The Ever Changing Obama Tax Threshold ($250,000? $200,000? $150,000) … How Low Will it Go and include All?

There are three certainties in life, death, taxes and that Democrats will always raise your taxes. For months Barack Obama has stated that he would only raise taxes on those families making more than $250,000 a year. It has been questioned that Obama once in office would lower this amount to fit the massive spending initiatives that he has proposed. As Joe the Plumber had warned and we at Scared Monkeys had questioned as well, when will Obama’s sliding threshold lower to include many more in the middle class than originally stated.

Obama’s position in the past was that he would raise taxes on families making more than $250,000 a year and individuals making more than $200,000.  But in his new ad, “Defining Moment,” he seems to lower it to $200,000 for families. “Here’s what I’ll do as president,” Obama says in the ad.  “To deal with our current emergency I’ll launch a rescue plan for the middle class That begins with a tax cut for 95 percent of working Americans. If you have a job, pay taxes and make less than $200,000 a year, you’ll get a tax cut.” That seems kind of ambiguous, but the graphic on the screen says clearly: “Families making less than $200,000 get tax cut.” Now, the McCain campaign is pointing out something that Joe Biden said in a Pennsylvania TV interview yesterday:

Obama, what happened to families making $250,000? Obama is already lowering the threshold.

Listen to Joe Biden now say that the threshold for middle class is $150,000 a year. So what is it Obama-Biden, $250,000, $200,000 or $150,000? How soon will it be before the middle class is considered below $100,000? Think all voter who consider themselves middle class should be concerned … YOU BETCHA!!!

UPDATE I: Is It No Wonder that Joe Biden is being Kept Under Wraps by Obama Campaign

As Time Magazine calls it, HIDDIN’ JOE BIDEN. The MSM has wanted to focus on Sarah Palin and how much of a detriment she has been to John McCain; however, it is Joe “gaffe a minute” Biden who has been the issue during this Presidential campaign. Is it any wonder that Obama has put a leash on Biden and if possible would have ordered a judge to put a gag order on his own VP. It must be bad if even Karen Tumulty of Time states that Biden is less accessible than Sarah Palin.

But traveling with Biden during this campaign has sometimes been like reporting on a politician packaged in shrink-wrap. While his windy, off-point pontification was the stuff of legend among his Senate colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane — less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line. See Joe Biden’s defining moments here.

The muzzling of Joe Biden

Joe Biden, The Quiet Man

The muzzling of Biden seems unnatural and inhumane, like taking a proud lion into captivity. Biden, who once scolded Sarah Palin for ducking reporters, hasn’t given a news conference since Sept. 7. The king of the rhetorical jungle hasn’t taken questions from voters in a town hall forum since Sept. 10, when he famously said that Hillary Clinton is “more qualified than I am to be vice president” and “might have been a better pick than me.” He doesn’t even do much chitchat with supporters at events since he was caught on tape on one such occasion contradicting Obama’s energy policy.

Now even Palin takes questions from reporters on her campaign plane. But the wordiest man in Washington has to make his remarks short, sweet and canned.

Casey Anthony Attorney Jose Baez & the Obama Campaign Have Something in Common … Both Do Not Like Tough Questions

It seems that Casey Anthony attorney Jose Baez and the Obama campaign only want to do interviews where they are served up softballs. When one is not willing to answer the tough questions there is a serious problem. If one is a lawyer or politician it is the same. To only want to answer easy, softball questions should make us all pause and question whether it deals with a missing little girl case or the election of a President. Dodging tough questions is never a good thing.

Question: So what does Casey Anthony attorney Jose Baez and the Barack Obama campaign have in common?

Hint: Is has to do with WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando, FL.

Answer: It appears that both defense attorney Jose Baez and the Obama campaign do not like being asked tough questions. In fact when they are not pitched softballs, they restrict free speech and cut the media off. Remember back when Casey Anthony defense attorney Jose Baez kicked WFTV out of his office because he did not want to answer the tough questions that they might pose to him at a press conference. Watch the video HERE.

However, at least in the case of defense attorney Baez, he is not required to answer the media’s questions when it comes to what his client, Casey Anthony, may or may not have done in the disappearance of her 3 year old daughter Caylee Anthony. In the case of the Barack Obama campaign and VP candidate Joe Biden, they basically are required to answer questions.

However, Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden. If this is a sign of things to come, the United States is in for a long four years of an Administration dodging questions. I guess Channel 9 Barbara West best get ready to be “Joe the Plumbered” and have her personal records to be illegally accessed. Or maybe she will just be called a racist for daring to question.

Finally, a media outlet, WFTV, grows a pair and actually acts in a responsible manner to ask the Obama-Biden ticket a tough question and the Osamamessiah excommunicates them from future interviews. Is this what America has to look forward to with an Obama Administration? The minute anyone asks a tough question they are put on a black list. There is change you can believe in.

Watch the video of tough questions here.

West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama’s comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn’t being a Marxist with the “spreading the wealth” comment.

“Are you joking?” said Biden, who is Obama’s running mate. “No,” West said.

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What if ‘SNL’ or the MSM mocked Michelle Obama or Barack Obama … Media Double Standard

Double standard in the media … You betcha!!!

Humor is not only supposed to be funny, really good humor is also based on a hint of the truth. The fact that the media cannot poke fun of Obama is telling. Personally, if one cannot find humor in their own actions and poke fun at themselves, they are not well rounded enough to lead as they take themselves far too seriously.

Why can’t the “lame” stream media or late night comedy shows like SNL be fair in their representation of their craft? One, the media, is supposed to report the news, provide us with insight and expose the truth. They are supposed to do this without an overt bias an openly rooting for a political candidate. The other, comedy, is supposed to make us laugh through whatever method and provide a satirical environment of not only the political landscape, but our society. Why do they both fail miserably? Is it any wonder why the NY Times is losing money. They must ask themselves, in an Obama Administration … what is the media and SNL going to show their readers and viewers, a blank page or screen?

As Pat Buchanan recently wrote, what if SNL mocked Michelle Obama? Buchanan’s thought is if they did they would be brought up on hate crimes. If anyone thinks that is far fetched all one needs to look at is the consistent use of the word “racist” for any questioning of Barack or Michelle Obama. Instead the MSM piles on Sarah Palin, John and even Cindy McCain and forgets Biden and the Obama’s. The liberals play the “experience” card with Palin, yet forget their hypocrisy in that not too long ago the Dems were a scream way from nominating Howard Dean, an inexperienced Governor of the small state of VT to be President.

The media cannot get enough of the “Saturday Night Live” impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.

Can one imagine “Saturday Night Live” doing weekly send-ups of Michelle Obama and her “I’ve never been proud” of my country, this “just downright mean” America, using a black comedienne to mimic and mock her voice and accent?

“Saturday Night Live” would be facing hate-crime charges.

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Frightening, Joe Biden Says: “It Will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama … it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right”

Inexperienced Obama Response to World Test on American National Security You Can Believe In …

Who do you want in charge when America is attacked, an inexperienced, naive, never been tested Obama or and experienced and tested John McCain? The national security and safety of its citizens is not a social experiment and should never be.

Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking …  to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” (Joe Biden)

Biden gaffe or complete honesty? Is Biden providing some real insight here and asking people to wake up an notice the obvious? Could Biden actually be putting country before politics? The national security of the United States is not something to take lightly. Terrorism is a real and present danger, yet Obama and his surrogates would lead you to believe a rank amature can handle it. Why, Obama’s own VP Joe Biden never thought so in the past and it appears he is still not convinced now.

The media and Obama campaign would lead “We the People” to believe that all new Presidents are tested by crisis. Really, not all. Harken back to when a supposed too old to be President Ronald Reagan first took office. The first thing that happened was that US hostages were freed from Iran as they wanted nothing to do with Reagan. The same can most likely be said regarding McCain. There is a reason why the military supports McCain while Obama draws world support from countries that are hardly friendly to the United States.

“The Presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training”.

Democrat VP candidate Joe Biden is now predicting an attack by enemies of the United States within the first 6 months of an Obama presidency. See full transcript HERE. What might even be more frightening than an inexperienced and naive Obama at the wheel during such a crisis is the fact that Biden says that America is going to have to stand with Obama because after such an attack and I quote, “Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Frightening! America will be attacked and Biden is predicting that Obama will not get it right!

“And here’s the point I want to make. Mark my words. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy. And he’s gonna have to make some really tough - I don’t know what the decision’s gonna be, but I promise you it will occur. As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s gonna happen. I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate. And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you, not financially to help him, we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

The Obama spin machine would lead you to believe that Biden meant the next president’s mettle will be tested no matter who was elected. BS!!! More Obama excuses to his lack of foreign policy credentials. Biden specifically stated, “The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year old senator president of the United States of America.” Last time we checked John McCain was a little older than 47 and tested. BTW, I do not remember the “Bay of Pigs” going to well for JFK.

Answering questions after a meeting with Biden and national security advisers, Obama insists that Joe Biden intended to say that the next president will be tested by foreign powers, regardless of who is elected.

“Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes, but i think his core point was that the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is,” he said at the Richmond, Va., event.

Sounds Like Biden has a Dan Quayle Potato”e” Moment: Joe Biden, Jobs are a 3 Letter Word, J O B S

Wait, its a Joe Biden sighting … fire up the gaffe-o-meter.

Imagine, just imagine if Sarah Palin had made this comment. Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden thinks that JOBS are a 3 letter word. However, when a Democrat makes a screw up like this … it’s just Joe being Joe; however, if Sarah Palin had done the same it would be headline breaking news that she was unqualified to be Vice President and a sure fire skit for Saturday Night Live.

One thing is for certain, Obama’s socialist spread the wealth ideas for our economy is a four letter word.

Why can’t Biden count?

Can Sarah Palin Debate … WOW, You Betcha!!! Palin-Biden VP Debate … Frank Luntz Focus Group Palin Landslide, MSM (CBS & CNN) in the Tank for Obama

 Sarah Palin … SHOCK AND AWE AT THE VP DEBATE! There is a reason why America likes her …

As Michelle Malkin states … Sarah is the real deal, SHE ROCKS!

There were those that questioned whether Alaska Governor and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin was up to the challenge to debate a 30 year seasoned politician like Joe Biden who was had two Presidential runs of this own. Could Sarah Palin debate … YOU BETCHA!!! It was Sarah being Sarah. This is why Sarah Palin is a star and the LEFT is afraid.

 Peggy Noonan on Sarah Palin: “She Killed”

There is a reason why Democrats, the Left and the MSM want to destroy Sarah Palin and all she stands for. It is because she resonates with every day Americans and is the anti-Washington DC insider. She speaks to Americans as an American, not as an elitist politician. Sarah Palin is the Democrats worst nightmare now and into the future. She is a star on the political stage and the LEFT cannot stand that she is a Republican.

Transcript of Palin, Biden debate

Watch Frank Luntz and his focus poll of undecided voters and what they had to say. The focus group went overwhelmingly for Sarah Palin. The focus group felt as if she was one of them. They thought she was informed and likeable.

Frank Luntz even stated at the end that the reaction to Gov. Sarah Palin’s debate was so positive that we should watch the polls in the upcoming days as there will be a shift … GAME ON!

However, CBS and Hot Air states that CNN are reporting in their polls that Biden won. Sorry, I do not buy it. The MSM has been so in the tank and looking to depress the Republican vote, I cannot take a poll seriously that so many so-called “uncommitted” voters saw that debate as a clear Biden win.

Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie.

The Gateway Pundit has some great pre-debate footage and material. Even better post-Debate post … Monster Rally Greets Palin Like a Super Bowl Champ After Debate!  Sarah Palin takes St. Louis.

Many of the pundits even the Obama camp said that Palin did a good job; however, Biden won of substance. Really, Biden won on substance? Too bad much of what he said during the debate was just plain factually incorrect. OK, he lied! Carl Rove states that Biden was wrong 16 times during the debate.

Watch the debate for yourself and decide …

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Gwen Ifill VP Debate Moderator … I never told the Commission about the book … Conflict of Interest

How could any one be fair during a debate if one, they are a known liberal supporter and two, purposely went out of their way not to disclose that they were writing a book that involved one of the Presidential candidates that would be an obvious conflict of interest.

The firestorm continues as the revelations of debate moderator Gwen Ifill’s soon to be released book,“Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” finally become known. Many have wondered why no one from the McCain campaign objected that Gwen Ifill not be the debate moderator for tonights Vice-Presidential Debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden? Many wondered how the Debate Commission would have kept her as a moderator with such a glaring conflict of interest. It is because neither they nor the Debate Commission knew, Gwen Ifill did not tell them.

The host of PBS’ “Washington Week” and senior correspondent on “The NewsHour” said she did not tell the Commission on Presidential Debates about the book. The commission had no immediate comment when contacted by The Associated Press. A spokeswoman for John McCain’s campaign did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages.

However, the question remains … and the readers can answer it themselves, why would someone knowingly not disclose a conflict of interest to a Debate Commission that would determine whether or not she was eligible to be moderator. Hmm … maybe she just forgot. In a day and age we are facing a $700 billion bail out package due so shading business practices and unethical behavior from politicians … why should Ifill’s actions be considered any different? A conflict of interest is just that … a conflict of interest.

So why would Ifill have kept such a glaring conflict a secret from the Debate Commission? Follow the money and the power. Ifill knowingly deceived those that would have most certainly had her step down as a debate moderator. However, if such an event occurred how could she prosper from her soon to be released book? As Hot Air states, Ifill has tried to say that her book has little to do with Obama, yet then why is the name of the book include “Age of Obama”?

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Impartial??? PBS Anchor and Debate Moderator Gwen Ifill in the Tank for Obama, her Book … “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

How more obvious must it be that the partisan MSM will stop at nothing for an Obama win? That coupled with a conflict of interest and a monetary incentive to see one side win. Some things are just so glaringly wrong, they are beyond comprehension that it is even plausible.

Obama & Ifill … Ifill on Sarah Palin

When is enough, enough? It is bad enough that we are witness every day to the bias of the main stream media as they cover this election. It is no question to anyone that the MSM is not in the tank for Barack Obama. Now we are presented with this glaring and reprehensible display of partisanship prior to Thursday nights VP Debate. Not only is there the issue of bias, but one of a conflict of interest where Ifill has financial motivation for an Obama win. As the Gateway Pundit simply puts it, UNREAL!!! 

Gwen Ifill is the one who decides on questions that will be asked candidates, let alone the tone of the debate. With a financial incentive and an already known political bias, of course this will be a fair and balanced debate. However, how dare anyone question her motives or Obama … you will be branded a racist.

From Classic Values and the truth is stranger than fiction category, “Palin/Biden Debate Moderator Author Of Pro-Obama Book. I know you can’t make this stuff up because you don’t have to.”

Gwen Ifill, the PBS anchor and moderator for the VP Debate is in the tank for Obama. Impartial, huh … Ifill has written a book that will be released around the election entitled, “Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”

In THE BREAKTHROUGH, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.

From Michelle Malkin:

Ask the Commission on Presidential Debates if she will acknowledge her conflict of interest: 202-872-1020.

And here’s the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org

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Joe Biden Gaffe Shows he Needs a History Lesson … FDR led when market crashed … Oops, it was Hoover and No to Clean Coal

The Obama – Biden Odd Couple are at it again.

The Biden Gaffe-o-Meter has been working overtime these days. Biden praised Democratic President FDR and said today’s leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to a financial crisis.  Rather than taking a lesson from a history books, maybe Obama’s pick for VP should in fact read a history book. Maybe one say, regarding the stock market crash in 1929. The hell with reading a book, just do a google search and read the Wiki. It was not FDR who resided over the stock market crash, it was Herbert Hoover.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,’” Barack Obama’s running mate recently told the “CBS Evening News.”

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929.

Possibly even more comical that Biden’s blunder when it came to who was in office during the stock market crash of 1929, was the following comment regarding instilling confidence in what a leader knows and communicating it to the people. I guess its safe to say, by Biden’s own definition, that since Biden seems to know nothing regarding the crash … he instills no confidence either.

“Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence, is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people … this is how we can fix this,” Biden said.

Ace of Spades reiterates the fact that the “Dangerously Unprepared Vice Presidential Candidate Embarrasses Himself With Steady Stream of Ignorant, Dishonest Gaffes”. Obama knew that Biden was a walking, talking gaffe machine and still chose him as his VP candidate. We already knew Biden was an accident waiting to happen; however, it speaks volumes as to Obama’s decision making ability. No to clean coal, hmm, the voters of Pennsylvania should find that factoid interesting especially since Obama claims he was for it.

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What’s Wrong with Government in the 21st Century … Politics … Senators to Skip Bail Out Vote?

People continually ask, what is wrong with government in the US? Why do politicians not do the work of the people? That question is not posed to just one party, its a pox on all of the Democrats, Republicans and Independents. The problem with government, is politics.

As the Congress faces one of its biggest and most important votes ever and the largest governmental  intervention in the financial markets since the Great Depression, it appears that all 3 Senators on the Presidential tickets will miss the vote. How sad that we live in a time where Obama, Biden and McCain feel they cannot cast a vote because of the fear of what it will do to the politics of running for President. What ever happened to a time when a candidate voted their conscience, supported their decision and put forth their vision to “We the People”. The sad reality is that any vote, any comment will become exploited by the MSM and the opposing campaigns.

If we ever needed a President who could reach across the aisle and end some of this complete nonsense in DC, now is the time. It is up to “We the People” to make that choice as to who has done it in the past and who can do it now. End politics in Washington and make the government work for the people again.