"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005, (the very month her husband was sworn in as Senator) when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/09/hospital_offici.html
Is there a point here, Pabst? Are you trying to draw a comparison here that will reflect more favorably on one candidate than the other? And if so, then please explain.
I saw Obama questioned about his policy of raising taxes and how it has been shown time after time that lowering taxes is better for the economy and better for everybody. What he said was essentially that his voters were more interested in class jealousy than the overall good. Rich people have to be noble in character indeed to give away all the money they do to charity while all the politicians are stirring up race and class hatred...
Obama was ordained as Golden Child by the Establishment because there's so much dirt on him. Likewise, McCain, Hillary, Gouliani or whatever front runner mainstream media billed as "Electable". I agree, Obama wasn't born into aristocracy like these other 3rd generation Washington types. But the fact Obama was adopted by the Establishment brands him Elitist because it will be the Elite's agenda that gets pasted on his conveniently-vacant platform of unspecified "Change" and mindless feel-goodism. Think about it. Obama has no plans to change anything of consequence. He has no plans to leave Iraq. He'll bomb Iran. Cuddled up to Israel. No plans to close the border. Nary a peep on the North American Union. Plans to jack capital gains. Oh, and wants to mobilize a MILLION pubescent teenagers as a National Stazi a la Hitler Youth Brigades for the "Homeland". Obama is soft-tyranny re-packaged for the American sheeple. Republicans sell Fear. Democrats sell Protection and Safety. The end result is the same. Less Freedom, more tax. Soon, it'll be a Police State. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sEhzvyblUy4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sEhzvyblUy4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
And Obama was a Muslim, attended Koranic classes at a Mosque. And I'm not for McCain. McCain is Bush 2.0 . Doesn't matter who wins at this point. Look for another inaugural terror attack and inherited war to keep the American sheeple fooled while the Government continues to rape and pillage Freedom and Liberty. New "enemies" our Government Masters will save us from: phony specters of environmental catastrophe, white Al Queda in every neighborhood, gun-toting Patriots and Constitutional "radicals". More divide and conquer. Misdirection, manufactured crisis and controlled solutions to mange the population . "Its for our safety...." Famous last words.
Its a shame more Americans can't see through the ridiculous two-party cheerleading that doubles as national politcs. Fear Mongering is what the Democrats AND Republicans do. One does it with the carrot (to save the Children, we must xyz....). The other, with the stick (we're all going to die if we don't xyz....). It seems you haven't figured that out yet.... What I do? Tell the truth. Reality IS scary, unfortunately. Things are not what they seem. And this two-party charade is really just window-dressing for a much larger Agenda being thrust on America, much less the World. All these scare-tactics, hyped-wars and Government-Nanny programs, are meant and designed to do one thing: consolidate power monopolies under easily-administrated Government Control. Theres a reason why every "Free" Nation in the World is moving briskly towards European-style Socialism or free-market Communism There really is an Agenda for Global Government and *both* Dems and Repubs are totally on-board. Why? Because the Bankers and top industrial powers that own this Country have dictated that. The Game Plan now is how to usurp Americans from their hardwon freedom while convincing the sheeple its in their "best interest" to do so. Obama will be a puppet. Just like Bush. If he goes AWOL and grows some balls, the "Establishment" will assassinate him. Just like JFK.
You really believe Bill Gates is the richest man in the world? Well most people do, I used to also. Do some research on the Royal families of Europe, the Vatican, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Vanderbuilts, Carnegies, Warburgs, Morgans.