Who will they vote for? Conclusion

On the heels of the McCain supporter who accused a black man of robbing and carving a "B" into her face, I think it's a good time to conclude my series on who they will for vote.

If you read my previous "who will they vote for" posts, you will see that one of Obama's biggest voting blocs is a group made up of every ding dong, derelict, and douche bag in the country.

Below, is a list of various groups and people who will pull for their candidate in ten days. Look at the list. Consider the following questions....

Why would these groups support one candidate over the other?

Which group would you want as your next door neighbor?

Which group would you want to teach your children?

Who would you rather have over to your house for a beer?

Which group has more wisdom?

Keep in mind, you are the company you keep. So a vote for Obama is a vote for criminals, Larry Flynt, and welfare queens whereas a vote for McCain is a vote for our military, cops, and Ted Nugent.

With all that said, who do you want to align yourself with?

Obama		McCain
War Protesters		Active Military
20 year olds		60 year olds
Larry Flynt		Pat Robertson
Criminals		Cops
Union Heads		Corporate executives
Drug Dealers		Convenience store owners
Alec Baldwin		Kelsey Grammar
Welfare Queens		Working women
Michael Stipe		Ted Nugent
Planned Parenthood		Right to Life
Sharon Stone		Bo Derek
ACORN workers		NASCAR Fans
Joy Behar		Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Atheists		Born again Christians
Madonna		Martina McBride
Vegans		Hunters
Non repentant terrorists		FBI agents
Homeless		Homeowners
College professors		Small business owners
Urbanites		Suburbanites
Any network news anchor		John Stossel

can't stand the heat? call Al Gore

A funny post on the Gore Effect.....

The phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming. Hence, the Gore Effect.

Apparently, The Goricle strode into Harvard yesterday under these weather conditions.

In Cambridge, the warmest October 22nd occurred in 1979 when the temperature climbed to 83 °F. Well, it doesn't look like what they see today. Even the average high temperature for this day is 60 °F which is still far too high. After the noon, the temperature in Cambridge is 44.5 °F. Tonight, it is predicted to drop to 34 °F, close to the record low of 28 °F measured in 1940.

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Obamamania - Catch it

Life under the Axis of Taxes

So you think a triumvirate of democratic leadership is going to be a big boon to the economy.

Well, what do you think of this plan being looked at by the current democratic house.....

Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation's $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.

House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.

A plan by Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic-policy analysis at The New School for Social Research in New York, contains elements that are being considered. She testified last week before Mr. Miller's Education and Labor Committee on her proposal.

Snip....

Under Ms. Ghilarducci's plan, all workers would receive a $600 annual inflation-adjusted subsidy from the U.S. government but would be required to invest 5% of their pay into a guaranteed retirement account administered by the Social Security Administration. The money in turn would be invested in special government bonds that would pay 3% a year, adjusted for inflation.

That same Social Security Administration that maintains a retirement plan with a 27 TRILLION dollar unfunded liability!

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And this is Bush's fault

I'm confused.

On January, 2007 the national unemployment rate was 4.6%, the Ohio rate was 5.3%.

On September, 2008 the unemployment rate 6.1% nationally, 7.2% for Ohio.

And the current high unemployment is Bush's fault? Huh.

He was the same president for the previous six years when the unemployment rate floated between 4.5 - 5.5% . If he's responsible for the current rate, shouldn't he be given credit for the low rates the previous six years as well?

Let's face it, Bush has been president for nearly eight years. For the first six, things seem to be moving rather swimmingly in the economy; then we hit a speed bump that started around January, 2007.

What changed?

If you are inclined to blaming politicians, you can start with the democratic congress and senate who took over in January, 2007.

For Ohioans, democrats also took over all but one statewide office on January.

See a correlation here?

But let's look to Michigan where, in January of 2003, unemployment was 7.1% (John Engler, republican was governor). Today, their unemployment rate is 8.7%. Is it a coincidence that Jennifer Granholm, a democrat is the current governor? I don't think so.

Now it occurs to me that when you look at any area of this country dominated by democratic governance, you find higher than the national average unemployment (along with higher crime, crappy schools, more homeless, deteriorating real estate values, etc).

Yet somehow Obama supporters think he's going to change our current economic climate? What are you smoking? What will he do that won't be a duplication of what Governor Ted and Granholm have done?

How the people of Michigan and Ohio cannot connect that democratic policies are what's put a hurt on our respective economies is beyond me.

But, I have to give it to democrats; they are the one party who figured out a way to benefit from the very pain they inflict on its citizens.

Obama's contributions

Atlas Shrugs with an awesome post on illegal contributions to the Obama campaign.

Specifically, people are testing the campaign by using their credit card with bogus names noted on the contribution.

There is enormous amount of money being secreted into the Obama campaign from foreign sources. It is fairly safe to say these countries will be richly rewarded - Kenya, Indonesia but most of all - Obama will drop a load on the UN. Fosho.

The crooked, corrupt international one world global warmers have the largest stake in this election.

Back on August 14th, I wrote that Julia Gorin told me a funny story. About four months ago. Her husband's co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his Macy's card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain's campaign, and the transaction wouldn't go through.

Atlas reader Craig submits to me the following,

I may have just uncovered how the Obama campaign is facilitating massive donation fraud.

I’ve read recent reports of the Obama campaign receiving donations from dubious names and foreign locales and it got me wondering; how is this possible?

I run a small internet business and when I process credit cards I’m required to make sure the name on the card exactly matches the name of the customer making the purchase. Also, the purchasers address must match that of the cardholders. If these don’t match, then the payment isn’t approved. Period. So how is it possible that the Obama campaign could receive donations from fictional people and places? Well, I decided to do a little experiment. I went to the Obama campaign website and entered the following:

Name: John Galt

Address: 1957 Ayn Rand Lane

City: Galts Gulch

State: CO

Zip: 99999

Then I checked the box next to $15 and entered my actual credit card number and expiration date (it didn’t ask for the 3-didgit code on the back of the card) and it took me to the next page and…

“Your donation has been processed. Thank you for your generous gift.”

This simply should not, and could not, happen in any business or any campaign that is honestly trying to vet it’s donors. Also, I don’t see how this could possibly happen without the collusion of the credit card companies. They simply wouldn’t allow any business to process, potentially, hundreds of millions in credit card transactions where the name on the card doesn’t match the purchasers name.

I guess the Washington Post will catch up with that as soon as they finish their expose about John McCain stiffing a restaurant server in 1984.

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Hope On

From the HOPE ON campaign of my fellow SOBer's

John McCain Prisoner of War

Just out of curiosity. Who are the people from Obama's college/law school days vouching for his character?

I didn't the DNC but where their people, who weren't pols, speaking to the character of One Messiah.

As far as I can tell these are his "character" witnesses.

1) Jeremiah Wright?
2) Michael Pfleger?
3) William Ayers?
4) Rashid Khalidi?
5) Frank Marshall Davis?
6) Saul Alinsky?

WOW. A regular who's who of American hating marxists.

You Don't Want to Meet Bill - Card Check

Maybe they'll vet this?

I'm sure the Chicago Tribune will get to this right after they finish their story on Cindy McCain being rich.

What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson, and Raela Odinga have in common?

All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.

The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.

An ongoing Newsmax investigation into the Obama campaign’s finance reports has exposed multiple instances of campaign finance violations and has been cited in a formal complaint to the Federal Election Commission filed by the Republican National Committee on Oct. 6.

Though many of the known violations include donations in excess of the $2,300 per election limit on individual contributions and contributions from foreign nationals, the extent of the amount of fraud is hidden because of a loophole in federal election law.

Campaigns are not required to disclose contributors who donate less than $200 — and Obama’s campaign refuses to release their names, addresses, and donation amounts. Obama has collected a staggering $603.2 million. Most of the money — $543.3 million — has come from individual contributors, half of it from “small” donors Obama won’t disclose.

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Socialism run amok

If you thought Obama's plan for mandatory community service was theoretical in nature. Think again. (HT brian thomas)

His brand of socialism is working it's way right down to the municipal government level.

In Albany NY.....

Albany Common Council members say they'll figure out a plan to make sure non-unionized city employees get raises. Mayor Jerry Jennings has proposed eliminating raises and several other cuts in his 2009 budget proposal which calls for less spending with a property tax increase of nearly five percent.

Councilman Glen Casey said he proposes giving non-unionized employees who make more than $55,000 a year take 10 days of mandatory unpaid time off. Casey said he would then use the savings to give raises to those who make under $40,000 a year.

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Thought of the day II

For the past two weeks, I've been averaging at least twenty of those Kenyan email solicitations a day. All I have to do is give some guy my bank account number, and I'll have millions in my bank account tomorrow.

In addition, I've seen at least twenty "Obama's going to make me rich" campaign ads every day. All I have to do is vote for him and I never need to do a damn thing again because The Messiah will take care of me.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Thought of the Day

The Obamunists have generated in excess of $600 MILLION dollars in campaign funds this campaign season.

Out of curiosity, shouldn't Obama be "spreading the wealth" to those less fortunate? I mean c'mon, throw a few bucks to Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, et al.

It's not their fault the public doesn't find their ideas worth donating to. Right?

I'm sure the Obama campaign will donate as much as Joe Biden gives to charity to help those less fortunate? Hey Ralph, can you use $300.00?

Obamanomics - catch it

From the WSJ....

"I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

The election is still two weeks away, but we are already living in the world of Obamanomics. In fact, on fiscal policy we've been living in that world at least since February when the Bush Administration conceded to the Congressional priority of Keynesian fiscal "stimulus." That didn't work very well, but no matter. Spurred on by Barack Obama, Democrats in Congress are preparing Round Two, this time in the form of $150 billion to $300 billion in new spending.

If we may borrow a phrase, this is the triumph of hope over experience. The one thing Washington hasn't failed to do in recent years is spend, yet the economy doesn't seem to have improved on the event. Brian Riedl, a budget expert at the Heritage Foundation, has calculated that in 2008 Congress enacted $332 billion of "emergency" supplemental spending bills, only half of which was for the Iraq war. Do you feel stimulated?

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NRA - Imagine

HT Gateway Pundit

Another Obama commie bud

Does The Messiah have any long term friends who aren't anti American bigots?

Here's yet another one.

With what little media oxygen there has been sucked out by the largely uninformative discussion of Ayers (and his wife and Weather Underground ally, Bernadine Dohrn) — in which the mantra “unrepentant terrorist” has been a pale substitute for the critical matter of the Ayers’s ideology that Obama plainly shares — much has been missed. Significantly, that includes another key Obama contact, Mike Klonsky.

Here’s what you need to know. Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website.

To be clear, as it seems always necessary to repeat when Obamaniacs, in their best Saul Alinsky tradition, shout down the opposition: This is not about guilt by association. The issue is not that Obama knows Klonsky … or Ayers … or Dohrn … or Wright … or Rashid Khalidi …

The issue is that Obama promoted and collaborated with these anti-American radicals. The issue is that he shared their ideology.

Klonsky’s communist pedigree could not be clearer. His father, Robert Klonsky, was an American communist who was convicted in the mid-Fifties for advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government — a violation of the Smith Act, anti-communist legislation ultimately gutted by the Supreme Court. In the Sixties, Klonsky the younger teamed with Ayers, Dohrn, and other young radicals to form the Students for a Democratic Society. It was out of the SDS that Ayers and Dohrn helped found the Weatherman terrorist group.

Klonsky took a different path, albeit one that led inexorably to a new partnership with Ayers, which Obama mightily helped underwrite. Upon splitting off from the SDS, Klonsky formed a Maoist organization, first known as the “October League,” which ultimately became the “Communist Party (Marxist Leninist).”

Klonsky was CP(ML)’s chairman. He was so highly thought of by Mao’s regime that he was among the first Americans invited to visit Communist China. When he was feted there in 1977, a year after Mao’s death, the communist leadership hailed Klonsky’s party as “reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people.”

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I'm sure the Washington Post will get right on this as soon as they expose Joe the Plumber's underage drinking in 1983.

the Fort Dix Dance

HT to Darth Dilbert at return of the conservatives

Network news viewership down

In a shocker to no one, evening news numbers are down.

Memo to NBC, CBS, ABC.... if I want to watch a half an hour of Obama commercials, I'll just go to the Obama channel.

How much is fair? The Obamamunist quiz

We all know the rich don't pay enough. Right? So here's a quiz for all you Obamamunists who believe the rich don't pay enough.

Let's take the example of John and Suzie Rich.

John and Suzie both work in Cincinnati and make $125,000 each. They have two kids and annual mortgage interest of $32,500. Since they're rich like Joe Biden, let's assume they give nothing to charity.

The questions

How much do Joe and Suzie currently pay in federal, FICA, medicare, state of Ohio and city of Cincinnati taxes?

How much should they pay to make it "fair"?

Will they try to arrest Colin Powell?

Over at King's Right....

An anti-war protester confronted former Bush administration aide Karl Rove while he spoke at a San Francisco mortgage bankers' meeting.

A statement by the group Code Pink identified the woman as 58-year-old Janine Boneparth, who tried to handcuff Rove in what she called a citizen's arrest for "treason."

Rove, who was speaking Tuesday at the Mortgage Bankers Association's annual convention, elbowed Boneparth away as she was escorted off the stage.

In total, five Code Pink members were removed from the hall during Rove's appearance. The organization says none of the five women were charged.

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An Obamanunist presidency?

Michael Gerson on the ruling Obamunists....

It is undeniable that Obama's record in the Illinois Legislature was conventionally liberal on crime and spending, and radical on abortion. During his brief U.S. Senate career, he has carefully avoided offending liberal constituencies. As a presidential candidate, Obama has felt no need to develop a third-way alternative to the Gore-Kerry agenda; his convention speech, to the contrary, was the Platonic form of that approach. And on the testimony of his unguarded moments, Obama has an elitist disdain for bitter, God-clinging conservatives and intends to "spread the wealth."

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I need to party with this guy

Not.

But apparently, Obama does.

The Messiah on small towns

Just a refresher on what Obama, Murhta et al think of small town, gun clinging, Jesus freaks. Maybe he can get John Murtha to stump in all those "redneck" venues.

Punished with a baby

Count me as being in on the HOPE ON project via the SOB alliance and the Let's Never Find Out project.

Who will she vote for? #991

Meet this bag of bones and Hep C carrier, aka Madonna.

We actually already know that she's no Sarah Palin fan. But consider this... Does this person look like the purveyor of sound judgment? For cryin' out loud, it's clear that she doesn't even know she needs a sandwich let alone have the sound judgment to know who our next president should be.

So, of course, that makes her a natural Obama constituent. So vote for Obama if you're the kind of person who takes the advice of an old washed up skank who can't seem to find a Subway in her tony little Manhattan neighborhood.

However, if you consider yourself a normal person, you'll vote McCain.

Who will he vote for? #2

Meet Bryan Stone, why is he in the news?

A disc jockey for 101.1 The Wiz was arrested early this morning, accused of twice selling crack cocaine to a Cincinnati police informer.

Bryan Stone, 34, of Hyde Park, is facing two charges of trafficking in drugs, according to court records.

Stone, known as Mighty Joe Young to listeners of the hip-hop station, works the 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. shift on Saturday and Sundays, according to its Web site. A call to the station has not yet been returned.

While Stone is out on bail, will he cast his ballot for The Messiah or the Maverick? Why?

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Who will they vote for? #100

The US military. You may know them as the group who's actually putting life and limb at risk in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Who will those troops support in this election?

According to this poll it's not The Messiah.

A poll by the Military Times newspaper group suggests that there is overwhelming support for John McCain among U.S. troops in every branch of the armed forces by a nearly 3-1 margin.

According to the poll, 68 percent of active-duty and retired servicemen and women support McCain, while 23 percent support Barack Obama. The numbers are nearly identical among officers and enlisted troops.

Click here to see the raw data.

The Military Times, which publishes the Army Times, Navy Times, Marine Corps Times and Air Force Times, polled 80,000 subscribers from Sept 22 to Sept. 29. The non-scientific survey gathered 4,300 respondents -- all of them registered and eligible to vote.

Let's contrast this information to another gun toting voting bloc....drug dealers. Who do you think will take the bulk of the drug dealer vote?

So you decide. Do you want to vote along with the voting bloc of active military personnel or drug dealers?

If Obama is elected, we'll have the US of Chicago

From Doug Ross.....

Pull out of Iraq?

Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago!

Body count in the last six months:

• 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago
• 221 killed in Iraq

Chicago - who runs it?

Senators: Barack Obama and Dick Durbin
Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Illinois Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)

...our leadership in Illinois: all Democrats.

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago. Of course, they're all blaming each other!

Can't blame Republicans. There aren't any!

State pension fund is $44 Billion in debt, worst in country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax is 10.25%, the highest in the country. The Chicago school system is rated one of the worst in the country (despite the $160 million that Obama and terrorist Bill Ayers slathered around to various leftist causes during the Chicago Annenberg Challenge).

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois. And he's gonna 'fix' Washington politics for us? Wake up America! We've already sacrificed Chicago!

What's so "progressive" about being gunned down in a city street?

Homer Simpson Votes Obama for ACORN

Joe the Plumber poster

From the American Thinker

Sarah Palin Energy Policy

Palin with the Money Honey.

"Energy" - neverfindout.org

HT Maggie Thurber

How to make friends and influence people

John Murtha apologizes for calling rednecks racist....

The news comes one week after Murtha claimed the area is racist, then apologized for that comment.In explaining his comments about racism, Murtha, D-Johnstown, told WTAE Channel 4 Action News on Monday it's difficult for many in the area to change.

Murtha said that just five to 10 years ago the entire area was "redneck."Now Murtha said only certain segments of the population are holding on to those racist feelings.Just days after classifying western Pennsylvania as racist, Murtha took a step back from those comments, albeit a small one."What I said, that indicted everybody, that's not what I meant at all. What I mean is there's still folks that have a problem voting for someone because they are black," Murtha said.Murtha said the history of southwestern Pennsylvania is rife with racism."This whole area, years ago, was really redneck," Murtha told Channel 4 Action News.

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An Axis of Taxes Fairy Tale

Thanks to reader Cathy....

The little red hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said,
'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?'

'Not I,' said the cow.

'Not I,' said the duck.

'Not I,' said the pig.

'Not I,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew
very tall and ripened into golden grain.

'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck.

'Out of my classification,' said the pig.

'I'd lose my seniority,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.

'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.

'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.

'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.

'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.'

'Excess profits!' cried the cow. (Harry Reid)

'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barney Frank)

'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Nancy Pelosi)

The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red
hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, 'You must not be so greedy.'

'But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.

'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so
wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.'

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, 'I am grateful, for now I truly understand.'

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as
there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for it.

Nevermind there was no bread to share anymore.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT

Barney Frank: Plenty of rich people that we can tax

The Axis of Taxes plan for the future

Barney Frank, charter member of the Axis of Taxes, has some interesting things to say about the future tax code to the money honey.

Click here and go to 4:45 on the video.

It's amazing democrats haven't gotten shelled for this.

Obamanomics - NFL Style

When Obama loses the election, maybe he'll take over as commissioner of the NFL.

Then maybe he'll institute his "spread the wealth around" plan and take some of the Steeler's wins they don't need and give them to the Bengals.

Let's face it, the Steelers wouldn't have all their wins without oppressing hapless NFL teams like the Bengals. It's a classic case of the powerful oppressing the disdavantaged. The Steelers have good ownership, management and coaching; the Bengals have an equipment manager.

The Steelers do their homework and draft quality players; the Bengals listen to Mel Kiper.

The Steelers pay for quality free agents; the Bengals call me to play.

So please Messiah, help our woeful NFL teams from being oppressed by the mighty. Give us some wins.

Until then.
Go Bears!

Powell - war criminal or hero

Thought of the day...

Among liberals, last week, Colin Powell was a war criminal. Now, he's a hero?

I guess a future Obama administration will be another four years of Bush after all.

Thomas on the Constitution

Clarence Thomas on the US Constitution....

As I have traveled across the country, I have been astounded just how many of our fellow citizens feel strongly about their constitutional rights but have no idea what they are, or for that matter, what the Constitution says. I am not suggesting that they become Constitutional scholars -- whatever that means. I am suggesting, however, that if one feels strongly about his or her rights, it does make sense to know generally what the Constitution says about them. It is at least as easy to understand as a cell phone contract -- and vastly more important.

Justice Thomas in all due deference, how can you expect a lay person in this country to understand the Constitution when five of your fellow justices don't seem to understand it?

Let the townies run it

A couple of nice pieces by Bill Kristol and Randall Hoven on the conservative elites assaults on Sarah Palin.

Apparently, people like Noonan, Brooks, et al don't like Palin because she lacks metropolitan "sensibilities".

Let me offer something to these conservative elites. Was it small town people who came up with Collateralized Debt Obligations? How about Credit Default Swaps? Was it small town types who refer to an increase in federal funding of 2.3% as a cut?

You know my father never graduated from high school but he's always left me with some sage advice from just doing life with people.

One thing he told me was "if you can't draw up a deal on the back of a cocktail napkin, its too complicated".

Maybe it's about time that small town conservatives got a shot at running our governments. Look at what those cosmopolitan types have done with since they've had it.

Or this?

Maybe the media will get to this as soon as they finish their reports on Palin calling a friend retarded..... in 1977.

As Barack Obama reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September, bringing his total to more than $600 million, new questions have arisen about the source of his amazing funding.

By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.

A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws. For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit. Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.

And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.

According to a Newsmax analysis of the Obama campaign data before the latest figures were released, potential foreign currency donations could range anywhere from $12.8 million to a stunning $63 million in all. With the addition of $150 million raised in September, this amount could be much more....

More at Newsmax

Maybe they'll vet this?

I guess the American main stream news media will get to this story as soon as they finish their story on Cindy McCain leaving a restaurant in 1986 without tipping.

From NRO

During his first campaign for the Illinois state senate in 1995-96, Barack Obama was a member of, and was endorsed by, the far-left New Party. Obama’s New Party ties give the lie to his claim to be a post-partisan, post-ideological pragmatist. Particularly in Chicago, the New Party functioned as the electoral arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). So despite repeated attempts to distance himself from ACORN, Obama’s New Party ties raise disturbing questions about his links to those proudly militant leftists. The media’s near-total silence on this critical element of Obama’s past is deeply irresponsible

While a small group of bloggers have productively explored Obama’s New Party ties, discussion has often turned on the New Party’s alleged socialism. Was the New Party actually established by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? Was the New Party’s platform effectively socialist in content? Although these debates are both interesting and important, we needn’t resolve them to conclude that the New Party was far to the left of the American mainstream. Whether formally socialist or not, the New Party and its ACORN backers favored policies of economic redistribution. As Obama would say, they wanted to spread the wealth around. Bracketing the socialism question and simply taking the New Party on its own terms is sufficient to raise serious questions about Obama’s political commitments — questions that cry out for attention from a responsible press.

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Quote of the Day

As seen on a bumper sticker in Yellow Springs, marxist haven...

Those who vote decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.

J. Stalin

Obama - part of the problem

Why the hell didn't McCain's campaign put this add out a month ago instead of waiting for a 527.

Beer as an investment

Thanks to reader Rick....

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0 today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for the recycling refund, you would have received $214.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.

A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Insider trading - democrat style

Susan Schmidt of the Wall Street Journal has discovered a disconcerting coincidence: Senator Chuck Schumer took a highly unusual step of publicly criticizing a bank, sparking a run on it, just as big Democrat hedge fund donors were examining assets of the bank in hopes of buying them on the cheap should the bank fail.

Schumer of course denies any impropriety. But the odor from this is very, very bad. If a Republican had done something like this, the headlines and network news features would be screaming for his head.

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The last eight years or the last two?

The American thinker poses the question. Should we judge our economy on the last eight years of the Bush administration or the last two under the Reid/Lollopelosi congress?

The Obama/Biden ticket's entire campaign theme is based on "the last eight years." Maybe we should really look at "the last two years," or the time period when both the House and the Senate were run by Democrats.

In December 2006, after six years of Bush and the last month before the Democrats took over both houses of the national legislature, a snapshot of our economy looked like this.

• Unemployment stood at 4.4%.
• Real GDP growth over the previous four years (under a Republican President, House and Senate) averaged 3% per year.
• A gallon of regular gasoline cost $2.30.
• The S&P 500 stock index stood at 1418, or 84% above its post-911 low and more than 7% higher than when Bush took office.
• Every year of Bush's Presidency, real (inflation-adjusted) disposable income per person went up. By the end of 2006, the average person was making 9% more in real terms than before Bush became President .

Personally, this is what has made the McCain campaign the abject failure it's been to date. If you are going to run on change, you argue that you can't reform and economy with corruption in congress and you'll never reform it with a democratic president.

But I'm just some Joe the Plumber type, what do I know.

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Good news for the GOP

Gordon and the lovely Mrs. Gekko made a run to Oxford last night for a political fund raiser for Cindy Carpenter, who's running for Clerk of Courts.

We went to the event as an invitee of one of my clients, who's tied in with the Butler County GOP. it was a great time to use up all of our carbon credits for the big time bonfire and hay ride.

In addition, I met Don Carpenter, an occasional contributor to WMD.

In contrast, today we made a run to the Berkeley of Ohio, Yellow Springs, for our annual liberal zoo field trip and OD on the smell of Patchouli.

Things must be somewhat decent for McCain in Ohio. Why? I saw two McCain-Palin yard signs in Yellow Springs, that's two more than I expected.

Something else that caught my eye; I noticed last year none of the gift shops had stock originating from "Sweat shops". I guess Sweat Shops are now acceptable for these stores as long as the manufacturers "provide workers a living wage for their local community".

I'm thinking this is code for "It's ok if we pay some peasant $1.00 a day in Nicaragua, but its not ok if Nike pays a peasant $1.00 a day in Vietnam".

But as we were touring all the shops I couldn't help but think of Joe the Plumber. I mean who the hell are these people to sell hemp sandals for $42.00 made in Indonesia when they should sell them to some poor person for $10.00?

Seriously, $42 for a pair of shoes made of a naturally occurring fiber. Something tells me these folks brand of socialism wouldn't be so popular if Gordon was setting their rules, but they have no problem telling me how much of my net worth I should get to keep.

I was also struck by the fact the few of the shops would allow customers use their restrooms. I mean, hey, where's the compassion for a poor guy who's got to go. And why no skateboards on the sidewalks? Aren't you holding down some slacker? Man, this town's got a lot of rules for a citizenship bent on anarchy.

On a somewhat related note, it was sad to see Antioch College go by the wayside. I wonder where else these snot nosed, little rich punks will be able to go to a school and pretend to be an anti-establishment a-hole on daddy's nickel? .......Oh..... that would be at any Ohio university.

.....Or Australia

Correction to previous post.

We can also go to Australia for vetting of our current political landscape.

On The Billary's contribution to our current economic situation....

We are now sitting in the wreckage of the biggest lending bust the world has ever seen.

And there's some merit in trying to pinpoint where it all began.

And among the prime suspects is former president Bill Clinton's decision in 1999 to put pressure on lenders to widen the pool of home borrowers in the US.

An article in The New York Times on September 30, 1999, laid it all out in what now looks like crystal detail.

"In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders," the article, by Steven Holmes, began.

"The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets, including the New York metropolitan region, will encourage those banks to exchange home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits."

It's like listening to a cockpit voice recorder extracted from the tail of some aircraft wreck.

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Go to Canada for Obama vetting

We already know our US media is so in the pocket of The Messiah, we have to go to Canada to get accurate information on him...

It’s time to cut through to the truth since some representatives of the media are shying away from it. And Barack Obama sure won’t disclose the truth about his socialist ideas. These days, he’s covering up his true intentions as he’s sounding more and more like a liberal trying to espouse Republican values to fool the American public.

He is for the working class, the “average Joe” in that he says he wants to cut taxes. Barack Obama has left quite a bit out of the picture, lying by omission. The media is complicit in backing Barack Obama. All of the networks (except maybe FOXNEWS) slant their news to favor Obama. They give John McCain his props, but are willingly shilling for Barack Obama.

Maybe the Chicago Tribune will vet this as soon as they finish their story on Joe the Plumber's 1994 conviction for an open container.

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