Obama last night: “It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.”
Mmmm..
And here’s a partial list of his promises from a speech he gave last week.
“eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000″;
“give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks”;
not increase taxes on anyone if they “make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax”;
“end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas”;
“give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States”;
“eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country”;
“create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools — by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country”;
“invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade”;
“give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week”;
“reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines”;
build “a new electricity grid”;
“build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow”;
“eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years”;
“lower premiums” for those who already have health insurance;
“if you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves”;
“end discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most”;
“invest in early childhood education”;
“recruit an army of new teachers”;
“pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But … also demand higher standards and more accountability”;
“make a deal with every young person who’s here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it’s serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts”;
“stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus”;
“end this war in Iraq”;
“finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden”;
“increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world”;
“invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home”;
According to an Associated Press report last week, Obama has approached Cong. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) about possibly serving as the White House chief of staff. Emanuel — nicknamed “Rahmbo” for his hyper-partisan tactics — is a very close friend of David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign strategist. According to a Newsweek report, Emanuel “grew up, somewhat weirdly, to study ballet and practice Chicago politics.” He once sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him. If Obama is elected, this may be the man who conducts the liberal orchestra for Obama’s “post-partisan” administration.
WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”
This was posted yesterday by Greg Palast, at a liberal blog called TruthOut.
It’s November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the “Bradley effect”: Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calculated from the exit polls. Florida came in for McCain and so did Indiana. Colorado, despite the Democrats’ Rocky Mountain high after the Denver convention, stayed surprisingly Red. New Mexico, a state where Anglos are a minority, went McCain by 300 votes, as did Virginia.
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Swing state Indiana. In this year’s primary, ten nuns were turned away from the polls because of the state’s new voter ID law. They had drivers’ licenses, but being in their 80s and 90s, they’d let their licenses expire. Cute. But what isn’t cute is this: 566,000 registered voters in that state don’t have the ID required to vote. Most are racial minorities, the very elderly and first-time voters; that is, Obama voters. Twenty-three other states have new, vote-snatching ID requirements.
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The Ugly Secret
Here’s an ugly little secret about American democracy: We don’t count all the votes. In 2004, based on the data from the US Elections Assistance Commission, 3,006,080 votes were not counted: “spoiled,” unreadable and blank ballots; “provisional” ballots rejected; mail-in ballots disqualified.
This Tuesday, it will be worse. Much worse.
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The answer is the GOP’s secret weapon, the Help America Vote Act, signed by George Bush in 2002. When Bush tells us he’s going to help us vote, look out. But Democrats didn’t. They signed on to the GOP bill, believing this “reform” law would prevent “another Florida.” Instead, “Help America Vote” Floridated the entire nation.
Here’s how: Help America Vote empowered secretaries of state to remove fraudulent and suspicious voters from the voter registries.
This is the same wingnut that claimed the election was stolen from Gore.
If you have not voted yet today, when you do, vote against socialism, vote for McCain.
The problem is not technical, uh, and the problem is not mastery of the legislative intricacies of Washington. The problem is, uh, can you get the American people to say, “This is really important,” and force their representatives to do the right thing? That requires mobilizing a citizenry. That requires them understanding what is at stake. Uh, and climate change is a great example.
You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
They — you — you can already see what the arguments will be during the general election. People will say, “Ah, Obama and Al Gore, these folks, they’re going to destroy the economy, this is going to cost us eight trillion dollars,” or whatever their number is. Um, if you can’t persuade the American people that yes, there is going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end, but that over the long term, because of combinations of more efficient energy usage, changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliance, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, the economy would benefit.
If we can’t make that argument persuasively enough, you — you, uh, can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington. You’re not going to get that done.
The coal industry in the United States employs 82,959 people 1. (PDF file), (as of 2006). Obama plans on putting all of them on the unemployment line. However, with his wealth redistribution plan I guess they have nothing to worry about, right?
From NewsBusters
Obama: “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
Amazing that this statement by Obama about bankrupting the coal industry has been kept under wraps until this time.
Obama: “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
UPDATE: NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has found out that the San Francisco Chronicle story published on January 18 based upon this January 17 interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry which you can hear on the audio. You can read the story here when you scroll down to the “In His Own Words” section. Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle! More here.
- AWB
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