Military Wives Support Obama Video

Blue Star Families for Obama launched a video which talks about why thousands of military families across America are supporting Barack Obama.

Obama's New Economic Proposals Condensed Version

— for the next two years, give businesses a $3,000 income-tax credit for each new full-time employee they hire above the number in their current workforce;

— allow savers with tax-favored Individual Retirement Accounts and 401(k)’s to withdraw 15 percent of those retirement savings, up to a maximum of $10,000, without paying a tax penalty as the law currently requires for withdrawals before age 59 and a half;

— bar financial institutions that take advantage of the Treasury’s rescue plan from foreclosing on the mortgages of any homeowners who are making “good-faith efforts” to make payments;

— direct the Treasury and the Federal Reserve to create a temporary facility for loans to state and local governments, similar to the Fed’s new arrangement to loan corporations money by buying their commercial paper, which are the I.O.U.s that help businesses with daily operating expenses like payrolls.

-- double by another $25 billion the government loan guarantees for automakers and to temporarily eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits.

-- proposed eliminating all capital gains taxes on investments in small businesses and start-up companies, proposed an additional tax incentive through next year to encourage new small business investment.

-- creating a Jobs and Growth Fund that will provide money to states and local communities so that they can move forward with projects to rebuild and repair our roads, our bridges, and our schools.

-- already proposed a middle-class tax cut for 95% of workers and their families, today called on Congress to pass a plan so that the IRS will mail out the first round of those tax cuts as soon as possible. We should also extend and expand unemployment benefits to those Americans who have lost their jobs and are having a harder time finding new ones in this weak economy.

-- a mortgage tax credit for struggling homeowners worth 10% of the interest you pay on your mortgage. Change the unfair bankruptcy laws that allow judges to write down your mortgage if you own six or seven homes, but not if you have only one. And for all those cities and small towns that are facing a choice between cutting services like health care and education or raising property taxes, provide the funding to prevent those tax hikes from happening.

-- Treasury should not limit itself to purchasing mortgage-backed securities – it should help unfreeze markets for individual mortgages, student loans, car loans, and credit card loans.. And I think we need to do even more to make loans available in two very important areas of our economy: small businesses and communities.

-- proposed Small Business Rescue Plan that would create an emergency lending fund to lend money directly to small businesses that need cash for their payroll or to buy inventory. As we did after 9/11, and it allowed us to get low-cost loans out to tens of thousands of small businesses. Make it easier for private lenders to make small business loans by expanding the Small Business Administration's loan guarantee program. By temporarily eliminating fees for borrowers and lenders, we can unlock the credit that small firms need to pay their workers and keep their doors open. proposed that we maintain the ability of states and local communities that are struggling to maintain basic services without raising taxes to continue to get the credit they need.

John Wrong Way Peachfuzz McCain Mimics Cartoon Character

It's funny how Peter Wrongway Peachfuzz of the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series life story closely mimics that of John McCain. Both came from a navy family, both were not very good at staying out of trouble when following family traditions and both came into lots of money unexpectedly. Peachfuzz inherited his money from a rich Aunt and McCain married a beer heiress. Oh, and both were very. lets say, erratic.

Palin Claim To Be "Business Owner" Fails To Point Out Both Failed

Sarah Palin claims that, along with all her executive experience, that she was a "business owner". What she doesn't say is that the two attempts to start a small business failed, and that neither business ever earned a dime.

Right Wing And McCain Attacks On Freddie Frannie Not Backed Up By Facts

Once again right wing radio and commentators and the McCain campaign claims that the sub prime mortgage crisis was caused by lending to poor and minority clients by Freddie and Fannie are not backed up by the facts. God what a surprise. The real problem is traced to private sector unregulated lending practices.

This report, once again, makes one wonder if McClatchy is the only remaining large news service in this country that cares about facts?

"Commentators say that's what triggered the stock market meltdown and the freeze on credit. They've specifically targeted the mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which the federal government seized on Sept. 6, contending that lending to poor and minority Americans caused Fannie's and Freddie's financial problems.Federal housing data reveal that the charges aren't true, and that the private sector, not the government or government-backed companies, was behind the soaring subprime lending at the core of the crisis."

Fisheries Service Ruling May Slow Development Along Washington Rivers

A National Marine Fisheries Service ruling resulting from a lawsuit brought by environmental groups may slow future development along Cascade mountain rivers flowing into Puget Sound. The suit was brought because of a claim by environmentalists that development jeopardized endangered salmon, steelhead and killer whales. The effect of the ruling could shape future construction in floodplains nationwide.

via: McClatchy

Ultimate Hockey Mom Booed By Real Hockey Fans

Booing Philadelphia Flyer Hockey fans welcomed ultimate hockey mom Sarah Palin when she dropped a ceremonial puck to open the NHL season in the city of brotherly love Saturday night.

What Your Run Of The Mill Racist And Palin Supporter Looks Like

A man who attended a Sarah Palin rally on Saturday in Philadelphia was caught on tape waiving a monkey doll with an Obama sticker wrapped around the head. Your typical Republican racist I guess. He looks a bit sheepish once he realizes that he's being filmed.


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It Seems All McCain Has Left Now Is The Wingnuts Wack Jobs

There's been lots of talk about the anger and negativity of the McCain campaign lately. Lots is being said about the makeup and tenor of the crowds that he is attracting. Several videos like this one are borderline scary.

One of the problems I see is that most of these people that are showing up at his rallies appear to be only die hard wing nuts and ideologues . The mob mentality rules. I think it's partly because that is the only demographic that's left for McCain. You could give these folks some torches and pitchforks and give them a part in a Dracula B movie.

If you watch these interviews and reports it seems that everyone is borderline nuts that showing up at these rallies. A guest on The Rachel Maddow show today who travels with the campaign said that the people who are now showing up at the McCain Palin rallies are not the same type of people who were showing up several months ago. To paraphrase. "There used to be one of two kooks showing up, that would to be suspected for any political rally, but now all there are it seems are wingnuts".

Investigation Concludes That Palin Broke Alaska State Law

Investigation concludes that Palin broke Alaska State law developing. I'm watching the report on Hardball now. Here's the story from Anchorage Daily News. Here the PDF file full report.

Rossi Lying About Sex Offenders

Nobody has any sympathy for a sex offender. Which may be the right position, but who knows really. The Washington State Republican Party has known for a long time that with the history of this problem there is no way for Democrats to nuance the issue of sex offenders and how the State should deal with them. For most citizens it’s simply put them in jail throw away the key or better yet just hang the sick bastards high. It is one of the hottest of hot button cultural wedge issues.

Now Dino Rossi and his phony GOP Party operatives are trying to use this issue to slime Governor Gregoire in a way that is difficult to defend.

The claim is that Gregoire has allowed 1300 sex offenders statewide to go unmonitored, an explosive claim. The problem it is not true. It’s kind of like saying that there’s millions of unaccounted for felons out there that are unmonitored without talking about the scope, how things ended up that way, who's really responsible or the particulars of the problem.

The state has recently enacted strict laws that require that all sex offenders register and our State leads the nation in the ways it tracks the homeless and dangerous offenders using such things as ankle bracelets and GPS technology,

“The Legislature has spent years developing the legal framework for dealing with convicted sex offenders, but the burden of implementing those laws falls almost entirely on local law enforcement. “ Seattle PI July 30, 2007

Rossi has used the issue to produce a television ad and a mailer that includes the sinister photos of a number of the sex offenders. Its rather despicable and unprincipled of Rossi, but at this point what would one expect of a sleaze ball of Rossi’s ilk.

Several local prosecutors and law enforcement types came forwarded in defense of Gregoire. This is a problem that she inherited and that has in recent years generated renewed public concern based on several local and national high profile and disgusting cases that ended up filling the cable and tabloid news for months at a time with sickening and sensational reports or sickos sexually assaulting children.

Realizing there was an opening to show that Democrats are some how weak on crime and especially sex offenders the Republicans nationwide have used the issue effectively to attack Democrats continuously especially at election time.

The truth is Gregoire has cracked down on sex offenders since she has become Governor. During her administration the laws pertaining to sex offenders have been dramatically tightened and the punishments increased for offenders. Washington State has some of the toughest laws in the nation dealing with sexual predators. Monitoring of sex offenders in Washington is now among the best in the nation. When Gregoire was first elected she joined with other state leaders to formed a task force to deal with this difficult problem. Many of the recommendations have now become laws.

By his brazen use of this issue Rossi once again demonstrates he has problems with the truth and will do anything to get elected.

Islamic Terrorist Dolls Scares The BeJeezus Out Of Oklahoma Rednecks

Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo dolls being sold in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area are being removed from stores after purchasers claimed the dolls were spouting Islamic and satanic verses. This is not a joke and careful that your brain is not taken over by an al-Qaeda sleeper cell after you listen to the doll's jiberish. The doll supposedly is saying "Islam is the light you ignorant hillbilly".

McCain Claims Everyone Living In Chicago Is A Terrorist Contolled By City's Political Machine

Today John McCain and Sarah Palin claimed the Chicago Cubs early exit from this years baseball playoffs was due to the fact that Socialists members of the Chicago's political machine had infiltrated and taken over their clubhouse.

In addition the campaign claimed that Oprah, Ozzie Guillen, Lou Pinella, The Bears, The White Sox, Richard Daily, The Sears Tower, Studs Terkel, Michigan Ave, Billy Goat Tavern, Bulls, Michael Jordan, the Bleacher Bums, the dead body of Harry Carey and lots of people of Irish decent and that Steve Bartman guy are all tied to unrepentant terrorist William Ayres and slum lord Tony Resco because they all lived in the City of Chicago simultaneously at some time during the last 100 years.

New Video Inside Palin's Fanatical Alaskan Church Community

It's all here folks, the extremely anti-gay, abortion is murder, book banning, witchcraft focused, and retribution of all non believers who speak out. This new footage from inside the radical ultra conservative end times religious world of Sarah Palin's Alaskan community is must viewing and very scary given the possibility she could become Vice President of the United States.

In My Neighborhood Say It To My Face

Joe Biden calls phony McCain out. Should make for an interesting third debate. I think McCain didn't bring the Ayres stuff up at the debate because he knew that it would be easily debunked by Obama before 50 million people watching on TV.

William F. Buckley's Son Christopher Endores Obama

Christopher Buckley thinking conservative, libertarian, National Review contributor and the son of it's founder William F. Buckley says he will be voting for Barack Obama in November.

"This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"

via: The Daily Beast

Down Home Ralph Stanley Likes Obama

Country music legend Ralph Stanley of Stanley Brothers fame has cut a commercial for Barack Obama that's playing in SW Virginia.

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Is The War Hero Really A Chicken Shit?

After three or four days of some of the most scurrilous personal attacks on Barack Obama John McCain said nary a word about it during the debate last night.

Ask yourself what kind of phony two-faced backstabbing fucker acts like that?

Nobody thinks it politically correct to say this but my father and my brother and my brother in law all fought in a war. They all were decorated soldiers. One even won the bronze star. None every talked about it. They perceived it to be unmanly and something they'd like to forget I guess. Many veterans dislike McCain because he is always pumping himself up talking about his war exploits. Okay John we know you were a prisoner of war. It's supposed to project he's brave and macho. The problem is these types are usually just feeding their own ego by repeatedly bringing up their service. It's becomes a phony pandering facade.

This man is not what he claims to be.

John McCain's Rage

A short film from bravenewpac