DNC Coverage Night 4: The Messiah Speaks

College Football or the DNC? I went with college football.

I am going to be honest. The only part I tuned into last night was Barack Obama’s speech. I just couldn’t stomach anymore of this America sucks convention. So I watched college football until the messiah was scheduled to take the stage, and then I flipped over to Fox News to watch it.

The Stage didn’t look like a Greek Temple

I give credit to the Obama campaign and the media. The stage did not look like a Greek temple, and it didn’t look like they were trying to present Obama as some iconic godly figure. The event was actually tastefully done in my opinion. You can watch the whole think here and decide for yourself if you like.

Pandering to the Government Educated Dumb Masses

Last night’s speech only reinforces my position on government education being used as a tool to keep people uneducated so politicians can gain power. Obama said so many things that were so absurd he should have been laughed out of the stadium, but the dumb masses don’t understand it.

Obama knows and understands he has been hit hard from critics on his plan to raise taxes on small businesses that provide 80% of new jobs in the economy. So Obama comes out last night and says, “I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and start-ups that will create the high wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.”

Sounds good doesn’t it, Obama the tax cutter…here is the problem with that. Most small businesses do not pay capital gains taxes. They pay income taxes. Obama’s plan is to raise income taxes on these businesses. So telling the American people he will eliminate their capital gains taxes is simply pandering to the uneducated that doesn’t even know the difference between income and capital gains taxes to begin with.

Then Obama made the claim Republicans and McCain have not proposed one penny of tax relief for over 100 million Americans and said, “Republicans want to give more and more to those with the most, and hope that prosperity will trickle down to the rest.”

This is a common theme among liberals. To them the wealthy hasn’t earned what they have. It was either given to them or gained through good fortune and luck. So there is nothing really wrong from taking it away from them to even things out. They should pay their fair share, but what exactly is their fair share?

If you were educated, you would know the statistics. You would know the bottom 50 percent of income earners pay approximately 3 percent of all income taxes collected by the federal government. When you get to the bottom 40 percent that percentage drops to zero. There are approximately 300 million people in America, which means about 120 million Americans have no federal income tax liability. Obama says Republicans are offering no tax relief to these people. Relief…relief from what?

You would also know the top 50 percent of income earners pay 97 percent of all income taxes collected by the federal government with the top 25 percent paying 83 percent. This hardly seems fair, but unless you educate yourself you will never know these numbers.

It would be great to pull one of these members of the chanting change dumb masses from the crowd and ask them the difference between capital gains taxes and income taxes. To see the confused blank look on their face when you ask “how you give income tax breaks to 100 million Americans who don’t pay income taxes?” would be priceless.

John McCain votes with George W. Bush 90% of the time? Bush gets a vote?

It seems the Obama campaign is dedicated to the idea of linking John McCain to George W. Bush. We have heard it the whole convention, and we heard it again last night. Obama claimed McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. This line is effective because the dumb masses don’t know any better. They have never stopped to think wait a minute; Bush doesn’t have a vote in the Senate. How do you measure the percentage McCain voted with Bush?

The fact is you can’t. You could measure the amount of times he voted with the Republican members, but most Senate votes are unanimous. This would mean the only way not to so-called “vote with the president” would be not to vote at all.

Where’s the Beef and Where is the Change?

Obama’s speech left me asking the same thing I have been asking this whole convention. Where is the beef and where is the change?

There is still no substance to what his plans are for change in America. I know he wants to change something, but I have no idea what the hell it is he wants to change.

In fact, I don’t hear any change. I hear the same old thing I have heard liberals say my entire lifetime of 31 years, and what they probably said long before that.

Obama Finally Gets a Bounce

It took four days and a speech in a stadium, but Obama finally got his convention bounce of about 5-7 points depending on which poll you look at.

The Columbian Journalism Review tells us what 15,000 journalists were doing at the DNC.

DNC coverage Night 2

Coming to a Bumper Sticker Near You.

“No way, no how, no McCain.” Quote from Hillary Clinton during her DNC speech.

C-SPAN is the Best

I found a new way to watch the convention last night. It is called C-SPAN! Yeah, no more idiotic CNN or FOX News talking heads telling me how I should think and feel about what I just heard. No more pandering comments from bias journalist, just a running tape of the convention. Amazing!

The Night Belonged to Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton owned the night. It was a great speech. In fact, it may have been the best speech of her whole political career.

Of course the speech was more about her than it was about Barack Obama, but Clinton accomplished everything she needed to. She did the lets support Barack Obama and the party, rallied the crowd to their feet, and finally sparked some enthusiasm in this convention.

What she really accomplished, and this was her goal all along, was to show the convention delegates and America that she should have been the VP choice if not the candidate.

Bottom line, Hillary hit a grand slam. It was a good night to be a democrat, but it was also a good night to be a republican, because she is not on the ticket. If Obama had chose her as his running mate it would be over for John McCain!

I definitely feel better about November without her on the ticket.

John McCain gains in polls during the DNC???

According to the latest gallop poll John McCain has gained and actually taken the lead over Barack Obama. This is the first time in history the opposition candidate has gained ground in the polls during a convention. I smell landslide in November folks.

The America Sucks without Our Help Convention

That seems to be the theme. Monday night it was all about party unification. It was dull. It was boring and uninspiring. Last night unity was still the theme, but there was a tone of America sucks without our help.

Now to me, this is an uninspiring theme, but democrats love it! They love to be told how bad they have it in America, and how their government is going to make it all better for them.

There was a lot of talk about those evil rich corporations sending American jobs overseas. I even heard someone say, there is no reason these corporations cannot do business in America, and we’re going to make them, and the crowd goes wild….

Gee, I can think of a reason. How about these corporations have been taxed out of America!

Oil prices are to high, and it is our fault because we won’t conserve fuel. We won’t drive smaller cars. So, were going to give you tax breaks on fuel economy cars.

How about we allow oil companies to drill here, drill now and pay less? Something democrats will not allow.

Another theme, we are fighting for universal healthcare, because every American has the right to affordable healthcare. Really? I must have missed that right in my copy of the Constitution.
It is just so bad in America times are so hard. We got to have Barrack Obama come along and fix it all for us, because we are to inadequate to take care of ourselves. We got to have government do it for us.

Government dependency, it is motivating and inspiring to democrats, makes me wants to puke!

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Oh yeah they are unified at the DNC. A DNC delegate and Hillary Clinton supporter says, “If I had to base my vote on how Obama supporters have treated us, I’d be voting for McCain.”

You Got to See This: Preview of Hillary Clinton’s DNC Speech Tonight.

Big T got his hands on a copy of how Hilary Clinton’s speech may go tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Of course the theme will no doubt be unity, or will it, take a look. This is funny stuff.

Random Thoughts From Last Nights DNC

*Michelle Obama did an outstanding job last night, husband by satellite, children helping out, well done and well orchestrated by the Obama campaign.

*Teddy Kennedy also did an excellent job. It was good to see him able to make it.

*I know unity was the theme, but unity alone is not going to energize the base of the Democratic Party. Where were the campaign messages? I know this whole convention is hoopla and orchestrated, but even James Carville was asking the same thing in disgust on CNN. He was not pleased.

*Last night there was some talk from Michelle Obama about hope for the future, and how she wanted an America were people could achieve their dreams. I agree, but she forgot to add with the help of government. I want the government to get the hell out of the way of my dreams!

*Then we had Caroline Kennedy give a speech about what America has given us, in terms of government of course. I would rather think of what Americans have worked for and earned for themselves, but that is why I am conservative, and they are liberal.

*So, I flipped back and fourth between Fox news and CNN while watching this convention last night. I got to see Fox take it to the street and interview some of these young Obama supporters some questions.

No one could name any Obama accomplishments, and when asked why they support him: Well, he’s young, he has a nice voice, he’s handsome and he is a good performer. There you go folks, these kids are going to vote. Scary stuff isn’t it!

The Fox Reporter was quick to point out that the only vote many of these kids have ever casted was for American Idol.

*Not at one time, during the whole night did I here the words National Security.
*Final note, the DNC convention was dull and boring. It is going to have to get a lot better than this or Obama is finished.

How is this for unity at the DNC? Apparently a black Barack Obama supporter called a black Hillary Clinton supporter an “Uncle Tom.”

So you want to rub shoulders with top politicians at the Democrat National Convention? It will cost you…about $10,000.