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Offshore Drilling Ban Expires
Twenty-seven years after it was first established, he Congressional ban on offshore drilling officially and quietly expired today. The ban was not a prohibition on drilling per se. Rather, it was a ban on appropriating money for the Interior Department to process of new drilling leases. With the beginning of the new fiscal year, that prohibition will end, once Congress passes a budget resolution that restores the funding. After years of opposition to increasing domestic supplies of energy, a full year of fighting House Republicans on the issue, and a summer of defending itself against a vocal Republican minority and overwhelming public support for increased oil drilling, Congressional Democrats agreed last week to allow the ban to lapse this year.New drilling, and the economic activity it will bring in the form of jobs, investment, and lower gas prices, could not come at a better time for the American economy. American oil companies, barred from exploration in domestic waters for so long, could be eager to return home to do business in America's relatively friendly business clime. They will bring jobs and capital with them that otherwise would have benefit ted the economies of other countries.
Exploration in the Outer Continental Shelf will likely lead to greater than anticipated yields. Historically, estimates of total recoverable reserves in a given field are low, and advances in drilling and recovery techniques will almost certainly increase the expected yields from offshore drilling. That oil will eventually hit the world market, some estimates run as little as three years, increasing overall supplies and lowering the price of a barrel of oil. Oil prices have been on a steady decline since mid-July, interrupted only by Hurricane Gustav and the financial turmoil of the last two weeks, when President Bush lifted the Executive branch ban on offshore drilling. Oil prices ended the day at $102 per barrel, up slightly recently. But that price represents a 31 percent drop from the record high of over $147 a barrel set on July 11th, four days before the president lifted the Executive ban.
House Republicans deserve all the credit for the expiration of the drilling ban. It was the August Republican protest on the floor of the House that finally convinced Democrats they would be held accountable if they continued to stand in the way of increased production in the face of high gasoline and oil prices. Democrats wisely decided not to force the issue roughly six weeks before an election, handing the Republicans a legislative victory of enormous proportions.
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Comments (16)
dmac
10:25PM Oct 1st 2008
It is about time someone said it like it is...it is the democrats and liberal policies that have disrupted the soaring economy that President Bush put into motion after his inhereted Clinton/Gore recession and 9/11. Thanks to the laws the dems put into place, banks were forced to lend to people who could not afford a house...we had to be FAIR you know. And the democrats have always voted against drilling for years...so this energy problem can be layed at their feet as well. Those are the simple facts.
McCain/Palen '08
McCain/Palen '08
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Dave
10:29PM Oct 1st 2008
Hey Mark good to hear from you. Today is the day you predicted the national polls would be about even (based on MCain's style points that edged Obama in the debate). Hmmm.....
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(0) Dave
10:44PM Oct 1st 2008
Ok Mark, I'm just messing with you - just trying to be a pain!
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(0) MATT
11:47PM Oct 1st 2008
DRILL HERE! DRILL NOW! PAY LESS!
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(0) cs arizona
1:09AM Oct 2nd 2008
If NObama gets in, and it's looking more and more like he might, the dems will immediately go for another ban. And, since they will control all three houses they will get it.
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(0) cs arizona
1:17AM Oct 2nd 2008
A question for any Obama supporter:
What's up with the that circle symbol? What does it mean? It that his flag? Will it be our new flag if he gets elected?
You see it everywhere you see him.
I saw where he painted out the American flag on his jet and replaced it with that weird circle.
It's really starting to creep me out.
What's up with the that circle symbol? What does it mean? It that his flag? Will it be our new flag if he gets elected?
You see it everywhere you see him.
I saw where he painted out the American flag on his jet and replaced it with that weird circle.
It's really starting to creep me out.
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(0) donna
6:24AM Oct 2nd 2008
I'm really curious to know why the Biden/Palin Debate is not getting more advertisement. Seems to me that the Obama Campaign and supporters would want that more advertised so the Repubs along with the rest of the Undecideds could see what this uninformed Palin is all about.
It just gets curiouser and curiouser
Donna Redding
P.S. Biden/ Palin Debate Thursday October 2, 08 That's tonight folks
If You Are Voting For McCain You Really NEED to Watch This And See Who Is Going To Be Running Your Country If Your PRECIOUS Should, God Forbid, Get Sick As Soon As He Gets In The Office. Although I See That As A "SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL"
It just gets curiouser and curiouser
Donna Redding
P.S. Biden/ Palin Debate Thursday October 2, 08 That's tonight folks
If You Are Voting For McCain You Really NEED to Watch This And See Who Is Going To Be Running Your Country If Your PRECIOUS Should, God Forbid, Get Sick As Soon As He Gets In The Office. Although I See That As A "SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL"
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(0) donna
5:10PM Oct 2nd 2008
If oil prices are down SOOOO LOW, why are we still paying almost $5.00 a gallon for gas??
People are CRAZY to think offshore drilling is going to help us in some way. My son said it correctly: THE EARTH IS LIKE A MACHINE. IT NEEDS OIL TO KEEP IT LUBRICATED, TO KEEP IT SPINNING ON IT'S AXIS. IF YOU REMOVE ENOUGH OIL FROM THE MACHINE, EVENTUALLY THE MACHINE WILL BREAK DOWN. JUST LIKE YOUR CAR...NO OIL, NO FUNCTIONAL MACHINE...HENCE NO EARTH FOR YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.
Not to mention the fact that if they continue to drill for oil, they will find a way to keep the prices where they are now or they will continue to climb, because they won't make any money if we pay God forbid LOWER PRICES for gas...
Wake up people...we are killing our earth... How many of you have gone to energy saving lightbulbs since they put them on the market. I'd be willing to bet that not one fourth of you have...THE LEAVE IT UP TO EVERYONE ELSE MENTALITY IS NOT GOING TO SAVE YOUR ASSES
People are CRAZY to think offshore drilling is going to help us in some way. My son said it correctly: THE EARTH IS LIKE A MACHINE. IT NEEDS OIL TO KEEP IT LUBRICATED, TO KEEP IT SPINNING ON IT'S AXIS. IF YOU REMOVE ENOUGH OIL FROM THE MACHINE, EVENTUALLY THE MACHINE WILL BREAK DOWN. JUST LIKE YOUR CAR...NO OIL, NO FUNCTIONAL MACHINE...HENCE NO EARTH FOR YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN.
Not to mention the fact that if they continue to drill for oil, they will find a way to keep the prices where they are now or they will continue to climb, because they won't make any money if we pay God forbid LOWER PRICES for gas...
Wake up people...we are killing our earth... How many of you have gone to energy saving lightbulbs since they put them on the market. I'd be willing to bet that not one fourth of you have...THE LEAVE IT UP TO EVERYONE ELSE MENTALITY IS NOT GOING TO SAVE YOUR ASSES
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(0) DONNA REDDING
5:44PM Oct 2nd 2008
Lyssabelle thanks for finding this article I have been looking for it for several weeks now I am going to pass it on to my nonbelieving friends thanks again donna
McCain’s Radical Agenda
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 15, 2008
Talk about a shock to the system. Has anyone bothered to notice the radical changes that John McCain and Sarah Palin are planning for the nation’s health insurance system?
These are changes that will set in motion nothing less than the dismantling of the employer-based coverage that protects most American families.
A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.
There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in this campaign has mostly been about nonsense — lipstick, celebrities and “Drill, baby, drill!”
For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.
“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their findings are being published on the Web site of the policy journal, Health Affairs.
According to the study: “The McCain plan will force millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the private insurance system — the nongroup market — where cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and people will lose access to benefits they have now.”
The net effect of the plan, the study said, “almost certainly will be to increase family costs for medical care.”
Under the McCain plan (now the McCain-Palin plan) employees who continue to receive employer-paid health benefits would look at their pay stubs each week or each month and find that additional money had been withheld to cover the taxes on the value of their benefits.
While there might be less money in the paycheck, that would not be anything to worry about, according to Senator McCain. That’s because the government would be offering all taxpayers a refundable tax credit — $2,500 for a single worker and $5,000 per family — to be used “to help pay for your health care.”
You may think this is a good move or a bad one — but it’s a monumental change in the way health coverage would be provided to scores of millions of Americans. Why not more attention?
The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.)
Taxing employer-paid health benefits is the first step in this transition, the equivalent of injecting poison into the system. It’s the beginning of the end.
When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many) will opt out of the employer-based plans — either to buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without coverage.
That will leave employers with a pool of older, less healthy workers to cover. That coverage will necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage more and more employers to give up on the idea of providing coverage at all.
The upshot is that many more Americans — millions more — will find themselves on their own in the bewildering and often treacherous health insurance marketplace. As Senator McCain has said: “I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to the patients themselves.”
Yet another radical element of McCain’s plan is his proposal to undermine state health insurance regulations by allowing consumers to buy insurance from sellers anywhere in the country. So a requirement in one state that insurers cover, for example, vaccinations, or annual physicals, or breast examinations, would essentially be meaningless.
In a refrain we’ve heard many times in recent years, Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market of these “needless and costly” insurance regulations.
This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.
You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system.
But we’re not even paying much attention.
McCain’s Radical Agenda
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 15, 2008
Talk about a shock to the system. Has anyone bothered to notice the radical changes that John McCain and Sarah Palin are planning for the nation’s health insurance system?
These are changes that will set in motion nothing less than the dismantling of the employer-based coverage that protects most American families.
A study coming out Tuesday from scholars at Columbia, Harvard, Purdue and Michigan projects that 20 million Americans who have employment-based health insurance would lose it under the McCain plan.
There is nothing secret about Senator McCain’s far-reaching proposals, but they haven’t gotten much attention because the chatter in this campaign has mostly been about nonsense — lipstick, celebrities and “Drill, baby, drill!”
For starters, the McCain health plan would treat employer-paid health benefits as income that employees would have to pay taxes on.
“It means your employer is going to have to make an estimate on how much the employer is paying for health insurance on your behalf, and you are going to have to pay taxes on that money,” said Sherry Glied, an economist who chairs the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Ms. Glied is one of the four scholars who have just completed an independent joint study of the plan. Their findings are being published on the Web site of the policy journal, Health Affairs.
According to the study: “The McCain plan will force millions of Americans into the weakest segment of the private insurance system — the nongroup market — where cost-sharing is high, covered services are limited and people will lose access to benefits they have now.”
The net effect of the plan, the study said, “almost certainly will be to increase family costs for medical care.”
Under the McCain plan (now the McCain-Palin plan) employees who continue to receive employer-paid health benefits would look at their pay stubs each week or each month and find that additional money had been withheld to cover the taxes on the value of their benefits.
While there might be less money in the paycheck, that would not be anything to worry about, according to Senator McCain. That’s because the government would be offering all taxpayers a refundable tax credit — $2,500 for a single worker and $5,000 per family — to be used “to help pay for your health care.”
You may think this is a good move or a bad one — but it’s a monumental change in the way health coverage would be provided to scores of millions of Americans. Why not more attention?
The whole idea of the McCain plan is to get families out of employer-paid health coverage and into the health insurance marketplace, where naked competition is supposed to take care of all ills. (We’re seeing in the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch fiascos just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.)
Taxing employer-paid health benefits is the first step in this transition, the equivalent of injecting poison into the system. It’s the beginning of the end.
When younger, healthier workers start seeing additional taxes taken out of their paychecks, some (perhaps many) will opt out of the employer-based plans — either to buy cheaper insurance on their own or to go without coverage.
That will leave employers with a pool of older, less healthy workers to cover. That coverage will necessarily be more expensive, which will encourage more and more employers to give up on the idea of providing coverage at all.
The upshot is that many more Americans — millions more — will find themselves on their own in the bewildering and often treacherous health insurance marketplace. As Senator McCain has said: “I believe the key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to the patients themselves.”
Yet another radical element of McCain’s plan is his proposal to undermine state health insurance regulations by allowing consumers to buy insurance from sellers anywhere in the country. So a requirement in one state that insurers cover, for example, vaccinations, or annual physicals, or breast examinations, would essentially be meaningless.
In a refrain we’ve heard many times in recent years, Mr. McCain said he is committed to ridding the market of these “needless and costly” insurance regulations.
This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone.
You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system.
But we’re not even paying much attention.
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(0) DONNA REDDING
6:13PM Oct 2nd 2008
MY NEW FRIEND BROOKE SENT ME THIS ONE. ROTFLMAO HAHAHAHAHA
CLICK OR COPY AND PASTE THE LINK
http://www.cafepress.com/codabug.311069879
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"Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'Hey, is there room in your head for one more?'"
CLICK OR COPY AND PASTE THE LINK
http://www.cafepress.com/codabug.311069879
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"Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'Hey, is there room in your head for one more?'"
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(0) thomasecw
3:58PM Oct 3rd 2008
I work for a drilling company. No way will we be tempted to drill in the areas that are now "open". The only people who would make money on such an action would be the lawyers. We could have new wells on line in less than a year in some of these areas (not 10 years as the dems say...10 years for deep water wells, maybe 8 years or even less depending on the established pipeline network). The media is only quoting sources they want you to hear...facts apparently don't matter to them.
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(0) Studio CITE
5:55PM Oct 10th 2008
well i applaud Mark Impomeni's clear statement that few other conservatives will utter ...."That oil will eventually hit the world market, some estimates run as little as three years, increasing overall supplies and lowering the price of a barrel of oil." But the key is WORLD market - the oil we drill here doesn't all STAY here - never has, never will (unless conservatives are willing to override the free marketplace?) it goes to chinese factories, and indian minibuses and french wineries and south african diamond mines and to every consumer on the planet ...and all the credible experts state that the lower prices due to our offshore drilling will be 3-5 CENTS- hardly the relief most Americans are hoping for. be that as it may, if everyone is happy with "drill baby drill" to shave 3-5 cents off a gallon of gas, I can go with it. However, what I find ablsolutely silly is Mark's not very well veiled attempt to link the fairly large current drop in crude prices to Bush's decision to lift the Executive Ban on offshore oil drilling...HUH??? wow mark, thats a erally amazing stretch. Lets see, a decision to lift a ban that may (in 3-5 years) lower gase prices by 3-5 cents is responsible for a $50 plus drop in crude prices?? what strange substances have you been imbibing? The Crude price drop is for one reason only - its called a US and WORLD RECESSION...no more, no less. People and businesses are expected to USE FAR LESS oil than last year. Thus, as a commodity, the price has dropped accordingly. Bush's decision had very little if anything to do with the drops. By the way, the Department of Transportation had announced in July and August that Americans had driven 90 MILLION miles(than almost the distance to the SUN) LESS than the previous 2 month period. Now tell me Mark - do you seriously believe that Bush's decison to end a drilling ban (for relatively modest reserve potential according to estimates) REALLY trumped the world markets and US financial crisis, a deepening recession, and very clear, very precipitious drops in the USE of oil?? If you really believe that then you'd have to be 90 million miles away from reality...
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(0) MAKE A LIAR MAD VOTE DEMOCRAT
7:52PM Oct 10th 2008
Studio CITE if you really think the gas prices will decrease, you are sadly mistaken. the cost of the barrel has already dropped but I see NO change at the pump. BLEED US GOVERNMENT>>>
For these of you too lazy to look to a non partisan source for your TRUTH I have listed the truth about BOTH candidates for you. Be sure you read the ENTIRE article. This source lists the RUMOR FIRST and then lists THE TRUTH OR THE LIES in the rumor BELOW THE RUMOR
MOM CHECK OUT # 1 UNDER MCCAIN I DID NOT KNOW HE SAID THAT. I WONDER HOW HE DEFINED POOR
MCCAIN TRUTH
1.John McCain's Definition of 'Rich' TRUE
Said MIDDLE CLASS IS PEOPLE MAKING UNDER $5 Million TRUE PEOPLE!!
How many of YOU make that much?
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/5million.asp
2.McCain Not a Natural Citizen undetermined
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/citizen.asp
3.War Crimes LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/warcriminal.asp
4.Can’t Draw Pension LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/pension.asp
5.Truth about first wife Carol TRUE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp
6.Wall Street Journal’s Truth about Cindy McCain true
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp
7.Letter from Heart castigates McCain for using song LIE
That they sent the letter, but not that they did not
ask him to stop using the song
SINGER Jackson Browne sued him
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/barracuda.asp
8.Mc Cain came up with clever SNAP for a Student at a Game LIE
he quoted someone else
TYPICAL FOR HIM
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/invented.asp
9.My Vacation With John McCain UNDETERMINED
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/vacation.asp
NOW FOR OBAMA
1.The Birth Certificate lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
2.The Obama is a Muslim lie
as well as
3.The Obama was sworn into office on the Quran lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
4.Obama and the National Anthem(TRUE, BUT MISLEADING)
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp
5.The Trinity United Church Of Christ lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/church.asp
6.The Ku Klux Klan lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kkk.asp
7.The Barack Obama Funded by Hugo Chávez lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/chavez.asp
8.Editorial criticizes anachronisms in Obama’s 2007 Selma speech taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/saywhat.asp
9.The “Let’s Change the Greatest Nation” lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/change.asp
10.Barack Obama Family Photo real photo inaccurate description
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.asp
11.Editorial criticizes Obama’s political stances taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/blackwell.asp
12.Michelle Obama’s thesis restricted until after election
Was true but is now available on http://www.politico.com
And was made available by Obama’s campaign
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/blackwell.asp
13.Photo shows Obama holding phone upside down lie
Digitally manipulated
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/phone.asp
14.Email reproduction of National Anthem Stance lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/stance.asp
15.Barack Obama’s Kenya Political connection lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
16. Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ? LIE DENIGRATIVE FICTION
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp
17.Email lists 50 Obama lies multiple explainations
Mostly lie, listed in order after article post
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
18.Email lists racist passages from Obama’s Books mult exp
Taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
19.Obama not a natural born citizen lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
20.Obama and 57 states mult exp
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp
21.Obama announces every time he claps a child dies lie
http://snopes.com/music/artists/bono.asp
22.Kennedy’s 60’s speech says black man will be president in 40 years TRUE but inaccurate portrayal
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp
23.Campaign contributions from Wealthy Foreign Financiers lie
Article was actually about Hillary Clinton
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp
24.Proposed Tax Changes LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
25.Insurance Broker Posted Derogitory Signs
True, but he was reprimanded
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/chicken.asp
26.Barack Obama Blew Off Soldiers in Afghanistan LIE
Very interesting article read it all
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp
27.Airplane with no flag TRUE W/ EXPLAINATION
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp
28.Wall Street Journal LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/distribute.asp
29.Hundreds of people healed be Obama’s touch LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/obamaheals.asp
30.Native Americans dub Obama Running Eagle / Walking Eagle LIE
A roumer originated in the 60’s
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/eagle.asp
31.Bill Brown/Bill Graham - Obama Tidal Wave MULT EXP
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/billbrown.asp
32.Joe Biden’s Debts MULT EXP
http://snopes.com/politics/biden/debt.asp
33.Biden Stepping Down LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/vpchange.asp
34.Obama’s going to die, as is Biden leaving Pelosi to run country LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/health.asp
35.Fannie Mae LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/fanniemae.asp
36.REZKO Education and House paid for with Questionable sources LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
37.Loan Arranger LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/loans.asp
38.National Review Endorses Barack Obama for President LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/allison.asp
39.What Does Obama Read? Mult exp
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp
YOU WILL NOTE THAT THERE ARE SSSSOOOOOOO MANY MORE ARTICLES CONCERNING OBAMA. THAT IS BECAUSE THE REPUB PARTY HAS MADE UP MANY, MANY MORE LIES THAN THE DEM PARTY AND DEMS UNLIKE REPUBS SEEK TRUTH
For these of you too lazy to look to a non partisan source for your TRUTH I have listed the truth about BOTH candidates for you. Be sure you read the ENTIRE article. This source lists the RUMOR FIRST and then lists THE TRUTH OR THE LIES in the rumor BELOW THE RUMOR
MOM CHECK OUT # 1 UNDER MCCAIN I DID NOT KNOW HE SAID THAT. I WONDER HOW HE DEFINED POOR
MCCAIN TRUTH
1.John McCain's Definition of 'Rich' TRUE
Said MIDDLE CLASS IS PEOPLE MAKING UNDER $5 Million TRUE PEOPLE!!
How many of YOU make that much?
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/5million.asp
2.McCain Not a Natural Citizen undetermined
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/citizen.asp
3.War Crimes LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/warcriminal.asp
4.Can’t Draw Pension LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/pension.asp
5.Truth about first wife Carol TRUE
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/carol.asp
6.Wall Street Journal’s Truth about Cindy McCain true
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp
7.Letter from Heart castigates McCain for using song LIE
That they sent the letter, but not that they did not
ask him to stop using the song
SINGER Jackson Browne sued him
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/barracuda.asp
8.Mc Cain came up with clever SNAP for a Student at a Game LIE
he quoted someone else
TYPICAL FOR HIM
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/invented.asp
9.My Vacation With John McCain UNDETERMINED
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/vacation.asp
NOW FOR OBAMA
1.The Birth Certificate lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
2.The Obama is a Muslim lie
as well as
3.The Obama was sworn into office on the Quran lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
4.Obama and the National Anthem(TRUE, BUT MISLEADING)
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp
5.The Trinity United Church Of Christ lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/church.asp
6.The Ku Klux Klan lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kkk.asp
7.The Barack Obama Funded by Hugo Chávez lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/chavez.asp
8.Editorial criticizes anachronisms in Obama’s 2007 Selma speech taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/saywhat.asp
9.The “Let’s Change the Greatest Nation” lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/change.asp
10.Barack Obama Family Photo real photo inaccurate description
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/familyphoto.asp
11.Editorial criticizes Obama’s political stances taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/blackwell.asp
12.Michelle Obama’s thesis restricted until after election
Was true but is now available on http://www.politico.com
And was made available by Obama’s campaign
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/blackwell.asp
13.Photo shows Obama holding phone upside down lie
Digitally manipulated
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/phone.asp
14.Email reproduction of National Anthem Stance lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/stance.asp
15.Barack Obama’s Kenya Political connection lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kenya.asp
16. Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ? LIE DENIGRATIVE FICTION
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp
17.Email lists 50 Obama lies multiple explainations
Mostly lie, listed in order after article post
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
18.Email lists racist passages from Obama’s Books mult exp
Taken out of context
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
19.Obama not a natural born citizen lie
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp
20.Obama and 57 states mult exp
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp
21.Obama announces every time he claps a child dies lie
http://snopes.com/music/artists/bono.asp
22.Kennedy’s 60’s speech says black man will be president in 40 years TRUE but inaccurate portrayal
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp
23.Campaign contributions from Wealthy Foreign Financiers lie
Article was actually about Hillary Clinton
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp
24.Proposed Tax Changes LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
25.Insurance Broker Posted Derogitory Signs
True, but he was reprimanded
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/chicken.asp
26.Barack Obama Blew Off Soldiers in Afghanistan LIE
Very interesting article read it all
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp
27.Airplane with no flag TRUE W/ EXPLAINATION
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp
28.Wall Street Journal LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/distribute.asp
29.Hundreds of people healed be Obama’s touch LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/obamaheals.asp
30.Native Americans dub Obama Running Eagle / Walking Eagle LIE
A roumer originated in the 60’s
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/eagle.asp
31.Bill Brown/Bill Graham - Obama Tidal Wave MULT EXP
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/billbrown.asp
32.Joe Biden’s Debts MULT EXP
http://snopes.com/politics/biden/debt.asp
33.Biden Stepping Down LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/vpchange.asp
34.Obama’s going to die, as is Biden leaving Pelosi to run country LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/health.asp
35.Fannie Mae LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/fanniemae.asp
36.REZKO Education and House paid for with Questionable sources LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/money.asp
37.Loan Arranger LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/loans.asp
38.National Review Endorses Barack Obama for President LIE
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/allison.asp
39.What Does Obama Read? Mult exp
http://snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp
YOU WILL NOTE THAT THERE ARE SSSSOOOOOOO MANY MORE ARTICLES CONCERNING OBAMA. THAT IS BECAUSE THE REPUB PARTY HAS MADE UP MANY, MANY MORE LIES THAN THE DEM PARTY AND DEMS UNLIKE REPUBS SEEK TRUTH
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12:38AM Oct 11th 2008
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES
WHAT HAPPENED MARK IMP I WAS SURE YOU WOULD REPORT THIS STORY WITH YOUR CUTE LITTLE SPIN AND BLAME IT ON THE OBAMA/ BIDEN CAMP SOMEHOW
SLACKER YOU DISAPPOINT YOUR SHEEP
You are SSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO wrong about Obama. We do not follow blindly like "SHEEPLE" THAT IS YOU!! We do our research. I posted earlier a 2 hour check up on BOTH candidates. Maybe you and your fellow SHEEP ought to go to the links and for once in your miserable little lives learn the TRUTH LIKE THE FOLLOWING THAT WAS JUST REPORTED ON THE NEWS
Troopergate a Definite
Well there ya go Joe!!! Your girl was found to have MISUSED her power in TROOPERGATE. Maybe now the Officer she fired will file a suit against her and get his job back along with some of HER $$ and SHOOT (no wait, that's Palin too!!!) YOUR CHANCES EVEN FURTHER DOWN THE TUBES I knew John McCain picked the right GAL!!!
GO OBAMA/BIDEN YA BETCHA!!!! BAAAHHH BAAAHHH
WHAT HAPPENED MARK IMP I WAS SURE YOU WOULD REPORT THIS STORY WITH YOUR CUTE LITTLE SPIN AND BLAME IT ON THE OBAMA/ BIDEN CAMP SOMEHOW
SLACKER YOU DISAPPOINT YOUR SHEEP
You are SSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO wrong about Obama. We do not follow blindly like "SHEEPLE" THAT IS YOU!! We do our research. I posted earlier a 2 hour check up on BOTH candidates. Maybe you and your fellow SHEEP ought to go to the links and for once in your miserable little lives learn the TRUTH LIKE THE FOLLOWING THAT WAS JUST REPORTED ON THE NEWS
Troopergate a Definite
Well there ya go Joe!!! Your girl was found to have MISUSED her power in TROOPERGATE. Maybe now the Officer she fired will file a suit against her and get his job back along with some of HER $$ and SHOOT (no wait, that's Palin too!!!) YOUR CHANCES EVEN FURTHER DOWN THE TUBES I knew John McCain picked the right GAL!!!
GO OBAMA/BIDEN YA BETCHA!!!! BAAAHHH BAAAHHH
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8:17AM Oct 11th 2008
Well, so far the tactics have not worked to sway the American people
to vote against the Democratic ticket so now the Republican ticket is
turning on the hate strategy. If you are noticing the people at the
rallies are yelling things like "Off with his head" "Kill him" and
"Terrorist" and neither McCain or Palin are doing anything to stop
this hate mongering. When you are losing start slinging shit into the
fan because even if the majority of it won't go where you want it to,
some of it will.
They better be careful where they are letting this shit fly because a
trade wind just may blow it right back into their faces.
If one of their crazy radicals decides to put on his white hood and
try to kill Obama, who do they think the American people are going to
blame? the DEMOCRATS?
Now would be a good time for President Obama to BEEF UP SECURITY
Hopefully most of the repubs will wake up before this thing gets out
of hand.
HERE ARE A FEW LINKS WORTH SEEING
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27057346#27057346
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/10/171829/00/777/626722
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/bipartisan_concern_about_the_dangers_of_mcpalin%E2%80%99s_hate-mongering/#102538
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/mccain-palin_rally_attendees_say_incredible%2C_ridiculous_things/#102501
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/mccain%27s_camp_divided_over_dirty_attacks_on_obama/#102488
http://www.alternet.org/election08/102345/12_new_stomach-turning_revelations_about_sarah_palin/?page=entire
http://www.alternet.org/election08/102207/how_low_will_palin_go_in_her_mudslinging/?page=entire
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/mccains-desperate-claim-o_b_132350.html
to vote against the Democratic ticket so now the Republican ticket is
turning on the hate strategy. If you are noticing the people at the
rallies are yelling things like "Off with his head" "Kill him" and
"Terrorist" and neither McCain or Palin are doing anything to stop
this hate mongering. When you are losing start slinging shit into the
fan because even if the majority of it won't go where you want it to,
some of it will.
They better be careful where they are letting this shit fly because a
trade wind just may blow it right back into their faces.
If one of their crazy radicals decides to put on his white hood and
try to kill Obama, who do they think the American people are going to
blame? the DEMOCRATS?
Now would be a good time for President Obama to BEEF UP SECURITY
Hopefully most of the repubs will wake up before this thing gets out
of hand.
HERE ARE A FEW LINKS WORTH SEEING
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27057346#27057346
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/10/171829/00/777/626722
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/bipartisan_concern_about_the_dangers_of_mcpalin%E2%80%99s_hate-mongering/#102538
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/mccain-palin_rally_attendees_say_incredible%2C_ridiculous_things/#102501
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/mccain%27s_camp_divided_over_dirty_attacks_on_obama/#102488
http://www.alternet.org/election08/102345/12_new_stomach-turning_revelations_about_sarah_palin/?page=entire
http://www.alternet.org/election08/102207/how_low_will_palin_go_in_her_mudslinging/?page=entire
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/mccains-desperate-claim-o_b_132350.html
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"the pork that McCain loves so much?" Citizens Against Government Waste say that John McCain has taken $0 of pork to Arizona and that Arizona has the lowest rate of pork barrel spending of all.
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