Jack & Jill Politics

Ronald Reagan Endorses Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfedYAAGEI

Sorry for the length, but I get tired of these mindless trolls. So here is something that a friend complied a while ago to deal with these dolts.

Do The Facts Support John McCain?

1) – If you make less than $112,000 a year as an individual (not household income, individual income) you will pay a lot less in income taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan than under McCain's. You make up part of the 80% of Americans in this category.

If you make between $112,000-$227,000 a year as an individual you will still pay less taxes under Obama's plan than you do right now.

If you make between $227,000-$603,000 a year as an individual you will pay $12 (twelve dollars) more per year than you do right now.

2)- If you get your health insurance through your employer John McCain wants to treat your benefit as taxable income. That will push many Americans into a higher income bracket meaning you could pay thousands per year more in taxes.

3) – If you think corporations don't pay enough taxes you aren't alone. According to the non-partisan GAO about 2/3 of US Corporations paid no taxes at some point between 1998-2005. Despite this John McCain wants to cut the corporate tax rate by a whopping 10% in addition to increased first year write-offs which will ultimately cost us about 1.3 trillion dollars.

4) – If you think oil companies aren't paying their fair share, you aren't alone. Exxon Mobil just recorded the highest profit for any corporation in history (again). Despite this fact John McCain wants to slash their taxes by 10% and not take back the 14 billion dollars in tax payer subsidies that the Republicans in Congress fought to give oil companies.

5)- If you think Republicans are not fiscally responsible you aren't alone. Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican Presidents. Republican Ronald Reagan borrowed more money than all presidents before him, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter, combined. Now George Bush may borrow even more more than Reagan. Democratic president Bill Clinton is the only president in the last 30 years to finish with a budget surplus.

6) – If you think borrowing trillions of dollars from foreign countries to put on a Giant National Credit Card is a bad idea, you're not alone. We pay hundreds of billions of dollars in interest only payments on our debt each year, meaning our tax dollars are flushed down the toilet for things that no longer benefit us, assuming they ever did. Higher debt means our money is worth less which makes gas, food and just about everything else more expensive. A conservative estimate is that the US dollar has lost over 27% of its value since the year 2000.

7)- If you think middle class families do better financially with a Democrat as president, you aren't alone. According to research out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.

8) – If you think focusing on which (current and former) candidates wear a flag pin is a waste of time that distracts us from real issues, you're not alone. After all, why should it bother you that Hillary Clinton and John McCain don't wear a flag pin?

9) – Some people say you can judge someone based on the company they keep. That's interesting, because John McCain went out of his way to get the endorsement of Reverend Hagee. Most people have never heard of Hagee, possibly because according to a non-partisan study, while the media has in fact spent more talking about Obama (than McCain) most of that time has been spent saying negative things about him.

How else could you explain that fact that so few people know that McCain's Reverend Hagee referred to the Catholic Church as “the great whore” or that he believes and is on tape having said that “Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will For Israel”? And that's in addition to the inflammatory comments he's made regarding many other groups including women.

Also, McCain aids, advisers and fundraisers have made about $1 BILLION DOLLARS from corporate sponsors. I guess that explains why McCain's policies mostly benefit the richest and most powerful among us?

10) – Finally, many people believe you can judge a man by how he treats his family, and adultery is incredibly serious to people (and of course it's the topic of The 7th Commandment).

Some people are aware that John McCain cheated on his first wife Carol with his current wife Cindy (who was 18 years younger and quite wealthy), but they aren't aware that John's wife Carol was in a horrible, disfiguring car accident before the affair began.

In light of all of this information you have to ask yourself: If the facts don't support John McCain, why should you?

Who ever said our current president has a degree from Harvard needs to get his or hers facts straight, He has a degree from Yale. He graduated bottom of his class. That doesn't
change the fact that he is a dummy of epic proportion. I don't understand the right wing, intelligence is seen as elite. I don't know about the rest of you but I want my president to be smarter than me. Obama will win because he is smarter, has better policies and has stuck to the issues that are important to the American people. I believe we will leave racism in the gutter where it belongs. If anyone is on the fenc, think about your family and future, then think about the candidate who has inspired Hope and change.
Then think about about the candidate who is preaching fear and division. Lastly ask yourself are we better as a nation than we were 8 years ago? If you consider those points your answer will be easy as to who to cast your vote for on Tuesday Nov 4th BARACK OBAMA!!!!!!!!

I'm 27 years old, and my generation is inheriting a country that is in decline. Our environment is a disaster, our water is polluted, chronic disease is running rampant amongst the American people, and America has the highest level of child poverty than any other country in the developed world. The last eight years have made the rich richer, and the poor poorer. I watched the last eight years of failed policies push my hard working ditch digging father into the working poor category. He filed bankruptcy last year because he couldn't afford his medical bills.

The level of human suffering amongst the working poor is unacceptable. I still can't fathom for the life of me why we find it perfectly acceptable for people to suffer just because they don't make a lot of money. What kind of American dream is that?

I'm voting for Obama because he doesn't come from privilege. He was brought up in modest circumstances and he really understands the struggles and hardship plaguing the working family. He encourages us to take initiative and get involved in our community, and by working together we can make the country a fair and just society.

I respect and admire John McCain very much. I would have rather spent the last eight years with him being the president instead of George W. Bush. I think America needs to head in a different direction if we're ever going to be able to compete in this global economy we created. I happen to think that person is Barack Obama.

I have to correct Bob on one thing. “W” did his undergraduate work at Yale, and his graduate studies at Harvard.

However, his point about “W” being the biggest jackass to hold that office is on point.

Obama is going to CRUSH Senator Grumpy McNasty on Tuesday.

He's going to humiliate Caribou Barbie.

McBush ran a lousy campaign, and not all the racists, and lobbyists, and sleazy tactics in the world are going to give the election to him.

McBush should have been throwing “W” under the bus at every campaign stop, instead he said “they shared a philosophy.”

And offering to tax my health care premiums? Thanks, John. Oh..and fuck you too.

And a guy (McBush) who has SEVEN houses and a wife who made FOUR MILLION DOLLARS last year, can't really be serious when he says “I'm looking out for JOE THE PLUMBER.” Can he?

Senator McBush? Governor Squareglasses?

Fuck you both.

I completely agree. Can one Obama supporter explain what he has ever done in his life to make him a capable president? Can you explain how you expect him to miraculously acquire the ability to “fix” everything without any experience? He's made a whole lot of promises but doesn't seem to have any answers when it comes to fulfilling them.

“I guess your response speaks for itself.

Please show me in my post where I accused McCain supporters of being racists. Thank you.

I don't see why Obama supporters are trying to use the old speech from Ronald Reagan to help support thier campaign. They went to great lengths to have an deceases individual to help their cause. This whole election is so far out of hand this year that it wouldn't suprise me if many Americans voted for Mickey Mouse because it seems like we would be better off. This election it seems that we all have the desicion to vote for the lesser of the two evils. When Americans vote today, don't just vote for the canidates color of skin. Vote for the one who brought subjects to light that hit close to home.

On this fine day I voted for “None Of The Above” to be President.

Me, I'm almost 30 LOL and I know exactly what Obama will do he is for the Middle Class and thats what I am, Middle Class. Mccain is just like Bush he will screw us again and again!! He is a freakin lobbyist!! He is not what this country needs we NEED CHANGE! I mean a complete 360 in policies and Obama is that. He has a vision and he will stick to it! We need Universal Health care and a tax break for the Middle Class, Obama will tax the rich not us! I don't care if he cut the military, because I'm thinking of my fellow Middle Class hard working neighbors that need someone for the people!! Also all my battle buddies that went to Iraq have decided Bush screwed up so much they want a president that will stop the fighting not keep fighting. Obama is the president that will stop it!! We all hate how we went into Iraq and want to get out fast!! As long as we leave Gates in place as Secretary of Defense we will be fine in the military. Obama will also keep Gates in power he has already said that!! Also I'm sorry for the insult as long as you are also. Go Obama!! GO ARMY HOOAH!

I can see that you have some rhetoric of your own. The broken record that uses words like eloquence, rhetoric, articulate, etc to describe the now President Elect of this great nation OR rather this nation via to become great again shows you have been really listening. However, you only hear what you want when you use filters like that for one speaker and not for the other. McCain has not told me how I personally would be better off with him because he has no specifics. Giving my whole family a $5000 credit OR even an actual refund to use for health care will not make a dent in the $11,400 that my family health plan costs. I pay half and my employer pays the rest FOR NOW. I doubt he will continue to pay it OR ever cover my college age kid when he finds out that the money used to pay BOTH halfs will be taxed under McCains plan. You and I, if listening, heard Obama say I can keep my health care plan that I have with my employer but under his plan, my 19yr old can be covered. OUTSIDE of health care, I and my husband have a COMBINED income of $55,000. Obama has said, there again we both heard him if we listened, that our taxes will be lowered BY tax cuts for saving, education, mortgage costs, and childcare so that our taxes are 20% less. I want the capital gains taxes cut on my small, small business. Its small like $25,000/ year and Obama will eliminate taxes on all capital gains I earn on investments made with that money. I would guess that you make much more money than me. Therefore, you should have voted for McCain as I am sure you did. If Obama does not follow through, I am far from a first time voter; its not beyond me to vote again. P.S. Get use to the fact that we have a new president, he's darker than us BUT that does not define him. As for healing this ecomomy, maybe he can't. However, more deregulation and coporate tax breaks for multi-mil corps, which McCain has supported, is NOT the solution.