I laughed. Thought it was funny. nm

• Obama supporters.... - sm
  • thought it was funny, too - PAMT~MDM
    • I call them worldly liberals. nm - Gimme, gimme, gimme.
  • I laughed. Thought it was funny. nm - Did not take it literally.
  • Don't cross a bridge that isn't built yet, if ever - dea
  • Why do you have to be so nasty - Observer
    • And when things are pointed out, people are bashed. - Backwards typist
      • Oh please - Observer
        • They do try to talk about the issues and get bashed for - Backwards typist
          • Joking about yourself is one thing - Observer
            • I agree with that. (nm) - Backwards typist
  • Where is the line for free college, free healthcare... - hesinlalaland
  • Actually I believe in working hard and working - smart, too bad you don't...
    • I think the OP was being sarcastic when she said they would qualify sm - watcher
  • I hope you are not that small minded. You may quit your job - pc
  • My husband and I were discussing is that the upside of Obama as pres it that we will probably - qualify for foodstamps now.
    • Taxes - Marmann
      • Tax break? I have been hearing we will all be taxed. - Scary.
        • Here ya go. - Marmann
          • I pray to God you are right. - no message
          • what it fails to take into account... - dnh
    • Sweet! Sadly, I think you are right. I need a better job. LOL nm - Bystander

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My 4 year old son was looking at the front of our newspaper.  On the cover, there were pictures of ALL the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates.  All that I told him were these were pictures of the people who want to be the leader of our country.

He looks at the pictures, points at Hilary Clinton and tells me that she should be president.  I asked why and he tells me he just thinks a Mom should be the leader.  Gotta love how kids think.  Thank you for letting me share.

Down the drain?  Beware of Obama's plan to 'spread the wealth around'

By Betsy Newmark
High School History and Government Teacher/Blogger

If the McCain campaign can’t use this Obama quote to raise doubts about his attitude towards wealth and success, then they deserve the shellacking they seem headed for.

“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed “more and more for fulfilling the American dream.”

“It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too,” Obama responded. “My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Plumbers of the country, unite! Forget about the work and effort you put into building up a business or the scummy work that you do that many of us don’t know or don’t want to do. If you have succeeded, you should be willing to give up more of what you earn to help those who haven’t had the great good luck that you have had to be a successful plumber. Remember how Obama is going to give 95% of all of us a tax cut even though over 30% of the population doesn’t pay taxes?

He might call it a tax credit, but what he’s really doing is his vision of “spreading the wealth around.” It sounds a lot like Huey Long’s 1935 plan to “Share the Wealth.” And when he finds that he can’t tax the top 5% of the population to gain enough wealth to spread to the 95% of the rest of us, do you really think that he’ll stop with that 5%?

Remember…This is the guy who said in the ABC debate during the primary season that his approach to raising tax on capital gains is not based on whether it would provide more revenue but on his idea of what is fair:

GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,” which was 28 percent. It’s now 15 percent. That’s almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.

But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.

So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.

Just what we need in these fragile economic times — a guy who wants to raise taxes because he thinks it’s a matter of “fairness” and time to “spread the wealth around.”

That will be some incentive for other plumbers who want to work hard and build up a successful business.

But don’t worry - according to Joe Biden, it’s the patriotic thing to do.

Especially the guy who said he was in favor of national healthcare because he works 40 hours a week and his benefits are terrible.  Yet he didn't know that Bush doesn't WANT him to have good medical benefits.

The last guy was right on the money (even if he didn't know Bush's name):  Bush SHOULD be over there with a gun in his hand since he started this mess.

Someone should point out to these people who can't remember that his name IS what he is: BU_ _ SH _ _!

Vanna... I wanna buy a vowel.

They have made up their minds they have got this thing won just like they did in 2004.  They don't even entertain the possibility that they will lose.  They are so egotistical to think they might even throw the elections to make the Republicans look like fools.  This is along the same thought process that they think they won by losing California primaries and losing on Prop. 50.

I think they know they're in trouble, but have chosen to lay their strategy out like they've got things under control.  The Democrat blogs are all up in arms about what is happening with the party.  Let's just say the extreme left is very unhappy with them right now, and they think the extreme left is their bread and butter.  They thought that in 2004 and look where it got them.

Wow, this really shows how screwed up they are, not you dem, but your party.

Yeah and McCain has a biracial love child..........just ask GW, his campaign told everybody the REAL truth. O is a closet muslim (just ask the mental giants on this board!). He eats baby brains for breakfast. He wants to teach kinder-kids the proper way to put on a condom. He's hiding, he's hiding, he's hiding..........but, he hasn't been able to drop a decent deuce since the onset of his campaign because the media is so far up his bum. Bad Obama. Bad, bad, bad. Spank him, spank him hard. Yeah, just like that. And the truth shall set you free.

time.  I imagined myself as a human broach.

That gave me my laugh for the night.  Thanks,