RACIST !!!!!111

Joe the plmber is concerned that Obama will hike his taxes; obviously, he is a racist republican SPY!#$$!!! He even compared Obama to another black man! OMFG!@#@!! He also mentions Britney Spears, clearly another racist code word.

From the Huffington Post:

Joe the (unlicensed) plumber's two money quotes to the NYT include:

"You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question...."

"I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache."

By the way, the extended quote on the first comment helps flesh out and inform Joe's expression in the photo -- squinty Joe in the white light and the earnest Obama literally in the dark. From The Times:

"You know, I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question ... for once instead of tap dancing around it. And unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance."

He added, "Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr."

Shades of Mark Halperin's post back in March, Wurzelbacher's intent to "corner" the celebrity tap dancer was motivated by racism. If the McCain campaign had done it's homework before tossing this guy into the national spotlight -- and whether they did or they didn't is a bit concerning either way -- you'd think the chip on Wurzelbacher's shoulder would have been pretty easy to flush out.

He also has a shaved head; clearly he is a skinhead. Only racist skinheads would question the effect of Obama's tax policies on their small business.

If your virus software is up to date and you care to wade on over to the dailykos, where they have a plethora of loosely based accusations (no, I won't do the courtesy of a link):

He may be an unlicensed plumber.
He might be a REGISTERED REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTER!
Either that, or he might not be registered to vote.
Maybe he owes back taxes.
He suspects Obama might be a socialist.
He is considering NOT voting for Obama when the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters already endorsed Obama!!!
He could be related to Charles Keating of the KEATING 5.
And... he might even have family ties... TO ALASKA!!!!11

We really have to watch out for all these faux independent racist skinhead small business owners... from Alaska.

The short slippery slope to Socialism

Wheeeeee.... It's like a waterslide, but that's your liberty going down the hole!

Just stop paying your mortgage

While angry voters have labeled the package as a bailout for Wall Street, it is more akin to a “Get out of Jail Free” card for anyone who acted irresponsibly during the boom. Here's why.

Nobody likes foreclosure, least of all politicians. The new law clearly indicates that the government will make major efforts to reduce foreclosures through “term extensions, rate reductions and principal write-downs” of the troubled mortgages that it buys from the private sector. In other words, your new landlord will bend over backward to keep you in your home. The legislation telegraphs this by including a provision that extends until 2013 the exclusion of loan reductions from taxable income.

When a financial institution holds a mortgage, homeowners must live with the fear of foreclosure. Private institutions only have obligations to shareholders. In the case of a defaulting borrower, they will look to recover as much of their principal as possible. If foreclosure is their best option, they will take it in a heartbeat.

The government has no such obligations. Its only goal is to keep voters happy. After supposedly bailing out the fat cats on Wall Street, no politician wants to be accused of evicting struggling families. Once you understand this, all of your anxiety should melt away. Why pay your mortgage if foreclosure is off the table, and if you know that lower payments, and possibly a reduced loan amount, would result? A tarnished a credit rating is a small price to pay for such a benefit.

Pay attention, this is where the "bailout" plans are headed kids.

If you do get the opportunity to live for a while with no mortgage payment, don't make the tragic mistake of using your extra cash to pay down your credit cards. As the growing level of credit card defaults will soon push credit card companies into bankruptcy, we can expect a similar bailout plan for American Express and Discover Financial. When that happens, expect massive balance reductions for Americans who can demonstrate the inability to pay. The bigger your balance, the greater the benefit.

Taxpayers, however, will not be so lucky. The savvy investment strategists who see the government turning a tidy profit on its mortgage purchases have not factored in the incentives that will discourage nonpayment. The only way the government will be able to profit would be to buy the mortgages at deep discounts to actual loan values. However, if the purchase prices are too low, the plan will bankrupt the institutions it is trying to bail out. On the other hand, if it substantially overpays, which seems far more likely, it will bankrupt the nation.

In any event, as more and more borrowers succumb to the allure and safety of nonpayment, look for the number of troubled assets to swell. This will ensure that the $700 billion merely represents the first installment in what will be a multitrillion-dollar plan. Just as government policies provided the primary impetus in blowing up the housing bubble earlier in the decade, its latest attempt at market manipulation will only result in making a terrible problem far worse.

Yup. We have a real problem in our society right now with stating the obvious; instead we want to name some nebulous whipping boy. Home foreclosures aren't caused by "greedy wallstreet fatcats"; they are caused by people taking out loans they can't afford. Like the obesity epidemic in this country, obesity is NOT caused by McDonalds; obesity is caused by people stuffing hamburgers in their face at a greater rate than their body can burn them.

I leave you with this sunny quote:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. --Attributed to ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER, LORD WOODHOUSELEE. (1747-1813) Unverified.

Anyway, it's been a nice 232 years.

Obama: I did not have sex with that terrorist.

CNN Debate Transcript

Last night's debate definitely has to go to McCain. Obama is too slick for McCain to land a clean knockout or get him completely rattled, but I would judge it a TKO. Where has this McCain been?! Apparently, if enough people at his own rallies tell him he can't out-socialist Obama, he will figure out he can't out-socialist Obama and will turn out a decent debate performance. McCain also gets bonus points -- I only heard "my friends" twice during the whole 90min.

Obama, on the other hand, proved for all to see that he can lie like a Clinton. When confronted about launching his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist* Obama looked into the camera and straight faced, flat out lied:

McCain: Well, again, while you were on the board of the Woods Foundation, you and Mr. Ayers, together, you sent $230,000 to ACORN. So -- and you launched your political campaign in Mr. Ayers' living room.

Obama: That's absolutely not true.

McCain: And the facts are facts and records are records.

Obama: And that's not the facts.

Ummm... yeah, Obama those are what we call 'facts.' Of course, Obama runs into trouble when real facts contradict his wish facts. Obama also issued a bold faced lie on the 'born-alive' act. There was not an identical bill on the books -- that is why a living infant ("pre-viable" in Obama-speak) died in a dirty linen closet in an Illinois hospital -- and the bill specifically contained a clause stipulating that it was not to overturn precedent (i.e. Roe v. Wade). These real facts are a matter of public record. These facts are highly inconvenient for Obama and he wishes they would just go away; therefor, according to wish facts, there is a highly nuanced reason to vote against a ban on killing babies that only Obama is clever enough to figure out.

*Note on Bill Ayers: "unrepentant domestic terrorist" is way, way too much of a mushy PC term for my taste; I believe the more accurate term is "homicidal traitor." Ayers should have gotten the needle right along with Timothy McVeigh; the only difference between the two is that Ayers was less skilled at building bombs but better at eluding the feds.

Prez debate liveblog II

discussions without preconditions with Chavez... FARC terrorists... another good shot by McCain.

Abortion: I guess Obama got a raise; abortion is suddenly within his paygrade.

Education: McCain missed a chance to land one last good blow in regards to Ayers and radical leftist ideological indoctrination of Chicago school kids.

Well, people asked for it; McCain came out swinging, but it may be too little too late. McCain wins on issues (taxes!!!); Obama wins on general telegenic qualities. Unfortunately, telegenics counts way more than it should. Overall winner: Joe the plummer.

Last Prez debate

8:46 central

Wow... McCain has gone at least 30min without saying "my friends." Debate practice must have included electroshock therapy.

He is delivering some body blows - no knockouts - but body blows. Keep hammering on taxes, man. He brought up Ayers skillfully. Obama outright lied... he DID launch his polititcal career in Ayers livingroom.

"I admire Senator Obama's eloquence" heh.

Good column from the Telegraph

Financial crisis: We're all socialists now, comrade

I am such a ray of sunshine today!

Wisdom from our betters

"I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. ..." -- Barack Obama

Just Not Smack! That's my philosophy, too.

"Asked how she feels about Bill Clinton's use of the phrase 'fairytale' to describe her husband's characterization of his position on the Iraq war, (Michelle Obama) first responded: 'No.' But, after a few seconds of contemplation, and gesturing with her fingernails, she told the reporter: 'I want to rip his eyes out!' Noticing an aide giving her a nervous look, she added: 'Kidding! See, this is what gets me into trouble.'" -- WorldNetDaily

Clarification: I think Obama wrote the first one before he met Michelle; or not, I don't really know, actually.

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more." -- Michelle Obama

Thanks for pointing out the obvious!

Weeeeee... the next four years are going to be fun! Blogging will be a cakewalk, though, until they send me off to the re-education camp -- or is the correct term "sensitivity training"?

Quotes from: http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/10/barack_obama_in_quotes_version_2.php
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