{"id":255,"date":"2008-11-03T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-11-03T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:59:09","slug":"my_final_preelection_post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"My Final Pre-Election Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

My final pre-election post comes from the New York Post<\/a>–you remember, the newspaper that was kicked off Obama’s campaign plane.  From that editorial:<\/p>\n

“Barack Obama<\/a>‘s record is as devoid of substance today as it was when his campaign began. Behind his soaring eloquence lies a tissue-thin resume and some disturbing personal associations. <\/p>\n

Moreover, he and his running-mate, Joe Biden, represent a Democratic Party overly obligated to special interests like trial lawyers and rapacious public-employee unions. <\/p>\n

Even as the economy is being rocked, Obama advocates a fundamental rewriting of the tax code that – far from cutting taxes for “95 percent” of Americans, as he promises – would dramatically raise<\/em> tax rates, coupled with $650 billion in tax-credit-driven hikes in entitlement and other spending. <\/p>\n

And that is likely just the starting point – with the Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid Congress pushing hard to enhance the handouts while raising taxes further and slashing defense spending.”<\/p>\n

It’s up to America to decide what we want.  That’s what democracy (actually, we are not a democracy–we are a representative republic) is about. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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