The Truth about the McCain-Palin Health Care Plan

Barack Obama And Joe Biden Have Consistently Lied To Americans About John McCain's Plan. Their claims have failed every fact-check - from CBS to the Washington Post. John McCain is not going to raise taxes on middle class families. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the only ones in this race that plan to raise taxes.


OBAMA FICTION
John McCain Will Tax Health Care Benefits For The First Time And Will Be the Largest Middle Class Tax Increase In History.
THE FACTS
This Obama charge is a blatant mischaracterization of the McCain Health Plan. It only focuses on the fact that the value of the employer provided insurance will now show up as additional income for the employees – what he fails to mention – is that John McCain’s generous refundable tax credit ($5,000 for families and $2,500 for individuals) will not only shield millions of families from a tax increase but will actually give them MORE dollars to invest in their health care needs.
The McCain Plan DOES NOT tax:
Premiums paid by families and individuals

Employers for providing health care coverage

Medical expenses like the cost of a procedure or medication

Insurance claims
Approach Supported By Obama’s Own Advisor: This is an approach supported by Barack Obama's own Senior Economic Advisor Jason Furman who wrote that "we could scrap the current deduction altogether and replace it with progressive tax credits that, together with other changes, would ensure that every American has affordable health insurance."

Better Than "Members of Congress": Under the McCain Plan, your employer can provide you with health insurance as good as a "Member of Congress" (approximately $12,000), and you would pay no more in taxes – regardless of your tax bracket. In fact, you would have additional money left over from the McCain tax credit to put in a health savings account.


Income Tax Liability
McCain-Palin
Tax Credit
Total Tax Savings
10% Bracket
(Up to $15,000)
$1,200 ($12,000 x 10%)
$5,000
+$3,800
15% Bracket ($15,650 - $63,700)
$1,800 ($12,000 x 15%)
$5,000
+$3,200
25% Bracket ($63,700 - $128,500)
$3,000 ($12,000 x 25%)
$5,000
+$2,000
28% Bracket ($128,500 - $195,850)
$3,360 ($12,000 x 28%)
$5,000
+$1,640
33% Bracket ($195,850 - $349,700)
$3,960 ($12,000 x 33%)
$5,000
+$1,040
35% Bracket ($349,700 and Over)
$4,200 ($12,000 x 35%)
$5,000
+$800

Where Is The Middle-Class "Tax Increase"? If you or your family is in the 28% bracket, with an income of $180,000, you could receive employer provided health insurance even better than a Member of Congress, with a cost of almost $18,000, with no increase in taxes. Even the liberal leaning Tax Policy Center, agrees that the McCain proposals will result in a "net tax benefit" of more than $1,200 for an average tax payer. A recent Lewin Group study estimated savings of more than $1,400 per American family – almost three times the savings as under the Obama plan.

OBAMA FICTION
The McCain Plan Will Reduce Medicare Spending By Billions By “Cutting Benefits, Eligibility or Both.”
THE FACTS
John McCain believes that we can achieve savings in Medicare without reducing benefits or eligibility. He has proposed common-sense reforms that will not only put Medicare on a path of financial stability but ensure access to quality care for millions of Americans. Some of the policies proposed by the McCain plan include:
Promote payment reform that allows us to move away from the current fragmented and volume-based service to a system which rewards coordinated and quality focused care.

Eliminate Medicare fraud and abuse to ensure that nearly $60 billion a year, almost 10 percent of total Medicare spending, that goes to line the pocket of criminals instead of providing quality care for seniors.

Ensure that drug premiums for the wealthiest Americans are not being subsidized by the middle class.

Promote a new generation of treatment models that better manage chronic care conditions while rewarding prevention and wellness.

Greater use of Health IT and medical homes to promote greater co-ordination of care.

Reduce drug costs by allowing greater use of generics (including bio-generics).
The Obama Spin: If some of the proposals above sound familiar to Senator Obama’s proposals including – better managing chronic care diseases, greater use of health IT, promoting prevention and greater use of generic drugs - because they are. Only the liberal media and the Obama campaign would characterize similar proposals as “savings” in the their plan and “cutting benefits, eligibility or both” in the McCain plan.

OBAMA FICTION
John McCain Will Tax Health Care Benefits For The First Time And Send The Money Straight To The Insurance Companies.
THE FACTS
Another desperate attack by the Obama campaign. Here is what they purposefully fail to mention – the credit goes to the insurance company that the American family chooses to get coverage from, anywhere in the nation. The power of choice lies with the family – not government bureaucrats or insurance companies.
Putting Families In Charge: Under the McCain Plan American families will not only decide where the tax credit should be directed for their coverage needs but any additional money left over after purchasing coverage will be controlled by the family in a portable health savings account. Ridiculing this line of strange attack, The Associated Press stated, "Of course it would, because it's meant to pay for insurance. That's like saying money for a car loan will go straight to the car dealer."

Obama Criticizing His Own Approach: Most importantly, Senator Obama is criticizing an approach that is used by his own HOPE credits – where tax payer money simply goes from the federal government to colleges.

OBAMA FICTION
Americans With Pre-Existing Condition Under The McCain Plan Will Not Find Coverage.

THE FACTS
John McCain believes that no American should be denied access to quality and affordable coverage simply because of a pre-existing condition. As President, John McCain will work with governors to develop a best practice model that states can follow – a Guaranteed Access Plan or GAP – that would reflect the best experience of the states to ensure these patients have access to health coverage. There would be reasonable limits on premiums, and assistance would be available for Americans below a certain income level.

OBAMA FICTION
The McCain Health Plan Will Damage Employer Provided Insurance For Millions of Americans.
THE FACTS
The McCain health plan builds on the employer-based system. Employers will have the same incentive to provide health insurance as they do today since they will continue to deduct the cost of health insurance they provide to employees.
Millions With Employer Coverage Will Do Better Under The McCain Plan: Millions of American families with employer sponsored coverage in all tax brackets with the same coverage as a "Members of Congress" will now come out ahead with additional funds going into a portable health savings account. Importantly, younger and healthier employees with the McCain health care tax credit will have a bigger incentive to stay with the employers. For example, a 25-year-old employee in the 25 percent tax bracket with a $2,500 tax credit could either purchase a policy in the individual market for the same amount or stay with his employer plan and receive a $5,000 policy with an additional $1,250 to invest in a portable health savings account. Why would people choose fewer benefits for more money?
So Why Is Barack Obama Hiding Details About His Plan?
1. Barack Obama's Plan Will Harm Employer Coverage
The Obama plan includes a $179 billion a year employer mandate. The mandate requires employers to either provide "meaningful" coverage or pay a tax towards the government plan. Faced with tough economic conditions and rising health costs this creates a clear incentive for employers to drop coverage and move families into the new government plan. A Lewin Group study which examined a similar employer mandate combined with a national plan, like the Obama plan, concluded that almost 52 million individuals would lose their private employer coverage. To maintain their competitive edge, others employers will follow - spelling the demise of the employer coverage system.

2. Barack Obama's Plan Continues The Push Toward Government-Run Healthcare
The Obama plan will create a brand new government-run health plan at the cost of $243 billion a year – a financial burden of more than $3,000 a year on American families.

Barack Obama's Plan Will Damage Private Coverage
The government-run plan will have a clear advantage over private insurance since it will be subsidized by American taxpayers. A recent analysis of both plans by the nonpartisan CATO Institute concluded that the Obama government-run plan will be able to "keep its premiums artificially low…since it can turn to the U.S. Treasury to cover any shortfalls" resulting in "undercutting the private market." According to Wall Street Journal, the goal of the Obama plan "…like HillaryCare in the 1990s, is to displace current private coverage and switch people to the default government option."


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Breaking News: Richardson defines Obama's Tax Limit as $120,000 for Middle Class

How low can it go? I'm telling you It is going to be down to $42,000 soon. First it was Obama saying under $250,000, then Obama says $200,000. Next Biden says the middle class ends at $150,000.

Well, guess what, Obama supporter and Gov. Bill Richardson is easing us all into the socialist's high-tax agenda stating that middle class is now at $120,000 - the new threshold where Obama will increase taxes.

Hold onto you wallet folks. Hear Richardson's comments below.

DRUDGE REPORT: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE

So much for Free Speech. Obama has booted the media in which he has had a love affair with for the past 2 years. The American Public better believe that the same is going to happen to them. You can't pet a friendly rattlesnake and not expect to get bit.

See Original Article Here

PURGE: SKEPTICAL REPORTERS TOSSED OFF OBAMA PLANE
Fri Oct 31 2008 08:39:55 ET

NY POST, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WASHINGTON TIMES TOLD TO GET OUT... ALL 3 ENDORSED MCCAIN

**Exclusive**

The Obama campaign has decided to heave out three newspapers from its plane for the final days of its blitz across battleground states -- and all three endorsed Sen. John McCain for president!

The NY POST, WASHINGTON TIMES and DALLAS MORNING NEWS have all been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs -- and possibly for the inclusion of reporters from two black magazines, ESSENCE and JET, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Despite pleas from top editors of the three newspapers that have covered the campaign for months at extraordinary cost, the Obama campaign says their reporters -- and possibly others -- will have to vacate their coveted seats so more power players can document the final days of Sen. Barack Obama's historic campaign to become the first black American president.

MORE

Some told the DRUDGE REPORT that the reporters are being ousted to bring on documentary film-makers to record the final days; others expect to see on board more sympathetic members of the media, including the NY TIMES' Maureen Dowd, who once complained that she was barred from McCain's Straight Talk Express airplane.

After a week of quiet but desperate behind-the-scenes negotiations, the reporters of the three papers heard last night that they were definitely off for the final swing. They are already planning how to cover the final days by flying commercial or driving from event to event.

Developing...

Napalm in the Morning: Obama Insider Leaks Campaigns Tactics for Suppressing Republican Votes

I think I've finally found it. Seriously.

For the last few months, I've really had a nagging feeling that something is just not right. I already knew about the media bias and the left's love affair with Obama, but the numbers just weren't adding up. Of the people I interact with on a daily basis, very few are actual Obama supporters. I ask other people, have you noticed much support where you live? And many say, "Not nearly as much as when Kerry and Gore ran on 04 and 00."

Well, folks, I was on AJ Strata's Strata-sphere blog last evening, a great site that I have recently begun to grow fond of for his ability to interpolate the skewering of the polls and I found a very interesting post in the comments page of one of his posts. It was sent from another site from an anonymous source from inside the Obama campaign. Now, obviously, as it goes with anonymous sources, you have to have a little bit of skepticism, however, if you have been paying attention to this race, especially a little too much like I have, you see that their message seems to make way too much sense.

If you've ever wondered why pro-Obama articles ruled Yahoo Buzz, Digg and other social bookmarking sites, or why moderate and balanced articles were often buried, look no further. I called this a few months back in my post "Liberal Smears Rule the Net." People, believe me when I say this. The staged support for Obama on the net is not an indicator of some sort of overwhelming support nation wide. It is an attempt, as stated below to frustrate and suppress Republican and Independent voters from voting for McCain.

The Obama camp has literally thousands of campaign workers hired to sit on a computer all day, comb the net for conservative blogs and posts and spam, attack or flame them until the article or site is destroyed. So much for free speech, right?

The same goes for polls. What's worse is that the pollsters are falling for it. Here's what happens. ACORN and other agencies go out and register hundreds of thousands of fraudulent applications to vote. Pollsters see that there is a huge increase in registered Democrats in a state or precinct and begin to "tweak" their numbers to predict the outcome of the election based on such. But folks, here's what has been happening: When pollsters call respondents, McCain has actually been winning most of the polls. How is that you say?

Well, when Obama gets a vote, it doesn't get counted as one vote in the polls. It gets counted as anywhere from 1.01 to 1.5. The pollsters believe that by inflating the responses from Obama supporters to match the rise in registration (many fraudulent) that their numbers will be more accurate. So in reality, often times respondents end up choosing McCain 55% to 45% yet when they apply their formulas, the results end up swinging Obama ahead by 4-5%.

This is exactly what the Obama camp hoped would happen. They know that not many people are going to actually going to be able to show and and show and ID and say "Hey, I'm Mickey Mouse and want to vote today." Well, some people might, but that's not the whole goal of the ACORN Fraudulent voter drives. The goal is to get the pollsters to apply their formulas and create the "bandwagon effect" for swing and Independent voters and to get Republican McCain supporters to stay home on election day.

I truly believe that McCain is really up by 4%. The Obama camp knew this from the beginning of their internal polls. Their whole hope is to erase that 4% through getting McCain supporters to stay home and feel as if the race was already won by Obama. This is truly why it is critical that those who support McCain get out and vote and get others to do the same. They want you to think its already sewn up.

And as we've seen from overseas ballot and Florida exit polling, McCain is turning is actually in the lead, despite having a a decisively higher amount of Democrats voting than Republicans.

Below is the post, and I hope you are able to see where the Obama camp is coming from and help spread the word. Now, I just have to sit back and get ready for the trolls to invade the Circus. Bring it on baby.

Ok, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow Clinton supporters out.

I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over.

I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.

The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.

We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a Clinton or McCain supporter who just switched our support for Obama”

We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence.

We did this the whole primary and it worked.

Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out TV, news, websites, etc.

This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.

Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the YouTube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support.

People makes posts to the effect that the world has “gone mad”

That's the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.

We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scary to a McCain supporter. Its worked, although the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.

see, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”

The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. That's due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.

Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as Teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill Oreilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.

This is why nothing sticks.

The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.

There is no true inauguration draft or true grant park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.

Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.

There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.

The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her. To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC. This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as America, so I am now supporting John McCain.

Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool.

this is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.

We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.

Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.

I will be quitting my post on Nov 5th and my vote will be for John McCain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.

I wish you all well, and good luck.

PS my name is not really Sarah. but I am a female and I understand your plight.

I don’t know how true this thing is but it is interesting and some of the things said here have happened.

Credit Card Payment Expert Explains the Depths of Obama's Fraud

Courtesy of Ace of Spades

(Original Posting Here)

It's amazing to me that I can get experts in the field composing essays to me, but the MSM can't manage to find a single expert to give a quote about this.

Beyond the first paragraph, he recounts his own easy-peasy false-name donation to Obama. That's old stuff you know about. I'm leaving it in because I think this guy wants a unified essay.

After he establishes his bona fides, skip to the bolded asterisk for newer stuff.

Since the media is having such a terribly difficult time of finding experts like this, I can offer his phone number to you to talk to him, on the off-chance you're interested. (And assuming he gives the okay, which presumably he would.)

Because many of our colleagues in the media have failed to investigate the shenanigans of the Obama Campaign, I have taken upon myself to uncover some improprieties. One that has troubled me greatly is Obama's very relaxed donation policies.

I have over 8 years experience working in the payment services industry. By
taking a closer look at Obama's online donation site, I have noticed that
his team has left the door wide open for credit card fraud by not putting in
the security measures to ensure full visa/mastercard authorization
compliance. This is outright irresponsible behavior on the part of Obama's
team and in direct violation of their agreement with Visa/Mastercard.

I did a test on his site. Acting as Joe Stalin, I went onto the Obama site
and donated $5.00. I used false information, address: 100 Red Square,
telephone number 323-666-1953, zip code 10001, Employer: Kremlin
Occupation: Dictator. I did use my valid credit card numbers and expiration
date. The typical security measures, Address Verification System and the
Card Validation Code are not present on the Obama site. So there is nothing
in place to verify who I am. (Please see attachment. [I have his attachment. I see no point in putting it up; we all know Obama's site allows this -- ace.]) I clicked submit. The transaction went through.

Then I went to McCain's site, and entered in the same information. Joe
Stalin. $5.00. As you can see, my donation was rejected for errors.

* What's the big deal? Obama has left the door open for anyone to run prepaid cards and foreign credit cards without proper screening. In addition, it is easy to run multi-transactions on the same card but under different aliases. In other words, an organization like Move On.org could run tens of thousands of transactions for millions of dollars using essentially cards belonging to only handful of very large liberal donors like George Soros, Peter Lewis and Eric Schmidt.

In addition, Obama's site violates his agreement with Visa/Mastercard. Visa Mastercard regulations require each credit card acceptor to "obtain the 3 digit Card Validation Code [CVV2 found on the back of your credit card. 4 digits for American Express Cards] and submit this code with all authorization requests with respect to transactions where the card is not present..." [cite:] Visa/Master Program Guide.

(Please see attachment or go to Obama's site. You will notice that Obama's donation site does not have this code requirement, which is in direct violation of Visa/Mastercard regulations.)

Speculations as to why?

Many foreign credit cards do not have CVV2 codes. Requiring such codes would limit foreign donations.

Secondly, disabling the security allows would be credit card thieves to
"ping" numbers till they get a hit. In other words, a crook could simply
type in random numbers until he found one sequence that worked in some
fashion. That could give a thief a starting point for committing credit-card fraud. If all they had to do was type nonsense values for names and addresses, such as Doodad Pro, they could quickly determine which numbers were valid - and they could probably program bots to do that kind of work.

[I consider this latter point a minor concern, given the fact that most fraudulent donors are willing coconspirators, not credit card thieves. However, it is interesting that Obama invites this sort of fraud, and doesn't take the most elemental step to eliminate it -- indeed, he is in direct violation of Visa/Master Card rules in failing to ask for this code. Why? Because he wants foreign donations, and he's willing to facilitate the occasional credit-card thief to get them. -- ace.]

No Address Verification System (AVS)

The Value of AVS from a credit card exper: I have over 30 years of
experience in investigating Credit Card Fraud and I can tell you, which you
may or may not know, that the merchant acquirer that is conducting the
collection of credit / debit card for the Obama campaign are responsible for
the actions to be taken regarding the Address Verification System responses.
The value of the AVS system is that the issuer of the card being used
provides back to the merchant acquirer a response based upon the information
provided during the authorization process. This response indicates to the
merchant acquirer if the card information was validated as to ownership of the account. It is the merchant acquirer that determines what to do when
the authorization response is received. In most cases the transaction that
comes back with any negative meaning is denied. However, if the merchant acquirer has adjusted their system to accept any response as acceptable the transaction would be completed.

The value of the AVS system is to deny Card Not Present transactions (CNP)
which are suspicious. This protects the merchant against charge backs for
bad transactions. What is interesting to me is that the merchant acquirer
has knowingly violated a basic CNP fraud prevention technique to accommodate a merchant (Obama Campaign). I think that both the Associations (VISA & MasterCard) would be highly interested in looking at the merchant acquirer that was processing these transactions. The value of ignoring the AVS
responses is that multiple invalid transactions may be made without fear of being rejected by the authorization systems. This means that the real owner
of the credit card account is willing to allow multiple transactions to be made on the account using different names and addresses that under normal conditions would be denied. The merchant acquirer has a complete listing of all transactions done and it would be very interesting to see how many transactions were conducted on the same account number using different names. I would think that this would be a Federal violation under the current campaign funding laws.

I hope you will take this inquiry seriously. I want a fair election. I do
not want either side to STEAL the election literally. Obama's tactics have
gone too far in my opinion. McCain is doing the honorable thing on his site
and playing by the rules. Obama is in clear violation of the rules. Is
this change we can believe in?

Name withheld, unless he tells me to print it. Helen Jones-Kelley may deem him to have stepped into the public light.

So I'll call him Modus Operandi.

TD Blog: Exit Poll of Americans in Israel: Lanslide for McCain

Original Story Posted at TD Blog

October 30, 2008 by texasdarlin

Jewish Backlash: 76% voted for McCain-Palin!

PUMA Backlash: 46% crossed party lines!

This report from NRO could be the first serious indicator of a backlash from Jewish Democrats against Barack Obama.

Within the last hour, the first exit poll of 817 Americans in Israel, who attended U.S. election voting events in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening to vote by absentee ballot, has been released.

A startling 76 percent of those polled said that they had voted for John McCain. This contrasts sharply with pre-election polls of American Jews in the U.S., which indicate a strong preference for Obama.

The exit poll findings of American voters in Israel are all the more surprising because less than one in four were registered Republicans, and 46% of registered Democrats living in Israel said they had crossed party lines to vote McCain. By contrast, the Republican crossover to Obama was minimal – just 2%.

The votes are significant as almost half of the 42,000 registered U.S. voters living in Israel come from key swing states including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In the 2000 and 2004 elections, Israel had the third-largest group of American voters abroad, after Canada and Britain.

The exit poll was commissioned by Votefromisrael.org, an independent, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting voter registration and participation amongst American citizens living in Israel.

Interesting…these Jewish Americans voted just as the story about Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi was hitting the mainstream media outlets on Tuesday. I would expect that story to continue to fuel a backlash among Jews residing in the US, as Election Day next Tuesday approaches.

Angry Murtha Confronts Bloomberg Reporter

Bloomberg.com News is reporting in an article today that Rep. John Murtha had some choice words when asked about his comments recently that his constituents were "racist" for not supporting Obama.

From Bloomberg.com (Full Article)

Asked about his comments yesterday, Murtha said: ``Don't write that story -- you just write what I'm telling you.

``What are the issues? Jobs. The issue is the privatization of Social Security, the issue is health care,'' he said. ``I don't want to be distracted.'' Pennsylvania's unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in September, up from 4.4 percent at the end of 2004.

Don't want to be distracted by the rise in unemployment in your district? Murtha, Nancy Pelosi's biggest ally in Washington, is really showing how out of touch he is with his own district.

Anti-White Graffiti Left at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh after Obama Rally

Below are two pictures that were sent to me by a source who works for Mellon Arena from after the Obama rally from October 27, 2008. These pictures are very disturbing considering it is the Obama camp who has accused McCain and his followers of being racist.

Hillbuzz: "John McCain will win Pennsylvania."

Tonight we spoke with a friend from Hillary Clinton’s campaign who is now working for McCain/Palin — and is specifically working with Democrats for McCain in Pennsylvania. We worked with her in Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania for Hillary and have spent many LONG hours with her in the trenches in all of those states. She’s smart, doesn’t BS, and never lies.

She says the same thing we do: John McCain will win Pennsylvania.

On November 4th, the news networks are going to be spinning and sputtering and playing catchup, but everything we see on the ground in PA is what we saw during the primaries: Obama has no shot of winning the Keystone State.

Here is specifically what we talked about tonight: never in any of our careers have any of us ever seen members of one party switching sides and voting for the other party as we see in this election with Democrats for McCain. There has never been anything like it. Not even the “Reagan Democrats” who voted for Reagan over Carter, for the simple fact that these “Reagan Democrats” weren’t identified and labeled until AFTER the election.

No, Democrats for McCain are real, are voting for McCain right now, and are open and organized, as well as self-identifying. Lynn Rothschild might be our poster gal, as one of the most prominent of our ranks, but it’s telling that everyone from Team Hillary that we know now works for McCain. ALL OF US. Whether they are open about it, like we are, or are working quietly behind the scenes, we can’t think of a single person we worked with on a daily basis for Hillary who is now working on behalf of Obama.

We all truly believe that John McCain will work more closely with Hillary Clinton in the Senate and make it a priority to team up with her on legislation than Obama ever would. We also believe Obama winning this election means his supporters would actively seek to eliminate all Clinton loyalists from the Democratic Party, to consolidate his power base and purge anyone who is not 100% loyal to him. For obvious reasons, those of us loyal to the Clintons will not let that happen without a fight.

But, this is all talking about leadership, and those of us who have invested two years of our lives in all of this — and have, in all honesty, spent every cent we had on this campaign. What about the regular voters?

Union members repeatedly tell all of us that they are lying to pollsters because the unions have been polling these people — and the unions will threaten people’s jobs if they don’t tow the union line. So, the people lie when asked whom they are supporting. But, the unions can’t control who they vote for on Election Day. And that’s when things are going to get interesting.

We do not believe Obama will carry Pittsburgh or Harrisburg in PA. He’ll win Philly, but not by the large margin he needs to take the state. You’ve heard Governor Ed Rendell is “worried” about Obama’s chances in Pennsylvania. That is an understatement. Obama will lose a state that hasn’t gone red in generations.

What’s happening here that’s not being reported is that “Reagan Democrats” who vote Republican whenever they feel that Democrats are out of touch, socialist, or too liberal are voting for McCain…and these people are being joined by PUMAs, DeMcCrats for McCain, Hillocrats, whatever you want to call them, who don’t like or trust Obama and who believe McCain/Palin would address the wants and needs of centrist Democrats much better than Obama ever would.

We personally believe this here at HillBuzz. That’s why we are doing this. We do not believe Obama will put the best interests of Americans first — instead, Obama will do what is best for Obama, the way he has always done. We do not trust this man or his socialist Kool-Aid and want no part of him.

In Pennsylvania, we are not alone.

The same people who ran the board for us in the primary — who assured us daily that the polls the media was pushing were wrong in claiming Obama would beat Clinton in PA — tell us on a daily basis that McCain is going to win Pennsylvania. There’s a damn good chance this won’t even be close, if what people are seeing on the ground right now holds, and is indicative of the whole state.

DEMOCRATS are staffing McCain offices across the state. DEMOCRATS are phone banking and canvassing for McCain. DEMOCRATS are raising large sums to fund this last week of campaigning.

DEMOCRATS.

This has NEVER happened before — and the media is ignoring it. The media consistently claims that Obama enjoys the support of 85% of Democrats, versus only 80% of Republicans who supposedly are supporting McCain. We call BS on all of this — we’d say 90% of Republicans are supporting McCain, and 65-70% of Democrats are actually supporting Obama. At least that’s the case in Pennsylvania, and in Ohio too. Our mission this next week is to reach out to every Democrat we can and let them know it’s okay to vote Republican this year — because the Republican is the better choice.

There are two things Hillary Clinton and John McCain have in common that we’re thinking about right now: (1) both love America more than anything and truly want what’s best for the country, and not themselves and (2) Clinton has a framed photo of McCain in her office, while McCain has a similar photo of Clinton in his.

Clinton and McCain are friends for a reason — and we know they will work well together these next four years. We’re going to face some tough challenges in McCain’s administration, and we sincerely do pledge to all Republicans reading this that the bipartisan spirit we’ve fostered during this campaign working together with Republicans to elect McCain will continue in these next 4 years, because America needs us working together.

We are all Americans right now — working together to stop a socialist from becoming president and taking all of us down a very dangerous path. Hillary’s Army is strong and mobilized, and is working its hard out for McCain/Palin. If you Republicans can match our enthusiasm and dedication, we will win this, and not just in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but all across the country.

We have the potential to make this a crippling loss not just for Obama, but for the far-left liberal wing of the Democratic party and the liberal elite media itself. We have the potential to wipe all of these kooks and loons off the political landscape with a loud, resounding loss for all of them on November 4th.

What we have learned about the state of Pennsylvania tells us our continued efforts are paying off — and that we just need to stay focused and keep working hard the next 7 days to win this for McCain/Palin and, in all honesty, win this for AMERICA too.

It’s an honor to be in this fight with all of you — if we work hard, we will indeed win.

Interesting Finds at HillaryClintonForum.net: They're Pulling for McCain

Well, I just did a quick search around the net to see where my inbound visits were coming from and I came across a site called hillaryclintonforum.net. Naturally, the inquisitive person that I am, I just had to check it out and how my page was referenced there.

Well, first off, the reference to my page was about Rep. Murtha's comments about how racist his constituents were.

Here is where the surprises begin. First, almost all of the posters agreed that Murtha need to go. But, while that is all well and nice, I was intrigued to see how the posters felt about Obama. I mean, after all, isn't the big wigs at the Democrat party saying that they are more unified than ever? Not the case. In fact, the party seems to be breaking strong towards the McCain side, and many agree that they believe the polls are incredibly incorrect.


Below are a few quotes I found from the site:

• "Is everyone beginning to notice that whenever Obama starts tanking in the polls and they all begin to show the first signs of panic, he always "magically" rebounds literally overnight?"
• "Oh, and has anyone noticed that Obama's lead in the RCP average has been cut in half in the past week? I'm not worried. At all."
• "I couldn`t have said it any better myself! I hope the McCain camp makes an ad out of what Biden said and it runs until election day all over the country. I already know of at least 4 bots here in NE OH. who woke up after Biden`s comments and are now going to vote for McCain!"
• "Where have I seen these numbers before?
  
  Oh yeah, replace McCain with Clinton and transport in time to right before the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries. Hahaha! Isn't it justin credible that Obama lost both of those by 9-10 points?
  
  Those undecideds and that Bradley effect are rough, aren't they BHO?
  
  Incredible that the Democratic nominee isn't up by 15 to 20 points across the board in this political climate. Justin credible."

Now this isn't some tiny site either. It is an incredibly active board with over 5,500 members from across the country, many of whom are incredible active in politics in their area and are excellent barometers for what the real climate is on the ground for moderate and blue-collar democrats.

The cards are starting to fall into place folks. It was only a matter of time before the biased polls and media mind control started to fall apart.

On Budget and Taxes, Obama is a 'No Vote'

Senator Barack Obama, who has been running his whole election bid on the economy has a very empty voting record when it comes voting on the budget and taxes. To go along with his lack of experience to begin with, his record on not even voting on his most important issues is very troubling to those who think he might be better on the economy.

Acording to Project Vote Smart, Obama has a staggeringly bad record of even showing up to vote for important budget and tax bills. Over 70% of the time, Obama failed to vote at all. Among these votes were bills on the following issues important to our country:

09/17/2008

Defense Authorizations Bill S 3001

NV

Highlights:

- Provides a 3.9 percent basic pay increase for members of the armed forces (Sec. 601).

- Authorizes $153.55 billion for operations and maintenance

- Authorizes $124.5 billion for military personnel and contributions to the Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Fund

07/31/2008

Higher Education Act Amendments and Extensions HR 4137

NV

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that makes changes to regulations regarding student costs for attending colleges, relationships between colleges and lenders, and student aid.

07/31/2008

Consumer Product Safety Commission Bill HR 4040

NV

Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report that increases funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission and creates new consumer product safety standards.

07/26/2008

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding S 3186

NV

07/26/2008

Housing Bill with Energy Tax Credit Extensions HR 3221

NV

Jim Sumpter's Take: "If you don't vote for Obama, you must be a racist."

The left has worn out the race card this election to the point of outright intimidating White, Asian, Hispanic, Native American voters into believing that if you don't agree with Obama's socialist ideologies, his plans to cut to cut defense spending by 25% in a time of war, and his questionable associations with known terrorists that you must be a racist.

Notice some of the slides in the video that were actually developed by Obama supporters and marketers to help incite racial tension in this race.

Obama's campaign is taking major steps backwards in race relations in this country, by suggesting McCain and his supporters are all racist. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican by the way, would be rolling in his grave.

John Murtha Highlight Reel

Murtha has embarrassed his constituents and his country. Below is a video of just a few of his recent comments, including his lack of military awareness, calling for the surrender of our troops and calling his own district racist and redneck.

Murtha has spent a lot of time and effort grabbing headlines and garnering favors from the fringe liberals on the west coast, yet has done little for his district. Aside from some pork laden projects which hire dozens, his district continues to be one of the poorest in the country.

Murtha's base town of Johnstown, PA has been a financially distressed city for almost 2o years, and after 17 terms in congress, the trend continues to worsen for the city.

Confirmed: MSM Holds Video Of Barack Obama Attending Jew-Bash & Toasting a Former PLO Operative... Refuse to Release the Video!

Courtesy of Gateway Pundit

Friday, October 24, 2008

Confirmed: MSM Holds Video Of Barack Obama Attending Jew-Bash & Toasting a Former PLO Operative... Refuse to Release the Video!

Introduction: The LA Times is holding a video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gives a toast to a former PLO operative at this celebration. If the American public saw this side of Barack Obama he would never be elected president.
But, the media refuses to release this video.

LA Times writer Peter Wallsten wrote about Barack Obama's close association with former Palestinian operative Rashid Khalidi back in April.
Wallsten discussed a dinner held back in 2003 in honor of Khalidi, a critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights.
Barack Obama has denied his close association with Khalidi, too.

According to Wallsten the evening not surprisingly turned into a classic Jew-bash:

"During the dinner a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, "then you will never see a day of peace."

One speaker likened "Zionist settlers on the West Bank" to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been "blinded by ideology."

Barack Obama also praised the former PLO operative during the event.
And, Obama confessed that his family often shared dinner with the Khalidis:

His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases... It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table," but around "this entire world."

...The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.

Khalidi and the Obamas were great friends in Chicago and often shared meals together.
By the way, Khalidi was also best friends with Bill Ayers.

Terrorist Bill Ayers--- Barack Obama--- Jew-hater Rashid Khalidi

On Wednesday I talked with Peter Wallsten from the Los Angeles Times about the article on Obama and Khalidi:

Wallston was one of the few mainstream media reporters to report on this radical Obama associate.

Wallston said that the article was written after he watched video taken at the Khalidi going away party. When I asked him about the video he said that as far as he was concerned he was through with the story.

I asked him if he was planning on releasing this video of Obama toasting the radical Khalidi at this Jew-bash. He told me he was not releasing the video. He also would not comment on his source for the video. Wallston also said he did not know if Khalidi's good friend Bill Ayers was at the event or not.

So, there you have it.
The LA Times has video of Obama toasting a former PLO operative at a Jew-bash but will not release the video.
This is outrageous.
Obviously, this video would do great damage to Obama who struggles with Jewish voters due to his circle of close anti-Semitic friends.
Maybe this is the reason it is not being released?

More on Khalidi---
Not only does Barack Obama's church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a longtime close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi.
Earlier this month Sean Hannity dared to report on Barack and Michelle Obama's radical associate and friend, Rashid Khalidi:


Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi's anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.

In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.

Although he is described as a former PLO operative, via Free Republic, this is what Rashid Khalidi has to say about Palestinian terrorism against Jews-- he said anti-Israel violence contributed to "political enlightenment":

On Palestinian violence. Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out. His loyalty to Palestinian terrorist groups run so deep that he actually dedicated his 1986 valentine to the PLO, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives . . . in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.”[viii] The book whitewashes PLO violence against Israelis and Lebanese, as well as the Syrian occupation.

Khalidi and Ayers were practically best friends.
And, both Ayers and Obama signed the commemorative book given to Khalidi at his going away party:

In Chicago, the Khalidis founded the Arab American Action Network, and Mona Khalidi served as its president. A big farewell dinner was held in their honor by AAAN with a commemorative book filled with testimonials from their friends and political allies. These included the left wing anti-war group Not In My Name, the Electronic Intifada, and the ex-Weatherman domestic terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. (There were also testimonials from then-state Senator Barack Obama and the mayor of Chicago.)

It's hard to imagine that the LA Times would hold onto a video of Sarah Palin praising an anti-Semitic radical and former PLO operative...
But, that is today's mainstream media.

Tom Maguire has more on this radical friend of Barack and Michelle Obama.

Terrorists Cold Calling For Obama

Hamas is Campaigning Openly for Obama
(Courtesy of Monkey in the Middle)

You get a phone call asking you to vote for Barack Hussein Obama and you say no. The caller on the other end is giving you reason after reason to vote for him and will not take no for an answer. You hang up on this rude caller and think that is that. But what you don't know is that the caller for the Obama campaign is actually in Gaza and a member of Hamas.

A Palestinian Authority newspaper reported on Sunday that Arab residents of Gaza are randomly calling Americans at home in hopes of persuading them to vote for Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama in next month's US presidential election.

The article in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, first noted and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, quotes a young man from the Hamas-controlled Gaza region as saying, "We dial random numbers and try to call people [in the United States] without knowing their identity or their affiliation...." He reportedly uses "Internet sites that allow making free calls... in order to use them for the campaign supporting Obama."

Abu Jayyab's freelance phone campaign for Obama in the last weeks of the American presidential race has not been the first time the Illinois senator has gotten such help. An Al-Jazeera TV report during the Democratic primaries featured Abu Jayyab as well, when he was busy organizing calls to American voters to persuade them to vote for Obama over then-candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Other types of assistance have also been forthcoming from Gaza. In July of this year, Pamela Geller of the Atlas Shrugs blog revealed documents purporting to show that the Obama campaign received nearly $30,000 from two brothers living in Rafiah, in Hamas-controlled Gaza, during 2007.

Earlier, during an April 2008 interview with WABC radio and WorldNetDaily, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's Gaza-based political advisor Ahmed Yousef said, "Actually, we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle."

Full Story

Last summer Barack Hussein Obama met with Palestinian leaders. What secret deals did he make with them? Did he promise to invade Israel and give the whole nation to the Palestinians? I wouldn't be surprised if he did. Barack Hussein Obama is an anti-Semite who has sat at the feet of Reverend Wright for 20 years. The same Reverend Wright who thought that Hitler was a great man and didn't go far enough.

Mark my word. This is a prophecy I now give you. If Barack Hussein Obama is elected to the Presidency of the United States, he will find an excuse to invade Israel within 3 years of his Presidency. No wonder why every terrorist group from CAIR to Hizbollah is openly supporting him with money and people.

Obama Compared America to Nazi Germany

Courtesy of The Strata-Sphere

Published by AJStrata at 7:16 am under 2008 Elections, All General Discussions

I knew the 2001 audio tape of Obama lamenting the fact our Constitution doesn’t invite socialistic and marxist dogma to become law easily was not going to be good for The Messiah. I was also stunned that this Harvard educated lawyer (seems anyone can get one of those parchments) did not realize the Supreme Court cannot change the Constitution. That can only be done by We The People through state legislatures and Congress. I know this audio tape, which should have been out in the media a year ago, is really hurting Obama.

But it turns out there is more on that tape that is even worse, where Obama compares America to Hitler’s Nazis:

…just to take a, sort of a realist perspective…there’s a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you’ve got World War II, you’ve got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home.”

H/T LGF. Sounds a lot like something you would hear from Iranian President Ahmedinjeda or Osama Bin Laden, trying to compare the US to Hitler’s thugs and his gas chambers for Jews. I guess, though, it also sadly sounds like something Senator Dick Durbin has said about this great country as well.

Top 5 Reasons Why McCain will Win Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has become one of the most hotly contested states in the country this year in both the primaries and Presidential election and the seemingly invincible blue state is in serious jeopardy of swinging McCain this year. Pennsylvania is a critical state holding over 20 electoral votes and a state in which over 90 percent of the counties vote red. Here's the top 5 Reasons why McCain will Win Pennsylvania.

1. Obama and Polls don't Mix:
Obama has a history of underachieving compared to poll numbers for the states in which held primary elections rather than caucuses. Some people call this the Bradley Effect, while others point to the fact that many of the pollsters (especially those who make up the Real Clear Politics average) tend to lean heavily liberal. Further skewering their polls is the influx of ACORN aided and fraudulent registrations in the state which has made pollsters alter their weightings of respondents choices.

Obama was shelled in the moderate, blue collar state against Clinton in the primary and many view him as out of touch with the state's Democrat population. Further, one can look no further than his 10 percent lead over Clinton in New Hampshire that evaporated in less than 24 hours yielding to a pounding defeat. If Obama is not up by at least 12 percent the day prior to election, Pennsylvania won't be assured. Further, this year, Ralph Nader is actually on the ballot (was not in 2004 when Kerry barely won the state) and is projected to take 1-3 percent from Obama.

2. Obama couldn't Fill the Mellon Arena:
Yesterday, in a rally in Pittsburgh, PA, Obama whose campaign touts the record number of rally attendees drew only 14,000 people at the Mellon Arena. The problem is, the Igloo holds over 17,000+ easily with room to spare for standing room and sells out nightly for Pittsburgh Penguins games. Allegheny County, along with Philadelphia, are traditionally the only two strongholds the Democrats have in the state, and poor showings in attendance don't bode well for the junior Senator.

3. Palin Overfilled the Cambria County War Memorial:
Sarah Palin's rally in Johnstown, PA, (Population under 30,000) a much smaller city, in Cambria county (3 to 1 Democrat registration) had nearly 8,000 people show up to fill a 4,035 seat arena. The heavily controlled Democrat city, under some suspicion, had even tried turning some people away early before an even larger crowd showed up.

4. "Western PA is Racist" and "People from PA are Bitter and Cling to Guns and Religion":
Two quotes that may go down in infamy. First on the hit parade was Gov. Ed Rendell, Democrat from Philadelphia. Rendell, and avid Clinton supporter who some believed may have even been a potential running mate for Clinton had she won, first made comments during the primary that he believed it would be very hard for Obama to win Pennsylvania because many citizens weren't prepared to vote for a black candidate. Further, Rendell who has much clout in the backroom political process of Pennsylvania has been alienated by the Obama camp and hasn't been as enthusiastic about getting out the vote in Pennsylvania for the Democrat ticket as he would of had Clinton won PA. Let's not forget the PUMA issue in PA as well. It's hard to believe that issue would be completely swept off the table either since PA was solid Obama country.

Next, was Obama's quote during a speech in San Francisco that the "People of Pennsylvania are bitter and cling to their guns and religion." Although he has denied he made the statement or spinned it many times, his voice is has been played over and over again saying it. Pennsylvania does have a strong contingent of Pro-Second Amendment Democrats as well as Christian Democrats, and such comments are still leaving a bad taste in the mouth of many residents.

Most recently was Rep. John Murtha's (D) comments that "There's no question that the people of Western Pennsylvania (his own constituents) are racist." Murtha later restated his argument that he didn't mean they were racist, just that they were "backwards, ignorant and rednecks." Murtha, a career politician, is embroiled in a race against retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and veteran William Russell. Russell who was thought to be lucky when he entered to race to gather 20 percent of the votes is now up in some polls by as much as 10-15 percent over Murtha. Adding fuel to the fire is Murtha's attacks on the US Military calling for the heads of Marines accused and acquitted of war crimes, and yet still refuses to apologize. His battle in key Western PA counties will lead many Democrats to not vote straight party line which may have many voters taking a more scrupulous look at each candidate in each election, leading to a loss of an additional 1 to 2 percent for Obama.

5. Pennsylvania's Military Presence:
On the heels of Obama's statements that he wants to cut the defense budget by over 25 percent during a time of war, Pennsylvania's heavy military presence may play a deciding factor. The state has one of the largest Air and Army Guard divisions in the country, with over 20,000 in its ranks combined. While the state is heavily registered Democrat, it is very strong on national defense issues and Obama's threats to gut the DOD will hit close to home with many family's who have members of the military serving in harms way. Despite Obama's promises to ensure defeat out of the sure hands of victory in Iraq, his ability to complete a full retreat is planless and unexecutable. Any cuts in funding to the military will occur with service members still in harms way, and that is dangerous. (Photo Courtesy of Topcover)

Napalm in the Morning: "Is this some sort of joke?"

Well, it sure has been a while since our last episode of Napalm in the Morning. I don't want to say I hit a rut, but I just didn't feel like composing much.

• OBAMA CHANNEL 74: Well folks, the time is near and I half to say I will be looking forward to Nov. 5th. That is unless if we still recieve the OBAMA channel on Dish Network. It really makes you wonder who is funding Obama, especially in light of all of the fraudulent donations he has been receiving. It couldn't possibly be middle eastern and other foriegn money could it? Don't tell me all the poor folks that he is fighting for that don't have any shoes or food for their children are able to pony up millions of millions of dollars each month for his campaign.

• POLLS! I'm starting to have my suspicions that ACORN has a hand in the daily polls across the country too. Especially since the Investors Business Daily Poll (the most accurate poll in the 2004 election) has the race withing 3% (2.8% to be exact) of each other and closing rapidly.

• POLLS (Part 2). Also interesting to note is that the overwhelming majority of Americans who do not "fly the flag" support Obama for President 66-27%. Kind of solidifies my point that the core of Obama's supporters truly hate everything America stands for. (See also Obama Campaign Threw Away American Flags after Speech.)

• WESTERN PA IS RACIST...No, just Redneck and Ignorant: John Murtha has said enough and it looks like LTC William Russell (Ret) has a serious shot of winning. Michelle Malkin's site has him even in the lead. I'm almost afraid of what Murtha will say next. Possible he will put a bill before congress to declare a national Benedict Arnold Day.

• REDISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH = Take money from the people who work to give to the people who don't. I'm all for a hand up, but not a hand out. This is talk I would be expecting to hear coming from Moscow, not Miami. People wonder why the market is down? It's NOT because of the "Failed Policies of GW Bush." It's because any investor with half a brain in his head is pulling his or her money out of the market until the election is over in fear of an Obama victory and the subsequent tax hikes to follow. You people wonder why your IRA and retirements are down and why your boss is closing up shop? OBAMA. Plain and simple.

Shot over.