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Re: The Truth on Barack Obama’s Tax Plan

affiliatetip — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:00:25 -0000

Which facts above can you refute?

Re: Affiliate Summit Social Media Recap

affiliatetip — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:16:04 -0000

Great to see you yesterday, Benny. We need to get a NJ get together going - lots of affiliates out this way.

Re: Affiliate Summit Social Media Recap

affiliatetip — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:14:58 -0000

Not sure - we're thinking of doing a whole different format with a couple smaller shows next year. Details to come.

Re: “Digesting” The Affiliate Sumit Social Media Event

affiliatetip — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:30:07 -0000

Hey Vlad -

It was a pleasure to meet you in person - thanks for coming out. And I'll keep an eye out for videos from you.

Re: Affiliate Newbies

affiliatetip — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:03:15 -0000

Take a look at http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/affiliate...

Re: John Hasson on Which PPC Engines Work And How?

affiliatetip — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:54:25 -0000

I haven't done anything with gameads.com myself - I'll send a note to John to ask about it.

Re: John Hasson on Which PPC Engines Work And How?

affiliatetip — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:15:11 -0000

Did John mention this company in his session?

Re: Joe Biden Eats His Words at Katie’s Restaurant in Wilmington

affiliatetip — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:07:08 -0000

In my town, I notice if a restaurant closed in the 80s and don't speak of it in current context.

Just thought it was interesting that Biden's attempt to connect to middle America was so contrived.

On the other hand, he made 14 lies on the issues: http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.asp...

Re: Joe Biden Eats His Words at Katie’s Restaurant in Wilmington

affiliatetip — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:34:10 -0000

I thought it was noteworthy, because he makes such a fuss about being the everyman who hangs out with "real" people.

This is just the latest in a long line of fabrications from him.

As far as more important lies, there are 14 that have been identified from his statements last night:

1. TAX VOTE: Biden said McCain voted “the exact same way” as Obama to increase taxes on Americans earning just $42,000, but McCain DID NOT VOTE THAT WAY.

2. AHMEDINIJAD MEETING: Joe Biden lied when he said that Barack Obama never said that he would sit down unconditionally with Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran. Barack Obama did say specifically, and Joe Biden attacked him for it.

3. OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: Biden said, “Drill we must.” But Biden has opposed offshore drilling and even compared offshore drilling to “raping” the Outer Continental Shelf.”

4. TROOP FUNDING: Joe Biden lied when he indicated that John McCain and Barack Obama voted the same way against funding the troops in the field. John McCain opposed a bill that included a timeline, that the President of the United States had already said he would veto regardless of it’s passage.

5. OPPOSING CLEAN COAL: Biden says he’s always been for clean coal, but he just told a voter that he is against clean coal and any new coal plants in America and has a record of voting against clean coal and coal in the U.S. Senate.

6. ALERNATIVE ENERGY VOTES: According to FactCheck.org, Biden is exaggerating and overstating John McCain’s record voting for alternative energy when he says he voted against it 23 times.

7. HEALTH INSURANCE: Biden falsely said McCain will raise taxes on people's health insurance coverage -- they get a tax credit to offset any tax hike. Independent fact checkers have confirmed this attack is false

8. OIL TAXES: Biden falsely said Palin supported a windfall profits tax in Alaska -- she reformed the state tax and revenue system, it's not a windfall profits tax.

9. AFGHANISTAN / GEN. MCKIERNAN COMMENTS: Biden said that top military commander in Iraq said the principles of the surge could not be applied to Afghanistan, but the commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Gen. David D. McKiernan said that there were principles of the surge strategy, including working with tribes, that could be applied in Afghanistan.

10. REGULATION: Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation -- he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie.

11. IRAQ: When Joe Biden lied when he said that John McCain was “dead wrong on Iraq”, because Joe Biden shared the same vote to authorize the war and differed on the surge strategy where they John McCain has been proven right.

12. TAX INCREASES: Biden said Americans earning less than $250,000 wouldn’t see higher taxes, but the Obama-Biden tax plan would raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 or more.

13. BAILOUT: Biden said the economic rescue legislation matches the four principles that Obama laid out, but in reality it doesn’t meet two of the four principles that Obama outlined on Sept. 19, which were that it include an emergency economic stimulus package, and that it be part of “part of a globally coordinated effort with our partners in the G-20.”

14. REAGAN TAX RATES: Biden is wrong in saying that under Obama, Americans won't pay any more in taxes then they did under Reagan.

Source: http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.asp...

Re: Writing my next book on this…

affiliatetip — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:03:31 -0000

You whippersnappers with your irony - I was using a non-electric typewriter in college until 1991.

I only stopped when I decided to launch a newspaper and tried the Mac SE/30 in the computer lab.

Re: Role of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the Financial Crisis

affiliatetip — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:30:36 -0000

Hi Rick -

I guess the Dems heard that people on Main Street like Larry "The Cable Guy".

Re: Anatomy of a Niche Affiliate Site

affiliatetip — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:10:24 -0000

Hi Tricia -

They have some neat features with follow-ups, too, if you have a use for that sort of thing.

Re: Role of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the Financial Crisis

affiliatetip — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:37:00 -0000

Hey "Larry" -

Your last name isn't Biden, is it? Just wondering, since you cribbed that whole thing from a Robert Weissman post on Huffington Post from 9 months ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/d...

If you're going to plagiarize, use something current.

A nice *change* would be a call for personal accountability.

Re: Role of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the Financial Crisis

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:30:35 -0000

You're good at making noise - how about refuting the points?

Re: Vice Presidential Debate Moderator a Big Obama Fan

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:10:28 -0000

Who is making excuses? I merely pointed out the lack of objectivity of the moderator.

It must be weirdly isolating to live in an ivory tower.

Re: Affiliate Summit East 2008 Videos are Available

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:37:35 -0000

Hi Wayne -

We tried making them available for download in the past, and it led to people trying to resell them.

So, we prefer to keep them in our environment, where people can also discover dozens of other videos from previous Affiliate Summit conferences.

Re: GeekCast 38: Missy Ward Lathers Up in Coast Classic

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:08:19 -0000

They need to hear it from you - if they spy on me, they'll find that I prefer Dove Beauty Bars.

Re: Role of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the Financial Crisis

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:05:04 -0000

I realize that is the Obama perspective, and it sort of has to be for him, since he can't explain it away otherwise without mentioning himself and his ties to ACORN, Fannie Mae, etc.

Peter J. Wallison did a pretty good job of explaining why deregulation is not to blame for the financial mess in the US in a piece at Bloomberg.com (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039...

The credibility of the charge depends on ignoring several important facts:

-- There has been a great deal of deregulation in our economy over the last 30 years, but none of it has been in the financial sector or has had anything to do with the current crisis. Almost all financial legislation, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Improvement Act of 1991, adopted after the savings and loan collapse in the late 1980s, significantly tightened the regulation of banks.

-- The repeal of portions of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 -- often cited by people who know nothing about that law -- has no relevance whatsoever to the financial crisis, with one major exception: it permitted banks to be affiliated with firms that underwrite securities, and thus allowed Bank of America Corp. to acquire Merrill Lynch & Co. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to buy Bear Stearns Cos. Both transactions saved the government the costs of a rescue and spared the market substantial additional turmoil.

None of the investment banks that got into financial trouble, specifically Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., were affiliated with commercial banks, and none were affected in any way by the repeal of Glass-Steagall. [...]

-- Republicans have favored financial regulation where it was necessary, as in the case of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while the Democrats have opposed it. In 2005, the Senate Banking Committee, then under Republican control, adopted a tough regulatory bill for Fannie and Freddie over the unanimous opposition of committee Democrats. The opposition of the Democrats when the bill reached the full Senate made its enactment impossible. [...]

-- The subprime and other junk mortgages that Fannie and Freddie bought -- and the market in these mortgages that their buying spawned -- are the underlying cause of the financial crisis. These are the mortgages that the Treasury Department is asking for congressional authority to buy. If the Democrats had allowed the Fannie and Freddie reform legislation to become law in 2005, the entire financial crisis might have been avoided.

But if the Great Obama says it, it must be true, right?

Re: Will I See You In NYC?

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:33:12 -0000

Hi Vlad -

Looking forward to meeting you.

Re: Comparing and Contrasting Affiliate and CPA Networks

affiliatetip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:14:13 -0000

Blackballed by whom, the networks?

Re: Barack Obama, ACORN, and the Killing of the Economy

affiliatetip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:56:45 -0000

If they beleive that stuff, I've got a bail-out to sell them. :-P

Re: Role of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the Financial Crisis

affiliatetip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:19:03 -0000

Thanks to Tim Jones of http://therealtimjones.com/ for pointing out a version of this video on LiveLeak.com - so now the video is live again.

Re: WordPress Plugin for Those Stripe Ads

affiliatetip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:35:44 -0000

Most of my visitors still come from IE, though. Can't afford to be goofy there.

Re: WordPress Plugin for Those Stripe Ads

affiliatetip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:56:58 -0000

I just looked at TheRealTimJones.com in IE and the bar didn't follow me when I scrolled. It did work in FF and Chrome.

I tested that option yesterday and was annoyed it wasn't working. Glad to see it was just IE and not the plugin.

Re: Impact of Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome on LinkShare Tracking

affiliatetip — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:02:01 -0000

Not even when the tracking is based on referring domains?