The Presidential Campaign Clothes Wars.

Just some trivia for your next water cooler conversation ...

• Sarah Palin wore a $2,500 Valentino jacket at the Repub Convention.
• Barack Obama wears Hart Schaffner Marx suits that retail for about $1,500.
• John McCain consistently wears $520 Salvatore Ferragamo loafers.
• Cindy McCain wore an outfit estimated to cost $313,100 including diamond earrings and pearl necklace.
• 2007 Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards paid for two $400 haircuts.

Is there a point to this post? No not really ... I just found this trivia interesting in a National Inquirer sort of way.

Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place of their Own Making.

This is where the U.S. government sits tonight. Whichever way Congress moves on the bail-out or as the spinmeisters are now labeling it ...the rescue package ... the fools on capitol hill will be facing their constituents in a no-win situation.

If they adopt the bail-out package, Congress will be accused of bailing out the Wall street psychopaths and sociopaths while sticking the American public with yet another Ponzi-scheme from the bankers.

If they don't adopt the plan and the credit markets freeze, sending the U.S. economy down the tubes, they will be blamed for that as well.

The fact of the matter is that Congress deserves its ultimate destiny. These pompous, self-serving, do-nothing, fat-cats sat on their collective butts and allowed this financial mess to happen. All of this mess could have been so easily avoided if THEY HAD DONE THEIR JOBS. If they had actually cared one iota about the American public whom they were elected to serve and not destroy!

Even the slightest amount of regulation and oversight could have prevented all of this. But no, the cowboys on the Hill completely and effectively deregulated Wall street allowing all of the corporate gypsies, tramps and thieves to excess America to death.

Tonight the Congress, Bush, Bernanke, Paulson, et al; continue their charades and theatrics. On the one hand Bush, Bernanke and Paulson are stating that a financial Armageddon will happen if the bail-out isn't approved.

On the other hand Congress appears to be balking. They claim that they need more time to deliberate the the implications and ponder alternative plans and modify the current proposal to make it more palatable to voters.

Forget about making your "solutions" more palatable to American's!!!!

Grow a back-bone and do what's right!!!! Quit rolling-over like little puppies every time some financial scum-bag or lobbyist offers you a bone!

If American's are left "holding the bag" for a mess which they didn't create, then every incumbant in Washington should be fired (voted out of office) because they did not do their job and as a result placed every single American in harms way.

Obama and McCain are right. Washington does need a change ... and that change should begin by giving every single politician their walking papers.

Palin Will Not file her Ethics Reports untill After the Palin-Biden Debate.

Sarah Palin received a 4 day extension on her federal financial disclosure report. Now her report will be due by Oct. 03/08, with the Federal Election Commission also stating that Palin could extend the due date even further - to Oct 06/08 if she requested still more time.

Trevor Potter, general counsel for the McCain-Palin campaign, told the Federal Election Commission that the campaign thought that it had until Oct 04/08.

Presidential, vice-presidential and congressional candidates must all file ethics reports outlining their assets and liabilities. That includes income, investment properties, stocks and debt.

As of now, Palin intends to release her disclosure report on the day AFTER her debate with Joe Biden in St. Louis. Hmmmmm!

Riddle me this Batman .... if John McCain filed his ethics reports before the deadline, then how on God's green earth could their be any confusion at all as to the due date of Palin's report?

Presumably Palin has a battery of accountants, lawyers etc., to complete these documents and ensure that they are submitted on time. It's not as though Sarah is sequestered in a log cabin somewhere in Alaska filling out these reports by the light of a kerosene lamp.

So my question is a very simple one. Is the Republican campaign so incompetent that they become confused by due dates, or is there more to this story than meets the eye? Stay tuned!

Just a thought .... if Sarah Palin and her people are incapable of submitting one single report to the American people on time because of apparent confusion by something as simple as a due date, then why would Sarah feel that she could help run an entire country without becoming confused?

U.S. Election Junk Talk #1: from the Candidates, their Spin-Meisters and Hangers-On.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY said:

"We need change all right - change from a LIBERAL Washington to a CONSERVATIVE Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington. Throw out the big government LIBERALS, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: Newsflash Mitt - George "Wuh" IS A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN who has been president for almost 8 years, and those "looney Democrats" have only been in charge of the House and Senate since January 2007.

Question: So who exactly are those big government Liberals you want run out of Dodge?

Sorry ... you are the winner of the first annual TWITT Romney Award!

John McCain's McLying Game

Oh John, John, John ... you little maverick you! Big talk about wanting to be the new sheriff in town who has come to clean-up wild, wild Washington! Well giddy-up pardner!

It seems as though Sheriff John McCain, with his ten gallon hat and eleven gallon head, is not much different than the rest of those bad boys in Washington.

McCain started his campaign expressing his hope that the presidential campaign would not become sleazy. Well "holy talking out of the both sides of your mouth Batman." In fact, McCain's lies have traveled the full spectrum from annoying to the sleazy. Even the New York Times editorial board are calling John McCain a liar!

Let's check out some of the things which Sheriff McCain has said;

• 38 million American's heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to off-shore oil-drilling and the building of new nuclear-power plants. Then McCain in his own acceptance speech said that Obama was opposed to both of these potential options. Perhaps not a lie and just a senior moment.
• McCain is big on talking about supporting and protecting American workers. Yet Sheriff McCain supported the foreign buyout of an American company in Wilmington, Ohio which led to the loss of thousands of jobs.
• McCain says that Obama favors a government-run health-care system ... another lie! In fact Obama wants a market-based system subsidized by the government whereby there would be increased government regulation of the drug and insurance industries.
• McCain really turned sleazy when he ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. In fact Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching. A big difference wouldn't you say?
• Obama, in talking about McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies, said that it was like putting "lipstick on a pig" McCain then accussed Obama of referring to Sara Palin. My personal opinion is that if the lipstick fits ..........couldn't resist that cheap shot.
• McCain is accussing the "elite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life. In fact Palin rumors are originating in the blogosphere and the tabloid press.
• McCain has been contrasting his ALLEGED FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTISE and toughness with Obama's inexperience and alleged weakness. McCain wants to "win" the Iraq war and face down the Iranians. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. The Iraqis said that they favored Obama's withdrawal plan, and surprise of surprises, Bush and the Boys started talking to the Iranians. So what does McCain do? He questions Obama's patriotism. saying that Obama would rather lose a war than lose the presidential election. HuH???
• When the financial crisis blew-up in America's face this week, Sheriff McCain in all of his sartotial splendor and righteous indignation promised, that when he went to Washington as president, he would clean-up all of the gypsies, tramps and thieves on Wall Street through stringent government over-sight and increased regulations. The trouble is that over the years Sheriff McCain has been one of the biggest proponents of deregulating Wall Street. In fact, John McCain was an effective gog in the wheel which set the financial deregulation table in the first place so that the Wall Street psychopaths in their Armani suits could dine like kings ... only this week they are dining-out on the taxpayers tab!

These are but a few examples. John McCain's campaign has been a never ending series of demeaning ads and a daily dose of widely documented and exposed McLies! This from a man who claimed that this was the type of election campaign which he did not want to run in the first place.

In my opinion, John McCain has raised serious questions about whether he has the character needed to lead America out of its current difficulties and challenges.

When a military "hero" is prepared to lie and to wallow in the mud in order to become president, he is not the principled maverick which he claims to be, but rather just another part of the sorry, self-serving Washington crowd which he claims not to be a part of. And that is probably the biggest McLie of all!

Ron Paul says No to John McCain!

Ron Paul has rejected John McCain's appeal for his endorsement.

Paul said; "the idea was that he (McCain) would do less harm than the other candidate."

I must say that John McCain missed a golden opportunity to hold his tongue!

John McCain Feels Your Pain!

EADS manufactures the Airbus. Recently the Defense Department awarded a $35 billion contract to EADS instead of to Boeing to build air fleet tankers.

By so doing, 44,000 well-paying U.S. jobs will now be winging their way to the Europeans ... but John McCain feels your pain!

It didn't seem to matter to John McCain and to the other Bozo's on the Beltway that the Boeing model is a more capable aircraft. That it produces 25% less carbon dioxide and offers a 24% fuel savings - fuel which you will be paying for courtesy of your income tax ... but John McCain still feels your pain!

John McCain (R-AZ) played a crucial role in blocking the deal going to Boeing!

Now if this wasn't stupid enough, after the deal was done and the contract for $35 billion was being handed over to the Europeans, your federal government has now decided to aggressively pursue legal action against EADS at the WTO for getting grants and loans at unfairly favorable rates, using illegal subsidies and winning exemptions from key national security laws .... outstanding due diligence fella's ... but John still feels your pain!

Is this another example of John McCain's Presidential ability? Oh Oh!

To suggest that John McCain and the deal-makers at the Defense Department are a bunch of idiots would be an insult to idiots!

Cha Ching in Congress!

• According to FedSpending.org 151 current members of Congress invested between $78.7 million and $195.5 million in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5million in 2006.
• The defense contractors received more than $275.6 billion in government contracts. That works out to $755 million dollars per day.
• The return for Congressional investors yielded them between $15.8 million and $62 million in income from 2004 through 2006 through dividends, capital gains, royalties and interest.
• Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees had between $32million and $44 million invested in companies with DOD contracts.
• The average share price of these corporations today is nearly twice what it was in 2004.

John McCain suggests that the Iraqi war could last another 10 years. Oh my ... belly-up to the trough boys!

The Cantankerous Conservative Poll Results

This month we ran two polls; one for my American readers, the other for my Canadian readers. Here are the reults:

The first poll asked ... "Which of the front-running Presidential candidates do you believe has the skills necessary to "turn-around" the American economy? This is how you voted:

Clinton 3.7%
McCain 25.9%
Obama 29.6%
None of the Above 40.8%

The second question asked; "If you are a Canadian, which one of the Presidential candidates do you believe would be most beneficial to Canada from an economic perspective? This is how Canadians voted:

Clinton 13.3%
McCain 40.0%
Obama 6.7%
None of the Above 40.0%