Former Georgia Congressman, and Libertarian candidate for president, Bob Barr made a stunning prediction this week: Barack Obama will beat John McCain in the deep red state that Barr once represented.
That idea is very hard for some Republicans to take seriously. After all, George W. Bush took Georgia by a margin of 16.7% in '04. But Obama has been steadily chipping away at McCain's lead. Witness the latest trend line from Pollster:
Early voting is proving a huge asset to Obama. It remains to be seen whether these lines will continue in their present direction, but we now have our first poll showing Obama with the lead over the past two months. Sensing momentum, Obama has decided to send in volunteers to make a coordinated effort to take back the "Peach State."
BOB BARR? THE SOUR-GRAPES KING...JUST ANOTHER LAME PREDICTION FROM A FAILED WANNA-BE IN HIS POLITICAL DEATH THROES. CHECK OUT THE AOL STRAW POLL...MCCAIN IN A LANDSLIDE!
THE "SILENT MAJORITY" IS ALIVE AND READY TO GO!
THE REAL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: The U.S. electorate, as a nation, simply cannot allow an Obama victory. A holocaust will take place involving the unleashed forces of pro-abortionists. A Islamic-friendly president with no executive experience will sit in the most powerful office in the world. Obama...with a virtual non-existent resume, a former cocaine user, friend to terrorists, friend to a Farrakhan-friendly pastor, Rev. Wright, who for 20 years spewed anti-white, anti-american, anti-main-stream religious hatred. Obama, the consumate BSer...and that is it! We can't as a nation, allow America to lose the seperation of power...senate, house, white house to the likes of Pelosi, Barney Franks, Reid and other ultra-liberals. We cant, as a nation, set ourselves up for the Fall of the American Empire at the hands of Barack Hussein Obama...a man with dirty hands...who associated with dirty people for much of his life. A man who helped direct and advise the ACORN movement...a voter-fraud laced organization. Forget the left-wing media...the left-wing hollywood types the unfair and slanted news networks and the left-wing rock singers...they are not America. Let the "silent majority" of God-fearing, proud, white-collar, blue-collar, middle-americans....all patriotic Americans be heard and be heard by their vote for McCain/Palin...a ticket with proven experience, Judeo-Christian values, anti-Washington and Hollywood establishment and a ticket that will represent ALL Americans...Christians, Jews, Rich, Poor, Middle-class, Joe the Plumber or Mary the nurse or Tom the cab driver or Sue the waitress. We can't, as a God-fearing nation...allow the horrors of an Obama presidency...and set the stage for the fall of the American Empire, American values...and another piece in the end of days.
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gecocat
4:40PM Oct 26th 2008
I'd been thinking awhile that he may take another shot at Georgia. He may or may not win there... but bringing it in close would be a big statement, imho- and a predictor of things to come, too.
My sister lives there, she has always voted Republican. I haven't asked her specifically about this election... though have a feeling she may, for the first time, switch allegiance. This would most likely be due to several factors; not the least of which is health care. She would survive McCain's plan just fine, but realizes what it would do to me and others in my circumstances... she happens to want me hanging around awhile (hey, what are sisters for, anyway (^.^) !)
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Wormy
4:41PM Oct 26th 2008
I always knew that if I ever have the chance to move out of Georgia's neighboring state(SC) that I would move to either Georgia or North Carolina. Both states have nicer EVERYTHING! Unlike backwards/STUPID state I live in now!
GO GEORGIA & NORTH CAROLINA-PROUD OF YA'LL
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008
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Ready for the right kind of change
5:13PM Oct 26th 2008
Yes It is getting competitive....already receiving slime emails from McCain/Palin Campaign. They are so negative and KNOW THEY HAVE NOTHING TO MAKE A STAND ON BESIDES NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING.
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Jim
5:15PM Oct 26th 2008
Mccain should be telling the voters how reality in the economic world really is instead of Obama fanasty land economic program.. If Obama's economic plan is so great then WHY HAS EVERY EUROPEAN AND ASIAN NATION DONE JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT OBAMA SUGGEST????????
Mccain needs to make this known to the public..
Obama promises a tax cut for 95% of Americans. What a lie and the American electorate is eating it right up like the fools they are. Anyone who is confident Obama will follow through on his 95 percent promise is letting naivety triumph over common sense.
Obama has a major plan to go after corporations and incease the corporate income taxes.. But funny thing is -- If you ask a typical family about taxes they pay they'll focus on America's biggest and visible taxes: property taxes on a home, sales taxes at the store, and income and payroll taxes deducted from their paychecks.. One tax that people are likely to ignore is corporate income tax. And the reason is simple: most who pay corporate income taxes aren't even aware that they exist..
Most people think that corporate taxes are paid by the wealthy, anonymous companies. But as economist have been teaching for centuries the people bear the burden of corporate taxes, and not the companies..
Now lets look at who pays some of the largest share of this tax burden.. One of the surprising findings done by the Tax foundation is that the lowest income households bear large share of the corporate tax burden..
In total, the poorest of households pay more in corporate income taxes each year then they pay in individual income taxes to the IRS..
Obama has been running a con game on you my friend to make you think that your taxes will be low..But in reality sorry that's not tue..
Here's an example...
House holds earning $ 23,700 paid 271 in corporate taxes compared to just $167 in individual taxes.. Most people never even knew you paid it..
As a share of the burden, corporate taxes were 6.3 percent of the low income households tax bills camapred to just 4 percent for individual taxes..
The only tax that hits low income familes harder is the federal payroll tax which is designed to pay Social Security, and Medicare..
What this means is that cutting corpate tax rates is not about handing out money to US companies. It's about providing relief to American familes, much of which will provide enormous benefits to the nations lowest income wage earners..
Obama doesn't understand the US Economic system and how it actually works..
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton took part in a debate several months ago hosted by Charlie Gibson. Gibson asked Obama about his plan to raise the capital gains tax. Then Gibson pointed out that studies have shown that lowering the capital gains tax increases government revenues and is good for the economy.
Obama began stammering and stuttering and in one of the most revealing moments of the election, Obamas lack of understanding of the economy and taxes was made clear. Obama was unable to rely on a canned teleprompter response.
Corporations are primarily taxed three ways. Once on the corporate income, next on dividends and then on the sale of stock. If you are a retiree and own stock, you will have less money because the corporation will have less profit and if you sell the stock you will pay more tax on the sale.
The US corporate business tax system is an anachronism that discourages growth and undermines job creations..High tax rates drive jobs and investments abroad.
Government is extremely inefficient. $ 1,000 taken from a business will remove money that drives the economy, creates more jobs and ultimately brings more revenue for the government. That $ 1,000 will be wasted in government bureacracy and overhead.
Obama is using this old lie to appeal to his core support that is promised everything by politicians that use them to win elections.
Obama says 98 percent of all US small business make under 250k a year..
The following data comes from the IRS for the year 2003 and reveals the number of businesses with revenue over $ 250,000 in 2003. From IRS statistics in 2003:
Many of you work for a company that falls into one of those categories. Plus this doesn't include the mid size corporation that would be effected by Obama tax incease..We won't even get into that matter ...
Doesn't Obama realized that a company is considered a small business if it has one employee to five hundred employees..
Voters need to get an understand of the effects that raising taxes on business..Obama plans for a massive corporate business tax incease..In theory that sounds great doesn't it -- but in reality it's a living nightmare..
The US business tax rate stands at 40 percent in the us today.Obama plans to jump this number to 65 percent..
HERE'S WHAT THE RESULT OF THAT WILL DO TO AMERICA...
Business taxes affect business decisions, job creation and retention, plant location, competitiveness, the transparency of the tax system, and the long-term health of a countries economy. Most importantly, taxes diminish profits. If taxes take a larger portion of profits, that cost is passed along to either consumers (through higher prices), workers (through lower wages or fewer jobs), or shareholders through lower dividends or share value). Thus a country with lower tax costs will be more attractive to business investment, and more likely to experience economic growth.
According to the KPMG report, 23 countries have lowered their corporate tax rates this year, and no nation has raised its rate since last year. Last week , for instance, Sweden announced a series of proposals to improve its business climate , including a plan to cut its corporate tax rate from 28 percent to 26.3 percent. A September 17, 2008 Industry Week article, "Sweden Announces Income Tax Cuts to Boost Jobs," explains, "Since coming to power in the autumn of 2006, the Swedish government has launched a series of measures aimed at inciting Swedes to return to the job market instead of living off of state subsidies."
"The U.S. rate was higher than all other global regions in 1999 and the difference is even more dramatic today," . "If the Swedes now recognize that taxes matter to a country's business climate and incentives to work, then when will America's political class?"
In Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 145, "KPMG Study Finds U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Higher Than Every Global Region," Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge explains that America's stagnant business tax system is potentially harmful to America's economic competitiveness in the global marketplace.
This KPMG survey comes on the heels of the Tax Foundation's CompeteUSA project, a campaign to raise public awareness of America's high business taxes and how our business tax system might be affecting our competitiveness, wages and living standards.
Recent OECD studies show U.S. corporate income taxes are 50 percent higher than the average among our counterparts in the industrialized world, and that corporate taxes are the single most harmful tax to GDP growth, more so than personal income taxes or consumption taxes.
Last month, the Tax Foundation released a revised summary showing that the U.S. federal corporate income tax quietly taps family pocketbooks for nearly $370 billion per year in the form of higher prices, lower wages and poorer return on investment.
If Obamas economic plan is the way to go..How come every European nation has done "JUST THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT OBAMA SUGGEST"??
Almost every European nation has lowered it's corporate tax rates..Obama has plans to raise the US corporate tax rate.. WHAT DO THE EUROPEAN NATIONS KNOW THAT OBAMA DOES NOT??
Obama is just another modern day snake oil salesman. He has been running scam's for month to sucker you into voting for him by making it seem he will keep your taxes low..When in fact he is actualy doing just the opposite..
WAKE UP PEOPLE.. Pass this information on around the web.. Lets get this information to the voters..
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leoganz
5:22PM Oct 26th 2008
Poor Mike..........better not leave your house on Nov 5th...........it will be a whole new world. Better stay in your cave.
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phlea
5:23PM Oct 26th 2008
with me being from ga i really doubt that will happen and i registered to vote for the first time in 7 years to do my part to see him lose this state
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Pati
5:24PM Oct 26th 2008
Hey Jim you're a moron. You're also talking to yourself.
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csunbean
5:24PM Oct 26th 2008
So what The real story to cover is SATANIST supporting and Promoting Obama on youtube. WHY? Maybe because his Black Theology under James H. Cones believes," Any GOD that doesn't work for the DESTRUCTION of the White enemy should be KILLED." SO this would mean Jesus and Christianity should be killed.
Give this information to someone you love and tell them to THINK and research Obama. He wrote in his memoir that he relgiously downloaded any missed Wright sermons as he was so into him. He wrote about hearing his pastor attack U.S. in sermons. He stood silent early in his campgain before he became popular when his Pastor mocked the death of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Obama did not apologize to the parents. Obama did not apologize to White People. He waited and the media did not make a big deal of it because he was still a small fry. Now he and BIDEN cut off stations like recently in Florida that don't ask them baby questions so the media is afraid to ask Obama the tough stuff. They are afraid they will lose MONEY in advertising. SICK CENSORSHIP Watch Sa
See how Satanists Explain how Obama will the Catalyst for the NEW WORLD ORDER with one world under one flag.
This former Democrat is voting MCCAIN the sane choice
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csunbean
5:25PM Oct 26th 2008
So what The real story to cover is SATANIST supporting and Promoting Obama on youtube. WHY? Maybe because his Black Theology under James H. Cones believes," Any GOD that doesn't work for the DESTRUCTION of the White enemy should be KILLED." SO this would mean Jesus and Christianity should be killed.
Give this information to someone you love and tell them to THINK and research Obama. He wrote in his memoir that he relgiously downloaded any missed Wright sermons as he was so into him. He wrote about hearing his pastor attack U.S. in sermons. He stood silent early in his campgain before he became popular when his Pastor mocked the death of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Obama did not apologize to the parents. Obama did not apologize to White People. He waited and the media did not make a big deal of it because he was still a small fry. Now he and BIDEN cut off stations like recently in Florida that don't ask them baby questions so the media is afraid to ask Obama the tough stuff. They are afraid they will lose MONEY in advertising. SICK CENSORSHIP Watch Sa
See how Satanists Explain how Obama will the Catalyst for the NEW WORLD ORDER with one world under one flag.
I live in a residence where everyone but me is a Republican. They are certain that Obama is a terrorist, and Al Quaida sp? ties, and would be a disaster for this country. I'm thinking what if they're right? And what if Obama is a Muslim? He seems just too good to be true. Remember the old adage? If something's too good to be true, it probably isn't true. But again, I fear McCain would strip down entitlement programs for the poorest of us, myself included. His plans would make Medicare and Medicaid a skeleton of its former selves. Imagine if our health care were taxed? In my mind, I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place in this election. Damned if I do, Damned if I don't. I sure wish there was a strong viable third party candidate to vote for.
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Jim
5:27PM Oct 26th 2008
Okay, all you fine people that want to vote for Obama. Bad news. He wants to stop people over age 70.5 from withdrawing from their 401K plans. Read the latest news. This is no hoax. This means that those of us who WORKED our ass off and saved because we never trusted the Democrats are doomed. The old white men who employ the blacks are getting the royal shaft. How any retiree can vote for this damn fool is beyond me. They must have dementia or just palin ****ing stupid like the rest the USA population. This ends America. Come Jan 1, MY business closes, I fire all the black employees, I take all my 401K and tell America go to hell, if Obama is elected, you idiots that elected this Islamic Communist can deal with it.
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Pati
5:29PM Oct 26th 2008
phlea I'm from GA too. I voted early with family and friends to make sure Obama wins.
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Jeff Montgomery
5:29PM Oct 26th 2008
Mike-
Drop the pipe.... Barr is stone correct here....
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Susu
5:30PM Oct 26th 2008
Hey Mike, wake up and smell the coffee! Barack Obama in a landslide...NO QUESTIONS ASKED! No one cares about the scare tactics of the Republicans anymore..we need to save our economy. Hey, I believed the republicans in the last 2 elections and voted that way, but what a mistake! Now, its OBAMA ALL THE WAY! Anyone who votes any other way has got to be ignorant!
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Jim
5:31PM Oct 26th 2008
Pati5, please come say that to my face you ho. Where is you brain between, your legs, diseased?
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blablabla
5:31PM Oct 26th 2008
200 YEARS OF AMERICANS DYING FOR THEIR FREEDOM...and for nothing...if the Marxist Robber From the Hood...takes the Whitehouse.
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Jim
5:33PM Oct 26th 2008
OBAMA'S CHANGE IS TURNING A FIRST RATE COUNTRY INTO ANOTHER POVERTY STICKEN THIRD WORLD ONE..OBAMA HAS BEEN RUNNING A CON ON YOU MY FRIEND.. YOU JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BRAINS TO FIGURE IT OUT.. Do you think he is actually giving you a tax break..lol You don't know much about the business world then do you.. Obama wants to go after corporations and over-tax them.. Corporations don't actually pay the taxes my friend..The average person does, but most people don't realize it..
YOU'V BEEN SUCKED BY OBAMA FOR NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS..OBAMA DOESN'T UNDERSTAND EITHER..LOL Obama voters are SUCKERS..
Ready for the right kind of change5:13PMOct 26th 2008
Yes It is getting competitive....already receiving slime emails from McCain/Palin Campaign. They are so negative and KNOW THEY HAVE NOTHING TO MAKE A STAND ON BESIDES NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING.
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Jim
5:35PM Oct 26th 2008
Pati5. Have you finished the 1st grade? Probably not. Alsi, I bet you have 9 kids and are on welfare, with food stamps and a black daddy.
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zaphod
5:37PM Oct 26th 2008
You guys who post so much crap. NO ONE IS READING IT. Losers are so entertaining.