"Broadway" Sarah Palin Guarantees Pa. Victory
(CBS)
(BEAVER, Pa.) The high school football stadium here was an appropriate setting for Sarah Palin to borrow a play from a local gridiron legend and make her own bold prediction.
"This morning we were in Ohio—we were in the home of Joe The Plumber," Palin said. "And now we are here in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, home of Joe The Quarterback."
Palin told members of the Beaver Bobcats team, who were introduced to the cheering crowd before she took the stage, that the legendary Joe Namath may have been before their time. The Alaska governor herself was not yet five years old when Super Bowl III—the game that marked Namath's finest hour—was played in January of 1969.
"But do you remember though in the biggest game of his life?" she asked. "All the experts had Joe Namath and the Jets written off to defeat. They were up against the elite team that had all the money and they were held in awe by the media."
The electoral metaphor firmly established, it wasn't hard to guess what was coming next.
"And Broadway Joe replied, 'We're gonna win the game, I guarantee it,'" Palin said. "And they won, and I hope Joe won't mind if I paraphrase him some in this state, his home state. Pennsylvania, with your help, we're going to win this state. I guarantee it."
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I think its time you''d better find a new accountant! My business employs 40 people and is growing with the recent expansion of our facilities with hopes of employing 10 - 20 people in the future. Thanks to lower taxes we have been able to expand this business thus creating new jobs --- & thanks to a great Accountant also -- who agrees & supports John McCain too.
Keep doing your homework on the internet -- that is where you can find the facts & information. But you have to be able to sort through the same old talking points & rhetoric offered by Obama.
The very people that BO wants to ''nail'' with these tax increases are the people who create most of the jobs in our economy and they are America''s small business owners.
Sorry but the big nasty, evil corporations that the Democrats excoriate are not what creates jobs nor feeds this economy. 70% of all jobs in our economy come from small business owners. The SBA recently reported that 80% of all NEW jobs are being created by these small business owners (of which I belong). We report all of our business income on our personal income tax returns. As such, we are squarely in the crosshairs for The Chosen One''s tax increases.
So if you vote for Obama....then you very well could be cutting your own economic throat. If the small business owner that employs you has his taxes increased (doubled at the very least) than he is going to look for a way to replace that money. The best way is to cut expenses...well guess what? YOU are an expense! Perhaps your job will be cut; or lucky enough to forego your next raise rather than take a pay cut or reduction in benefits.
Go ahead --- cast your vote and take a chance --- and if your employer is a small business ---- you be able to sit back and remember those Good Ol'' Days of Capitalism.
It''s time to take your blinders off and see through the lovely rhetoric. Don''t be suckered. IT is jobs we''re talking. And Obama''s talk of Change just might be that you are going to have to CHANGE jobs and THAT is Change you CAN believe in.
That ad was put out by RightChange.com and has been shown to be false.
RightChange.com, a 527 group out of North Carolina, is largely bankrolled by its president, Fred Eshelman, the CEO of a pharmaceutical research firm, who has contributed $2.7 million of the $3.8 million the group has raised this year. According to OpenSecrets.org, Eshelman has also contributed $2,300 to Sen. John McCain''s campaign. Two of the other three members of its board of directors are GOP state legislators in North Carolina. RightChange.com has spent just over $3 million so far.
Summary of their ads, found false by political fact finding organizations:
Two ads say Obama would tax "small businesses" at a rate of "62 percent." He wouldn''t. That number is an inflated estimate of the very top tax rate, and it doesn''t represent what Obama has proposed.
That false figure includes an increased Social Security tax rate that Obama doesn''t support, plus the state income tax rate paid by people making more than a million dollars a year in California.
One ad implies that regular folks just trying to make it as entrepreneurs would be hit with such a rate. But even if this estimate were correct %u2013 and it''s not %u2013 it would affect the wealthiest taxpayers and only 1 percent of those who could generously be considered small-business owners.
I own a small business -- and with Obama''s tax increase of 39.5 percent plus increased social security taxes on top for capital gains and dividends -- guess what --- I''ll be laying off employees to cut costs. So guess what people --- there will be mass layoffs in this country since 80% of jobs are created by small business. It will create a ripple affect not seen since 25% unemployment rates during the Great Depression. History repeating itself --- duh!
Hey Obama, a recent headline in France says it all "Sweden Announces Income Tax Cuts to Boost Jobs".
According to documentation obtained by the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, not only did POW McCain promise to give the communists "military information" in exchange for special hospital care not ordinarily available to U.S. prisoners, but he also made numerous antiwar radio broadcasts.
This is a violation of the Military Code of Conduct and is considered collaborating with the enemy.
The following is McCain''''s own admission of collaboration in an article he wrote, printed May 14, 1973 in U.S. News and World Report:
"I think it was on the fourth day [after being shot down] that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size, shape and color of a football. I remembered that when I was a flying instructor a fellow had ejected from his plane and broken his thigh. He had gone into shock, the blood had pooled in his leg, and he died, which came as quite a surprise to usa man dying of a broken leg.
Then I realized that a very similar thing was happening to me.
"When I saw it, I said to the guard, `O.K., get the officer.''''
"An officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as `The Bug.'''' He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, `O.K., I''''ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.''''"
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According to documentation obtained by the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, not only did POW McCain promise to give the communists "military information" in exchange for special hospital care not ordinarily available to U.S. prisoners, but he also made numerous antiwar radio broadcasts.
This is a violation of the Military Code of Conduct and is considered collaborating with the enemy.
The following is McCain''''s own admission of collaboration in an article he wrote, printed May 14, 1973 in U.S. News and World Report:
"I think it was on the fourth day [after being shot down] that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size, shape and color of a football. I remembered that when I was a flying instructor a fellow had ejected from his plane and broken his thigh. He had gone into shock, the blood had pooled in his leg, and he died, which came as quite a surprise to usa man dying of a broken leg.
Then I realized that a very similar thing was happening to me.
"When I saw it, I said to the guard, `O.K., get the officer.''''
"An officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as `The Bug.'''' He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, `O.K., I''''ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.''''"
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Now the head of her ticket John McCain has millions of dollars because of his wife Cindy. He certainly has enough dough for health care. Will John McCain never again use the very socialist government-run health care program that he has been using for at least number of years now? That was called socialism when it was first enacted because it is.
The truth of it is that every country in the world uses socialism to varying degrees. McCain just approved it by voting for the bailout of the banking system.
McCain is for a refundable tax credit for people who don''t pay income taxes for health care. Socialism? The US has a progressive income tax system. He is not running to abolish that. America has a Social Security system which itself redistributes wealth. Can anyone say socialism? I don''t think John McCain''s running against that, although Joe the plumber, who he and Palin like to use on the stump, says he doesn''t believe in Social Security.
The Say Anything Express rides on.