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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Talking Points Judo
Here are a few answers to some hot Republican Talking Points you may hear at the water cooler. Feel free to print this out and carry it around.
RTP: Obama is inexperienced.
A: Bullsh*t.
Top of his class at Harvard Law.
Twelve years as a Constitutional Law Professor.
Eight years as a State Senator (bonus: sponsored 700+ pieces of legislation).
As a US Senator, was directly involved in legislation on loose nukes, ethics/lobbying reform (including those pesky earmarks), immigration reform,
...and built a kick-ass grass-roots 50-state organization that beat the Clintons.
RTP: Obama is an elitist/out of touch
A: McCain can't remember how many houses he owns
...and he wore $500 loafers to a grocery store photo op
...and he thinks Americans won't pick lettuce for $50 an hour
...and that "middle class" means you make less than $5 million a year.
RTP: Obama will raise our taxes.
A: Really? You must make over $250k to bring that up - because if you make less than $250k, he actually gives you MORE of a break than McSame. And if you are pulling in over a quarter mill, you still get a rebate, just a smaller one...and you're buying lunch next time.
RTP: The 'Democrat-controlled congress' has done nothing in two years.
A: 19 months actually - during which the Republicans (who controlled congress for the previous 12 years) have filibustered and obstructed a world-record number of times on everything from Iraq to Medicare to Energy, so they could say nothing got done - how's that for representing the people.
RTP: Obama is inexperienced.
A: Bullsh*t.
Top of his class at Harvard Law.
Twelve years as a Constitutional Law Professor.
Eight years as a State Senator (bonus: sponsored 700+ pieces of legislation).
As a US Senator, was directly involved in legislation on loose nukes, ethics/lobbying reform (including those pesky earmarks), immigration reform,
...and built a kick-ass grass-roots 50-state organization that beat the Clintons.
RTP: Obama is an elitist/out of touch
A: McCain can't remember how many houses he owns
...and he wore $500 loafers to a grocery store photo op
...and he thinks Americans won't pick lettuce for $50 an hour
...and that "middle class" means you make less than $5 million a year.
RTP: Obama will raise our taxes.
A: Really? You must make over $250k to bring that up - because if you make less than $250k, he actually gives you MORE of a break than McSame. And if you are pulling in over a quarter mill, you still get a rebate, just a smaller one...and you're buying lunch next time.
RTP: The 'Democrat-controlled congress' has done nothing in two years.
A: 19 months actually - during which the Republicans (who controlled congress for the previous 12 years) have filibustered and obstructed a world-record number of times on everything from Iraq to Medicare to Energy, so they could say nothing got done - how's that for representing the people.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Take it from a GOP Senator
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."
Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said. (AP News, 9.18.08)
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."
Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said. (AP News, 9.18.08)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Obama up in Florida and Ohio
Yeah baby. From the often-painful-to-read Politico comes this little ray of sunshine.
"It seems almost too obvious to say at this point, but Obama-Biden has seized on the events of the last few days with an intensity that would've been hard to imagine just a week ago...the day closed with a New York Times poll giving Obama a 5-point lead nationally.
...a spate of state-level polling shows Obama bouncing back in places like Ohio and Florida, where his numbers suffered last week. If this trend continues, McCain may head into the weekend deprived of his post-convention momentum." (Politico 9.17.08)
"It seems almost too obvious to say at this point, but Obama-Biden has seized on the events of the last few days with an intensity that would've been hard to imagine just a week ago...the day closed with a New York Times poll giving Obama a 5-point lead nationally.
...a spate of state-level polling shows Obama bouncing back in places like Ohio and Florida, where his numbers suffered last week. If this trend continues, McCain may head into the weekend deprived of his post-convention momentum." (Politico 9.17.08)
McCain Waffles - part of a complete breakfast
Here's a nice list of contradictory McCain positions from the last two days (lifted en toto from kos, compliments to demfromct):
Deregulation: McCain issued a statement Monday morning saying that “we cannot tolerate a system that handicaps our markets and our banks.”
Regulation: McCain’s campaign then put out an ad calling for “tougher rules on Wall Street.”
Deregulation: This morning, on NBC’s Today Show, McCain said, “Of course, I don’t like excessive and unnecessary government regulation.”
Regulation: Then, on CBS’s The Early Show, McCain said, “Do I believe in excess government regulation? Yes.”
Both: On CNBC’s Squawk Box, McCain said, “We don’t want to burden average citizens with over-regulation and government bureaucracy...And I’m proud to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, who said, ‘unfettered capitalism leads to corruption,’ and we’ve got to fix this.”
His back has got to be sore from all those gymnastics.
Deregulation: McCain issued a statement Monday morning saying that “we cannot tolerate a system that handicaps our markets and our banks.”
Regulation: McCain’s campaign then put out an ad calling for “tougher rules on Wall Street.”
Deregulation: This morning, on NBC’s Today Show, McCain said, “Of course, I don’t like excessive and unnecessary government regulation.”
Regulation: Then, on CBS’s The Early Show, McCain said, “Do I believe in excess government regulation? Yes.”
Both: On CNBC’s Squawk Box, McCain said, “We don’t want to burden average citizens with over-regulation and government bureaucracy...And I’m proud to be a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, who said, ‘unfettered capitalism leads to corruption,’ and we’ve got to fix this.”
His back has got to be sore from all those gymnastics.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
McCain on the economy
“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should...I’ve got Greenspan’s book.” - John McCain, 1/23/08
And he's the one who anyone wants to inherit this mess?
The guy who graduated 5th from the bottom of his academy class? The guy who lost or damaged five planes?
The guy who was a member of the Keating Five? Sheesh.
And he's the one who anyone wants to inherit this mess?
The guy who graduated 5th from the bottom of his academy class? The guy who lost or damaged five planes?
The guy who was a member of the Keating Five? Sheesh.
Sent via my McCainBerry
Adviser says McCain helped create the BlackBerry
MIAMI - Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.
At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
In a statement, Democratic candidate Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said: "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week."
MIAMI - Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.
At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
In a statement, Democratic candidate Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton said: "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week."
Monday, September 15, 2008
Introducing... the Airport to Nowhere!
Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million
(Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008)
"Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
These projects include more than $130 million in federal funds that would benefit Alaska's fishing industry and an additional $9 million to help Alaska oil companies. She also has sought $4.5 million to upgrade an airport on a Bering Sea island that has a year-round population of less than 100..." WSJ 9/15/08
Can we now just assume the opposite of whatever the McCain campaign tells us?
(Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008)
"Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
These projects include more than $130 million in federal funds that would benefit Alaska's fishing industry and an additional $9 million to help Alaska oil companies. She also has sought $4.5 million to upgrade an airport on a Bering Sea island that has a year-round population of less than 100..." WSJ 9/15/08
Can we now just assume the opposite of whatever the McCain campaign tells us?
Women against Palin
Women in Alaska turned out in record numbers last Saturday to protest...Sarah Palin! Here is a cross-section of many of their picket signs, set to music. Our favorites include "Corruption up the Wasilla" and, "Palin is not Pro Woman, so why should women be pro-Palin?" Enjoy:
Now it's official
"McCain has gone in some of his ads...one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test." – Karl Rove, 9/14/08
Wow. When Karl Rove says you went too far, and stretched the truth...there can now be no doubt that McCain has been knowingly, deliberately lying to the American people.
Wow. When Karl Rove says you went too far, and stretched the truth...there can now be no doubt that McCain has been knowingly, deliberately lying to the American people.
Straight talk - out of both sides
Here is a decent collection of McCain lies, flip-flops and fumbles. Do whatever you can to prevent four more years of this, and please pass it along:
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Palin's energy policy
"We are going to drill now to make this nation energy efficient." - Governor Sarah Palin, Carson City, NV 9/13/08
Even if she meant "energy independent," the experts (and even Bush) would say she's wrong. But she didn't say independent. She said efficient. Which means she just might not know what she's talking about. And that should scare you.
Even if she meant "energy independent," the experts (and even Bush) would say she's wrong. But she didn't say independent. She said efficient. Which means she just might not know what she's talking about. And that should scare you.
SNL Palin & Clinton parody
Tina Fey and Amy Pohler really brought their A game for this one. "In conclusion, I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine." Let's hope the media takes their cue (forgive the ad, YouTube yanked all their copies under pressure from nbc)...
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