Think Obama and Palin Are a Lot Alike? Think Again

In a recent article by Robert Schmul on AOL Politics, he has hit conservatives below the belt in a way that he hopes will stick.  If you can't get the American population to get behind your socialist President, then just try to paint the conservative leaders as suspiciously similar to him.

Uh, not so much.

He claims that Sarah Palin is a lot like Barack Obama.  He points to similarities that are encapsulated at sarahpalinblog.com.

• Both emerged quickly on the national scene and used their charisma to become media-magnified political celebrities.
• Both were tapped to deliver major speeches at national party conventions.
• Both followed up their initial national exposure with well-publicized books.
• Both became nationally recognized as Washington outsiders with limited governmental experience.
• Both share somewhat exotic backgrounds far removed from the continental United States.
• Both have positioned themselves in opposition to the existing establishments.
• Both created followers who are closely connected and willing to work on behalf of emerging and engaging personalities.

But I see major differences.

Obama is a socialist, Sarah Palin is a capitalist.  That is basic and definitive, and makes any comparison rhetorical.   Those observations are no more relevant than their sharing a preference in breakfast cereal.

Obama is the most pro-abortion president in history.  Abortion is an act that places self-interest first.  Sarah Palin gave birth, at a most inconvenient time, to a beautiful little boy who has Down Syndrome.  That is an act of selflessness, compassion, and love.

Obama holds a European socialist view that America should apologize to the world for being a super power for so long.  Sarah thinks America is still Reagan's "shining city on the hill" and should continue to lead the world into a bright future for all who understand the precious concept of freedom and individual liberty.

Obama looks most comfortable at a U.N. meeting with all his like minded friends who long for one-world government.  Sarah looks most comfortable at home, making moose stew dinner for her family after a good hunt.

Obama leaves God out of the Christmas address, the Thanksgiving address, the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, and the Jewish Proclamation, all while arrogantly asking him to bless our Nation.

Sarah takes a prayer team with her to hold her accountable everywhere she goes. She literally doesn't make a political move without joining her prayer team and asking for direction from God—not one.

Obama depends on a teleprompter, because he wants to be sure his words are packaged and perfect.  Sarah Palin wrote on her hand, because that's what chicks do, and she is real.

Here is an observation Mr. Schmul:  While Republican candidates clamor for the Palin endorsement in primaries, it is difficult to find a Democrat who wants to even be seen campaigning with Obama.

No one knows if Sarah will ever run for office again.  She is a private citizen who is one of the most effective voices speaking for the American people today.  She does not even need an office to do that.  Obama is elected, running, and so out of touch with America that he still clings to notion that the only reason for the unpopularity of his health care plan is that Americans just don't get it.

Using Robert Schmul's approach, one could find "commonalities" between Hitler and Mother Teresa, but the reality is there is no comparison when it comes to their hearts, their goals, and their legacy—the things that really count.

I think the MSM will continue to attempt to cast erroneous aspersions upon Sarah Palin and other conservatives, such as comparing them to Barack Obama, in an effort to dismay Sarah's base, and frighten conservatives.  There are only two problems with that:

1. Sarah doesn't need a base because she isn't running for anything so far.
2. Patriots don't scare easy.

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The Problem with Taxing Success

The current economic slowing in the U.S. has left many States low on funding. They get revenue from the real estate market, which is presently down. Governments, from local to Federal are looking for "revenue," under the assumption that they should never be forced to do with less because the American people are making do with less.

Unfortunately, many of them simply don't get it. Among them are California and Massachusetts, the legislatures of which think the solution lies in higher taxes. Never mind that people are fleeing the already high taxes. Massachusetts not long ago recognized a population emergency, as tens of thousands of residents left for other States. California lost 89,000 people in 2007 in State-to-State moves, a fact neatly covered by foreign immigration from our Southern neighbor.  CNN reported that California lost about  800,000 people in State-to-State moves to date in the last decade.

Massachusetts is now working on the idea of taxing Universities with large endowments. The Universities aren't very happy about the idea, of course. After all, they're nonprofit organizations! Then again, Harvard, with an Endowment of $34 billion (yes, that's billion with a B), isn't paying any taxes and though it could allow all of its students to attend free of charge for eternity simply on the interest from that endowment, isn't interested in paying taxes.

In fact, the normally liberal professors there seem to get very conservative when it comes to "paying their fair share." Kevin Casey, Harvard's associate vice president for government, community and public affairs said, "You can't do that. You'd be taxing success… And over time this would put us at a competitive disadvantage. It would hurt the state." See Glenn Beck's discussion of the subject here.

There is a simple truth. Anything you tax (or punish) you will get less of. Anything you subsidize (or reward) you will get more of. Period.

If you want to reduce academic activity, tax it. If you want to reduce business, large or small in a State, tax it. If you want to reduce profits in your State or nation, tax them. If you want to stimulate anything, either subsidize it or reduce its tax burden.

Many countries, including former Soviet States, have recognized these principles and imposed flat taxes at fairly low rates on their people and businesses. This actually encourages success. If I'm going to pay 15% whether I earn $30,000 per year or $85,000 per year, I'm going to go for the higher income. If I'm going to be taxed at 75% when I get to $85,000 per year, I don't have nearly as much incentive to get there.

75% may sound like a number designed to frighten, but it's not. It's an actual tax rate for the rich from America's past. The president who worked to change it may surprise you. Let me present two quotations. Think about who this might be, and then look for the answer below.

Quotation One:

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

Quotation Two:

There are a number of ways by which the federal government can meet its responsibilities to aid economic growth. We can and must improve American education and technical training. We can and must expand civilian research and technology. One of the great bottlenecks for this country's economic growth in this decade will be the shortages of doctorates in mathematics, engineering, and physics — a serious shortage with a great demand and an undersupply of highly trained manpower. We can and must step up the development of our natural resources.

But the most direct and significant kind of federal action aiding economic growth is to make possible an increase in private consumption and investment demand — to cut the fetters which hold back private spending. In the past, this could be done in part by the increased use of credit and monetary tools, but our balance of payments situation today places limits on our use of those tools for expansion. It could also be done by increasing federal expenditures more rapidly than necessary, but such a course would soon demoralize both the government and our economy. If government is to retain the confidence of the people, it must not spend more than can be justified on grounds of national need or spent with maximum efficiency. And I shall say more on this in a moment.

The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system — and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.

I'm not talking about a "quickie" or a temporary tax cut, which would be more appropriate if a recession were imminent. Nor am I talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm, to ease some temporary complaint. I am talking about the accumulated evidence of the last five years that our present tax system, developed as it was, in good part, during World War II to restrain growth, exerts too heavy a drag on growth in peace time; that it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; that it reduces the financial incentives [sic] for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking. In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

You're probably thinking Ronald Reagan, or George Bush. Not even close. Quotation One comes from a President's News Conference on November 20, 1962. That's right. John F. Kennedy said it. He also gave us the second quotation at an address to the Economic Club of New York on December 14, 1962, full text here.

Lowering taxes to stimulate success in the economy is not a crazy right-wing idea. Insane tax rates inspired John F. Kennedy to look at economic theory and realize that the economy is not a static system. That is, income available to tax is not always the same, such that you can raise taxes and get more or lower them and get less. If that were the case, raising taxes would make perfect sense if revenue were short.

The truth of the economy, however, is that if the government leaves businesses and individuals with more of their money, by taxing them less, they essentially "farm" it. That is, they save, reinvest in the business, and make a larger amount of it, so that even taxed at a lower rate, the government's take is larger.

For any given State, this principle is even more important. The tax base can and will move to other States if the burden becomes too great, and that's already happening in places like California and Massachusetts. People are leaving for Texas and Colorado, where taxes are more reasonable, and business is not severely punished simply for existing.
At the Federal level, the impending tax increase (which they like to call the expiration of the "Bush tax cuts") will simply drive business out of the United States for countries rated more free economically.
The sooner legislators recognize these facts, the sooner we'll see this economy turn around and prosperity restored to the average American.

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At Bargain Ticket Prices Obama Can’t Even Fill a 650 Seat Room!

-By Warner Todd Huston

Over at the left-wing Daily Beast, Gail Sheehy has a story that should make every Obamaite tremble in fear of November 2. As Sheehy reports it, in New York President Obama couldn't even fill a room that holds 650 even though they slashed the ticket prices from $500 to $100 a person to get in.

On the 22nd Obama appeared in New York for a fundraiser but organizers found that attendees were harder to come by than ever. As Sheehy points out, this is six weeks before the elections. Less than two months and Democrats can't garner enough enthusiasm to sell 650 tickets to see the president up close and personal.

Initially tickets were priced at $500 a person but as the event neared, panic set in and emails began to gush from the organizers offering bargain basement, slashed ticket prices in order to fill the room. Sheehy paid just $100 to stand in the same small room with The One and she only anted up after half a dozen emails pleading that she come.

Then there were the protesters. I guess the lowball ticket prices didn't serve to keep the riff raff out as Obama faced sudden chants taking him to task for the military's don't ask, don't tell policy.

Sheehy makes one last interesting point about those "Filene's Basement" prices. Later that night, she says, supporters paid $15,000 a person to have dinner with the Obammessiah. But even that is a cut-rate price from the recent past. "Think that's a lot?," Sheehy asks. "It's a 50 percent markdown from a recent invitation to dinner with the President at the home of Linda Douglass and John Phillips, costing $30,000."

The bloom is off the rose and thorns are all that's left for the Obama presidency.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/09/at-bargain-ticket-prices-obama-cant-even-fill-a-650-seat-room/

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Christie Confronts Heckler at Calif. Town Hall

The footage is getting familiar, but not old.

NJ. Gov. Chris Christie isn't afraid to take on those who disagree with him, especially in public. He's confronted teachers and union leaders before, and now he's set his sites on a heckler in California.

While campaigning with Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman yesterday, Christie got in the face of a heckler who shouted that Whitman looked "like Arnold in a dress."

That was enough for Christie:

H/T: Right Scoop

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/christie-confronts-heckler-at-calif-town-hall/

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Ed Sec on Mission to Make Your Kids ‘Green Citizens’

Sec. of Education Arne Duncan revealed on Tuesday that he wants to use federal funding to make students "good environmental citizens." (File Photo: AP)

On Tuesday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan unveiled a new goal for the department: ensuring that future generations are "green citizens."

"Until now, [the Dept. of Ed. has] been mostly absent from the movement to educate our children to be stewards of our environment and prepare them to participate in a sustainable economy," Duncan said at the Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy. But that's about to change:

This week's sustainability summit represents the first time that the Department is taking a taking a leadership role in the work of educating the next generation of green citizens and preparing them to contribute to the workforce through green jobs.

Educators "have a central roll" in that plan, Duncan said. And "well-educated" citizens, such as teachers, know that we must "teach students about how the climate is changing." In addition, such citizens "explain the science behind climate change and how we can change our daily practices to help save the planet."

He also revealed that "for the first time, we are proposing that environmental education be part of [a] well-rounded education." That new curriculum will be part of the administration's "Blue Print for Reform" — the administration's "proposal to fix the No Child Left Behind Act." According to Duncan, the president has proposed funding of $265 million for the project in the 2011 budget.

"Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our students to be good environmental citizens is some of the most important work any of us can do," Duncan said.

"We must advance the sustainability movement through education."

H/T: CNSNews.com

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/edu-sec-on-mission-to-make-your-kids-green-citizens/

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Christie shuts down taxpayer funding for abortion clinics; Saves NJ $7.5 million

RWB News: How can you not like this guy? This man shows real leadership and makes the tough decisions.

Reported by Lifenews.com

The New Jersey state Senate today failed to override a veto Governor Chris Christie issued to yank taxpayer funding from the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Christie decided to prevent $7.5 million in state taxpayer funds from going it while the state faces an $11 billion deficit.

Christie won the praise of pro-life advocates in July by vetoing a bill that would restore the family planning funds his administration cut from the state budget because of deep economic troubles.

Although it doesn't fund abortions directly, the money goes to the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The funds go to 58 family planning clinics but Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion chain, runs 29 of the facilities.

After Christie cut the funding, the state legislature approved a bill to restore it and they approved the bill he vetoed on a 30-10 vote on the Senate, more than enough to override.

However, Republicans who supported the bill would not buck their party's governor by supporting the override vote.

Although a majority of the Senate voted to restore the abortion businesses' funding, the Senate voted on a party-line 23-17 vote, well short of the two-thirds needed to override.

Democratic State Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) and Assemblywoman Linda Stender (D-Union), told the Star Ledger newspaper that they may have found a way to get funding to Planned Parenthood. After the vote they touted an unspent fund set aside in the 2010 budget to pay for housing prisoners that they say could be used to fund most of the money Christie cut from the abortion business.

"Through this bill, we will be able to find additional surplus funds contained with the Governor's budget to restore at least a portion of the resources for women's health programs," they said, according to the paper.

State Sens. Diane Allen (R-Burlington), Jennifer Beck (R-Monmouth), Christopher Connors (R-Ocean), Sean Kean (R-Monmouth) and Robert Singer (R-Ocean), along with are a few of the Republicans to change their votes.

Christie thinks there's little reason to send the abortion centers $7.5 million when the state currently faces an $11 billion deficit.

He said the "unprecedented financial difficulties" of the state made it so the money was better off not spent.

"Reproductive health care services will continue to be available in each of New Jersey's 21 counties, including Planned Parenthood clinics, local health department clinics, standing free clinics, and hospital-based clinics," he said.

Original Article: http://www.lifenews.com/state5466.html

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Right On!… NRSC Ad Blasts Dem’s Historic Failures – Points to Conservative Future (Video)

The National Republican Senatorial Committee released a terrific ad today slamming the historic democratic failures of the last two years and pointing voters toward a conservative future.
At least 10 GOP senatorial candidates are are leading or closing in on their liberal big-spending opponentss.
A great ad–

The Democrats think we can't win. There's only a few weeks until Election Day. Time to take action and prove them wrong. The recovery starts November 2nd. Join at http://www.nrsc.org

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/09/right-on-rnsc-ad-blasts-dems-historic-failures-points-to-conservative-future-video/

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Video: Israel Delegation BOYCOTTS Obama UN Address

As usual Obama, as most liberals do, have this false notion that Israel should give up its ability to protect itself because then they can live in blissful, Utopian peace with their neighbors who have sworn a blood oath to kill every Jew down to the last woman and child, preferably by brutally gang-raping and beheading them. It is the pinnacle of liberal idiocy and the reason that Israel by its action at the UN told Obama to go pound sand (via BreitbartTV):

By the way, here is a graphic I have posted before of the history of the Middle East over the last 5000 years:

Now watch it again and tell me if you see "Palestine" anywhere.

http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/09/video-israel-delegation-boycotts-obama.html

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Video: Socialist on Obama's Debt Commission: "We have to spend money to make money," claims if we cu

Obama's debt commission has been a farce from the start. Obama packed it with a bunch of socialists/communists who haven't a clue on the economy and couldn't pass basic econ 101. One of the members of that debt commission is one Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) who was caught on video saying that if the record deficit spending is reduced, "We will end up as a third world nation." Also that we have to "spend money to make money." I'm getting out my credit card right now and going to buy a whole bunch of lcd tvs that I don't need and can't afford in the hope that $10,000 shows up in my bank account tomorrow, the product of liberal pixie dust that will be sprinkled on me by my ruling class masters as I sleep. Good grief (video via Gateway Pundit):

She's said similar things before. Back in July I had this post: Video of Jan Schakowsky (D-mentally IL): we need to spend our way out of this recession! She was caught on tape last year pushing for socialized takeover of the healthcare industry, promising supporters to run insurance companies out of business entirely:

And there was this scene in fornt of her office earlier this year:

Finally, at her townhall last September, a Health Care for America Now (HCAN) organizer was recently caught on tape outside the townhall meeting instructing supporters on how to shout down Obamacare opponents who get up to ask a question and how to block them from speaking. (Busted! Obama HCAN Organizer Instructs Supporters How to Shout Down Opponents & Take Over Meetings) She has also called tea party protesters "despicable." (Malkin Slams Pelosi For Tea Party Smear)

And she sit on a debt commission? Next thing you know, Obama will put Planned Parenthood's president on an 'unborn life council.'

Obama and Schakowsky, a match made in the place opposite to Heaven

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Examiner Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought | Washington Examiner

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