The Next US President: McCain or Obama?

[Rance]

Paylin is avoiding the question from the moderator - she's not very good in answering and nailing it! ug kay Boy Abunda pa chika kaayo instead she's very good in saying yadda yadda Ima soccer mom and being in a middle class family she know what are the issues discussed in the kitchen table but no wonder she owns a business with 6 figure income may pa adto siyas Alaska - btw pila kabook tawo nag puyos Alaska? mas daghan pa ang bear kontras taw didto sa?

[mannyamador]

More on claims and facts in the Palin-Biden debate...

TAX CUTS FOR RICH

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sen. John McCain was proposing $300 billion a year in tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals. Sen. Barack Obama said the same thing in the presidential debate last Friday.

The figure is based on calculations from the Obama campaign and from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. They looked at McCain tax proposals beyond the extension of the tax cuts passed early in the Bush administration, which cost roughly $110 billion a year.

The policy center said it could not put a precise dollar figure on the McCain proposals because the senator's tax plan was not fully detailed and it was impossible to calculate how much of the tax relief would go to middle-class and low-income taxpayers.

The Obama campaign has used the $300 billion figure for months, but it is based on suppositions and projections, not fact.

[mannyamador]

Democratic Platform Promises More Abortion Overseas/Republican Reject Pro-Abortion UN Treaties
By Austin Ruse

(WASHINGTON, DC – C-FAM) The platforms of the two major American parties show a stark difference in how each presidential candidate would approach United Nations (UN) issues. The Republican platform explicitly rejects various UN treaties while the Democratic platform makes clear its support for the agenda of wider access to abortion and a strengthening of the UN system of enforcing abortion rights.

The Republican platform rejects by name two UN treaties that have been used by UN Committees, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote abortion -- the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- and supports the continued defunding of groups overseas that promote or perform abortions.

Specifically the GOP platform says, "Because the UN has no mandate to promote radical social engineering, any effort to address global social problems must respect the fundamental institutions of marriage and family. We assert the rights of families in all international programs and will not fund organizations involved in abortion. We strongly support the long-held policy of the Republican Party known as the 'Mexico City policy,’ which prohibits federal monies from being given to non-governmental organizations that provide abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries. We reject any treaty or agreement that would violate those values. That includes the UN convention on women's rights, signed in the last months of the Carter Administration, and the UN convention on the rights of the child."

This is the first time the Republican platform has specifically rejected these treaties and is likely a reflection of the increasingly radical rulings of the committees empowered to monitor state compliance with them. CEDAW has been used repeatedly by its committee to promote abortion.

The Democratic platform does not explicitly support either treaty but, according to the National Organization for Women, Democratic nominee Barack Obama supports United States (US) ratification of the CEDAW treaty, as does vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden. The platform explicitly supports the ideas contained in these treaties and resurrects a slogan used by Hilary Clinton at the Beijing Women's Conference, "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights." This was a rallying cry for abortion at the Beijing conference in 1995.

The platform states "We must make the United Nations human rights organs more effective, energetic, and effective." Critics charge that the human rights bodies at the UN are already too energetic and even aggressive in promoting a left-wing social agenda. Critics further charge that these human rights bodies undermine international law by ceding power from sovereign states to bodies made up largely of NGO representatives.

The Democratic platform also promises to begin funding pro-abortion groups overseas by overturning long-standing US policy against it. The platform also promises that the Democratic president would return to funding the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) which the US Government defunded because of the agency’s links to China’s coercive one-child policy.

[Rance]

Is abortion a top 5 problem in America? the problem of abortion is a worldwide issue.

[Gwynhuever]

More on claims and facts in the Palin-Biden debate...

TAX CUTS FOR RICH

Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, said Sen. John McCain was proposing $300 billion a year in tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals. Sen. Barack Obama said the same thing in the presidential debate last Friday.

The figure is based on calculations from the Obama campaign and from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. They looked at McCain tax proposals beyond the extension of the tax cuts passed early in the Bush administration, which cost roughly $110 billion a year.

The policy center said it could not put a precise dollar figure on the McCain proposals because the senator's tax plan was not fully detailed and it was impossible to calculate how much of the tax relief would go to middle-class and low-income taxpayers.

The Obama campaign has used the $300 billion figure for months, but it is based on suppositions and projections, not fact.

tax plan details? dia ra ay...see the graph for yourselves....that shows you asa padong ang tax cuts ni mccain he he he

Obama and McCain Tax Proposals - washingtonpost.com

[Gwynhuever]

...in a nutshell Obama's plan gives the biggest cuts to those who make the least, while McCain would give the largest cuts to the very wealthy. For the approximately 147,000 families that make up the top 0.1 percent of the income scale, (mga super rich na jud ni sila nga bracket)...the difference between the two plans is stark. While McCain offers a $269,364 tax cut, Obama would raise their taxes, on average, by $701,885 - a difference of nearly $1 million.

that is a quote from the washington post....the graph shows the details...please click on the link i provided above ....

[diatabz]

When you decide to raise taxes for Americans who make over $250,000 annually, you sure as hell get my vote. The disparity between wealthy and poor Americans is ridiculous. Too long have the middle class suffered under Bush. In spite of the recession the 1% of ultra rich Americans are still raking in money. Where were Bush's promises of job growth after the tax cuts for the rich? McCain wants another four years of that, go figure.

[EZRA]

I wonder if their tax-plans are gonna get revised since the "save CHINA and Wall Street" bill has been passed and signed yesterday.

[KRS-One]

When you decide to raise taxes for Americans who make over $250,000, you sure as hell get my vote. The disparity between wealthy and poor Americans is ridiculous. Too long have the middle class suffered under Bush. In spite of the recession the 1% of ultra rich Americans are still raking in money. Where were Bush's promises of job growth after the tax cuts for the rich? McCain wants another four years of that, go figure.

couldn't have said it better myself.

[Dorothea]

Sexy Sarah surprised me. She didn't fall flat on her face, and did a lot, lot better than people expected. Joe Biden did well too, and raised some very interesting points. Still, Hillary will make a better president than McCain and Obama combined. Sayang gyud.