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the economic battle

The Democrats are well able to pass a rescue bill without The Republicans, but they’re scared it won’t be acceptable to the public.

But they’re refusing to compromise with Republican concerns about Democrat socialistic ambitions. The Democrats want to use the problems, for which they are heavily responsible, as an excuse to extend government power further.

And the Republicans are not prepared to endorse that.

The Republicans want the lowest possible impact on taxpayers. The Republicans want accountability.

The Democrats just want more power and more pork.

9:59 minutes. Suggested by the auroran sunset:
“a little ‘enthusiastic’, but otherwise a nice job.”

the presidential debate battle

Of course, McCain ‘won’ the first debate, if you’re honest and objective. But you must remember Democrats are not after that sort of person.

The Democrats merely throw sand and hope to confuse the less able.
The Democrats seek to spread a thick layer of emotion over every slice, to appeal to the uneducated and uninformed.

The Democrats are simply not fighting the same battle as the Right is fighting.

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obama and mccain - a matter of judgement - facts are stubborn things

“If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
John McCain, May 26, 2005

“Senator Obama talks a tough game on the financial markets but the facts tell a different story. He took more money from Fannie and Freddie than any Senator but the Democratic chairman of the committee that regulates them. He put Fannie Mae’s CEO who helped create this disaster in charge of finding his Vice President [...].”

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is this a new departure for capitalism?

Governments increasingly buying free market assets in the capitalist economies.

France buys up British nuclear power. Bush buys up junk bonds. Sovereign funds buying into Western businesses.

This is a change from nationalisation, where governments stole assets or ‘rescued’ sinking companies to appease union shirkers.

This is governments becoming active participants in capitalist markets.

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socialist government trying to censor the internet, google cooperating - the auroran sunset

No, it’s not red China this time, but Brown the Clown’s Britain:

“YouTube is to ban footage showing weapons being used to intimidate people on its website in the UK.”

Soon to banned video:

6:32 minutes

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well-crafted speech from bush on the economic turmoil

Two excellent pieces of craft - anyone who finds them is to get a green star!

And one typical piece of Bush humour:

“ [...] The SEC is also requiring certain investors to disclose their short selling, and has launched rigorous enforcement actions to detect fraud and manipulation in the market. Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted [sic].”

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comparing ‘capitalism’ and socialism/communism

Socialism/communism is a dogmatic religion. As such it is inflexible.

‘Capitalism’ is a whole different animal. It is just (fairly) natural processes working themselves out.

Capitalism is not much different from the seasons of growth and dormancy in the forest and the fields. Only lying or foolish politicians tell you otherwise, as they try to trade lies for a place at the trough and for power.

Working against reality is for lunatics. Socialism is a lunatic cult.

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new sensation from demogacrat central - mccain can’t type! - the auroran sunset

Obama has put out an ad mocking McCain for not being able to use a computer or send email.

The reality is more like this:

“The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. . . . McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.”

And this from his 2000 campaign:

“This Internet-driven decentralization meant that the McCain campaign could organize down to a virtually block-by-block level for little cost. It allowed a thin organization to compete against the heavily financed and well-organized Bush machine, and it gave McCain campaign dollars an estimated 4-to-1 advantage over Bush greenbacks.

“McCain himself was convinced early on that the Internet had to play a critical role in the campaign. Time and again it allowed him to leverage his money and his organization. "In the Virginia primary," McCain told me, "we needed a lot of petitions signed to get on the ballot. We had the form available to download off the Internet and got 17,000 signatures with very little trouble."

“Ultimately, McCain realized he couldn't go the distance, but the message was clear to any political organization with hopes for the future. His Web team had played the Internet like a Stradivari. . . .

“In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.”

As one wit puts it:

"I think they spent months trying to figure out how they can position Obama as better qualified than McCain, and basically came up with the fact that Obama can type."

[More detailed story at pajamasmedia.com]

Obama is claiming that running his campaign gives him executive experience. The string of foolish, unresearched and dishonest attacks emanating from the Obama campaign over the last few weeks makes it clear that he is a failure at even that simple task. That he manages to have the confidence to think himself capable of running the world’s most powerful country, let alone a small town, is beyond surreal.

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what’s really going on in obama’s head?

From Dreams of my father by Barack Obama, pp94-95. He describes an interaction with his mother,
in the context of a friend being arrested with drugs. At the time, Obama was also engaged with pot, cigs and cocaine, which last he calls ‘blow’:

“I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. it was usually an effective tactic another one of those tricks I had learned: people were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”
(It seemed not to work for him on that occasion.)

Biden on Obama:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's a storybook, man.” [Quoted from blogs.usatoday.com]

“Obama’s verbal slip fuels his critics”

“ST. LOUIS, Mo. -” Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

“The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim”

From Dreams of my father by Barack Obama

“The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother] Roy ... He converted to Islam.”
—
“In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school.”

“I studied the Koran.”

From Audacity of Hope:

Lolo (Obama's step father) followed a brand of Islam : “I looked to Lolo for guidance.”
—
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

These book quotes collected by PJ O'Donovan"

Barak Obama:

I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly, I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful. I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.” [Quoted from christianitytoday.com, 23/01/2008]

My opinion is:
With the Obama coterie doing everything to smear Sarah Palin with an unending stream of ludicrous lies, it would like they are also trying to use prejudice as a political weapon.

Meanwhile, the real questions about Obarma go on and on and on...

Obama’s skin reflectivity is not really the main issue driving his positives down. Rather it’s his dubious associations, his continual shifty ‘adjustments’, his lack of any real political substance and his general record of poor judgment, even the constant ‘attacks’ fashioned from very little fabric.

Obama’s putting forward very little serious policy, but trying to get by as a pop star. So the balloon goes pop. What else is to be expected among intelligent or serious voters?

As Obama is so secretive, I have made efforts trying to dig into what, if anything, he really ,’believes’.

Is he a muslim? I doubt it. Is he a christian in any real sense? I doubt it. To my own probing, it looks like he is a atheist marxist; or, when it hides under a christianist hat, it is often called liberation theology.

Obama may be a bit of a luke-warm theist. I see no real sign that he’s a christianist.

He has unitarianism and islam in his background - both lots regard christianism as polytheist. I don’t believe he is uneffected by that in the dark of the night.

Here is a snippet I dug out while researching him:

“[...] We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the religious right but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project of American renewal.” [Quoted from time.com]

He looks like a politician trying to maneuver, rather than a conviction christianist.

Or as Wright said:

“WRIGHT: It went down very simply. He's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”

Looks about ‘Wright’ to me!

From Obama’s 06/10/2008 San Francisco fund-raiser speech:

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” [Quoted from speech transcript in huffingtonpost.com]

The more Obama is probed, the more that he is revealed as an empty cardboard cut out. That looks to me to be the central reason he’s sinking.

And that’s pretty much damn all to do with his light reflectivity.

Biden on Indians

“ "I've had a great relationship," said Biden. "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."

“ At the time, these remarks drew a hail of criticism from Indian-Americans, including Vijayanagar.”

Biden on Obarma

“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the- job-training.”

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	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama $7.99 [amazon.com] Vintage, 2008, pbk ISBN-10: 0307455874 ISBN-13: 978-0307455871 £7.49 [amazon.co.uk] Canongate Books, 2008, pbk ISBN-10: 1847670830 ISBN-13: 978-1847670830

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strong speeches from giuliani and palin

Warning to cult leftists - these videos and links may upset your smuggeryness.

The insiders are so pleased with these speeches that they are going around saying it’s all over now.

Giuliani and Palin speeches are recommended.

Giuliani turns Obarmi to salami!

Speech by Rudy Giuliani, 27:30 minutes

“And nearly 130 times, he couldn't make a decision. He couldn't work out whether to vote yes, or no. It was too tough! He voted 'present'. I didn't know about this vote 'present' when I was mayor or NYC. Sarah Palin didn't have this vote 'present' when she was mayor or governor. You don't get 'present' - it doesn't work in an executive job. For president of the United States, it's not good enough to be 'present'. You have to make a decision.”

Pre-notes transcript of Rudy Giuliani’s speech.

Palin looks like a nice down-home gal, with an inclination to hunt moose and socialists.

Acceptance speech by Sarah Palin, 40:40 mins

Transcript of Sarah Palin’s speech.

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities.”

The other speeches were more pedestrian.

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obama, madonna and sarah palin - compare and contrast

Obarma has ‘impressed’ the sort of people who are impressed by Madonna, and he has even less substantive ability. Madonna is impressive in terms of being a popular entertainer who can make money from her shows. Obama is the same, but in a lower league.

Obama is far less qualified than Sarah Palin. He has qualifications on the level, or lower, of a Madonna or Britney. He’s just a popular rapper. As a politician, he’s wet tissue.

Obama is fake through to the core. He’s learned to give empty, bombastic sermons at his race hate ‘church’, and now he’s practicing his craft on TV and at Denver.

Obama’s an empty suit selling snake oil to fools. He’s a left-wing extremist trying to cover his tracks.

He is a rapper, followed by the sort of groupies who will never hear a criticism of this week’s icon. Elvis is still the King, despite his sad and dissipated end. I cannot imagine there are enough fools in the USA to vote Obama into the White House.

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russian propaganda: hero of russia saves tv crew, averts disaster

Thank heavens he had a tranquilizer gun handy.

“Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.”
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“ "First of all, we must thank our colleagues, Americans, European colleagues for being involved with this during a difficult time for Russia when no-one was paying any attention to this," Putin said.”

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