Obama throws Rev Wright under the bus

[Sister Fracas 5]

I just got back from Africa December 07, so I know poverty, Sudan is a great example of poverty. Personally I think you should have never had to be homeless on the streets, in the wealthest countries in the world. Why is that, why does our country, and we are a wealthy why does the U.S. might have higher infant mortality rates than some other developed countries. For example, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden all have lower infant mortality rates? We are the best, and we don't have to have infant mortaity rates like a third world country. What do you purpose? Profit in health care is a bad idea, life should not be so expensive that only the wealthy get good health care. Are their babies worth more than your babies?

Maybe, just maybe, we aren't the best....

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I just got back from Africa December 07, so I know poverty, Sudan is a great example of poverty. Personally I think you should have never had to be homeless on the streets, in the wealthest countries in the world. Why is that, why does our country, and we are a wealthy why does the U.S. might have higher infant mortality rates than some other developed countries. For example, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden all have lower infant mortality rates? We are the best, and we don't have to have infant mortaity rates like a third world country. What do you purpose? Profit in health care is a bad idea, life should not be so expensive that only the wealthy get good health care. Are their babies worth more than your babies?

Maybe, just maybe, we aren't the best....

Why do you love bin Laden so much?

[Sister Fracas 5]

I just got back from Africa December 07, so I know poverty, Sudan is a great example of poverty. Personally I think you should have never had to be homeless on the streets, in the wealthest countries in the world. Why is that, why does our country, and we are a wealthy why does the U.S. might have higher infant mortality rates than some other developed countries. For example, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden all have lower infant mortality rates? We are the best, and we don't have to have infant mortaity rates like a third world country. What do you purpose? Profit in health care is a bad idea, life should not be so expensive that only the wealthy get good health care. Are their babies worth more than your babies?

Maybe, just maybe, we aren't the best....

Why do you love bin Laden so much?

[Peikko 1,575]

Personally, I think that the US is going to have to rethink its economic strategy big time. The rapid growth that built the US is over and will never return. The reasons? The US doesn't have enough raw materials, cheap energy sources or cheap labour to continue the cycle of growth that it became used to. This has far reaching effects across the board and I don't think any of the candidates for the presidential election is prepared to face this problem.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I just got back from Africa December 07, so I know poverty, Sudan is a great example of poverty. Personally I think you should have never had to be homeless on the streets, in the wealthest countries in the world. Why is that, why does our country, and we are a wealthy why does the U.S. might have higher infant mortality rates than some other developed countries. For example, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Sweden all have lower infant mortality rates? We are the best, and we don't have to have infant mortaity rates like a third world country. What do you purpose? Profit in health care is a bad idea, life should not be so expensive that only the wealthy get good health care. Are their babies worth more than your babies?

Maybe, just maybe, we aren't the best....

Why do you love bin Laden so much?

Terrorist enabler!!!

[Sister Fracas 5]

Terrorist enabler!!!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Personally, I think that the US is going to have to rethink its economic strategy big time. The rapid growth that built the US is over and will never return. The reasons? The US doesn't have enough raw materials, cheap energy sources or cheap labour to continue the cycle of growth that it became used to. This has far reaching effects across the board and I don't think any of the candidates for the presidential election is prepared to face this problem.

Cheap labor?

We have plenty. This is where it will come from.

[Peikko 1,575]

Cheap labour without cheap raw materials and cheap energy is pretty pointless - but you know that

[mawilson 2,133]

Obama will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay.

Er, how's he going to do that if he's hell-bent on rolling back Bush's tax cuts (which benefit everyone, not just the wealthy)?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Obama will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay.

Er, how's he going to do that if he's hell-bent on rolling back Bush's tax cuts (which benefit everyone, not just the wealthy)?

I think both Dem candidates have said they'd only roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, leaving those who make 200k or less alone.

Obama has, however, left open the possibility of increasing the SS deduction income cap. HRC has ruled that out. I think it needs to go away completely, even though it will hit me. I'm ok with that because it's fair.

[mawilson 2,133]

Obama will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay.

Er, how's he going to do that if he's hell-bent on rolling back Bush's tax cuts (which benefit everyone, not just the wealthy)?

I think both Dem candidates have said they'd only roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, leaving those who make 200k or less alone.

Obama has, however, left open the possibility of increasing the SS deduction income cap. HRC has ruled that out. I think it needs to go away completely, even though it will hit me. I'm ok with that because it's fair.

Why are they calling it a rollback then?

Removing the SS wage cap would essentially increase the top income tax bracket from 35% to 41%

or 47% if you're self-employed. 47% taxation??!! We're not f###ing Europe, man.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

What possible justification is there to tax the first 90-something-thousand and not the rest?

If they keep the cap, then they should reduce benefits for people who made more than the cap.

Edited April 30, 2008 by VJ Troll

[mawilson 2,133]

If they keep the cap, then they should reduce benefits for people who made more than the cap.

That sounds fair to me.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Which do you think is more politically feasible?

[no name 1]

Obama's Un-Disownable Preacher of Hate

By Michelle Malkin

Barack Obama looked pale and wan at what he called his "big press conference" about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday afternoon. Numb. Chastened. Defeated. Extolled for his eloquence, Obama stuttered and stammered his way through the question-and-answer session. It appeared he was having an out-of-body experience.

Who knew that the greatest threat to his presidential campaign would come from the preacher who married him, baptized him and prayed with him? Barack Obama should have known. That's who. Take that judgment and shove it on a pretty campaign poster.

"Yes, we can"? Try "Yes, you should have."

For the past 24 hours, Obama's campaign too slowly grappled with how to handle the aftermath of Wright's whirlwind tour of hatred this weekend -- from Dallas, where he decried his "public crucifixion," to Detroit, where he entertained NAACP bigwigs with impersonations of white people, mockeries of classical music and "white" marching bands, and lectures on racial brain theories, to the National Press Club, where he preened, strutted and head-wagged his way through an hour of bitter black liberation theologizing.

At first, Obama downplayed Wright's public appearances. But Obama now tells us he had to wait 24 hours to convene a press conference to denounce Wright's National Press Club speech because he "hadn't seen it." After all this time on the campaign trail, we're back to the Obama-as-clueless-naif narrative again. When he finally did view the Washington speech, Obama explained, he was "shocked" and "outraged" and "saddened" because "the person I saw was not the person that I'd come to know over 20 years."

What a load of pure unadulterated horse manure. Anyone with eyes can see that Wright's performances are finely honed, time-tested acts. His anti-white, anti-American, "imperialist"-bashing shtick was not developed overnight or over the past few years. He's been peddling AIDS conspiracies for decades. He's been grievance-mongering about slavery for decades. He's been flirting with the Nation of Islam, which provided security for his speeches, for decades. He's been a shouting left-wing radical for decades.

Obama's best-selling "Audacity of Hope" is named after the first sermon of Wright's that he heard -- decades ago -- in which the pastor of racial resentment inveighed against an environment "where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere." Yet, only now has Obama concluded that Wright's sermons are "a bunch of rants that aren't grounded in truth."

Welcome to the Jive Talk Express.

A reader of mine who is a clergyman e-mailed after Obama's press conference: "As a pastor, I have this take: It is inconceivable that Obama had no knowledge of Wright's views after 20 years as a member of that church. As a pastor, my heart-held, deepest beliefs and passions cannot be silenced. It is what I am. If I were given a microphone at the National Press Club, I would not speak on something that I had guardedly kept secret for most of my life. No, I would go to my main point, the center of my ministry, the core of my passion, to speak truth as I know it to be. How can Obama actually claim that this is news from his pastor? His mailman, butcher or plumber? No problem. His pastor? No way!"

It's not Wright who has changed his loony tune.

It was just last year that Obama was telling the Chicago Tribune that Wright was his sounding board for truth: "What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics."

It was just this March, in his Philadelphia racial reconciliation speech, that Obama was urging us not to dismiss Wright as a "crank or a demagogue" and protesting that he could "no more disown him than I can disown the black community."

Now, realizing how gravely his self-serving association with Wright has wounded his campaign, Obama himself has attempted to do both those things -- and expects the American public to believe him when he weakly and belatedly asserts that "when I say I find [Wright's] statements appalling, I mean it."

As those of us with non-European brains might put it: You be trippin', Barry.

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