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There is a fierce fight going on in the City of Dallas over a hotel.  This issue is very misleading though because most of the snail main brochures I have gotten on the issue are for the Vote Yes and they all claim its like some socialist type hotel.  The truth is that it will not be ran by the City of Dallas but by a private organization.  Omni Hotels, known for a hotel chain across the country will run the convention center hotel.
The group against the hotel makes the claim that the Mayor Tom Leppert is arrogant and that Dallas does not need a hotel connected to the convention center.  Well as someone that goes to conventions all the time I can assure you that YES we do need one connected if we intend on getting bigger conventions.

This is the time to build one because in a bad economy prices are cheaper to build new things and plan for the future. Also, in a bad economy companies will look to cities such as Dallas to have their conventions instead of Vegas.

Will this increase taxes to build this hotel? The claim on Leppert’s part is no it will help keep taxes down to draw in more revenue.  That is hard to predict though.  I am on the side of less government and less spending unless its needed.  I do think the better way to have this project done is to have the entire thing privately done.  Possibly get Omni hotels or Starwood hotels to invest in the project completely. If a hotel will not invest in the project completely then we can take on the project ourselves.

I downloaded a song the other day titled “there is a black man in the white house.”  I think that anyone white or black will be excited for this day in our lives.  For a black man to get past slavery and be the top job in American that is something else!  There is also a black woman in the White House.  Talk about a new day!

I watched the inauguration again on Fox News when they replayed it.  It was all pretty interesting to watch again.  The prayer from Warren I thought was OK but nothing that great.  He said the names of Obama’s kids very strangely.. But wished I could have been there sitting with Bill and Hill to watch the event.  I’m surprised Chelsea was not there she shows up everywhere.

The other bishop was on the Daily Show– here is the full show you have to watch a wendys commercial and fast forward to see it.

Just listened to some of Obama’s speech again and I love the part where he warns other countries about invading us and others by saying your people will judge you on what you build not what you break.. its great to not be thought of as a country that is a bully anymore but as a leader and set a good example.  Also like the part where he says we are starting out friends with every country and everyone if you unfist your hands.. (not word for word of course).

First of all, this is a blog for Progressive politics but in a way that we seek progression through less government but without cutting out government regulation such as the FDA.  The FCC that might be another story since its really done nothing but let XM and Sirius merge and that ended up bad for consumers. This blog is your Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow listeners who are open minded and want to know about Bush Gate, see Palin make a fool out of hersef, among other things.  We love to see change and see Hillary and Obama take back the country from 8 years of economical fallout including the devastating loss of lives and money in Iraq.

While I have mostly turned into a Libertarian because they share more values with me than the Democratic party there is just no way to vote big L each time. I found that mostly judges have more a chance of winning as libertarians than bigger political offices.  I am for less gvmt, less taxes, and a more fair tax system.  I want more privacy without all these post-911 “terrorist” privacy invasions.  That means less freedom for all Americans.

Then you have bloggers who tend to be on the side of the religious right who are just hardcore do not care what anything but what they think they have been told to do by the higher power.  These untaxed churches or organizations who will rather spend money on things such as Proposition 8 than give money to the homeless or help raped girls are what you call the religious right.

What do the true Conservatives have to say on issues?
Although I did happen to see this blog that spoke of some better, more traditional values here in America coming from a Republican or Conservative who is scared of where the nation is headed.  He looks in his brokerage account everyday and feel its Obama coming in office that is making things go the wrong direction.  He has strong opinions on Gold, Oil, and Politics… and you may want to add Sports into the mix of the blog over at goldoilpolitics.com.  If you are worried about paying higher taxes under an Obama administration or if you are worried that unions are the problem with GM and Ford then turn over to the blog and POST your comments.

If you find a political blog that gets peoples bloods flowing or is a blog with some good facts cited let us know.  We love to find newsworthy, funny, and resource blogs for politics and money online.  Nothing wrong with 5 or 6 more blogs in our RSS Reader.

The days of giving one race seniority over another in job interviews should be over now that Obama is elected president.  It would not only prove a good thing for the country to rid itself of affirmative action but it would no longer make people feel like they are a minority.  Everyone is basically a minority of something these days not just a white person who affirmative action seems to discriminate against.

We need to set the bar higher now for everyone since we have seen how far Obama can go.  It is time for affirmative action to be let go on the Federal and state level.  We see the change in Nebraska and should see it in other cities.

Do black people hate gays?  It seems the Mormons and the black churches were big against the proposition 8 in the California vote this year.  It makes me wonder if these bigot black people were against gay people like that?

They had to have their cake and eat it to to discriminate against gay people’s rights but be for black rights with their vote for Obama.  They should be ashamed of themselves for voting against gays rights such as Ellen Degeneres who got married to someone she is in love with.  How dare these black congregations go up against gays who have lived years with hate against them.  How dare these black congregations let these lies win over the facts when it comes to gay rights.  These misleading commercials about gays wanting to teach kids about gay marriage is junk.

I was happy about Obama being elected but saddened when I heard that Sally Kerns in Oklahoma City got re-elected after calling gays terrorists.  Proposition 8 passed in California against gay rights and gay marriage and Florida voted against gay marriage.  Their are so many people who just have a hate for someones rights other than their own.  Even though they pay the same taxes as you DO.  Shouldnt someone who pays the same f-ing taxes have the same rights??

Joe The Plumber View of the 2008 presidential election:

1 LIBERAL SOCIALIST VS AN AMERICAN. Well, here we are about to elect a president in the most important election in American history.
Obama has no resume for the economy, foreign policy, and has written papers on his stand to destroy free enterprise America; and backed it up with the most liberal voting record in American politics. America was built on free enterprise – Not redistribution of wealth.
McCain is an American hero with the credentials to get our American troops home, right the economy, and CHANGE government to a role of responsibility.

2 CHANGE. How on earth could Obama be about CHANGE? obama sleeps with the whole gang of biden, peloski, schummer, dodd, reid, hagel, franks, kuninich, krugman, bernie sanders, corzine, …. This is a gang of socialists that have consistently voted for bigger government and bigger taxes on individuals and corporations, fought free trade, ….
If you look at the numbers of government for the past 50 years (we won’t even talk about the forefathers creating America out of the need for being free of a bully government); -you will notice how government jobs, gov ownership, gov control, gov taxes on America keep going one direction –which is up. There is a point that higher taxes turn America into the obama castro doctrine. The obama castro doctrine is a redistribution of wealth to make America turn into a nation of poverty, a nation where gov controls and owns what is left of America that foreign countries don’t already own due to our dependency on foreign oil. As the leader of Venezuela just said: “squeal Yankee squeal!” The obama castro doctrine is a redistribution of wealth until American free market capitalism is destroyed; and everyone gets to enjoy poverty.
Ask obama if anything on his agenda is one iota different than peolski, schummer, biden, franks, reid, hagel, kuninich, krugman, bernie sanders, corzine, …? NO, you get the same old socialist agenda.
Ask obama how much is too much tax on an individual and how much is tax is too much tax on a corporation? 50% 60% 70%? There is one thing to be sure of: obama will destroy America with this march on more gov jobs, more taxes, more gov control, ….

3 THE RACE VOTE. Look, if a white guy was running for president who had a resume of being a community organizer, having a relationship with a terrorist 10 years ago (bill ayers is no friend of America today any more than several years ago), most liberal voting record in American politics, endorsed a preacher (rev jerimiah wright who has preached racial hate and a hate of America) for 20 years -until a poll showed obama would lose the election if he did not dump the guy, contributed $800,000 plus to the acorn voter fraud organization, took more money from fannie and freddie than anyone else in politics except dodd, lies about issue after issue as described in other paragraphs, flip flops on every issue the same day a poll shows he will lose the election if he does not CLAIM to have seen the light (one glaring example is offshore drilling –obama changed his mind the day the polls went 80% of America for offshore drilling), …
Well, The obvious answer is the socialist liberal media has convinced half of America that it’s ok to turn America into a one party system of socialists. America is a country of freedom; -and specifically freedom from gov ownership of everything. This freedom is why so many American soldiers gave their lives in past wars; and now the socialist liberal media is one vote from making that sacrifice for nothing.

4 SOCIALISTS? duhhh. Let’s finally call this bunch of socialists what they are: obama, peloski, schummer, dodd, reid, hagel, franks, biden, kuninich, krugman, bernie sanders, corzine, … are socialists. You can lie about being a democrat, republican, mayor, governor, part of media, …; but if everything you do points to making America a socialist country –then quit lying about it.
The definition of socialism as most Americans see it: Socialism is when government jobs, government taxing individuals, government ownership of corporations and business, -has grown too large and destroyed private enterprise capitalism. For the worthless in media –bill maher is a classic media antiAmerican jerk: America rose above all other countries to lead the world for the last 100 years because of individuals that enjoyed the opportunity of free market capitalism.
No one ever came to America for the American Dream to work for the government.

5 THE ECONOMY. Who caused the housing meltdown? you can usually follow the money: obama and biden top the list of receiving fannie and freddie money. We don’t need bigger government -The gov failed you. We need gov that takes responsibility for the job it is supposed to be doing. There was gov regulation in place for banks, wall street, housing, and so on –but the gov did not take responsibility for doing it’s job.
The solution is not to just make gov bigger and throw more tax dollars at it; -which is the obama biden peloski socialist approach to every issue. The solution is for McCain to be president; and make the government we have now take some responsibility. There was not one congressional hearing (an everyday occurrence the last 2 years of pointing fingers at the evil exxon and making all corporations out to be evil) –when all this socialist bunch needed was a mirror to see who caused the financial meltdown.
The financial crisis meltdown was partly because of investors seeing the light of an obama victory ending the ability of American business to compete globally. The ability of American free enterprise capitalism has been the envy of the world for 100 years; but you can just raise the corporate tax and the tax on individuals so much; -and you destroy American business.
If McCain was a lock to win this election: Wall Street would rally 3000 points in 1 day because McCain has stood for America first –instead of decisions based on lobbying, polls, socialism, republican party good and bad ideas, …. McCain has the real deal to energy independence with American oil and gas –which is the only path to reasonable alternative energy. McCain will fast-track getting nuclear energy on line –obama is lying on his flip-flop on nuclear, -no nuclear plant would be built under obama.
McCain is for all the right tools to right the economy immediately. The obama strategies are a disaster for American business. McCain wants free enterprise jobs. obama wants government jobs using your tax money.

The financial meltdown had a major cause in Fannie and Freddie – and who leads in receiving money from Fannie and Freddie = obama and dodd. Without Paulsen, one of the few real Americans in Washington – America would already be in the middle of a depression worse than 1930. Bernake and Paulsen can’t produce 1 barallel of crude oil to relieve the American economy from paying $700 billion to foreign countries for oil. Do not be fooled by a drop in oil price due to global recession –America will still be importing 70% of our crude oil.

schummer immediately saying the $750b bailout proposed by Paulsen would have to be made in several payments/voting/oversight from congress killed the bailout from having immediate success in restoring trust in the American economy. Sometimes voting for America is better than running off at the mouth.
schummer is the same guy that wanted to hold up selling US manufacturing goods to opec -unless opec lowers the price of crude oil. schummer is not real bright.

6 Iraq war. Interesting the dems are so superior acting about the Iraq war – the dems got us into Vietnam (JFK); and got most of the 50,000 American troops killed (Lyndon Johnson). So there you can see the history of how well the dems handled THEIR WAR. obama wanting to go blazing into Afanganistan and Pakistan chasing bin ladin is sheer dangerous ignorance with all of the consequences of American Soldiers getting killed and more billions of dollars being wrongly spent. McCain has the knowledge and will and understands the leaders of foreign countries several times more than obama and biden put together. Who would trust biden with foreign policy –too many past blunders. obama was against the surge -a recent clear cut showcase of his lack of foreign policy judgment.

7 Privatize Social Security. McCain favors privatizing Social Security in programs that allow younger workers to place a portion of their payroll taxes into personal accounts invested in the market. With the market down almost half (45%) in 2008; you would have to be a real dumberd to not want the option to invest in something besides the lie of social security. Social security ends up not being insurance as the obama peoloski dems lie to you –a portion is taxed as regular income depending on how much money you make. I can see the portion being taxed as regular income going up as the years go by –what do you think?

8 TAX YOUR DIVIDEND. obama keeps lying/or at least a moving target: on where the number is -that is supposed to be the floor for not taxing you! First there was no number –then the number to get the most votes came out =$250,000; and now $200,000 comes out as the low number before your long-term capital-gains and dividends go up from 15% to 20% if you are an individual. Families would have a $250k cutoff before capital gains and dividends tax go up to 20%.
McCain calls for maintaining the 15% top tax rate on dividends and long-term capital gains. This is good for investing in American business. You decide if this would not be a good time to invest in American business.

9 ESTATE TAX, or DEATH TAX. obama will freeze the 2009 estate tax with taxes as high as 45%.
McCain has proposed a 15% estate tax for the rich; with zero taxes for estates under $5 million. Your estate is what you worked all of your life for –why on earth would you vote obama biden peloski franks schummer to make you give 45% of it up to the government?

9 It’s $200,000 now, but don’t blink. obama keeps changing the $250,000 figure as to who gets taxed the most. Obama is now claiming individuals making more than $200,000 will run into higher tax brackets.
And look out for all of the obama 1-time cash-for-a-vote scams. This is not lowering your taxes –just a shell game of buying votes.
McCain has proposed taxing seniors that pull money out of an IRA and 401-k a maximum of 10%. This is an excellent way to help those on fixed income at the same time giving the economy a stimulus.

10 crash of ’08. obama intends to raise corporate tax –this would be a total disaster to any chance of the US economy not going into bankruptcy. The stock market recognizes obama is a leftist liberal socialist causing the crash of ’08. Once obama got a 10 point lead to win the election; -American investors see there is no way that American business can prosper. American investors see obama as a lose-lose situation (taxes, anti-drilling, anti-nuclear). In simple terms: American business cannot compete in a global economy with the obama dem much higher corporate tax than the rest of the world.

11 The impact of a windfall tax on oil and gas would drastically cut and postpone development of American oil and gas. This ignorance of the obama dems will result in a shortage of energy and raise the price of energy for all Americans. The Heart of American business is the cost of energy,
The Heart of inflation in America is the cost of energy,
The Heart of Americans staying in their homes is having jobs; -not obama peloski biden stimulus checks. The obama dem gore lies on energy will kill American business –as all American business depends on oil and gas to power that business. You can’t tax foreign oil, -you can only make a 70% dependency on foreign energy worse by electing obama.

12 obama sleeps with unions. unions stand for isolationism, -a one party socialist dem leftist liberal system, -destroying any global ability to compete by American business, -killing the one savior of the middle class and poor = WalMart. WalMart setting the gold bar: For example no-one did $4 prescription drugs until Walmart did –this includes this obama peloski franks schummer bunch that want to come between you and seeing a doctor. Walmart did not wait for a handout from the gov; -WalMart just did what was right for America.

13 One of the greatest Americans in history is Boone Pickens, wanting to put up his money to front 20% of American energy needs with wind generation. The Boone Pickens plan is dead with a windfall tax –or any other additional tax on oil and gas. obama plans to build bridges to nowhere; instead of investing in the electric grid of the US to handle the power requirements of transporting the wind energy to populated areas. American natural gas is proven to help the environment and cut American consumption –obama windfall taxes on oil and gas will kill the idea of using natural gas for vehicles on a national scale.

14 Nuclear Power is dead with an obama peloski government. obama has lied about nuclear plants – obama would not build nuclear plants. This kind of shell game lying is obama typical: Finally saying he is for nuclear during the debate; -but as McCain pointed out –obama will never allow nuclear until disposal of nuclear to his satisfaction is attained. We have plenty of time to decide the way to dispose of nuclear –America does not have plenty of time to get off of foreign oil before America is bankrupt and/or owned by foreign countries. McCain plans to fast-track nuclear plants to assure that America has some chance to get off our dependency on foreign oil.

15 change. obama does not stand for change –someone please ask obama if he has the same socialistic democratic ideology as schummer, dodd, hillary, peloski, reid, hagel, franks, biden, kuninich, krugman, …? Folks, that is NOT CHANGE!!

16 At the heart of the financial crisis was gov regulation/oversight of banks, housing, wall street, -you name it. The obama dems choose to not make regulators and others in charge of oversight (such as congress) responsible. Instead, obama chooses to throw more gov regulation, more gov oversight, and more tax dollars at the problem. The failure of regulation/oversight was/is the problem. We do not need more regulation/oversight –we need to make those people responsible. Failed regulation and oversight should not be rewarded with bigger and more money the obama way –failed regulation should be fixed by making the regulators responsible.

17 WHO WILL REGULATE AND GIVE OVERSIGHT TO THE OBAMA SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT? This dem congress has held finger pointing hearings every day for 2 years now –the problem is in the mirror. Can someone not ask obama peloski schummer who is going to regulate and give oversight to the government -as the bigger gov crowds out American free enterprise forever? But many are voting for obama as they trust a bigger socialist gov to handle their tax money and save America from the evil exxon and all other corporations. Fast Track Oil and gas development is fundamental to any energy policy that will move America to energy independence and prosperity.

18 USE IT OR LOSE IT. obama peloski schummer franks ignorance on energy in regard to oil and gas leases: the obama statement of use it or lose it is wrong. A smart US energy policy would give oil & gas the right on a fast track to spend the billions required to actually find out how much oil and gas that we have; and eventually get reasonable production numbers to enable oil and gas to develop the best leases for production and the environment. This is addressed in an article by Max Schulz: National Review
19 One day, the lies of obama schummer poliski will complete the bankruptcy of America -while all the time promising that the dream of solar panels is better for you than the reality of fossil and nuclear. 65% of all homes in America heat with natural gas; –there is no alternate energy going to fix that issue. Alternative energy subsidy and tax credits for the last 40 years have not made even a 1% dent in American energy use –over 90% of American energy is fossil fuel plus nuclear. Alternative energy development is a top priority; but America cannot be in quicksand any longer waiting on a magic dream. The obama biden poloski schummer dream of ethanol is a clear example of obama peloski schummer buying votes. The price of non-subsidized gasoline without ethanol is almost the same price as corn ethanol gasoline; -and without the food inflation, poor gas mileage, poor performance, and engine problems.

20 Dependence on foreign oil is skating on thin ice with your job, retirement, and family in the balance. I guess Jim Cramer has a hidden agenda to support obama after having Pickens, McClendon, Jim Hackett, John Peterson, and many others on his show. Boone Pickens has been on cnbc many times with more straight talk in 1 minute than you will get in a lifetime from the leftist antiAmerican gang. Maybe Cramer is just one of many that hate Bush for the Iraq war so much they would vote for the bankruptcy of America under obama -who would give you 4 more years of peloski, franks, biden, kuninich, schummer, hillary, reid, hagel, etc. Of course, Cramer/politicians/media can’t see crude oil going up in tandem with any gains in the US economy –so Cramer is forever telling America there is no danger of inflation. Crude oil price will go down with a recession going on; but this is only temporary & the percent of crude oil that America is dependent on does not change. Crude oil price going down with the recession will assure the world of crude oil shortages in 2009. And even with crude oil prices down, if any 1 of the house of cards holding all of the crude oil resources of the world should fail –the US would see massive job layoffs.

21 What does the gov mean when they say “national health care”? One of the biggest lies of obama peloski schummer dodd franks … is health care. medicare does not pay for health care for dental, hearing, or eyes. So if seeing, eating, or being deaf does not matter to you – then you are on track with the basics of national health care. If you want the red tape fine print of the gov bureaucracy between you and your doctor, or any health procedure –then you are on track for national health care. National Health care means you pay healthcare for folks that kill, rape, steal, smokers, alcoholics, drug addicts and sellers, folks that never worked an honest job in their life, …

22 National free health is a lie just based on simple math: Technology comes up with new and better procedures/medicines every day that costs 10x as much as yesterday. There are not enough machines, doctors, hospital beds, nurses, medicine and treatment companies, … -to take care of the population that the US has now. To make laws for national health care will assure you of the government blocking you from getting health care. The upside would be less people from foreign countries coming to the US to get medical care they could not get in their countries that have national health care.

23 Any national health care will have a co-pay and deductible that will go up every year; -and every payment will be based on your income – all part of the obama peolski wealth re-distribution (welfare plan).

24 To pass a law to outlaw smoking in the US except in your residence -would have the impact of saving 400,000 American lives/year and $600 billion dollars each year in America. Those numbers will be disputed to some extent by special interest tobacco; but special interest tobacco is lying. Social security and medicare benefits could be extended 20 years if America bans all smoking.

25 The dems like to throw out spending $10 million/month for Iraq –how many times do they tell you the US pays out $60 million/month for crude oil (6 times the cost of the Iraq war)?! obama’s energy plan will kill any chance the US had of getting off of American dependence on foreign crude oil. The windfall tax on oil and gas will only kill production and exploration. There would be no nuclear plants under obama. obama may even make coal plants impossible. Not building coal and/or making carbon caps unreasonable could easily raise the price of electricity to about double in 3 years; -and would cause severe blackouts and businesses to fail.

26 Fix medicare and social security without cutting benefits: Why does media not ask obama peloski schummer what they intend to do about the smoking deaths and cascading problem of smoking related health care in the US!?
Health Care Fix?! Eliminate smoking in the US; and give social security and medicare and health care costs a break of 500 billion dollars annually.
Why not eliminate smoking in the US? Smoking costs America 400,000 lives every year, 30% of all hospital beds, $500 billion dollars/year health and job costs, millions in forest fires caused by smoking, …. Why does the non-smoker have to pick up this tab in the form of health care costs and insurance? How about media asking a politician the question: Is sleeping with the tobacco lobby bigger than the truth and what is best for America?!

27 Taking public funding to spend on the presidential campaign as agreed to with John McCain. No, obama chose to go for the much larger monies ($750 million) that have been handed obama along with monies of the past 20 years -that assure obama is not about change –but keeping promises to those who have paid his way. Following the money shows obama will move America to bankruptcy with a 1-way path of socialism, unions, a total lie on health care for all, higher taxes for Americans and business, … Part of the promises include the obama biden peloski schummer guarantee of elimination of the secret ballot for voting on unions.

28 obama giving out checks for votes. Since 40% of Americans do not pay tax; -how can they be getting a tax cut? obama peloski biden are the kings of buying votes and welfare.

29 “Free Choice Act” is a lie even in it’s title. The idea of removing the right of a secret ballot from companies is probably even unconstitutional. The obama dems and their partners of big union would immediately pass the “free choice act” to unionize all American business. If you take away the secret ballot – you let unions know who is voting against union; and here the union comes into your life twisting your arm to vote the union in. A secret ballot prevents the union from strong-arming the employees.
The life-long prize for obama dems unions is to unionize WalMart; because the dems are going nuts jealous of the largest and best retailer in the world being centered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
WalMart has done more for health costs than the gov ever will. And who will turn WalMart into a GM? obama, peloski, schummer, dodd, hillary, reid, hagel, franks, biden, kuninich, krugman, bernie sanders, corzine, … The gang of antiAmerican socialists will unionize WalMart removing WalMart as the gold bar standard to shop for food, health care, and other essential stuff.
WalMart lowering prescription drugs to $4 in many cases did more for health care than anything the gov has done in the last 20 years. All drug chains had to follow the lead of WalMart -helping all of America.
WalMart should be a part of any energy bill by providing natural gas re-fueling.

30 A vote for obama is a vote to lock in a one party socialist leftist liberal system that will bankrupt America. The liberal media has convinced many Americans that leftist socialism big gov control and ownership will be good for America since exxon and corporations are evil; unions have the big lobbying group and control of democrats –so the bigger the unions get –the bigger the automatic vote for democrats become. Although, the recent job losses by so many union jobs such as American car companies could alter that in this vote. But then again, the dems are already kicking around using YOUR tax dollars to prop up GM and Chrysler and Ford with a blank check until the union heath benefits are paid off and the domestic auto makers produce a car everyone wants.
Then you have gov jobs (the circle continues). Government personnel are pretty much a lock for democrats since you generally have to belong to a union to work for the government; and the stronger unions get -the more power unions get to socialize and bankrupt America with policies like being against free trade. America could have received a 15% reduction in gasoline prices and even more in food prices by killing the Brazil ethanol tariff and using Brazil sugar ethanol instead of the disaster of corn ethanol. poloski preventing a vote on the Columbia trade agreement proves her to be an anti-American once again putting getting votes ahead of what is good for America. Being friendly to and emphasizing trade with the countries that are friendly to the US has been a stellar trademark of the Bush administration; -so I understand anti-American press like peloski using political power to block a vote on the Columbia bill for POLITICAL SHOW. poloski represents the worst of American politics – the obsession with ego and power being more important than America.
Thus, the debates don’t even matter anymore, the bias of voting is decided too often without any regard to the issue. Equal rights is not the priority it should be. All 3 presidential debates had McCain kicking obama all over the field on almost every issue –like 80 to 20. Yet the liberal media ran obama as coming out even; or maybe even winning.

31 obama dems media lie about the failure of Bush policies for the last 8 years: The fact is the first 6 years under Bush had unemployment under 5% and a solid positive gnp -in spite of the huge impacts of 9-11; having to spend billions for Homeland Security; devastating hurricanes and flooding; the Iraq Pakistan Afghanistan conflicts; …. A big part of the financial meltdown in ’07 and ’08 was the doubling of crude oil and natural gas prices – which the dems have caused by years of lying and mis-information. And now all of the obama dem liberal media are lined up like dominos to cause American oil and gas to cut back production assuring the complete opposite of America becoming dependent on foreign oil and gas.

32 Alternate Energy has zero chance under obama. Both obama and McCain claim to develop alt energy. Alternate energy has been subsidized for 40 years with negligible impact on US energy consumption. CONSUMPTION is more likely to be addressed by McCain because obama is too locked in by unions to kill the gas guzzler and legislate electric and natural gas vehicles. The natural gas vehicle is proven and in use for commercial vehicles in areas that care about reducing emissions. Folks, the obama dems can’t develop alternate energy by definition: To have electric vehicles requires the electric industry to build more coal and nuclear plants –there is no alternative energy solution except in the lies of al gore/media/obama dems. obama has the shell game lie on nuclear –obama will never build nuclear. McCain will fast-track enough nuclear construction to get the US off of foreign oil. Natural gas vehicles require opening up all areas for oil and gas to explore; and then develop the best areas for environment and production. Everything that comes out of the mouth of obama peloski biden schummer dems is to tax the evil oil and gas companies.

33 CONSUMPTION must be addressed. Paragraph 32 explains why obama dems cannot handle reducing consumption. The necessary fast track for a real energy policy is to reduce consumption with natural gas vehicles; which is American clean energy. The Boone Pickens plan on wind energy and natural gas is the real deal; but requires a McCain presidency to have a chance to work.

34 Questions the media is not bright enough to ask obama biden peloski schummer:

35 Billions spent by obama dems on corn ethanol subsidy, -when Brazil sugar ethanol without the obama dem tariff would lower gasoline prices by about 15% -without the food inflation.

36 obama peloski will add taxes for American oil & gas – assuring the $700 billion paid to foreign countries for crude oil will only get worse.

37 A link to some of the facts obama has done a good job hiding:
suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/902213,CST-NWS-ayers18.article

38 time to decide if you want the whole gov bureaucracy of red tape between you and your doctor -or a medical treatment; time to decide if you want leaders that want American oil and gas -or if you want to keep importing at $700 billion every year; time to decide if you want a qualified leader for president; -or an unqualified community organizer with a hidden resume; time to decide if you want American natural gas to be there when you need to heat your home (65% of American homes are heated with natural gas); –or maybe you think obama is going to put enough tax money in solar panels to heat your house and power American business.

39 The peloski stimulus packages do nothing for what America needs, -which is jobs. The jobs obama is talking about are jobs created by the government building bridges to nowhere does nothing for the economy. McCain wanting job creation to build 50 nuclear plants gives our kids a hope for energy independence in the future. McCain’s plan is not a 1-time cash for a vote plan. The McCain plan would assure your kids will have a future today and 20 years from today.

40 Social Security and Medicare. Trust the government for benefits?
The folks over 65 have found that social security payments are taxed as regular income with certain limits depending on income. The maximum amount of social security PRESENTLY that can be taxed as regular income is 85%.
medicare premiums are bracketed to go up depending on your income.

41 medicare health premiums. If you take money out of your IRA for health expenditure –the following year you will be thrown into a higher medicare premium payment every month for medicare health insurance. So you are taxed 2 ways when you take money out of a retirement account: regular income plus having to pay a higher medicare premium for health insurance.
By the way, medicare does not cover hearing, seeing, or dental. I guess vision or being deaf or being able to eat -is not too important to the senior citizen.
Here is a link to the PRESENT medicare income brackets (these brackets will move lower as time goes by): medicare.gov/Publications

42 Health care for everyone. obama biden peloski lie about their health care plan for everyone.
Since medicare does not pay hearing, dental, or vision –just what is important to the government?
There are not enough doctors, hospital beds, equipment to support everyone getting some form of heath care. And again, what is this national health care? How much will the co-pay be? How much will the deductible be? And will the co-pay and deductible go up every year?]]
Do the drug users, criminals, con-artists, jerks, bums, etc -get the same insurance as the guy working all his life and having to pay 5 or 6 times more for heath insurance – or higher taxes -to support the health care for the bums?! obama biden peloski schummer say health insurance is a right of every American.
Some procedures, specialty doctors (all doctors are specialty doctors), the better space age equipment, … cost more than others –so who makes the decision about who will live, or gets the $100,000 procedure, …. If there are only 100 doctors or machines that can save lives –and a backlog of 4 months before you can get in to see this doctor or get this medical treatment –than what was the goal of health care for all? The better medical treatment costs are going higher in a direct line with exponentially rising costs, -there is no gov that can support health insurance for all –unless the heath insurance is so weak it is worthless.
If any of you have worked for the gov, or dealt with the gov, or filled out a claim for disability, or asked social security a question, -than you may want to re-think your voting for obama for president -as you may well get that gov red-tape, fine-print, completely ignorant person on the phone after waiting for 2 hours, -in between you and getting cancer treatment and dying. If you want the gov in between finding out what your medical costs will be and getting treatment; -than by all means vote for obama gang of socialists.

43 Back up the Talk. obama is saying jobs for America. Yes, using your tax dollars to build bridges to nowhere. McCain is for jobs in fossil fuel, nuclear, and alternative fuels that provide energy -so American business can be competitive in a global economy.
61% of oil the U.S. will have to import by 2030, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, up from 60 percent in 2006 and 36 percent in 1980! 6% of energy use is currently supplied by renewable sources, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, which expects the figure to increase by two percent by 2030. eia.doe.gov/oiaf/forecasting.html
Total onshore Federal lands throughout the U.S. are estimated to contain 31 billion barrels of oil.” However, the Bureau of Land Management estimates that 62 percent of oil is on federal (taxpayer) land and is off limits as a result.
Even more disturbing, BLM believes that just 8 percent of onshore federal oil and 10 percent of on-shore federal natural gas is “accessible under standard lease terms.”
The Minerals Management Service estimates oil and gas resources in undiscovered fields on the Outer Continental Shelf total 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of gas. Yet, by Executive Order and annual Congressional bans attached to appropriations, the majority of these fields are off limits. Of the 1.76 billion Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) acres, only an estimated 43 million acres are leased.
According to the Congressional Research Service, oil shale in the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming possess an estimated 1.8 trillion barrels of oil. Nationwide, estimates for total oil reserves from oil shale are as high as 6 trillion barrels. However, Democrats used the Omnibus Appropriations Bill of 2008 to restrict access to all oil shale on federal lands. This precludes exploration and production for 80% of all available oil shale in America.]]
Link to some real truths about the future of America:
canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4129
Nature polluting beaches and ocean wildlife:
soscalifornia.org/problem.html
In Delhi, India, all public vehicles (buses, scooters, taxis, etc.) are required by law to run on CNG. Well over 20% of private automobiles also use CNG as fuel too due to its cost advantage.
When we use CNG for transportation, almost 100% of the energy in it becomes available for transportation, instead of only 25% using natural gas generated electricity. We have adequate domestic resources (if we start now) to meet the increased demand for natural gas to switch over to CNG as fuel for vehicles, which will help to reduce our crude oil imports significantly.
20080612 obama peloski biden schummer dems voting against elimination of the imported ethanol tax -which would save Americans about 50cents/gallon at the pump. Dems put getting a vote ahead of the environment -and the future of America. This selling out of America for votes on corn ethanol caused food inflation that is hurting all Americans; and could have been avoided by importing Brazil sugar ethanol.
Only 1.6% of the world’s oil and natural gas reserves are controlled by U.S. energy companies (the total amount of reserves managed by all investor-owned companies is just six percent). The point is American oil and gas (including Exxon) do not have pricing power of oil and gas. This is a global competitive market. When unemployment passes 7% in the US in 2009, peloski obama schummer biden franks will still be holding hearings making grandstanding speeches and blaming oil and gas for the problem.
20081016 To put Chris Dodd in charge of a congressional hearing on the housing problem is like putting the godfather in charge of a mafia investigation.
Good energy links: energytomorrow.org/energy_issues/index.html

http://energytomorrow.org/oil_gas_101/index.html

44 Iraq war suggestion. Iraq is number 3 in oil resources.
middleeast.about.com/od/oilenergy/a/me080207d.htm
Iraq should agree to pay all medical and veteran benefits for any US soldier that served in Iraq.
Keep the US out of places that are not strategic to the US. The US should never be involved if we cannot win; and the outcome make the US stronger in a peaceful world.

45 More bad judgment by obama peloski. Any additional tax on American oil and gas companies assures the bankruptcy of America. You can’t tax what you don’t have –most oil reserves are not in the US. Any tax on US companies just places the US oil and gas at more disadvantage to foreign oil companies who don’t have to go to Nigeria and get shot at -to get crude oil. The ONLY way to control American destiny is by developing all American oil and gas.
The obama peloski biden schummer dems say don’t drill Alaska or off Florida should be sent for a month to parts of the swamp looking wasteland of Alaska with such brutal conditions that almost nothing could survive life there. When china or russia has a major spill off of Alaska or Florida; -do you think they will show the spirit and billions to clean up the spill that an American company would?
Trusting russia and china to take care of the environment and have some responsibility is the deal obama gives you. Instead, unlock American oil and gas to help America by lowering energy costs and creating jobs.

46 Nuclear Plants. Dems have prevented the building of nuclear plants for the last 40 years. Nuclear plants could have got America away from being at the mercy of foreign oil + could have allowed the use of electric cars + could have provided the low cost energy necessary to maintain jobs in America and competing globally. Here is some history on Jimmy Carter killing one of the best solutions to gaining energy independence:
Fast Breeder Reactors
truthaboutenergy.com/Fast%20Breeder.htm
Read about the reason we need the Fast Breeder Reactor plant, why we don’t have it, and how Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton egregiously stopped all progress on the Fast Breeder projects in the US. Russia is serious about developing the fast breeder reactor.
Through the process of breeding fissionable nuclear fuel, Fast Breeder Reactor plants can produce unlimited amounts of fissionable fuel for the production of energy as long as mankind will ever be on this earth. The nuclear reactors are less evasive to the environment than either renewables or fossil fuel systems. Present conventional reactors only consume about 1% of the fuel, or perhaps 2% after upgrading. The “Integral Fast Reactor” (IFR) would consume most of the fuel, and therefore stretch the available Uranium to 300,000 quads. Even with vastly expanded world consumption we could have had an unlimited nuclear fuel due to the Fast Breeder.

47 Good link on a real American. A noble peace prize should have gone to Pickens; and then for the first time in years –there would be some credibility to this farce. The next time you read the democrat misinformation parade about the bad oil and gas folks, you might consider some truth at seekingalpha.com

48 Florida. Typical of all of America, Florida depends on natural gas to turn on the lights, air conditioning, Here is just an example for those that think obama magic solar panels will replace natural gas for electricity: “Florida Gas extends shipper alert due to heat. NEW YORK, May 8, 2008 (Reuters) – Florida Gas Transmission on Thursday issued its latest in a recent string of warnings to natural gas shippers on its pipeline system as hot weather forecast for the state was expected to boost demand. The company issued an overage alert at 25 percent tolerance, meaning shippers must stay within 25 percent of scheduled volumes in order to maintain system integrity, the company said in a website posting. Alerts, also called critical days, require natural gas shippers to adhere carefully to scheduled quantities. An overage alert signals that taking excess quantities offline would be harmful.
Florida Gas regularly issues shipper alerts as temperatures in the state vary extremely from normal, boosting gas and power demand as customers crank up air conditioners in spring and summer and heaters in the winter.
The 5,000-mile Florida Gas Transmission system runs from southern Texas to southern Florida, with a mainline capacity of 2.3 billion cubic feet per day. The line is owned by Citrus Corp, which is owned by Southern Union Co’s (SUG) Panhandle Energy and El Paso Corp (EP).

One presidential candidate wants to develop American natural gas; the other wants to tax the companies that supply natural gas. This is really not that hard a choice.

Take Care,
Joe

Sent to us from a concerned Republican who wanted to have their viewpoint on our progressive blog.  We do not necessarily share the views of people who send us emails or post on our blog.  We post this to give everyone their viewpoint.

Here is how I voted in early voting today in Collin County.  This is in the Dallas, TX area. They ran out of “I Voted Today” stickers so I did not get to show off to anyone that I helped shape this election.

This is the year of the Democrats even in Texas.  Four years ago you would never see any Democrat signs in my neighborhood and this year you see more Obama/Biden signs in the yards than you see McCain/Palin.  I should have ran for some of these Republican seats though because there are still many District Judge’s and even the Constable were Republican with no one running against them.  WHY is no one running against these people??

This is the year to turn some heads in politics.  See some new faces and get some new ideas in local and national government.  We need to see change in the national government back towards the Constitution with regards to things like privacy and change away from the Bush Administration.

The local governments need change too.  Years and years of Republican rule in Texas is too long they need to turn some heads now and then.  My property taxes are outrageous and the repubs certainly have done nothing to make them lower in Collin County.  I think all my property tax money goes to pay for damn traffic ticket cameras instead of things we need.  I also think if you do not have kids going to school you should damn well not be paying as much in taxes.

Election day tip:  Do not vote straight party because in some cases if you are wanting to vote against Republicans.  In some cases I noticed there are Libertarians or other parties running instead of Democrats.  So there would be a Libertarian running against a Republican.  If you choose the straight party voting then you would help the Republican agenda and they would win for that Judge or seat that was up for grabs.

“Straight voting” is a Trick that you should not fall for!
What is a  Libertarian?  They are for smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom.  More civil rights!! They are not liberal though but are progressive in ways.  Libertarians want citizens to have more sexual freedoms, freedom of speech, more freedom in spending without all the hassles of high taxes.  I like everything they stand for the but gun limits they want to reduce.  But you have to think that criminals who want guns will get them no matter what in the black market so gun control really doesn’t work too much.
Here is how I voted this election:

President/VP

Barack Obama/Joe Biden DEM

United States Senator

Richard J. Rick Noriega DEM

US Rep District 3

Tom Daley DEM (Some people may think that says Tom Delay–OUCH!)

Railroad Commissioner

Mark Thompson DEM

Chief Justice Supreme Court

Jim Jordan DEM

Justice Supreme Court Place 7

Sam Houston DEM (That’s a great name to have)

Justice Supreme Court Place 8

Linda Reyna Yanez DEM

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals Place 3

Susan Strawn DEM

Judge Court of Criminal Appeals Place 4

J.R. Molina DEM

State Representative District 67

Jeffrey Joyner LIB (there was no DEM running and I am grateful to vote LIB)

County Tax Assessor

Randy Kohn LIB

Most everything else was District Judges which were Republicans and no one running against them.  Why even bother to put them on the ballot unless they are trying to brag.

I hope the election results on November 4th will reflect the way I voted.  I will be tuning in to see election coverage all day November 4th on MSNBC and NBC.

So we should print more money to make the Bush Admin look better?  Is that what we should do?? This is pretty insane this entire mess that Bush got us into.  This naked short selling not being regulated.  His administration has done everything it can to bring this into a socialized nation and anyone who defends him or even believes his admin should have their brains checked out at the very least for insanity.

The companies involved need to fall including all banks and mortgage companies involved.  The people who got us in this mess need to be fined and have all their positions taken away.  We should not be bailing out the families and/or the companies that lied to get us into this mess…. You can bet there were many taking advantage of the system.  I agree with the President of France on the fact that people need to be brought to justice over this but how can they when we do not even bring Bush and his cronies to justice over Iraq and the rest of the nations problems.

How about this.  In times like this you MUST come to terms and some people need to pay for their mistakes.   CEO’s need to loose their jobs, companies deserve to go bankrupt, and some foreclosures were meant to be if they were unacceptable in the first place.   But… How about we accept the plan.  Even though they are using the same fear tactics as 9-11 and it all seems like a re-run of printing more American Dollars that are not even worth anything now because after all we are a board game right?

So here’s my compromise
Let’s accept the plan only if we get rid of Bush and Cheney and get Nancy Pelosi as President.  Congress and the House need to stand up to this Administration.  They need to quit being pigs waiting to be slaughtered and stand up for themselves and impeach these shady CEO’s of America.  Fire Paulson, Cox all of them. If were going to War War War and Print Print Print then lets do it the right way.

Other nations would stop laughing at the US and start taking us serious and maybe give us the loans that we need.  No more dumb and dumber running this country.

Someone left this on a blog I read often:

I am so tired of hearing everyone blaming the corporations and not the people who are in foreclosure.Think about it. These people were able to buy new homes at 100% financing. But they didn’t stop there, no, they went and bought brand new appliances, furniture, cars, all on credit,and the minute they got a tiny bit of equity built up, they refinanced their house to pay it all off. Which actually made sense at the time. But then they did it again, they used their house as a credit card. And once again, they were bailed out by refi’ing their house. And then,wait for it, they did it again! Except the 3rd and 4th time around they couldn’t be bailed out with a new mortgage. They already owed too much on their house. So they go late on their mortgage, credit cards, car payments etc, the interest rates get out of hand, they can’t catch up and now that’s our problem? I don’t think so. You rarely see someone in foreclosure that has equity and didn’t use their house as a credit card. EVERYONE needs to take responsibly for the state the country is in, especially the individual. So yeah, let’s not back the banks and see how fast we go into a depression. Good thinking general public.

I used to love politics but this election just makes me sad. So many lies especially from the republicans who just make the truth an illusion of their own. I have not donated to the Obama campaign because I wanted Hillary but I will vote for him this fall. McCain is a hero of this nation but he has turned into a monster from what I have seen with Palin and their talking points stretching the truth. IMO, Palin is the scariest threat to America since Osama Bin Laden. She has already taken advantage of her power in Alaska and who knows what else she will do. She seems like an extreme evangelical.

Hillary did a great interview on GMA. I am sure Obama will be smart enough to put Hillary somewhere as a cabinet member and he would ask for Bill/Hills advice before making any decisions. =)

I also just love Joe Biden. I watched every single debate early in this process including the republican debates. I loved watching Biden and Clinton in the Dem debates. I would rather have a Hillary/Biden ticket but I guess I will take what I can get in this election. I guess it does not matter anyway because if its anything like the one with Gore/Bush and Kerry/Bush then its all going to be given to the R side anyway out of … fraudulent voting machines and votes that do not count. lol.

Four more years of this Karl Rove mentality is just not good. And they may not be Bush directly but they are Karl Rove all over again.  And when I see headlines like this “Palin’s advisers are veterans of Bush White House, campaign”  I mean come on are American voters going to be so dumb as to vote for Bush and Karl Rove another 4 or 8 years.
This is what I sent to someone who is an ex-Hillary supporter online:

Have you been seeing all the lies that the Palin-McCain campaign has put out? I know you were a Hillary supporter like me but how could you vote for someone who lies, lies, and bullies. Its a vote more years of cronyism we have dealt with the Bush years. I know I cant change your mind it seems made up but think about it. I do not want higher taxes I make well over 200k but I am not voting for the Karl Rove camp. I know Hillary would not want that either.

Ex-Hillary (Now McCain/Palin Supporter) Reply:

I have declared my independence from both political parties. Ideologically, I consider myself left of the middle, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for the Democratic candidate. I know that Mr. Obama is a very inspiring individual and he deserves to be commended for that, but I’m looking for more than platitudes in a presidential candidate. John McCain has a proven track record of reaching across the aisle and getting significant, bipartisan legislation passed (i.e. BCRA). He’s gone against his own party and has always put his country before politics, and I admire that about him. He stood up for the surge in Iraq even when it wasn’t popular and to his credit, the surge has worked. I don’t agree with war, but I agree with McCain when he says that he wants to bring the troops home with valor and honor. Our troops know they have a mission to accomplish, whether you agree or disagree with that mission is another subject, and I know that our men and women in uniform want victory. I do agree with Mr. Obama and believe that we need a new strategy in Iraq and we need to focus more of our attention on Afghanistan. When it comes to national security though, I trust McCain more as commander in chief since he has served his country proudly in the military and has more experience in that department. This argument that the Democrats keep making about how McCain is a third Bush term is not going to work. Poll after poll shows that a majority of Americans, Republicans and Democrats and independents alike, do not believe that McCain and Bush are alike. As for your argument about cronyism, both parties are corrupt. It’s not just the Republicans, but Democrats have their black sheep as well (the Mayor of Detroit, that congressman from Louisiana who got caught with money in his freezer or something, John Edwards). They both have their bad apples.

Furthermore, I am just hesitant about having Obama as our president. My candidate, Hillary, made the case during the primaries that Obama is not experienced or ready to be president. She proved during the course of her campaign why she was ready, and although she has fully come out in support of Obama, she has yet to say that he is ready and experienced. If she hasn’t said it by now, she’s either not going to say it or if she does say it, we know that she won’t mean it. There is just too much on the line during this election, and although ideologically I disagree on most of McCain’s politics, I think he has the experience, insight, and wisdom to be a better leader and president. As his wonderful running mate Gov. Sarah Palin said in her vice presidential acceptance speech, “Some candidates use change to promote their careers, but other candidates use their careers to promote change.” (Or something like that). Instead of demonizing each other because we belong to a different party or have a different ideology, as Americans we need to come together and reach common ground on every issue from health care and education to the economy and taxes. The American people demand and deserve a government that works for them, not against them. In my opinion, John McCain will be the kind of president who we can depend on, in good times and in bad times.

You know this is a popularly contested race for the White House when you have politicians using celebrities to make their own points.  When Senator John McCain (Arizona) used Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in his latest commercial it started a buzz like no other.  Paris Hilton has since made her own video to retaliate against the old-white-haired-wrinkly man that we know as McCain.

My favorite part about this video with Paris Hilton is that she actually came up with a better solution than the Republicans have came up with when it comes to solving our dependency on foreign oil.  Basically, she came up with Obama’s suggestion or somewhat close to the idea.  Here is the video.