendment to the Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act which would require federal service contracts to be fulfilled using U.S. workers.

Making their way into the chamber for the first time in days, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and John Warner (R-Va.) took to the microphone. With great ardor, they ripped the amendment apart on grounds that it would cripple the nation's defense. Noting that the amendment had been "debated ad nauseam," McCain said: "Straight talk
I do not support the amendment offered by the Senator from Connecticut. If we do not allow the purchase of foreign-manufactured defense equipment, then sooner or later they will retaliate by not purchasing ours. This could have a significant effect."

McCain pulled out a letter from Michael Wynne, acting undersecretary of Defense, which said the provision "would impact our ability to sustain our troops stationed overseas."

Senator Dodd subsequently rewrote the amendment stating that it "shall not apply to any procurement for national security purposes entered into [by] the Department of Defense or any agency or entity thereof." He hoped this would erase Republican concerns about the amendment adversely affecting our troops.

McCain still voted against it. A vote in support of outsourcing.

"Aren't we supposed to be a part of the world community? It wouldn't be fair to keep all of the good jobs here. What would Europe think?"

LOL so this is the new Republican talking point?

Sorry, Joe SixPack we shipped your job off to China because they need good jobs too!

"Actually the new American way is you follow the path of going to college and studying hard and when you get out most of the quality jobs have been shipped overseas by Republicans, you can't afford health care and forget about the dream of owning a home. "

Aren't we supposed to be a part of the world community? It wouldn't be fair to keep all of the good jobs here. What would Europe think?

IS JOHN MCCAIN SUPPORTED BY TERRORIST SUPPORTERS? NAH.

Michael Scherer

This morning John McCain put out a list of 100 former ambassadors who are supporting his campaign. Number two is Lenore Annenberg, the wife of Ambassador William Annenberg, the founder of the Annenberg Institute of Reform, which funded the Annenberg Challenge, which once had two famous board members: former "domestic terrorist" William Ayers and Sen. Barack Obama. So either we should all be outraged that John McCain is supported by a family who funded a foundation that hired a domestic terrorist, or this whole William Ayers thing is just plain silly. I choose the latter.

"Actually the new American way is you follow the path of going to college and studying hard and when you get out most of the quality jobs have been shipped overseas by Republicans, you can't afford health care and forget about the dream of owning a home."

And then you get a job working for the Obama campaign. :)

"I think campaigns should pay taxes on their contributions. I don't think only Obama's campaign should pay taxes on contributions."

The question I have(without sarcasm) is what purpose would that serve?

Would you funnel that money into a public financing system (much like the $3 checkoff box that now funds it)?

Or would that simply be a general fund type tax?

"That's the new American way. You work hard to pay for college and make some money so that you can give it to someone that doesn't have to."

Actually the new American way is you follow the path of going to college and studying hard and when you get out most of the quality jobs have been shipped overseas by Republicans, you can't afford health care and forget about the dream of owning a home.

The American Dream has nearly been destroyed in less than a decade of Republican rule.

Ryan C- I think campaigns should pay taxes on their contributions. I don't think only Obama's campaign should pay taxes on contributions.

Now, as far as "these women" being willing to pay their "fair share" of taxes- they will take every deduction available to them and hire someone to help them do so. There is nothing wrong with that, but it isn't like anybody is lining up to actually pay more than the minimum allowable tax they are force to pay.

Finally, "fair" is completely unquantifiable.

"Hillary isnt sitting back she's be out getting votes for Obama ..."

Of course she is. An I be out heppin' her.

Hillary Clinton is accelerating her campaign schedule for Barack Obama, whom she fought tooth-and-nail for the Democratic nomination.

Her office this evening announced a cross-country, three-day trek in key states, including the first joint appearance with her husband, the former president, on Obama's behalf.

On Friday, Clinton plans a rally on the state Capitol steps in Little Rock, Ark., where Bill Clinton was governor.

On Sunday, Clinton and the former president will join Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden for a rally in Scranton, Pa., where Biden grew up and Hillary Clinton spent summers as a child.

And on Monday, Clinton will attend events in the Philadelphia area. She has already traveled on behalf of Obama and other congressional candidates to California, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, Colorado, Ohio, and Michigan.

"Do you know what Obama does with the money he claims to NEED?! The other day I checked my mail and over half the stack was political ads from the Democratic party defaiming the republican canidate"

At least Obama is spending his donors money.

McCain is spending taxpayer dollars doing the same thing.

A DNC Women's Leadership event--but no Hillary Clinton. Hmmm....if that doesn't speak volumes.

"Who is going to pay for this tax break and will Obama write a check to these 40% of folks that don't pay taxes. I for one, do not wish to pay to the most of the 40% of folks that don't work and probably in the last 40 years haven't held a job. "

That's the new American way. You work hard to pay for college and make some money so that you can give it to someone that doesn't have to.

Posted by: Mack | Oct 8, 2008 12:08:25 PM
----------------------------------------
Mack, you are right, that is why I voted for McCain. Yes, I have voted, and was not registered by ACORN. Am smart enough to do it myself the legal way.

"Obama and Biden are the ones saying paying taxes is patriotic"

And those women have no problem paying those higher taxes.

The selfish unpatriotic Republicans are the ones crying about not being able to get another ivory back scratcher because they are being asked to pay their fair share.

"Is it fair to ask the teacher making $30,000/year to pay taxes while Obama's high-off-the-hog campaign can rake in millions in one night without having to pay any taxes on it?
A portion of every contribution should be taxed."

I love the hypocrisy of Republicans

Palin has been to 3 big fundraisers in the last 4 days.

So John McCain & the RNC are not only spending millions in donations but McCain is spending $84M in out tax dollars.

Jake- here's a serious question.
Does Obama's campaign provide healthcare to its employees?

"Who is going to pay for this tax break and will Obama write a check to these 40% of folks that don't pay taxes. I for one, do not wish to pay to the most of the 40% of folks that don't work and probably in the last 40 years haven't held a job. "

That's the new American way. You work hard to pay for college and make some money so that you can give it to someone that doesn't have to.

Becky:I hate to tell you people this but Obama spending all that money on Advertising is really helping a lot of small companies trying to stay afloat. I wish he was here in Des Moines, Ia, giving us some of it. I have gone 2 weeks without any work. The first thing companies do is cut Advertising when the economy goes out the door.
-----

Well, that's true. But every company that employs people is helping the economy in that area. Yet most companies pay taxes, right?
And every time I make a purchase, I have to pay sales tax, even though my purchase is helping a company stay in business.
Why shouldn't a campaign have to pay taxes on my purchase/contribution to them? It would be a great boost to the Treasury.

"You didn't say squat."

Obama and Biden are the ones saying paying taxes is patriotic.

"I hate to tell you people this but Obama spending all that money on Advertising is really helping a lot of small companies trying to stay afloat."

That would make for an interesting discussion.

The economic impact of a campaign upon the economy.

Captain America -

Hard as I tried, I could find no mention of Lebron James in this article. Bob Rubin, Laura Tyson, Senator Klobuchar, Madeleine Albright, and Lilly Ledbetter are all white.

Even if they were all black, what difference would it make?

95% tax cuts for Americans
40% of Americans don't pay taxes
5% is unexplained..must be the Congress

Who is going to pay for this tax break and will Obama write a check to these 40% of folks that don't pay taxes. I for one, do not wish to pay to the most of the 40% of folks that don't work and probably in the last 40 years haven't held a job.

Opra and the Messiah will not appear together because they aren't racist black folks aren't racist.

Even more dramatic was the shift in the voters’ personal reactions to the two candidates. Before the debate, McCain had a 48/46 favorability rating; that improved to 56/36 by the end. But that’s about where Obama started the evening—54/36. After an hour and a half, Obama’s favorability numbers were 80/14. As Joe Biden would say, let me repeat that: 80% of the undecided voters had favorable views of Obama and only 14% saw him negatively for a net rating of +66. Not even Bill Clinton got such a warm response in town hall formats.

"I hate to tell you people this but Obama spending all that money on Advertising is really helping a lot of small companies trying to stay afloat. I wish he was here in Des Moines, Ia, giving us some of it. I have gone 2 weeks without any work. The first thing companies do is cut Advertising when the economy goes out the door."

Well you have about a month to jump on the gravy train before Oprah closes her purse strings, and we head into the Obama spending plan created Depresssion.

The only bright spot about BHO becoming president?

Is to see the reaction of all of his mindless followers when he turns out to be a terrible president.

When the media turns on him because they can no longer attack Bush, Palin, Hillary and McCain.

When the buck stops with Obama,Frank, Pelosi and they get all the blame.

"Joe Biden would say these women are very unpatriotic."

These women have no problem paying higher taxes.

"Why don't they take that money and donate it to the US Treasury instead?"

Palin was at a $70K a plate fundraiser a few days ago. You didn't say squat.

Hypocrisy thy name is Republican.

I hate to tell you people this but Obama spending all that money on Advertising is really helping a lot of small companies trying to stay afloat. I wish he was here in Des Moines, Ia, giving us some of it. I have gone 2 weeks without any work. The first thing companies do is cut Advertising when the economy goes out the door.

Joe Biden would say these women are very unpatriotic. Why don't they take that money and donate it to the US Treasury instead?

All that money and fame and Oprah still needs her little worshippers to build up her ego.
Just like her friend Barry.

He can't survive without the adoration.

What's going to happen when he fails miserably as president?

Someone has to help him pay for all of the attack ads that he's been running. $10 bucks here and there just doesn't cut it.

**We are the GREAT DEPRESSION II and Oprah, Michelle Obama and the gals are living high off the hog **

Is it fair to ask the teacher making $30,000/year to pay taxes while Obama's high-off-the-hog campaign can rake in millions in one night without having to pay any taxes on it?
A portion of every contribution should be taxed.

We are the GREAT DEPRESSION II and Oprah, Michelle Obama and the gals are living hi