IT'S DEBATE DAY

Time to set the rules for the drinking games.

For Barack: For every time he says "middle class" you take a shot. For every time he says "but what the American people really want to talk about" or some derivate thereof "is the economy" you eat a jalapeno. By the end of the session any continence or bowel problems you might have should be taken care of.

For McCain: Not so easy, this is going to be a little subjective. Let's just say that ever time The Chosen One tees it up for McCain, and McCain wiffs, you hit the bottle. You'll pass out before this mess is over.

Now McCain did say yesterday that Barack Obama's association with Bill Ayers will probably come up in the debate tonight. If it does, which Obama excuse would you like to choose from?

• "He just a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
  
  
• "Bombs? You're not serious! I thought he was just an English professor. English professors throw bombs? Surely you're talking about metaphorical bombs."
  
• "I was only 8-years-old when he threw bombs at the Pentagon."
  
• "I thought he had been rehabilitated."
  
• "Oh yeah? Well you knew Charles Keating!"
  
  
• "It all depends on what your definition of 'terrorist' is."
  
• "Hey, I didn't know anything about his past when he nurtured my political career."
  
• "Did he help me write my book? Look, let's talk about issues that matter to the American middle class."

I'm going to go with, "Let's focus on the economy" option.

I guess there is the possibility that McCain will hit Obama with something about his long-term association with ACORN. Here are some possible responses,

• "Everybody knows that from little acorns mighty oak trees grow. That has to mean something. I don't really know what ... but something."
  
• "All they're trying to do is to get more Americans to exercise their right to vote."
  
• "This stuff would really be bad if they were working for Republicans. But with Democrats, the rule is 'whatever's necessary'."
  
• I don't really know who put that thing on my website listing as a "fact" that I never worked with or for ACORN. It's gone now though. So all is forgiven, right?"

MCCAIN'S ECONOMIC PLAN

• Reduce the tax rate on 10% of the first $50,000 withdrawn from retirement account. Why not reduce the tax rate TO 10%?
  
• Waive the rules forcing seniors to withdraw 15% of their retirement accounts at age 70. Great idea .. and one that Obama has picked up on.
  
• Increase tax write-offs for individuals to deduct $15,000 in stock losses for the next two years.
  
  
• Cut the capital gains tax on stock profits in half from 15% to 7.5%.

Those are just a few of his proposals. But the more entertaining part has been the response from the Obama campaign. At first they called the plan "a day late and 101 million middle-class families short." Oh no! You mean that John McCain didn't mention the middle class in his economic plan?? The horror! He is so out of touch.

And this economic brilliance is rich. An Obama spokesperson says, "Sen. McCain also shows how little he understands the economy by offering lower capital gains rates in a year in which people don't have an awful lot of capital gains." I'm sure this is the same guy who devised Obama's plan to cut capital gains taxes for all of you small business owners out there who don't pay capital gains taxes at all.

And then there's the wealth envy. This is skewed towards people at the top! This will only help people who don't need the help!

Under Obama if you're unemployed you should be forced to go get a job from a poor or middle class person. No fair trying to get a job from someone in the top 20% of income earners.

BEFORE WE MOVE ON!

DENNY CRANE FOR PRESIDENT!

And now ......

JESSE JACKSON EXPLAINS AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY

Barack Obama can thank Jesse Jackson for scaring away the Jewish vote. In an article in the New York Post, Jesse Jackson had many intelligent insights into a Barack Obama presidency (note the sarcasm), but this one has gained the most attention.

"The most important change would occur in the Middle East, where 'decades of putting Israel's interests first' would end ... although 'Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades' remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House."

Is there any real question as to which candidate would be friendlier towards Israel? Not in my book. Yet and still, the majority of American Jewry will vote for Obama. Jesse Even after Jackson's "decades of putting Israel's interests first" will come to an end remark. Perhaps that will be because Jesse will have cut Obama's nuts off by then. I know it's just me, but I would think that a suggestion that a particular candidate would put Israel on the back burner would send Jews stampeding to the other side.

Oh and when asked about Marxist influences on Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson says that "Obama's thirst for justice and equality is rooted in his black culture." Oh so it's not a Marxist thing, it's a black thing. I see.

AND YOU WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO RUN YOUR HEALTHCARE

Healthcare has become one of the top issues of our presidential campaign. And many of you actually believe that the government is going to do a better job providing healthcare than the private sector. Here's a quick look across the pond to see how government healthcare is working out for people in Great Britain.

The National Health Service is notorious for its long waiting lists and poor facilities. Don't believe me, just look at a Brit's teeth ... but you would think that the people who are actually working for the National Health Service would use those services for their own care. Wrong. The National Health Service trust spent about $25,000 on private healthcare treatment for its own staff over the last year. And why does the government go to the private sector to treat its own staff? Because the wait times are too long if they went through their own services. Here's a concept, bosses said that by allowing its own staff to get private healthcare, it prevented them from leapfrogging any NHS patients and allowed the doctors to get back to work more quickly.

Taxpayers say that maybe if the NHS staff experienced what their customers - the taxpayers - experience, maybe they would be willing to work harder to improve their wait times. That is highly doubtful, as long as they are working for the government. There is no incentive to improve on any service. No competition. And the result is mediocrity.

That is the future of our country ... BOHICA. Ahhhh ... but you're going to love it. That's because you don't think your health care is your responsibility, right? It's everybody else's responsibility.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Democrats seriously think they can get a 60 seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. I don't see what is stopping them.

Barney Frank says that he wants to regulate capitalism by channeling FDR policies. Well, he did a pretty good job with Fannie Mae, didn't he?

Yesterday we got into a discussion about John McCain's healthcare plan. Here is some more information for those who are confused.

China "has applied to participate in the U.S. Treasury's temporary guarantee program for money-market funds." Your tax dollars.

The latest from Stanley Kurtz on Obama, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

How much of your tax dollars have gone towards our favorite community organization, ACORN? If it is more than zero, it is too much.

Two Ohio residents are suing ACORN, saying that it is engaging in a pattern of organized crime by falsely registering people to vote.

Poll workers in Virginia won't be allowed to wear any clothing or buttons supporting a candidate. The ACLU sues for a violation of freedom of speech.

When brush fires hit California, who or what do you blame? Global warming or the evil rich who built McMansions?

Professor Mike Adams says that we can end illegal immigration by nationalizing the lawn care industry. I wouldn't put it passed government these days.

Government educated students have voted for their next president, and the winner is ... yeah I know you are shocked.

This is why you don't listen to Air America: Roll back the Reagan tax cuts.

Barack Obama is already making appearances in government textbooks. Let's see, who called these hideous institutions "government indoctrination centers?" Oh yeah, tht would be me.

There's a big brouhaha over this Halloween display of John McCain dressed in a KKK robe chasing Barack Obama around someone's yard.

Another brouhaha in Missouri: There's a billboard with Barack Obama wearing a turban and written on the board it says, "Barack 'Hussein' Obama equals more abortions, same sex marriages, taxes, gun regulations."

An American soldier serving in Iraq is trying to bring home a puppy she saved from a pile of burning trash.

Tales from the Dad Side

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