AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

It would have been nice if Obama would have adopted civility a very long time ago. Instead he admired people like Jeremiah Wright that spewed hatred and blame onto America, and it was obvious that Obama shared much of those beliefs. He also has been friends with folks like Bill Ayers, who had at one time sought to overthrow the country, now that is not much civility, is it oe?

okie wrote:

It would have been nice if Obama would have adopted civility a very long time ago. Instead he admired people like Jeremiah Wright that spewed hatred and blame onto America, and it was obvious that Obama shared much of those beliefs. He also has been friends with folks like Bill Ayers, who had at one time sought to overthrow the country, now that is not much civility, is it oe?

Guilt by association. It's a logical fallacy.

Guilt by association. It's a logical fallacy.

Strictly speaking that is not true. There was no sylogism involved here.

Politics is a rough game for everyone, but our current president has amply revealed himself as unusually inclined to malign the motives of his opponents.

one should also recall his gratuitous (and arguably dangerous) trashing of the assembled Justices of our Supreme Court

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests "- including foreign corporations "- to spend without limit in our elections. (Applause.) I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. (Applause.) They should be decided by the American people. And I'd urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems.

old europe wrote:

Guilt by association. It's a logical fallacy.

Strictly speaking that is not true. There was no sylogism involved here.

It is certainly a deceptive or at best inadequate argument to establish guilt or any other conclusion. However it is not without potential meaning or significance. In the specific cases cited, the association with Wright appears to contradict a core element of Obama's presentation of himself to the American public. I agree that it doesn't prove he accepts all of Wright's racist nonsense. However it does demonstrate that he was not sufficiently offended by it to disassociate himself from it during more than of a decade of association with the esteemed "religious" figure.

Obviously correct, George. And we all know, although libs would not admit it, if George Bush had sat in a pew for 20 years listening and approving of racist rants, the man would have been hounded until he would have dropped out of the running for president. Associations do mean a great deal, a very great deal, when the associations are many and strong

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=19307&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD
TIME TO JUNK THE CORPORATE TAX

President Obama has put tax reform on the agenda, but surprisingly little attention is being paid to fixing the most growth-inhibiting, anticompetitive tax of all: the corporate income tax. Reducing or eliminating the corporate tax would curtail numerous wasteful tax distortions, boost growth in both the short and long run, increase America's global competitiveness, and raise future wages, says Michael J. Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

The United States has the second-highest corporate income tax rate of any advanced economy (39 percent including state taxes, 50 percent higher than the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average).

Many major competitors, Germany and Canada among them, have reduced their corporate tax rate, rendering American companies less competitive globally.

Of course, various credits and deductions -- such as for depreciation and interest -- reduce the effective corporate tax rate. But netting everything, our corporate tax severely retards and misaligns investment, problems that will only get worse as more and more capital becomes internationally mobile. Corporate income is taxed a second time at the personal level as dividends or those capital gains attributable to reinvestment of the retained earnings of the corporation. Between the new taxes in the health reform law and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, these rates are soon set to explode, says Boskin.

This complex array of taxes on corporate income produces a series of biases and distortions, the most important is the bias against capital formation, decreasing the overall level of investment and therefore future labor productivity and wages, says Boskin.

Reducing or eliminating the negative effects of the corporate tax on investment would increase real gross domestic product and future wages significantly, says Boskin. Junking both the corporate and personal income taxes and replacing them with a broad revenue-neutral consumption tax would produce even larger gains. Nobel Laureate Robert Lucas concluded that implementing such reforms would deliver great benefits at little cost, making it "the largest genuinely true free lunch I have seen."

Source: Michael J. Boskin, "Time to Junk the Corporate Tax," Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2010.

The revolutionary’s purpose is to undermine the system by taking from the haves and giving it to the have-nots, and then see what happens;
The radical organizer does not have a fixed truth"truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing;
Radicals should be political relativists and should take an agnostic view of means and ends;
The radical is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer;
The most basic principle for radicals is lie to opponents and disarm them by pretending to be moderates and liberals;
The issue is always the revolution;
The stated cause is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is accumulation of power to make the revolution;
The radical is building his own kingdom, a kingdom of heaven on earth.

You seem to be out of the loop of the news, parados, Obama is practicing what Wright preached, demonizing business, appointing Marxists to his administration, and so on and so forth.

Obama is practicing what Wright preached, demonizing business, appointing Marxists to his administration, and so on and so forth.

Politics is a rough game for everyone, but our current president has amply revealed himself as unusually inclined to malign the motives of his opponents

Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.