nobama is starting to sound like a neo-con.


smart.


drilling holes in his own boat.

maybe.


they keep gaffing too much.

true.

BTW

The Fed Chairman is Bernanke.

better?

ok

I'll change it.

never thought about it being racist.

but I can see where you do.

who's the racist?

To make us love our country," Edmund Burke once said, "our country ought to be lovely." Burke's point is that we should love our country not just because it is ours, but also because it is good. America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement. In spite of its flaws, however, American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer. Ultimately America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good.

here's one for you, mirror.

bon appetit.

this is a cuban american blog for McCain.

interesting racial sensitivites discussed in this one.


http://reviewofcuban-americanblogs.blogspot.com/2008/06/advice-for-mccain-as-he-embarks-on-his.html



Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Advice for McCain As He Embarks on His Crusade to Save America from Its Domestic Enemies

Don't be afraid to attack Obama aggressively and relentlessly. Expose his Marxist connections and the fact that he has built his political career on embracing America's enemies and advancing their interests. Your constituency won't object even if the media crucify you for it and all the lapdogs of liberalism are unleashed against you. Jim McGreevy, who was shielded by the media for years from the effects of his indiscretions, is nobody's hero now and neither will Obama's reputation survive the exposure of his sordid past (present?). Don't feel restrained because Obama is an African-American. His race, or, rather, the side of his ancestry with which he choses to identify himself, should be no concern of yours. No presidential candidate in history will win fewer African-American votes than you though no Republican has been a more consistent supporter of equality and opportunity for all Americans. Whites who don't vote for Obama, especially if they are Democrats -- and there will be a lot of those -- will be condemned as racists. The fact that almost no black will vote for you shall not be seen as a reflection on them but on you. Again, don't try to accommodate the race mongers or race baiters. There is nothing that you can do to convince them that your experience trumps Obama's experience, or to disabuse them of the notion that words that say nothing are more redolent of hope than are solid achievements.

Isolate President Bush like a virus. Your own native sense of loyalty prevents you from breaking ranks with him, and, of course, you would never blame him for the failure in Iraq when success there seems at last within reach. Still, you must keep him, or, rather, yourself as far away from Bush as you can, physically and with your vision "thing." Yes, I know, Gore lost the election because he did the same thing with Clinton. But there is a difference. Clinton was more popular than Gore even at his most unpopular and his fellow Democrats remained in his corner to the last. Clinton was an untapped asset for Gore. Bush is no asset for you. Certainly, the media has contributed the most to making him a pariah, but there is nothing that you can do to rehabilitate him now. He must do that for himself as Truman did, and Nixon did and Carter did. Worry instead about what the media will do to you. Their blatant unfairness to Hillary Clinton during the primaries will be nothing compared to what they have planned for you in the general election. The left is not through torturing you. Their water boy will remain respectful because he can. But every superannuated 60s liberal will make it his business to see to it that the Vietnam War is lost again in 2008. These unreconstructed radicals are in control of the media and academia and have educated and trained their successors to hate all the people that they hate. You are pretty much at the top of the list.

Do not squander your political capital, or narrow your base of support, by courting the Know-Nothings and other fifth-columnists within the Republican Party's big tent. They may bluster and fultimate, but, in the end, the prospect of an Obama presidency will reconcile them to you without you having to make any overture to them. If they do not support you, then we are not talking about Republicans but anarchists vent on destroying not only the party but the nation. Their support you do not need and should not want.

Do not choose as a running-mate any of the tribe of weasals who ran against you in the Republican primaries. Mediocre would be a generous assessment of them as a group, though as individuals some don't even reach that threshhold. Pitiful indeed they must have been to have positioned themselves to the right of you and yet failed to win the support of conservative Republicans. It would be difficult if not impossible to decide which is less unctuous or less insincere. Choose, instead, a running-mate who matches your strengths not one who supposedly compensates for your weaknesses. Do not fall into the trap of picking someone as young and inexperienced as Barack Obama. That kind of "balance" the ticket doesn't need as it would dilute your ability to challenge Obama's monumental gall in presuming that he is qualified to be president of the United States and leader of the free world on the basis of three lackluster years in the Senate where he was playing hookey most of the time and an equally undistinguished career in the Illinois legislature.

Seriously consider an Hispanic as a running-mate. Obama isn't liked by Hispanics and any half-credible Hispanic vice presidential candidate could split the Hispanic vote. No Cuban-Americans, please. You are already guaranteed the Cuban vote, anyway, and other Hispanics wouldn't vote for a Cuban in any case because they dislike us more than they dislike Obama. And, yes, forget about the governor of Florida, too. Again, you don't need Governor Crist because Cuban-American support (and the support of all of crackerdom) will guarantee your victory in Florida. Besides, selecting Crist would be like balm applied to Obama's Achilles foot and I've already warned you against attempting to clone Obama in a running-mate.
Posted by Manuel A.Tellechea at 11:39 PM

this is interesting.

Even freddie and fannie booted him. LOL after they realized they were going to bottom out.

interesting stuff.


Richard H. Davis (b. 1959) is the chief executive officer of the John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. An American lobbyist, he is currently on leave from Davis, Manafort & Freedman, a political consulting firm in Alexandria, Virginia.[1]

Contents [hide]
1 Career
2 Controversies
2.1 DHL
2.2 Involvement with Oleg Deripaska
3 References
4 External links



[edit] Career
Born to a Navy family, Davis studied at the University of Alabama. After learning the campaign business in Alabama and Mississippi, he became national field director for the College Republican National Committee during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential bid.[1]

He left the Reagan White House to work with longtime lobbyist Paul Manafort, founding the lobbying firm Davis, Manafort. In their political work, Davis served as Manafort's deputy in orchestrating the 1996 Republican National Convention; both would later join Bob Dole's presidential team. While working for Dole, Davis told a reporter that he was "blown away" by McCain's unconventional politics. He joined McCain's first election bid in 1999.[1]

After running McCain's failed 2000 presidential campaign,[2] Davis became the head of a group called the Homeownership Alliance, a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac advocacy group. Its website said that the organization was dedicated to "exposing and defeating trends that would harm consumer access to the lowest-cost mortgage option."[3] He was head of the group for five years, being paid more than $30,000 per month. At the end of 2005, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac decided that Homeownership Alliance had outlived its usefulness, and it was closed.[4]

When McCain started the Reform Institute in 2001 to promote campaign finance reform, he involved Davis. Davis earned $395,000 in salary and consulting fees from the Institute, which he headed from 2003 to 2005.[5]

In 2006, Davis helped plan McCain's next White House run, envisioning a corporate-style campaign modeled after President Bush's 2004 bid.[1] Davis has the title of campaign manager for the McCain's 2008 presidential election campaign. A reorganization placed Steve Schmidt in charge on July 2, 2008, although Davis retains the title.[6][7]

Davis, Manafort was paid at least $2.8 million between 1998 and 2008 for lobbying Congress.[8]


[edit] Controversies

[edit] DHL
In 2003, Davis and his lobbying firm were hired by German logistic company DHL and Airborne Express, to lobby Congress to approve of a merger between the two firms. DHL Holdings was eventually successful in acquiring Airborne Express. [1][9]

McCain and Davis have come under attack by the AFL-CIO for facilitating the deal, as DHL is now planning to quit using the Wilmington, Ohio freight airport as a hub. The airport and package-sorting facility in Wilmington was previously owned by Airborne Express. The move by DHL would cost an esimated 8,000 jobs at an air park in the southwest Ohio city of Wilmington. [10][11] At the time of the merger, the deal created an estimated 1,000 jobs for the Wilmington area.[11]


[edit] Involvement with Oleg Deripaska
In 2006, Davis helped set up the encounter between McCain and Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska in Switzerland during an international economic conference. Deripaska's suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial that the U.S. government revoked his entry visa in 2006.[12]

At the time, Davis was working for a lobbying firm and seeking to do business with the billionaire. Later that month, Deripaska wrote to Davis and his partner, political consultant Paul J. Manafort, to thank them for arranging the meeting. "Thank you so much for setting up everything in Klosters so spectacularly," he wrote. "It was very interesting to meet Senators Chambliss, Sununu, and McCain in such an intimate setting."[12]


[edit] References
^ a b c d e Matthew Mosk (June 26, 2008). "Top McCain Adviser Has Found Success Mixing Money, Politics", The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
^ "The McCain Makeover" Glenn Frankel, The Washington Post, August 27, 2006
^ Wolgemuth, Liz (September 19, 2008). "McCain's Campaign Manager Was for It Before He Was Against It", US News and World Report.
^ David D. Kirkpatrick and Charles Duhigg (September 21, 2008). "Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million", New York Times.
^ Ken Silverstein (May, 2008). "My Lobby, Myself: How John McCain's hypocrisy is laundered as reform", Harper's Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
^ Dan Balz and Michael D. Shear (2008-07-02). ""McCain Puts New Strategist Atop Campaign"", The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-07-02.
^ Martin, Jonathan (2008-07-02). "Schmidt takes control of day-to-day operation", Politico.com. Retrieved on 2008-09-07.
^ Lisa Lerer (July 11, 2007). "Ex-reformer McCain depends on lobbyists", The Politico.
^ Bob Drogin (August 8, 2008). "DHL deal gone sour haunts McCain in Ohio", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
^ 200 jam legislative DHL meeting, Associated Press August 20, 2008
^ a b Stephen Koff (August 6, 2008). "John McCain had role in original Wilmington DHL deal", The Plain Dealer. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.
^ a b Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon (January 25, 2008). "Aide Helped Controversial Russian Meet McCain", The Washington Post. Retrieved on 2008-08-11.



according to this article, Davis made 395k/yr + 360k/yr between freddie, fannie and McCain for a whopping 755k/yr.

HHMMMMM........

cut back on your food bill.

if you cut out breakfast and lunch, you can half your food budget.

works great for a while.

yup.

it's not over by a long shot.

oil jumped higher by $25 and settled $16 higher/bbl at the close. The talk is higher oil tomorrow morning

scary huh?

no affiliations here, at all, in any way shape or form.

I have pretty much stepped away from everyhting except working for sustainance and the care and feeding and education of my children, of which one is left to this single parent to prepaer for adulthood and swimming with sharks and pirahna in murky waters.

Talk about baiting hooks and fishing, that must be all I am doing about anything.

and Bi;ll Gates net worth of 50 billion would put $50,000 in the hands of a million people.

Imagine that.

Today, it was announced that Microsoft is buying back more stock. That means fewer shares on the open market and increasig the value of all outstanding shares.

Today, Microsoft's stock price is on the rise.

How does that work?

don't suggest that Bill Gates should run our government.

you will have missed the point, in doing so.

that is not what Jesus meant when he said, "let the dead bury the dead, follow me."

your implications are why the conservative Christians find no voice at all on the left side of the aisle and have a small voice on the right side of the aisle at best.

Bush usurps cover for his darkness claiming status among us, but he hasn't sold all he had to follow Jesus in his heart, has he?

No wonder christians get blamed for the ills of the world.

CONVERT OR DIE is the mantra.


nope.

islamists don't serve that principle with the same understanding.

They have adopted it, though, and will fight to the death to achieve "convert or die" for their own brand of persuasion.


admit it.

the toys in the attic are all broken, but we sentimentally hang on to them.

The toys are of no use, but recycling them is out of the question.


It's all bullsh!t parading around as KOOL AID.

they never accounted for foreign shareholder power and dividends going offshore.

The assumption was and still is tat foreign holders of the Dollar will give the Dollar back and take a note backed by air with interest due and payable as the US Government dictates.

No doillars for the warmachine, no dollars for global expansion of Americanism.


Blowing out the balance sheet in total release of it's airborne lack of credibility is proof that the US Government is drawing at straws and panicked.


It's all bullsh!t.

those dead fundamentalist islamacists and their mothers would disagree with you about their fervor in dying for the CIA and American interests, here and abroad.

Are they daft??????

misguided and emotionally disrtraught, yes?

but in love with AMerica First? not on their lives.


pun intended.

here is the insight needed to understand my point regarding Newt.


he is right and change is needed, but his plan is more of the same, even though wisdom is needed for a change.

His ideas for remedy are incorrrect, but his call to remedy is correct, and no onwe has been listening to that.

Then look at what I ahve to say about how corporations are the responsibility of the shareholders alone to fly straight and right and true and you will see that such a principle is defiant of Newt Gingrich's proposals and revealing of how short sided his own ideas are, even though he recognizes, and has for many years, that system is broken and failure prone.



This country's first line of defence originally was those that had something to lose and they alone were the first ones to pick up arms and spill their blood first in defence of this nation.

They aso were the only ones that voted, too.

That is all bye bye now.

No one is accountable anymore.

everyone, mostly those with nothing at stake are robbing the store and looting the public trust and treasury.

me...me...me.....me first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


the free lunch program is over.


know what I mean?


Accountability or no reward. pure and simple.


not going to happen in this system.


nope.

whoa


you got that all wrong.

it is not a slap at you at all.

I actually agree with you.


check that out.


now read it without filters.

The oil sheiks in the middle east and China would disagree with you.

If we negate the value of their holdings of US Dollars and printed new currency not tendering the old any legality, then maybe we could plow through the clods and sow seed again, but not in their fields, my friend.

WE WILL HAVE TO DO SO SELF SUFFICIENTLY AND DEFEND OUR ACTIONS TO THE LAST MAN STANDING NOT HAVING SPILLED HIS BLOOD AND FALLING TO SLEEP INA COLLECTIVE DIRT NAP.

OOPS. SORRY. HIT THE CAPLOCK KEY.

WW3 anyone?

You see, as all publicly traded corporations continue to move ownership to foreign investors, those foereign investors increasingly dictate the actions of the Boards of Directors that implement whose interests the corporations will serve.

declared dividends to foreign investors take more and more Dollars offshore to reivnvest back into stocks for growth and wealth generation.

That principle has always been the carrot for investment.

Those that have the capital make money and dictate how they expect that mney to be made with expectations attached.

tELL THEM THAT USURY LAWS MATTER.

they will do this......




TILT

these kinds of things are why the market doesn't work as it is.

Don't tax payers already have a stake in corporate America through stock ownership?

Corporations paying Dividends to owners is one thing, owners paying corporations when solvency and liquidity are breached is quite another.

It has never been done.

That is what Congress must make the law of the land.

Corporations raise capital by issuing stock which is given a vote of confidence by the buyers of that stock, and with the windfall, corporations go to the bank to leverage that capital influx and further leverage growth of the corporation's worth.

If the Federal Government behaved this way, it would not exist. Ludicrous parallel?


Corporations will never change the way they account for their behavior, and the free market is not free as long as corporations remain unaccountable for their losses.

Being faceless collectives governed by a few for the many, the few must face the many when they require more capital investment from the many to the hurt of the many.

Will that ever happen?

I doubt it.

If it did, more people would rather work with their hands and labor with back breaking sweat equity and a good night's sleep to do it all over again tomorrow, I suspect.

yeah, right.