religion, oh god... gods!

# He has no significant economic, military, diplomatic or foreign policy experience.
# He has no significant executive or business experience.
# He has no proven leadership ability.
# He has claimed a hate mongering, racist, anti-American pastor as spiritual adviser for 20 years.
# He has been revealed to be arrogant, condescending and elitist toward middle and lower income Americans who are the very people whose cause he professes to champion.
# He claims to be a uniter even as he aggressively uses divisive, socialist economic class warfare tactics.
# He has associated with extremist radicals and shady characters for decades.
# He believes the solution to every problem is a government handout or program paid for by unAmerican soak the "rich" tax increases.
# He believes taxes should be raised on the 25% of Americans who are already paying 86% of Federal income taxes to give a tax cut to the 75% of Americans who are only paying 14% of federal income taxes. This is socialist wealth redistribution.
# He believes that income taxes should be raised on the top 25% of wage earners who are already paying 86% of federal personal income taxes to pay for 1. Handouts, health care and education for the poor, 2. tax cuts for the "overburdened" middle class, 3. carbon taxes to fix a global warming problem that does not exist, 4. handouts to the NEA, unions and trial lawyers for their political support, 5. more useless ethanol subsidies to farmers for their support, 6. giving citizenship and full food stamps, Medicare, health care and social security benefits to 15 million illegal aliens in exchange for their long term voting support, 7. fixing the Medicare/social security financial debacle, 8.) dubious "clean" energy initiatives that have no hope of materially reducing the 21 million barrels of oil America consumes every day, and 9. balancing the Federal budget. All of this is financially impossible and would destroy the economy, but he promises it anyway.
# He believes going into Iraq was a "massive" strategic blunder but he thinks abandoning Iraq to control by America's worst enemies and thereby triggering a huge oil price spike that would devastate the global economy is a brilliant strategy.
# He claims he can save America $125 billion per year by leaving Iraq even though leaving Iraq will cause America's annual oil costs to rise by many multiples of $125 billion.
# He believes massive tax increases, higher social spending, a massive and costly new health care entitlement and abandoning Iraq to chaos will spark economic growth when every credible economic theory indicates each of these measures would damage the economy.
# He believes it is a good idea to create a massive and costly new health care entitlement just as millions of baby boomers are retiring and placing ever increasing financial strains of Medicare and social security.
# He offers no credible economic growth agenda, but he does offer destructive, socialist tax and spend and isolationist programs to individual voter groups for their support with no regard for the very negative effects on the economy.
# He claims the 2003 Bush tax cuts should end in 2010 because they were an unfair tax break for the "rich" even though the bottom 75% of wage earners saw their share of Federal taxes drop from 16% to 14% between 2000 and 2005 while the top 25% saw their's increase from 84% to 86%.
# He claims the 2003 Bush tax cuts are the cause of high federal deficits even though federal income tax receipts increased by 51% from 2003 to 2006 while the federal deficit fell from $378 billion in 2003 to $168 billion in 2007.
# He blames the Republicans for the mortgage crisis even though there was no mortgage crisis in January 2007 when the Democrats took control of Congress.
# He blames Republicans for the economic slowdown even though the USA economy was booming (5% annualized GDP growth rate in 3Q2007) until 8 months after the Democrats took control of Congress and began demanding higher taxes, higher government spending & an idiotic retreat from Iraq that sparked a $55 per barrel increase in the price of oil that is costing Americans over $350 billion more per year.
# He blames Iraq costs for the economic slowdown even though Iraq is costing 75% of Americans less than $5 per person per month and Iraq costs have had a much smaller negative economic effect than Obama's policies on Iraq and taxes and federal spending.
# He believes it is a bad idea to continue to spend the $5 per person per month that 75% of Americans are investing in Iraq to deter huge further oil price increases that would wreck the economy and their financial well being while ideally positioning Al Qaeda and Iran to threaten the USA more aggressively.
# He supports energy independence based on unproven "clean" energy technologies that have limited potential, but he opposes huge incentives for new nuclear and clean coal power plants construction that represent the only realistic means to cost effectively reduce oil consumption.
# He rages against the economic and social injustices of America even as he personally benefits from living the American dream.
# He has abstained or avoided votes on tough issues throughout his political career to maintain his political viability.
# He has twice voted not to fund America's troops in Iraq to serve his political money masters at MoveOn.org.
# He talks the talk of uniting America even though he is an extremist liberal who has never walked the walk of achieving bipartisan consensus on anything.
# He relentlessly panders to workers on NAFTA in public even as he demeans their viewpoint in private.
# He believes tyrants and terrorists are worthy negotiation partners that would not threaten American interests if the USA abandons the Middle East.
# He believes it is okay to leave Iraq to control by Al Qaeda and Iran where they would be ideally positioned to intimidate, undermine, threaten and possibly achieve their goals of ousting the "apostate" Saudi regime who happens to control the only excess oil supply on earth.
# Just to further his personal political ambitions, he would recklessly risk America's national security and the financial well being of all Americans by abandoning Iraq to chaos as a political pay off to his big time money donors at MoveOn.org.


Wow, this motherfucker is really inspirational. Like I said if he wins we might as well burn the constitution.

* Government spending at all levels is out of control. Most Americans understand the problem of “earmarks,” commonly used by pork-minded congressmen to buy votes. But while earmarks are an outrageous abuse of the taxpayer’s money, they account for a very small percentage of federal spending. Over the past decade, total government spending (state, local and federal) has increased from $2.9 trillion to an astonishing $5.1 trillion in 2008. The $3.1 trillion federal budget submitted by President Bush for next year was greater than the combined 1998 spending of the federal government, all 50 states and over 87,000 local governments.
* The federal government must take the lead in making significant cuts in spending. Focusing on earmarks risks distracting attention from the broader problem of a government wildly wasting the money of hard-working Americans. Tens of billions of dollars in corporate welfare — essentially aid to dependent corporations — should be eliminated. Largesse for middle- and upper-income Americans, particularly so-called “entitlement” programs, must be cut. Billions in so-called defense spending, which protects America’s populous, prosperous allies rather than Americans, must be eliminated.
* Cutting spending would allow America to implement real tax reform. Our goal should be to reduce both the tax burden on Americans and the intrusion in their lives resulting from IRS enforcement of the income tax. One of the best approaches would be to adopt some form of a consumption tax, like a national sales tax, replacing the Internal Revenue Service and all federal income taxes as well as payroll taxes.
* It is not enough to eliminate the income tax. We also must repeal the 16th amendment, which authorizes Congress to levy an income tax. Without doing so, there would be an ever-present danger that a future Congress would attempt to bring back the income tax on top of the Fair Tax or any other alternative to the income tax.

* The United States was created for the purpose of securing the liberties of its people. The colonists fled oppressive old world governments. The nation’s founders drafted the Constitution to sharply limit the federal government’s powers. The horrors perpetrated by the many collectivist tyrannies of the 20th Century demonstrate that the danger of government, any government, violating individual liberty is greater today than when America was founded.
* Unfortunately, in recent years government at all levels has shown growing disrespect for the Constitution, particularly the Fourth Amendment that protects citizens from unlawful searches and seizures. The sustained government attack on the sanctity of the rights of the individual, including their right to be secure in their privacy and property, has created a moral and Constitutional crisis. America’s elected officials at all levels must renew their respect for the law and work to protect the rights of individuals.
* The place to start is restoring the writ of Habeas Corpus, which protects against unlawful detention, and thus stands at the core of individual liberty. Article 1 of the Constitution provides that this right shall not be suspended without clear and necessary cause, such as during an invasion. In passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Congress, pushed by President George W. Bush, effectively ended this protection within America. The Constitutional protections of Habeas Corpus should not be sacrificed so easily.
* Finally, an increasingly intrusive Nanny State is watching over our nation, meddling in the lives of its citizens. New measures, often rushed through legislatures and regulatory agencies with little consideration or thought, seek to control ever more aspects of people's lives. Government limits individual actions and choices, from the way in which we educate our children to the food that we eat, from the type of light bulbs that illuminate our living rooms to the benefits that we receive for working. It is time to again trust individuals to make their own decisions. At the core of libertarianism is a trust in and respect for the personal choices of every individual. All Americans should be free to decide what is best for themselves and their families. At the same time, they must bear personal responsibility for the consequences of the decisions that they make, whether those decisions prove to be good or bad.

* The current platform of the Libertarian Party paints a bright and accurate picture regarding the issue of immigration: "Our borders are currently neither open, closed, nor secure. This situation restricts the labor pool, encouraging employers to hire undocumented workers, while leaving those workers neither subject to nor protected by the law. A completely open border allows foreign criminals, carriers of communicable diseases, terrorists and other potential threats to enter the country unchecked. Pandering politicians guarantee access to public services for undocumented aliens, to the detriment of those who would enter to work productively, and increasing the burden on taxpayers."
* Resolving this issue will be a challenge for America as it means that we must be aggressive in securing our borders while at the same time, vigilantly fighting the nanny state that seeks to coddle even those capable of providing for their own personal prosperity.
* Until all governments are willing to take a unified front to confront this problem, it is the duty of the federal government to secure our borders from criminals, terrorists and those seeking to take advantage of the American taxpayer.

* For far too long and at the cost of American blood and treasure, our great military has been too willingly and quickly used for purposes other than national defense. Our fighting men and women deserve better and the integrity of our nation must be restored.
* Our National Defense policy must renew a commitment to non-intervention. We are not the world's police force and our long, yet recently tarnished, tradition of respecting the sovereignty of other nations is necessary, not from only a moral standpoint, but to regain the respect of the world as a principled and peaceful nation.
* The proper use of force is clear. If attacked, the aggressor will experience firsthand the skillful wrath of the American fighting man. However, invading or initiating force against another nation based upon perceived threats and speculative intelligence is simply un-American. We are better than the policy of pre-emptive warfare.