Obama rips McCain in Missouri: My tax plan isn't socialism

Neverbetter,

I know that Kansas City is full a lot of great people and you and others are representative of that fact.
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Cheers!

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel

Notice to anyone not from KC currently reading the racist drivel from sonofrogue and other "featherweight intellects" on this forum, please be aware that Kansas City is not filled with bigots. We have intelligent, progressive, racially diverse communities. They could be better, but sonofrogue and his mob are not representative of our town.

Not everyone is a neanderthal throwback. Honest!

I am very disappointed by the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, an intelligent man, labeling the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama's, plan for a middle-class tax cut as "socialist." A fairer, reasoned argument for Senator McCain to make would be to explain how his proposed tax breaks for wealthy individuals and corporations would create wealth and spread jobs, and generate more tax revenues. McCain's reluctance to argue for his own proposals makes me wonder whether he still believes in trickle-down, deregulated Reaganomics, now that the end of that era is at hand.

Instead, the Rovian campaigner labels Obama's tax breaks "socialist." That's shorthand, of course, for un-American, radical, foreign, and so on. I wonder what this Reagan-Bush Republican candidate thinks of FDR's "dangerous" and "risky" "socialist" program, Social Security? Or of LBJ's "socialized medicine", Medicare?

Now, more than ever, we need thoughtful new solutions, not hateful old labels.

I almost didn't recognize you without your hood and burning cross.

Colin Powell and Barack Obama have accomplished more this morning that you will ever achieve in your miserable life.

Yep lets get that Osama Yomama in there "spreading the wealth around" Yisiree bob we are gonna tax our way to prosperity again! A chicken in evey pot, and a gar in every garage!

But they way, give up your guns, and forgot gathering intel on terrorists, Prepare to bring those innocent folks at Gitmo to Leavenworth where ACLU lawayers can get them off with "time served". But hey the world will love us, and Iran and Israel will for a new coalition...once Israel is totally under Iran's boot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27265490#27265490

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Obama's Spread The Wealth Program Is just Getting Started. It Only Took The Democratic Congressional Leadership 2 Short Years To Put Into place The First installment Of Their Spread The Wealth Program. The Result Has Been Destroyed Savings, Ruined Retirement Accounts, A Drastic Plunge In Your Home Equity, A Failing Home market For Those Who Need To Sell Their House, Higher Unemployment, Higher Gas Prices, And Higher Food Prices.

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Change is Coming When Obama - Pelosi - Reid Control Everything. If The Next Changes Are Anything Like The One's They Have brought Us So Far, Then Brace Yourself.

was the phrase Obama used. Now he's squirming his way out of the apple. Worm is what worm does.

Please read the related article titled "Joe the plumber gets flushed to Nottingham" at http://www.cliffyworld.com/blogs

The right wing commentary will get more and more ideological. It will try to paint Obama what he is not. That is their only hope. It is not going to work.

To those who spout off about Obama being Socialist. Well, if he is a socialist, then McCain and Bush are bush-wacking Pirates, dressed in business suits. So are those running the large businesses these days with "golden parachutes", with special note of the oil companies, car companies and the investment banks.

The American people are starting to tune out the Republican Party. And rightly so. I think the reason is simple - America as a Nation trumps the Republican Party. Many are starting to see through the Republican facade. William Buckley Jr. even gets it but the Party Leaders and demagogues do not - especially people like Bush, Rush and and de Rothschild. The Party is so imbued in its own Propaganda, in its own sense of Superiority and Self Righteousness, that it has indeed lost its way.

The Party has something of a Maoist sentiment of being the ruling Party and the Ruling Class. In spite of the dissent of most of the Nation. Republicans need to seize the levers of the Party, tear it down and rebuild from the grass roots up. Its ownership is too centered in selfish ideological hands and its philosophy has gone Piratical; way too right wing. I think it is way out of the mainstream. For so long it has been there, and held its ground by moving the mainstream and demonizing the left. No more.

I believe that Republicans do not have a lock on conservatism - indeed, Obama knows that you need to be fiscally conservative to be more socially liberal. Otherwise it does not add up. Obama and the Democrats also understand you can't let the Foxes run the Hen Houses, and certainly not under self policing policies. And certainly not with limits on liability if they eat all the Hens and can't replace them when caught.

Republicans today do not understand the concept of collective. This is mostly because they are the ones that are benefiting from the Caveman's survival of the fittest ideas and the "ownership" society. They have the money and the power and they view and work politics to maintain it. They feel entitled and they pay lip service to social (collective) policies while generally demonizing them.

Republican Party leaders and their rich backers want to keep giving the mainstream masses a wind up toy. A Bush, a Palin, a McCain or any Barbie or Ken will do. Just dress 'em up and get 'em talkin' just like ole "Joe Six Pack" and "Joe the Plumber" whoever that is. Its sure not you or me. Let them think their leaders are just like you. This has kept the masses happy, while Republicans and cronies eat the Hens.

Of course, when the Hens are noticed missing, it will be someone else' fault. Probably the Democrats somehow, it does not matter how, or someone in Iraq. No wait, it might be Putin, or possibly its Castro, no wait he's almost dead, okay then, Chavez ...... Or maybe that Muslim Arab Socialist African Malaysian Hawaiian and UnAmerican Obama...... And so the tomfoolery goes........

Liberals are not socialists. The latter is a word sullied by dictators and megalomaniacs. Theirs' is a false concept of socialism, used for selfish gain and to keep the masses poor and in chains. As McCain has said - strong backs, or the backbone of America is that American laborer. A back strong enough to carry the malarkey called Republican Conservatism or, I think, Piratical Conservative is more fitting.

There is no stronger Nation than one with a well run economic engine. One that is fairly and sensibly regulated. One that shares the wealth equitably. One that is built on morally sound incentive systems for its operators. One with a collective advancement and support system for all its members.

Republicans will tell us that you don't send into battle men without protection and weapons. You don't send men untrained or uneducated on the use of weapons. You don't win battles or the war by leaving your compatriots unprotected. And for sure you don't leave the weak and wounded behind in battle. Their rescue is the mark of heroes. If this is heroic in the battlefields of war, why not so in the battlefields of life?

America is indeed headed for a brighter future with Obama than with McCain.