It came to me last night....  ACORN is registering 2nd graders because they admire Barack.  Why do 2nd graders admire Barack?  Because he stole Bob The Builder's catch phrase.  "Can we build it?  Yes We Can" became "Can we change it?  Yes we can." then just "Yes We Can". Of course 2nd graders, and others of similar intelligence levels, admire Barack, he appeals to their basic instinct to admire one who mindelssly repeats empty catch phrases that can be easily repeated.  Barack has extended his cadre of catch phrases.  "I'm going to lower taxes for 95% of Americans"  and "JMac wants to cut medicare" are some of them, but lets not forget the most important "I think when you spread the wealth arround it's good for everyone."  Ask a Barack supporter why he is supporting Barack and they will say its because he wants "Hope" and "Change" and "At least he's not Bush."  Ask a McCain supporter why they support McCain and you will hear various answers.  Ask why they dont support Barack and you will hear that he is "unexpereince" or "will ruin the economy" or becasue he "wants to spread the wealth arround" quickly followed by, if they are white, and explination that it's not because he's black and that that has nothing to do with it.

Colin Powell can't even say that he is supporting Barack because of race, but yet the libs are making attacks daily that it is the "racists rednecks who cling to guna and religion" who will cost Barack the election.  Yay, lets play the race card. Again and again and again...  That's just great isn't it?  A black man can't say that his true reason for supporting another black man is because he is black, but it is ok to say over and over again that "they are gonna try to make you affraid of me, because I have a funny name and I don't look like the other guys on the currency."

Barack the Builder.  Building class envy and racial discorse for political purposes.  I don't think Nick Jr would play that one, I don't even think PBS would show that one.....

I had someone tell me earlier tonight that they think that all necessities should be socialized: electric, water, health care, etc.  The scarier part is that this person doesn't care how much of their money goes to the government in taxes as long as it helps someone because "there are people who can not or will not help themselves..."  For another American to say that to me is deeply disturbing, this is supposed to be the land of opportunity where anyone who is willing to work can be successful.  Even after I said that socialism doesn't work on  a large scale, which has been proven time and time again (think the USSR and China before the realized that they needed some capitalism to make the system work) this person said that it was because of... survey says GREED!

I'm sorry, but greed is not always bad.  Greed drives business, greed is the basis for competition, because lets face it, when it comes to business the scoreboard doesn't record touchdowns and PAT's it records profits and profit margins.  If I had had $50,000 to invest in any company during the second fiscal quater I would have bought stock in Wal-Mart before I would Exxon-Mobile.  Why?  Because, Wal-Mart may have had a lower quaterly profit, but they had a much larger profit margin and therefore a much better chance a business longevity... But I digress.

Let's take a look at Barack's tax plans one more time (lets also keep in mind that I am a college drop out and when I was going it was for Film, not business, not polysci)  BHO plans to increase corporate taxes, increase SSI taxes, increase the death tax, capital gains (except for small businesses), "cut" taxes for 95% of Americans, raise taxes for those making over $250,000, and "renegotiate NAFTA and other trade agreements.

Who pays coporate taxes?  A) Corporations.  B) Consumers. C) The Tax Fairy.  The answer is B, Consumers.  How?  Corportaions pass these taxes on to consumers through price increases.  But what if people stop buying their products or using their services?  Then these companies layoff or fire employees to help keep their costs lower and offset the corporate tax rates.  Which country has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world?  The United States.

Social Security Insurance was origionaly started as a way to get older citizens to reitre earlier and let younger workers become part of the work force.  The system started in a deficit; an entire generation of people who had never contribted to the system were now drawing from it.  Several economist and other analysts have predicted that anyone currently undr the age of 35 will not be able to draw SSI benefits when they are of retirment age.  People are living longer and therefore drawing SSI longer and a system that started in the negative will soon be bankrupt..

How exactly does one cut taxes for people who dont pay taxes to begin with?  Thats not a tax cut, thats a welfare check.  And raising taxes on the top 5% of earners is "fair" its "patriotic" that's bull malarkey.  The top 5% of earners shoulder 70% of the tax burden and now they (the liberals) expect them to take on more. How is that fiar?  They earned that money.  They are the ones who worked for that money.  Why should others get some of thier hard earned money for doing nothing?  These are the people who own small businesses.  Small businesses employ 70% of Americans....  Most small business owners report their comapny's profit as personal income.  What happens if their taxes go up?  They cut jobs.

The net effect of all these things is that unemployment will be higher, tax revenues will be lower and the economy will go from recession to depression.  Can we risk four moe years of a bad economy?  No.  So, if we cant afford four more years, who should we vote for? "Bush 3" as the liberals call JMac or Barack who will make Bush look like Regan or Clinton?  I'm not going to tell you how to vote, that's up to you as an individual to do what you think is right.  I will say that after the election, one way or the other some of us will regret our decsion... I don't think i'll be the least be regretful and i hope others dont have to regret their choice....

I'm going to try and write this as I watch.

Barack just said, "The fundamentals of this economy were weak before this crisis..."  Let's break this down.  We live in a free market, capatalist economy.  The fundamentals of this economy are that the markets self regulate and prices are controlled by supply and demand.  What Barack just said was that the fundamentals of free markets and capitalism are weak...  And JMac just called him out on his "spread the wealth around" statement.   Barack just said that he wants to cut subisdies to insurance companies that just happen to deal with medicare... Barack wants to cut medicare... is that going to far.  Those insurance company subisdies are paid to help the insurance comapnies abosrb the costs that are associated with medicaid and medicare.

JMac on the attack.... I'm loving it.  And all Barack can say is "four more years of Bush, four more years of failed economic policies..."

How are "wages declining" when the Federal Minimum Wage has been increased?  Obama is lying about ACORN again... go figure. 

Barack and McCain are going on and on about foreign trade.  Barack just made a point about how many S Korean cars are coming in to the US and how many we export to them... hey Barack dont you know that most of those cars are only half built and therefore create American jobs... Hyundai was like the only company that really weathered Katrina properly...  Barack just said something about "workers organizing for their rights" this from the man that doesn't support secret ballots in unions..... 

Healthcare... Obama seems flustered... JMac is STILL calling him out on the fine under Obama's plan associated with not providing health coverage to workers and children...  "Senator government.. i mean Senator Obama"  it's a flub but I like it...  There's a choice Barack... Big Brother vs Freedom... not hard for me to choose.

Roe v Wade... I hope JMac calls out Barack on BAIPA...  He did it, OMg he really did it.  And now Barack is going to obfuscate... again.  Now he's saying that it would have undermined Roe v Wade... oh my god. 

Education.... JMac wants reform... Barack wants to throw money at it...

One of the pundits just said that Barack seemed "unflappable" he seemed flustered at times and to quick to respond.  I like what JMac said about Ayers "I dont care about some washed up old terrorist."  Notice what Barack responded to the strongest, Ayers, ACORN, his policies and his records...  My personal opinon is that Barack lost and lost big, he may have seemed "presidential" to some, he seemed flustered and at one or two points angery at McCain for bringing up certain issues.  I'm glad McCain was on the attack tonight and I hope that others see this the way I did and dont let the spin dominate their opinion.

Four or five quick points that have been played to death... but not by me.  I've been hearing it so much and I just have to vent.

1) The Race Card:  Exactly who is it that has been injecting race into this, well for lack of a better term, race?  The Democrats, most notably Barack Hussein Obama.  "They're gonna try to make you scared... of me.  Because I don't look like the other guys on the one dollar and five dollar bills." or "Hey, he's got a funny name... and did I mention.. he's black."  This is blacksploitation on a level Hollywood never dreamed of when it made "Shaft."  Lets get one thing straight right now; Barack H Obabma is not black, he is half black and half white.  He will not be the "first black president" he will be the first mixed-race president.  And I am so tired of Barack supporters saying that McCain and Palin are "race batting" and that those of us who aren't voting for Barack are racist....

2) Barack's Associtations and friends:  William Ayers, Rev. J Wright, Tony Rezko, Jim Johnson, Frank Raines.  An unrepentant domestic terroritst,  an antisemit, and two crooks walk into a bar.. wait its not a joke, its Obama's freinds, mentores, and economic adivisers....  "But he  didn't know that Ayers bombed places and he was only eight, and he never hear J Wright say those things and you only bring up Raines because he's black..."  Whatever.  I think that if I were running for president I'd make sure that my associations and friends had cleaner backgrounds...  Oh but lets not forget that McCain was indicted in the Keating Five scandle and may have been involved in the Iran-Contra affair....

3) "Four more years of Bush":  This is just nonsense.  McCain has voted party line 90% of the time... Barack 96%....  If there was a sitting Dem. president who was as unpopular as Bush and Obama was extolling "hope" and "change" we would probably have never heard about his opponents voting record...

4) "We need to get out of Iraq":  The idea that we are "losing to many men i n war we should have never been in" is crazy.  We have lost less men in Iraq than we did during the Tet offensive in 'Nam.  This is a volunteer army, not drafted.  That means that these men and women volunteered to serve and knew the risks when they signed up.. when the reenlisted............  But, lets follow Barack's lead and bomb Pakistan, our ally.....

There is more, but it's getting late and I've got a bit of a cold and I'm not feeling very well right now so I think I'm gonna just leave it at these four... for now....

We all know they are out there.  The Green Party, The Libertarians, The American Nazi Party, etc. etc.....  But, unfortunately, in a national election, especially that of President, these contenders mean very little in the grand scheme of things and often may cause the election to turn out much differently than expected.  Some will vote for a third party because they are affiliated with that party and others because they can not support either of the "main stream" parties candidates.  With exception to those with party affiliation I think everyone else either needs to vote for their registered party's candidate of else decide which id the lesser of the two evils.  in this case you have McCain who is a slightly left leaning Republican and Barack who is so far left that he cant even see McCain's position...  To me the choice is easy its either McCain and we have to deal with a few liberal policies or Barack and we become the Unites Socialist States of America....

I work with a few Democrats, actually I'm one of the only Republicans where I work.  One of them is a woman, one is an older white male, one is a younger black male and the other an older black male.  The woman, a mother of one, has decided that she "doesn't care who wins as long as they will actually fix thing" and make things better, but she kind of supports the McCain/Palin ticket because she was impressed by Sarah Palin.  I've been constantly feeding her information gathered from not only Townhall.com but also from my favorite conservative talk radio shows like Rush, Boorts, and Hannity...

The younger black male doesnt really talk polotics much and I have an honest gut feeling that he is voting for Barack just because Barack is black.  Why i feel this way is actually very simple.  I asked who he was voting for, he said Barack, I said WHY? and he said that he just thinks Barack is going to do good things for the country.... No real political backing and I really didnt push the subject because, well because I didn't want to get all super political with a guy I have to work wihth every day.

The older black male backs Barack H Obama as well and cites the Clinton Presidnecy as his reason why he supports Democrats, although I have heard him mutter the occasional reference to no helping the brothers in da hood.... or something like that...

The older white male, who has a PolySci degree from a state univeristy (UNCW... and we all know how liberal that school is), once said "I'd vote for SATAN if he ran on the Democratic ticket."  That shocked me.  It shocked me so bad that I couldn't even frame a response to it right off the top of my head.  He not only thinks that Clinton was the greatest presidnet ever, but also refered to the Illuminati and the Free Masons and pointed out that there have only been two Presidents who were not members of the Free Masons... JFK and guess who.. William Jefferson Clinton....  Now, me personally I dont usualy base my arguments for voting off of such political rhetoric as the Illuminati and the consipracy for world domination that it is supposed to represent... but hey i guess if you can subscribe to that theory then you must also subscribe to the theory that Slick Willy knew that Al Gore didn't stand a snowball's chance of winning the election and therefore ruined the economy to prevent the Republicans from holding office for more than four years and that he then sabatoged his own wife's campaign to prevent her from gaining equality with him... which i know a few conservatives who just might agree with those statements... but very few liberals....

Oh and just in case we all havent heard this nonsenss yet, come November 4th he just might be voting for Satan or well The Antichrist at least..  Yes, this theory is out as well.  Barack H Obama comes out of no where to gain political power and quickly moves up the ranks...  But I digress this is all just right Wing fear mongering, which is only fair seeing as how the left would love us to beleive that McCain is Bush 3 and that he will keep us in Iraq for 100 years.....