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Obama's employment application list for work in his administration.  The one that was going around that asked all the questions about personal emails to what you might have thought about.

Clearly all a charade because one of the big dogs, Commerce Secretary appointee,Bill Richardson, is under a grand jury investigation on how political donors were awarded state contracts in his home state of New Mexico.

Wouldn't all of this have come out during the application process?   All those invasive illegal questions made for nice window dressing for future applicants and gave the public the charade that only the honest, clean, law abiding, need apply for the Obama Administration. 

And on the other charade, the planned stimulus package that Obama wants on his signing desk Jan. 20 right after the inauguration thing, is going to take a bit longer.   Yes,  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says it will take time to "review" it, and the timeline would be delayed till mid-February.  Say it ain't so,  they're going to read this one?  What about the last one.   When asked about the number ($700billion) Paulson said, "we didn't really have any number in mind but we knew it had to be really big.

So now they need more time to review something that doesn't even exist.  But they know there's going to be many pages of ......uh......stuff on them to review.    We know we're going to pass it, but we just need more time to give the illusion that we're working really hard on it. 

It is becoming even more clear as to why I don't vote.  There isn't one that would get my approval to be a part of this charade.  

Toplikar, the guy caught stealing his opponents signs in south Jo Co.  How cool is that?  Is there a better political ad/news story running? 

I mean, hey no bones about it, you're voting for a thief.  Everyone else has their opponent telling the audience what a dirt bag they are and Toplikar sends his own message.  Talk about honesty in telling everyone what a thief you are,  this is tops.  If I was in his district, he would be my man.  He need not stop at county commissioner or whatever he's running for, there are much higher  positions, all the way to President, that need his services.  Skip the AIG people....they're all claiming innocence too.

I even like his response on tape when he got caught.  "Well he (Hayden, his opponent) is messing with my signs."   No proof, but seemingly bad enough behavior to warrant it himself!  Again, a true politician.  Bet he wins hands (sticky) down! 

And the police,  the best they can do is petty theft and maybe tresspassing.  A small price for the free campaign ad.

 

 

So Palin finds out by reading in the newspaper that the McCain/Palin campaign is conceding Michigan and its 17 delegates to Obama.  They're scaling back the campaign, cutting back funds, advertising, and staff in the state.

Palin says- per pg 2 on the Kansas City Star 10/4, that "she and Todd (hubby) would be glad to go to Michigan"  to stump for the campaign, and that when she found out about it by reading in the paper, "fired off a bunch of emails."

So McCain:   1)Obviously never tells Palin---and I've seen her name on half of all the campaign signs, that the show is exiting from Michigan.  2) Doesn't  pay much attention to details of the value of an entire state.  3) Has his mind made up on the direction of the campaign without consulting the other "name" on all the blue signs.

One can tell how a person is by where they've been and how they've acted in the past.  Not a good omen for the very few keeping track of things.

 

 

I don't vote, never have,but know what's going on.  The election to me is largely a sporting event, and up till now, hard to predict a winner. But:

John McCain is toast. 

Down 7 points in the polls, and it's late.

Giving up on Michigan--quite a few electoral votes there!

Not doing well at all in the swing states.

He's too old and his VP is too young.

This bailout has hurt him, mostly with his wishy-washy I'll suspend my campaign and won't debate untill it's cleared up mentality.   Well, the House hasn't passed anything yet but probably will.

Obama in the eyes of America is probably the lesser of two evils.....but won't be able to produce on very many of his campaign tv commercials.

If only the next candidate 4 years from now would save them and re-run them to really show the American people how little one person can do to change anything.

President Bush has done well on my taxes. 

Obama......show me the money!