George Bush is a total failure. 

I was right and I got shit for it. No one even wanted to hear my, as it turned out, SOLID reasoning. I have every right to point out that I knew WHY he would win back in Feb. Sorry, if that makes you feel angry enough to put some snotty spin on it. Naturally, you are too "cool" to be interested in how I got it right, naw, better to make yourself look "cool" and learn nothing.

Looks like the media won't have Palin to kick around tomorrow...

A SUNDAY MORNING BOYCOTT.... If I didn't know better, I might think the McCain campaign lacked confidence in Sarah Palin.

This Sunday, November 2, is the final Sunday before Tuesday's highly anticipated presidential election. Gov. Sarah Palin has thus far opted not to participate in what has become a campaign ritual: Interviews on the various Sunday talk show programs.

Well, all of the major Sunday talk shows -- NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Fox's "Fox News Sunday," ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" and CBS's "Face the Nation" -- have now announced their weekend lineups and none were able to land an interview with the Alaska governor, just days before the election.

It should be noted: The last vice presidential candidate to avoid NBC's "Meet the Press" -- long a ratings and gravitas champ among its competitors -- was...Dan Quayle.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015472.php

Too bad. She has so much to teach us...

Adjusted Gross Income for top 1% = $1.6 trillion

Adjusted Gross Income for bottom 99% = $5.9 trillion


So according to your own source, the top 1% of tax payers earn a third of what the bottom 99% make?

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AGI for top 5% = $2.7 trillion

AGI for bottom 95% = $4.8 trillion


And the top 5% of tax payers make over HALF of what the bottom 95% make?





This is disgusting.

I'm sorry, I'm not a Marxist, but I can't really pitty a group that has such ridiculous economic wealth compared to the rest of their countrymen.

At the same time they say never feel sorry for a man with a plane and I sure the hell don't. For every person who worked hard to get rich in this country the right way there's another one who's cheated there way, killed people, married the right person for welathy gain, and destroyed people's lives to get rich and wealthy. And for every one of those there's 3 who just happened to be born under the right family and have got it made the rest of there lives, didn't have to do any work at all because there multi-million dollar grand daddy handed it down to them. Talk about an easy life. So really I don't feel sorry for the rich when most of them have had it made all there lives. The ones who worked hard to get where they are like Bill Gates sure the hell doesn't mind giving his money to help people and not screw the middle class. But those roots are not there for the corrupt and spoiled. When people file for UI (unemployment) it's probably legit because there's no good paying jobs around because the rich like to hand them out to mexicans and cheap labor.

so he will raise taxes on his first 100 days and surrender in iraq... good selling points.

The lesson to be learned from Joe the Plumber is that some people can't see their own self-interest past their ideology.

Joe is sure that Obama will raise his taxes, and yet if he's actually middle class he'll be better off under Obama than McCain. Obama will lower his taxes more than McCain will, assuming that Joe's actually middle class, or upper middle, or even lower upper class.

Of course, if Joe suddenly does really well, then the portion of his income that's over $250,000 will be taxed at the rates of the 1990s, before Bush's irresponsible, budget-busting tax cuts for the rich.

McCain scoffs at the idea that someone earning $250,000 a year is "rich." And I agree, a cool quarter million a year doesn't go as far as it used to. For example, it's not even as much as McCain spends on his household staff every year. And it certainly wouldn't be enough to maintain McCain's private jet that he uses to visit his 7 houses and 13 cars.

But the great majority of Americans would love to earn "only" $250,000 even once in their lives.

I believe that Joe the plumber was a plant. I believe that the McCain campaign had this orchestrated weeks ago and that the plans went ahead even though Barack answered the guys loaded question in a polite and accurate way, with disarming honesty. Anyone who takes the time to listen to Obama's concise and attentive answer realizes that even if Joe were a real plumber who was really planning to buy his bosses company and even if it were to make more than $250,000 profit, Joe the lying sack of shit pretend plumber would still be better off under an Obama administration.
 When republicans pretend to be populists who are looking out for the common guy's best interests they come off looking like the lying, crass conmen that they are. Hilarious!

This is from David Sedaris of National Public Radio:

"To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?"
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked."

I can't agree more. The choice is embarrassingly stark. To be undecided says way more about the voter than the choices offered.
imho

Here's one reason, among many, many others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc&feature=email

The answer to the question isn't that hard. But she actually argues for reducing spending at the same time she's supposedly explaining why a $700 billion bailout is necessary. It's gibberish. Pure garbage.

Yesterday there was this:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

Meanwhile, desperate and clueless, McCain is now accusing Obama of being a "Socialist" because Obama is promising to rescind the same tax cuts that McCain himself opposed in 2000 and 2003.

McCain and Palin isn't a ticket, it's a sitcom.

Wow Patton, you really put a lot of stock in those stars, don't you? Far more than I do. Still, I gotta love this endorsement.

Did you notice what Powell said about the Republican Party? "I have some concerns with the direction the party has taken in recent years. It has moved more to the right than I would like to see it, but that's a choice the party makes."

I've been saying that for years. He notes that in the past couple of months the GOP's message has become "narrower and narrower" while Obama's seeks to cross lines--racial, ethnic, generational. "He's thinking that all towns have values, not just small towns have values."

Powell went on to sharply criticize McCain's tactics of trying to associate Obama with Ayres while so many important issues are on the table.
View Powell's interview here: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/015259.php

Powell also said a black president would be electifying... heh

This decision is based on race and abortion. 

The reason why the right keeps this guy on topic, is b/c they are baiting the dems into attacking the guy.  Biden made the mistake and took it...the thing is, no matter how ill informed this joe guy is, it looks bad when senators make fun of and/or attack a blue collar guy who is just trying to better himself.

Its a good tactic...I don't if it can help at this stage in the game though.