McCain + Palin = McFailing!!!! Go Obama!!

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama leads John McCain, 50% to 42% among registered voters in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday -- just one point shy of his strongest showing of the year.
These results, from Sept. 25-27, span the time period since John McCain made the announcement that he was temporarily suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to work for a bipartisan solution to the financial crisis, and since Congressional leaders first announced progress towards the resolution of a financial bailout bill. The results also include one complete day (Saturday) after the first presidential debate on Friday night. McCain had reached a point where he was tied with Obama earlier in the week, but Obama has gained steadily in each of the last three days' reports. Overall, Obama has gained four percentage points over the last three days, while McCain has lost four points, for an eight-point swing in the "gap" or margin.

Can I have a 'Balmy Mommy' Sundae Please?

Read the article below and tell me something. Should we all just move over, committ mass suicide or take mass flights to another planet so we do not offend PETA or other tree hugging idiots and (God forbid) harm any animal from a flea up to a whale? We should store breast milk, live in a bubble, and send any bodily excretions to outer space so as not to offend the greeness of our planet. Jeez!! Here's to my grandsons Josh and Sam. Papa will be happy to leave when his time comes for it will not be the meek that inherit the earth but a bunch of pseudo intellectual idiots!

"Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to begin using breast milk in its products instead of cow's milk, saying it would reduce the suffering of cows and calves and give ice cream lovers a healthier product."

Poor John...

Pitiful. More and more it is beginning to emerge before the public that John McCain often acts rashly from a sense of desperation. First Obama called him FIRST and suggested a joint statement and meeting on the economic crises, McCain said yes and then said he wanted to think about postponing the debates, Obama voiced his disagreement on that and said lets get together later and put out a joint statement on the crises. McCain agreed. McCain got off the phone, went on TV and made everyone think the joint statement and meeting was his idea. Once again he desperately is trying to get Americans to think of him as the leader in economics when there is a huge gap in confidence with the public as to whether he or Obama is more trustworthy to handle the current economic crises. Obama has a double digit lead in that area.. Obama made a statement later telling the public that he had called McCain but still wanted the debate. The news media (even Fox) seem to think McCain is a little desperate when it comes to getting his name in the forefront on the economy. Sarah Palin is also being knocked around (even by Fox) for dodging the media and her very very weak statement last night regarding the economic crises. At a photo op at the UN where Sarah invited the press in to see her pressing the flesh with foreign diplomats her staff ended the photo op with her staff basically saying to the reporters to shut up and get out this photo op is over. Keep it up John and Sarah, the public is beginning to see through your skillfully constructed façade of half truths and evasion. Didn't John McCain just last week say, "the economy is basically sound and in good shape"?

Are You Kidding Me!!???

Read the excerpt from an article on MSNBC below about the current Financial Crises. This little excerpt says it all. All of us watched as houses went up and up and up in price and I know we all new that something was wrong. First we knew our children, never mind us, could not afford a new home at the prices that were out there. A house goes from selling for $100,000 and then 5 years later sells for $200,000. Come on! Who's kidding who!

Years ago I worked in the mortgage business for Manufacturers Hanover Bank. We all knew to look out for crooked appraisers inflating prices. We also knew basic financially sound formulas as to how much of a persons budgeted income they could afford for housing. Basically what has happened is this. The "dinosaurs" of the banking business either retired or were forced out by up and coming marketers that came into the banking business in the 80's and took over and shaped an industry from financial guardians of wealth to marketing conglomerates with a, "give the public what they want" sales pitch. Well sometimes (many times really) the public doesn't know their proverbial ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to managing money. That's where the old "dinosaurs" of past banking business years were invaluable. They kept a rein on the public's blind thirst for material wealth without the means to pay for it and the banking industries hunger for more and more clients. A.R.M.'s, interest only loans, no money down and a slue of other creative financing were dreamed up by the ravenous young banking marketers who all too often were in direct collusion with Real Estate brokerages and their sales force.

So here we are and its all falling apart and the question looming over us is, "do we go ahead and bail out all these "slick willies" that led us down the garden path? Or, do we revert to what is right and fire there asses and let the you know what hit the fan?" It's a tough question. We are sort of damned if we do and damned if we don't. The whole economy could crash, millions could be out of work and out of their homes (that many of them should never have been sold in the first place) and as a nation we could become the carrion prey of the vultures waiting to descend upon the remaining skeleton of our economy like Arabia, France, Venezuela, O.P.E.C. and others. We could let these guys off the hook and bail them out but is that a solution or a deferral of the inevitable?

As for blame it really doesn't matter. It was the home buyers, the sellers and the financiers. Every single one of them knew that this wonderful deal they sat down and agreed upon with everyone's signature was truly an American dream and like a dream, we all have to wake up some time and then reality sets in. Yeah, reality bites, but it is what we have to deal with. I don't know what the answer is but I lean towards taking our lumps and leaving something closer to a promising future for my grand kids.

article below:
"What happened to all the money these lenders lost? Where did it go?In many ways, it never existed. As lenders kept pushing mortgages to people further down the income ladder, they added buying power — based on credit, not real income — pushed up home prices much faster than incomes. Mortgage brokers pressured appraisers to inflate home values. Those higher values forced new home buyers to stretch further to buy a home; lenders were happy to sell credit to shaky borrowers.
The scheme was based on the belief that rising home prices would let stretched home buyers cash out their new equity and refinance into a new loan before low "teaser rates" reset, trapping them into loans they couldn't afford. When home prices started falling two years ago, adjustable mortgages reset to their true cost, and homeowners began defaulting and losing their homes to foreclosure. Those homes are being dumped on the market at fire-sale prices, pushing home prices even lower."

And they didn't know this??! Are you kidding me??!!

It's 5 O'clock Somewhere...

It's 62 degrees, I'm 62 years old and kickin', Obama leads McCain 49% to 44%, he's ahead in the electoral college polls and it's 5 o'clock somewhere. Throw some eggs in the pan and get out the bacon, its going to be a great day! Coffee's up! Go Tigers!

This just bothers the heck out of me!

I was listening to one of the people who work for me yesterday and she announced to the rest of the crew at the warehouse, "you know Obama is a Muslim and is going to get sworn in on the Koran instead of the Bible." I just cannot believe that people are so freaking DUMB! That lie is so old yet it still sticks like glue to this day. God! How many freaking idiotic ignoramuses are there in this country? !@#$%^&*()!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well just another day in LaLaville.

Sarah Palin speaking to her unwed pregnant daughter, " now dear you know all you had to do was just say no." Her daughter replies, "yeah, right Mom, like that really worked for you didn't it?! 5 kids and counting."

Special Quizzes

This morning I got an email from a friend containing a link to "interesting Quiz". It had questions answered by Obama and McCain and you didn't know who said what so when you chose which opinion you liked best you didn't know whether Obama said it or McCain. I did the quiz and not surprisingly all my answers were from Obama but what really surprised me was how similar many of McCain's answers were to Obama's. I started checking these answers by McCain and found them to be mostly from statements he made when he ran against George Bush. What also surprised me was how different his statements are today.

It revealed something about John McCain that I find oh so typical of politicians of his era and type. They practice "situational ethics" and as the situation demands their statements regarding issues change to fit the situation most beneficial to their election or re-election. Their vision for America is non-existent because it changes as needed and when needed. On the other hand Obama has a clear vision for America that he wants to bring to the Whitehouse as President. It is one that serves the majority of American citizens and asks for those who are better off and have not been paying their fair share to ante up. It addresses the needs of the middle class worker and his family and provides for the issues that we deal with daily at our kitchen tables. It doesn't depend on the empty promise of corporate America that if we give them tax breaks our jobs and our wages will increase. They have not in the last 8 years. Why would anything be different now. While Exxon Oil made a 13.7 billion dollar profit last quarter we sit paying $4.00 a gallon for gas and worrying how bills will be paid. That's right, $13,700,000,000 profit in one quarter! It is time for a change and McCain is not the one who will bring you that change. He just made a high level Exxon lobbyist one of his staff members. What did he get for that appointment, an 8th home to go along with the 7 his rich wife already bought him?

Teetering on the Edge?

I said I wouldn't but I just can't resist this. If you have watched the news this morning you will know that two giants of Wall Street have crashed and crumbled into bankruptcy. Employees were seen walking out of the offices on Wall Street with boxes of belongings from their desks; their jobs gone and now unemployed. Lehman Brothers and Merril Lynch have fallen. Bank of America who already bought out the troubled Countrywide Mortgage Company has now absorbed Merril Lynch. Financiers are saying it is not over yet. There are real concerns about the huge insurance company AIG surviving.

None of us were alive in 1929 when the great depression began with the crash of Wall Street. This was after an 8 year rule of the Republican Party and the election of a new Republican president, Hoover. Well here we are folks. Eight years into a Republican presidency an election coming up and financial disaster looming. Good God, and McCain says on TV that he will never let this type of financial disaster happen, that he will clean up Wall Street. For God's sake man, it was you and your cronies that got us in this financial mess to begin with!

That's all I want to say. Vote whatever way you want, but think this through folks. Your children's future may depend upon it while politicians argue about foreign affairs, pigs with lipstick and whether Sarah Palin has been insulted.

When the storm is past...

I have decided to stop posting political arguments and outrage as it does nothing for me or anyone I might really care about than to inflame feelings and possibly cause ill feelings in someone I would rather not hurt. Politics are not what matters anyway. When all is said and done, it is only God, family and friends that matter. The rest like Hurricanes Hugo, Katrina and Ike will pass away and lives and homes will be healed and repaired. Every storm passes and so will this election no matter how we feel or who we want to win. Life will go on.

Its the Economy Stupid!

Read the article below and tell me you aren't sick of the profit gouging Oil Industry and with local suppliers who with plenty of reserve fuel in tanks around the Charleston area raise their prices immediately and before any refinery or oil rig has ever been damaged or shut down! But God forbid that they should immediately lower their prices when these "fears" turn out to be unfounded as they did with Hurricane Gustav. Gas prices have never gone back down since that day even though oil prices have fallen another $8 per barrel! Where is Bush? What are the Republicans doing now? They would rather argue about Sarah Palin and her questionable ethics than deal with, "its the economy stupid!"

CNN Article 09-10-08
Gasoline prices rose for the first time in 10 days as Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas coast, according to a nationwide survey of gas station credit card swipes.
The average price of regular unleaded gasoline rose 1.6 cents to $3.668 a gallon from $3.652 a day earlier, motorist group AAA said Wednesday. The last time gas prices rose was Aug. 31 as Hurricane Gustav forces workers to abandon offshore oil rigs ahead of that storm.
Forecasters are currently predicting Ike will hit Texas late Friday or early Saturday as a major Category 3 hurricane but the storm remains unpredictable.
Gas prices jumped 1.7 cents to $3.532 a gallon in Texas. Prices also popped higher in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida and the Carolinas. Nationwide, Alaska and Hawaii remained the two states with gas prices still tracking above $4 a gallon.
The cheapest gas continues to be found in New Jersey, where prices averaged $3.421 a gallon. Crude prices have trended lower amid heightened concern about weakening demand and in reaction to the slew of storms and hurricanes.
Oil prices continue to hover around their lowest level in five months. On Tuesday, crude futures for October delivery tumbled more than $3 a barrel to $103.26 -- their lowest close since April 1.
Early Wednesday, prices were little changed at $103.30 as nervous investors awaited the government's latest reading on oil and gas supplies and following OPEC's announced production cuts.
Meanwhile, gas remains about 11%, or 44 cents, below the record high average of $4.114 that AAA reported on July 17, but they are still 85 cents above this time last year.

John is Talking and Talking and Talking...

"My friends". How many times do I have to hear that hypocritical beginning to so many of McCain's speeches. Why do we have to listen to half truths, twisted truths and outright lies. Here is a link for a good site which examines statements of all candidates and is very revealing. Weighed side by side it appears Obama is telling the truth a lot more than McCain. Won't it be nice when it is November 4th and we all vote and whatever happens, happens?
Link - http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/


Attacker:

Truth-O-Meter says:
John McCain
"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them."
Obama cuts taxes for some, though
John McCain
"Senator Obama thinks we can achieve energy independence without more drilling and without more nuclear power."
Obama not keen on drilling; but not against nuclear power
John McCain
Obama is the Senate's "most liberal."
McCain ad misstates Obama's record
John McCain
When Sarah Palin was in government, Barack Obama was a community organizer.
Palin was a sports reporter when Obama was organizing
John McCain
"Obama says Iran is a 'tiny' country, 'doesn't pose a serious threat.'"
McCain ad repeats error
John McCain
Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent.
McCain’s math is not even close
John McCain
On Obama, “The press warns the ‘Taxman Cometh.’”
The distortions cometh
John McCain
Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."
For the most part, only if you're high-income
John McCain
Obama plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
Obama's tax plan hits $200,000 and up
John McCain
"First, he (Obama) opposed the surge. Then he confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge."
Obama tried to defund troops? Not exactly
John McCain
"Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000."
Obama voted for budget resolution, not taxes.
John McCain
Barack Obama promises higher taxes on "the sale of your home."
Only the wealthy make big profits.
John McCain
Obama "says he'll raise taxes on electricity."
No tax offered on electricity
John McCain
Barack Obama "is more to the left of the announced Socialist in the United States Senate."
If you look at one narrow source
John McCain
"He made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras."
Damned if you don't
John McCain
Obama "voted against funding our troops."
McCain cites one protest vote
John McCain
"Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan."
The campaign trail leaves little time for hearings
John McCain
Obama "hasn't been to Iraq in years."
True on the day the ad was released
John McCain
"Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump? O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"
Sure, and blame Obama for bad tomatoes, too
John McCain
Obama "voted for and even sponsored amendments that were intended to kill the (immigration overhaul) legislation."
Killing the bill, or making it better?
John McCain
Says Obama flip-flopped on warrantless wiretapping.
What a difference eight months makes
John McCain
"Barack Obama said he would debate 'anywhere, anytime' but has rejected joint town hall meetings."
Obama seems to have change of heart
John McCain
Barack Obama has "reversed" on his commitment "to begin withdrawing American troops from Iraq immediately."
Obama shifts emphasis on Iraq but not position
John McCain
"If you have an investment for your child’s education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes."
McCain's argument tangential at best
John McCain
"Throughout his time in elected office, Barack Obama has taken multiple positions on banning handguns and the D.C. handgun ban."
Obama consistently on the fence
John McCain
Says Obama opposes offshore drilling and a gas tax holiday.
James Bond-inspired ad is on target about drilling and gas taxes
John McCain
Says Obama opposes innovation, the electric car and "clean, safe, nuclear energy."
This 007 claim is out of ammo
John McCain
"I joined the Gang of 14, seven Republicans, seven Democrats, so that we wouldn’t blow up the United States Senate. Sen. Obama had the opportunity to join that group. He chose not to."
Obama not one of the Gang
John McCain
Obama "wants a windfall profits tax on oil to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas."
Yes, Obama wants to tax windfall profits
John McCain
"In just a few years in office, Sen. Obama has accumulated the most liberal voting record in the Senate."
Obama not No. 1 in other ratings
John McCain
Sen. Obama wants to "enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War."
Two wrongs don't make a right
John McCain
"Obama voted to support President Bush between 40 and 50 percent of the time over the past two years."
Obama and Bush found common ground
John McCain
"Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once."
McCain leads in Iraq trips 8-1
John McCain
"Sen. Obama has declared, and repeatedly reaffirmed his intention to meet the president of Iran without any preconditions."
He has said it again and again
John McCain
Iran "might not be a superpower, but the threat the government of Iran poses is anything but 'tiny,'" as Obama says.
McCain twists Obama's words
John McCain
"Obama himself voted against funding our nation's veterans and troops in the field during a time of war."
In protest, Obama voted against
John McCain
“They (Clinton and Obama) have never to my knowledge been involved in legislation nor hearings nor engagement on this issue (climate change).”
They have. Yours, in fact
John McCain
"It is just a fact that Hamas, apparently the North American spokesperson, is endorsing Senator Obama."
Praise, but not a formal endorsement
John McCain
Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."
McCain stretches on who gets hit
John McCain
Obama "has no experience or background at all in national security affairs."
Saying 'no experience' is no fair
John McCain
Obama "suggested bombing Pakistan."
A distortion of what Obama said
John McCain
"In her short time in the United States Senate, the senator from New York, Senator Clinton, got $500-million worth of pork barrel projects."
Clinton brought home even more bacon
John McCain
"(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."
One man’s fees are another’s taxes
John McCain
Mitt Romney wants "to set a date for withdrawal" from Iraq.
Romney won't mention a date
John McCain
"He told gay organizers in Massachusetts he would be a stronger advocate for special rights than even Ted Kennedy."
Pretty much yes, but it's not 'special'
John McCain
Romney left Massachusetts "with a $245-million debt because of the big government-mandated health care system."
More costly than expected, but no debt
John McCain
Mitt Romney previously believed "that abortion should be safe and legal in this country." Now he is "prolife."
Romney has changed his stand on abortion
John McCain
Romney used to favor gun control, and said he didn't want to go back to Reagan-Bush.
Romney used to support gun control
John McCain
Hillary Clinton wants to "wave the white flag of surrender and set a date for withdrawal."
A white flag has a literal meaning, too.
John McCain
"Mitt Romney says the next president doesn't need foreign policy experience."
Romney never said those words, but came close
John McCain
"He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."
This attack is spot-on
John McCain
"Senator Clinton tried to spend $1 million on the Woodstock Concert Museum."
Yes, Clinton played lead for Woodstock museum
John McCain
Sen. Clinton said “the surge of troops in Iraq was ‘working.’ Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge ‘has failed’ and that we should ‘begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.’”
McCain picks and chooses in attack on Clinton


Keep talking McCain, your half truths and lies are becoming more and more apparent while Obama is earning the respect of the nation as an honest dignified man who only wants the best for everyone, not just for a select upper income bracket.