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To: NCDragon

He isn’t skilled or experienced, but he has a lot of potential for growth.


2 posted on 02/27/2008 11:02:22 AM PST by oblomov
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To: oblomov
He isn’t skilled or experienced

But, he IS clean.

3 posted on 02/27/2008 11:03:26 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: oblomov
he has a lot of potential for growth.

Kinda like mold in a petri dish ...

4 posted on 02/27/2008 11:03:48 AM PST by tx_eggman ("they want to be judged on their intentions, not their results" - libtards official motto)
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To: oblomov

He has a dream that one day both Liberals and Conservatives will come together for the good of the country and lay aside the difference in the politics of division and hate and embrace the call of Liberal Jihad....

Whats so wrong with a little socialism anyway? Don’t we all want to feed the poor, wasn’t Jesus a teacher and healer of souls and as we walk in the footsteps of Jesus don’t our children deserve the best public education that taxpayers can buy for them, and shouldn’t we heal all the sick by making sure everyone has health insurance and if they can’t afford it we can subsidize it with taxpayer money, and shouldn’t we really get out of this ill conceived war and stop wasting all those tax $$ on the Iraqi’s when we could use that money to secure our borders, and shouldn’t we treat immigrants fairly and give them every opportunity to become Americans that our ancestors had and if some happen to be illegal we should identify them and explain to them it is in their best interest to go back home and come back legally and we should create ways to make that happen and we should talk to those who share differences of opiniion with ours, we should reason with them that humanity is worlds greatest gift and that kindness will go a long way in solving all of our problems and we shall have peace and shouldn’t we invest in science and technology for the future and shouldn’t the Federal government make sure that the country’s roads and bridges and levy’s and coastlines are safe from nature’s attacks and shouldn’t everybody pay their fair share to make that happen.

Jim Jones attempted to create a utopian society in the jungle of Guayna almost a thousand follower died from drinking his kool-aid.

Obama’s kool-aid in the relgion of hope has the potential to be the death of an entire nation.


13 posted on 02/27/2008 11:30:13 AM PST by tomnbeverly (" And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon")
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To: oblomov
You're wrong, Obama is a very skilled orator, who is also a quick study. Unfortunately for the country, he doesn't really want to share any of his real policy thoughts with the voters, except where he thinks that articulating positions will win votes.

Take his pandering to the unions, for instance, it's pure fascism, at its best. From the WSJ/online:

Mr. Obama's proposal would designate certain companies as "patriot employers" and favor them over other, presumably not so patriotic, businesses.

The legislation takes four pages to define "patriotic" companies as those that: "pay at least 60 percent of each employee's health care premiums"; have a position of "neutrality in employee [union] organizing drives"; "maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in the United States relative to the number of full-time workers outside of the United States"; pay a salary to each employee "not less than an amount equal to the federal poverty level"; and provide a pension plan.

In other words, a patriotic employer is one which fulfills the fondest Big Labor agenda, regardless of the competitive implications. The proposal ignores the marketplace reality that businesses hire a work force they can afford to pay and still make money. Coercing companies into raising wages and benefits above market rates may only lead to fewer workers getting hired in the first place.

Under Mr. Obama's plan, "patriot employers" qualify for a 1% tax credit on their profits. To finance this tax break, American companies with subsidiaries abroad would have to pay the U.S. corporate tax on profits earned abroad, rather than the corporate tax of the host country where they are earned. Since the U.S. corporate tax rate is 35%, while most of the world has a lower rate, this amounts to a big tax increase on earnings owned abroad.

Put another way, U.S. companies would suddenly have to pay a higher tax rate than their Chinese, Japanese and European competitors. According to research by Peter Merrill, an international tax expert at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, this change would "raise the cost of capital of U.S. multinationals and cause them to lose market share to foreign rivals." Apparently Mr. Obama believes that by making U.S. companies less profitable and less competitive world-wide, they will somehow be able to create more jobs in America.

23 posted on 02/27/2008 2:42:58 PM PST by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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