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”;
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.”
Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.
But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.
Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
Obama’s interest in leftist politics continued after he transferred to Columbia University in New York. He lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called “the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union.”
“In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of Black Panther fame, speak at Columbia,” Obama wrote in “Dreams,” which he published in 1995. “At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature.”
Obama supporters point out that plenty of Americans flirt with radical ideologies in college, only to join the political mainstream later in life. But Obama, who made a point of noting how “carefully” he chose his friends in college, also chose to launch his political career in the Chicago living room of Ayers, a domestic terrorist who in 2002 proclaimed: “I am a Marxist.”
Also present at that meeting was Ayers’ wife, fellow terrorist Bernardine Dohrn, who once gave a speech extolling socialism, communism and “Marxism-Leninism.”
Obama has been widely criticized for choosing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, an anti-American firebrand, as his pastor. Wright is a purveyor of black liberation theology, which analysts say is based in part on Marxist ideas. More here.
Let’s tally this up. He’s smitten with Marxist and Socialist, starts his political career in the living room of a domestic murdering terrorist, attends speeches extolling socialism, communism and “Marxism-Leninism.
I talked with an Obama supporter last night. I had never met this person before. I asked her why she was supporting Obama. Her answer, “because he’s for change”. I asked her just exactly what “changes” he had promised that she liked, and she could not definitively answer the question.
I spent the next half hour or so discussing some of the differences between Obama’s empty-suit promises and McCain’s positions. In the end, I think I may have made a difference. I expect today she’s online looking up the facts for herself.
SHOULD Barack Obama win the presidency and Democrats take full control of Congress, next year will see a real legislative attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine - and to diminish conservatives’ influence on broadcast radio, the one medium they dominate.
Yes, the Obama campaign said some months back that the candidate doesn’t seek to re-impose this regulation, which, until Ronald Reagan’s FCC phased it out in the 1980s, required TV and radio broadcasters to give balanced airtime to opposing viewpoints or face steep fines or even loss of license. But most Democrats - including party elders Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Al Gore - strongly support the idea of mandating “fairness.”
Of course they do. Liberal talk shows consistently fail. They just want to stomp Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingram and Beck out of business.
- AWB
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