Video: Yesterday in 100 Seconds

It is Tuesday, All eyes on health care, the battle is on, show down at high noon, high noon, pulling out the big guns, closer than ever before, we're gonna get the job done, health care reform event, another one, familiar Washington script, we've heard excuses, delay, defeat reform, try to delay action, the President will see you now, slow it down, slow this thing down, gradually get there, slow the train down, press the pause button, scrap this bill, miss target dead line, do what's right, be thorough, more you delay, go into the hole, health care is just is costing us up the waz zoo, do you know what that waz zoo is?, a very risky experiment, rushing, politically reckless, just saying no also politically reckless, are you still my friend?, absolutely, God bless you, if this isn't socialism, what is?, did you see the price of ham yesterday?, I'm gonna hang myself, or we could do the hard work needed, finally pass health care reform, this won't be easy, Democrats are by no means united, wobbling in different parts, Blue Dog Democrats, expressing a lot of concern, those Blue Dogs, Blue Dogs Blue Dogs Blue Dogs, you've got to hand it to them on the nickname, drag them by the collar, faces turn blue, kind of cool, ruff, I like it, have a nice glass of wine before you go to sleep, there you go, the doctors are in

Don't Let Socialism Ruin Your Vacation

Something to think about aye? I mean along with smart government, good government, fair government, efficient government and just government because not enough government doesn't work all the time either.

The First 100 Day Through The Voices Of The Losers

This is a total bummer to listen to. I don't remember the last 100 days like this. I guess it's because I wasn't watching Fox. I'm actually feeling a bit optimistic.

Obama Tyranny v British Tyranny & Jon Stewart Tea Baggin' Party Wrap Up

Who's worse? This government, i.e. President Obama

or er, uh, um... the British?

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The Daily Show has competition now.

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Are you a 'Socialist'?

There has been much talk about the evil word 'socialism' of late. I have lived in the great RED State of Indiana since I was three years old so I am pretty well schooled in the evils of socialism. Then I read this blog post, and as a result, I think I might to rethink things just a bit.

The diarist begins by citing a recent interview on Air Force One between a reporter and President Obama. The question posed to the President was 'Are you a socialist?'

source: Daily Kos

The special 747, designated as Air Force One when the Commander in Chief is on board, was built to custom order and paid for by US taxpayers. The general design and that specific airplane were enabled by decades of big government spending on aerospace technology. Every nut and bolt in that plane and any other airliner was checked for flight worthiness by government inspectors making it, in GOP parlance these days, a ‘socialist’ aircraft. As with all domestic flights, it is safely guided from take off to landing by a national network of highly trained government paid air traffic controllers – another "socialist" organization -- utterly dependent on an invention using radio detecting and ranging developed under the administration of a socialist President during World War II. Many of the pilots who fly Air Force One and its Marine counterpart were trained to navigate and fly sophisticated aircraft at considerable taxpayer expense in the military – yet another big government "socialist" enterprise tasked with fighting wars and ensuring the survival of American democracy.

That same reporter in all likelihood attended a public socialist kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school. They may or may not have gone on to a state socialist university. Throughout their life they depended on the local ‘socialist’ police force, and may even have had occasion to call a socialist hot line alerting the socialist fire department to quickly intervene in all manner of life and death emergencies. The reporter is old enough to remember standing transfixed in horror the day that thousands of those ‘socialist’ heroes rushed headlong into the burning World Trade Towers, and were ground into socialist pulp in the ensuing collapse before the eyes of millions of horrified viewers watching on television networks created and regulated by a socialist behemoth known as the Federal Communications Commission. read more here

Something to think about.

I also picked this up from The Political Carnival. You got the question, the President's response and then an update clarification from a guy who thinks things through.

Yes, this president actually uses his brain, processes information, communicates, and even realizes when he hasn't been thorough, or even collected his thoughts enough, and takes the time to explain himself more accurately. Kinda hard to fathom, huh?

President Obama’s Response to the Original Question: “Are You a Socialist?”

He called the Times back and followed up. Here's the call:



Zing!

Full transcript of the interview aboard Air Force One, plus lots more audio here.

Fox News Alert!!! Be Afraid! Be Very,Very, Very, Very Afraid! Socialism!

I wonder who bent over today and took it in the back of the knee caps. That's what Limbaugh means, isn't it?

I have been bending over for eight years. Enjoy Mr. Limbaugh.

Trickle-down economics, my sore ass.

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"I didn't like the line in the speech about uh we don't have to compromise our values to protect ourselves, um, I think sometimes we do." Bill O'Reilly

"If you don't stick to your values when they're tested... they're not values, they are hobbies." Jon Stewart

"This hate stuff, this rooting for the administration to fail in Iraq and in other areas is unAmerican, unbecoming and unacceptable. Like it or not President Bush is the elected leader of this country...." Bill O'Reilly

"Well guess what? CHANGE has come to America!" Jon Stewart

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John McCain and The Redistribution of Wealth Principle

More brilliance from Jed of The Jed Report, who posted this one on Daily Kos.

If you're sick and tired of John McCain's non-stop stream of lies about Barack Obama's tax plan, this video can help you put an end to it. Please send it to friends, family, or anyone else who you think could use it.

As the video shows, the fact is that under Obama's plan, 95% of Americans -- including Joe the Plumber -- would get a tax cut. Income over $250,000 would be taxed at pre-Bush levels (same as during the Clinton years).

That's not spreading the wealth -- that's a tax plan designed to create wealth by strengthening the middle class.

Don't tell Matt Drudge or FOX News, but John McCain himself took the same basic approach to taxes as Barack Obama -- at least until the 2008 presidential campaign brought about some changes in his views

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Socialism - Schmosialism

700 Billion to Rescue/Bailout/Burp/Coddle/Babysit Wall Street. John McCain supported unrestrained capitalism before he was against it. And then he wants to add 300 Billion more in socialism to buy up failed mortgages at full value.

There's socialism and there's bad socialism. There's capitalism and there's capitalism gone bad. There's girls, and there's girls gone wild, but that's another subject.

I say cut the socialism crap. If you receive a social security check, you support socialism. If you are on Medicare you support socialism. If you've sent your children to public schools, then you have participated in socialism. If your kids have attended state colleges, received pell grants, subsidized lunches, subsidized loans, then you've participated in socialism.

Socialism isn't bad. Capitalism isn't bad.

Unrestrained, both can be very, very naughty. Every child needs limits.

Voter apathy is bad. Citizens NOT participating in the process and NOT being vocal is bad and unhealthy.

Everyone is subject to being corrupt. It's up to us to put the restraints in place so that corruption doesn't occur quite so frequently, and ferociously.

I accept that corruption will be a part of our society. I do not believe it can be eliminated, but it can be minimized, and it starts with bottom-up, because if the bottom isn't engaged, the top takes all.

Enough with the socialism crap.

Enough.

Vote.

Vote early, but NOT often.

PD

Updated, Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 7:42 PM CST

I had to add these remarks from today by Colin Powell. And yeah really, if you drive on the roads, I guess we can all call each other a bunch of flamin' 'Socialists', based upon what the Republican party is saying about Barack Obama these days.

'Socialism' is bad when it is used by dictators to keep their people in line as a repressive method in order to maintain power and control.

I understand the need to be wary of 'Socialism', because if we had a dependant society, unmotivated, uninspired and undetermined to make the future better and brighter, then we would not have the many good things, blessings and prosperity that we have today in this country.

Even as there is hardship, instability and insecurity in our society, for the most part we are behaving as civilized human beings, and life is not as challenging for most of us as it was during the Depression. At least not yet.

Fear-mongering, and scaring people into voting for a candidate, convincing them that they will die or worse that their identities and values will come to ruin, or playing upon religious beliefs, pitting groups against groups is also wrong and hints of 'Fascism'.

It is important to be wary, but when a candidate is pitting us against each other, it important to be more wary. Barack Obama is not pitting us against one another in order to win this election.

Colin Powell says it better than I can.

Now I guess the message this week is, "We're going to call him a socialist, Mr. Obama is now a socialist, because he dares to suggest that maybe we ought to look at the tax structure that we have."

Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who paid them, in roads and airports and hospitals and schools. And taxes are necessary for the common good. And there is nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is or who should be paying more, who should be paying less. And for us to say that that makes you a socialist, I think is an unfortunate characterization that isn't accurate.

I don't want my taxes raised. I don't want anybody else's taxes raised. But I also want to see our infrastructure fixed. I don't want to have a $12 trillion national debt, and I don't want to see an annual deficit that's over $500 billion heading toward a trillion. So, how do we deal with all of this?

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Alaska: A nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there, or have their Governor become Vice-President, maybe President of the U.S.

I might want to move to Alaska, but alas it's way too cold and way too close to the melting ice caps. I also probably would not be part of the 'popular crowd', so I wouldn't get any peachy appointments. I'm not a true socialist either, or a true capitalist. I just want reasonable solutions to problems that work for America, and not just special interests. Alaska is not for me. PD

September 17, 2008, 9:06 pm

By Timothy Eagen - The New York Times

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People should stop picking on vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin because she hired a high school classmate to oversee the state agriculture division, a woman who said she was qualified for the job because she liked cows when she was a kid. And they should lay off the governor for choosing another childhood friend to oversee a failing state-run dairy, allowing the Soviet-style business to ding taxpayers for $800,000 in additional losses.

What these critics don’t understand is that crony capitalism is how things are done in Alaska. They reward failure in the Last Frontier state. In that sense, it’s not unlike like Wall Street’s treatment of C.E.O.’s who run companies into the ground.

Look at Carly Fiorina, John McCain’s top economic surrogate — if you can find her this week, after the news and her narrative fused in a negative way. Dismissed as head of Hewlett-Packard after the company’s stock plunged and nearly 20,000 workers were let go, she was rewarded with $44 million in compensation. Sweet!

Thank God McCain wants to appoint a commission to study the practice that enriched his chief economic adviser. On the campaign trail this week, McCain and Palin pledged to “stop multimillion dollar payouts to C.E.O.’s” of failed companies. Good. Go talk to Fiorina at your next strategy session.

Palin’s Alaska is a cultural cousin to this kind of capitalism. The state may seem like a rugged arena for risky free-marketers. In truth, it’s a strange mix of socialized projects and who-you-know hiring practices. please read more here