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Something for Nothing

from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe Seeing through Obamanomics By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / September 14, 2008 Taxation is not generosity, it is confiscation at gunpoint. Does Obama not understand the difference? Perhaps he doesn’t. Eager though he

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Change on the Cheap

from Tax Prof Blog Perhaps the Obama-Biden campaign needs a new slogan: “Change You Can Believe In (As Long As Someone Else Pays For It)” Joe Biden today released ten years of his personal income tax returns, drawing further attention

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Obama’s Fatal Flaw

Excellent article in Asia Times’ Sep 3, 2008How Obama lost the election By Spengler excerpts “[Obama’s] recital of a long list of domestic promises could have been delivered byany Democratic nominee from Walter Mondale to John Kerry. There was no

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Obama as Jesus

Master blogger Erick Erickson smacks the “Obama as Jesus” analogy at his “Confessions of a Political Junkie”- exerpts Being a partisan, I want to win this election. And I think you lefties have come upon a winning strategy to help

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Who Are the Rich?

from The Wall Street Journal Online If You Like Michigan’s Economy, You’ll Love Obama’sBy PHIL GRAMM and MIKE SOLON September 13, 2008; Page A13 excerpt Mr. McCain will lower taxes. Mr. Obama will raise them, especially on small businesses. To

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Rhetoric and Reality

from National Review Online September 12, 2008 8:30 AMHow Team Obama Pays WomenPay equity for thee, but not for me.By Deroy Murdock excerpts ‘Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work,” Democratic

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Suicide Ads

Never try to kill someone who is busy committing suicide. First Obama alienates even more women with the “lipstick on a pig” remark. Then he alienates the seniors with the ads berating McCain’s IT skills. Does anyone in his campaign

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Withdrawal Odds

For the last few weeks Intrade has been trading a position that Sarah Palin would be withdraw as the VP candidate for Obama. They listed very low odds of about 6%. The “Palin To Withdraw” position is no longer posted

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The Smell of Blood

Perhaps the best explanation of why the Intrade betting spread does not completely confirm the McCain lead in the polls is because the betting people may be more focused on the electoral votes than the popular votes of the polls.

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When Does a Bad Idea Become Good?

Obama apparently admitted in shrouded and obfuscated language that raising taxes on the wealthy when the economy was possibly slipping into recession may not be wise. In a George Stephanopolis interview he hedged the wisdom of his previous tax policy.

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Running Away

On the drive to Indiana I heard a radio commentator state that a survey found that 8% of white voters will vote against Obama ONLY because he is black and 20% of black voters will vote for Obama ONLY because

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Life Imitates Politics

The Obamaniks blasted McCain for issuing an ad comparing Obama’s celebrity status to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Kudos to Paris for having some fun with the ad by posing in a bikini and delivering a cogent energy policy. The

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Obama and Unions

Less than 12% o the workforce are union members. Yet 25% of the Democrats at the convention were union members or married to union members. It is another way the Democrats are disconnected from the voters. Hillary’s speech made several

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Political Translations

Universal Healthcare means government controlled health care rationing. Rationing means that you do not get as much of something as you would like. Rationing means that some get more than they otherwise would and some would get less. Call it

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Which One Is the Candidate of Change?

Just thinking: Obama has selected a 32 year veteran from the Senate who could hardly place as a Democratic presidential candidate, who outdoes Obama on gaffes and has a bad history on foreign policy decisions and… McCain picks a young

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How Do They Keep a Straight Face?

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Adrianne Marsh, a spokeswoman for Obama, said in a written statement. HKO answers this moron: 1. Most

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Will the Change Message be Changed to Adapt to the Changes

When Obama’s campaign began it was about “change”. The mortgage market was collapsing, real estate was falling, the dollar was dropping like a rock, gas and food prices were soaring, and most of all the war was still a quagmire.

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Why Obama Admires China

From an Obama speech, speaking about China: “Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business you’re starting to think, “Beijing looks like a

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Houses of Cards

The attacks on McCain’s number of houses is foolish for three reasons: 1. No one really cares.2. It is a thin issue, easily forgotten the months before the election. It has no sticking power.3. It is an easy issue to

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Biden

Biden is far more qualified to be president than Obama, yet he is second on the ticket. This alone should speak volumes on how screwed up the nomination process is. If Biden had won the primary, I doubt that he

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