One of Those Rare Posts That Deserves a Respectful Read
Posted in Public Affairs, wordpress, Politics, campaign, election, blog, America on October 31st, 2008 by Stanford MatthewsHere’s a post that may be the most compelling of this political season. If not the most compelling it is certainly right near the top. Follow the link, read it with due compassion and remind yourself of what is at stake on November 4, 2008.
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As a black male Democrat, I just made a decision that hurts my heart.
When the abstract alone of the candidate tax plans describes them as poor or poorly targeted a closer look would be needed to find support for the NYT claim that Obama’s plan is better for anyone. In the excerpt below one caveat comes from the NYT’s own description that ‘Mr Obama would GENERALLY cut taxes more’ and leaves one with the feeling someone is splitting hairs on this appraisal. And where does the so-called independent analysis state those under $250K would not see a tax increase? And this doesn’t even come close to explaining where Obama gets the money to pay for his trillion dollar spending proposal. Gouging the small group of wealthy citizens who pay the lion’s share of taxes in this country won’t cover it.
The summary and review includes the well known fact that the FBI is investigating ACORN. Anita Moncrief, a former ACORN employee turned whistleblower, has testified in PA state court of ACORN’s wrongdoing. Obama has lied but Obama is tied to ACORN back to 1995 and maybe before then.
Using just the ACORN estimate of 1.3 million registrations gives another estimate of over a half million illegal registrations. And that is not even a precise measure of how bad this thing could be. And Obama gave $800000 or more dollars to ACORN for ‘get out the vote’ efforts. How about calling it what it is, a stuff the ballot box effort by the Messiah.
Amid all the videos presented on this blog recently and that will be from now on until the 2008 Presidential election has concluded a post from time to time providing some explanation of views should be presented. We are all familiar with the many arguments, campaign presentations, media reports and other sources offering attempts to persuade voters in the coming election. This blog has made an effort to convince people to vote for candidates also and will continue to do so. But a break from the usual or typical method may be useful.
John McCain on the other hand has been around for a long time and with varying degrees of familiarity to the details most people know him quite well. Simply because their careers have some similar details both McCain and Biden are frequently described by others in the business of politics as Senators in good standing with the typical number of glitches in their histories. Both McCain and Biden are known to irritate others from time to time and while Biden has more of a reputation for speaking before thinking, McCain’s temper has been known to cause him a problem from time to time. Biden is hamstrung to some degree by the plagiarism scandal and McCain although only mildly admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee has the Keating Five episode on his resume’. Beyond that the two Senators have what could probably be referred to as what one Democrat and one Republican would have for records after many years in Congress.
long. But most of her history minus the media and other sources who have muddied the water is not much concern for the voter. No one seems to have challenged her stature as the most popular Governor in the country. No one seems to challenge the fact that she is responsible for attending to her state constituents including negotiating significant annual residuals from energy revenues as income for residents. And there still are a great many people who view Sarah Palin as more like the ordinary citizen than the majority of those who populate Washington elected offices. And whether true or not most of her history is out there. The same cannot be said of Barack Obama.
Of the associations for which Barack Obama has received criticism why was he initially reluctant to respond? Why did he try to minimize his relationship with Rev Wright and only severed ties when the political liability became too risky? Why did he do the same about William Ayers in referring to him as just a guy in the neighborhood until the story grew legs? Even subsequent responses were less than candid and could even be characterized as lies when follow up reports were released. He shrugged off his ties with Tony Rezko and the real estate deal with him only to describe it as a bonehead move later on when he could no longer distance himself from it. These are just a few of the problems people see with Barack Obama. Not necessarily so much the associations and events but the way he responds to inquiries. Especially when those responses are later replaced with admissions of some guilt or error.
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/25/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that he is immediately appealing the dismissal of his case to the United States Supreme Court. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
There is good reason for McCain to dismiss the polls. This blog has regularly followed three polling sources, Gallup, Rasmussen and Zogby. The double digit spreads suggested by some polls over recent weeks has been a curious development. This observer noted that of the three being monitored here, Gallup was reporting double digit spreads occasionally and was frequently releasing polls with larger spreads than the other two. Zogby approached double digits spreads recently but by and large all three have shown mid single digits as the best lead by Obama. With or without margins for error the 2008 Presidential election campaign is much closer than the main stream media would have you believe.