Sunday, January 13, 2008

Face the Nation



Once again the Huckster went national with the campaign when he appeared this morning on “Face The Nation” hosted by bob schieffer. As expected, The Amoeba, Romney, who had appeared minutes before Huckaboom, had used his airtime to discredit the Huckster. The Amoeba’s campaign has always been in trouble for lack of principle, substance and most important, direction, hence the name Amoeba, for his flip-flopping on key issues.

Nevertheless Huckaboom had another stellar performance, answering all the questions and hammering in his key economic points. In his rebuttal to The Amoeba’s frivolous accusations, he reminded everyone that as Governor of Arkansas, he pushed through the Arkansas Legislature the first major, broad-based tax cuts in state history - a $90 million tax relief package for Arkansas families. He also doubled the standard deduction to $2,000 for single taxpayers and $4,000 for those who are married. Some taxes he eliminated entirely: the marriage penalty, bracket creep caused by inflation, income tax on poor families, and capital gains on home sales. To encourage investment, I cut capital gains for both individuals and businesses. To help people better themselves, he provided tax credits for employee training and education. “In total, I cut taxes and fees nearly 100 times during my ten-and-a-half years as Governor, saving the people of Arkansas almost $380 million.
When I left office in early 2007, Arkansas had nearly $850 million in state surplus, which I urged should go back to the people in the form of either a tax rebate or tax cut” said Huckaboom.

He went on to add, “I believe that our massive deficit is not due to Americans' being under-taxed, but due to the federal government's over-spending. Achieving and maintaining a balanced federal budget is an important and worthy goal necessary to our long-term economic well-being. To achieve a balanced federal budget, I believe the President should have the line-item veto.”

On free trade the Huckster said “I believe in free trade, but it has to be fair trade. We are losing jobs because of an unlevel, unfair trading arena that has to be fixed. Behind the statistics, there are real families and real lives and real pain. I'm running for President because I don't want people who have worked loyally for a company for twenty or thirty years to walk in one morning and be handed a pink slip and be told, "I'm sorry, but everything you spent your life working for is no longer here."

Clearly the Huckster has all the bases covered despite The Amoeba’s insistence on negativity and the fact that The Amoeba was born and raised in Michigan a state where his father also served as the Governor. The Amoeba’s entire campaign now depends entirely on Michigan and as such he has transferred all his resources there to ensure victory; it’s a shame that all his millions can buy him is a soft second. The Huckaboom is 3rd and gaining ground fast.

On the democratic field, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have clawed her way out of an abyss in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, but the shadows over her campaign are a reminder that the path she's forging is still in the deep woods. The questions surrounding the crocodile tears have been answered. On realizing that her top advisor had been busted and spend ½ the day in jail for driving under the influence, (DWI) and reckless driving, 70mph in a 30mph zone, (residential), Billary shed a tear for the impending end of her campaign because the polls showed Obama winning by double digits. As the liar within prevailed, she did not disclose this information to the New Hampshire voters, nor did she publicly condemn Sid Blumenthal following the elcetions. Her lack of disciplinary action would have infuriated the mothers against drunk drivers (MADD) the majority of whom are baby boomers, her largest voting block.

She dodged another one! Nashua police say Sid Blumenthal was arrested early Monday morning after an officer pulled over a car traveling 70 mph in a 30 mph zone.

We all know about her husband's last day in office pardons; do we want to continue the trend?

Were the arresting officers promised promotions or the chief promised a cabinet post? We will never know, nevertheless, one can see the machine’s finger prints in silencing it when it matteresd the most. They are using every dirty trick in the book. They might fool some people sometime, but the can’t fool all the people all the time.

The Clintons subtle racist remarks are hitting home in perfect rhythm. One couldn’t have scripted it better. Their pattern of uttering calculated and negative innuendos at Obama only to come back and rescind them and apologize for their insensitivity, is not only disheartening and ingenious, it is down right low and dirty. Nevertheless, it scores them free airtime as they get in sound bites that promote their fledgling campaign but most importantly serve to remind the white majority that there is a stark racial difference between the two candidates.

As America struggles to lick the wounds from its tortured past, present and future leaders should refrain from exciting dormant passions and focus on healing and building the nation. The race and gender card that the Clintons keep taunting their opponents with is unhealthy for the nation and they should be unequivocally admonished racial and gender incitement.
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I'll reiterate my earlier remarks:

If a democrat, Billary is the one mistake we can not afford.

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