Although I would not vote for obama, I don't know if Regan's credentials were that long either. He was the govenor of california and.......
But his platform was 'conservative'.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The correspondents for NBC, which GE has apparently sold to the Obama campaign, have been parsing the word “socialism,” aghast that John McCain would suggest that Barack Obama would be guilty of such tendencies. Barack Obama has suggested that anyone without health insurance, or who is dissatisfied with his current health insurance, be insured by the government. He has suggested that the government make student loans directly, bypassing the banking system. He wants to solve our financial crisis by expanded meddling by the government in the credit markets, in spite of the fact that such meddling was a large factor in our current difficulty. There are many things that Obama has been accused of being that he isn’t. He was born much too late to have ever said “burn, baby, burn.” He never joined Jeremiah Wright in saying “God damn America.” But he did say “Joe, we gotta share the wealth.” And he meant it. History provides no example of a government attempting to redistribute wealth without its winding up with less wealth. Socialism is a relative term, and there are many democracies where “socialist” is hardly a pejorative. But in today’s America, bailout notwithstanding, is Barack Obama a socialist? As Gov. Palin might say, “You’re darn tootin’!” J. CHRISTOPHER CALLAGHAN Waterford The writer is the former GOP candidate for state comptroller.
In their Oct. 15 debate, Barack Obama showed a far better grasp of the problems plaguing the nation than John McCain. The debate convinced me that Obama, because of his younger age and more acute and penetrating mind, is better equipped to lead the nation. Obama came across as a thinker who can see [things] from new perspectives. By contrast, McCain stated he is offering something new, but in his final summation was back to the tired old theme of making “big goverment” the source of our woes. Getting “big government” off the backs of the people has been the Republican slogan for the past eight years, and look what it has brought. I also liked the way Obama carried himself during the debate. He was cool, he was confident, he had done his homework. He applied himself to the task at hand. He has sought out the most knowledgeable people in the country regarding the problems we face and has woven their collective wisdom into an integrated whole. I will feel very comfortable if Barack Obama becomes the next president, but I cannot say the same about John Mc-Cain. For one thing, he is becoming an old man. I know that as I entered my 70s, I no longer had the zip of my younger days; everything I attempted seemed to take longer. But that’s only part of my concern. If McCain were to become president, the prospect of anything happening to him would, for me, be terrifying.
Hoorah for you Almy over there, McCain people need to watch out things are getting bad for you all and I reccommend that you stay home and be safe since things arent going youre way anymore over there.
Radical Loon When Obama Was Only 47 by Ann Coulter Posted 10/22/2008 ET Updated 10/22/2008 ET
The media are acting as if they completely and fully vetted Obama during the Democratic primaries and that's why they are entitled to send teams of researchers into Alaska to analyze Sarah Palin's every expense report.
In fact, the mainstream media did no vetting. They seem to have all agreed, "OK, none of us will get into this business with Jeremiah Wright, 'Tony' Rezko, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers and everyone's impression of an angry Michelle Obama on 'The Jerry Springer Show.'"
During one of the Democratic primary debates, Hillary Clinton was hissed for mentioning Syrian national Rezko, and during another, ABC moderator George Stephanopoulos nearly lost his career for asking Obama one question about William Ayers.
In the past week, TV anchors have taken to claiming that Obama "refuted" John McCain's statement that Obama launched his political career at the home of former Weather Underground leader Ayers.
No, Obama "denied" it; he didn't "refute" it. If "denying" something is the same as "refuting" it, then maybe the establishment media can quit harping on Palin's supposed lack of qualifications to be president, since she too "refuted" that by denying it.
Back before the media realized it needed to lie about Obama launching his political career at Ayers' house, the Los Angeles Times provided an eyewitness account from a liberal who attended the event.
"When I first met Barack Obama, he was giving a standard, innocuous little talk in the living room of those two legends-in-their-own-minds, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They were launching him -- introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread."
The Times has now stripped this item from its Web page, but the great blogger Patterico has preserved it for posterity on his Web page.
Obama's glib remark that "Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago; 40 years ago when I was 8 years old he engaged in despicable acts with a domestic group. I have roundly denounced those attacks" -- doesn't answer anything.
First of all, the fact that Ayers is a professor of education proves only one thing: He is dumber than any person without an education degree.
Ayers is such an imbecile, we ought to be amazed that he's teaching at a university -- even when you consider that it's an ed school -- except all former violent radicals end up teaching. Roughly 80 percent of former Weathermen are full college professors -- 99 percent if you don't include the ones killed in shoot-outs with the police or in prison -- i.e., not yet pardoned by a Democratic president.
Any other profession would have banned a person like Ayers. Universities not only accept former domestic terrorists, but also move them to the front of the line. In addition to Ayers, among those once on the FBI's most-wanted list who ended up in cushy college teaching positions are Bernardine Dohrn (Northwestern University), Mark Rudd (a junior college in New Mexico) and Angela Davis (History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz).
While others were hard at work on Ph.D.s, Susan Rosenberg was conspiring to kill cops and blow up buildings, and was assembling massive caches of explosives. This put her on the fast track for a teaching position at Hamilton College!
Despite having absolutely no qualifications to teach, having earned only a master's degree in "writing" through a correspondence course, Rosenberg was offered a position at Hamilton within a few years of President Clinton pardoning her in 2001, releasing her from a 58-year prison sentence for participating in the murder of cops and possessing more than 700 pounds of explosives.
But Obama thinks it's a selling point to say that Ayers is a college professor.
Hundreds of college professors have signed a letter vouching for Ayers, which would be like Lester Maddox producing a letter from George Wallace assuring us that Maddox is a respected member of the community. No, really, I've got the letter right here!
The media keep citing the fact that the money Obama and Ayers distributed to idiotic left-wing causes came -- as The New York Times put it -- "from Walter H. Annenberg, the billionaire publisher and philanthropist and President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to the United Kingdom."
Great Republican though he was, Walter Annenberg died in 2002. The money came from the Annenberg Foundation, which, like all foundations, distributes money to projects that its founder would despise. John Kerry ran for president on the late John Heinz's money. That didn't mean Republican Heinz was endorsing Kerry.
As John O'Sullivan says, any foundation that is not explicitly right-wing will become a radical left-wing organization within a few years. It could be the Association of University Women, the American Association of Retired People, the American Rose Growers, the Foundation for the Study of Railroad Engineers or the Choral Society of Newport Beach.
Left-wing radicals swarm to free foundation money, where they can give gigantic grants to one another and they will never have to do a day's work. That's exactly what Obama and Ayers did with Annenberg's money.
None of the Annenberg money went to schoolchildren. It went to Ayers' left-wing crank friends to write moronic papers that we hope no one ever reads.
Instead of teaching students reading and writing, Ayers thinks they should be taught to rebel against America's "imperialist" social structure. In 2006, Ayers was in Venezuela praising communist dictator Hugo Chavez, saying, "We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution."
He has backed a line of schoolbooks such as one titled "Teaching Science for Social Justice."
Forget about Ayers' domestic terrorism when Obama "was 8 years old." Does he agree with Ayers' idiot ideas right now?
You know I was thinking about how if I had an elderly friend who came to my home and had coffee with, shared ideas with, and who hosted a fund raiser at his home (was I to decide to pursue elected office,) I wonder if it would be a big deal if he was a former SS Death Camp Guard in Nazi Germany who did reprehensible things 15 years before I was born? Of course the difference this imaginary elderly man and William Ayers would be debated by the academic elite on TV and elsewhere, and the entire media would rush to defend both me and him, right?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
ha ha ha ha.....oh, wait.....hhhmmm cough cough.....I'm eating peanuts and just started laughing and one came out my nose......oh, no that was Robin in the Hood's wealth redistribution---anyone hungry????
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
They track these death camp guards down until they are 95 years old and arrest them and deport them ( the right thing to do,) but in the case of a guy who is a liberal elite because it was 30 years ago then it is OK that he blew up the police station and the judge's home. All is forgiven apparently if you lean Democratic. What if it was Timothy McVeah who bombed Ok' city?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
They track these death camp guards down until they are 95 years old and arrest them and deport them ( the right thing to do,) but in the case of a guy who is a liberal elite because it was 30 years ago then it is OK that he blew up the police station and the judge's home. All is forgiven apparently if you lean Democratic. What if it was Timothy McVeah who bombed Ok' city?
That's a fact......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
well Obama has no connection to this guy and if he did this a long time ago so forget it the people dont want to hear about it they want to know what are you gonna do for me paisan?
Attendance >> On television today, one of Obama's handlers pointed >> out that when Obama >> holds a rally 25-30,000 people show up, whereas when >> McCain holds a >> rally he only draws 10-15,000 people. The Republican >> spokesman replied, >> 'That's because McCain's supporters are at >> work.' >>
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I am a U.S. government contractor with small work force. The rising cost of fuel, astronomical insurance cost, workers comp, vehicle insurance, road taxes and the never-ending cost-of-living have me close to being out of business and out of my home. I feel for the poor since this is happening to me with a six-figure income, but I too can’t even afford health insurance for myself and my family. I do believe in fair wages, but when the business owner gets the bill there is nothing left for him since the laws state the employee has rights. But what about the business owner’s rights? I get all the heartache, the stress, and the never-ending trail of paperwork, but I don’t see a fair profit, even one that will pay my bills on time and get the most basic health care. (My wife has multiple sclerosis, with no health insurance, since they say I make too much!) So, Mr. Obama, you have my vote since the Republican Party has done nothing but made life impossible to live for the hard-working, middle-class, small business American. Where’s my bailout, Mr. Bush?
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