Just a couple days left.  Charging money for carbon credits that in essence is just another tax from O.  This will hasten the increasing cost to all and the faster decline in our economic situation.

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            Until he announced his Vice-Presidential running mate in Alaska’s current Governor Sarah Palin, the  base of the Republican party membership were at best lukewarm towards McCain but that all changed almost overnight. The level of enthusiasm among Republicans appeared to skyrocket and it all resulted in a very successful Republican Party convention in early September. The first reaction to putting Sarah Palin on the national stage was a mad rush by the liberal media to investigate her, her family and her background in greatest detail in search of negatives to ruin her reputation and to diminish her sudden effectiveness on the Republican side. It was shameful what was done to her but the media found out that she was tougher than they had expected and they did not truly diminish her even though they tried as hard as they could. Wherever she is even now, she is drawing record crowds in attendance. She connects with people in such a strong and natural way; she is truly a star in this election cycle. The momentum from the convention seemed to carry the campaign for several weeks until the current financial disaster hit America and the rest of the world in the latter part of September.

            For whatever reasons, it was George W. Bush’s fault and the attempt to link John McCain with the President succeeded. It did not matter that McCain had called for stronger regulations for mortgage lenders FreddyMac and FannieMae nearly three years earlier in the U.S. Senate. The people of America needed someone to blame for the financial crisis and it was the President and by way of ‘guilt by association’, so was John McCain. There were three televised debates between the two Presidential contenders and while McCain did not impress in the first two, he gave a somewhat more spirited performance during the last one on October 15 but it was not overwhelmingly strong or campaign altering. A major player during this debate was a resident of Ohio by the name of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher who then became known as “Joe, the Plumber” throughout the country after he had had an opportunity a few days earlier to ask Barack Obama a question about taxing people making $250,000 or more a year to which Obama replied among other things that he “wanted to spread the wealth around“. McCain used this statement during the debate repeatedly and he asked Obama directly what he meant by that but never received an answer from Obama.

            The immediate reaction in the days following was that the liberal media did a ‘hit-job’ on Joe the Plumber. Instead of trying to find out what Mr. Obama had meant by his response to Joe, they tried as hard as they could to discredit and demonize this man who was guilty of nothing more than asking Obama a question when he (Obama) walked one day into his (Joe’s) neighborhood. Yet John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin keep using their opponents comment again and again wherever they give speeches and it appears to have resonance.

            We will not visit in any detail John McCain’s agenda and plans for the future of America should he be elected President, we recommend instead for you to visit McCain’s official campaign website http://www.johnmccain.com/. The one major element of concern in America called national security has taken a backseat to the economic crisis in the past month and maybe understandably so. When someone has to worry about possibly losing his or her job and has witnessed a severe turn down in the stock markets affecting their 401k plans very negatively, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and national security are not equally important any longer. And national security and the war on terror were areas representing an advantage for McCain, where he was considered stronger and more experienced than his opponent yet the economic crisis has removed these areas from the campaign.

            Yet John McCain keeps on ‘trucking’ if you will, he shows tremendous energy and strengths (not bad for a ‘man too old to be President’ as some have referred to him), his campaign speeches are focused and even show him using humor and some ridicule when talking about his opponents. He has repeatedly claimed that he likes his role as an underdog in this race and he does not let the polls bother him that have him nationwide and in individual States trailing by significant margins. It appears as if he has grown to like campaigning non-stop during the last few months until Election Day. If nothing else, this in itself should be a reflection on his strong general physical and mental health.

            Which brings us to the final few questions that deserve answers:

• Does John McCain have the experience to be President? The answer should be: YES!
• Does John McCain have good judgment and the right temperament to be President? Again: YES!

• Is John McCain therefore qualified to be President? The answer should also be a resounding YES!
• Will John McCain be a strong Commander-in-Chief? The answer is undoubtedly: YES!
• Will John McCain be ready for this job on Day One? Again, we think the answer is: YES!
• Will John McCain be able to deal effectively with a crisis, domestic or international: Again: YES!
• Does John McCain have substance or style or both? He is definitely substance over style!
• Does John McCain have the integrity and character to be President: Absolutely!
• Would you trust John McCain as President to think ‘Country first’? Again, absolutely!

In a few days, we will post here an article about Barack Obama wherein we shall take a final look at him.

We can only hope that the majority of voters asked themselves the above and similar questions for both candidates before they enter the voting booths on November 4, 2008.

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It is interesting that the topic isn’t about wether redistribution of wealth is right or wrong, but the method best to implement it.  Obama has been very consistent with his view regarding redistributing money from those that earn it to those that don’t.

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            As we all know now, one element on this list is voter registration and assisting voters to get to the voting booths on Election Day. While this might at first sound very admirable and praiseworthy, we question the need for it though when it is being done in such excessive ways as we have recently seen by the ACORN groups. There have reportedly registered over 1.3 million individuals for this election cycle and are now under investigation in several States for fraudulent registrations and will undoubtedly be very active on Election Day to make sure most of their newly registered voters will actually vote.

            ACORN is an acronym for Associations of Community Organizers for Reform Now and is allied with many civic groups and has over many years received millions of taxpayer dollars from the Federal and many State governments. While they claim to be non-partisan, they in fact are not! They have officially endorsed the Democrat’s candidate Barack Obama, a former fellow community organizer in Chicago who sort of returned the favor by sending them over $800,000 for get out the vote efforts. ACORN has registered approximately 600,000 new voters in Ohio alone of which 200,000 were found to be very questionable. When the Ohio Republican Party challenged these registrations, the Democrat Ohio Secretary of State, Ms. Jennifer Brunner ignored them. We only focus on Ohio since George Bush won this State’s electoral votes in 2004 over John Kerry by a mere 120,000 votes. A switch of 60,000 votes could have made John Kerry President. When there are now 200,000 questionable registrations, voter registration fraud leading to voter fraud could very well swing this election.

            We here at Common Sense Politics are very concerned that our election process is now so flawed and compromised by fraudulent activities that the results are criminally tinged. We have a very clear position on this: Make active voter registration illegal! With this we are coming back to our opening sentence that we yearn for the good old days. We have a very hard time accepting that there are millions of citizens in America that do not care enough to make the effort to be a registered voter by contacting their respective County Registrar’s office by phone, mail or visiting the offices in order to exercise this precious right, to have a voice in elections by voting. These people are being referred to in the media and many liberals as being disenfranchised and therefore need help in becoming registered and to vote. To this we say: That is just plain nonsense, yet if true, that’s tough! We refuse to believe that a legal citizen of America who has gone through an education process called K-12 is incapable of registering to vote by him or herself and is therefore not disenfranchised but simply does not care enough to register to vote. As a consequence, we also question that person’s mental capability to think for him or herself and should possible refrain from voting. We do not want to insult such a person by calling them stupid but we have to question the basic attitude of such people when they have to depend so totally on active voter registration operations like ACORN.  Think of the outcry if an alcohol company took everyone turning 21 to a bar on their birthday and paid for their drinks.  Shouldn’t our pick for President be as important?

            If a young person turns 18, should we not expect this young person to decide for him or herself whether or not to partake in an election and then exercise his right to become a voter actively? And if the decision to sit this one out for lack of interest or for other reasons, so be it, but let us not refer to them as disenfranchised individuals, that is clearly lacking any common sense. At the same time, we also reject the charges by liberals, Democrats and the majority of the media that Republicans are guilty at every election of voter suppression. We do not understand how this can happen other than assuming that when a voter shows up at a voting place and is not allowed to vote because he or she is not on the official voting rolls. They are still being given so called ‘provisional ballots’ to be verified for accuracy at a later time. If it is ‘voter suppression’ when an election official at a polling place does his or her job by verifying a person’s registration, then we might as well do away with any rules and accept ‘anything goes’ from now on. If long lines at polling places are interpreted as voter suppression, how can that be the fault of Republicans?  We cannot believe that we are even writing about this nonsense. The only kind of ‘voter suppression’ we can accept – and we say this humorously – is when a Republican tells a Democrat voter that they are supposed to vote on the next day. In other words: Republicans vote on November 4 while Democrats vote on November 5. But this is of course of not happening anywhere other than as part of a prank or a joke.

            In conclusion, we are very concerned that this Presidential election on November 4 might be so effected by fraudulent activities by ‘Get-Out-the-vote’ drives by all groups who are participating in this. Unfortunately, we will never truly know how many fraudulent votes will be cast on or before November 4 and will simply have to accept the overall results for lack of proof that fraud was a major factor for the winner. But in about ten days this year’s election will be over and we hope it is as clean as possible.

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 Another video you must consider before voting this coming Tuesday.  How did this get so far?  Please comment for all to read.

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• Class Warfare: This is one of the Democrat’s favorite and effective weapons. It appeals to lower income people who are envious of the higher income class, the so-called rich people. For the Democrats, there are three groups of America’s citizens: The rich, the middle class and the poor. And while the poor are automatically ‘victims’ to Democrats, they want us to believe that they – the Democrats – represent the middle class, also known as the working class. And the only group remaining that they can attack is the ‘rich’ people. And it is not enough that the rich people should be punished to pay the bulk of taxes (which they already do with our progressive tax system), Democrats also smear these people, trying to make them out to be the “lucky ones” in the country as if these people all were born into comfortable lives and never worked a day in their life. This is utterly shameful on the part of the Democrats but then we question their sense of shamefulness. The vast majority of teachers in America are liberal and therefore Democrats and they tell their pupils year after year that the sky is the limit as to their (the students) ambitions and achievements but then Democratic leaders turn right around and condemn and smear them as they become successful in achieving their goals when it results in wealth. From Presidential candidate Barack Obama we know, that the group of ‘Rich people’ starts at an income level of $250,000/year and that he will tax them more in order to, and we quote his own words “to spread the wealth around”, a clear expression of socialism! We can deduce that the middle class’s upper income level is at about $249,000 annually. There is no rationale for this statement but then, it is a proven campaign tactic to wage class warfare and it includes the majority of potential voters, some might be persuaded to vote accordingly. This weapon becomes even more devious when political opponents, i.e. the Republicans, are being linked to the ‘rich people’ and are therefore automatically evil too.
• Racism: This weapon of the Democrats is especially prevalent this year since we have in Barack Obama a partial African-American. Any statement by anyone negative in content or nature towards blacks is racism, even if it is criticism of a black person’s actions or behavior. While Democrats have used this tactic for a great number of years, it is especially strong in 2008. The Republicans, having been aware of this situation, have been extremely careful not to render any such comments and criticisms. They did not take the bait and this obviously frustrated the Democrats and especially their frontrunner Obama. It resulted in him bringing it up at campaign stops. He has been heard many times making such statements like “they will tell you that I am black, that I don’t look like the other guys on the dollar bills” and so on. Since no such statement by a Republican has ever been made, this is outrageous race-baiting and unbecoming for a candidate for the highest office in the country! There are other comments by Democrats and liberal media types that we should be aware of; the ‘Bradley’ effect, meaning that white people will not tell pollsters that they will not vote for a black man but instead lie about it as to not to appear biased. The term ‘Bradley effect‘ was coined after Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was leading in polls prior to the 1982 gubernatorial race in California and yet lost by several percentage points. Once again, us white folks are therefore racists and cannot be trusted when we talk to a pollster. This is truly outrageous and only believed and perpetuated by liberals and those that want to see a continuation of racial divides. Shame on them all! How can we ever truly come together as ‘One nation under God, indivisible with justice for all’ when this race baiting is continuing?
• Scaring the older folks: This one is the vilest and most vicious weapon used by Democrats. For many decades they have scared the older folks among America’s citizenry to believe that the Republicans will cut Social Security and Medicare. These claims were made without any basis in fact and have unnecessarily worried those in our midst who live their retirement years on fixed incomes and who depend more heavily on Medicare. We can hardly express our discust for Democrats using this weapon to scare older folks into voting for them to attain public office. Not once has Social Security or Medicare been reduced even when the Republicans were in control of the White House and Congress. And yet, Barack Obama recently told voters that his opponent John McCain would slice Medicare by over 800 billion dollars if he were elected. This is so incredibly shameful by Obama, which we truly have to question everything he has ever said or promised. In fact, shameful is not the appropriate word for such statements, disgraceful, obscene, immoral and sluttish would be more appropriate and for that we say: You ought to be ashamed, Barack Obama for doing this and going there! America’s seniors deserve better than to be lied to so blatantly by a Presidential candidate.

If this article comes across as partisan, then we plead guilty; we promote common sense and logic and reject dirty tactics for political or other gains and will call out anyone who uses them.

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            As in previous years, everybody is waiting for campaign-altering statements by the candidates and then everybody is disappointed when they do not occur. This is absolutely ridiculous when one thinks seriously about it. The moderators control the topics through their questions and are also the timekeepers. How many times have we seen these supposedly impartial moderators ask complex questions about a topic of major proportion and then allow only sixty to ninety seconds for an answer. A classic example came during the 2004 Vice-Presidential debate when moderator Gwen Ifill asked Richard Cheney a very difficult question and gave him thirty seconds to respond. Cheney told her that he could not possible respond to her question adequately to which she said: “Sorry, Sir, you’ve got thirty seconds!”

            And it was no different this year. The four moderators, Jim Lehrer (PBS), Gwen Ifill (PBS), Tom Brokaw (NBC) and Bob Schieffer (CBS), all rather liberal members of the mainstream media, selected the questions and decided who would have to respond to them in a very short period of time, at a maximum, two minutes long. And so, the candidates had to limit their statements against a timer and the results were predictable: The answers were incomplete or vague at best. And then we wonder why we do not get sufficient answers to questions we want to ask. The debates in their current format are useless and we here believe that major changes should be made for the next go-around in 2012 and thereafter.

            From history we know that in 1858, Stephen A. Douglass and Abraham Lincoln engaged in direct dialogues without moderators where they debated many topics of the time at great lengths, some such debates lasted for many hours. The two candidates were vying for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate and held altogether seven such debates. The format for those debates was one candidate spoke for 60 minutes, then the other candidate spoke for 90 minutes and the first candidate had 30 minutes for a so called ‘rejoinder’ for a total of three hours.

            We are not suggesting that this should be repeated per se but at least seems much more plausible as it allows the candidates to adequately detail their respective plans for the future instead of answering complex questions with sixty to ninety second sound bites. Since a three-hour debate might be too long, especially when it is televised, reduce the time to two hours. The current debates with the immediate analysis by pundits on every television network last that long as well. If you were to give the two candidates one hour each, they should be able to make their cases respectively and conversely, if they would not do so, the voters could decide for themselves whether or not they had heard truthful statements and realistic proposals by the two contenders. The format for such debates could be a 40 minute long opening (for candidate One), followed by a 60 long minute time slot (for candidate Two) to be concluded by a 20 minute rebuttal (by candidate One). The debates could be pre-determined to deal with specific topics between domestic and foreign policy and even list sub-topics to be included. Should the candidates not address or ignore such topics, they would be judged and evaluated by the voters watching these debates and would have to live with the consequences.

            If nothing else, we, the people of the United States of America, would have a realistic opportunity to hear from the candidates vying for the highest offices in this country and then could determine for ourselves who to give our precious vote to. And it would be without influence and spin by moderators and political pundits.

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• The Obama/Biden team leads in national polls by an average of five to six percentage points and in the Electoral College vote category, the lead is overwhelming. We here at this site have in the past repeatedly stated that polls cannot truly be trusted since they are so easily manipulated by the pollsters yet the media presents them as factual and the American voter is inundated daily with new poll numbers. We give you just one example: In 2003, the so called neutral and respected Field poll in California had Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante in the lead over Arnold Schwarzenegger by nearly 15 percentage points just a few days before that election. Yet, Schwarzenegger won by nearly 15 percent, this is a thirty percent swing and yet with idiotic post-election explanations and rationale, the Field poll in California maintains its reputation as a reliable poll by the media. Incredible, yet true! The daily poll barrage in the media could have an impact on swaying undecided voters to go to Obama since this is all they hear,
• America’s mainstream media is nearly completely in the tank for the Democrat ticket, they are on television daily and are even bold enough to openly say so (even though there are four weeks to go until the election). Last week, the political news director for NBC, Chuck Todd stated happily “all trend lines are in Obama’s favor”. It was obvious for all who heard him, that he was delighted. Even though it has been removed, at the same time, a video was released wherein children were singing the praises of Barack Obama as our new leader. It was initially reported that Hollywood producers including the President of NBC Universal, Mr. Jeff Zucker had financed this video but this charge has since been denied by those initially mentioned. In addition, the media refuses to be critical of whatever lies and falsehoods Barack Obama or Joe Biden state on the campaign trail or during debates. As an example, Joe Biden told more than ten lies in his debate with Sarah Palin on October 2, yet nobody called him out on it yet Sarah Palin mispronounced the name of the General currently leading the war in Afghanistan (she called him McClellan instead of McKiernan) and that was a major mistake on her part according to the pundits,
• It is factual that a nationwide organization called ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) has been registering voters in huge numbers and is under investigation in several States for criminal activities such as falsifying such records and voter lists. In fact, some of their members have been found guilty of fraud etc and been even sent to jail. All you have to do is Google ‘ACORN’ and you will find out more about them and their activities. Even though Barack Obama claims that he was never a member of ACORN or had anything to do with them, he nonetheless prides himself of having been a ‘Community Organizer’ before he became an elected official in the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate. Yet we are to believe that there is absolutely no connection there, even though it is a known fact that ACORN members have been very open in their support for the Democrat party and Barack Obama in particular,
• While ‘Guilt by Association’ is not ever applicable to Democrats, it definitely applies to the Republican ticket, we are constantly reminded that a McCain presidency would be a ‘third Bush term.’ In other words, guilt by association applies with Republicans! Yet Barack Obama’s previous long-term associations with the hate-spewing pastor Dr. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago or the convicted felon Tony Rezko and former terrorist Ayers cannot be held against Obama. At the same time, we hear that John McCain who voted against many of President Bush’s proposals and also has a long record of voting independently and even against his own party, will be nothing more than an extension of the current administration. Never mind the facts, folks! Never mind that McCain wants to bring and effect changes and substantial reforms to Washington D.C., should he be elected President. His proposals have been very specific in some ways. That is nothing more than empty campaign rhetoric according to the experts. Yet Barack Obama is talking about ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ without specificity and that is the real thing!

            There are probably several other convincing arguments why an Obama victory is certain, but the four listed above should suffice for our prediction. We here at Common Sense Politics are deeply saddened by the fact that as a country, we have been so manipulated by an industry called MEDIA that cannot give us facts without opinion, by slanting all reporting and proposing lifestyle adjustments under the guise of tolerance.

            Yet, for purposes of clarification, we have to state in conclusion that we here will not be swayed by their actions and propaganda; we still believe that the Presidency will be decided on November 4, 2008. We will not accept a result any other way even though the odds are getting very much longer for a fair and honest election. Voter fraud has been fact in the past and it appears to be even more likely in more places than ever before this year. And that is shameful!

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It is about time that Senator McCain takes the gloves off and speaks openly and honestly about Obama’s past.   While Obama has fabricated events, denied affiliations, dodged confrontations, and told stories in any number of other ways, Senator McCain has done nothing more than speak cautiously.  Well, whether Governor Palin or another motivation prompted Senator McCain to tell America what many of us have known about for months, it really doesn’t matter now.  The point is that the Gloves are off!

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            Another aspect of the debate – and they spent a lot of times on this – was the exchanges of accusations between the two candidates. Obama tried many, many times to tie McCain to President George W. Bush in an attempt to convey ‘guilt by association’ and co-responsibility for everything that’s wrong currently in America and the world and McCain’s reaction was to just smile and ignore it. When McCain brought up previous statements by Obama and also called him to be the Senate’s most liberal member, Obama was defensive and immediately responded by voicing his objections while McCain was still talking. On the other hand, Mr. Obama stated about a half a dozen times that “John (Senator McCain) is right about this” when asked to respond to a statement by McCain.

            All in all, the entire event was over-billed and the participants did not truly live up to expectations, there were no fireworks, real ‘zingers’ or memorable one-liners by either candidate. Even though, this debate was supposed to address issues of ‘Foreign Policy and National Security’, nearly the first half of the spectacle was spent on the financial crisis America finds itself in. This was to be expected since it is so very important at this time. Both candidates claimed that they had warned about two years ago that this crisis was about to happen, whether or not this is true, who knows? The fact remains that neither one of the two spoke or even yelled loud enough for America to hear them back then! Therefore, these kinds of claims are meaningless to a voter. Real leadership would have required that they had taken a strong position back when and support their current claims with verifiable documentation. But no, this was simply silly “Me too ism”. And in terms of making very strong specifics available for resolution of the financial crisis, there were absolutely none by either one of them other than some general platitudes such as “protecting the interests of the American taxpayers”! What kind of double-talk is that? You are protecting the taxpayers by taking their money to save the irresponsible actions on Wall Street? Please, spare us the nonsense!

             While McCain had at least shown a willingness to participate in the Washington events by suggesting a ‘summit’ at the White House (that Senator Obama also attended) and afterwards spending time in Congress to help the negotiations along, Senator Obama stated that he had ‘called his recommendations in’ to the leadership in Congress by phone.

            Gracefully, the debate only lasted ninety minutes and we can only hope that the next two debates between these two will be more substantive and definitive. But we doubt it very much since they are both members of the United States Senate and are therefore experienced in talking, talking and talking without necessarily making a point! We shall see what they will do for encores. We here at Common Sense Politics however feel that the first debate did very little to sway an undecided voter one-way or the other. And, of course, people who have made up their mind as to how they will vote come November 4 were not giving a reason to change their positions or their vote.

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