“I Don’t Who’s Writing Your Questions”

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Because a) evidently women are incapable of formulating intelligent questions all by themselves and b) all women should be in the tank for Obama/Biden.
Didn’t she read the memo?

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  1. “What do you say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden”
    hahah – of all the examples of socialist democracies, she picked Sweden? Barack really would be Jesus 2.0 if he could raise America’s standard of living to Sweden’s level (not possible).

  3. Forget it you neo-cons out there, if you think for one minute that you can get anything meaningful out of the great O campaign this close to the coronation… errr election.
    The fact that he has threatened any media that hasn’t toed the line, from putting stations on the “will not play with” list to siccing state attourny’s general (Dems of course) to look into anyone airing an ad that the O machine doesn’t like, hasn’t have a thing to do with the fact that this emperor-elect wannabe has no clothes.
    Has anyone looked into how this poor boy managed to get into an ivy league university ($$$$) or how the editor of the Harvard Law Review hasn’t had anything published is said prestigious journal.
    I feel for the people of North America if this secret agenda prima donna is elected. I said North America too because with OBama, Pelosi and Reed all up to the hog trough at once, don’t think that Canada will be immune.

  4. “Barack really would be Jesus 2.0 if he could raise America’s standard of living to Sweden’s level (not possible). ”
    Ebla: It’s funny, I dimly remember some articles from a couple of years back that Missisipi had a higher standard of living than Sweden , as these things are usually measured.
    I’ll try to find the article, but the point being is that you’d be surprised at how well americans live compared to the rest of the (developed) world if it comes down to brass tacks.
    Having said that, I’ll admit that S.o.l. doesn’t cover “art de vivre” and some people with lessor “s.o.l.’s” live nicer lives that those with theohetically higher ones, but your comment is potentially full of it.

  5. I share much of the Right’s view that the big O may be disastrous for America and, by extension, the rest of the continent should he and the Dems attempt to make the US more insular.
    But Andrew Coyne’s column in this week’s MacLeans about Canada and the EU forging ahead on a trade deal offers hope. He suggests that Canada may be the catalyst for global trade revitaliztion. Even the Toronto Star opines that it’s an idea ‘whose time has come’ (or words to that effect).
    Imagine Canada and the EU in a trade deal. India and China would want to play too. That would force the Americans to come on side as well, thereby neutralizing O’s protectionist trade policies. Trade, wealth, and international relations begin to improve. The world becomes a better place. Rose coloured glasses? Maybe.
    All because of a Tory minority. Who would have thunk it…

  6. “Barack really would be Jesus 2.0 if he could raise America’s standard of living to Sweden’s level (not possible).”
    Ebla
    If the U.S. Navy, American defense spending being the U.S.’s chief expenditure, wasn’t safeguarding the seabourn transport of oil from the Middle East to Europe, Sweden or any other EU country wouldn’t have ANY standard of living worth speaking of about for comparison.
    And Jesus of Nazareth didn’t raise any people’s standard of living so suggesting Obama would be “Jesus 2.0” if he raised America’s standard of living is just offensive anti-Christian bigotry.

  9. Compare that interview and Biden’s response to what has been going on with regards to what Palin has been subjected to by the media.
    At least she responded to the questions. Albeit, only to be visciously attack for the answers. But she actually answered the questions instead of arrogantly laughing it off and insulting the interviewer.

  10. I just LOVE Biden’s attitude here. “How dare you ask me such questions?!”
    Obama’s not a “secret” Marxist, he’s a frickin’ wide open sign carrying public one. Biden’s lying through his teeth with that whole “tax breaks for the middle class” riff. She nailed him square, and he f-ing lied in her face.
    The DemocRats are planning a major tax and spend campaign. If they win the White House, they’ll be able to do it. That will suck for the USA and it’ll suck even harder for Canada. We do 80+% of our business with them, so if they aren’t doing any business…

  11. My wife uses the word “pretentious” to describe Barrak Obama.
    But, I think the word has a much wider application: to the entire Democratic campaign.
    Does this man and his supporters really believe that a catechism of Political Science 101 sound bites, most of which have a well-documented history of failure, is going to launch a new era of social justice, peace and prosperity ?
    The pretentiousness is breathtaking.

  12. Beguiling curves of the Swedish model
    Originally published 10:27 p.m., April 25, 2004, updated 12:00 a.m., April 26, 2004
    When considering the Swedish model, one can be forgiven for thinking of a comely statuesque blond with blue eyes. However, to economists and policy junkies, the Swedish model refers to the “third way” between socialism and capitalism many on the American left laud as the ideal.
    Does the Swedish model work as advertised? According to a new paper by the highly regarded Swedish economist, Nils Karlson, the “model has become quite different from what was intended and to what many people still believe to be the case.”
    The extent of the failure of the Swedish model are both shocking and little known. For example, no new net jobs have been produced in the Swedish private sector since 1950. (By contrast, the U.S. created more than 60 million new private-sector jobs during the same period, from 52 million in 1950 to about 115 million in 2002.) “None of top 50 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been started since 1970.”
    Again, contrast this with the U.S. where many of our biggest companies had not been born or known of in 1970, such as Microsoft, Intel, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Cisco, etc., Mr. Karlson’s litany of failures of the Swedish model include: “Sweden has dropped from fourth to 14th place in 2002 among the OECD countries (i.e., affluent industrialized countries) in terms of GDP per capita since 1970.”
    In addition, “well over 1 million people out of a work force of around four million did not work in 2003 but lived on various kinds of public welfare programs, such as, pre-pension schemes, unemployment benefits, sick-leave programs, etc.” Finally, “a majority of the adult population are either employed by the state or clients of the state in a sense that they have a majority of the income coming from public subsidies.”
    A half-century ago, Sweden was a great success story. One hundred fifty years ago, Sweden began a transformation from a poor agricultural society to a rich industrial society. The economy was deregulated, taxes were lowered and tariffs abolished. Modern limited liability company laws and a patent system were adopted. The result was from 1890 to 1950, Sweden was the world’s fastest-growing economy, and developed a number of globally known and respected companies. During this time, Sweden was a low-tax country where the total tax burden reached only 21 percent of gross domestic product by 1950 (currently total taxes are approximately 30 percent of GDP in the U.S.).
    The outlines of the Swedish “third way” welfare state began appearing in the 1950s. As late as 1960, taxing and government spending in Sweden, as a percent of GDP, was only slightly larger than in the U.S. But then the welfare statists went into full bloom. Taxing and spending surged in Sweden during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s until the mid-1990s, when tax revenues were more than 50 percent of GDP and government spending had reached a whopping 66 percent by 1995 (a peak from which it has slightly declined).
    The rise in taxing and spending was coupled with increased market regulation, “social engineering” and state planning. All the taxing, spending and regulation had a number of unintended consequences, such as undermining volunteer organizations as people increasingly turned to the state for help. Job security legislation made employers more reluctant to hire. Fewer new firms were created, new inventions and innovations declined, and real costs of providing goods and services rose. Increasing taxes on labor undermined work incentives and increased the “black” or underground economy.
    In addition to cataloging the economic decline resulting from the rise in the Swedish welfare state, Mr. Karlson argues that perhaps the most damaging consequence of the “third way” is the loss of “dignity” among the Swedish people. Mr. Karlson takes a classical approach and argues every individual has a “unique value” and a “good society” requires individual liberty, personal responsibility and respect for the liberty of others.
    As the welfare state undermines the ability to engage in productive activity to support oneself, and individual liberty and responsibility, there will be a corresponding loss in dignity. This loss of dignity debilitates both the individual and society.
    The Swedish model teaches us good intentions are not enough when trying to create a humane, compassionate and prosperous society. Failure to fully understand the economic and social consequences of policies that increasingly regulate and tax productive activity was the Swedish model’s fatal flaw.
    Unfortunately, this same ignorance of the consequences of taxing, spending and regulation is rampant among far too many of the American political and media class. The good news is the Swedish model is not totally useless; it is a fine model of what not to do if only we can get the American people and their opinion leaders to understand it.
    Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.
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  13. Obama clearly understands that if you make people think they are thinking they will love you–if you make them think they will hate you!! He is Trudeau reincarnate–an empty suit but a master of the sound bite.

  15. Sweden once had and may still have, the highest suicide rate in the world.
    And as I heard a comedian say: Yet the bothered to build the world’s safest car.

  16. You guys are really reaching with this one.
    She went on and on with the most preposterous questions and finally he asks her who is writing her questions. Which, as stupid as the questions were, he nevertheless took the time to answer. Quoting Marx in a question? This is far-out-of-the-mainstream uber-rightwing blogosphere conspiracy stuff she was asking… and it is the very reason McCain-Palin are going to get their asses kicked next week. Not because Obama-Biden are better or worse than McCain-Palin, but because conservatives are so very very disconnected with the reality of everyday life faced by Americans (here in Canada, Harper almost lost the election for the same reason – good thing for him he faced an even more disconnected opponent).
    (And by the way Greek, the anchor rarely writes her own questions so it is hardly an insult to question questionable questions.)

  17. Come to think of it, this post and these comments are the best example I can find today of how disconnected conservatives are and how they are falling very quickly into the kind of deep hole that kept the Democrats out of power for so long. This penchant for focusing on ancillary attacks instead of substance.
    Call it Obama Derangement Syndrome. The difference with Bush Derangement Syndrome – which was stupid because it was self-defeating for the Dems – was that Bush had to lie about Iraq and go and get thousands killed in an unneccessary war before people started hating him.
    Obama has done very little in his life – which is a huge weak point, agreed – but certainly not the kinds of things to generate such bitter hatred.
    No wonder Obama-Biden are going to crush McCain-Palin on November 4.

  18. Ted @ 10:34 am –
    “No wonder Obama-Biden are going to crush McCain-Palin on November 4.”
    And the United States will have a defacto communist as their president, perhaps a tad softer than Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.10:34 am –

  19. ‘but because conservatives are so very very disconnected with the reality of everyday life…’
    hahhhahaahahaaha
    That’s rich…

  20. Women are very capable of formulating questions by themselves — just not this woman…or the moron that actually did write the questions. McCain is really in trouble if that video is expected to help sway public consciousness in his favour in any way…

  21. Women are very capable of formulating questions by themselves — just not this woman…or the moron that actually did write the questions. McCain is really in trouble if that video is expected to help sway public consciousness in his favour in any way…
    And, if there was a memo, I doubt she was able to read it…

  22. If Obama and Biden are elected on November the 4’th then America is finished….
    this is the most crucial election in America’s history and to have a marxist leading in the polls is totally insane…

  23. “Not because Obama-Biden are better or worse than McCain-Palin, but because conservatives are so very very disconnected with the reality of everyday life faced by Americans (here in Canada, Harper almost lost the election for the same reason – good thing for him he faced an even more disconnected opponent).”
    Please Ted. Enlighten us on the reality of everyday life faced by the common American and Canadian.

  24. And could you explain how Harper almost lost the election because I certainly didn’t see that in the weeks leading up to it. And from the election results, Harper may be more in tuned with the realities of the average Canadian than you think.

  25. It is a myth that the Scandinavian countries have a better standard of living than we do. While their incomes look impressive, this is negated by the high cost of everything they buy. This is totally anecdotal, but a guy at work has an uncle in the old country, Norway. He is a foreman at a smelter. The government takes over half of his pay, and he walks the 2 miles to work. Our secretary at the refinery where I work in Montana drives a (used) Lexus.
    I read an article a while ago by an American who moved to Norway. He likes it ok there, but he is amazed that most people there pack a sack lunch to work. Meals out at cafes are reserved for special occasions because the prices are so high. I would much rather work in a lower tax environment myself, and the rampant welfarism in Europe is toxic to their societies anyway.

  26. Jeez, one reporter in America asks Biden a couple tough questions and the Demos are whining. Imagine the fun Putin, etc. will have with these wimps.

  27. Ok, just for some definitional clarity. Generally Marxist refers to those who want to see a radical redistribution of ASSETS. Reform liberals are those who want to see a redistribution of INCOME to ameliorate income inequality. Liberals are those who do not in general favor changing distributive (income) outcomes (inequality) generated by free-market processes. Let me transcribe those three categories into their approximate popular usages:
    Marxist = socialist
    reform-liberal = social democrat
    In the US pejoratively called liberals
    liberal = conservative / neoliberal

  28. His crocodile smile in the beginning shows he assumes by this point in the campaign that EVERYONE in the media is in the tank for Obama, so he’s in safe territory. Well, Joe, almost everyone is in the tank for Obama. There are a few true journalists out there. You have to learn to deal with a couple of tough questions once in a while, loser.

  29. >> “Enlighten us on the reality of everyday life faced by the common American and Canadian.”
    I think you are mistaking my criticism of conservatives disconnectedness with taking the position that Democrats/Liberals are connected. I would say, during these elections, the Dems are showing they are more connected to the everyday concerns of Mr. and Mrs. Frontporch American (that’s not “connected” just “more connected”), while the Liberals in Canada showed they were less connected (similarly, that doesn’t mean Harper understands or shares the concerns of Mr. and Mrs. Frontporch Canada, which he clearly doesn’t, just that Dion was that much further out).
    Case in point: the conservative obsession with Ayers and ACORN. Are these or could these be issues? Yes, absolutely. To the extent conservatives and conservative media make them? No, not at all. Americans are clearly worried about the economy, their savings and their jobs. The more the Republicans focus on anything away from that, the more they show how out of touch they are.
    Case in point: Dion hands Harper a golden goose with his Green Shift in a shifting economy (how out of touch could you be to think this policy was a winner right now). Deceivin’ Stephen then lectures us Canadians that we aren’t concerned about our jobs in this economy but only our investments. How out of touch can you be, especially in Ontario and Quebec where resides the majority of the Canadian population.
    Ideologues will seem more in touch with your average voter when they are out of government, but the distance screams out when they get into government.

  31. The reason Biden becomes impatient with the line of questioning is because it’s closing in on happy hour.

  32. Other than in Toronto and Quebec, I’d say the conservatives won big time. I’d say it’s Toronto and Quebec who are out of touch not the other way around.

  33. I think this woman asked good questions, they’re certainly ones that I’d like to hear answered (considering that Biden didnt really answer any of them, he simply claimed insult and dodged around the questions).
    Biden’s comment about the top 1% bringing in 21% of the wealth has a second part, the top 1% pays almost 70% of the taxes and the top 50% pays 99.8% of the taxes. Why does the “middle class” (trans: bottom 20%) deserve a rebate? Why should I be willing to spread my wealth with people who dont want to take initiative and get an educationso they can get a better job when I worked and saved all through high school so I could go to university and finish university so I could get a better job and make more money? Seems kind of stupid to ask someone who works hard to give up half of their earnings up so someone who is too lazy to get a job or an education can sit on their duff.

  35. “This is far-out-of-the-mainstream uber-rightwing blogosphere conspiracy stuff she was asking… ”
    I think your comment has been overtaken by events.

  36. Ted Said; “I think you are mistaking my criticism of conservatives disconnectedness with taking the position that Democrats/Liberals are connected. I would say, during these elections, the Dems are showing they are more connected to the everyday concerns of Mr. and Mrs. Frontporch …”
    Yea yea, let’s talk about the Democrats connection to their Constituents Mr. and Mrs. Frontporch, the ones you seem to know so well, like the ones who can’t afford housing, collect Gov’t Welfare, recieve food vouchers, get FREE passage on the Buses, won’t work, but have an IPhone and a pair of Nike’s and last known recent address was base-of-bridge I-34W.
    Hmmm, one can see how Republicans cannot get connected to this lot.
    ,

  37. Devin, there are more CPC in Atlantic Canada than last time. Big can be such a relative term.

  38. “Imagine Canada and the EU in a trade deal.”
    Nope, can’t. Cost of transportation from Europe means no matter what, the Asian product analogue(copy, or even source item) will be significantly cheaper. Pesky socialist structures are so expensive to maintain. Maybe the trade deal is for a few boatloads of disaffected European immigrants and erstwhile eurocentric dilettantes.
    Devin – “or are we lowly Nova Scotians so irrelevant as to not warrant consideration in your view?”
    Pretty much. Don’t take it personally though, in our electoral system, you’re not the only largely insignificant region. We might not miss poutine, but the lobster will likely keep you around….

  40. “If the U.S. Navy, American defense spending being the U.S.’s chief expenditure, wasn’t safeguarding the seabourn transport of oil from the Middle East to Europe, Sweden or any other EU country wouldn’t have ANY standard of living worth speaking of about for comparison.”
    Oz, that’s my point.
    “And Jesus of Nazareth didn’t raise any people’s standard of living so suggesting Obama would be “Jesus 2.0″ if he raised America’s standard of living is just offensive anti-Christian bigotry.”
    That wasn’t my intention at all. Many people (including Obama himself) have lampooned the messiah-like following surrounding him. My comment was alluding to that.

  43. Posted by: Texas Canuck at October 27, 2008 8:24 AM
    Reed all up to the hog trough at once, don’t think that Canada will be immune.
    You know it, & than some. If America becomes socialist, you can bet your shorts the anti-American neo-Marxist faction will stop agitating against the US. Will instead talk about world government! Of course under the Obama messiah. Used to be they hated England like America UNtill after www2, when it was socialised.
    They will work together all the activists too keep us down.ACORN after all is here.

  45. That was hilarious!! I think Biden crapped himself! He started off looking like he was waiting for a nice slow one across the middle of the plate, and instead when she brushed him back he almost swallowed his tongue.
    I am truly amazed that there are so many people with such a poor grasp of history and what happens to a democracy when people start asking government to wipe their asses.

  46. While I detest Biden and Democrats, something about the “interview” makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t know of the program featured in the video but she’s a news anchor, no? If so then she reminds me of CTV’s Jacqueline Milczarek and CBC’s Suhanna Meharchand and their attack-laden questions against CPC representatives and supporters. Worse for the CBC because it’s taxpayer-financed of course. Both news anchors asked a lot of “slanted questions” (questions aren’t neutral by definition, but you know what I mean) throughout our election, letting emotion and wishful thinking get the better of them, pumping up non-stories such as the “puffin” and the “plagiarism” story, attempting to make both issues out to be campaign changers, trying to get as much mileage as they possible could from them. (As an aside, in the case of CTV, if I was Harper, I would’ve slapped a lawsuit on them for continuing to run the banner “HARPER PLAGIARISM SCANDAL” hours AFTER a speech writer took responsibility and resigned for it.)
    Anyway, while I’m a conservative and support McCain in their election, something about this kind of interrogation by news anchors bothers me… talk show hosts are fine to do it because they’re paid to have a bias… as well the guest could know more easily the situation they’re deciding or deciding not to put themselves into.
    Great questions asked though, but more appropriate, I think, for someone else to ask. I hate it when it’s done by news anchors pushing a liberal agenda so I can’t support it the other way either. I think when we applauded it we’re no better than those we criticize for precisely the same thing.

  47. I think the questions had too hard a partisan edge to them, but the “meat” of the questions was entirely within the realm of fair game.
    I’m no Obama/Biden fan. But, I thought Biden handled himself well, and gave back as good as he got.

  48. “Biden handled himself well, and gave back as good as he got”
    Sure, as long as words don’t mean anything. For instance, you have to believe that writing checks to people who pay no taxes is a tax cut, and that things were great under the tax rates of the seventies.
    You also have to believe that “economic justice” means to take money from those who worked for it and give it to those who won’t. Well, they do work for it, they vote Democrat.

  49. Wait a second… wait a second… I got it!
    True story : Her husband… is a GOP Media Consultant.
    Man, poking holes in SDA rhetoric hasn’t been this easy ever. Thanks for playing, The Greek.

  50. Whatever johnny. It is pretty apparent from what Obama said in 2001, that the question of Marxism is legitimate. Or are you saying that it is not legitimate to ask Obama – Biden hostile questions? How are you going to get Putin to stick to this protocol?

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