It's true!  And here is video proof!  Also, Jake Tapper provides list of Obama promises that could well be a list of reasons that Jake Tapper will not be invited on the Obama O-force one.

• "give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week";
• "eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000";
• "give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks";
• not increase taxes on anyone if they "make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax";
• "end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas";
• "give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States";
• "eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country";
• "create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools -- by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country";
• "invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade";
• "reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines";
• build "a new electricity grid";
• "build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow";
• "eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years";
• "lower premiums" for those who already have health insurance;
• "if you don't have health insurance, you'll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves";
• "end discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most";
• "invest in early childhood education";
• "recruit an army of new teachers";
• "pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But ... also demand higher standards and more accountability";
• "make a deal with every young person who's here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it's serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts";
• "stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus";
• "end this war in Iraq";
• "finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden";
• "increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world";
• "invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home";
• "No more homeless veterans"; and
• "no more fighting for disability payments."

Shocking story of hope and change. 

That is the opinion of Helen McCaffrey in this article.  She makes a pretty good case without blaming Bush or the Republicans.  Hmm, what's that leave?

"I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women.

I realized this when I saw a 20-something male student who attends a class in the community college where I teach, wearing a T-shirt that read, "Sarah Palin is a C-." He wore it in public, in broad daylight, and without shame or even consciousness of what he was doing.

It was the encounter with the young man that woke me up, but there were signs all along the campaign trail. First, with the candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won 18 million popular votes from the people of the United States and was ridiculed, marginalized, and put in her place when she wasn't even offered the vice presidency slot.

One can only "hope" it will "change" before the next election.  But I'm not putting any money on it.

Gloating will not be tolerated on this post.  You may comment on the growing political and cultural divide between blue/urban and red/rural areas of the country though.  One thing it does seem to suggest is that newspapers tailor their endorsements to placate the majority of their subscribers.  Duh, it's a business.  I will admit that I was a bit surprised at the small circulation (59000) of The Bakersfield Californian.  Fargo S.D. has 48000!  Maybe TBC should start looking into Spanish language distribution. 

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I saw this Robert Bluey post today and thought it would be unfair not to redistribute its' wealth of information to all the B.comrades.

In a local restaurant my server had on a “Obama 08″ tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need–the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I’ve decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

Local TV reporter asks Biden tough questions and the Obama campaign declares that the local TV station will no longer be allowed interviews with anybody in the campaign.  I think that if there are any skeletons in this lady's closet, they will be brought out shortly.  Notice that it takes a "local" news outlet to ask these questions.  The national MSM is too deep in the tank for Obama to do their job.  Of course, they have been a bit busy investigating Sarah Palin's wardrobe.

To borrow from another blog, "Goosestepping towards facism and Hope and Change"

By JEANE MACINSTOSH

Posted: 4:28 am
October 25, 2008

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can't vote in the battleground state.

A dozen staffers - including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama - signed a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their names from the rolls.

The letter - a copy of which was obtained by palestra.net, a Fox News affiliate - came a day after prosecutor Ron O'Brien publicly urged out-of-state campaign workers for both Obama and John McCain to "examine your conscience" before the elections board beings begins opening absentee ballots today.

Earlier in the week, O'Brien spoke with lawyers for both camps and urged them to make sure their staffs met permanent-residency rules, or face possible felony charges.

Also pulling his ballot yesterday was Hofstra University grad Jake Smith, an Obama volunteer who had voted in Knox County, Ohio.

On Thursday, O'Brien cut a deal with 13 out-of-staters, including four from New York, who tossed out their already-cast ballots and admitted they didn't meet residency requirements.

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Went up one final time for the year to catch a fish and see the colored aspens and got slapped up side the head with some snow.

The obvious bias towards the Obama campaign is illustrated very well by Kirsten Powers.  Their is nothing "special" about this post, so the resident homosexuals will not be blocked nor deleted.

Posted: 4:08 am
October 22, 2008

Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate prompted a small wave of warnings about Biden's propensity for gaffes. But no one imagined even in a worse-case scenario such a spectacular bomb as telling donors Sunday to "gird your loins" because a young president Obama will be tested by an international crisis just like young President John Kennedy was.

Scary? You betcha! But somehow, not front-page news.

Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden's statements.

There were a few exceptions. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-host Mika Brzezinski flipped incredulously through the papers, expressing shock at the lack of coverage of Biden's remarks. Guest Dan Rather admitted that if Palin had said it, the media would be going nuts.

So what gives?

The stock answer is: "It's just Biden being Biden." We all know how smart he is about foreign policy, so it's not the same as when Sarah Palin says something that seems off.

Yet, when Biden asserted incorrectly in the vice-presidential debate that the United States "drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon," nobody in the US media shrieked. (It was, however, covered with derision in the Middle East.) Or when he confused his history by claiming FDR calmed the nation during the Depression by going on TV, the press didn't take it as evidence that he's clueless.

And Biden is the foreign-policy gravitas on the Democratic ticket, so his comments are actually even more disconcerting.

The outakes of his Sunday remarks don't begin to capture the magnitude of what he said. After warning the crowd that there would be some sort of international incident - Biden could think of four or five scenarios - he told the donors: "We're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

What does that mean? Obama's election would provoke an international incident because of his inexperience and even Obama's biggest supporters won't be reassured by his response?

Then there were Biden's predictions on the economy: "I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, 'Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? . . . Why is this thing so tough? . . . I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point, because you're going to have to reinforce us.

"There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, 'Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don't know about that decision.' "

Biden is teling us that, at a time when Americans need to feel confidence in their government, they will be going "Oh my God." Not a great message.

Needless to say, if Sarah Palin said this about a McCain administration, the media world would be exploding.

Whether you believe Biden is exaggerating, as he is known to do, or is providing real insight, the double standard in the media does even more damage to their lagging brand.

Part of the problem is their "Obama love," but we're also seeing the media elite's belief - prejudice - that anyone with an R behind their name is dumb. So, if they say something dumb, they must be dumb. A Democrat, like Biden, can make wildly inaccurate or outrageous comments and they are ignored because the TV and press insiders feel they "know who he really is."

On the stump recently, Sen. Biden declared he had "three words" for what the nation needs: "J-O-B-S."

Lucky for him, his name isn't Dan Quayle, or that would have followed him for the rest of his career.

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Apparently, the "spread the wealth around" socialist comments recently made by the Messiah have struck a nerve and now we learn that Socialist is just an old racist code word for Blacks.  That's a stretch by any definition.  It is just a continuation of attempts to muzzle any criticism of this clown. 

Yesterday, Ray Harvick posted a blog about Joe Klein being denied access to the Palin campaign.  I commented and posted this link and the following lines from the article,

"It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But the candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama."

"Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September."

This contrasting view of his blog must not have sat very well with him because this afternoon it was gone. Deleted, and not by me.  And when I tried to comment on his post, I found that I had been locked out.  He did the very thing to me that he was complaining about in his post!  I'm sure the irony of his actions were lost on him.  

I would complain about this form of censorship, and that is exactly what it was, but I have seen enough here to know that he has the full backing of Jason and the B.com powers that be.  But don't worry Ray baby, I won't lock your little cowardly sissy butt out of here.  Comment away.  

What Obama supporters say when asked what policies, etc. they like about their messiah speaks volumes and almost convinced me to vote for him too.  Colin Powell should have brought them along this morning for his Meet The Press appearance.

A photo of Congressional leaders right after the bailout package was passed.  Write the caption and tell us how you really feel.

Do ya think Soledad was even counting?

Beware the Blue Shirts.  This stuff is becoming cult like.

If true, this could be "big".    Also, here.

It has been learned that Gwen Ifill, the moderator for the upcoming Vice Presidential debate has a financial interest in who wins the election.  Apparently, she has written a book that is favorable to John McCain that is to be released on inauguration day in January.  Her publisher, Random House gushes about him in the official promo:

“In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of John McCain’s stunning presidential campaign..."

"...Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.” 

The amount of sales of her book (and the amount of money she makes on it) depends on whether or not her subject is the one being inaugurated the day the book is released.  Expect her to steer the debate in a way that is beneficial to the Republican side in what is just another example of right wing bias in the media.