Obama in Sarasota: Let me take the wheel

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At least 13,000 people turned out to see Barack Obama at Ed Smith stadium. The Democratic nominee noted how the GDP has fallen for the first time this year. Obama: "Now, this didn’t happen by accident.  Our falling GDP is a direct result of eight years of the trickle down, Wall Street first/Main Street last policies that have driven our economy into a ditch. And the central question in this election is this: what will our next President do differently?  Well, Florida, if you want to know where Senator McCain will drive this economy, just look in the rearview mirror.  Because when it comes to our economic policies, John McCain has been right next to George Bush. He's been sitting there ready to take over every step of the way."

"In fact, after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he would differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy....So you’ve got to ask yourself, after nine straight months of job losses and the largest drop in home values on record, with wages lower than they’ve been in a decade, why would we keep on driving down this dead end street?"

McCain-Palin spokesman Tucker Bounds: “If voters looked into Barack Obama’s rearview, they’d see that he supported every one of Washington’s wasteful spending bills and has voted for higher taxes 94 times in just three years.  His economic proposals are driven by job killing tax increases and out-of-control spending -- Barack Obama would drive this sputtering economy off a cliff.  ”

Obama on the McCain-Palin attacks that his tax policies that would raise taxes on families making more than $250,000 a year. "The last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. Don't be confused by these ads. Ninety eight percent of small businesses make less than a quarter million dollars. And 99.9 percent of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year."

"All boats rise. That's what happened in the 1990s, That's what we need to restore, and that's what I'm going to do as President of the United States of America. John  McCain and Sarah Palin, they called it Socialistic. Now I don't know when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness. The next thing you know they're going to find evidence of my communistic tendencies because I shared my toys when I was in kindergarten. Because I split my peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a friend in sixth grade."

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[Obama Truth Decay]

Raising taxes during a recession is tantamount to driving the U.S. into a ditch.

No thanks, Mr.Emperor Obama.

Take away his keys!

Obama early voting is 2 to 1 Democratic. Can you say President Obama.

I wonder if McCain will finally slap Palin for being so stupid and helping sink his campaign.

[Eric]

Sharing is voluntary. Socialism it the government removing your discretion making you share the way they want you to share.

Palin is now actively campaigning for her run for President in 2012.

She has given up on McCain but she is young enough to make another go of it in 2012. Whereas McCain will probably retire from the Senate.

[Pete]

Mr. Tooth Decay,

Your income taxes will be lowered under Obama's plan....that is, if you even have a job.

[Go Obama Go!]

Keith Fitzgerald was great:
www.gofitzgo.com

Bill Nelson was great.

Barack Obama was great.

Sarasota is going to swing Democratic.

[Pete]

Eric,

Do you even know what socialism is? If a Republican came up with Obama's tax plan, you would be praising it!

[Rejoice Comrades]

Right Wing Reactionary Bitter Ender Blog refuses to apologize for discovering the suppressed Chicago Office Troika of Obama, Ayers, and Klonsky Comrades! »Traitorous Truth Tellers of how Things are Refuse to Report Required Barack Obama Scandalous Truth to Troglodytes in the Trepidatious Tell All Rags!

The Super Majority Super Market purchasers of real America are getting wise to the secret socialist sensibilities inherent in the checkout Rags the Party has bought and paid for. Reactionary Red Staters are beginning to figure out that the Party has been manipulating the Press! Some such Traitors to their Class have found their honor and refused to maintain the STATE mandated and Party approved meme that the Corporate Media is fair and balanced..hmmm. Comrades, you are instructed to reject all independent and scientific research that might contradict the Party truth that the Media is fair and balanced. They have only done what they have had to do to insure that Great Leader is selected as Great Leader! Reject this objective information:

“Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election,” a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey released Wednesday discovered. Specifically: “By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don’t favor either candidate, and 13% say they don’t know which candidate most reporters support.”

Rejoice in the feelings of Hope and Change! The Networks, ABC, CBS, NBC are in the tank By Nearly 8-to-1 for Great Leader Obama! Rejoice!

[becca brokenArrow]

The most bizarre detail of the endgame of the bush-ravaged admin. is this:

THE 700 BILLION BAILOUT OF COROPORATIONS AND BANKS.........SOCIALISM FOR THE CORRUPT, GREEDY, SOULLESS, treasonous, friends of bush, greenspan, poppy bush & CARALYSE GROUP, CHAINEE AKA HALLIBURTON, KBR......AND ON, AND ON.

QUESTION:List and explain ONE thing bush and his corrupt, treasonous, lying, anti-american cabinet has done for the citizens of this country in the last EIGHT YEARS OF DARKNESS.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A RETHUG CONSERVATIVE.......their code of ethics is MY WALLET FIRST......my corporate connections second.....US citizens.........LAST, IF AT ALL.

REMOVE THE BLINDERS; EIGHT YEARS OF DESTRUCTION TO AMERICA..........NO bin LADEN..........NO NOTHING, EXCEPT BILLIONS, AND BILLIONS OF OUR MONEY GONE.

[Donna]

This race started as a healthy demonstration of our freedoms and quickly became a reckless car chase through the streets of this exponentially stressed country!
The Straight Talk Express has been driving this campaign under the influence of fear and hate for a year and hopefully he'll get pulled over Nov. 4!

[Steve]

WHO CARES?

[Mariah]

If fixing the tax system to help the middle class, providing health care to millions americans that presently do not have it and setting an economic agenda to create jobs based on a green energy policies is socialism, I can't wait for it to happen! Curiously, neither McCain nor Palin critice Bush's giving away billions of taxpayers moneys to Cheney's Halliburton (while killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people)! Shame on them!

[Jay]

We all know they are not good drivers.

Ex-CIA Expert: Obama Took Millions in Illegal Foreign Donations

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donors/2008/10/29/145612.html

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:27 PM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman

A Newsmax investigation of Obama/Biden campaign contributors, undertaken in conjunction with a private investigative firm headed by a former CIA operations officer, has identified 118 donors who appear to lack U.S. citizenship.

Some of these “red flag” donors work for foreign governments; others have made public statements declaring that they are citizens of Cameroun, Nigeria, Pakistan, Canada, and other countries.

A Newsmax sampling of about 3,400 donors also found hundreds more who showed “yellow flags” such as not having used a Social Security number or a known U.S. address. Most U.S.-born citizens are issued Social Security numbers at birth or by the time they enter kindergarten.

[Ignatius]

1:10,

I will answer your question:

Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Plan which:

1.Helps all medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drugs.

2. Allows beneficiaries to choose from a number of private plans to find the one that best serves them - and plan providers are competing for seniors' business.

3. Lowers costs for seniors and the government. The average premium seniors pay for their prescription drug benefit is just $25 per month.

4. Enables beneficiaries with the highest drug costs receive extra help.

Yeah, let the democrat drive, that worked out real well for Mary Jo Kopechne .

[Joe]

If Nobama is driving us after the election, he will drive us right off of the cliff. He's a disaster waiting to happen.

[Joe Biden]

Wow, he is dark, but his palms is white.

Hey Joe, what about the disaster named George W. Bush that you so enthusiastically supported twice? Your judgement is totally screwed up. Take it in for a tune-up sometime soon.
Go Obama!!!

[Jedi]

Learn about Barack's Indonesian education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

[Jedi]

Learn about Barack's Indonesian education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

How Barak will allocate our nation’s education dollars …. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/obamas-education-groups-funded-controversial-organiations-s-tax-returns/

What’s all this talk about wealth redistribution?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

I just love the spectacle of "values" voters supporting McCain, a serial philanderer who can't keep it in his pants, no matter what woman he is married to at the time. I just love how repiggies like Jedi continue to post lies, all the while claiming to be a believer in God and the Ten Commandments. Hey Jedi, do you remember the commandment about bearing false witness against your neighbor?

[steve]

Oh Hail The Chosen One!!!!.....who is of the ilk of a black and "...a typical white person...".......Enjoy America!!!!!!

Again, Obama thinks he is Jesus...the song is Jesus Take the Wheel and he says, "Let me take the wheel".

[gobamago]

I would like a FIRM definition of MIDDLE CLASS. I can assure you, WE are MIDDLE class and make nowhere near 250K.I FIRMLY trust OBAMA to help lead this country back to it's roots: and one thing he continually points out is that AMERICAN jobs need to be in AMERICA!! BUY AMERICAN only!

[repubturneddem]

Palin VS Clinton in 2012..NOW THAT will be one hell of a CAT FIGHT...and you KNOW Clinton will come out the CLEAR winner!I'll bet Sara Palin costumes are the #1 halloween costume this year!!She is HORRIFIC SCARY!!!!!

3:47,

If you believe you are middle class then why do you need a definition?

Check last year's tax return.

[John]

Obama's follower remind me a lot of the masses dumbstruck at a Hitler rally.

[King Gator]

I love the idiots that think things will be a disaster if Obama wins.. I ask them as opposed to what? The current disaster 8 years of Bush has brought us. I know then you blame the congress, the senate, the this the that... the buck stops with the POTUS and he's let his own party down and the people of the United States. As a Dem I was behind W after 9/11 and our current economic situation is worse today than then, everyone needs to get behind who ever the next President is after Nov 4th. Shut up, quit your complaining and get back to the task at hand. Never seen such a bunch of crybaby Republicans in my life - WEAK!

[Who's a Socialist - Resdistribution of Wealth]

During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be “penalized” by being “in a huge tax bracket.” McCain replied that “wealthy people can afford more” and that “the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don’t pay nearly as much as you think they do.” The exchange continued:
YOUNG WOMAN: Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?. . .
MCCAIN: Here’s what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, there’s nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.

[New Obama Supporter]

At the rally I was thrilled to learn that I don't have to have a mortgage or car to get help from Obama. The campaign told me he'd also get me help with beer and cigarette money and cable TV! I'm voting early!

[jedi]

Hey anonymous don't call me a liar, just check the sources for yourself! Don't rely on factcheck.com as it's part of the Annenburg foundation which Obama was a board member. It's not an objective source.

Learn about Barack's Indonesian education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

How Barak will allocate our nation’s education dollars …. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/27/obamas-education-groups-funded-controversial-organiations-s-tax-returns/

What’s all this talk about wealth redistribution?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

[jedi]

Bonus Question: Where was Obama Born?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

[FL MOM]

Dear Gobamago, I grew up in one of the poorest cities, in the state of RI. Everyone, including myself and family thought we were middle class. No one at school thought they were poor. My point, is that is a nebulous label and you won't find a clear cut definition for it.

Obama hasn't said what middle class is, but first he said he'd only raise taxes on people who make over 300K. Then it was 200K. Now Biden says 100K. I have a sinking feeling that if and your spouse make a combined income of $75K to $80K you are going to be hammered as rich. Everything is relative as you know. Spread the wealth! There's people that can't buy a house because they have no down payment or way to make the mortgage and they need your help! Excuse me, that is Obama's help with your money.

[Jimbo]

Bush did fine until the Demorats came in. Man people are so stupid, lets blame everything on Bush -He isnt an Emporer others (Denoratis house) had more to do with it.

Pelosi is an idiot

Print that Lefty!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mz brown]

Pete - Don't you know people don't need to be working to get a tax reduction from Obama? It's his "net income tax reduction" i.e. refundable credits for people who buy the right car or have the right number of kids or are the right age or for whatever right behavior they do that achieves the government's goals. So goodbye to equal opportunity to pursue your own vision of Life, Liberty, and Happiness and hello to government stamped approval (chaching) or disapproval (empty wallet) on your life.

Nice photo of Stephen Gately with his Obama Biden sign