• Barack Obama,  John McCain

    The Obama LEFT Goes After Joe the Plumber

    Joe the Plumber asks Barack Obama a question last Sunday

    Ed Morrissey has a SAD BUT TRUE piece up about lessons we should all learn about Joe The Plumber and today’s LEFT plus the LEFT-WING IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA media.

    • Thou shalt not offend The One by asking him a question.  Of any kind.
    • Anyone who questions The One will have to undergo a public pillorying of a kind unseen since the Red Scare, or perhaps the Inquisition.
    • The Tanning-Bed Media will happily participate in any inquisition, as long as it keeps them from investigating irrelevant issues like Obama’s ties to the Chicago Machine, William Ayers, ACORN, or his record on protecting infanticide.

    They examined, scrutinized, investigated every aspect of Joe Wurzelbacher’s life and then pilloried him with some of the same intense smears with which they hit Sarah Palin.

    And, for what?

    Asking Barack Obama a question in a random occurrence that OBAMA chose himself.

    Team Obama knows that their candidate looked like a Marxist, talked like a Marxist and well exposed himself as a redistributionist Marxist which Obama was closely hiding from the American voters. This is not the image the Democrats wish to project to persuadable independent and undecided voters who continue to believe in capitalism and the American Dream.

    So, SMEAR Joe the Plumber.

    Flap agrees with Ed – please folks on the LEFT keep this story in the news for at least another week. The bloom has come off the Obama rose and the more transparency the better – particularly for those nasty tax increases and redistributionist welfare checks coming to a mailbox near you.

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    Joe The Plumber – Now a New McCain Ad

    The Message of Joe the Plumber

    John McCain Channels Joe the Plumber in Latest Ad: Fight

    Barack Obama, Robin Hood and Joe the Plumber


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  • Barack Obama,  John McCain

    Joe The Plumber – Now a New McCain Ad

    Team McCain’s latest television ad: Joe The Plumber

    Joe the Plumber who burst onto the scene in last night’s debate is now the subject of Team McCain’s latest television ad.

    The Script:

    JOHN
    MCCAIN:
    I’m John McCain
    and I approve this message.

    ANNCR:
    Americans are
    catching…

    JOE
    WURZELBACHER:
    Your new tax
    plan is going to tax me more.

    BARACK
    OBAMA:
    It’s not that I
    want to punish your success. … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s
    good for everybody.

    ANNCR:
    Everybody?

    Leading papers
    call Obama’s taxes “welfare” … “government handouts”.

    Obama raises
    taxes on seniors, hard working families to give “welfare” to those who pay none.

    Just as you
    suspected, Obama’s not truthful on taxes.

    The left is going wild trying to smear good ol’ Joe. The New York Times complains that his question to Obama is flawed. WTF?

    Chances of a successful slime job because he dared question “The One?”

    Slim and none.

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    The Message of Joe the Plumber

    John McCain Channels Joe the Plumber in Latest Ad: Fight

    Barack Obama, Robin Hood and Joe the Plumber


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  • Barack Obama,  John McCain

    Gallup Poll: Presidential Race Continues to Tighten

    Barack Obama maintains a 6 point lead but is now under 50 %.

    gallup poll oct 16 2008

    But, among likely voters the gap is now 2 points:

    gallup poll likely voters oct 16 2008

    The race is definitley tightening and Team Obama realizes that their lead in New Hampshire was lost at the last moment to Hillary Clinton. Obama lost the New Hampshire race.

    Then, there is the Bradley effect. Most pundits have implied that less than double digit leads in the polls may spell trouble for Obama on election day.

    Stay tuned……..


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  • John Murtha

    Shocker: John Murtha APOLOGIZES for Calling Western Pennsylvania Voters RACIST

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    Democrat Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania Congressman has sort of apologized for his comments he made yesterday:

    Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

    The 17-term Democratic congressman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.”

    Murtha said it has taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to embracing a black presidential candidate, but that Obama should still win the state, though not in a runaway.

    In a separate interview posted Wednesday on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Web site, Murtha said Obama has a problem with voters’ racial attitudes in western Pennsylvania that could trim his winning margin on Nov. 4.

    The apology:

    In a statement released by his offices today, the long-serving
    Democratic lawmaker apologizes for making the comment yesterday to a
    Pittsburgh newspaper that West PA was a “racist area”, but not for the
    overall description of Western Pennsylvania.

    Statement from Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)

    “I apologize for making the comment that ‘Western Pennsylvania is a racist area.’


    “While we cannot deny that race is a factor in this election, I believe
    we’ve been able to look beyond race these past few months, and that
    voters today are concerned with the policy differences of our two
    candidates and their vision for the future of our great country.


    “Senator Obama has shown sound judgment and has presented us with a
    change from the failed policies of George Bush and John McCain. I
    believe he will win both Pennsylvania and the White House.”

    John Murtha’s time to retire is at hand. What an embarassment.


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  • Barack Obama,  Joe Biden

    Does Barack Obama Support New Coal Plants or NOT?

    When Flap first visited the coal plant issue in September, Joe Biden was caught saying NO new coal plants and Barack Obama saying yes, as Obama did in last night’s debate with John McCain.

    Here is the video of Joe Biden’s statement:

    Later it was discovered that Barack Obama repudiated Biden.

    Obama’s Department of Energy will enter into public private partnerships to develop five “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration technology.

    But, now there is this report from Bloomberg:

    Barack Obama will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated should he win the presidential election on Nov. 4, opening the way for new rules on greenhouse gas emissions.

    The Democratic senator from Illinois will tell the Environmental Protection Agency that it may use the 1990 Clean Air Act to set emissions limits on power plants and manufacturers, his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an interview. President George W. Bush declined to curb CO2 emissions under the law even after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the government may do so.

    If elected, Obama would be the first president to group emissions blamed for global warming into a category of pollutants that includes lead and carbon monoxide. Obama’s rival in the presidential race, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, has not said how he would treat CO2 under the act.

    Obama “would initiate those rulemakings,” Grumet said in an Oct. 6 interview in Boston. “He’s not going to insert political judgments to interrupt the recommendations of the scientific efforts.”

    Placing heat-trapping pollutants in the same category as ozone may lead to caps on power-plant emissions and force utilities to use the most expensive systems to curb pollution. The move may halt construction plans on as many as half of the 130 proposed new U.S. coal plants.

    So, is Barack Obama lying about his intentions regarding new coal plants or is he just blowing MORE smoke to fool the American voters?

    What say you, Barack?


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  • John McCain

    The Message of Joe the Plumber

    “Joe the Plumber” is Joe Wurzelbacher of Toledo, Ohio, his comments on the last Presidential debate.

    Will this be the “straight talk” message for John McCain that will propel him into the White house?

    And, isn’t it interesting that the LEFT is already setting out to smear Joe?

    Ben Smith adjusts an earlier report that indicated that Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher isn’t registered to vote – turns out Joe is his middle name and he’s in there as “Worzelbacher,” not “Wurzelbacher.”

    The “Joe the Plumber” message on taxes on small business is articulated by Joe in this ABC Good Morning America interview:

    ABC’s “Good Morning America”
    October 16, 2008

    ABC’s Diane Sawyer: “Well I just want to ask you now about the issue that was raised because it’s been a little confusing to me as I tried to sort it out here. To get straight here, you’re not taking home $250,000 now, am I right?”

    Joe Wurzelbacher: “No. No. Not even close.”

    Sawyer: “And you were you asking — about the prospect, the hope that someday you would make $250,000, and you were saying you didn’t want that to be taxed?”

    Wurzelbacher: “Well, exactly. Exactly. I mean not that I don’t want to be taxed. You have to be taxed. But to — just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that’s scary. You know as opposed to other people. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?”

    Sawyer: “Well if people making $250,000 should not be taxed additionally — by the way, it’s 3% from 36% to 39% under Senator Obama’s plan. If those people should not be taxed additionally, even though they’re in the top 5% of America, what about people who make $1 million? Or $5 million?”

    Wurzelbacher: “Well, I mean, quite honestly, why should they be penalized for being successful. I mean, that’s what you’re telling me. That’s what it sounds like you’re saying. That’s wrong. Because you’re successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It’s a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That’s a very socialist view and it’s incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well you know $150,000, you’re pretty rich too. Let’s go ahead and lower it again. You know it’s a slippery slope. When’s it going to stop?”

    WILL “Joe the Plumber” be the start of another John McCain comeback?

    Probably

    Mac has nine lives.


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  • Barack Obama,  John McCain

    John McCain Channels Joe the Plumber in Latest Ad: Fight

    John McCain’s latest television ad: Fight

    John McCain may have found his economic theme for the last three weeks of the campaign: Joe the Plumber (spreading the wealth around – Obama)

    The Script:

    The last eight years haven’t worked very well, have they? I’ll make the next four better. Your savings, your job and your financial security are under siege. Washington is making it worse – bankrupting us with their spending.

    Telling us paying higher taxes is “patriotic”?

    And saying we need to “spread the wealth around”?

    They refuse common sense solutions for energy independence. So every day we send billions to the Middle East.

    We need a new direction and I have a plan. Your savings. We’ll rebuild them. Your investments. They’ll grow again. Energy. We’ll drill here and we’ll create a renewable energy economy. Lower taxes and less spending will protect your job and create new ones.

    That’ll restore our country.

    Stand up with me, let’s fight for America.

    Team McCain, now, needs to pound Obama on his tax plan and the obvious redistributionist aspects of his economic policies.

    This ad is a start.


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  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin on Troopergate

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    Sarah Palin addresses “Troopergate” and more in this interview at New Hampshire’s WMUR. Video at the link.

    Doesn’t appear that Stephen Branchflower’s conclusion that she violated Alaska’s ethics law carries much weight with Palin.

    Looks like this matter will die a quiet death – like the rest of the various Palin smears and lies.

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  • Del.icio.us Links

    links for 2008-10-16

    • The California Teachers Association reported donating $1 million to oppose Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, on Tuesday.
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      And, who said they didn't want to teach gay marriage or homosexual lifestyle issues in the schools.
      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • The San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci caught up with first lady Maria Shriver to chat about her Women's Conference next week in Long Beach. Along the way she got Shriver, the daughter of a former presidential and vice presidential candidate, to talk about GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin:
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      Maria Shriver is the daughter of Sargeant Shriver who failed to win the Vice Presidency and the NEICE of President John Kennedy.
      A dyed in the wool Democrat why would Shriver say anything nice about Sarah Palin? And, her judgment? She married Arnold Schwarzeneger – bwahahahahaha
    • Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

      The 17-term Democratic congressman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site: "There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."

      Murtha said it has taken time for many Pennsylvania voters to come around to embracing a black presidential candidate, but that Obama should still win the state, though not in a runaway.
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      WTF?

    • Stephen Harper's Conservatives won a muscular minority mandate Tuesday night as Canadian voters entrusted the prime minister with the levers of government in tough economic times – but not a blank cheque.

      The outcome saw the Liberals sink to their lowest level of popular support since the election of 1867 – and surely means a third change of leadership in five years for what was long dubbed Canada's natural governing party.

      Aided by vote-splitting in Canada's most populous province, the Tories climbed to within a dozen seats of a majority. They did it without significantly boosting their share of the popular vote.

      The Conservatives won 143 seats, up from 124 in the last election, while the Liberals were down to 76 from 103. The NDP was up by eight seats to 37, and the Bloc Quebecois shed one seat to 50. Two Independents also won.

      In terms of vote share, the Conservatives got 38 per cent, the Liberals 26, the NDP 18, the Bloc 10, and the Greens 7.

    • On another issue, Murtha said he has cautioned Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, if elected, to avoid the same mistakes in Afghanistan that the Soviets made more than 20 years ago.

      "I told Obama's people, 'Don't get your feet too far in Afghanistan,'" Murtha said.

      Obama has said he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan.

      Murtha remembers visiting Afghanistan when small bands of Mujahideen were routing the better-equipped Soviet Army. They're professional soldiers, different from those fighting U.S. forces in Iraq, Murtha said. More troops won't be enough to stabilize the country, he said.

    • PREPARE for a new America: That's the message that the Rev. Jesse Jackson conveyed to participants in the first World Policy Forum, held at this French lakeside resort last week.

      He promised "fundamental changes" in US foreign policy – saying America must "heal wounds" it has caused to other nations, revive its alliances and apologize for the "arrogance of the Bush administration."

      The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.

      Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
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      But, American Jews will vote 80 plus per cent for Obama. So, say what?

    • John McCain is at odds with many of his top advisers over launching a renewed attack on Barack Obama's ties to his long-time pastor and mentor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, according to campaign sources.

      Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and several top campaign officials see a sharp attack on Wright as the best — and perhaps last — chance to rattle Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill. ) and force voters to rethink their support of him. But McCain continues to overrule them, fearing a Wright attack would smack of desperation and racism, the officials said.

      With McCain unlikely to budge, GOP officials are hoping groups outside of the campaign will finance an ad attack on Obama-Wright ties. It is unclear if any conservative group has the cash to bankroll a serious effort, however.
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      As Flap said before: McCain lacks the fire in his belly to win this race.

    • Gov. Sarah Palin met with a group of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former supporters Tuesday evening at a special fund-raising reception organized for them on behalf of the Republican ticket.

      The reception, which organizers said brought in more than $500,000, was part of an extended evening of fund-raising for Ms. Palin and Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign at the Grand Hyatt in New York that officials estimated raised more than $8 million.

    • On August 21st, 2008, the MV Iran Deyant, 44,458 dead weight bulk carrier was heading towards the Suez Canal. As it was passing the Horn of Africa, about 80 miles southeast of al-Makalla in Yemen, the ship was surrounded by speedboats filled with members of a gang of Somalian pirates who grab suitable commercial ships and hold them and their cargos and crews for ransom. The captain was defenseless against the 40 pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades blocking his passage. He had little choice other than to turn his ship over to them. What the pirates were not banking on, however, was that this was no ordinary ship.
      (tags: israel iran)
    • And while they have made it clear that they want Obama in the driver’s seat, congressional Democrats are providing the horsepower for a potential $300 billion economic stimulus bill that could be five times the size of the package approved by the House in September. They’re calling it an “economic recovery” plan instead of a stimulus, and would fill it with Democratic priorities ranging from an extension of unemployment benefits to infrastructure spending.

      Some aides are even floating trade-offs that might sweeten the pot for Senate Republicans and President Bush, including the Colombia free trade agreement, long seen as a possible lame-duck item.

      Whether Democrats actually intend to even introduce a stimulus bill before the next Congress and president take office is an open question. Even with a Democratic landslide in November, moving a new stimulus bill could be difficult given the Democrats’ narrow 51-49 edge in the Senate and Bush’s veto power.