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Re: Anti-health care reform sign in Georgia uses N-word

FauxReal — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:41:20 -0000

Sadly it seems there are enough people who aren't offended or disgusted but are comfortable eating or drinking surrounded by racism that he makes a living.

Re: The Return of McCarthyism

FauxReal — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:50:38 -0000

You really have to read the Salon article about Beck and the man whose teachings he follows.

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him
By Alexander Zaitchik

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/be...

That article gives some context to Beck's rantings as shown in this video.

Re: Republican Senator Tom Coburn (OK) said government has "earned' threats of violence

FauxReal — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:07:06 -0000

More and more I'm coming to believe that the Right would like nothing better than a violent overthrow the our government. It's been evident that what is happening with the Town Halls isn't about health reform. It is about stopping a progressive agenda by handing Obama a defeat on health reform leading to the Republicans return to power.
DeMint told us so.

The responsible thing for Coburn to do would be to condemn those references and the rhetoric that incites and inflames. Then he could talk about deficits (which, of course, no one on the Right was concerned about until now - until they had to pay for wars and then they broke the economy).

Re: Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate’?

FauxReal — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:47:40 -0000

How about doing some research. The University of Chicago law school issued a statement because they were getting so many inquiries. Obama was a professor.

The University of Chicago says that Obama is entitled to describe himself as a professor during his time teaching there

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers has high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/200...

I cannot believe this is still a talking point. But I'm glad to set you straight since you've been the gullible one.

Re: Is This the Source of the Forged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate’?

FauxReal — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:28:49 -0000

tpgow you are wrong. The Constitutional requirement to be President is:

Age and Citizenship requirements - US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

The only time the requirement that both parents be U.S. Citizens is when the child is born outside the United States and it isn't in the Constitution. Hawaii is not outside the U.S. To break it down for you:

The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"

* Anyone born inside the United States *
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.

Re: Palin: Maverick or Rogue?

FauxReal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:37:13 -0000

Oh, I forgot. After your Bloggingheads interview with Ann Althouse, I just can't read your articles in the same way. I'm surprised you weren't the one who presented McCain with donuts with sprinkles. This is from a Salon article about that interview - you are delusional.

Cox: What McCain's reacting to, is something that other Republicans are reacting to, iscu the kind of ugliness of the criticisms [towards] Obama. I think McCain in his heart of heart wants to win this fair and square. He wants to win this because he's the better candidate. He doesn't want to win this because people think Obama is a Muslim or is a terrorist or he's not really American. He wants to win this on his own merits. It upsets his sense of fair play -- to win -- to think that the support he's getting is because of what he thinks are bad reasons. . .

Althouse: But in the last month or so, he's been losing ground, and resorting to this terrorist meme --

Cox: I think that hasn't worked for them. I think they recognize that to the extent that that does work, that's not how McCain wants to win.

I adore the guy. I think he's fantastic in many ways. I respect him, I admire his service to the country. I think ultimately he's very principled and, to coin a phrase, honorable. . . .

I do think that McCain is one of the most unique individuals that I've ever personally met. As I said, I greatly admire him and think he's sort of an amazing person . . .

[The McCain campaign], not out of malice or intent, didn't allow themselves to think through how some of these images would be taken by their audience.

Re: Palin: Maverick or Rogue?

FauxReal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:29:27 -0000

Are we going to nationalize the oil companies so we're guaranteed that oil from the U.S. stays in the U.S.? Otherwise, why do these people with their chant think the U.S. will benefit? These are publicly traded companies that have an obligation to maximize profits for their shareholders. If that means selling on the open market, that's what they'll do.

This is from July 31:

"While the U.S. oil industry want access to more federal lands to help reduce reliance on foreign suppliers, American-based companies are shipping record amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel to other countries. A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the first four months of this year, up 33 percent from 1.2 million barrels a day over the same period in 2007. Shipments this February topped 1.8 million barrels a day for the first time during any month, according to final numbers from the Energy Department."

Re: Memories, of the times we've left behind...

FauxReal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:11:09 -0000

I agree that McCain pulled a big con on the media. It was all done to rehabilitate his image after Keating and the media bought it and helped him create the myth.

I clicked in the link to the full article and read the comments. How sad that people are so fooled by McCain. Give a tax break to the middle class is socialist but adopt policies and tax breaks that favor the wealthy is ok with these people. Some call it tax reform. Some of the comments were awful.

Re: Did Palin pay $900 for a spray-on tan?

FauxReal — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:57:19 -0000

Hoax alert!

The source for this story is a hoax. His site looks real but if you google him, he's a hoax. At one time he went by the name M Thoma Eisenstadt but when that hoax was discovered, he changed his name to Martin Eisenstadt.

Here's a link about him at Sourcewatch.org

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=M._T...

Re: McCain refuses Obama's handshake after the debate

FauxReal — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:21:11 -0000

I certainly didn't see it that way. They shook hands immediately after the debate. What I saw here was McCain presenting his wife to Obama for a greeting.

Re: Palin misquotes her Starbucks cup; Madeline Albright explains the real quote to Palin

FauxReal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:20:16 -0000

Startbucks! A Mocha Latte?

How elitist of her!

Re: When reporters first asked McCain about Charles Keating, McCain called them 'liars'

FauxReal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:15:26 -0000

Here's a site devoted to McCain and the Keating 5 - they've compiled links to news stories about it.

http://mccainkeatingfive.com/?page_id=22

McCain is getting off too easy on this.

Re: McCain's Latin American experience includes 'dating' a Latin American in the 1950s

FauxReal — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:58:47 -0000

If you haven't, read the Rolling Stone McCain profile in the new issue

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/mak...

He meets a former POW who's attending a different military school but both schools sponsor a trip abroad. Here's what McCain says about choosing to go to Rio (the other POW chose the Middle East):

"Why? Where are you going to, John?"

"Oh, I'm going to Rio."

"What the hell are you going to Rio for?"

McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.

"I got a better chance of getting laid."

Re: $5000 won't buy you diddly-squat

FauxReal — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:01:39 -0000

The goal of McCain's health care is to eliminate employer-provided health care and drive everyone into private insurance. It is nothing but a gift to private insurance.

Factcheck.org has a great analysis of McCain's plan. People don't realize what it is he's proposing.

http://www.factcheck.org/mccains_5000_promise.html

Here's another explanation:

Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) health plan would eliminate the current tax exclusion of employer payments for health coverage, replace the exclusion with a refundable tax credit for those who purchase coverage, and encourage Americans to move to a national market for nongroup insurance. Middle-range estimates suggest that initially this change will have little impact on the number of uninsured people, although within five years this number will likely grow as the value of the tax credit falls relative to rising health care costs. Moving toward a relatively unregulated nongroup market will tend to raise costs, reduce the generosity of benefits, and leave people with fewer consumer protections. [Health Affairs 27, no. 6 (2008): w472-w481 (published online 16 September 2008; 10.1377/ hlthaff.27.6.w472)]

For more:
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/fu...

Re: A few words on McCain's corporate tax talk

FauxReal — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:17:40 -0000

Here's a link to the :PDF of the GAO Report. It doesn't list specific companies.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08957.pdf

Re: McCain's Keating Five problem - this is a must see

FauxReal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:55:58 -0000

The Arizona Republic did a multi-part profile of McCain in Marcg 2996. 2 of the parts involve Keating and the aftermath. It's an excellent summary.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/mccain/a...

McCain also showed that infamous temper and as he does so often when he's caught, he accused people of lying:

When the story broke, McCain did nothing to help himself.

"You're a liar," McCain said when a Republic reporter asked him about the business relationship between his wife and Keating.

"That's the spouse's involvement, you idiot," McCain said later in the same conversation. "You do understand English, don't you?"

He also belittled reporters when they asked about his wife's ties to Keating.

"It's up to you to find that out, kids."

The paper ran the story.

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Re: Americans met angry John McCain last night

FauxReal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:36:50 -0000

Here's Karl Rove in 2000 talking about John McCain.

"If you're not with him, he belittles you, he makes fun of you, he disparages you. But that's not the mark of a leader..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRGdz41YfYc

Re: A few words on McCain's corporate tax talk

FauxReal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:17:24 -0000

With regard to those 2 tax rates, McCain said this when he spoke to a small business group in June:

McCain's tax proposal was the most drastic of the pro-business policies he mapped out Tuesday in a speech at the National Federation of Small Business' annual summit in Washington, D.C. McCain hopes to introduce a new, opt-in tax system with two rates and a "generous" standard deduction. Individuals would have the choice of filing under either the old or new system.

"What we need is a simpler, flatter and fairer tax code," McCain said.

McCain also pledged to keep income and investment tax rates low, and to reduce the corporate tax rate. He would further cut business taxes by allowing first-year expensing of new technology equipment purchases

Re: A few words on McCain's corporate tax talk

FauxReal — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:12:22 -0000

The rate may be 35% but with loopholes many companies pay $0. The GAO released a report in July:

the GAO study indicated that most corporations owed no taxes from 1996 to 2000, a boom period for corporate profits.

Those untaxed corporations earned $3.5 trillion of revenues.

The GAO study found that 71 percent of foreign-controlled corporations operating in the United States paid no taxes in those five years; nor did 61 percent of US-controlled companies.

The basic corporate tax rate stands officially at 35 percent. In reality, it's far below that for most companies. And the importance of corporate tax revenues for Uncle Sam has shrunk. That's shown by the numbers.

Corporate taxes have fallen from 5 percent of gross domestic product, the nation's output of goods and services, in 1946 to 1.4 percent now.

As a percentage of all federal tax revenues, corporate tax payments have declined from 23 percent in 1960 to 13 percent in 1980 and 8 percent today.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0419/p16s03-cogn....

Re: ABC News slams McCain flip-flops on economy, says McCain supported policies that led to economic meltdown

FauxReal — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:53:13 -0000

McCain quote from May 2007

"You are interviewing the greatest free trader you will ever interview, and the greatest deregulator you will ever interview,"

From the WSJ blogs - said at the 5th Annual All Things Digital conference

Hypocrite. He'll say whatever he thinks will get him the votes. He lacks integrity..

Re: More on McCain's Dishonor

FauxReal — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:58:17 -0000

I think we're seeing the real John McCain This is the John McCain he held in all those years.

It's documented that after he survived the Keating scandal he made a conscious decision to rehabilitate his image. He knew that he would need the press to do that. So he courted the press and gave unprecedented access. In return, the press fell in love and constructed the Myth of John Mcain - The Maverick, the Straight-talker.

The myth has now crumbled and the man who lurked beneath the facade is revealed by his ambition.

Re: 'Failed Philosophy'

FauxReal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:46:24 -0000

I agree with the email. He needs to package this in 10 words that people will remember. Economics ia hard enough to understand but "failed philosophy" will have eyes glazing over.

I also wanted to scream when I read his comment that started out giving McCain a pass,

Obama in a morning statement says, "I certainly don’t fault Senator McCain for these problems, but I do fault the economic philosophy he subscribes to. ... Instead of prosperity trickling down, the pain has trickled up."

WTH, blame McCain! He's called Phil Gramm his "economic guru" - Phil Gramm was the architect of McCain's economic plan (at least before the "nation of whiners" - another missed opportunity). And lots of people say that Gramm will be McCain's choice for Sec of the Treasury.

BLAME McCain.

I am so frustrated.

Re: McCain campaign: We got sleazy to get press attention

FauxReal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:20:03 -0000

Sadly, it worked. The public may say they want focus on the issues but they don't. They respond to the sleeze not to the issues.

If McCain prevails after the filth his campaign has put out, can you imagine how disgusting future camapigns will be? And this is from the man who was the subject of one of the most reprehensible smears in political history. Now he goes even lower.

John McCain hs sold his soul for this election.

Re: NYT: Palin objected to gay book in Wasilla library

FauxReal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:37:04 -0000

The Advocate has a very interesting article about being gay in Wasilla. You might be surprised. Here's a couple of paragprahs:

"Stielstra, 29, was born in Anchorage and soon afterward his family moved to Wasilla, about 40 miles north, where he lived until he was 19. Despite the influential presence of Evangelical Christian churches, and the absence of any detectable gay community, he says he felt welcome when he came out at 18."

His parents were very supportive. He told his mother first and it was years before he told his father but his father trying to work on ways to make his son feel comfortable enough to come out to him..

He goes on to say:

Even now, when Stielstra returns home from Chicago to visit family, he says he doesn’t feel much of an anti-gay bias.

"I have never, ever had a problem being openly gay in that town,” he says of Wasilla. “I have brought two men up there to meet the family in the past five years, and no one's even batted an eye."

http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid61388...

Re: NYT: Palin objected to gay book in Wasilla library

FauxReal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:29:57 -0000

The Advocate has an interview with Patrick Sammon, President of the Log Cabin Republicans. He said this about endorsing McCain:

He’s the only candidate in the field who’s actually paid a political price for a vote that benefited gay and lesbian people. The fact is, one of the reasons social conservatives distrust him is because he twice voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment -- that took political courage, and he paid a price for it with his base.

and on Palin, among other things:

So because her record is so thin on these issues, I think there’s a real opportunity to work with her and talk to her about these issues, educate her about these issues, and have a positive position represented in the months and years ahead.

http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid61284...