Now, for a fair-and-balanced approach, compare Zo to what Teh Messiah said today in Indianapolis.

It’s time to grow this economy from the bottom-up. It’s time to invest in the middle-class again.

How do you grow from the bottom up if you start in the middle?

If I am President, I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new, green jobs over the next decade – jobs that pay well and can’t be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and fuel-efficient cars; jobs that will help us end our dependence on oil from Middle East dictators.

$15 billion/year x 10 years = $150 billion

Create 5 million jobs

$150 billion/5 million

That works out to paying each person $30k/year for 10 years. Sweet.

I’ll also put two million more Americans to work rebuilding our crumbling roads, schools, and bridges – because it is time to build an American infrastructure for the 21st century. And if people ask how we’re going to pay for this, you tell them that if we can spend $10 billion a month in Iraq, we can spend some money to rebuild America.

Are we still spending that much? The war is winding down. Apparently, he didn’t get the memo on the “triangle of death” turn over.

If I am President, I will finally fix the problems in our health care system that we’ve been talking about for too long. This issue is personal for me. My mother died of ovarian cancer at the age of 53, and I’ll never forget how she spent the final months of her life lying in a hospital bed, fighting with her insurance company because they claimed that her cancer was a pre-existing condition and didn’t want to pay for treatment.

But like a good son, he didn’t bother to visit? He just said he’s going to visit granny so he won’t “make the same mistake again.” OK.

My health care plan will make sure insurance companies can’t discriminate against those who are sick and need care most. If you have health insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. If you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that Members of Congress get for themselves.

See Zo’s comments in the video. How are premiums for private insurance going to come down? Oh wait, “WE WILL LOWER PREMIUMS.” Is he going to force private companies to negotiate rates with the federal government?

And if I’m President, we’ll give every child, everywhere the skills and the knowledge they need to compete with any worker, anywhere in the world. I will not allow countries to out-teach us today so they can out-compete us tomorrow. It is time to provide every American with a world-class education. That means investing in early childhood education. That means recruiting an army of new teachers, and paying them better, and giving them more support in exchange for higher standards and more accountability.

And his experience with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge will come in handy with this one. Teachers are employed by the government. So, an “army of teachers” (with the pay and bene’s) expands the government. EPIC FAIL.

And it means investing in agricultural education. From seeing all those blue corduroy jackets in the crowd, I know there’s a Future Farmers of America convention here in Indianapolis. And I want you to know that if I’m elected President, I will fight for you – because America’s farmers are America’s future. And it’s time we had a President who understood that.

Must be part of the $150 billion mentioned above. “You vill vork vell growing zhe food to make into fuel and you vill recieve vhat ve give you as pay.” Oy. Exploiting Future Farmers of America.

Now, make no mistake: the change we need won’t come easy or without cost. We will all need to tighten our belts, we will all need to sacrifice and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together.

We, we, we. There’s the collectivist mentality again. “We” are all in this except for those that don’t pay taxes. I’ll give them more.

Will they say that this was a time when America lost its way and its purpose? When we allowed the same divisions and fear tactics and our own petty differences to plunge this country into a dark and painful recession?

Ummmmmmm, what? “Dark and painful”…..Those are definitely codewords. Blanant racist! It was Democrat policies of social engineering that got us where we are. And don’t forget your “pals” that had a direct hand in the cookie jar, too.

Or will they say that this was another one of those moments when America overcame? When we battled back from adversity by recognizing that common stake that we have in each other’s success?

JTP was right. You need to be successful so the government can take away from you so that someone else can be successful.

We can do this. Americans have done this before. Some of us had grandparents or parents who said maybe I can’t go to college but my child can; maybe I can’t have my own business but my child can. I may have to rent, but maybe my children will have a home they can call their own. I may not have a lot of money but maybe my child will run for Senate. I might live in a small village but maybe someday my son can be president of the United States of America.

Again……what? Senator, you were raised by your grandparents. Your grandmother was a bank vice president. You went to an expensive, private high school. You attended Columbia and Harvard. Were you channeling your Kenyan family with the last statement? Your personal poverty story is becoming old and tiresome……and a lie.

Now it falls to us. Together, we cannot fail. And I need you to make it happen. If you want the next four years looking like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change – if you want an economy that rewards work, and that works for Main Street and Wall Street; if you want tax relief for the middle class and millions of new jobs; if you want health care you can afford and education that helps your kids compete; then I ask you to knock on some doors, make some calls, talk to your neighbors, and give me your vote. In Indiana, you can vote early right here, and right now. To find out how, just go to voteforchange.com. And if you stand with me, I promise you – we will win Indiana, we will win this election, and then you and I – together – will change this country and change this world.

Ah, good. You linked Senator McCain to President Bush. Yeah, because they are the same. (sarc) Lie, pander, pander, pander, lie, pander. Then comes the community organizer pitch. And we end with the “citizen of the world”. Lovely.

Get out of my state.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 23, 2008 at 3:06 PM