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I watched, jaw-dropped, this week as another Obama association was exposed- this time Khalidi, spokesman for the PLO- that’s the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Not just an association- friends. This man, an absolute anti-Jewish, anti-American, hate-filled person, frequent dinner partner with Obama, a recipient of funds from Obama, and a fundraiser for Obama. Now one must ask himself, what motive would an anti-American, PLO member have in supporting an American candidate? Now imagine if McCain were to have the same connections come to light- he would be ripped to shreds. I don’t care who you’re voting for, but the obvious bias that allows Obama a permanent “get out of jail free” card is stunning. Wake up you guys! You are preparing to elect a man who has shown strong leanings that are anti-Israel, anti-Christian, anti-life, and anti-American. Quick, someone inject these people with a shot of eye-opener! I believe that if we elect this man, we are ensuring an absolute rejection of Israel when the crap hits the fan, not to mention he will surely encourage, possibly require land-for-peace deals. For any of you who appreciate democracy, you can understand the danger this would pose as we would further distance ourselves from our one friend in the middle east and break our promise to support democracy throughout the world. For those of you who believe the Bible, you understand the certain judgment sure to come on this land according to Genesis 12:3. Either way- trouble is brewing. For more information on this subject, I would recommend reading ‘Two Nations Under God’. This will help all understand the importance of supporting Israel.

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John McCain

Dayton, Ohio

It’s great to be back in Ohio. We need to win Ohio on November 4th, and with your help we’re going to win here, and bring real change to Washington, DC.

It’s been a long campaign and we’ve heard a lot of words, and great campaign trail eloquence. The amazing thing is that we’ve learned more about Senator Obama’s real goals for our country over the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years. It is amazing that even at this late hour, we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his agenda. He told Joe the plumber right here in Ohio he wants to quote “spread the wealth around.” It’s always more interesting to hear what people have to say in these unscripted moments, and today we heard another moment like this from Senator Obama.

In a radio interview revealed today, he said that one of the quote — “tragedies” of the civil rights movement is that it didn’t bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society. He said, and I quote, “One of the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.”

That is what change means for Barack the Redistributor: It means taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He is more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans.

We’ve all heard his campaign trail promise: he says he only wants to tax the rich. But these unscripted moments and his record tell a different story. He supported the Democratic budget plan passed just this year that called for raising taxes on people making just 42,000 dollars per year. And Senator Obama has voted 94 times for tax increases or against tax cuts.

Senator Obama may say he’s trying to soak the rich, but it’s the middle class who are going to get put through the wringer, because even the tax increase he admits to misses the target. To pay for nearly a trillion dollars in new government spending, his tax increase would impact 50 percent of small business income in this country, and the jobs of 16 million middle class Americans who work for those small businesses.

Whether it’s Joe the Plumber here in Ohio or the working men and women across this country, we shouldn’t be taxing our small businesses more as Senator Obama wants to do, we need to be helping them expand their businesses and create jobs. America didn’t become the greatest nation on earth by giving our money to the government to “redistribute.” In this country, we believe in spreading opportunity, for those who need jobs and those who create them. And that is exactly what I intend to do as President of the United States.

My opponent’s massive new tax increase is exactly the wrong approach in an economic slowdown. The answer to a slowing economy is not higher taxes, but that is exactly what is going to happen when the Democrats have total control of Washington. We can’t let that happen. We need pro-growth and pro-jobs economic policies, not pro-government spending programs paid for with higher taxes.

This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me. We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think that spending has been too high. Senator Obama’s priority is not to get spending under control, it is to spend more, and if he has to tax you to do it, he’s shown in the past that he doesn’t have a problem with that.

We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: spending ourselves into a ditch and hoping that the consequences don’t come. We need to get our government under control, and we need to get our economy moving again. We have to act. We need a new direction, and we have to fight for it.

I’ve been fighting for this country since I was seventeen years old, and I have the scars to prove it. If I’m elected President, I will fight to shake up Washington and take America in a new direction from my first day in office until my last. I’m not afraid of the fight, I’m ready for it.

I’m not going to spend $750 billion dollars of your money just bailing out the Wall Street bankers and brokers who got us into this mess. I’m going to make sure we take care of the working people who were devastated by the excesses of Wall Street and Washington.

I have a plan to hold the line on taxes and cut them to make America more competitive and create jobs here at home. We’re going to double the child deduction for working families. We will cut the capital gains tax. And we will cut business taxes to help create jobs, and keep American businesses in America. Raising taxes makes a bad economy much worse. Keeping taxes low creates jobs, keeps money in your hands and strengthens our economy.

If I’m elected President, I won’t spend nearly a trillion dollars more of your money. Senator Obama will. And he can’t do that without raising your taxes or digging us further into debt. I’m going to make government live on a budget just like you do.

I will freeze government spending on all but the most important programs like defense, veterans care, Social Security and health care until we scrub every single government program and get rid of the ones that aren’t working for the American people. And I will veto every single pork barrel bill Congresses passes.

If I’m elected President, we’re going to stop spending $700 billion to buy oil from countries that don’t like us very much. Senator Obama will argue to delay drilling for more oil and gas and against building new nuclear power plants in America. If I am president, we will start new drilling now. We will invest in all energy alternatives — nuclear, wind, solar, and tide. We will encourage the manufacture of hybrid, flex fuel and electric automobiles. We will invest in clean coal technology. We will lower the cost of energy within months, and we will create millions of new jobs.

Let me give you the state of the race today. There’s eight days to go. We’re a few points down. The pundits have written us off, just like they’ve done before. My opponent is working out the details with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid of their plans to raise your taxes, increase spending, and concede defeat in Iraq. He’s measuring the drapes, and he’s planned his first address to the nation for before the election. I guess I’m old fashioned about these things I prefer to let the voters weigh in before presuming the outcome.

What America needs now is someone who will finish the race before the starting the victory lap … someone who will fight to the end, and not for himself but for his country.

I have fought for you most of my life, and in places where defeat meant more than returning to the Senate. There are other ways to love this country, but I’ve never been the kind to back down when the stakes are high.

I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future.

Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

My answer to you is yes. Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.

I’m an American. And I choose to fight. Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight.

Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what’s right for America.

Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington.

Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Now, let’s go win this election and get this country moving again.

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We still have one week, guys! God is a God who is able to do “immeasurably more than we could ever ask or imagine”. Spread this around and let’s defeat this liberal senator before he brings upon us the day of Sodom. This video says it all…

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By Karen E. Crummy
The Denver Post

Republican presidential candidate John McCain continued his criticism of Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan before a raucous crowd of 4,000 at Denver’s National Western Arena.

“After months of campaign-trail eloquence, we’ve finally learned what Sen. Obama’s economic goal is. As he told Joe the plumber back in Ohio, he wants to quote ’spread the wealth around,’ ” McCain said. “Just this morning, he said it again. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.”

The first of McCain’s three Colorado stops Friday began with introductions by two former Broncos. John Lynch and John Elway warmed up the crowd to ear-splitting applause.

Elway said McCain knows how to show “leadership and sacrifice for the good of the team.”

Turning to the candidate, he said “It’s the fourth quarter, and some have counted you out. But I know a thing or two about comebacks.”

Elway urged everyone to vote. “We need to put someone in the White House who puts country first.”

Early in the event, protesters disrupted McCain’s speech. A small group was chanting and egging on security while the crowd responded with chants of “USA, USA.” Security finally removed the protesters.

McCain returned to his remarks, saying: “We’ve already seen a preview of their plans. It’s pretty simple and pretty familiar: tax and spend. When the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (Rep. Barney Frank) says that they are going to, quote, ‘focus on an immediate increase in spending,’ we should take him at his word. And when he says that there are, quote, ‘a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax,’ it’s safe to assume that means you.”

McCain also took time to praise his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who made her own trip to the state Monday.

McCain touched on another theme he has been hitting this week ‚Äî Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden’s remark that if elected, Obama will be “tested.”

“The next president won’t have time to get used to the office,” McCain said. “We face many challenges here at home and many enemies abroad in this dangerous world. This weekend, Sen. Biden guaranteed that if Sen. Obama is elected, we will have an international crisis to test America’s new president. We don’t want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars.

“Yesterday, Sen. Obama tried to explain away this warning by saying that his running mate sometimes engages in ‘rhetorical flourishes.’ That’s another way of saying that he accidentally delivered some straight talk.”

McCain reiterated his intention to freeze government spending on “all but the most important programs, like defense, veterans care, Social Security and health care until we scrub every single government program and get rid of the ones that aren’t working for the American people.”

And, acknowledging that he may have an uphill battle to fight in the final week of the campaign, he vowed to fight for every vote.

“I know you’re worried. America is a great country, but we are at a moment of national crisis that will determine our future,” he said. “Will we continue to lead the world’s economies or will we be overtaken? Will the world become safer or more dangerous? Will our military remain the strongest in the world? Will our children and grandchildren’s future be brighter than ours?

“My answer to you is ‘yes.’ Yes, we will lead. Yes, we will prosper. Yes, we will be safer. Yes, we will pass on to our children a stronger, better country. But we must be prepared to act swiftly, boldly, with courage and wisdom.”

McCain’s speech ended with a football coach-like call to arms.

“Now, let’s go win this election and get this country moving again,” he said to thunderous applause.

The crowd that packed the arena was enthusiastic. Wearing white plastic cowboy hats and waving signs that read “Cowgirls for McCain” and “Don’t spread the wealth. Let Joe keep his dough,” the excited crowd ‚Äî spanning in age from a few months to senior citizens ‚Äî clapped hands to “Johnny be Good” and chanted, “We want John.”

Tom Rowland, 42, and his wife drove from Castle Rock to see McCain today. Rowland said he doesn’t believe that government is the answer to the country’s problems.

“John McCain is the ‘empower the people’ kind of candidate,” he said. Turning to Obama, Rowland said he didn’t like his tax plan, which he said “takes tax money from people paying taxes and gives it those who don’t.”

“It’s the very definition of socialism,” he said.

McCain and Palin have said during the past two weeks that Obama’s economic plans resemble socialist policies. It’s a message that appears to be working.

When asked why he likes McCain, Chris Vaughan, a small business owner and U.S. Marine, said: “Well for one thing, he isn’t a socialist.”

Vaughan also said that he doesn’t think Obama has the kind of experience McCain has and that his “trickle up” economic policy won’t work.

“McCain has the right experience. He’s run a clean campaign with no contradictions. Obama says one thing one place and says another somewhere else,” he said.

Kati Ansay and Carolyn Fuller, both 14, took a day off from school in Centennial to come see McCain with Fuller’s father.

“Obama’s really ridiculous. He’s like a socialist,” said Fuller.

Both girls said they supported McCain because he’s “pro-life” and is willing “to help the middle class.”

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