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I am sure you're hearing a lot about how Obama is a socialist as if it's a dirty word. What McCain failed to tell you is that many wealthy people support "socialism" - Oprah is a billionaire and supports Obama's plan.

Warren Buffet is one of the world's richest and supports Obama's plan.

"QUICK: ALL RIGHT. LET'S TRY ANOTHER ONE. MY NAME IS JOHN McCAIN. AND, MR. BUFFETT, YOU ARE ON THE RECORD SAYING, YOU WOULD SUPPORT EITHER OBAMA OR CLINTON, BOTH OF MY OPPONENTS, AND I JUST HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU, SIR. IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO, ANY ECONOMIC ISSUE I CAN GET BEHIND THAT WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT POTENTIALLY SUPPORTING ME?

BUFFETT: I WOULD SAY THAT IF YOU FELT THAT THE TAX BURDEN SHOULD BE SHIFTED IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY TO THE SUPERRICH AND AWAY FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS, I WOULD SAY THAT, THAT WOULD MAKE ME RE-EVALUATE YOU.

What Buffett is saying here is that if McCain would consider shifting the tax burden from the middle class to the wealthy, McCain would stand a better chance of gaining support from Buffett. In other words, the world's richest man supports wealth redistribution.

On a humorous note, Buffett went on to say McCain would probably have to receive a lobotomy to change his views enough to gain his support."

Some of Obama's other endorsements:

Marc Andreesen (co-founder of Netscape)
William Louis-Dreyfus (billionaire investor)
George Soros (billionaire investor)
John Thompson (CEO of Symantec)
Eric Schmidt (Chariman/CEO of GOOGLE)
Indra Nooyi (CEO of Pepsi)

"Wait, some people may say, of course the wealthy supports Obama, they are elitists. Although they may be wealthy, how exactly are they elitists if they agree that they should pay more than their fair share in order to help the middle class. That thought process is such a paradox that I don't even think it is worthy of being addressed, primary because I do not think Obama is an elitist."

wealthy people hate obama's redistribution of wealth? :: WRAL.com

Enough said. :)
 
Even McCain himself supported "socialist" taxation in 2000:

STUDENT: I still don't see how that's fair...aren't we getting closer and closer to Socialism and stuff...?

MCCAIN: Look, here's what I really believe: That when you are, when you reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more. But at the same time it shouldn't be totally out of proportion.

Political Punch

CAUGHT ON VIDEO!

McCain obviously showed no convictions at all.
 
More CEO/executives donate to Obama than McCain:

"Among Obama's contributors, 5,845 list "CEO" or "chief executive" in their title, compared with 2,597 of McCain's donors, according to election records compiled by CQ MoneyLine. In the 2003-04 cycle, 3,567 of Bush's donors were listed that way, compared with 1,686 for Kerry."

More executives sold on Obama - USATODAY.com
 
Yeah, I´m not surprise...

It´s not just Colin Powell but some Republician politicians also support Obama, too.
 
What does that prove exactly? I'm not against Obama because I think he's too socialist or even because I believe he's friends of terrorists.

I just don't like his attitude towards vunerable human life. I also don't trust him. So it really doesn't matter how rich these people are.

It seems their is a lot of mud being thrown on both sides. All goes to make each side look bad. So you have to choose between an ex soldier or a lawyer.

One thing you have to remember is that a lawyer has had a whole life experience making his case look good. A soldier is good at fighting. Articulation isn't neccessary for the post.

At the end of the day though running a country isn't about presenting a a case or making good speeches. I don't know if either of them would make really good presidents. If I lived in USA I don't even know if I'd vote. If I did it wouldn't be for Macain. It would be against Obama.
 
dreama said:
I just don't like his attitude towards vunerable human life. I also don't trust him. So it really doesn't matter how rich these people are.
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But you have no business to impose your values on people. Obama understood that, you don't.
 
People interpose their values on others all the time. Otherwise it would be chaos.

I'd hate to live in a society where a husband was given a 'right' to beat his wife up, , a muggers was given a 'right' to rob people, or a nunce was given a 'right' to sexually abuse his children. Need I go on any further. A baby isn't a woman's property. If she doesn't want the baby she can put the baby up for adoption. NOBODY SHOULD EVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL.

Sometimes when other people's lives or well being are at stake we NEED to have laws to protect the vunerable.
AND Obama is obviously very pro abortion and is trying to hide the fact so he can appeal to a broader mass of people but most anti abortion people can see right through him. We know he is lying and supports the murder of babies. To my view it makes things a lot WORSE. Since he's not someone who can be trusted. So that's why I don't want him to win.
 
dreama,

Obama isn't trying to hide his stance on abortion -- it hasn't been brought up in any of the 3 debates.

Any voter who informs themselves about the issues can do an Internet search to find out how Obama has voted on issues concerning abortion.

Apparently, 53% of Americans do not feel that Obama's position on partial birth abortions is more important than the economic crisis our country is facing right now. At the moment, many people have lost their jobs, their homes and are struggling to put food on the table. In their minds, partial birth abortions are one of the last things they are thinking about.
 
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dreama,

Obama isn't trying to hide his stance on abortion -- it hasn't been brought up in any of the 3 debates.

Any voter who informs themselves about the issues can do an Internet search to find out how Obama has voted on issues concerning abortion.

Apparently, 53% of Americans do not feel that Obama's position on partial birth abortions is more important than the economic crisis our country is facing right now. At the moment, many people have lost their jobs, their homes and are struggling to put food on the table. In their minds, partial birth abortions are one of the last things they are thinking about.
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Actually, he did bring up.

OBAMA: Now I would not provide a litmus test. But I am somebody who believes that Roe versus Wade was rightly decided. I think that abortion is a very difficult issue and it is a moral issue and one that I think good people on both sides can disagree on.

But what ultimately I believe is that women in consultation with their families, their doctors, their religious advisers, are in the best position to make this decision. And I think that the Constitution has a right to privacy in it that shouldn't be subject to state referendum, any more than our First Amendment rights are subject to state referendum, any more than many of the other rights that we have should be subject to popular vote.

Yes, let me respond to this. If it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold lifesaving treatment from an infant, that's because it's not true. Here are the facts.

There was a bill that was put forward before the Illinois Senate that said you have to provide lifesaving treatment and that would have helped to undermine Roe v. Wade. The fact is that there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing lifesaving treatment, which is why not only myself but pro-choice Republicans and Democrats voted against it.

And the Illinois Medical Society, the organization of doctors in Illinois, voted against it. Their Hippocratic Oath would have required them to provide care, and there was already a law in the books.

With respect to partial-birth abortion, I am completely supportive of a ban on late-term abortions, partial-birth or otherwise, as long as there's an exception for the mother's health and life, and this did not contain that exception.

And I attempted, as many have in the past, of including that so that it is constitutional. And that was rejected, and that's why I voted present, because I'm willing to support a ban on late-term abortions as long as we have that exception.

The last point I want to make on the issue of abortion. This is an issue that -- look, it divides us. And in some ways, it may be difficult to -- to reconcile the two views.

But there surely is some common ground when both those who believe in choice and those who are opposed to abortion can come together and say, "We should try to prevent unintended pregnancies by providing appropriate education to our youth, communicating that sexuality is sacred and that they should not be engaged in cavalier activity, and providing options for adoption, and helping single mothers if they want to choose to keep the baby."

Those are all things that we put in the Democratic platform for the first time this year, and I think that's where we can find some common ground, because nobody's pro-abortion. I think it's always a tragic situation.
 
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