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Women’s Checklist for Change

Via Clinton Democrats, today’s action item of the day:

Today Senator Barbara Mikulski joined Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) to announce their “Checklist for Change,” a list of ten issues Congress can immediately address to improve the lives of the American people. They include: providing equal pay for equal work, keeping jobs in America, making health care affordable, taking care of our military families and veterans, restoring America’s credibility in the world, protecting our environment, making America energy independent, preparing for future disasters, enforcing fiscal accountability and protecting the family checkbook. This is a blatant pander - a “checklist” of hot button items to women.

Call me cynical, but this sudden urge to “do something” about issues most important to women strikes me as “just words.”

Please contact these leaders and tell them if they really care about the concerns of women they should stand up and endorse Hillary Clinton. If they care about equal rights and equal treatment that they should stand up against sexism in the Democratic party.


If they care about women’s rights they should investigate the treatment of Hillary Clinton by the media. If they care about reforming healthcare, they should help Hillary Clinton get into the White House. If they care about keeping jobs in America, they should not be endorsing the guy that once again has flip-flopped on NAFTA.

Specifically ask Senator McCaskill “Why, after accepting approximately $500,000 from Emily’s List did you feel no obligation to back the more qualified female candidate for President?”

Sen. Klobuchar accepted roughly $300,000 from Emily’s List. Why didn’t she endorse Hillary?

Sen. Boxer was mum during this whole primary season. Why the sudden concern about women’s issues now? Senator Boxer launched an investigation into the horrific treatment of the Dixie Chicks after one of them publicly criticized Bush. Where is that outrage about the treatment Hillary has received? Where is the investigation?

Senator Claire MCCASKILL Contact Senator McCaskill

Senator Debbie STABENOW Contact Senator Stebenow

Senator Barbara BOXER Contact Senator Boxer

Senator Amy KLOBUCHAR Contact Senator Knobuchar

And remind them that it is hypocritical to support Barack Obama as an advocate for energy independence when he voted for the Bush-Cheney Energy Policy that was nothing more than than a giveway of taxpayer money to oil and energy companies. Remind them that Barack Obama has received more contributions from energy companies that all other candidates combined.

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From my blog, By The Fault.

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Comment by HARP | 2008-06-19 11:22:35

Pandering with a capitol P

Comment by William | 2008-06-19 11:47:20

Let me get this straight, Charles, you think that

(a) supporting Hillary Clinton (I guess because she is a woman?) is more important for women generally

than

(b) “equal pay for equal work, keeping jobs in America, making health care affordable, taking care of our military families and veterans…”

Sounds like (b) would have a much greater immediate benefit for women generally.

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-06-19 11:57:42

I think that failing to support ANY of these issues which were part of Sen Clintons platform and instead endorsing “hopey changey no specific plans for anything with no experience” after you took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a group dedicated to electing women, which WE donated to for that purpose, and then after pushing the woman out, using the womans issues to try and get HER VOTERS is a frakkin insult and kick in the teeth

and I made sure they all know that..

frakkers

Comment by William | 2008-06-19 12:04:54

While I fully support your use of BSG-speak, that doesn’t actually answer the question.

I understand your issue w/ Emily’s List not supporting Hillary and instead endorsing Obama. Thats fine.

But the point of the article is to essentially say that it would be better to have supported Hillary than to propose a litany of things to make the lives of women better.

Both candidates, HRC and BO would support the items on that list.

Those women are BO supporters and now expect him to support their issues, which he will.

I can’t see how that proposal can coherently be spun as some negative for BO.

Comment by Lucinda | 2008-06-19 12:17:44

Those women are BO supporters and now expect him to support their issues, which he will.

Can you guarantee that? No, I didn’t think so.

Comment by William | 2008-06-19 12:26:28

Lucinda, I can’t guarantee anything. However, is Obama much more likely to support those issues than McCain. Yes. No question.

Comment by alexei | 2008-06-19 12:38:56

Frak, who cares? These women did not support the woman who has championed these issues all of her professional life. These women never put this package up and would not now except that Obama is in deep frak with women voters. All of these women were silent on the sexism and misogyny. They deserve to hear from their constituents on this.

This is a true pander and an insult.

Boxer stated she would support the candidate who won her state - but, she said and did nothing when Clinton won.

Emily’s List did support Clinton - and was very vocal on the sexist and misogynistic practices of the MSM. I believe that they were bullied into coming out in an email for Obama by these same women.

 

Comment by Rob in Chicago | 2008-06-19 12:41:46

William:
Hillary was supporting those issues while Obama was busy brushing his shoulder and flipping her off. His “present” votes in the Illinois Senate on “womens’ issues”, his entire campaign, the non-intervention policy that he and his organization practiced/promoted to the misogynist treatment of Hillary by his supporters and the press, and the hiring of Patty Solis-Doyle, says a whole lot about where Obama stands on the issues that he is now being asked to champion.

Comment by ghost2 | 2008-06-19 13:21:22

My comment disappeared (or perhaps I forgot to hit post!)
Watch this youtube from June 2006. It’s Hillary talking about Checklist for Change! (courtesy of masslib of Alegre’s Corner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZK58ogMPM

Comment by Leisa | 2008-06-19 13:36:20

What a jewel that was cast aside…

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 13:46:19

That’s Hillary from 2006! Well, we can wait another two years for Senator Barbara Mikulski and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and the rest of them to work with Hillary to forward the agendas she fought so hard for. It seems the younger male, who has spent his whole first year in the Senate running for President and has authored legislation naming a post office after a dancer and sending tax money to the Congo, is going to go to bat for these important issues. The DNC is working to remove HRC from the first ballot at the convention, because all these women who appeared on NBC this morning decided Obama was better suited to the Presidency than Hillary Clinton.

 
 
 

Comment by karen Anderson | 2008-06-19 13:14:29

That’s why Obama voted present five times on abortion issues when he was a state legislator.

 
 

Comment by nancy sabet | 2008-06-19 13:00:20

He is all about words, remember?? no substance. We women know better, we deal with it every day!

 
 

Comment by BluDawg | 2008-06-19 12:32:15

Where’s the Credability?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsOnmKK5j6Y

When Hussein moves his lips, he’s lying!

 

Comment by alee21 | 2008-06-19 13:11:54

1. Emily’s List supported Hillary until she announced her suspension.

2. These women senators are bringing up issues that HIllary supported and championed. They should have been more forceful earlier on in the race in their support. Women like McCaskill, who doesn’t hold a candle to Hillary, are the worst of the lot. Short in accomplishments, long on stridency, I bet she will not win re-election in Missouri (I lived in St Louis for 10 years). Remember her denigrating remarks about Bill Clinton and her daughter? She bet the wrong horse and she will pay for it.

3. Obama will say anyting and do anything to get elected. No better than a used car salesman except he is a dirty politician from Chicago. He has lied and flipflopped on just about everything. My opinion of him gets worse by the day, if that is at all possible.

Nobama
Go PUMA
Go Hillary

Comment by Marjorie | 2008-06-19 14:38:54

I read today that McCaskill accepted half a million dollars from Emily’s List. Is that correct? If so, it is an outrage. Taking money donated by women to help women, then supporting Obama.

 
 
 
 

Comment by NObama in August | 2008-06-19 11:59:06

 

Comment by Linda | 2008-06-19 12:43:27

what I think this is about is

trying to spray perfume on a heaping pile of sh&*!

McCaskill was helped to her election by DFA. She was a progressive, yet the entire time the rampant misogyny flowed out of the MSM, not a peep out of this obamazoid

too little, too late. Sorry that Boxer would even associate her name with these scumbags

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 13:07:46

supporting Hillary Clinton (I guess because she is a woman?) SEXIST COMMENT. FOAD. The Huff Po is that way. ————–>

 

Comment by Charles Lemos | 2008-06-19 13:26:10

First of all, that is a public service announcement that Susan pulled off my blog. I post “action items of the day” from various members of the Just Say No Deal coalition.

Next, it is not an either or proposition. Clinton Democrats is not asking you to not support the Women’s Checklist for Change but rather to point out some of the hypocrisy in that video to the aforementioned Senators. And I added the bit about Senator Boxer, who is a personal friend, and her claims that Obama will lead us to energy independence when he voted for the Bush Cheney Policy. She is well aware of my thoughts on the subject. One reason that I have worked with Senator Boxer and Cantwell is because we agree on the urgent need to develop a sound energy policy. Will I stop working with them? Of course not. But I will also point hypocrisy when they are spouting off meaningless talking points that have little basis in reality.

Comment by eebaltimore | 2008-06-19 17:33:54

Mr. Lemos, did you know that Hillary Clinton campaigned for Barbara Boxer? Yes, back when she was First Lady. I believe she also campaigned for Patty Murray and many other women (and men).

Why did Barbara Boxer sit silent during the primary, and not support Hillary. OUTRAGEOUS!

Claire McCaskill took $500,000 from Emily’s List, and never felt one whiff of obligation to help another woman running for office. Her daughter suggested she back Obama, so she did. So much for HER judgement.

Sen. Klobuchar accepted roughly $300,000 from Emily’s List. Why didn’t she endorse Hillary?

Today, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Joe asked Boxer, McCaskill & Stabanow if they thought Hillary had been treated differently (as in gender bias/misogyny/sexism), and they ALL sidestepped the issue. My God! And now they want us to just fall in line?

When even the women “don’t get it,” there’s not much hope out here.

WOMEN, UNITE TO MAKE A POINT: V O T E Mc C A I N !!!

 
 

Comment by salliort | 2008-06-19 19:11:45

Comment by William | 2008-06-19 11:47:20

Let me get this straight, Charles, you think that

(a) supporting Hillary Clinton (I guess because she is a woman?) is more important for women generally

than

(b) “equal pay for equal work, keeping jobs in America, making health care affordable, taking care of our military families and veterans…”
Sounds like (b) would have a much greater immediate benefit for women generally.

William,

There is no immediate benefit here. It will take years to get these laws written presented debated and maybe passed, then vetoed and then resubmitted.

What these senators are doing is beneath contempt.
Trying to tell women they will work for them with their ten points, when they can’t deliver in the short term on any of them.

These senators will make noises about doing this and then quietly shelve their plans when our attention is diverted by the media as it focuses on other things, like the election.

 

Comment by jmk | 2008-06-19 22:22:32

If you saw his website your Brain would Really hurt. Full of spin and old lies, flagrant and known, but that doesn’t stop him. Then there’s the new Global Pitch - actually says you don’t have to be an American to have a vote in this election - and found elsewhere they are actually seeking out translators to hire. Finally, and worst, there is KIDS FOR OBAMA all marketing really pretty and only open to children UNDER 12. Pitch is to have an PARTY and obama camp will provide all the obama logo gear, etc. Intro SAYS this (no joke):

Studies have proven children can influence the votes of their parents and older siblings!

So, save your head and don’t go there. Anything of real interest is constantly being scrubbed anyway.

 
 

Comment by Cindie | 2008-06-19 12:06:44

These ladies drank the kool-aid LONG ago guys. This isn’t anything new.

Comment by hedy | 2008-06-19 15:54:55

I agree 110% Cindie. Everytime I saw McCaskill on TV she was always praising Obama and asking for Hillary to drop out and make way for the king. If they wanted all this change for women why didn’t they stand behind the woman that could have given it to them. That would be the day I would let my daughter tell me which way to vote. She is an empty head and I hope she pays for it in the next election.

 
 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-06-19 12:42:33

Harp — sure suddenly they noticed that their actions in stopping this nomination and inserting this fraud might have upset millions of women. Well they told the base that we are no longer needed — so screw them. The Democratic Party talks the talk but what they did to Hillary and to the millions of us who support her was to show us that they are a bunch of frauds–just like their nominee. First they beat up on us and now they want us back — sounds like an abusive husband.

Obama isn’t going to get anywhere by sending his bug eyed bitch wife out there to soften us up — nor will the heretofore silent Democratic Women Senators. How stupid they think we all are.

 

Comment by Ms J in FL | 2008-06-19 13:14:00

em link for Debbie Stabenow is http://stabenow.senate.gov/email.cfm
sent one to each of those delusional whores. this really makes me ANGRY.
this is the ultimate fyou to Hillary supporters.

Comment by Charles Lemos | 2008-06-19 13:27:42

Please call them misguided or whatever but not w-.

Thanks,

Charles

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 13:49:15

Men are whores, too. It’s an equal opportunity job. (Just kidding.)

Comment by salliort | 2008-06-19 19:28:23

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 13:49:15

Men are whores, too. It’s an equal opportunity job. (Just kidding.)

Actually, Hope you are quite accurate. Prostitution is an equal pay proposition for those, male and female, who perform the services.

 
 

Comment by Ms J in FL | 2008-06-19 14:43:32

this makes ALL women look bad. I take it VERY personally. we are supposed to be the morally stronger sex.
they are making us look stupid & weak, just the way Obamba likes us. this kind of pandering & manipulation is exactly what we are fighting.
it is especially racist too, considering that these are all white women. you men don’t understand how we loath this.

Comment by jmk | 2008-06-19 22:26:18

Couldn’t even stomach watching that video through. I am certainly writing to them.

Got a better name for them - STEPFORD SENATORS!

 
 
 

Comment by Marjorie | 2008-06-19 14:45:59

Debbie Stabenow is a lovely woman supportive of legislation to help children. I don’t think she is political in the sense McCaskill or the others are.

 
 

Comment by Newly Independent | 2008-06-19 19:00:55

Absolutely.

Nothing but cheap, meaningless pandering.

 
 

Comment by destardi | 2008-06-19 11:24:24

****CAN WE HAVE A POST DEDICATED TO THE COMMENT LEFT BY A HATEFUL OBAMA SUPPORTER, in which it threatened personal damage to a person’s character?***

WE NEED TO EXPOSE THIS, float it to the top, and hold the obamination team accountable!!!

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-06-19 11:38:39

It was sent to Dean by me, to Obama by others.

I pointed out that this is the result of Obama’s communication strategy to “combat rumors.”

I presume Dean will be horrified.

Comment by HARP | 2008-06-19 11:45:01

Don`t count on it I’m afraid.

Comment by Lucinda | 2008-06-19 12:19:25

Heck, he (Dean) might’ve written it.

 
 

Comment by Hope | 2008-06-19 12:06:34

Ann,

I missed it, I am assuming there was a post even more ugly than the average Obama groupie comment. When was it written?

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-06-19 13:31:17

It’s gone Hope. It was stalking, pure and simple.

Names, addresses, and threats to the rest of us.

*blech*

Comment by Leisa | 2008-06-19 13:46:13

Does this mean will will need to go to a re-education camp if Obama is elected POTUS?

The alarm bells are ringing… you can not question the one. I even view the “stop the smears” campaign as a pre-censorship move.

 
 
 
 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-06-19 11:58:31

where is it, I read it is here and want to copy it and send it to my SDs so they can see the HOPE and CHANGE they helped make possible?

i am riled and ret to go!!!

 

Comment by KG | 2008-06-19 12:11:44

Can someone point out where this is?

 

Comment by Charles Lemos | 2008-06-19 13:30:00

I’ve gotten hate mail and even a I need to be crucified email. It’s nothing new. It shows who they really are. They are thugs out to silence critics.

Charles

 
 

Comment by Daniel | 2008-06-19 11:25:02

Voting for McCain over the Democrat is an angry vote. It goes against Hillary’s wishes. And you’re deluding yourselves if you think McCain is a moderate who cares about your issues. He won’t end the War, he’ll do nothing on healthcare, tax cuts for the rich etc. If Barack is President, he can have Hillary write his health care bill. She would be forever famous and have her name on the first national health care bill ever passed. And I think she wants that. She’s not going to run again. Even Taylor Marsh nows supports Barack.

Comment by destardi | 2008-06-19 11:26:47

F*ck you.

votign for obama goes against my principles!

Race baiting as an election tool?

F*ck obama.

“south carolina”
“MLK & LBJ”
“Fairy tale”
“unfortunate”
“leaked racial memos”

 

Comment by HARP | 2008-06-19 11:26:54

Copy and paste somewhere else, fool.

Comment by Auntie Meme | 2008-06-19 11:34:30

Check out my copy and paste below. McCain really is bad for women, bad for kids, bad for men, bad for America, whether or not you are stuck in the “anger” stage of grieving. My favorite candidate almost never wins the nomination, but I’m not so dumb as to then go support the way worse Repug.

Comment by WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName | 2008-06-19 11:40:52

Voting for nobama with his pack of lies and his terrorist ties is not going to be good for anyone either.

Comment by Auntie Meme | 2008-06-19 11:48:49

Terrorist ties? You buy this nonsense? Obama and Ayers (the ex-Weatherman guy) were board members of the same anti-poverty group. Ayers is a professor in Chicago. This is a “terrorist tie”? Or did you have in mind the time Obama sucked bin Laden off in a limo, video of which Larry will shortly be posting, honest?

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 12:01:08

Anti-poverty group? They took kickbacks from shady developers recommended by the Rose Davis law firm. Ayers and Dohrn threw a dinner party for Rashid Khalidi where Obama helped them raise $70,000 for the PLO. Ayers wouldn’t have his respectable teaching job if his father was not a Northwestern University trustee and head of Commonwealth Electric, making him a wealthy and influential man. He obtained an attorney who could get terrorist Bill Ayers off due to a bungling of federal wire-tapping and warrants. Ayers said on September 11, 2001 in a NY Times interview he wished he’d bombed more buildings.

 

Comment by Hope | 2008-06-19 12:08:05

Auntie,
Their relationship goes way beyond that. Are you at all offended that Obama lied about that , too?

 

Comment by RedDragon62 | 2008-06-19 13:08:15

Damn Aunty you are one STPUID OBAMABOT! Do you NOT know who Bill Ayers is? If not…SHUT THE FU** UP TROLL!

 
 
 

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-06-19 11:48:02

Awwww, sweetie…..take the psychobabble someplace else.

We’re no longer grieving.

We just know what we know, and we know Obama is wrong for the country, tan or not.

It’s just not going to be his year.

 

Comment by HARP | 2008-06-19 11:49:59

Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 11:54:35

I just wrote a rebuttal that is better than your copy job, Auntie Tame.

 

Comment by Johnny Ray (Another Democrat for McCain) | 2008-06-19 12:04:27

McCain has described himself as personally pro-choice, Obama has described himself as personally pro-life.

Who’s more likely to sell women out? Obama

Comment by mimi | 2008-06-19 20:05:55

All Africans are pro-life.

Obamatons are willfully ignorant and naive.

If you think this guy’s pro-choice you are beyond hope.

Comment by Auntie Meme | 2008-06-19 23:09:44

Yeah, how naive, just to go by their actual, verifiable records, as opposed to just making shit up.

You do know that McCain is soft on domestic terrorism? That in 1993 he voted against a law to “to prohibit bombings, arson and blockades at abortion clinics, and shootings and threats of violence against doctors and nurses who perform abortions”?

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/john-mccains-do.html

 
 
 

Comment by Lucinda | 2008-06-19 12:22:17

And yet, his state keeps electing him to the U.S. Senate. Someone must not think that he’s bad for America.
Your post just sounds like ageist hate speech to me. No hope and change there.

 

Comment by alexei | 2008-06-19 12:40:51

Yes, you are dumber. You are supporting GW Bush II only he has a D behind his name.

 

Comment by Mary | 2008-06-19 13:38:07

I’m going to vote for the candidate who voted AGAINST Dick Cheney’s Energy Bill, which gave away millions to the oil companies in subsidies and tax cuts.

I’ll let YOU figure out which candidate that was, Auntie Meme.

 
 
 

Comment by destardi | 2008-06-19 11:29:45

“Voting for McCain over the Democrat is an angry vote”

ANNNND, no sh*t, sherlock…what clued you in?

 

Comment by WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName | 2008-06-19 11:39:38

Voting for nobama goes against MY wishes. I am no one’s slave (at least yet!) and am not beholden to anything or anyone politically. I have made up my own mind on this…

Barak Hussein Obama is a danger to American democracy and I will do everything that is legal and lawful and within my power to stop him from becoming President of this country…and that includes my decision to NEVER vote for him…every.

There is simply NOTHING you can do to change my mind. It’s way to late for that. And I daresay that a good sized chunk of those 18 million people who voted for HIllary feel EXACTLY the same way.

So take your toys and go home obamabots…I’m not playing.

 

Comment by rational thought please | 2008-06-19 11:40:31

McCain over Obama is a rational vote. McCain is experience and trustworthy. Obama is inexperienced and erratic. One day he supports something, the
next he doesn’t. (For today, see “public financing.”)
I have deep respect for Hillary Clinton but she doesn’t control my vote. She and John McCain have worked well together in the past, and likely will in the future. Both Clinton and McCain understand the value of bipartisanship for the greater good.
Obama couldn’t be bothered to show up (busy golfing!) when she suspended (not ended) her campaign and said nice things about him. He has shown no interest in working with anyone other than his supporters. (One could say he has shown no interest in working, period.)

Count me as another Hillary or McCain 2008 voter

Comment by AnninCa | 2008-06-19 12:32:21

Ditto for me. The flip-flopping is because he was completely disingenuous in the primary.

Now, he has to adjust…..racing to the center.

But what happens when he needs to adjust again?

I want someone who has a mature political nature, is seasoned, knows how to handle the ups and downs of public opinion, and puts the country first, not his own new political skin.

Even Bush…..the evil Bush……has been advising Hillary, Obama, McCain about the situation in Iraq and elsewhere. Why? Because he knows he has an obligation to do so.

I knew part of the build-up was in anticipation of losing the White House. That way, the Democrat (who is looking more unlikely) can withdraw troops without really withdrawing troops.

I figured that one out, and I’m a dummie when it comes to military stuff.

Now, McCain can please the public by doing just the same.

And he will……he’s no dummie.

 
 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 11:52:10

We like McCainicare better than Obama’s health plan which will create a bureaucratic nightmare, line the pockets of his Insurance and Pharmaceutical friends and actually prevent true UHC from being implemented for nearly a decade.

We trust McCain to responsibly end the war and safely bring our troops home more than Obama who apparently has no idea how our military works, is misinformed on foreign policy and who’s positions are shifting daily.

We trust McCain’s open-minded economic proposals more than Obama’s latest backflip on NAFTA and his advisers who are all Chicago School neoconservatives like Jason Furman and Austin Goolsbee.

McCain has called for lifting the 27-year moratorium on domestic drilling and has a stronger energy and environmental record than Obama. Obama voted YES for the 2005 Energy Bill written by Dick Cheney and many energy lobbyists like Exelon. This gave $27 billion to oil companies while Americans are paying $4 a gal for gas. Obama opposed the gas tax holiday while he voted for it two years ago in the state legislature.

Obama claims to support women’s rights, but he fixed an election with Democratic party bosses like he did in Chicago when he forced a popular incumbent and woman off the ballot to run uncontested. He has more present votes than any other member of the body politic, and five of those present votes were about abortion. He voted in favor of early release from prison for sex offenders, and he was the LONE vote.

McCain supports strict constructionist SCOTUS justices which does not necessarily mean RvW would be threatened. It will take two appointments over the next four years to overturn the original ruling. If Bush couldn’t do it in 2004, McCain is even less likely to.

Women should vote against sexism and in favor of social, economic and political equality of the sexes. Anyone with a corporate background will see through the Democratic party promoting a younger, less qualified male over a woman who could do the job better. Use your angry vote to make your voice heard and Vote John McCain.

Comment by Paid Obamabot #219 | 2008-06-19 12:00:58

Whoever wrote that did a really good job.

But I thought you only get McCain points if you post on pro-Obama blogs.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 12:02:22

I wrote it myself, thank you.

 

Comment by Lucinda | 2008-06-19 12:26:03

No, you get them for posting on all of the political blogs. We might get points, but at least we don’t get paid (or should I say bribed).

 
 

Comment by Auntie Meme | 2008-06-19 12:01:11

You sure you didn’t cut and paste this from NRO, Floatster? Sounds like GOP talking points straight down the line.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-06-19 12:04:47

They are GOP talking points. That is why I will be voting Republican this year. They have a superior platform now that Clinton is off the ticket.

Comment by AMERICAN SAWBUCK | 2008-06-19 12:37:50

I total agree and so do a lot of other people..on to Nov.

 

Comment by 30yrdem-not any more | 2008-06-19 12:47:08

Hope Floats,

Reading your post above gives me hope. I am glad to see people are really looking and finding out the facts and making there own decisions. That is what America is all about, the freedom to do so. It is a wonderful post, Thank you.

 
 
 

Comment by Lyn | 2008-06-19 12:47:44

Since the only Mandates Obama wants in his ununiversal healthcare is children, WHO exactly is going to pay for the many of childrens insurance, specially in 1 parent families? I hope they have better luck with that then thye do getting alot of dead bead dads/Moms to pay for child support. Are they going to do DNA testing on kids to see who is their father to make sure the right person has to pay?

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-06-19 14:56:01

i have worked for private health insurers for 20 years, and I say with no hesitation that Uhhabamas half axxed half mandate will INCREASE PREMIUMS, the insurance companies will have us right where they want us

we will be FORCED to pay for the kids but only the kids

the kids by and large (God Bless) dont have chronic illness, so it costs the insurers little to nothing to cover them after age 2 and immunizations, (since states mandate immunizations be covered they cant save money there), but OLDER people cost them big bucks,

SO, Uhhbama has made a deal (with Boren) no doubt to get kids mandated so we HAVE To pay WHATEVER RATES they charge,

they will lift them sky high…but no preex help for the rest of us and no lower premiums since we arent in a risk pool.

its worse than doing nothing IMHO

I support McCain’s 5k tax credit for ins over Uhhbamas half axxed expensive mandate that will cost us MORE…..

AND McCain will lift the state barriers so that we can buy health insurance over state lines which will FORCE insurers to be competitive with each other on rates, that WILL reduce premiums

this is my NUMBER ONE ISSUE and after careful analysis I choose McCain plan over Uhhbama plan any day and twice on Sunday (the day uhbama sat and listened to hate pour from the pulpit in Trinity for 20 years)…

 
 
 

Comment by ginaswo still says no to Uhhbama | 2008-06-19 12:00:30

LMAO

get a grip Uhhbama fan
we are NOT pulling that lever ever for Uhhbama

nope

not gonna happen

we are taking our issues to McCain and giving him our money, our votes, our feet on the street, our hands to dial and send out mailers, our voices which Uhhbama stomped out and drowned out with OBOTS to call for McCain

all that energy is going to the “old man”, the one we respect and trust, yep

and to unseating the frakkers who betrayed us by going Uhhbama too

Comment by Bigtime | 2008-06-19 12:27:05

LMAO !!!
I am still snickering, He must be new to the job:)
Too funny.

Another Democrat for McCain!!!

 
 

Comment by NomNomNom | 2008-06-19 12:01:54

Put it back in your pants, fool. No one wants to watch.

 

Comment by ssmith | 2008-06-19 12:02:56

I will not aid any party that strikes against its own..especially for someone as incompetent as that racist fraud

hillary or then mccain…

if you are so certain of that fraud’s chances.. WHY ARE YOU HERE???

even one of my relatives, who voted for that racist fraud, does not trust him anymore… and is looking at mccain..

 

Comment by drkate | 2008-06-19 12:09:24

your entitled to your opinion, but it is just that. You can spare me your attitude. you think the vote is about anger? Think again.

My vote for McCain is principled, not angry. I feel safer with McCain. Unlike Obama, McCain loves his country more than he loves himself. He understands government and hard work. He is a war hero who will stand up for his record (unlike Kerry). I know where McCain is coming from, so he is predictable in terms of how we will need to exercise control over him with a democratic congress.

But you’re not interested in this, you are just a “drive by troll”. Obama will never have my vote or money, and the DNC has been taken over by this scoundrel, the Manchurian candidate–but for whom?
There are a long list of possibilities here.

 

Comment by Bigtime | 2008-06-19 12:24:08

This is the funniest post ever !!!!
I spit my drink out and coughed and laughed. I am still laughing and crying. We all need a laugh once in awhile and I would like to thank you for that one.

Another Democrat for McCain !!

 

Comment by s. hall | 2008-06-19 12:46:15

daniel — It is my vote and I will not give it to a fraud like Obama. McCain has been around long enough for me to know what he will and won’t do. Obama will say anything and do anything to win — and then shaft us all. I don’t care if Taylor Marsh or Hillary tells me to vote for Obama. NO WAY

 

Comment by nancy sabet | 2008-06-19 13:05:04

I rather to vote angrily, than not voting at all.

 

Comment by alibe4Hillary | 2008-06-19 15:45:21

A vote for McCain is the same as two votes against Obama. My goal to see Obama defeated. And therefore I must maximize my vote. Hillary…or McCain. It is simple. I like McCain better than “Precious Little”. So I have no choice but to vote for McCain.

 

Comment by Ms J in FL | 2008-06-19 16:33:28

you worthless piece of crap self hating white boy-man.
you bring your diarreaha here every day.
HUSSEIN0 is wasting his campaign money on you.
whatever you get paid for sucking him off is more than you’re worth.

 

Comment by eebaltimore | 2008-06-19 17:45:27

Daniel, you Obama troll, you’re not fooling anybody.

I’ve read your posts elsewhere, endlessly. Why don’t you go get a life?

Shut down your computer and go out and do something positive for somebody. You’re never going to get anywhere hanging around pro-Hillary sites trying to make points.

GO POUND SAND!

 

Comment by Brendy | 2008-06-19 18:05:12

And you’re deluding yourselves if you think McCain is a moderate who cares about your issues. He won’t end the War, he’ll do nothing on healthcare, tax cuts for the rich etc.

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So, now, Daniel is a mind reader. He just KNOWS that McCain could care less about our issues. He just KNOWS McCain won’t end the war (he has two sons in the Military/one in Iraq - so why should he worry about ending the war, huh???) He just KNOWS that McCain will do nothing about healthcare or tax cuts for the rich. BUT, Daniel DOES KNOW that Obama WILL do everything he has promised to do! It’s amazing how he knows that!!!

I think Daniel doesn’t like rich or fairly well-to-do people and wants to tax them to death; I don’t think Daniel believes in capitalism, but believes in socialism or Marxism - I think Daniel believes in redistribution of wealth; methinks Daniel would love for the government to give him and his like-minded citizens who support Obama ‘freebies’ at the expense of middle-class/wealthy tax payers. It’s all about class warfare, isn’t it Daniel?

 

Comment by Newly Independent | 2008-06-19 19:29:31

Shut your scripted, bought-and-paid-for a– up.