Let’s not dither: we’re all in favor of lowering taxes and cutting federal spending, we’d all like to have more to spend on what we enjoy. McCain and his team have avoided releasing many specifics, but they rely on the old school attack that Obama will surely raise them on the middle class.
Fact check reveals: Obama will champion tax policies that will impact those who earn a quarter million dollars or more in any single year, while lowering taxes on those below $250,000 substantially. McCain will lower taxes on the top earners, and raise them for the middle-class.
Both candidates need money to fix the economy, and pay for the war Bush conducted without paying for yet, so even on the surface McCain's claim to lower taxes is, at best, the path to economic chaos in the USA.
http://zennie2005.blogspot.com -- This presents SF Mayor Gavin Newsom at a rally for Barack Obama in Berkeley on September 4th, 2008, and an interview given just after his speech before the crowd.
Ok. This is the only photo anyone could find of the City Hall of Wasilla, Alaska. It explains that Wasilla really is a small town and not the big little city some may think. The problem is not that I am putting down the town, but putting matters in perspective. This does not give a person Senate-level training.
In her speech last night, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's comments insulting community organizers as not having responsiblilty, or at least enough to demand respect, upset a great many people I know. From elected officials to students.
To mothers and sons and fathers. The people I talked to expressed an almost singular dislike for what Palin said, and in some cases Palin herself.
I'll not go there.
I will only remind Gov. Palin that there was one person who did work to serve the needs of those who had nothing and lost there way. A man who showed all of us in the World that we could be forgiven for our sins. A person who did instruct us in the ways of the Lord.
That person is the greatest community organizer ever.
37 Million people -- almost as many people as tuned in to see Senator Barack Obama's historic speech -- went to a television to see Alaska Governor Sarah Palin give her Vice Presidential acceptance speech. But I think the reasons why people tuned in were vastly different than those for Senator Obama.
They tuned in expecting to see her fail, even though I don't know what that definition is. I mean what was she supposed to do, cry? Hickup? Get stage fright? She's the Governor of Alaska. She's suppose to be able to give a basic speech. That's what she did.
What's sexist about all of this is how America seems to have "lowered the bar" for her and made it so it's ok that she' just "shows" rather than a "place" or a "win." If a man gave that speech, he'd have been held to a higher standard.
My point is that there should be a vice presidential standard, not a mass-culture standard.
Now, if John McCain gets fewer ratings then we've got a scoop for the ages. Maybe things are all turned around. Perhaps the ticket should be "Obama / Palin."
I just happened on a video that, if true -- and I stress if true -- could be very damaging to the crediblity of Alaska Governor and now Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin.
In the video, Kevin sits down on a couch and says that he met Bristol Palin because his uncle worked on the pipeline and got to know Bristol for "the couple of months I was there" and that they conceived a child while he was there. He says she's a nice young lady and that he wants to be a part of the child's life.
Kevin, who's Black and an Obama supporter, also reports that the parents -- Governor Palin and her husband -- have said that they do not want him near their daughter or associated with her. Kevin says, again on video, that he wants to be a part of the child's life. He also says that he does not want to play the "race card" but that the family may have some problem with the public knowing that Palin's daughter had a Black boyfriend.
(Frankly, no one cares about that.)
I sent a message for Kevin to call me to get to the bottom of this.
Watch the video. He certainly seems like he's serious and he explains that he's a musician, gives his contact at his MySpace page, and I'm sure is aware of what could happen to him if he's caught lying, so he must be telling the truth otherwise, why stick his neck out? At first, I thought it was a way for him to promote his songs, but that would be stupid. And given the affinity young teenage white girls have for Black rappers, it's well within possibility they could have hooked up.
The first order of business is to determine if his uncle really works up there. If that's the case, then there's smoke. And where there's smoke, there's fire.
McCain and his team have avoided releasing many specifics, but they rely on the old school attack that Obama will surely raise them on the middle class.
