If I didn’t vote for Palin I’d have to vote for a some guy who, for all of his adult life, has allied himself with people and organizations that have tried at one time or another, to undermine our political and economic system and in some cases have succeeded, and since running for the office of president has tried to distance himself from those same people and organizations and lied about those affiliations and to this day will not release any of his medical or college records. In the last couple of months, he’s flip-flopped on just about every issue, and whether the Iraq war is justified or not, has refused to acknowledge that the surge worked there and despite the fact he doesn’t think the surge is working, now wants to do that very same thing in Afghanistan.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America and lied about it.
Sen. Obama’s longtime political supporter and present national finance chairwoman gutted a Chicagoland bank by recklessly extending the kind of dubious loans that have caused today’s financial crisis.
Penny Pritzker, from her position on the board of the holding company controlling Superior Bank, approved of risky loan practices that eventually cost depositors hundreds of millions of dollars. Superior had been unable to make money with traditional safe loans, so Pritzker encouraged the bank to enter the subprime market. Then she defied regulators who told her the bank’s practices were reckless. After the bank failed in 2001 and government investigators examined the corpus delicti, the wealthy Pritzker family ended up paying $460 million in penalties over a 15-year period.
As for Biden, he’s an habitual liar who’s been caught at it so many times, you’d think he learn his lesson. Biden said we “must” drill for oil, but that ain’t how he’s voted. He said he’s for clean coal, but just this month he passionately told a voter, “We’re not supporting clean coal,” and vowed “no coal plants here in America.”
Biden adamantly claimed McCain voted the same way as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did on a vote to raise taxes on those making $42,000 a year. The legislative record shows McCain was not present in the Senate for either of those votes and is recorded as “not voting.”
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.
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 John McCain has been proven right.
Biden falsely said McCain weakened regulation – he actually called for more regulation on Fannie and Freddie
More than two years ago (May 2006), 20 United States Senators sent a letter to Senate leadership pointing out “that if effective regulatory reform legislation for the housing-finance ‘government sponsored enterprises’ (GSEs) is not enacted this year (in 2006), American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial market, and the economy as a whole”.
In that letter, those 20 senators also pointed out that, “Today, almost half of all mortgages in the U.S. are owned or guaranteed by these GSEs”; and “They are mammoth financial institutions with almost $1.5 Trillion in debt outstanding between them”.
The 20 signers declared, “With the fiscal challenges facing us today (2006)… deficits, entitlements, pensions… Congress must ask itself who would actually pay this debt if Fannie and Freddie could not?”
That letter was sent by Senator John McCain. He was joined by 19 of his fellow senators.
As for Katie’s Restaurant, Ralph, I can easily check…I only live 20 miles from Wilmington. But according to “Yahoo! Travel”, there is no Katies Restarant listed under the K’s and that’s in a 20 mile radius of Wilmington.
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-2817663-alp-k-b-1-wilmington_restaurants-i;_ylt=AiolKThPFRg1glmLnbeeJVFQFmoL
"Here is something Biden said today. “When the middle class is growing, everybody benefits. That is the tide that rises all boats.” " Did he happen to mention how that happens?
