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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (138619)	9/25/2008 5:35:51 PM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Viet Cong, Viet Minh, NVA, Khmer Rouge, Red Chinese, Red Army, red licorice - they're all the same to her. Her view of history is distorted, simplistic, and wrong. After all, she thinks McCarthy was a hero and FDR a villain ...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (138619)	9/25/2008 8:53:30 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Chicago Commune By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY \| Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:20 PM PT Election '08: Barack Obama summed up well the perversity of Democratic Party thinking when he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that it is "neighborliness" for Washington to hike taxes on those who are "sitting pretty." His running mate, Joe Biden, followed up last week with the observation that it's "patriotic" for the country's highest earners to pay more in taxes. Interesting that the party that doesn't want to talk about patriotism is now using a form of the word to obscure its devotion to socialist policies. O'Reilly was right to point out to Obama that the senator is supporting a "socialist tenet" with his "neighborly" comment earlier this month. But a reminder of the facts isn't likely to change the Democratic candidate's inveterate stance. This is the man who told ABC's Charlie Gibson that "I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness," even if hiking the tax would ultimately result in shrinking federal revenues. It's galling that Obama thinks his definitions of "neighborliness" and "fairness" should be codified into tax law while ignoring the possibility that others might not agree with his personal interpretation of those words. Why should Obama's definitions carry more weight than someone who believes that being a good neighbor and being fair means supporting one low rate for everyone? Sometimes we've wondered if Obama needs to be reminded that the U.S. is a republic, not a commune. Now we are sure. His gross misunderstanding — or intended misrepresentation — of what neighborliness means confirms it. While it might be neighborly for the person "sitting pretty" to privately help the minimum-wage-plus-tips waitress, there is nothing neighborly — or patriotic — about using the coercive powers of the state to seize more of his legally earned income and to interfere in personal affairs that are of no business to the government. Nor is it particularly "neighborly" to increase the load on the top 1% of taxpayers who shoulder 40% of the federal tax burden. Just as "neighborliness" is a euphemistic way to talk about the forced redistribution of wealth, "fairness" is code for punitively raising taxes on the economy's most successful producers. Think about the Obama fairness comment and in what context it was made: During a rant about "those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains . . . paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries." If Obama is so deeply troubled by this tax rate inequity — which he perceives though it doesn't actually exist — then why doesn't he propose to cut the secretary's taxes rather than hiking taxes on the high-income earner? Wouldn't she appreciate being able to keep more of her own money? Isn't the financial payoff greater than the visceral pleasure she would supposedly feel seeing the rich Wall Street guy gouged by a government guided by vindictive individuals? Or is the secretary just one of those bitter people who doesn't deserve a tax cut? Obama's tale of the secretary and the stock market whiz recalls the efforts to create tax harmonization by the European Union. Naturally, the socialist-minded nabobs at the EU want to achieve harmony by raising tax rates in countries where they are low — and where economies are growing — to meet the rates in nations where they are high — and the economies stagnant. Logic would dictate that real harmony, and economic growth, would be achieved by cutting all rates to those of the nation where they are the lowest. Democrats have put themselves into the position in which they have to fuel resentment to generate support. Who better to carry that banner than Chicago's Obama, a man experienced as a "community organizer," immersed in class hatred by Saul Alinsky (author of "Rules for Radicals") and dedicated to establishing a nanny socialist system in which, according to his wife, Michelle, "Barack Obama will require you to work" and "never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed." If he's elected, America will become Obama's world and the rest of us will have to live in it, subject to what he believes is neighborly and fair, and what Biden considers to be patriotic.