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Hail King Henry

9.24.08 @ 12:01AM

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My father is a coal miner, my grand father was a coal miner, my great grand father was a coal miner. What is wrong with the Democrat party today? I'm voting straight Republican this year. Obama/Biden disgusts me.

Here is the link to the Youtube video.
-- Fred Newbrough

Jeffrey Lord complains that Joe and Jill Biden paid only $66,273 in federal income taxes. The outrage is that Joe Biden has publicly called into question the patriotism of Rep. Charles Rangel, who, apparently, did not pay taxes on all of his income.

Doesn't he know that Rangel is a Korean War veteran?

Doesn't he know that Rangel is an African-American?

How DARE he challenge Rangel's patriotism!
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

PRE-OCTOBER SURPRISE
Re: The Prowler's Democratic Delay Game:

So the Prowler reveals that Democrat legislative aides have conceded a delay in passing a $700 billion or more bailout will help the Obama campaign. That begs the question, why delay only until Tuesday or Thursday? Why not delay by whatever means possible its passing until November 4th. That will simply destroy McCain/Palin and the Republicans. Such delay would effect an unambiguous ambush of the election, assuring an Obama win.

The Dems know -- as it was dramatically demonstrated by Monday's 300+ point dive -- that the stock market abhors uncertainty. An impasse of this magnitude and consequence will have a consequent effect on McCain's poll numbers. The incumbent party will always be linked with the economy into an election. We are watching the October surprise unfold in slow motion. The Dems merely need to delay passage of the bailout until Nov 4th! The market will have crashed by then and Obama's election will be a certainty. Even some Republicans like Richard Shelby are playing into this suicidal scheme, clueless to what's really going on here.

Sunday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "Democrats will act responsibly to insulate Main Street from Wall Street." What she REALLY is saying is, "Democrats will act in any way necessary to insulate Obama from defeat." She has crafted the perfect storm to achieve this end. She and her cabal like Bernie Frank, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Richard Durbin and their Democrat predecessors with their compliant media lapdogs, are bringing off the supreme hat trick: in one fell swoop covering their role in creating this crisis by having passed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, abolishing redlining and coercing banks to make loans to people incapable of repaying them. Instead of reaping blame and shame for this sham legislation, they are turning it to their candidate's favor, using the CRA's destruction of prudent lending practices by banks to create the crisis whose solution is the socialization of banking in the US on their opponent's watch. Easy then to link the crisis to McCain. Ergo, Obama wins the election.

This is their strategy, and -- because they control Congress -- there isn't a damn thing the Republicans nor McCain can do about it. Unless, that is, this shameful scheme is exposed for what it is NOW! There still is time to reveal this monstrous coup d'etat in the making.
-- Robert Deutsch
New Jersey

FACTS CAN BE HARSH
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Time for a GOP Panic? and Gabriel Sabbagh's letter (under "Start Panicking") in Reader Mail's Panic City:

Robert McCain repeatedly makes the claim that the media has attacked Sarah Palin unfairly, yet doesn't provide any specific examples of this. As far as I can tell, the media has accurately reported numerous facts about her political career, such as her support for millions of dollars of earmarks including the Bridge to Nowhere, her commitment to taking away a woman's right to choose an abortion even in the case of rape and incest, and various political intrigues including Troopergate.

Reporting factual information about all the candidates is what I expect from the media. And the media cannot be blamed if these facts cast some candidates in a more favorable light than others. Mr. McCain needs to quit whining.
-- Kenneth Utting
Jacksonville, Florida

From the Ranarian Republic, Gabriel Sabbagh croaked this query -- "Who traded an unattractive wife against a rodeo beauty with a lot of money?" -- then mused: "Presumably "the other" McCain is not the right man to author a book on these flaws of the Republican Party."

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