Sunday, October 19, 2008

Palin Hits Obama Hard

Ouch.

“Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth,” she said. “Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic. But Joe the plumber and Ed the dairy man, I believe that they think that it sounds more like socialism. Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism.”

Her nod to “Ed the dairy man” was apparently a reference to a voter in the audience.

The vice presidential candidate claimed Obama’s plan to issue tax credits to lower-income workers amounts to little more than a series of government handouts.

“He claims that he’ll cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, but the problem is more than 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all,” she said. “So how can you cut income taxes for folks who don’t pay them?”

(14) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2046 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. I understand that Sarah doesn’t read any newspapers, but if she had, she’d realize that the current Republican administration has taken the biggest step towards socialism since FDR. I’ve also heard that some governors have become quite popular by taking money from the oil companies and redistributing it to the citizenry.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2008 at 0819 hrs


  2. I do read the newspapers.

    That’s how I know that Sarah Palin isn’t running against George Bush.

    I also know that the source of the money taken “from oil companies” is the gas buying public, ergo any money redistributed to the populace was theirs to begin with.

    I’m pretty sure Mrs. Palin knows that too.  It’s a shame more people don’t understand, but then again, that’s probably why she’s giving all these speeches…


    -jjg
    DailyScoff.com

    Posted by J. Gravelle on October 20, 2008 at 0831 hrs


  3. Perhaps McCain/Pallin should have run third party. And BTW, jjg, good call on the Packers game. The defense would like to have a word with you.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2008 at 0908 hrs


  4. If your conscience is urging you to share your winnings with me for my sage wagering advice, might I suggest you peruse the new “Scoff the Cuff” web store and adorn yourself with ridiculously over-priced Scoff-wear?

    You’ll feel better, I’ll feel better, and the Indonesian kids* I have doing the sewing will love you for it…


    -jjg
    DailyScoff.com

    *Kidding, of course.  Like I can afford Indonesian labor.  They’re Malaysian…

    Posted by J. Gravelle on October 20, 2008 at 1015 hrs


  5. I understand that Sarah doesn’t read any newspapers, but if she had, she’d realize that the current Republican administration has taken the biggest step towards socialism since FDR. I’ve also heard that some governors have become quite popular by taking money from the oil companies and redistributing it to the citizenry.

    So whats your point Charlie?  Socialism is OK?

    Are you acquiescing that Obama’s socialist policies are OK because George Bush moved us closer to socialism?  I thought you guys were against the things that happened under the bush administration?

    What are you trying to compare here?  Obama and Bush?  Socialist vs. Socialist?

    What does that have to do with Sarah Palin or John McCain?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2008 at 1108 hrs


  6. So, xxp, “you guys”? Give it a rest. If anything I vote Libertarian leaning towards Republican. My point is the simpleton’s black and white thinking about economics leaves me cold. Just saying the word socialism with a knowing roll of the eyes is not an argument. We have had a hybrid economy for a long time - witness “SOCIAL security”.  I just think it’s truly unbelievable that the bailout happened with a Republican administration. That is the same party that Sarah and John pretend to represent. John did vote YES, no? And, yes, I know Barack did also. It’s just that I expect more from what I once thought of as my party.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2008 at 1321 hrs


  7. Charlie, my apologies, I assumed in your response to owens post that you were justifying Obama’s policies.  In which case your post didn’t make any sense to me.

    I’m also suprised the bailout happend during a republican administration…  As I was suprised the TSA and take-over of airport security all under a new “big government” program was under a republican administration…. and the list goes on.

    I voted for George in 2000 truly believing in my heart that he was the second coming of Reagan.  With the exception of his stand on abortion (at the time being a pro-choice republican myself) and stem-cell research, I don’t think there was anything else that in principle I disagreed with.  The current administration definitely drove me from the republican party, and I’m now of the belief that had algore been elected, he would have experienced resistance from the republican congress at the time and the drive towards bigger government that GW took us on, might have been far less pronounced. 

    And that is why when I see a democratic controlled house and senate along with the most liberal of them all in the white house…  I see no speed bump in the mad-rush to government intervention in EVERY aspect of our economy and social policy.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 20, 2008 at 1349 hrs


  8. Sarah Palin certainly should know what socialism looks like:

    Welcome to the People’s Republic of Alaska, where every resident this year will get a $3,200 payout, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Sarah Palin, the state’s Republican governor. That’s $22,400 for a family of seven, like Palin’s. Since 1982, the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil revenues from state lands, has paid out a dividend on invested oil loot to everyone who has been in the state for a year. But Palin upped the ante by joining with Democrats and some recalcitrant Republican state legislators to share in oil company windfall profits, further fattening state tax revenue and permitting an additional payout in tax funds to residents.

    No wonder she is popular with voters in a state whose residents pay no income or sales taxes but are blessed with state coffers rolling in cash at a time when all other states are suffering. Indeed, when the oil companies pay more taxes to the state of Alaska, they get to write that off against their federal tax obligation, leaving the rest of us to make up the shortfall.

    Posted by folkbum on October 21, 2008 at 0517 hrs


  9. The Republican Party has been hijacked by a bunch of free spending liberal bastards who knew they could not get elected as a Dem.  So, they filed as a Republican to insure their election.  It is high time that conservatives either take their party (Republican) back or start a third party.
    Too many former Republican voters (not necessarily members of the party) saw the Republican controlled congress squander billions of tax dollars on pork projects.  If that pork had been in the edible form, at least we could have fed the hungry in this country.

    The Republican Party should cede the election to Barrack Hussein Obama, and we should cede our freedoms to a Muslim fundamentalist mindset.  Ladies, order your burkhas from my website now!  You’ll need them in ‘09.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 21, 2008 at 1012 hrs


  10. It is high time that conservatives either take their party (Republican) back or start a third party.

    No need to start one.  One already exists.

    But I know better.

    Seeing how many republicans treated Ron Paul and how they scorn the libertarian party…  I no longer believe most Republicans are any more interested in freedom and shrinking government than democrats.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 21, 2008 at 1021 hrs


  11. xx -

    Ron Paul had it nailed on the economy and size of government.  He lost me over his crazy talk on national security.  The Obama/Reid/Pelosi train scares the crap out of me, so I’m doing the nose-holding move for McCain this go-round

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 21, 2008 at 1222 hrs


  12. He lost me over his crazy talk on national security.

    What “crazy talk” specifically?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 21, 2008 at 1236 hrs


  13. Ron Paul is a little too isolationist for my taste.  Perhaps not “crazy talk” to everyone, but it is for me.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 21, 2008 at 1732 hrs


  14. Sounds like she hit Needless Markup pretty hard to,

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_CLOTHING?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION;=POLITICS&TEMPLATE;=DEFAULT

    What that one about a Sow’s ear?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 22, 2008 at 1816 hrs


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