I’m here to talk about OUR GUYS between now and election day. Egregious gamesmanship, lies, and slimeball marketing tactics from the republicans notwithstanding, what can they offer in the way of conversation that is as important as the news that if we elect Obama,
- we will be on a tack toward peace
- health care concerns will be addressed, problems perhaps solved
- a fair tax policy will give those of us who need it the most more money in our paychecks
- a woman’s right to address her own reproductive health issues without government interference will be protected by judicial appointments over the next four years
- retirement pensions and social security benefits will hold their value
Barack Obama and Joe Biden are prepared to take the reins and lead with integrity. We owe it to them to elect Democratic majorities in the House and in the Senate to empower their leadership.
Since the Republican convention, America has been on a political porn kick, focusing on what the TV comics call the GILF and the dirty old man who selected her, attending to non-issues related to the non-entities who are running against Senator Obama and Senator Biden. Just as the idiocy and the dissolution of the last eight years was predictable to anybody who took a close look at Cheney and Bush, the next four years can be predicted by taking a close look at the candidates, their preparation, their ethics, and their values. The foul stench of dishonesty that comes from the Republican candidates is easy enough to identify, but it behooves us to ignore it and trust the electorate to know when they’re being conned. It is time to pay attention to hwat we hope to gain, not what we stand to lose.
Today Barack Obama, campaigning in New Hampshire, “…focused on his tax plan, which offers sizable breaks to middle-income families, while raising taxes on families earning more than $250,000. He said McCain has been “simply dishonest” about that plan, asserting repeatedly that an Obama administration would raise everyone’s taxes.
‘I will make a firm pledge: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase, not your income tax, not your payroll tax,’ Obama said.
He slammed McCain’s proposal to tax the value of employer-based health-care plans as income and use that to help finance tax credits to buy health insurance. The senator from Illinois called that ‘a $3.6 trillion tax increase’ on working families.”
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