CEOs Love McCain, Soldiers Loving Obama
Yeah, the juxtaposition of CEOs supporting McCain and soldiers in the field supporting Obama is a big fact that should turn Americans to where they should be. I’ll disclose now that my wife and I are in that larger tax bracket, but we’re supporting Obama. We believe in a man who can solve things, even if that takes money out of our pockets.
Words of Power has it right. Here’s their words:
CEOs are donating ten times as much for McCain than Obama.
US troops stationed overseas are donating six times as much for Obama than McCain.
The arithmetic is simple. The reality it reveals is stark.
Business leaders are not served well by those who only tell them what they want to hear. CNBC and the Wall Street Journal have failed them.
US military personnel, on the other hand, have no choice but to see what is unfolding before their eyes and reverberating in their ears. They know the “success of the surge” is partly an illusion and partly an irrelevancy.
Perhaps that’s why John McCain came up with his definition of who is rich, when asked by Rick Warren Saturday. Oh, yeah, John McCain made a joke of a subject that many, many Americans think is crucially important:
WARREN: Everybody talks about, you know, taxing the rich, but not the poor, the middle class. At what point, give me a number, give me a specific number. Where do you move from middle class to rich? […]
MCCAIN: How about $5 million? No, but seriously, I don’t think you can, I don’t think seriously that the point is I’m trying to make, seriously, and I’m sure that comment will be distorted but the point is…that we want to keep people’s taxes low, and increase revenues. … So, it doesn’t matter really what my definition of rich is because I don’t want to raise anybody’s taxes. I really don’t.
As a personal note, my wife and I are rich, according to the Barack Obama definition — those who make over $250,000 per year. We’re pleased we are so lucky and happy we can afford health care and a wonderful house, etc. I’m not looking forward to bigger taxes, but I understand that the wealthy in this country owe something because this country enabled us to make so much. John McCain, who may not qualify for his own figure of a $5MM income a year to be considered “rich,” is displaying no sense of obligation, at least as far as I’m concerned. I’m proud soldiers in foreign lands are supporting Barack Obama, and I am proud to support him as well. I wonder at the ethics of those CEOs.
But I respect John McCain’s service, no doubt. Except for his flip flops and flippant answers.
Remember the last time troops mailed in their ballots?
THEY WEREN’T COUNTED IF THEY HAD A DEM CHECKED OFF.
Thus, it’s irrelevant if soldiers are donating to Obama in droves. Their votes will be discarded once again.
And how can this be done? THERE IS NO OVERSIGHT. None. We nearly a 3rd world country with respect to counting votes. At least people aren’t shot at the polls. That’s thug-crime. We have nice neat white collar rip-off crime instead.
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/