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Post Convention Situation
Well, it has been an interesting week since the close of the conventions. McCain and Obama are back to within the margin of error of each other by most polls. I think many of the pundits have it right, that Gov. Palin provided an energizing boost to the Republican Party, but, the race for the moderate and independent voter is between Senators Obama and McCain, not Sen. Biden and Gov. Palin. It looks to me like a squeaker election is shaping up.
I am much too new at this to try to guess who will win. But, I am old enough to know from what I read that the direction of the country will be noticeably different depending on who is elected president. On the issues of taxes, federal spending, and on what, and the size and shape of our military defense in government, Obama and McCain hold very different views. And their different views will result in different futures for our nation.
On the blogs, many young Republicans fear Obama would weaken our military and strategic defenses in the world in order to free up money for domestic programs like education, health care, and alternative energy investments. They think McCain would put our national defense first and foremost and if we have to tighten our belts some at home in order to remain safe in our homes, that is a price well worth paying.
Young Democrats fear McCain is so tied to the Bush policies and the military that he will create wars with Iran and others as means of getting them before they can get us. They also fear McCain is too dependent on corporations like the oil and gas and military industries and that McCain will let 10's of millions of Americans fall into poverty, lose their homes, and go without medical care in order to channel tax money into programs the corporations and military industries tell him to.
I think we should listen to what the candidates say and take them at their word, as to what they will focus on as their top priorities. It seems obvious to me, that both candidates are making promises to people in order to win their votes on so many issues that it would be nearly possible for either of them to keep their promises in 4 years in office. But, I also believe both candidates want to make good on those promises if they can.
So, the promises they make on their campaign speeches are important, and I think should be taken at face value in terms of what each candidate truly hopes for from their presidency for the American people. On a lot of issues, both candidates want the same thing. Both want better education, energy independence, to get bin Laden and the al-Queda network, and both now want to draw down our troops from Iraq. So, I think young Democrats and Republicans should spend their time focusing on their differences if they want to sway opinion of other young voters like themselves.
From what I can gather, here are some of the big differences between the candidates.
World military posture. Obama seems to want to move toward a shared responsibility between nations for securing the world against hostile aggression and terrorism. McCain seems to believe cooperation is necessary but, America's defense is too important to leave to other nation's abilities or political will. I have to side with McCain on this one. We need to spend whatever it takes to insure our nation's defense independently of what other nation's may or may not be willing to do.
Federal Spending. I have yet to hear Obama or even hear anyone reporting on Obama say that Obama will attempt to balance our budget as president. McCain has vowed to use the veto against Congress as often as it takes to get our country back on a sound financial footing. This is a no brainer for me.
Obama seems to believe that spending deficits may be needed to keep Americans from falling down the economic ladder. He wants government sponsored health care for all Americans, which would it seems to me, only make our national debt grow by leaps and bounds. McCain wants to lower the costs of health care but leave health care in the hands of the private health care providers and insurers. To me, it seems McCain's plan would strengthen our economy and create more tax revenues from a booming private sector health care industry, while Obama's plan would spend tax revenues while severely reducing the private sector economic activity and therefore tax revenues. Again, McCain's position makes more sense to me.
McCain says he wants to keep taxes low on business so they can better compete with overseas businesses who, because of lower labor costs, are putting American businesses out of business. Obama says he wants to allow taxes to increase on business which are very profitable, making them less competitive against foreign business. Easy decision for me.
Obama says he wants to invest tax dollars in alternative energy sources (more spending) and reduce our dependence upon fossil fuels. McCain says he wants to tap far more of our available energy resources without spending, by letting our own energy industry's lower taxes allow them to invest in the equipment and access to more of our own energy resources. The more our industry taps our own resources, the less we have to import from other nations.
If our economy were strong and our economic future bright, I would lean toward Obama on this issue because of environmental and possible global warming issues. But, our economy is hurting right now, and the growth of government spending is threatening our future. If our economy fails, then everything else in America fails to some extent including environmental protection. So, I again, I have to side with McCain on this issue.
This is all I have time for. There are other issues which McCain and Obama differ on according to their own words. I hope other young voters will take them at their word and consider what those differences will mean for them and our country's future. If they do, I am hopeful they will make the right decision on election day for our wonderful country.
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5:08 PM, 09 13 2008 | Permalink
What is of concern is the promises the are making that would be bad for America.
For example, McCain wants to keep taxes regressive. Yet, McCain's lame and dishonest mantra is to keep telling the lie that Obama is going to raise our taxes, which is totally false, unless you make over $250,000 per year.
Obama wants to tax corporations more. He fails to understand that corporate taxes are simply passed along to consumers as yet another hidden sales tax, and all sales taxes are regressive. Also, corporate taxes don't help make corporates more competitive in a global economy.
If either McCain or Obama really want to fix the severely perverted tax system, here's a very simple tax system that is fair and simple, and most Americans would support.
McCain wants to keep troops in Iraq, and I'm sure the Iraqis will be happy to let the U.S. continue to pay (in lives, blood, and money) to police their dysfunctional population.
Both Obama and McCain want another shamnesty like the shamnesty McCain voted for in 1986.
Both McCain and Obama choose to despicably pit American citizens and illegal aliens against each other for votes , profits from a steady influx of cheap labor to depress wages , and (supposedly) misplaced compassion, despite the burdens and dangers to American citizens.
McCain says he'll stop pork-barrel and waste. While McCain doesn't have a terrible record of inserting his own pork-barrel (aside from $1 Million for the brown tree snake in Guam), he's been in Congress for 26 years, and he has voted on a lot of other BILLs full of pork-barrel, subsidies, and corporate welfare. Therefore, it's difficult to take him very serious.
Obama on the other hand has voted on lots of pork-barrel. Here's an example of numerous earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored by Obama, who also gets a dismal pork-barrel grade of 10% for year 2007 (see page 8) and 18% lifetime pork-barrel grade at Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW.ORG).
Both Barack Obama and John McCain, with all other members of Congress, refuse to honor their oath of office to uphold the Constitution, by refusing to obey Article V, despite 607 (or more) Article V requests by all 50 states. And Barack Obama taught Constitutional Law too, so you'd think he'd know better, eh?
More about John McCain ...
More about Barack Obama ...
Whoever the next president is, the voters would be wise to not forget about the corrupt, incompetent, do-nothing Congress, which perpetuates these 10 abuses, which are resulting in the continued deterioration of these 17 economic conditions.
Otherwise, voters will suffer the consequences of their own bad voting habits. Already, many painful consequences are already on the way. Government won't become more responsible and accountable when voters repeatedly reward bad politicians with perpetual 85%-to-90% re-election rates.
Why should politicians pay any attention to voters when voters reward politicians for ignoring the voters. It's no wonder that politicians ignore illegal immigration, regressive and unfair taxation, inflation, usurious and dishonest monetary policies, welfare for the wealthy, government FOR-SALE, rampant borrowing and debt, unnecessary wars, etc., etc., etc.. It's no wonder the list of pressing problems grows dangerously in number and severity.
Perhaps enough voters will be less apathetic, complacent, and blindly partisan when enough of the voters are deep in debt , jobless , homeless , and hungry ?
At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect (and re-elect, and re-elect, and re-elect , . . . , at least until that finally becomes too painful).
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9:05 AM, 09 14 2008 | Permalink
LA Hanna,
The polls show to more things. Obama has received an 11% boost from Hillary supporters since the close of the Dems Convention. More independent women are polling for McCain than Obama. More independent men are polling for Obama.
Guess where the Obama and McCain will go with their campaign speeches from here.
The blogs are very good sources for what blogger activists are talking about. While that information is useful, and you have put it to good use in your article, polls is a very different thing. It always amazes me how voters can be so easily swayed by a one sentence blurb in an election when the issues are so complex and require essays at the very least to address.
When people make up their mind on a candidate, I may disagree with their choice, but, it is not for me to try to change their mind. I hope you stick to your guns on not voting for your incumbent representatives. The Congress is where the true source of so many of America's problems lie.
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10:52 AM, 09 14 2008 | Permalink
Haha, could you skew the results any more?
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the polls don't mean a thing. Anyone who's taken an advanced statistics class knows that these polls aren't run according to all the rules of statistics. THEY ONLY POLL LANDLINES!! Its the 21st century, the only people that use land lines are either old or stupid. You'll find very few 18-35 year olds having land lines. Does that mean we just cut them out of the poll altogether because their vote doesn't count???
Palin has given them a boost, and it will eventually slow the republicans down. She has new baggage every day comming out about her. Just yesterday, her campaign admitted she never went into Iraq, she just went to the border. And when she said she visited Ireland, her plane merely stopped there for refueling. If I counted all the places I've been including when the plane stops for refueling I probably would've traveled over 75% of the Earth, I should be VP! I have a great education, I've traveled everywhere, I can give a good speech WITHOUT reading off a teleprompter, I've run a budget higher than Palin's small town of Wasilla and I didn't leave it with a budget deficit. What's so different about her than me?
The mere fact that women will vote for McCain is incredible. I guess you don't like being equally paid for equal work. So if McCain is elected into office, none of you women can continue to complain about women being paid less in professional jobs than men. You will have deserved it. Same goes with Veterans and healthcare. You may not realize, but Bill Clinton was known for doing amazing things for women (no pun intended!) in terms of creating equality.
On to the issues:
"Many Republicans fear Obama would weaken our military and strategic defenses in the world in order to free up money for domestic programs like education, health care, and alternative energy investments."
Yea, who needs those. Let's all live like cavemen with bombs. That's a much more pleasant view. You need healthcare, screw you, here's a medical diagnostic dictionary, go find your problem and fix it yourself. Your education appears to be just fine! You don't need top notch education to compete. But Me thinks edumacation in Amerika is bad. Oh well. BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN!!!
Obviously McCain would rather spend my money on bombing rather than educating because he has a poor education! An Idiot will do what an Idiot thinks is best. The mere fact that in America you can be such a moron and run for high office is unbelievable. I know were the land of the free, anyone can do anything, blah blah blah. But he should not be lecturing me on education reform when he has no solid education himself.
"Obama seems to want to move toward a shared responsibility between nations for securing the world against hostile aggression and terrorism."
This is COMPLETELY TRUE! This is the most true statement I've read in your blog. America's standing is disgusting in the world right now. I just came from working on a case in London for 3 months. I can tell you first hand, America is disgusting over there. I remember a time when I would go over there and everyone would love us. Now I almost feel nervous to tell people I'm from America if they ask just because of what I think they'll judge me as. We fractured our relationship by doing the same dumb things McCain wants. Going into another war by not listening to the UN and doing everything ourselves. The UN ruled against us going into Iraq, yet we did it anyway. How in the hell do you think small rebel states are going to listen to the UN about nuclear arms when the biggest UN member is breaking the rules? I mean America's argument is like the parent saying "Cuz I said so" to the kids. It's awful excuse, and there is no basis for it. It makes the world a worse place. Believe it or not, but there are more and more people abroad feeling the world would be better WITHOUT America. You want to alienate these countries more? You must be nuts, or self centered, your choice. You go on and on about democrats taxing and spending. At least democrats pay back what they owe. I would imagine the military uses more money than just about any other government sector except maybe health care (if it were universal.) McCain wants to waste our resources by fighting individually rather than by pooling our resources with other countries so that we don't always have to take on the brunt of the expenses.
"Federal Spending. I have yet to hear Obama or even hear anyone reporting on Obama say that Obama will attempt to balance our budget as president. "
Umm, he's said it multiple times. END THE USELESS WAR IN IRAQ. $300 MILLION A DAY!
You don't have to cut the deficit in 1 year or 6 months by slashing every single government program that helps veterans, special needs children, the disable, and elderly. You can end the useless war, and save billions a month just on that. All independent agencies have said Obama's new taxes will generate 3 times as much tax revenue as McCains (look it up.) Couple that with the 10 billion a month saved on Iraq, subtract a little for excess troops in Afghanistan (the real war) and you will save plenty of money a month to start ridding the deficit. The deficit will take years to balance. People need to take a long term view. You can't expect that high of a deficit run up by a republican the last 8 years to be balanced in a year. Obama will return the budget to a stable amount just in time for another republican to ruin it again.
"McCain says he wants to keep taxes low on business so they can better compete with overseas businesses who, because of lower labor costs, are putting American businesses out of business. Obama says he wants to allow taxes to increase on business which are very profitable, making them less competitive against foreign business. Easy decision for me."
Obama has said he WILL keep taxes low on small businesses, while he will TRY to keep them low on large corporations. Clearly the Bush corporate tax cuts aren't working. More jobs were sent overseas from 2001-2008 then ever before, and he LOWERED corporate taxes. Corporations don't care, there going to keep sending jobs overseas where they are cheaper regardless of how low taxes are. Yes, they'll keep their headquarters here until taxes get too out of hand for them but they will continue to keep sending jobs to Indonesia, China and India until some regulation is put on it, or the governments of the three countries listed are pressed for harsher labor laws, like Obama says. That is the key, not lower taxes, because as we have seen, they do nothing.
On the alternative energy issue, some drilling is good, like McCain says (one of the few issues I'll agree on.) But McCain doesn't want to invest nearly enough in alternative energies that are non-nuclear. Nuclear energy is a catastrophe waiting to happen (see Chernobyl.) I personally don't care if gas goes up. When gas goes up, people will find ways to drive less, they will stop with this mindset that they can drive anytime they want anywhere they want. They will start to use their resources efficiently rather than wastefully like Americans have been the last 20 years. More importantly, as a consultant, I deal with data concerning these types of things all the time. When prices reach an unimaginable high, and consumers are pressed to not waste, that is when innovation is at its highest. When there is a sense of deprivation, innovation flourishes.Already your seeing some prototypes launched that go 300 miles per gallon. With more deprivation of driving, more innovative results will start to appear because the size of the market expands meaning the amount of possible profit expands, not to mention the glory of solving the issue. In times like these, we need investment for innovation to flourish. NASA didn't put a man on the moon during the Vietnam war for free. We need that same kind of innovation during the Iraq war but for alternative energy. JFK said in 1961 that we need to make it an American goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the 60's. Barack Obama said we need to find alternative fuels within the next 10 years (or something like that.) It's never a bad thing to set goals. All the best CEO's will tell you, the best goals are the ones that are set so high they seem impossible to reach.
It is necessary to spend money. We need a President and Congress that will spend our money intelligently ( more alternative fuel) rather than stupidly (war.)
Last point, I've always been so intrigued by the hordes of people that love war (the neocons.) I find it interesting that they are able to summon others to war but not themselves. Have you asked yourself lately, If I am so pro-war, Why aren't I enlisting to fight?
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David R. Remer replied to Viyer06 at: :
3:51 AM, 09 15 2008 | Permalink
Two items to be added. Palin raised taxes on Wasilla consumers enormously with sales tax increases. She borrowed from Peter to pay Paul. She cut taxes on property owners (those with assets) and raised taxes on all consumers (sales taxes) which included those without assets and very much poorer in many cases.
Palin's Democratic predecessor in Wasilla believed in raising taxes to pay for government improvements and not leaving a debt behind for the next generation of taxpayers and leaders to deal with. Palin on the other hand, borrowed 10's of millions and refused to to pay for her government authored improvements out of the pockets of those whose votes she needed to go on to become governor.
These two facts of Palin's history more than any other, explain why both McCain and the GOP find her a darling. Her record demonstrates her acute understanding of how to win elections and wield power while leaving the costs of winning and wielding power to voters who are not yet old enough or wise enough to vote against her.
The GOP legacy with every Republican since Reagan is a growth in debt. Democrats may be tax and spend, but taxing to pay as you go prevents debt from growing. With 53 Trillion dollars of debt facing our nation's future at this very moment, America cannot afford another 4 years of GOP legacy. McCain will raise the debt even further, that is how Republicans escape the wrath of spending by deferring it to those who don't yet pay for the debt. That is how Republicans win elections. That is how Republicans dupe the voting public time after time.
Yes, McCain will cut spending, but he will cut taxes as well. That does not lower our debt. And he knows better than anyone, that a Democratic Congress will mean that he will cut spending a little, and cut taxes a lot. And that equals deficits and growing our national debt. He will justify that growth in debt as all Republicans have justified it since Reagan, national security. Wake up folks, our debt is now our greatest threat to national security going forward.
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Walker Willingham Jr replied to Viyer06 at: :
10:52 AM, 09 16 2008 | Permalink
I have been wondering about the land line effect on polling. The better polls will weight responces based on age, gender, and other factors so that each category is represented in proportion to their expected turnout in the vote.
That leaves open the question whether there are differing political tendencies among those don't use land lines compared to those who do.
And I suspect the expected turnout is based on prior elections. Naturally the Obama camp is hoping that they have energized the younger vote in disproportionately larger numbers.
I also believe there may be a political difference between the type of voter who refuses to participate in polls compared to those who do - and that probably favors Republicans somewhat.
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12:04 PM, 09 14 2008 | Permalink
"I am much too new at this to try to guess who will win. But, I am old enough to know from what I read that the direction of the country will be noticeably different depending on who is elected president."
LA I'm not certain anyone old or new can predict who will win this election, but I will predict that should McCain win the presidency the direction of the country will stay pretty much as it is right now. IMHO McCains policies do not differ from those of the Bush administration enough to really cause any change in direction of this country. Borrow and spend Reaganomics has put us into a tailspin and more of the same wont bring us out. From someone older and wiser than both of us
"The significant problem we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."- Albert Einstein
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9:37 AM, 09 15 2008 | Permalink
It is very unlikely any of the candidates (Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin) will be good for America.
Sadly, our choices are:
(1) Much worse
(2) or, much, much worse
How did Americans get here, where they have such lousy choices?
Whose fault is that?
How will it ever get better?
The results of the next election and the next 4 years are very likely to gernerate more interest and motivation to question the logic of repeatedly rewarding the same corrupt incumbent politicians, over and over and over?
Whoever is president in 2012 is not likely to be re-elected, unless they actually make things better.
However, that is very unlikely, since the federal government and corrupt, FOR-SALE Congress is very likely to amplify, rather than reduce these 10 abuses of the past 30+ years, which are continuing the deterioration of these 17 economic conditions, which already, have never been worse ever and/or since the Great Depression.
The severely bloated federal government continues to grow to nightmare proportions, despite borrowing many hundreds of billions per year, creating several hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air, and a collapsing funny-money monetary system that is nothing more than an usurious, inflationary, uspide-down pyramid scheme.
And all the while, Congress gave itself a raise 9 times between the 10 years between 1997 and 2007, while giving themselves cu$hy perks and benefits, and while giving their big-money donors massive corporate welfare and welfare for the wealthy , subsidies , and pork-barrel.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
What too few voters understand is that the economy, like the doomed Titanic, can't turn on a dime.
There's a lot of pain and misery on the way.
There was Bear Stearns, IndyMac, and now Lehman Brothers, which vanished over the weekend.
Along with it may be about 20,000 jobs.
And it isn't over.
AIG and Merrilly Lynch may be next.
And here's the current Failed Bank List:
How did we get here?
Simple: Rampant greed and other manifestations of greed, government corruption, and too many voters that not allowed or ignored it, but repeatedly rewarded bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians for all of it with cu$hy re-election rates of 85%-to-90%.
Here's the situation (see picture).
Not too smart, eh?
Even a sheep would probably move out of the way when a pig is crappin' all over it.
But why move, when so many voters are happy to crap in their own nest.
However, how long can we crap in our own nest before the increasingly stressed bough it all rests upon finally collapses?
Wait and see.
When the $#!+ finally hits the fan, there will be a lot of outrage and finger pointing.
Unfortunately, it will be too late, and the majority of finger pointers mostly only have themselves to thank for it.
Perhaps enough voters will be less apathetic, complacent, and blindly partisan when enough of the voters are deep in debt , jobless , homeless , and hungry ?
At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect (and re-elect, and re-elect, and re-elect , . . . , at least until that finally becomes too painful).
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10:58 AM, 09 16 2008 | Permalink
d.a.n.
After 2004, whatever gives you such confidence?Reply to this comment
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3:41 PM, 09 16 2008 | Permalink
Good question.
Here is why. Because:
Basically, because pain and misery will grow, and most voters will probably hold the IN-PARTY responsible.
However, if enough voters haven't yet figured it out by 2012, then perhaps voters will catch on by 2016, or 2020 ?
But the longer it takes, the more pain and misery the voters will bring onto themselves.
But eventually, voters are likely to finally figure it out, because pain and misery is an effective motivator and educator.
And perhaps, if things get miserable enough, the unhappy voters may even repeat what most voters did in year 1933, when most unhappy ousted a whopping 206 members of Congress.
Of course, year 1933 was already more than 3 years into the Great Depression, so the apathetic and complacent voters were a little too slow to catch on (as usual).
History appears to be repeating itself (again).
And it make take longer (perhaps 2016, or 2020, or 2024)?
But eventually, the voters will eventually bring so much pain and misery onto themselves (by repeatedly rewarding bad politicians with perpetual re-election), the voters will most likely get so fed-up, the voters will finally choose to do one simple, common-sense, logical, no-brainer, and responsible thing:
Perhaps enough voters will be less apathetic, complacent, and blindly partisan when enough of the voters are deep in debt , jobless , homeless , and hungry ?
At any rate, the voters have the government that the voters elect (and re-elect, and re-elect, and re-elect , . . . , at least until that finally becomes too painful).
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CHill said at :
8:25 AM, 10 30 2008 | Permalink
This was posted in another blog and I thought it was important for everyone to read and know what is going on. We cannot just take a leap of faith in this years election. I was undecided for some time on what to do with my vote, I have been doing my own analization of these 2 candidates, and ignoring the pundits. The person who posted the following, this is something that would not in the least bit surprise me... this is a good example of how much of a game politics is and how very worried we all should be about it!
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McCain voters, ignore the polls!
Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow clinton supporters out.
I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over.
I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.
The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.
We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama”
We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.
We did this the whole primary and it worked.
Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.
This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.
Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.
People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad”
Thats the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.
We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter. Its worked, alough the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”
The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.
Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.
This is why nothing sticks.
The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.
There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.
Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.
There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.
The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as america, so I am now supporting John Mccain.
Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.
this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.
We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.
Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.
I will be quitting my post on nov 5th and my vote will be for John Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.
I wish you all well, and goodluck.
PS my name is not really sarah. but I am a female and I understand your plight
CHill | October 30, 2008 8:25 AM
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