Socialist Convention Day 3
August 29th 2008 05:05
I skipped day 2 of the Socialist National Convention. I was working Tuesday night and have Hillary on DVR, but I’m sure it’s just more of the trite stuff I saw last night. So, on to night number 3 . . .
President Slick Willy
It cracked me up when the song they opened with for Bill Clinton was “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, it will be here, better than before, yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.” Then they had him get up and give a speech about how awesome he and his wife are and how B.O. is going to be great too.
What a difference a month makes! Barack Obama who still has never actually held a hearing by his subcommittee and still doesn’t have two years in the U.S. Senate under his belt went from an inexperienced joke for President Clinton to ready to lead! Amazing. What experience did he gain the last few weeks? Campaigning?
The speech was full of Clinton advancement. They can’t help mentioning over and over again that they got 18 million votes. He praised his own accomplishments, though he made it sound like the NEGATIVE .49% GDP growth he left President Bush was an economic boom! He took credit for all kinds of reforms, when it was a Republican House and Senate that repeatedly sent welfare reform and tax changes to him until he signed them.
Understand, I think the President can influence the economy, but there are always factors that are beyond his control. Just like a quarterback can’t take credit for every win or blame for every loss, a President can’t take the blame for every bad thing that happens. The recession was not the fault Clinton or the Republican legislatures, in my opinion, but a result of the Internet stock bubble burst. A lot of people lost their shirts, that’s what happens when things like stocks in a new industry or an overheated mortgage market bursts. However, to act like he left the country in great shape ignores that this happened.
To compare his level of experience in 1990 to Barack’s and imply that Barack is ready from that is ridiculous. Bill ran Arkansas for eight years as governor, an executive position. I believe, and you can find many people that agree with me if you know how to use search engines, that Bill’s bad handling of the Kenya bombing, Somalia debacle, Cole bombing and no-fly zones emboldened Al-Qaida. His administration bears a lot of the responsibility for the 9/11, since those cells came in, got ready and planned their attack under his watch. And Bush’s economic record, even with 9/11, Katrina and everything else is better than Clinton’s.
Barack Obama sued to remove all his opponents from the ballot when he first ran for State Senate (from CNN report after Saddleback). So he won unopposed. For U.S. Senate his opponent had to leave the ticket in disgrace and the Republicans threw the pompous Alan Keyes in his place. Really no way to lose that. The man hasn’t even been tested in elections until this year.
He called Iran a “tiny” country that we don’t need to worry about. Um, it’s building nuclear weapons capability and their leader has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel. It’s been testing launching a warhead from a boat to give it the ability to do an EMP burst high level nuclear explosion of the U.S., crippling our infrastructure (both Bush and Clinton have stripped our hardening against this kind of attack).
Obama isn’t ready to be President. Biden said it didn’t lend itself to on the job training, and no matter what he said Wednesday night, he was right when he said it earlier in the year.
Back to President Clinton’s speech. He said Barack Obama is ready to defend the constitution. Yet, he would sign the “Fairness Doctrine,” if it managed to make it out of the congress, which is the biggest attack on free speech and private business this country has seen since the McCarthy era. Dems even want to try to expand the fairness doctrine to cover the internet – yeah, good luck with that. When this ad came out, Obama immediately used his position as Senator to try to get the Department of Justice to prevent it from playing. The ad is highly documented, every quote with references to where the info came from. One of Obama’s statements about Ayers came from barackobama.com.
Stopping accurate speech just because it’s dissent and you don’t like it isn’t protecting the constitution.
And again, of course, Clinton lied about the state of the country. Yes, there’s a housing crisis and prices are rising, but the 2nd quarter GDP rose 3.3%. According to the Census Bureau, the number of uninsured fell so far in 2008. And those numbers include non-citizens and "transient" uninsured. The actual count is much lower.
Corporate tax breaks were also attacked again. Let’s break this down. Employed people are most likely to get health insurance, retirement and other benefits from a corporation, rather than a small business employer. So, corporations are the best for people to work for. America has the highest corporate tax rate in the world, which is part of the reason for corporate flight overseas. Also, most of those “tax breaks” were incentive based to invest in America or improve their health insurance coverage, etc. To demonize corporations, who employ 20% of our work force, as not deserving of an environment in America that is conducive to being here is just plain deceptive and wrong.
But it’s typical liberal talking points.
In Between Clinton and Biden
Sean Hannity interviewed the governor of Montana, Schwitzer I think his name is, and asked him to name one accomplishment of Barack Obama, just one thing he has done. The governor said he is a man of integrity. So Sean pushed and Schwiter went on some non-sequitor little speech about how nobody in Montana trusts Washington people and Barack is from Illinois. Again, pointing out Barack has been in the Senate such a short time he can’t even be called as a Washington D.C. person.
Then Dukakis was on and Sean asked him the same question. Dukakis couldn’t name one, again trying to list integrity as an accomplishment. Pressed a third time, he finally said, look, Iraq is using Obama’s blueprint for withdrawal, Obama’s policy is being implemented. Ok, let’s see. Obama said 16 months, and the current agreement says out by 2011. I’m no math major, but that’s more than 16 months. But the part that really made me mad about this statement is the refusal to credit the surge and the troops. It is them that put us on track to the political stability that allows withdrawal to even be discussed. You can see a great ad about this at this link.
Biden
Again, has dramatically changed his mind on Obama. So, all it takes for Barack to go from not ready to ready is to name you VP? And here is the order for most liberal Senators: Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, Joe Biden. So, here’s a man that votes the same as Obama that’s been saying John McCain is better qualified for months that all of a sudden thinks Obama is now ready?
Biden trotted out that rhetorical tripe they’ve been spouting at the convention: Americans wonder how they’ll pay for college. It’s well documented that our universities have become liberal bastions. Yet they continue to build beautiful new buildings (like at my university I won’t name, hint: oldest in the west) but have themselves raised the price of tuition over and over again. Catch that? If Obama gets his way with paying for people’s college outright, the money will go to: liberals running universities. They are trying to enrich themselves.
My own personal opinion on this: the availability and unlimited nature of school loans. The government has made it possible to go to any school, rack up massive debt to pay for it, and the university is off the hook. So, the university racks up the dough from the loan and the student is stuck trying to pay a bank or one of the Maes back and anybody can “afford” college, at least while they are going, no matter what the universities charge. Thus, they don’t have to work to keep tuition low because there’s an “unlimited” amount of money to go to college.
Biden totally contradicted his standing on war and rogue nations as well. He told stories about how his dad kept telling him, "You get up, you get knocked down you keep getting up and you keep getting up and you keep getting up," and then his mom said, "You do more than get up, you get out there and you go bloody the nose of the bully." So, how exactly has he applied this in his political career? By voting against the surge? By voting against driving Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991?
Then this man who has praised McCain in the past, who is supposedly his friend, repeated the misleading statistic that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Included in these votes are votes to honor the Giants for winning the Super bowl and other little things like that. 90% of what is voted on in the Senate is unanimous votes on little things like this. Truth is:
- McCain told President Bush to do “the surge” way before Bush did it. And the surge worked. It took Patraeus to make Bush see McCain was right.
- McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts, saying at the time it was because it was weighted too much towards the rich. Now McCain says it needed spending cuts to go along with it too.
- McCain, and I totally disagree with him on this, was one of the first to push for action against climate change. (which is a total farce by the way to increase our taxes. 31,000 scientists say so and there’s a ton more evidence every day that we are now back in a cooling trend.)
McCain has bucked both parties for the good of America, and while he’s sometimes wrong, he has the years of experience to recognize he’s imperfect. Lord Barry of the Temple of Barack Obama is too arrogant to think he’s anything but right. In case you haven’t seen it yet, you really need to watch this ad.
And McCain is truly a class act.
Tomorrow, after I get to watch Lord Barry’s speech, I’ll comment some more, but for tonight, I’m done.
President Slick Willy
It cracked me up when the song they opened with for Bill Clinton was “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, it will be here, better than before, yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.” Then they had him get up and give a speech about how awesome he and his wife are and how B.O. is going to be great too.
What a difference a month makes! Barack Obama who still has never actually held a hearing by his subcommittee and still doesn’t have two years in the U.S. Senate under his belt went from an inexperienced joke for President Clinton to ready to lead! Amazing. What experience did he gain the last few weeks? Campaigning?
The speech was full of Clinton advancement. They can’t help mentioning over and over again that they got 18 million votes. He praised his own accomplishments, though he made it sound like the NEGATIVE .49% GDP growth he left President Bush was an economic boom! He took credit for all kinds of reforms, when it was a Republican House and Senate that repeatedly sent welfare reform and tax changes to him until he signed them.
Understand, I think the President can influence the economy, but there are always factors that are beyond his control. Just like a quarterback can’t take credit for every win or blame for every loss, a President can’t take the blame for every bad thing that happens. The recession was not the fault Clinton or the Republican legislatures, in my opinion, but a result of the Internet stock bubble burst. A lot of people lost their shirts, that’s what happens when things like stocks in a new industry or an overheated mortgage market bursts. However, to act like he left the country in great shape ignores that this happened.
To compare his level of experience in 1990 to Barack’s and imply that Barack is ready from that is ridiculous. Bill ran Arkansas for eight years as governor, an executive position. I believe, and you can find many people that agree with me if you know how to use search engines, that Bill’s bad handling of the Kenya bombing, Somalia debacle, Cole bombing and no-fly zones emboldened Al-Qaida. His administration bears a lot of the responsibility for the 9/11, since those cells came in, got ready and planned their attack under his watch. And Bush’s economic record, even with 9/11, Katrina and everything else is better than Clinton’s.
Barack Obama sued to remove all his opponents from the ballot when he first ran for State Senate (from CNN report after Saddleback). So he won unopposed. For U.S. Senate his opponent had to leave the ticket in disgrace and the Republicans threw the pompous Alan Keyes in his place. Really no way to lose that. The man hasn’t even been tested in elections until this year.
He called Iran a “tiny” country that we don’t need to worry about. Um, it’s building nuclear weapons capability and their leader has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel. It’s been testing launching a warhead from a boat to give it the ability to do an EMP burst high level nuclear explosion of the U.S., crippling our infrastructure (both Bush and Clinton have stripped our hardening against this kind of attack).
Obama isn’t ready to be President. Biden said it didn’t lend itself to on the job training, and no matter what he said Wednesday night, he was right when he said it earlier in the year.
Back to President Clinton’s speech. He said Barack Obama is ready to defend the constitution. Yet, he would sign the “Fairness Doctrine,” if it managed to make it out of the congress, which is the biggest attack on free speech and private business this country has seen since the McCarthy era. Dems even want to try to expand the fairness doctrine to cover the internet – yeah, good luck with that. When this ad came out, Obama immediately used his position as Senator to try to get the Department of Justice to prevent it from playing. The ad is highly documented, every quote with references to where the info came from. One of Obama’s statements about Ayers came from barackobama.com.
Stopping accurate speech just because it’s dissent and you don’t like it isn’t protecting the constitution.
And again, of course, Clinton lied about the state of the country. Yes, there’s a housing crisis and prices are rising, but the 2nd quarter GDP rose 3.3%. According to the Census Bureau, the number of uninsured fell so far in 2008. And those numbers include non-citizens and "transient" uninsured. The actual count is much lower.
Corporate tax breaks were also attacked again. Let’s break this down. Employed people are most likely to get health insurance, retirement and other benefits from a corporation, rather than a small business employer. So, corporations are the best for people to work for. America has the highest corporate tax rate in the world, which is part of the reason for corporate flight overseas. Also, most of those “tax breaks” were incentive based to invest in America or improve their health insurance coverage, etc. To demonize corporations, who employ 20% of our work force, as not deserving of an environment in America that is conducive to being here is just plain deceptive and wrong.
But it’s typical liberal talking points.
In Between Clinton and Biden
Sean Hannity interviewed the governor of Montana, Schwitzer I think his name is, and asked him to name one accomplishment of Barack Obama, just one thing he has done. The governor said he is a man of integrity. So Sean pushed and Schwiter went on some non-sequitor little speech about how nobody in Montana trusts Washington people and Barack is from Illinois. Again, pointing out Barack has been in the Senate such a short time he can’t even be called as a Washington D.C. person.
Then Dukakis was on and Sean asked him the same question. Dukakis couldn’t name one, again trying to list integrity as an accomplishment. Pressed a third time, he finally said, look, Iraq is using Obama’s blueprint for withdrawal, Obama’s policy is being implemented. Ok, let’s see. Obama said 16 months, and the current agreement says out by 2011. I’m no math major, but that’s more than 16 months. But the part that really made me mad about this statement is the refusal to credit the surge and the troops. It is them that put us on track to the political stability that allows withdrawal to even be discussed. You can see a great ad about this at this link.
Biden
Again, has dramatically changed his mind on Obama. So, all it takes for Barack to go from not ready to ready is to name you VP? And here is the order for most liberal Senators: Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, Joe Biden. So, here’s a man that votes the same as Obama that’s been saying John McCain is better qualified for months that all of a sudden thinks Obama is now ready?
Biden trotted out that rhetorical tripe they’ve been spouting at the convention: Americans wonder how they’ll pay for college. It’s well documented that our universities have become liberal bastions. Yet they continue to build beautiful new buildings (like at my university I won’t name, hint: oldest in the west) but have themselves raised the price of tuition over and over again. Catch that? If Obama gets his way with paying for people’s college outright, the money will go to: liberals running universities. They are trying to enrich themselves.
My own personal opinion on this: the availability and unlimited nature of school loans. The government has made it possible to go to any school, rack up massive debt to pay for it, and the university is off the hook. So, the university racks up the dough from the loan and the student is stuck trying to pay a bank or one of the Maes back and anybody can “afford” college, at least while they are going, no matter what the universities charge. Thus, they don’t have to work to keep tuition low because there’s an “unlimited” amount of money to go to college.
Biden totally contradicted his standing on war and rogue nations as well. He told stories about how his dad kept telling him, "You get up, you get knocked down you keep getting up and you keep getting up and you keep getting up," and then his mom said, "You do more than get up, you get out there and you go bloody the nose of the bully." So, how exactly has he applied this in his political career? By voting against the surge? By voting against driving Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991?
Then this man who has praised McCain in the past, who is supposedly his friend, repeated the misleading statistic that McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Included in these votes are votes to honor the Giants for winning the Super bowl and other little things like that. 90% of what is voted on in the Senate is unanimous votes on little things like this. Truth is:
- McCain told President Bush to do “the surge” way before Bush did it. And the surge worked. It took Patraeus to make Bush see McCain was right.
- McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts, saying at the time it was because it was weighted too much towards the rich. Now McCain says it needed spending cuts to go along with it too.
- McCain, and I totally disagree with him on this, was one of the first to push for action against climate change. (which is a total farce by the way to increase our taxes. 31,000 scientists say so and there’s a ton more evidence every day that we are now back in a cooling trend.)
McCain has bucked both parties for the good of America, and while he’s sometimes wrong, he has the years of experience to recognize he’s imperfect. Lord Barry of the Temple of Barack Obama is too arrogant to think he’s anything but right. In case you haven’t seen it yet, you really need to watch this ad.
And McCain is truly a class act.
Tomorrow, after I get to watch Lord Barry’s speech, I’ll comment some more, but for tonight, I’m done.
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