I Knew Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Obama,
I knew Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was a friend of mine.
And you sir, are no Abraham Lincoln.
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Mr. Obama,
Chuckie Schumer and cohorts are out to force financial institutions who received bailout money to lend more money.
"While many voters may think they've voted for "change" in Mr. Obama, they also handed power to the oldest forces in the Old Democratic Party", the Democrats on Capitol Hill.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else."
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
""The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
Socialism and its government dictates toward behavior failed.
Reasons to vote against Barack Obama:
Statement from the president of the Ohio Coal Association:
The Pennsylvania GOP has released an ad about Obama's spiritual mentor and pastor for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright.
Obama thinks the role of government is to change your behavior. That may be the role of the state in places like Russia or China, but not in America.
Thomas Sowell notes that Obama's only qualifications are ego and mouth.
Obama keeps on changing his mind video about who exactly is going to get his promised "tax cut".
John Boehner, House Minority Leader, takes off on Obama's record of voting "present" 129 times in the Illinois legislature:
Barack Obama is now saying that anyone who opposes his socialistic tax policies is selfish.
Obama does draw crowds.
If elected, Obama will raise rates on just about every tax, along with enacting a slew of so-called "tax credits".
Re: Tape of Obama praising Rashid Khalidi at a dinner party.
The polls are all over the place, much like quantum mechanics.
The Obama website has "intentionally disabled all the basic credit-card-processing security checks and thereby enabled multiple contributions from donors with fake names".
How's this for a dinner party guest list?
"A number of European countries have a "wealth tax" in which people are required to annually pay a percentage of their net worth--on accumulated wealth that was of course already taxed at the time it was earned."
"After months of "hope," "change" and "I'm not George Bush," the truth has finally tumbled out: Barack Obama wants to redistribute America's wealth, raise taxes on those who create jobs, create vast new handout programs styled as "tax relief," and appoint judges who will radically redefine the relationship between American citizens and their government."
We've learned more about Senator Obama's real goals for our country over
the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years, and that only
because Joe the plumber asked him a question in Ohio. That's when Senator Obama revealed he wants to quote "spread the wealth
around."
Now, Joe didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house, and he
didn't ask to be famous. He certainly didn't ask for the political attacks on
him from the Obama campaign. Joe's dream is to own a small business that will
create jobs, and the attacks on him are an attack on small businesses all over
the country. Small businesses employ 84 percent of Americans, and we need to
support small businesses, not tax them.
After months of campaign trail eloquence, we've
finally learned what Senator Obama's economic goal is: to spread the
wealth. In a radio interview revealed this week, he said the same thing
-- that one of the quote, "tragedies" of the civil rights
movement is that it didn't bring about "redistributive change."
You see, Senator Obama believes in redistributing
wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He said
that even though lower taxes on investment help our economy, he favors higher taxes on investment for quote
"fairness." There's nothing "fair" about driving our
economy into the ground. We all suffer when that happens, and that is the
problem with Senator Obama's approach to our economy. He is
more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it ... in
redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create
wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans.
Senator Obama is running to be Redistributionist in Chief. I'm running to be
Commander in Chief. Senator Obama is running to spread the wealth. I'm running
to create more wealth. Senator Obama is running to punish the successful. I'm
running to make everyone successful.
Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First he said people making
less than 250,000 dollars would benefit from his plan, then this weekend he
announced in an ad that if you're a family making less than 200,000 dollars
you'll benefit -- but yesterday, right here in Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said
tax relief should only go to "middle class people -- people making under 150,000
dollars a year." It's interesting how their definition of rich has a way of
creeping down. At this rate, it won't be long before Senator Obama is right back
to his vote that Americans making just 42,000 dollars a year should get a tax
increase. We can't let that happen.
The Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of American endorsed Barack Obama in 1996.
WSJ.
Obama's vision of justice is the "redistribution of wealth".
Via Ed Morrissey:
Barack Obama has one goal as president: "redistribute the wealth", and all of his policy proposals are a means to that end.
Peggy Noonan notes in the Wall Street Journal that the presidential race isn't over yet, and wonders if Obama is decisive:
John McCain is right and Barack Obama is wrong.
Mr. Obama's tax-and-spend prescription will cause the economic fever to
spike, not recede.
Raising taxes on small businesses in the face of recession will deepen and
prolong the downturn.
On national security, America is close to a bilateral agreement with Iraq
that will continue sending U.S. troops home based on success -- the result of
the surge that Mr. McCain strongly advocated and Mr. Obama fiercely
opposed.
America's economy got into trouble when people didn't heed warning signs.
Three years ago, Mr. McCain called for stricter oversight of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac...Mr. Obama and congressional Democrats ignored these signs and
opposed reform.
Wanting to raise taxes -- anyone's taxes -- in a slowdown is a warning sign
of a misguided economic philosophy.
Mr. Obama's proposal to redistribute wealth is a warning of indifference or
hostility to enterprise.
Obama's health-care plan is a warning that government will have more, not
less, to say about your health care
Obama's dismissal of offshore drilling and opposition to nuclear power are
warning signs for an economy whose growth depends on affordable energy.
Mr. Obama's commitment to withdraw our troops from Iraq without regard to
conditions on the ground is a warning sign that Mr. Obama is dangerously
wrong-headed and ideological on national security.
The absence of a single significant instance in which Mr. Obama cooperated
in a bipartisan manner in the Senate is a warning sign.
So is his failure to dirty his hands by working hard on any major
legislative challenge since entering Congress.
And so is his refusal to break with his party or its interest groups on any
issue of substance.
John McCain in Florida:
Andrew Malcolm blogs in the LATimes:
Obama to supporters in Virginia yesterday:
"Facing criticism from John McCain that his tax plan constitutes "welfare," Barack Obama recently added a work requirement to one of his proposals."
The first version entitled, Big Donors Drive Obama's Money Edge, says the internet was not the only source of Obama's campaign donations.
"Interest among major party donors grew so fevered that the Democratic
Party created a separate committee to capture millions of additional dollars
from individuals who had already given Obama the most the law
allows..."
"The Committee for Change has quietly accepted millions more, in checks
ranging from $5,000 to $66,900, from celebrities, corporate titans, Native
American tribes and several of Obama's most ardent bundlers."
"longtime Obama patrons, are among a handful who have given across the
board: They raised more than $500,000 for Obama's campaign, they collectively
gave $18,500 directly to the campaign, they donated $57,000 to the Victory Fund,
and they sent $74,000 to the Committee for Change.
"By both raising the most
money and donating to every committee, they become double big players,"
"evidence of the pernicious return of big money to federal
campaigns....Much of Mr. Obama's money has arrived in small donations; in any
event, donors are limited to a maximum of $4,600 ($2,300 each for the primary
and general election). Mr. Obama's haul reflects the enormous enthusiasm his
campaign has generated".
McCain: “Sen. Biden referred to how Jack Kennedy was tested in the Cuban Missile Crisis. My friends, I had a little personal experience in that,” McCain said. “I was on board the USS Enterprise. I sat in the cockpit of a flight deck on the USS Enterprise off of Cuba. I had a target. My friends, do you know how close we came to nuclear war? America will not have a president who needs to be tested. I’ve been tested my friends.”
It is possible that we'll end up with a filibuster proof, 60 seat, liberal supermajority in the Senate.
"...Team Obama doesn’t want people perusing the massive numbers of donors with names like Qwerty Poiuy, Asdfgh Lkjh’;, and Zxcvb Mn09876 from the states of PO, ZX, and QW. So much for openness and transparency."
"The reason why Joe won is because he’s the only person to get a real answer out of Senator Obama about his plans for our country."
Joe Biden warned Americans to "gird your loins" because Obama will be tested by an international crisis during his first six months in office.
"Mark my words...It will not be six months before the world tests Barack
Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking...we're gonna have an
international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy...And
he's gonna need help...Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not
gonna be apparent that we're right."
"Just last night, Senator Biden guaranteed that if Senator Obama is
elected, we will have an international crisis to test America’s new President.
We don’t want a President who invites testing from the world at a time when our
economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two
wars.
What is more troubling is that Senator Biden told their campaign
donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it
wouldn't be apparent Senator Obama would have the right response.
Forget apparent. Senator Obama won’t have the right response, and
we know that because we’ve seen the wrong response from him over and over during
this campaign. He opposed the surge strategy that is bringing us victory in Iraq
and will bring us victory in Afghanistan. He said he would sit down
unconditionally with the world's worst dictators. When Russia invaded Georgia,
Sen. Obama said the invaded country should show restraint."
Joe Wurzelbacher aka Joe, The Plumber IS the game changer.
I, and millions of Americans like me, can identify with Joe, The Plumber.
McCain needs to hit Obama hard -- 'take it to him'.
"However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright."
"Conservatives yesterday ripped Obama after he was caught on video telling an Ohio plumber that he intends to take the profits of small-business owners and "spread the wealth around" to those with lesser incomes."
When Democrats gained control of Congress in 2006, "the faces of the party became House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)".
Obama says he will cut taxes for 95% of working families.
Barack Obama has a plan -- "spread the wealth around".
ACORN uses federal grants to commit voter registration fraud, and to elect liberals who will carry out ACORN's left wing agenda.