North Carolina Teacher and Obama Supporter...

If you are as sickened as I am by the teacher in the video and the way she speaks to the student whose father is in the military serving this great country, then you agree that this teacher should be disciplined. The teacher is Diantha Harris from Cumberland County.

Michelle Malkin has a response from the school superintendent and from the teacher.

Diantha Harris, the bully, is a sick individual and should not be teaching our kids.

Iraqis, Israelis and Georgians Overwhelmingly Support McCain...

So do Russian Americans and Cuban Americans. Gateway Pundit reports on all of these amazing stats. Who supports Obama? Iran, Castro and The Communists and Socialists of America.

There was always something I liked about Aerosmith's Joe Perry...

Joe Perry recently came out in an interview to show his support for McCain. The Boston Herald has the story about the "lifelong Republican."

They say Ayers is not a big deal...

I believe it is, and here is why. In 40 years if they became professors, but were still unrepentant of their crimes, self labeled communists, and were radical with their education ideals, I could never hang out with the likes of:
-Richard Reid the Shoe Bomber
-Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber
-Timothy McVeigh the Oklahoma City Bomber
-Osama bin Laden
-Ayman al-Zawahiri
-Ramzi Yousef
-Adam Pearlman (Azzam the American)
-Zacarias Massaoui
-The Fort Dix Six
-Jose Padilla

Or any other terrorist. If any of the listed repented what they have done, I still would not start my career in their living room, or serve on TWO boards with them. It does not make sense, Ayers is unrepentant, and has stated that they should have done more. I would not have to distance myself or defend myself against accusations of being close to a terrorist because I would never.

Joe (Biden) talks Joe (The Plumber) down...

In an interview this morning, Joe Biden stated that he has no Joe the Plumbers in his neighborhood. Joe the Plumber wants to live the American Dream and purchase a business that makes more than $250K, not one where he is making more than $250K. I wonder if this is the same neighborhood where Home Depot is (The Home Depot that no one has ever seen him in), or where Katie's Restaurant (Which closed 25 to 30 years ago).

McCain needs help...

Someone please get him a defibrillator, he needs all the help he can get. During last night's debate, Sen. John McCain stopped short each time he had the chance to finish Obama off. Obama has yet to actually seal the deal himself, but McCain has had the chances to. There were so many untruths stated yesterday by Obama, and McCain never fired back on them. First off, the Secret Service has come out and stated that "Kill Him" was never yelled at any McCain or Palin rally. This seemed like a ploy by Obama to obtain some sympathy. There was also a moment in last night's debate when McCain stated that Obama told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to "spread the wealth." Obama was shaking his head when McCain brought up the fact that Obama wants to "spread the wealth around." It is what he told the Plumber, but now he was backing out of it as he has about everything else. (Go to minute 9:21 to see.) McCain could have hammered Obama on the fact that he sat on TWO boards with Ayers, and he could have furthered hammered the fact that his political career WAS started in Ayers' living room, which Obama lied boldly to the American people, this is after his campaign had already confirmed it. The ACORN ties were left loose, and Obama was able to refute those with lies. McCain could have brought up Jeremiah Wright, which he refuses to do, and I honestly am dumbfounded by why he would not. Obama's abortion record is clear, he is for Freedom of Choice. Freedom of Choice takes away ALL restrictions on abortions. Obama lied again about his votes while in the Illinois Senate, but McCain failed to deliver. Obama is for tax payer funded abortions, again McCain failed to deliver. This was the only opportunity that McCain had left to tell the American People, the media is not reporting this, but he failed. McCain should have also focused on Obama's inexperience.

I am unsure as to who is going to win, and quite honestly I do not think either of them are suited for the job. But one of them is going to be elected, and Obama has an extensive record, a repeated pattern, of bad judgement. It is either bad judgement that he has had in the past, because he continues to change his position and his past, or it is who he truly is. If he gets elected we will see a tremendous change in America, but it will not be the change Obama is promising. Obama won the Democratic nomination through his far left policies and ideology, but now he has been shifting to a more Populist ideology to obtain more votes. If he gets elected, I can guarantee that he will not keep the popular platform he has run on.

Obama "warned" on the suprime meltdown...

According to his campaign, Obama warned about the sub-prime meltdown two years ago in a letter that no one has ever seen. There was a vote on the floor of the Senate a couple years back, a bill that could have avoided this mess, but Obama voted as he has many times, present. How did that help the situation that he states he was aware of? The Democrats were opposed to this bill, and yet he could not muster everyone together for a vote on something he supposedly knew was in trouble. The Wall Street Journal has a great article about this here.

Socialism in Disguise...

I am trying to make sense of Obama and his economic plan, his Senior Economic Advisor has stated that it is not redistribution of wealth, even though Obama himself stated that he would "Spread the Wealth Around." So unless we are arguing semantics, spreading and redistributing wealth are essentially the same thing. It is not the first time that Obama has spoken about redistribution, because I believe it is what he agrees is right (He is obviously wrong). There is another Obama wording that gets me to further believe he is a socialist.
Obama's tax plan is very convoluted, and he is hell bent on heavily taxing the "rich." Obama's campaign has a talking point about McCain and the frequency, or lack there of, of the use of the term "middle class." Obama solely uses the word, but never speaks about any other class. He has not stated what he would do for the "lower class." That is because Obama does not believe in the class system, a Marxist view. Obama has grouped together all "working class" Americans in one term he has called the "middle class" to appeal to Americans. Why? Because with him in office there will be no "lower class," he will pull them up into the middle, and there will be no "higher class" because he will pull them down into the middle as well. My question to Obama would be, once you cut everyone's taxes, those 95% he speaks about, and gives additional money to the "lower class," even if they do not pay taxes, then taxes the higher class until they pretty much become a part of the middle, who will then pay the taxes? I assume it will be corporations, both large and small businesses, but he already wants to heavily tax them, although we have one of the highest corporate taxes.

It seems like this plan is a plan for more massive bailouts, because once businesses begin to fail from high taxes being levied, the government can take over. And it will lead to a Socialist country.

On a separate note, I am truly exhausted of Obama being shoved down my throat. It is not enough that his campaign is heavily paying for ads both on print, radio, television, plus the obvious media bias, but now 30 minute prime time segments, video game spots, and 15 page textbook spreads. I assume I am not alone on this, but I feel like I will be brainwashed like the "Sing for Change" kids.

With Obama, the buck stops here (at $250K)....

If Obama becomes President, the American Dream becomes an audacious hope. Why? Because with Obama the American Dream stops at $249,999. Any income after that and you become a part of the rich, a part of the hated. What do they do to the hated, the rich? They tax them heavily, because your success is also your downfall. The rich (5%) already pay 95% of taxes, but Obama wants to give tax breaks to the other 95% even though 40% out of those 95% do not pay any taxes. I currently make less than 20% of that $250,000 threshold, but I am opposed to the idea of highly taxing those individuals. One day I hope to succeed to a point where I am making that amount or more, and my sweat and sacrifices will get me there. Why, after all of the sacrifices, should my wealth and success be redistributed? It should not. This country will suffer greatly with the redistribution of wealth. Robin Hood was a fairy tale for a reason. The reason this does not bother the Democrat Elite is because they do not make large sums of income, most of their money is inherited or was previously made. The Democrats needs the people to need them, otherwise their existence is pointless.

Obama has stumbled backwards again, and changed his mind on another position he is taking. Obama has now adopted Hillary Clinton's Economic Plan, yes, the one he called "disastrous." We will wait and see if the media decides to point out another one of his flip-flops. I highly doubt it.

John McCain tried to stop the Fannie/Freddie meltdown...

But Obama's name was nowhere to be found. The letter was just signed by a group of Republican Senators. Human Events has published a great article and has posted a copy of the letter here. Obama states he wrote a letter, I think he should publish it, that is if he DID write a letter, which I highly doubt. It is probably another lie, his campaign is based on them.

Obama and Ayers, "he thought he was rehabilitated...

Barack Obama was interviewed and stated that "The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois," he said. "That's how i met him -- working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan's" along with "a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders."
"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that he had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was eight years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated," Obama said. As Ben Smith from the Politico has reported.

What is funny to me is that even after in 2001, Bill Ayers stated that they "should have done more," as Bernadine Dohrn has stated as well, he never really spoke out against them until after he was campaigning for President. What I find interesting is that Leonore Annenberg, the wife of Walter Annenberg of the Annenberg Foundations, has endorsed John McCain. Why can't Obama be a man and admit that he was wrong and showed bad judgement when choosing to associate with Ayers? Why? Because he does not see a problem with it, I mean in his book "Dreams From my Father" on page 100, he does say "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

So who were these Marxist Professors? Professors like William Ayers? It is clear that he knew, and would have sought the approval of professors like Ayers. Remember, he did not want to be seen as a sellout.

First say it was your idea, then say its his bad idea...

The Obama campaign sent out an email on Tuesday after the debate stating that “McCain today said he had a new plan to allow the Treasury to purchase and restructure mortgages. The truth is that this is not a new proposal and is already part of the rescue plan that was signed into law. It was Obama, not McCain who called for this move two weeks ago.”

So as we have seen from the Obama campaign in the past, he takes credit for everything. He was against the Iraq War, even though he was not a Senator, he wrote a letter warning about sub prime mortgages yet that letter has never been released.

Then, in a turn of events, when I guess no one believed that it was his idea they decided to change their strategy. Obama's economic advisor, Jason Furman, came out and stated the following: “Since this (sic) beginning of this crisis, Barack Obama has demanded that any rescue plan must protect taxpayers and ensure that they share in any profit once the economy recovers, and he worked to include that principle in the plan that passed Congress. John McCain’s plan to overpay for bad mortgages by handing taxpayer dollars over to big financial institutions is erratic policy making at its worst, and it’s not the change we need to strengthen our economy, create new jobs and keep Americans in their homes.”

What is funny is that this is a horrible plan, one that was already included in the $700 Billion bailout. The one they both voted for. The one true conservatives have spoken out against. It is not Obama's plan, it is Henry Paulson and Bush's plan. I find it so interesting that Obama can shift positions so quickly and frequently just to appease someone. It goes to show that he is not a candidate of change, he is a typical politician.

The liberals can really make me sick sometimes...

The Politico's Ben Smith has a blog out about Missouri Senator, and lib, Claire McCaskill. Last night she was interviewed by MSNBC following the debate. When it was Mitt Romney's turn to sit in her chair, her assistants helped her take off the wires, and as she handed Romney the earpiece she stated to Romney "I spit on this before I put it in," with a smile. Who disgusting must one be? Liberals can really make me sick.

Honestly...

The debate last night was horrible. It was boring, and really lacked substance. This debate was supposed to be one of the more lively ones, "A Townhall Debate with questions from real Americans." Is that so? Then why would they pick the same boring questions? The only points I found interesting were that Obama admitted he would sit with Mahmoud without preconditions, and that he will be raising taxes for some small businesses. I recall Clinton stating he would "lower taxes on the middle class" only to actually raise them when he was elected. McCain also wants the government to buy down bad loans, seriously? If we keep putting all of these expensive band-aids on the economy, it will really fall hard in a few years, and we will undoubtedly enter a long period of economic depression. There were no winners last night, and the real losers are the American People, especially those of us who wasted two hours of our lives on that debate.

On a separate note, AIG spent $440,000 on spa and hotel accommodations for their top employees AFTER they were bailed out. Where is the accountability? Where are the fiscal conservatives? Where are the Reagan Republicans? We need to stand up and take politicians out of Washington, and replace them with real Americans. Our Founding Fathers are turning in their graves as they see what this country has become. The further we stray from the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the further we fall on the downward spiral that seems to be the future of this country.

Associations

The liberals have not come out of left field with their response to the William Ayers association. They are responding with Todd Palin's association with the Alaskan Independence Party. Todd Palin was a a member of that party, and according to the Party's website "Todd Palin was registered as a member but never participated in any party activities aside from attending a convention in Wasilla at one time." And I have read up on the Party and will admit that I do not approve of some of their ideology, mostly the idea of Alaska seceding from the United States. Their leader, Joe Vogler, was dead by the time Todd Palin joined, therefore no association could be made.

I guess this could be compared to Michelle Obama stating that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of this country. It only took her husband running for President for that to occur. Another comparison that could be made is to that of Jeremiah Wright who has consistently voiced his dislike of the United States, and White people. The difference is that Todd Palin was not an active member, and was only a member for a few years. Obama sat in those pews for over 20 years and had no problem with what was being said. And not until the Jeremiah Wright controversy popped up did he renounce the church. Also, Obama wrote in his books about how Jeremiah Wright was a mentor, and even titled one of his books after a sermon by him. So let's say that we can, even though they are not, evens. How can that be compared to Ayers?

How can one compare an affiliation to a party that wants to secede from the U.S. for God knows what reason, be compared to a terrorist who wanted to kill Americans and stated that "they did not do enough." It is appalling to think that anyone can make this comparison in their head, and it make sense. A murdered who killed police officers and wanted to bomb Government buildings, how is this comparable?

In times of desperation, and for fear of the truth, the mind can be tricked into believing even the most extraordinary of fallacies.

Update: Seriously? David Axelrod, who runs the Obama campaign said that at the time when William Ayers was helping launch Obama's career, and serving on boards with him, he did not know the history about William Ayers. Seriously? And even if he did not have an idea, wouldn't you denounce him once you became aware?

Obama and the Chicago Annenburg Challenge

CNN tried to state that Palin's comments were untrue. Well Obama served on the board of the Chicago Annenburg Challenge with Ayers. The basis for CNN calling the claim false is that Ayers is no longer involved in any terrorist activities, although in 2001 he stated that they should have done more. And any person who was once a terrorist is always a terrorist. If Osama Bin Laden stops his involvement in terrorist activities, then in 40 years states that he should have done more, should we not consider him a terrorist any longer? I would. He held a fundraiser for Obama when he was running for Senate. And they also served on a second board together. So how could they determine this to be a false claim? I do not understand.

Palin's Obama Comments

Sarah Palin came out strong, stating what we have all been wanting to hear, Obama's ties to radicals, and his dislike of America. The video can be seen here . But now, the liberal media has said that "Palin's words carry racial tinge." How? Sarah Palin is stating the truth, yet the media is playing the race card. I believe that most Americans have no issue with electing a black President, but I do believe that many Americans have a big problem with electing Obama. Why? A few names come to mind, names like Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright. The media is so in the tank that any mention of these individuals and they will result in playing the race card. It is a politics of fear. The liberals plan on making every American who does not support Obama, feel like a racist. It is appalling that they have to resort to this behavior.

Obama and the media have done a very good job at trying to sweep his past under the rug, and have even tried to censor those who have tried to speak about this. It is incredible to me how there are some that do not realize that Obama is a socialist, and how we can become the United Socialist-States of America. Obama was voted most liberal Senator, even while Bernie Sanders, a self described Socialist, served alongside him. Obama actually helped Bernie Sanders campaign for the Senate, and Sanders is not even a part of the Democratic Party, he is an independent Socialist from the state of Vermont.

Does the Obama campaign think Americans are stupid? I think that it is obvious. And I believe people will realize, if they have not already, that he is not the right direction for this country to go in.

Obama's Campaign Financing

Ken Timmerman from News Max authored a great article regarding Obama's Campaign Financing and the FEC's investigation. Click the link to read the story; http://newsmax.com/politics/Obama_fundraising_illegal/2008/09/29/135718.html

The Housing Bill Passed which was approved by the Senate

With two candidates, one for so called "Change," and the other a supposed Maverick, I expected to see at least one them come out against this bill, but they both voted for it. It would have been a great time for McCain to have stepped up and said "This bill does not do anything for the American People, and quite honestly might not even fix the economy." Nobody is sure, but the free market COULD HAVE corrected itself, and if the House passes the bill, then I guess we will never know. Companies that still have Capital are acquiring other companies and growing, so the economy as a whole has not stopped, and nor will it. McCain has spoken out against earmarks and pork barrel spending, and Obama loved those two things until he announced he was running for President. In a way, Obama lives up to his, well, ears, when it comes to earmarks.

I skimmed through the entire 451 Bailout plan, which from my understanding started off at 3 pages some time last week. This bill will pretty much make the U.S. the biggest landlord in the world. The bill itself mentions that the Federal Government will, hold, control or own the mortgages. If they own the mortgage, then they pretty much own the house until it is paid off, this is scary. Within the contents of the bill were, some items which I honestly am not quite sure how they would help the economy. I have listed these interesting bits below:

-The FDIC Insurance does go up, this helps out the people more psychologically than anything else, but only through 12/31/2009. I thought the whole reason for the increase was to account for inflation since the coverage has been $100K since the 1970's.

-There are tons of Energy Tax Credits, but really nothing about drilling or our energy Independence, so it is just a waste of time and pages.

-They extended the FUTA Surtax for two years, this is a surtax that costs employers roughly $14 per year, per employee. Aren't we trying to create jobs here? (Sec. 404)

-The "Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund Tax" was increased, don't we have a "energy crisis?" They raised the tax by 3 cents per barrel through 2016, and 4 cents after that. I mean it is only pennies, but doesn't every penny count? (Sec. 405)

-The extended an Economic Development Credit for American Samoa. I don't even know what to say. (Sec. 309)

-They extended the tax credit for mine rescue team training and the election to expense advanced mine safety equipment. I am all for safety, but why is this inserted into this bill? (Sec. 310 &311)

-There is a section on railroad track maintenance which is not too specific, but again I have no idea why this is in this bill. (Sec. 316)

Now it starts to get interesting:

-Seven year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility. Seriously? Someone decided they had to appeal to their Nascar fan constituents? (Sec. 317)

-(By far my favorite) Extension and Modification of Duty Suspension on Wool Products, and Wool Duty Refunds. This also helps the Wool Research Trust Fund. This one is priceless. I was not aware that wool products and their research had a trust fund. Everyone run and get your wool sweaters, now Duty Free! (Sec. 325)

-I wonder which party put this in the bill? (Please note the sarcasm) They have tax deductions for film and television productions. I did not know that liberal hollywood and the media was hurting. (Sec. 502)

-Another good one. There is an excise tax exemption, and this is how it is worded, "for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children." This applies to the shaft only, and they cannot be larger than 5/16 of inch in diameter. (Sec. 503)

-There is also a section regarding taxpayers who receive qualified settlements from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It states that when they pay taxes, the income source "shall be treated as engaged in a fishing business." (Sec. 504)

-There are 57 pages on Natural Disaster Relief and funding for Special Projects on Federal Land, which honestly I did not read because, again it was 451 pages.

-The last item I noticed bothered me, it was 34 pages, these 34 pages were titled the "Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008." I see the importance of a bill like this (Relating more to the mental health than to the addiction aspect of it). According to this insertion into the bailout plan, health care insurances must treat mental health and addictions equal to regular medical care. They cannot make payments higher and cannot offer stricter treatment limitations than to ordinary medical coverage. This does not belong in this bill, this is something that they knew would not be passed on it's own, therefore they shoved it into the bailout. So health care costs will now rise, because of addicts, that is how I see it.

We were in such "dire need" to pass this bill quickly otherwise we would go into a depression, this according to Congress and the President. Well they have taken a week longer than expected and nothing, we are still here. The bill passed the Senate, and the Dow is still down close to 300 points. Both Republicans and Democrats are wrong on passing this bill, and the pork shoved into it goes to show you, that maybe these are the wrong people to oversee and control the economy. These are the same people who got us into this mess. Chris Dodd and Barnie Frank are front and center on this bailout, yet they were the two leading the economy on this downward spiral. How can we expect THEM to fix this?

Update: I guess I missed one earlier, there is also a tax brake for people who ride their bicycles to work.

Bailout

The bailout as it stood was not acceptable. It was filled with items that taxpayers should not foot the bill for. The President is wrong on this, after all though, he has not been fiscally conservative. This is a typical Democrat bill, which they along with the Democrat Henry Paulson, who should resign, crafted. The democrats did not allow the Republicans any input on this bill, yet they expected the Republicans to vote for it. The American people did not agree with that bailout, and that is why the House voted the way it did. Barney Frank though, the same Barney Frank in this blog's video heard saying that Fannie and Freddie did not have any problems, is blaming the Republicans and Nancy Pelosi is praising him. Well let us look at how the House voted: The vote ended with 205 in favor, and 228 oppose to the bill, 140 Democrats and 65 Republicans voted for the bill, 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans voted against it. Why are they not blaming the Democrats? Their own party, they could have single handily passed this bill, but they did not. Nancy Pelosi told 16 Freshman Democrats that they could vote against it in order to not risk their reelection. You see with the Democrats, it is all about power, they could care less about you or I. The Democrats put us in this mess, and were unable to get THEIR bill passed, and they blame us for everything.