(old found draft post) Hands off my 401k

Oct 25, 2008 @ 8:35
This must have been inspired by some Obama advisers who wanted to get rid of 401ks. Their plan was to force the same contributions and give Americans something like a 2% return off it. This would have effectively decreased the wealth of Americans as more money would need to be saved [...]

Karl Rove on Joe Biden: “I think he has an odd combination of longevity and long-windedness that passes for wisdom in Washington”

Heh!
Thanks to PowerLineBlog for catching this!

LOL!

…and the Bad News: Did the delay of USGOV’s TARP reversal cost McCain the Election? [On the Bailout, Part 26]

There is also bad news to go with the good news:

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that original plan to purchase distressed mortgage assets from Wall Street firms is not the best use of the $700 billion financial rescue package, and officials will now focus on direct capital injections into the struggling financial firms.
Me and [...]

“Obama Leans Toward Asking Gates To Remain at Pentagon for a Year”

This is good news…and a good signal that Obama may not be the governing Leftist I feared he would be.

“Harmless asexual beings not worthy of a single thought of modesty”

I think I connected the dots of who in the McCain staff has been making the cowardly anti-Palin smears.
Follow my logic which began at TDAXP’s blog….
First from Newsweek:
At the GOP convention in St. Paul, Palin was completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined. One night, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went [...]

It’s Obama

Dang.
USA is in for some tough times. I hope it all turns out better then I think it will.

I voted around 4:30pm…

…and the line was pretty short.

USA Election 2008: I am voting For John McCain and Sarah Palin

I am voting for Senator McCain and Governor Palin.
Election 2008 will be the 7th presidential general election in which I have voted.
In hindsight, I have only regretted my previous votes twice.
The first time was in 1984 when I voted for Walter Mondale instead of Reagan. I was young and liberal from a democratic [...]

Election 2008 Blowback on wasted Uranium/Iraq related Influence Warfare opportunity

It occurs to me, that wasted (not-taken) Influence Warfare Opportunity that I just blogged about greatly improved the chances of Senator Obama being elected.
With the facts ignored/hidden, Obama can continue to make his claims on the Iraq war. So, he was wrong on the Surge, and he was wrong about the WMDs-as-fake-justification for the Iraq [...]

“He is a unifying force between Democrats, Greens, Socialists and Communists”

The press should be doing this, but since they seem to be in the tank for Obama or more concerned with taking down Joe the Plumber, it has fallen on bloggers to research his past.
Obama claims he has no connection of any substance.
Things like this are red flags: “Ayers, Obama, and Klonsky, the former head [...]

“William Ayers’ forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire”

Here is the link.
You can buy it on Amazon.com.

The Weatherman: “they estimated that they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re‑education centers…”

Read about it here at Dr. Sanity.
Some “fun” parts:
Most of the people that had no prior experience, let’s say the average Weatherman, if there is such a thing, they were sent to Cuba for training in Cuba.[...]Grathwohl: I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government. You know, [...]

Notes: Last Week’s Debate

I never got around to posting my notes, but I ended putting them in a comment at ZenPundit:

I didn’t learn anything new about the candidates.
I thought asking the question about their own VP’s was a waste of time?
Questions I would like to have seen:
1) What would be, for your X administration, the US Global Policy [...]

On The Bailout aka The Panic of 08 , Part 18: McCain Ideas

Here are some of his new ideas:
In an effort to seize the initiative in tackling the nation’s financial troubles, John McCain on Tuesday outlined a $52.5-billion package of new tax breaks that he said would stimulate the economy and ease the money problems of many Americans.
Details?
…said he would lower the tax rate on their withdrawals [...]

Gov Palin: Love her or hate her – this link is fun!

Have fun exploring! (SFW)

How will Sen. Obama’s “Hugs for Islamofascist” approach to foreign policy work with Iran? Well, he has to meet with them first…

…and while he will meet with them without preconditions, LGF posts on the possible pre-conditions be floated by Iran:
In an exclusive interview with the Islamic Republic News Agency, he said as long as U.S. forces have not left the Middle East region and continues its support for the Zionist regime, talks between Iran and U.S. [...]

A “Community Organizer” Visited my Parent’s House on Saturday

I happened to be over. I did not go to the door. My mom and a PurpleSister did.
First, the “Community Organizer” said she was from a non-partisan group – but I couldn’t make out the name (I was in another room).
Then the “Community Organizer” says she was just taking a poll of two questions: “what’s [...]

Nobody discusses politics at my workplace…but they were talking about Ayers today.

It surprised me.

“Sen. Obama is a classic liberal…”

WTF?
I don’t think they know what “Classical Liberal” means.
That is another signal that the default public discourse PoV has become leftists.

Not A leftist. Not a Marxist. Not a Socialist. Not a Progressive. Not a member of The New Party.

FYI This is not video of Purpleslog in Wisconsin, but I share the Sentiment

Found via HotAir:

Wow: “Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?”

Jack Cashill writes in the American Thinker on the subject:
In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.
Read it [...]

“They presented themselves not as socialists, but as left-leaning and progressive”

I like Ann Althouse’s blog It is one of the first blog I read. I liked the connection to Wisconsin and Madison and especially the photos of my old campus.
But this is silly:
In any case, I don’t think it’s right to call the New Party “socialist.” I remember this party. One of the founders was [...]

On “The Bailout”, Part 15: Wisconsin Congressman Ryan – “vote for bailout went against his principles”

So says this Link in the Milwaukee Journal.
I think Representative Ryan doesn’t understand what “principles” means.
He had a chance to signal his what his principles are. He signaled something else:
“This bill offends my principles,” the Janesville Republican said in an impassioned speech Sept. 29, before Congress’ first attempt to pass the measure. “But I am [...]

Debate Notes – 8 Oct 2008

I don’t think the debate will have swayed many people.
What I didn’t hear that I wanted to hear:
- A ringing endorsement of Democratic Capitalism / Entrepreneurial Capitalism
- A scathing denouncement of socialism, regulatory nonsense and political rent-seeking
- Obama, when asked directly, denouncing earmarks (instead of avoiding the question)
- McCain saying “My Friends” only 3 or [...]

On “The Bailout”, Part 14: Lessons from Great Depression including Amity’s Shales The Forgotten Man

While the elites-politicians bumrushing Americans to socialize more of the financial system using fear of a great financial catastrophe to push aside dissent and common sense, it is a good idea to revisit the lessons of the Great Depression with a clear head (not a leftists romantic memory).
Amity Shales has done a great service [...]