Electioneering
I will stop, I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
Ha ha ha
Riot shields, voodoo economics,
it’s just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F.
I trust I can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
By Radiohead
Source: radiohead.com
Jump to about 1:16 into the video. There is a small part of me that’s going to miss this boob.
This map looks familiar…
The University of Michigan has once again released some interesting maps that reflect, county by county, how we all voted a couple of days ago. After looking at the above map, I though it seemed vaguely familiar to another map I saw recently…
We can see a future of hope and of pride and faith in democracy, not the blind, jingoistic kind, but a clear-eyed faith in the hard work of democracy and the good that government can do because it is ours; it is us. Out of many, we are one. The dream of our founding fathers is alive.
What’s been astounding about the Republicans during this whole campaign is the ludicrous sense of entitlement they have toward the office of the presidency. It’s like they were born on third base and forgot that the Supreme Court waved them home.
Kick-ass. For everyone who was disappointed by the debates, this video is for you.
Do we need to re-think the debates? Would people even watch a 2 hour discussion, a back and forth over the minutia of policy? I actually think that a series of talking points mixed with the occasional “Harumph” is exactly what most Americans can handle during primetime.
Source: strutting
There are many of us from there and still there (my mother, for one) who think Sarah Palin is anything BUT American. Real Americans don’t scapegoat other Americans; we don’t blame working people who want to own a home and reward Wall Street suits who make up risky investments so they can buy that house in the Hamptons. They don’t send young men and women from those small towns to fight and kill and die on a lie and then vote against a new GI Bill. Real Americans care about their neighbor who can’t afford medical treatment. They just want to send their kids to college and keep their decent jobs and raise their families in peace. Sadly, too many people who live in those small towns think like Palin and McCain and their lot, my mother excepted.
Why do these groups still exist?
Source: zackshapiro
My graphic write-up of tonight’s debate.
Third and final time... election chat!
Join us for dumb jokes and even dumber opinions.
“Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don’t take it all.”
I keep hearing Obama’s tax plan referred to as a redistribution of wealth. Without being an economist, thats sounds like malarky.
This link shows an interesting way of looking at the impact Obama’s (and McCain’s) tax plan couldhave: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/competing-tax-plans-two-perspectives/.
Here are some ways I look at (justify in my dark, liberal heart) a 12% increase in taxes for folks that make over 2 million:
1. Its one percent of the people that live in the states. Quite a few, but still only one percent.
2. As someone who has earned or inherited great wealth, doesn’t it behoove them to participate and invest in the democracy that’s allowed them to make this wealth?
3. Power. Even with 12% increase, folks that make that money find power in many other ways, because of thier income. Maybe its large campaign donations. Maybe its foundation giving. Maybe its real estate, local business influence, whatever. Think of it as a power tax.
4. I’ll never make that much. Fuck ‘em.
5. There are plenty of loopholes to get out of taxes. If Obama closes them, they’ll find more. All people of all classes do this. When was the last time you worked, “under the table.”
6. Trickle down didn’t work. GM, Ford, and Chrysler are still fucked. More jobs are going out the window. Consumers still lived on credit and not the new found wealth they achieved by the grand investment all of the top-tier people were suppose to make because of the tax cut.
7. We were at war, and while teenagers were losing their virginity to IDE’s, Bush gave a tax cut to his base.
8. I could sure use the extra money at the end of the year. I’m going to spend it on a wedding or an Xbox. Cash in my hand right back into the system. Doesn’t millions of yahoos like me, sending hundreds of dollars back into Best Buy or small business owners like banquet halls or caterers do more for the economy than few million more dollars tossed into oil commodities?
What do you think? Am I an idiot?
