Obama and McCain chariable donations

[RC12L4]

John McCain: Donated 26% of his total income to charity. ($105,467 of $405,409 of total income)

Barrack and Michelle Obama: Donated 5.7% of there total income to charity. ($240,000 of $4.2-million of total income)

Biden and his wife: 0.3% of claimed total income. ($995 of $320,00 total income)

Palin hasn't made her tax return public yet.

[flatrat]

John McCain: Donated 26% of his total income to charity. ($105,467 of $405,409 of total income)

Barrack and Michelle Obama: Donated 5.7% of there total income to charity. ($240,000 of $4.2-million of total income)

Biden and his wife: 0.3% of claimed total income. ($995 of $320,00 total income)

Palin hasn't made her tax return public yet.

Nothing like discussing the issues!

Its been a bad week for McCain Palin:

Another Palin lie-Her trip to Iraq, wasnt:
Palin made an official visit to see Alaskan troops in Kuwait in July of 2007. There, she made a stop at a border crossing with Iraq on July 25, according to the Boston Globe, but did not go further into the country. "Sarah Palin's visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidate's campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America," the Globe's Bryan Bender wrote, adding, later in his story: "[C]ampaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/report_palin_did_not_visit_ira.html?hpid=topnews

Interesting article on the front page of the Sunday NY Times, about Palin:
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
But an examination of her swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and penchant for attacking critics — she sometimes calls local opponents “haters” — contrasts with her carefully crafted public image.

Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials.


Noted conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan has this to say about the NY Times article:
There are so many chilling details in the NYT's account of Palin's paranoid, vindictive, corrupt abuse of gubernatorial and mayoral power, I don't quite know where to begin. But I wonder how the right-wing blogosphere feels about a small-town tyrant who keeps an enemies list and seeks to destroy the reputation of anyone who dares question her:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/palin-vs-blogge.html


Meanwhile many doctors wonder why McCain wont fully release his medical records, since he has had 4 cancers and Palin is his VP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvesa49zSIM


Even Karl Rove think McCain lies too much
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/14/campaign.wrap/index.html?eref=rss_politics


Alan Greenspan disagrees with McCain that the economy is just fine:
even though McCain's top economic advisor called us all "whiners."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/greenspan-to-st.html


People that read tend to become Democrats (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/14/surprising_insights_from_the_social_sciences/):
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS INTERACT with voters mostly through the media, and the question of whether the media is biased is more or less constantly being debated. Researchers decided to test whether newspaper coverage affects the politics of its readers. They offered households in a remote suburb of Washington, D.C., free 10-week subscriptions to either the more-liberal Washington Post or the more-conservative Washington Times before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election. Receiving either paper did not appear to change knowledge of the news, political opinions, or turnout. However, both the Post and the Times subscriptions induced greater voter support for the Democrat.

[RC12L4]

Once again you failed miserably to stay on topic.


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Do you put your fingers in your ears and stomp your feet like a 4 year old when someone brings up something you don't want to talk about?

[Eastside Bill]

John McCain: Donated 26% of his total income to charity. ($105,467 of $405,409 of total income)

Barrack and Michelle Obama: Donated 5.7% of there total income to charity. ($240,000 of $4.2-million of total income)

Biden and his wife: 0.3% of claimed total income. ($995 of $320,00 total income)

Palin hasn't made her tax return public yet.


You left the incredibly wealthy Cindy McCain out of the formula, but included Michelle Obama when looking at that couple. I suspect if you factor Mrs. McCain's income in, the percentage will significantly drop.

[RC12L4]

You left the incredibly wealthy Cindy McCain out of the formula, but included Michelle Obama when looking at that couple. I suspect if you factor Mrs. McCain's income in, the percentage will significantly drop.

That is a true statement and I'd like to see what her numbers are but the McCains file separately.

[flatrat]

That is a true statement and I'd like to see what her numbers are but the McCains file separately.


Why wont Cindy mcCain release her taxes.? Arent the American citizens entitled to see if there are any conflicts of interest?

And why wont John McCain release his medical records?

And why wont either McCain or Palin hold a press conference?
Why are they hiding Palin from the press? If she cant handle a reporter, who can she handle Putin?