A few weeks ago we wrote an article to 'Garad,' who in reality works with TJ's Father.
Garad has replied, you can find that article here
Now I (Roark this time) will respond to that article.
OK, I'll respond here, your comments are in italics, and my answer follow them.
I thought it was decided by the delegates and super delegates. Who are these people anyway?
In the primaries the person who ends up running for the two main parties. In the general election each state has a number of electoral votes, which is equal to the amount of representatives plus senators.
It seems to me that tons of lies and deception from the right are flooding the airways trying to create a trail that suggest that there are some truth to it.
The lies that you have heard are all related to Sarah Palin. There is enough true stuff on Obama that nothing needs to be made up.
He did go to a Muslim school.
He did become friends with a convicted felon who funded his campaigns.
He did go to Church for 20 years and listen to racists America hating.
Just about everything you here about Obama is true.
Obama is a class act and has consistantly taken the high road like no other candidate that I have ever seen.
Did he take the high road when he forced the other candidates off the ballot in Illinois?
Did he take the high road when he refused to go to a military hospital?
Did he take the high road when he voted for infanticide?
Is he taking the high road knowingly lying to Americans about Economics?
I think if he were white, there would be a 20% lead over McCain, I really hate to say that because I am in no way a racist.
I disagree I think if he were white McCain would be up by at least 15 points. Why else would so many people want to vote for someone with absolutely no experience, and preaching the exact same socialist crap that Lyndon Johnson put in, which didn't work, 45 years ago, then calling it change?
People are attacking him and his charater because they have driven the country into the toilet and have nothing to say when it comes to what matters, the issues facing this country.
I haven't heard a lot of people attacking him, but then I don't listen to talk radio often. The media is madly in love with Obama, he's been on the cover of Times like 7 times in the past year. Listen to what the people who are attacking him are saying; they're probably correct.
The economy, huge deficit, Iraq, and where is the alquida?
Obama is in no way any answer for the economy, his socialistic theories have never worked anywhere, and can never work.
His whole basis is taxing more people, tell me how do you help the economy by taking money away form it? How can you call yourself moral if you want to take money from one class of people, by force, to give to another?
What about a woman's right to choose, human rights
I find it ironic that you put human rights in the same sentence as the horrific procedure that has stolen the rights of 40 million unborn children.
Tell me: why should a woman have a right to 'choose' whether or not her child lives? Should woman be able just say I can't take it and put her three year-old son to death? Where's the difference?
If any one has traveled internationally lately look at how we are percieved and a global basis.
I actually agree with this, but Obama is certainly not the answer. We need a president who is ready to follow the constitution, and remove our troops from every base not in the US.
We would hate any country who put a military base on our land against our will.
Bush has basically bankrupted our country.
Bush is only partly responsible for this, Clinton, the Fed and congress must also hold the blame.
The Fed needs to stop printing money and the congress needs to stop putting through unconstitutional bills that steal the money of the people.
Personally O don't care about her personal life but I think it is interesting that she fought to stop sex education in the schools in favor of teaching creationism.
I don't understand this sex education says wear a condom and creationism says God created man.
If you mean evolution, I believe they should both be taught, why would you not teach student s a possibility? It does not need to be endorsed.
Family values? Kind of hard to raise a family with her career.
I don't agree with this, she could stay in Alaska while governor and the Vice President doesn't really do anything except break a tie in the senate.
Experience? Virtually none. She just got her first passport to leave the country.
Regardless, of the fact that she has only been in office for two years, Obama has no executive experience and his federal experience consists of 3.5 years in the Senate, two of these were spent campaigning. As for Foreign Policy experience, who really has foreign policy experience before being president other than Secretaries of State? It isn't Biden and it sure as hell is not Obama.
Our country is in need of a major change!!!
This is probably true, but the change we need should come in the form of less government, not in the form of Big Brother.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Obama Inexperience Starting to Show
By: TJ Madison
8/23/2008
About a month ago, I predicted Barack Obama would win the election in November. It was based on the criteria of three issues’:
1. The state of the economy.
2. The war in Iraq.
3. Barack Obama’s personality.
Now, I will still stand by my prediction, however, my confidence is not as high as it once was. The economy and Iraq are still in Barack’s corner, his ‘magic’ show, though, is losing some of its luster. As I write this piece, John McCain has gained ground to the point where he is about even with Obama when it comes to scientific tracking polls.
Why? Obama’s political amateurism is starting to show. Something this writer thought he would be able to hide through November. Nevertheless, don’t expect me to get on the McCain ‘landslide’ bandwagon just yet.
Even though Barack is a Democrat, he’s not stupid. Nobody can make the rise from Illinois State Senator to Presidential front-runner in a few short years, without being politically savvy. Remember, he knocked off the Clinton political machine, and couldn’t have done that without having some good strategists around him.
Those strategists are still with him, and the wheels are turning.
Not to mention the wheels at CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the New York Times. So don’t get too comfortable, Republicans. Even as the economy shows positive signs and the War in Iraq gets better, don’t expect that to be front-page news.
Well, unless they find a way to give Obama the credit!
It took leftists an entire term of George W. Bush to make a book on his misspoken words and butchered sentences; Obama is well on his way to filling his third volume before even being elected! The only difference: you’ll only hear about it on talk radio.
In a stump speech, when talking about health care costs, Obama referred to a nasal ‘inhaler’ as a ‘breathalyzer’. Now, if that were a Republican making that mistake, you would hear Wolf Blitzer starting off his CNN show with: “Does this Republican candidate understand our health care crisis, if he doesn’t know the difference between an inhaler and a breathalyzer?”
The worst thing the McCainiacs can do is think they’ve got it in the bag. Obama and his staff should have learned a lot in the last month about ‘gaffs’ he’s made, and get that corrected. It is possible they believe there have been no mistakes, seeing that he is the chosen one. However, you can tell Obama is a little rattled about everything that’s gone on in the last month, he seems to be a very thinned-skin person. It’s apparent by his tone, he doesn’t see the humor of others making light about proper tire inflation being the equivalent of offshore drilling of oil.
I think the pivotal point will be the last day of the Democrat National Convention, when the Democrats try to fill that outdoor football stadium in Denver. The ‘bump’ that he gets in the polls, the week following, will be very telling.
8/23/2008
About a month ago, I predicted Barack Obama would win the election in November. It was based on the criteria of three issues’:
1. The state of the economy.
2. The war in Iraq.
3. Barack Obama’s personality.
Now, I will still stand by my prediction, however, my confidence is not as high as it once was. The economy and Iraq are still in Barack’s corner, his ‘magic’ show, though, is losing some of its luster. As I write this piece, John McCain has gained ground to the point where he is about even with Obama when it comes to scientific tracking polls.
Why? Obama’s political amateurism is starting to show. Something this writer thought he would be able to hide through November. Nevertheless, don’t expect me to get on the McCain ‘landslide’ bandwagon just yet.
Even though Barack is a Democrat, he’s not stupid. Nobody can make the rise from Illinois State Senator to Presidential front-runner in a few short years, without being politically savvy. Remember, he knocked off the Clinton political machine, and couldn’t have done that without having some good strategists around him.
Those strategists are still with him, and the wheels are turning.
Not to mention the wheels at CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the New York Times. So don’t get too comfortable, Republicans. Even as the economy shows positive signs and the War in Iraq gets better, don’t expect that to be front-page news.
Well, unless they find a way to give Obama the credit!
It took leftists an entire term of George W. Bush to make a book on his misspoken words and butchered sentences; Obama is well on his way to filling his third volume before even being elected! The only difference: you’ll only hear about it on talk radio.
In a stump speech, when talking about health care costs, Obama referred to a nasal ‘inhaler’ as a ‘breathalyzer’. Now, if that were a Republican making that mistake, you would hear Wolf Blitzer starting off his CNN show with: “Does this Republican candidate understand our health care crisis, if he doesn’t know the difference between an inhaler and a breathalyzer?”
The worst thing the McCainiacs can do is think they’ve got it in the bag. Obama and his staff should have learned a lot in the last month about ‘gaffs’ he’s made, and get that corrected. It is possible they believe there have been no mistakes, seeing that he is the chosen one. However, you can tell Obama is a little rattled about everything that’s gone on in the last month, he seems to be a very thinned-skin person. It’s apparent by his tone, he doesn’t see the humor of others making light about proper tire inflation being the equivalent of offshore drilling of oil.
I think the pivotal point will be the last day of the Democrat National Convention, when the Democrats try to fill that outdoor football stadium in Denver. The ‘bump’ that he gets in the polls, the week following, will be very telling.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Saving Garad, Saving America
By: TJ Madison
8/15/2008
If we can save Garad, we can save America! Now, who is Garad?
Garad is the type of American voter that will decide another close election. Unfortunately, like many, he is not an American that pays close attention to politics. He is busy with a career, marriage and maybe even three children. Who really can blame these people for not keeping that close an eye on political issues?
Let’s face it, election cycles have started earlier and earlier. It becomes boring, tedious and usually ugly. Have you met anybody who has actually said, “God, I can’t wait to vote for McCain or Obama?”
Less than 90 days from the election, Garad is a ‘soft’ Obama supporter. Which usually means: I’m supporting Obama, but I can’t give you a good reason why.
The ‘Garads’ will usually stay away from most political news and choose to vote on snippets, sound bites, or commercials by a political propagandist.
Advantage Barack Obama.
Why? Well, those of us who follow politics know that major media types are inherently ‘left-wing’, and will do there best to keep Obama in as much of a positive light as they possibly can. No, it’s not a ‘conspiracy’, it’s just a matter of fact that left-leaning young adults tend to choose major’s like journalism in college. (The trend right now is an 80/20 split of journalist favoring the Democrat over the Republican in national elections). Don’t be fooled into thinking that ideology doesn’t creep in to their ‘reporting’.
Another Obama advantage to garner the novice political voter, the masterful techniques and the carefully chosen words he uses while giving a speech. Words, ironically he can’t seem to find when someone asks him an unexpected question. Then you see him go from dignified statesman to bumbling incompetent.
So how are the believers of America’s Founders, you and me, going to convince the ‘Garads’, that a slick orator with some clever buzz words is not the person to make the United States a better, stronger or unified country?
First, the ‘Garads’ are usually good candidates themselves to vote for the Republican nominee. They’re intelligent; they work, pay too much in taxes, own a home and probably want the Federal government to keep out of their business.
Sounds pretty conservative to me!
Second, familiarize him with the radical past of Barack Obama. In spite of his ‘thin’ resume in politics, He sure has amassed a large amount of controversial figures in his political circle.
A book everyone should read, before voting for Obama is: The Obama Nation
, by Jerome Corsi. Corsi began researching Obama’s personal and political background soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Read about Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and radical left-wing politics, from his father and stepfather’s Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and Socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago. All of it factual, the book is abundantly sourced with over 600 footnotes.
Other disturbing discoveries include:
-Obama’s far-left domestic policy, his controversial votes on abortion, his opposition to the Second Amendment, his over-reaching plans for universal health care and his plan to tax American’s to fund a global poverty reduction program.
-His involvement in the slum-landlord empire of Chicago political fixer, Tony Rezko, who bankrolled initial campaigns and purchased Obama’s dream home.
-A naïve foreign policy, predicated on the reduction of the military, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an over confidence in the power of his personality, as if belief in change alone could somehow transform international politics.
Now don’t think this book will have any effect on the militant Obama supporter or hard leftist, but remember it’s the reasonable people like Garad who we’re reaching out to.
Honestly, I was not going to vote for John McCain two weeks ago and it’s a shame that we don’t have a legitimate small government candidate to vote for in the two major parties. Every week that goes by, and we find out more about this Democrat Emperor who has no clothes, I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit back and watch this ideological Marxist with radical-racial past, win the White House with out being challenged.
TJ Madison is a self-described Jeffersonian Republican living in the People's Republic of Wisconsin. For more on TJ, please visit out about page.
8/15/2008
If we can save Garad, we can save America! Now, who is Garad?
Garad is the type of American voter that will decide another close election. Unfortunately, like many, he is not an American that pays close attention to politics. He is busy with a career, marriage and maybe even three children. Who really can blame these people for not keeping that close an eye on political issues?
Let’s face it, election cycles have started earlier and earlier. It becomes boring, tedious and usually ugly. Have you met anybody who has actually said, “God, I can’t wait to vote for McCain or Obama?”
Less than 90 days from the election, Garad is a ‘soft’ Obama supporter. Which usually means: I’m supporting Obama, but I can’t give you a good reason why.
The ‘Garads’ will usually stay away from most political news and choose to vote on snippets, sound bites, or commercials by a political propagandist.
Advantage Barack Obama.
Why? Well, those of us who follow politics know that major media types are inherently ‘left-wing’, and will do there best to keep Obama in as much of a positive light as they possibly can. No, it’s not a ‘conspiracy’, it’s just a matter of fact that left-leaning young adults tend to choose major’s like journalism in college. (The trend right now is an 80/20 split of journalist favoring the Democrat over the Republican in national elections). Don’t be fooled into thinking that ideology doesn’t creep in to their ‘reporting’.
Another Obama advantage to garner the novice political voter, the masterful techniques and the carefully chosen words he uses while giving a speech. Words, ironically he can’t seem to find when someone asks him an unexpected question. Then you see him go from dignified statesman to bumbling incompetent.
So how are the believers of America’s Founders, you and me, going to convince the ‘Garads’, that a slick orator with some clever buzz words is not the person to make the United States a better, stronger or unified country?
First, the ‘Garads’ are usually good candidates themselves to vote for the Republican nominee. They’re intelligent; they work, pay too much in taxes, own a home and probably want the Federal government to keep out of their business.
Sounds pretty conservative to me!
Second, familiarize him with the radical past of Barack Obama. In spite of his ‘thin’ resume in politics, He sure has amassed a large amount of controversial figures in his political circle.
A book everyone should read, before voting for Obama is: The Obama Nation
, by Jerome Corsi. Corsi began researching Obama’s personal and political background soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate.Read about Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and radical left-wing politics, from his father and stepfather’s Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and Socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago. All of it factual, the book is abundantly sourced with over 600 footnotes.
Other disturbing discoveries include:
-Obama’s far-left domestic policy, his controversial votes on abortion, his opposition to the Second Amendment, his over-reaching plans for universal health care and his plan to tax American’s to fund a global poverty reduction program.
-His involvement in the slum-landlord empire of Chicago political fixer, Tony Rezko, who bankrolled initial campaigns and purchased Obama’s dream home.
-A naïve foreign policy, predicated on the reduction of the military, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an over confidence in the power of his personality, as if belief in change alone could somehow transform international politics.
Now don’t think this book will have any effect on the militant Obama supporter or hard leftist, but remember it’s the reasonable people like Garad who we’re reaching out to.
Honestly, I was not going to vote for John McCain two weeks ago and it’s a shame that we don’t have a legitimate small government candidate to vote for in the two major parties. Every week that goes by, and we find out more about this Democrat Emperor who has no clothes, I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit back and watch this ideological Marxist with radical-racial past, win the White House with out being challenged.
TJ Madison is a self-described Jeffersonian Republican living in the People's Republic of Wisconsin. For more on TJ, please visit out about page.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Why Obama Will Win
16 July 2008
By TJ Madison
Unlike a horse race, you have much better odds betting on the winner of a political race. Let’s face it, after the primaries only two candidates have chance of winning- a Republican or a Democrat. So you have a 50% chance of getting it right. Add the fact that if you have no stake in who wins or loses the race, no ties to either candidate or the ideology of the candidate you can make the odds even better. Because you’re judgment isn’t clouded with emotion.
Just watch the cable news shows, Republican talking heads will tell you how McCain will win, just as Democrat talking heads will tell you how Obama will win. Well, half of them will be right. Half will have egg on there face. But I’ll bet both wouldn’t bet money on it. Just like I wouldn’t bet money if my favorite team were in the World Series. I know I couldn’t be objective.
However, in this race I don’t have to worry about that. Why? As limited-Government minded Jeffersonians, it’s a lose-lose situation for us.
Now, to be totally fair, I’ll acknowledge that as long as I’ve been politically active, I’ve always considered myself Right of center. However, I’ve never been afraid to distance myself from popular positions of the Right if I didn’t agree with them. Unlike most of the Republicans in leadership positions these days, I’ll always make a decision based on liberty and the Constitution. Ala Ron Paul.
Unfortunately, no Ron Paul types to choose from. Just two different brands of Socialism.
So how do I know Obama’s Socialism will be the one to triumph? I can only make this prediction based on what I’ve seen the American people vote for in the recent past. Particularly the last five Presidential Elections.
And just like those, the way these two candidates appear on television will the major factor of who comes out on top. The other key factors, of course, will be the perception of the economy and if the American people have a positive or negative feeling about the state of the war with Iraq.
Look at the 2004 Election. John Kerry had two of the three. The media beat down the economy, and Americans didn’t like how the war was going. However, he was awful on television. He came across as a pompous ass. And he lost the election.
Go back to 2000. People were generally happy with the markets, but Gore came across as a pretentious ass-clown. And lost the election.
Further back to 1996. Bob Dole appeared to be a bitter angry old man who thought it was his anointed time. He lost.
Right now, McCain is on the losing end of the three major factors that will decide this election.
- Americans are tired of a war that they see as Republican responsibility.
- The Stock Market is down and the dollar is weak as a Republican sits in the White House.
- Obama is a better speaker and looks better on television then McCain.
So McCain can only hope the American Idol crowd stays home.
However, Obama would then bring out his secret weapon: Remember while campaigning in Oregon, Obama said, “We’ve traveled... to 57 States with 1 to go, Alaska and Hawaii, I really wanted to go to, but my staff , really could not justify it!” (Article continues Below)
That’s 60 States! He’ll get Electoral votes for ten more states then McCain. So how can he lose!
I’m not saying it’s right, but unless something huge comes out of his closet, put your money on Obama.
TJ Madison is a self-described Jeffersonian Republican living in the People's Republic of Wisconsin.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
The Audacity of Ignorance
"What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness. The top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year--$29 billion for 50 individuals. Those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries. That's not fair." – Barack Obama on Tax Reform
This statement is wrong in so many levels its maddening, let's go over it piece by piece.
"What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness...
Maybe, I haven't been drinking the kool-aid, but I fail to see how raising taxes on anything can possibly be construed as fair, but let's see…
"The top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year--$29 billion for 50 individuals…
I think the correct term here would be: earned, the top 50 hedge fund managers earned $29 billion last year....
They earned this $29 billion by managing, probably, trillions of dollars after going through many years of college, where they probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Perhaps, I'm just too much of a capitalist, but maybe the reason these people went through all the years of college and are willing to take the stress of managing this vast sum of money is to obtain the possibility to earn this amount, but that would involve common sense.
"Those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries….
Again with the clever term usage, Senator Obama; many of these hedge fund managers, who 'work' the stock market, wake before 5 a.m. (Jim Cramer wrote about never sleeping more than 3 hours, and I talked to a manager who spoke of drinking excess amounts of water, right before bed, so he would be forced to wake-up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, before checking the foreign markets). Their dedication to their job is immense, many putting in 16 hour days to keep up with the mass amount of money they are managing (oh, and for those who think these hedge fund managers don't need to work hard, think twice, many times, if they have just one bad year (even quarter or month) the majority of their Assets Under Management will be pulled and they can kiss their huge checks good bye).
The secretary comparison is cute (though I am surprised you didn't use the more politically correct term: administrative assistant, you're gonna have to pay more attention next time, Senator). However, you fail to mention that the amount of schooling it takes to answer phones and type 90 words a minute is probably a little less than that to manage billions of dollars. Of course, you know this, but refusing to use it on such grounds wouldn't get you the emotional response from your less educated supporters, would it?
Also, is it just me or would it make TOO MUCH sense to lower the secretary's tax rate?
"That's not fair."
Here's where I agree with you, Senator. It's not fair that the secretary has about a third of her money withheld from her paycheck each month.
Why should this secretary have to support lazy people on welfare, the impossibly terrible and inefficient Department of Education or the unwinnable 'war' on drugs?
The answer is she should not; it is not that her boss should have to pay twice as much in taxes.
When did this great country turn from the, "land of dreams," to the land of, "Be ambitious if you want, but when you become successful and make a bunch of money the government will take it from you, but on the other hand you could just not work and sit in your house all day, why else have the rich if they aren't to support the rest?"
Sounds like socialism to me.
This statement is wrong in so many levels its maddening, let's go over it piece by piece.
"What I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness...
Maybe, I haven't been drinking the kool-aid, but I fail to see how raising taxes on anything can possibly be construed as fair, but let's see…
"The top 50 hedge fund managers made $29 billion last year--$29 billion for 50 individuals…
I think the correct term here would be: earned, the top 50 hedge fund managers earned $29 billion last year....
They earned this $29 billion by managing, probably, trillions of dollars after going through many years of college, where they probably paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Perhaps, I'm just too much of a capitalist, but maybe the reason these people went through all the years of college and are willing to take the stress of managing this vast sum of money is to obtain the possibility to earn this amount, but that would involve common sense.
"Those who are able to work the stock market and amass huge fortunes on capital gains are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries….
Again with the clever term usage, Senator Obama; many of these hedge fund managers, who 'work' the stock market, wake before 5 a.m. (Jim Cramer wrote about never sleeping more than 3 hours, and I talked to a manager who spoke of drinking excess amounts of water, right before bed, so he would be forced to wake-up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, before checking the foreign markets). Their dedication to their job is immense, many putting in 16 hour days to keep up with the mass amount of money they are managing (oh, and for those who think these hedge fund managers don't need to work hard, think twice, many times, if they have just one bad year (even quarter or month) the majority of their Assets Under Management will be pulled and they can kiss their huge checks good bye).
The secretary comparison is cute (though I am surprised you didn't use the more politically correct term: administrative assistant, you're gonna have to pay more attention next time, Senator). However, you fail to mention that the amount of schooling it takes to answer phones and type 90 words a minute is probably a little less than that to manage billions of dollars. Of course, you know this, but refusing to use it on such grounds wouldn't get you the emotional response from your less educated supporters, would it?
Also, is it just me or would it make TOO MUCH sense to lower the secretary's tax rate?
"That's not fair."
Here's where I agree with you, Senator. It's not fair that the secretary has about a third of her money withheld from her paycheck each month.
Why should this secretary have to support lazy people on welfare, the impossibly terrible and inefficient Department of Education or the unwinnable 'war' on drugs?
The answer is she should not; it is not that her boss should have to pay twice as much in taxes.
When did this great country turn from the, "land of dreams," to the land of, "Be ambitious if you want, but when you become successful and make a bunch of money the government will take it from you, but on the other hand you could just not work and sit in your house all day, why else have the rich if they aren't to support the rest?"
Sounds like socialism to me.
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