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Originally Posted by Brittni
With all that ridiculous tax info on Obama, it almost makes me want to vote McCain. I know we won't get much "CHANGE" but I'd rather have no change for four years then a complete disruption and expense. lol
Is this tax money gonna go towards the Social Security that's not even going to be there for me when it's my time? pft
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Do not forget the issue of government corruption. Obama has a history of associating with corrupt financiers like
recently convicted felon Tony Rezko (who himself was
suspiciously involved in a real estate transaction with Obama in 2005 as well as wrote
letters of patronage for him to obtain state funding), unrepentant terrorists like William Ayers who founded the radical group
The Weathermen which bombed various buildings including the Capitol building in Washington DC (read up on them
here and Ayers lack of regret for his past indiscretions
here[1]).
Throw in the twenty year association with a racist church preacher whom Obama considered a "mentor", married him, baptized his kids, etc. and that Obama did not distance himself from this individual until it was starting to affect his presidential campaign and it all shows a serious lack of judgment on Obama's part.
Yes the younger crowds really eat up his great oratory but as a student of history, I see chilling parallels to Obama's orations and the fawning crowds of Nuremberg in the 1930's when Chancellor Hitler gave his speeches. I am not saying Obama is Hitler of course, only that there are troubling parallels in both cases of huge crowds being swayed by rhetoric to be "foot soldiers" in whatever proposed "revolution" he presumes to lead. And as Obama's minions are currently trying on his behalf to
intimidate stations to not air a commercial about his connections to Ayers, anyone who thinks he would not try to reinstate that Nazistic so-called "Fairness Doctrine" needs to pay closer attention.
Also, all this talk about raising capital gains taxes and "soaking the rich" for any of you who buy into this you need a basic education in how markets and investments work. Raising the capital gains tax rate from 15% to 40% as Obama has proposed doing would cause capital investment to sink like quicksand and it would mean a lot of lost jobs of the non-rich. Investors would not want to make new investments or cash out of ones they are in out of fear of being hit with a huge tax bill. And as a result, tax revenues would decline and that would exacerbate the deficit further. One should learn from mistakes but Obama shows an inability to do so.
While there are things about McCain which I find problematical as well, he shows himself to have learned about involving oneself with questionable people after the Keating 5 scandal (
of which he was cleared of any charges) and has spent twenty years fighting government graft and corruption as a result. By contrast, Obama is only now starting to shed himself of longtime affiliations which show a lot poorer judgment than McCain made twenty years ago in the Keating situation.
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[1] 'I don't regret setting bombs,'' Bill Ayers said. ''I feel we didn't do enough.'' [Bill Ayers: Excerpt from the New York Times (
circa September 11, 2001)]
