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White House Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/20
081115-4.html#

http://www.whitehouse.gov/inf
ocus/financialmarkets/#

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/200
81115-5.html#

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• 11/14/2008
  MORE LEGISLATING FROM THE PANEL?

 

President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy

 with video

  Bin Laden 'cut off from al-Qaeda'
The CIA says Osama Bin Laden is isolated from day-to-day operations of al-Qaeda and that survival is his key task.

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• 11/11/2008
  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WORKED TODAY:

The Heritage Foundation today asked Barack Obama to immediately pull two ads that misrepresent the views of Heritage’s Rea Hederman. The campaign has released a 30-second TV ad with false information and repeats it on the campaign website.

The following letter was sent by Heritage lawyer Alan P. Dye to the Obama campaign.

Dear Senator Obama:

Two recent campaign advertisements seriously misrepresent the views of my client, The Heritage Foundation. They suggest, quite falsely, that The Heritage Foundation and one of its analysts support your tax plan.

The print ad on your Website as well as your ad entitled “Try This” reference a quote from policy analyst Rea Hederman. In fact, Mr. Hederman never said what is quoted there. Rather, the words you quote are from a New York Sun reporter who interviewed Mr. Hederman and summarized his views erroneously.

That the reporter’s summary is erroneous is evident from the actual quotes from Mr. Hederman presented in the article, which make is quite clear that Mr. Hederman believes your tax plan would be bad not only for the country, but for the middle class. By omitting the direct quotes from Heritage that are contained in the article and attributing to Heritage a conflicting statement not made by its analyst, the advertisement appears to be an intentional attempt to mislead.

Surely there can be no doubt within your campaign as to how Heritage truly views your tax plan. When one of your economic advisors, Jeffrey Liebman, made this same misrepresentation in a September 4, 2008 letter to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hederman promptly sent a corrective and very public letter. It appeared in the September 16 issue of The Wall Street Journal under the title: “A Bad Plan That Is Less Bad Is Still Not A Very Good Plan.” In it, Mr. Hederman strenuously decried Mr. Liebman’s blatant misrepresentation and set the record straight.

The Heritage Foundation believes that your advertisements’ use of its name is not only not a fair use of its intellectual property, but is an intentional attempt to mislead and misinform voters. As a responsible candidate, you should insist that your campaign cease to run these false advertisements immediately.

Very truly yours,

Alan P. Dye

The Heritage Foundation has conducted several analyses comparing Senator Obama’s tax proposals to that of Senator John McCain.

• Heritage’s most recent analysis concluded that McCain’s tax proposals would do more to strengthen the economy than Obama’s.
• A comprehensive report by Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis closely compared the two tax plans and measured their economic impacts. It concluded that the McCain plan would have overall better economic effects. A related study compared job creation arising under the two tax plans on a state-by-state basis.

It’s perhaps telling that the campaign advertisement did not cite any of these reports.

 
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1960

Please see the ad by Going Here Now

 

Florida Women for McCain 

Why Every Woman Should Vote

 Remembering the Night of Terror, America 1917  

Special Guest Columnist Sandy Mortham, former Florida Secetary of State

 What Women Leaders Need to Know

October 26, 2008

 

 They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,  Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

 

American Heroine: Dora Lewis suffered a beating at the hands of the guards

Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

 

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

 

 Statewide Florida Women for McCain Team

 

Sharon Day
Chairwoman 

 

Marijo Strauss

Executive Director 
MStra68337@aol.com

Carolyn Booth
Data/Information
carolynbooth@earthlink.net

 

Cindy Graves
Communications

CindyFGraves@aol.com

Cindy Guerra
Volunteers
cgbmh@aol.com

Ana Gomez Mallada
Coalitions
AGM656@bellsouth.net

Judy O'Donnell
Phone Banks
judyod@comcast.net

Linda Ivell
President
Florida  Federated  

Republican Women 

LindaIvellGOP@aol.com

Anne B. Voss
President
Florida  Republican

Women's Network 

Voss5020cc@aol.com

 

 

JohnMcCain2008.com

 

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers...the courageous struggle they lead and the horrors they suffered

Jailed, beaten and starved to obtain the right to vote... 

They lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

                     Unafraid, the suffragettes marched on Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote

 

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917 when women's suffrage was born

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.   

The warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote. 

 

 

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. 

 

 

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks
until word was smuggled out to the press.

 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nw
p/prisoners.pdf

Dear Ladies,

As we get down to the wire, I want to ask every woman to think about how far women have come and just how far we have yet to go.  Over the past week, I have been brutally reminded about how women are treated so differently from our counterparts. 

Think about which other Governor in this nation that could have been chosen to run with Senator John McCain would have been put through a polling process to evaluate whether he was qualified to be Vice President.  It just would NOT have occurred.  As women we need to say enough is enough and get out the vote to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters can read about the history we are making today. 

The women that are somehow trying to say Gov. Sarah Palin does not represent women are just plain wrong.  Women do NOT have to be 100% simpatico in their views.  What we do need to do is understand the need to network, be supportive and leave our pettiness at the door.  If I truly believed that Governor Palin was unqualified I would not ask anyone to be supportive but she didn't get to where she's at without considerable moxie and smarts.  

Thanks for passing this message on to women that can help make history.

 Sandy Mortham
smortham@aol.com 

 

The Obama File

America is facing a financial crisis: the economy is slowing to a halt, unemployment is rising and home values are plummeting.

What is Senator Obama's solution? He wants to take more of your money!

The Facts:

Joe the Plumber wants to buy the company he works for, but purchasing it would make him a target of Barack Obama's plan to tax the "wealthy." When Joe raised questions to Barack Obama about the plan, Senator Obama told him that it was important to "spread the wealth around."

Senator Obama received a lifetime rating of 22% from Citizens Against Government Waste, and he was named "the most liberal Senator" by National Journal.

Senator Obama's health care plan is full of massive mandates and tax increases.

To pay for his massive spending increases, Senator Obama proposes "higher taxes on income" and he will "raise the cap on the payroll tax."[1]

Senator Obama's health care plan "will create a brand new government-run health plan at the cost of $243 billion a year - a financial burden of more than $3,000 a year on American families."[2]

In addition to his other proposed tax hikes, Senator Obama has even called for "higher Social Security taxes."[3]

One newspaper has even warned that Obama's highe r-tax plan is a "recipe for economic disaster."[4]

The Bottom Line:

Why would Senator Obama want to raise taxes during an economic slowdown? His big government spending and tax increases prove he lacks the judgment and experience to make important economic decisions.

Senator Obama: ready to tax and spend, but not ready to lead.

[1] Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks at a Campaign Event, New Albany, IN, 4/23/08; U.S. News & World Report, 2/13/08
[2] Roger Feldman et al, "Impact of Barack Obama 2008 Health Reform Proposal," HIS Network, LLC., 8/21/08
[3] U.S. News & World Report, 2/13/08
[4] Las Vegas Review-Journal, 9/20/07

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CAPITOL REVIEW   ·   By MARK HILLMAN   ·   October 24, 2008

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Jacoby: Health care shouldn't be linked to job - Boston Globe

 Don't reward labor's lies

Politicians and campaigns are masters of "spin" - selectively presenting facts in a way that leads the target audience to believe what the spin doctors want them to believe.

Like it or not, spin is unavoidable because everyone has a unique perspective, formed by their own experiences and beliefs.

But there's spin, and then there are lies - outright, premeditated, willful lies that have no basis whatsoever in truth.

That's the campaign strategy now being employed by labor union bosses who are, ironically, fighting against the rights of workers by opposing Amendments 47 and 49.

Amendment 47 (also called "right to work") simply guarantees that an employee cannot be required to join a union or pay union dues in order to get or keep a job.  It neither encourages nor discourages union membership, but simply protects the right of every working man and woman to make that choice without coercion from labor union bosses or pressure from management.

Those principles defend freedom for all workers, plain and simple.

Amendment 49 ("ethical standards") prohibits state and local governments from intercepting a worker's paycheck to collect dues or contributions for unions, lobbyists or any other special interest.  It simply requires all interest groups to ask supporters directly for their contribution, rather than use government payroll systems as their collection agency.

Groups from the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club rely on voluntary contributions, so why can't labor unions and other special interests?

To hear the outrageous lies of labor union bosses, you'd think these amendments would catapult Colorado back to the days of dirt roads, oil lanterns and outhouses.

An unbelievable commercial paid for by Protect Colorado's Future shows a fireman claiming these amendments would "keep (public workers) from speaking out on public safety" and "silence the voice of firefighters, teachers and nurses."

Strangely, they never identify the language that repeals the First Amendment, but maybe union lawyers have special glasses that reveal the super-secret code when viewed in black light.

Another hyperventilation by the same disreputable outfit warns that these amendments "put Colorado's economy at risk" and suggests that passing them would "let special interests do to Colorado what they did to Wall Street."

The only thing these amendments put "at risk" are the cushy accommodations reserved for labor bosses and their leverage to crack heads of workers who don't join the union.

Then there's the whopper by the "Coloradans for Middle Class Relief" that claims "a few rich owners" - "Big Bad Wolf" was already taken - want to pass these amendments so they can "cut wages and reduce health care for their employees."

What stops those greedy owners from treating their employees like indentured servants today? The good old profit motive, of course.  It's tough to sell goods and services without productive, properly compensated employees.

The Denver Post called the union attacks dishonest, noting that Amendment 47 "does not in any way prevent unions from organizing and collecting dues from willing employees."  The Post also pointed out that the firefighter in the commercial works in a department where union membership is voluntary.

Why then are unions crying wolf and destroying what remains of their own tattered credibility?`                                    `

Because when workers are allowed to choose for themselves, 92% of private sector workers and 64% of government workers decide against union membership.

As this campaign demonstrates, union leaders don't give a darn about protecting the little guy. They want to force the little guy to pay union dues to enhance their own political power, and they are more than willing to play dirty.

Had enough yet?
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c-span video 2004 - democrats own words covering up fanny/freddy mac scam that caused our global financial crisis 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

A majority of voters (52%) favor John McCain's plan for the federal government to buy up distressed mortgages and refinance them so homeowners can stay in their homes, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose the plan.

President Bush Discusses Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008