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I know everyone wants to talk about Obama’s middle name, dissect what his wife or his pastor said, or McCain’s houses or Palin’s *** talk with her daughter or her email password. But I’m going to step away from those vital national issues for a moment and talk about a minor issue of our economy.

McCain - standard Republican stance is deregulation and let free market do its thing. He’s been quoted with “I’m always for less regulation, but I am aware of the view that there is a need for government oversight but I am fundamentally a deregulator.” That was in March. Yesterday, he says he’s for Tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings.” My guess is that he’ll veto any stringent regulations based on his first statement.

Obama - standard Democrat stance. More regulation and more taxes on the wealthiest/corporations. He says this crisis serves as a stark reminder of the failures of crony capitalism and an economic philosophy that sees any regulation at all as unwise and unnecessary. With a Democratic Congress, I’d expect him to sign stringent regulations/tax increases into law.

So I understand that philosophically, Republicans will be Republicans and Democrats will be Democrats. In this current eonomy, whether or not it was the result of Bush and the Republican Congress (6 years, then 2 years of Bush vetoes) or not, what is the best way forward?

Keep it the same and get McCain in and let the free market take its course? Or go with Obama and the typical Democrat way of raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for government created jobs/regulations?

Hillary’s List of Lies
By **** Morris

The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were honest and trustworthy, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll.

Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here’s her scorecard:

Admitted Lies

• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)

Whoppers She Won’t Confess To

• She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?

Why has McCain jumped out to a nine-point lead over Obama and a seven-point lead over Hillary in the latest Rasmussen poll? OK, Obama has had the Rev. Wright mess on his hands. And Hillary has come in for her share of negatives, like the Richardson endorsement of Obama and the denouement of her latest lie — that she endured sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia. But why has McCain gained so much in so short a period of time? Most polls had the general election tied two weeks ago.

McCain’s virtues require a contrast in order to stand out. His strength, integrity, solidity and dependability all are essentially passive virtues, which shine only by contrast with others. Now that Obama and Hillary are offering images that are much weaker, less honest, and less solid and dependable, good old John McCain looks that much better as he tours Iraq and Israel while the Democrats rip one another apart.

It took Nixon for us to appreciate Jimmy Carter’s simple honesty. It took Clinton and Monica for us to value George W. Bush’s personal character. And it takes the unseemly battle among the Democrats for us to give John McCain his due.

When Obama faces McCain in the general election (not if but when) the legacy of the Wright scandal will not be to question Obama’s patriotism or love of America. It will be to ask if he has the right stuff (pardon the pun).

The largest gap between McCain and Obama in the most recent USA Today/Gallup Poll was on the trait of leadership. Asked if each man was a strong, decisive leader, 69 percent felt that the description fit McCain while only 56 percent thought it would apply to Obama. (61 percent said it of Hillary.) Obama has looked weak handling the Rev. Wright controversy. His labored explanation of why he attacks the sin but loves the sinner comes across as elegant but, at the same time, feeble. Obama’s reluctance to trade punches with his opponents makes us wonder if he could trade them with bin Laden or Ahmadinejad. We have no doubt that McCain would gladly come to blows and would represent us well, but about Obama we are not so sure.

Morris, a former political adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of “Outrage.” To get all of **** Morris’s and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by email, go to www.dickmorris.com.

I’ll list it below so you can see it, in case you haven’t. The person that wrote this, and the people that think it great, CAN’T DO MATH!
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80 BILLION DIVIDED BY 200 MILLION EQUALS $425 each! (Not $425,000)!

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Here’s the email:
This sounds like a really great plan. To bad no one will take it seriously
I’m against the $85 BILLION bailout of AIG.

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a ‘We Deserve It’ dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bona fide
U.S. citizens, aged 18+.

Our population is about 301 million counting every man, woman , and
child.

So, 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

Now, divide 200 million, 18+ adults into $85 billion - that equals
$425,000.00 each! ?

Yes, my plan is to give that $425,000 to every adult as a ‘We Deserve It’ dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So, let’s assume a tax rate of
30%. Everyone would pay $127,500.00 in taxes.

That sends $25.5 billion right back to Uncle Sam! It also means that
every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket.

A husband and wife would have $595,000.00!

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00?

* Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved

* Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads

* Put away money for college - it’ll really be there

*Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs

* Buy a new car - create jobs

* Invest in the market - capital drives growth

* Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves

* Enable Deadbeat ?Parents ?to come clean - or else

I’m just wondering if it’s trouble in math that caused this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

George W. Bush brought death and chaos to Iraq on the basis of lies. Now, as he staggers through the last months of his failed presidency, he is trying one more bit of trickery — forcing the Nuri Al-Maliki government to legitimize a long-term military occupation of Iraq in a treaty, which will make that sovereign country an American colony.
– from an editorial in the Arab News, June 8, 2008

Subject: A Golden Rule Foreign Policy

We advocate a Golden Rule foreign policy. We want our government to treat other people as we would want to be treated. Our politicians have not done this. Instead, they’ve used wrongs committed by others to justify wrongs of their own.

It doesn’t matter that our government’s policies may have done some good, or that our politicians may have intended to do only good. What matters is that they’ve done too many things to other people that those people didn’t want.

The above quote of the day reflects widespread Arab and Muslim reaction to the Bush administration’s proposed treaty of permanent occupation with Iraq. We believe the Golden Rule requires us to give these reactions respectful consideration. Would we accept what we’re asking the Iraqi people to accept? The proposed treaty requires that Iraq . . .

Allow the U.S. to build 58 permanent military bases on their soil
Grant U.S. control of Iraqi airspace up to 30,000 feet
Establish immunity from prosecution for U.S. troops and contractors
Permit the U.S. to determine when Iraq is at war with another country (Iran for instance)
Agree to a two year notice to cancel the treaty

Please notice that President Bush wants to impose his preferred policy on the next president. He also asserts that his agreement with Iraq will be an executive accord, NOT subject to ratification by the Senate.

The President’s policy is unconstitutional. It violates the Golden Rule. It’s also dangerous — to YOU.

These treaty proposals, coming in the wake of everything else our government has done — invasions, renditions, torture, lack of due process — massively increase the danger of blowback against the American people. We believe it’s time to downsize the President’s reckless and overreaching foreign policy. But how?

DownsizeDC.org tries to provide you with levers — simple ideas that would do a lot with a little. Our Read the Bills Act, the One Subject at a Time, and the Write the Laws Act, are examples of this approach. We think something similar can be done with Iraq.

We should ask Congress to ask the Iraqi government to hold a yes-no public referendum on the U.S. occupation. It will be hard for either U.S. or Iraqi politicians to argue against letting the Iraqi people have their say. Plus . . .

If the Iraqis vote for us to stay, then much of the Islamic world will accept that decision, but . . .
If they ask us to leave, then the moral problem of we broke it, we own it will disappear, allowing us to leave with grace

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I signed up, we called the congress a couple of weeks ago to force them to have diplomatic efforts with Iran, rather than just threaten them like Bush does. Guess what it worked.
This is not only for that, they keep an eye for us and tell you what is really going on behind the doors and off the cameras.