What does change mean for a voter after the election?

My last post raised the issue that it wasn’t just that the economy could be worse, it should be worse. It was appropriate to give a break until after the election so now it is time to recap some of what has happened and look at where we go from here.
What I didn’t see happening [...]

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So how good is this economy?

So how good is this economy? Really?
No one doubts that there are issues with the economy. Home equity has disappeared before people’s eyes. Credit availability has really only begun to dry up. Unemployment is trying to persistently increase. Company’s are reducing revenue forecasts going forward and most everyone is stretching out estimates of when recovery [...]

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Why presidential candidate tax proposals mean nothing to me.

Once we get past the staged convention nonsense, the campaigns will turn back to issues, running ads pointing out the oppositions’ flaws, and then run ads saying how the opposition is lying. For many voters, the economy is the biggest issue in this election. But most of them haven’t got a clue as to what [...]

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Obama / Biden

I heard this on CNN this morning and man did I laugh hard.
Biden really!? Its funny that a person that has 0 experience on anything in foreign politics or anything nationally really picks someone with Washington credentials and foreign policy experience. Which in the words of Obama “if I should not be able to lead [...]

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Venezuelans protest Chavez’s new socialist push

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Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to block hundreds of Venezuelans protesting the latest moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power. The demonstrators said a blacklist of opposition candidates and a series of socialist decrees are destroying what’s left of their democracy.
Though the protest of about 1,000 people chanting “freedom!” was small [...]

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Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

Looks like even Wal-Mart sees that democrats controlling both branches of Govt is a bad idea.
They too see Obama’s socialist tendencies. Couple that with those of Pelosi and Reid and you have a situation that could very well bury this economy for good.
Sounds great right?
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department [...]

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Obama’s ‘emergency’ economic plan

Tax Oil companies.
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday announced an “Emergency Economic Plan” that would give families a stimulus check of $1,000 each, funded in part by what his presidential campaign calls “windfall profits from Big Oil.”
Details are in this six-page policy paper.
The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate [...]

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Race Card…

Accepted at all major speeches and political functions as long as you are black.
Also easily spun away by the Messiahs followers.
Democrat Barack Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, says John McCain and his Republican allies will try to scare them by saying Obama “doesn’t look like all those [...]

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Obama’s Germany Speech

In listening and watching this speech I wanted to give my analysis.
At about 4 Minutes he starts to talk about Germany and Proclaims:

The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the last war [...]

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Obama the Messiah has arriveth

This man is so presumptuous that this article fits perfectly.
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He ventured forth to bring light to the world
The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action – and a blessing to all his faithful followers
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush [...]

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Media Political Slant?

Naaaa…
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3 Anchors to Follow Obama’s Trek Abroad
The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama’s trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson [...]

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Shutdown UBS?

That is the call today by Senator Levin.
As if the banking industry needs anything else to be jittery about.
Are these folks up in DC that stupid?
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Federal regulators should consider revoking the US banking license of the giant Swiss Bank UBS because of its role in helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars in taxes, [...]

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Mae, Mac and Indy

These last couple weeks has been filled with more economic woes.
IndyMac has failed, mostly fueled by speculation of its demise which forced a run on the bank. Always a dangerous thing. Part of it, if not most of it was fueled by a letter written by Senator Chuck Shumer of NY on June 26th. Midday [...]

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Canadian Health Care Architect says “System is in crisis”

We’ve talked about Socialized Health care a few times, pointing out the obvious failures of it. No matter what country its in, it sucks. Well here is some more for those that still think that the ‘Change’ we need is towards a system that even its architect says is a failure!
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Canadian Health Care We [...]

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Speaking Democrat

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Why I don’t want to drill for oil in ANWAR.

Over the years I have found out that I tend to be fiscally conservative and socially moderate. That means, of course, that neither party has much use for me. Not socially conservative enough for the Republicans and definitely not liberal enough for the Democrats. Heck, I have absolutely no reason to vote for Obama and [...]

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Obama says he would impose oil windfall profits tax

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RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Monday he would impose a windfall profits tax on U.S. oil companies as he sought political gain from Americans’ pain over high gasoline prices.
Launching a two-week focus on the economy after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama drew a sharp contrast between [...]

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Tipping Points

If you haven’t read it, Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Tipping Point” sort of set the stage for a new view of economic events and if you have some free time, it’s worth a read. I have been mulling over this post for some time but this week just has to be analyzed, especially in its [...]

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US Marine acquitted of all charges in Haditha killings

A court martial on Wednesday acquitted a US Marine for his role in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha in Iraq in 2005, the sixth man to be exonerated in the affair, a military official said.
Lieutenant Andrew Grayson, 27, was declared “not guilty on all charges” by a jury, said a spokesman for the [...]

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Clinton supporter a primer?

Could this be a primer to what we will be seeing in November from Hillary supporters. You know the bitter Americans that cling to their guns and religion? Does this womans point carry any weight nationally? Could it be that many Democrats are prepared to vote for McCain in protest of [...]

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