Comments Posted By JW2
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ENOUGH WITH ALL OF THIS "OBAMA IS A MOOSLIM" CRAP
So many of these posts are shameful for their bias and their ignorance. There's misinformation in so many posts. If you want to be against him be against him for his policies. I research all of the candidates, I don't take anyone's word for things and now that we're down to three I've looked into them all.
We all should before we spread rumors or things we heard on some blog or email. I don't like defending an opponent, I like falsehood less.The Muslim issue is only one part of it. Who cares what his father was, he left by the time Obama was two. Some posters say the school when he was 8 and 9 didn't teach the 3 R's. Who made that up?
But I won't even fight that. The next year he was back in Hawaii with his white grandparents who then raised him to adulthood. Do you think they practiced jihad after school? Why are you hung up on what he did in 3rd and 4th grade?He does say the Pledge of Allegiance with his hand on his heart. The infamous picture was taken during the national anthem. I fact check rumors on candidates and when I was checking this one I came on this page
http://civicalert.org/2008/02/25/oh-say-can-you-see-both-george-bushes-must-be-unpatriotic-if-obama-is/
Along with his picture are pictures with George Bush Sr and George W Bush doing the same thing in a crowd that does have their hand on their heart. That was good enough for me.Then someone ominously says to look into Chicago paper to his tie to Rezko and "security guards for Iraqi power plants". Yes, please do. They'll tell you the company did request help in getting the contract and they were declined.
The whole Rezko connection is so overblown.Rezko wasn't considered scum until a few years ago. Their connection has been investigated for a couple years, there isn't any finding of wrong doing on Obama's part. It's back in the news because the Clinton campaign is pushing it. As he finds out donations are connected to Rezko he donates it to charity. He actually has a lot less dirt or money that had to be returned than Clinton or even McCain. He just isn't a dirty politician.He isn't for releasing those held at Guantanamo Bay, he wants to close that down and put them in prison. He plans phased withdrawal from Iraq over a couple years with other plans to help the region. He wants to strengthen the military and send more troops to Afghanistan and with the resurgent Taliban there we have to do something. He has costly plans to help veterans but I think we have to, we owe them.
He doesn't plan to stop allowing spying on terrorists. Currently even all domestic calls pass through the screening and there is not oversight to this. Obama doesn't say anything wrong is being done, but he calls it needing someone to watch the watchers because the power is subject to abuse. Honestly I think that is a pretty conservative position, no branch of government should have absolute power. The bright side is he and future presidents couldn't abuse it either.Speaking of conservative his tax plans make fiscal sense. The "raised" tax is just letting the Bush tax cuts for the upper 2% expire and many economists have been concerned about tax cuts during war time. Past presidents didn't do it.
However he has some tax cuts for the middle class and those are likelier to spur the economy because those in the middle class are likelier to spend their increased income. He also wants seniors with incomes under 50,000 to pay no taxes. So his tax plans aren't the problem, it's his spending that worries me.I notice people objecting to his plan for a tax credit for college students that they can work off. I'm mixed. If the work part is well run it could be good. Does anyone have college age children? The cost is crushing whether you are liberal or conservative and kids graduate with so much debt into a weakening employment field. We need to be more competitive and right now it's the middle class that's hurt again. Lower income qualify for more financial aid and rich people can afford it.
Comment Posted By JW2 On 9.03.2008 @ 05:21
Who has tried to help the middle class lately? That should be a conservative value. Too bad this guy is a Democrat and is so liberal on some things. If this wasn't so long I'd go into my complaints.
