To their credit, some McCain supporters, including a McCain campaign spokesman, ran a couple out of their rally in Woodbridge, VA who were passing out bumper stickers implying that Obama is a “socialist with ties to radical Islam”:
Video removed because it auto-starts which is really annoying. See it here.
I wonder how many of these morons who claim Obama is a socialist even know what socialism is. The idiots in this video obviously don’t. They used the Communist hammer and sickle, clearly confused between communism and socialism.
Kiernan and Mike sent Havana and Hudson cool shirts.
Havana’s shirt:
Hudson’s shirt: (coming soon)
Her latest speech addition:
bq. “Just make sure people understand that we know what Joe the Plumber was talking about when he was confronting Barack Obama and saying, ‘Wait a minute, aren’t you going to take my money, take my earnings and give it to somebody else who maybe hadn’t worked as hard as I have worked?’”
So people who make less money than me don’t work as hard as me. Got it. Now I can tell the Republicans I know who make less money than me that they don’t work as hard as me. Slackers.
And she has taken to labeling some people “Pro-America” and “Anti-America”:
bq. Palin also made a point of mentioning that she loved to visit the “pro-America” areas of the country, of which North Carolina is one. No word on which states she views as unpatriotic.
Since she’s never spoken in Seattle, I can proudly say that I don’t live in Palin’s version of “America”.
One of my favorite political signs I’ve seen lately: “Hey Sarah, I can see the end of your career from my house!”
“Yeah, right…. he’s my dad… ohhhh… good one mommy!”
“Wait, are you serious?!?”
McCain’s did well in “last night’s debate”:http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/15/debate.transcript/index.html with his eloquence and calm demeanor:
bq. Now, we have allocated $750 billion. Let’s take 300 of that billion and go in and buy those home loan mortgages and negotiate with those people in their homes, 11 million homes or more, so that they can afford to pay the mortgage, stay in their home.
Good idea. All the people who can pay their mortgage obviously have enough money to pay the mortgages of others. It’s only fair.
bq. Now, I know the criticism of this.
Criticism? Who could criticize this?! Don’t listen to critics or those high-fallutin’ economists, John.
bq. Well, what about the citizen that stayed in their homes? That paid their mortgage payments? It doesn’t help that person in their home if the next door neighbor’s house is abandoned. And so we’ve got to reverse this. We ought to put the homeowners first. And I am disappointed that Secretary Paulson and others have not made that their first priority.
Yes, everyone should pay their neighbors’ mortgage because if they can’t afford their mortgage and have to move or abandon their house, I can’t sell my house. Ever. Any time you sell a house the first question potential buyers ask is “Has your neighbor ever lost their home?”. We can’t have that. It’s patriotic to pay the mortgages of others.
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The NY Times shows in pictures how much better Democrats are for the stock market than Republicans. If you invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 index during only Republican Presidents, your money would have grown to $11,733. If you ignore Herbert Hoover’s Presidency during the Great Depression, you’d have $51,211. If you had invested $10,000 during Democratic Presidents only, you’d have $300,671!
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McCain “announced his new plan”:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/us/politics/15mccain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin to save the economy (after he said he would and then said he wouldn’t). Obama announced his plan the day before. But let’s start with McCain because he’s always got some doosies:
bq. Mr. McCain said he would propose that people 59 years and older who withdraw money from IRAs or 401(k) retirement plans in 2009 and 2010 pay a tax rate of 10 per cent on the money rather than their higher normal tax rates.
People who are withdrawing their money from their IRAs are generally retired collecting only social security, which would put them in a low tax bracket anyway. So McCain proposes lowering their taxes to 10%. Okay, that’s fine, but it doesn’t help the economy and it helps senior citizens only. McCain’s obviously just after the Florida vote with this idea.
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After today’s biggest gain in stock market history, we’re all the way back to where we were _last Wednesday_! Only 35% off the peak of Oct 12, 2007.
I wonder if it has anything to do with Paul Krugman, one of my favorite economists, “winning the Nobel Prize for Economics”:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122389602110728309.html.
Bristol Palin’s baby dadda, Levi Johnston, “corrects the stories about him”:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_WASILLA_HEARTTHROB?SITE=CTDAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT:
bq. The baby is due Dec. 18. Johnston has dropped out of high school to take a job on the North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician.
Good idea! A high school education will only stand in your way of earning a good living to support your baby. Always think about today because tomorrow may never come. And what better place to learn to be an electrician than an oil field? Levi Johnston is a wise kid man. Stupid me, I learned to be a software developer at a software development company… I should have learned computer science at a textile mill.
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Havana reads to them over beers:
