Obama does indeed bring different policies than we have seen over the last 8 years. You would need to go back tot he Carter administration to find policies somewhat equivalent to Obama’s proposals… not an era I am interested in returning to anytime soon.

Would you concede that, following 9/11, the policies of the Bush administration have prevented us from entering into a major recession and perhaps a depression, factoring in the major hit on our financial markets, businesses impacted by travel all but halting, fear, etc. People forget how bad it was.

Regarding the current mess, plenty of blame to go around, but ignoring the role of Dodd and Frank (and to some extent Obama) is a huge mistake.

Regarding taxcuts, how do “we know” they only benefitted the top 5%. I’m no where near in the top 5% and I pay less taxes. The fact is that raising taxes on the “top 5%” will not generate enough revenue to cover all of Obama’s spending programs, so either he is lying about what he plans to spend (and breaking promises again as he did with the promise to participate in public campaign financing), or he is lying about who will see tax increases. Also, increasing taxes will not necessarily increase revenue. During the short-term, it probably will, but as increased taxes drive down the tax base, revenues will decrease. Historically, cutting taxes stimulates growth, grows the base, and increases revenue. Our problem is not that we have less revenue coming in, it is that our current administarion and congress spend too much.

Obama has one of the earmark kings in only his first few years in congress, what makes you think he will change? Because he says he will? McCain has a proven track record, Obama has words.

Time to give back? No, giving and taking are not the same thing… check out the post on this that explains the difference.

I wish I could sit down with you and help you to see that you are being conned by a master of the art, schooled and tested in the forge of Chicago politics. Please do yourself a favor and look into his record to see what he has accomplished, not what he says he will do. Look at what he has promised in the past and what he has delivered on. He spends a lot of energy ensuring the press can not have access to basic information like college transcripts, medical records, etc… he wants you to vote for who he says he is, because you would never vote for who he really is. There is a very good chance Obama will be our next president, and I for one will be very impressed that he was able to fool most of the people most of the time.

It also higlights a major aspect of this election. It is not fact driven. It’s not that facts don’t matter. It’s that people who need to hear then the most (those who still don’t know how far-left Obama really is) don’t get these facts from the media. They don’t go to the blogs like this, they don’t read long data rich threads, they don’t watch scary YouTube kids-singing videos. We keep going down in polls because people listen to the huge propaganda machine–and take that BS at face value. What we need is an arsenal of conversation changers. These attention grabbers that make an impact in 5 sec. And THEN those whose opinions still can be changed may start reading more. Obama’s side if excellent in this. They have pros working around the clock on all sorts of visuals that go straight to the emotions level, bypassing the logic. Just take a look at this site to know what I’m talking about.

Can you name a single memorable anti-Obama poster that speaks to the center-leaning Democratic voter? I can’t. And to expose who Obama really is we need some of that. With my new blog and Facebook page I’ve started a new repository to fill this gap and hope it will take off and will be used. Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

- Jeff Tyler

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