Archive for October 7th, 2008

Oct
07

In case you missed it

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Sarah Palin takes a heckler in stride and gives him a nice little smack down to boot.

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Oct
07

McCain 2 – Obama 0

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In these times, do we really want a man who needs on the job training? All we hear is that Sarah Palin is inexperienced. What about Obama?

Tonight’s debate was boring. It lacked the vitality of the Palin/Biden debate. Who knows if anyone stayed up for it. Read More→

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Oct
07

Debate Open Thread

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The American Sentinel is having an open forum for the John McCain/Barack Obama debate. Come on over and join us, it’s fun. All you have to do is keep it clean!

Remember to hit refresh often so you don’t miss the most recent comments.

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Oct
07

Stock Tip

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We’re all wondering where to invest our money these days. Everything is down and it seems we still haven’t seen the bottom. They say it will get worse before it gets better, and if Obama’s elected that will certainly be true. So what is an investor to do? Read the full article at The American Sentinel

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Oct
07

Misplaced Faith

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According to the polls Americans trust Barack Obama more than John McCain when it comes to the economy. For the life of me, I can’t understand why. This is the man who came out and said his plans to raise taxes on the rich would be bad for the economy. Talk about selective listening.

The current economic crisis is not limited to the United States. If you’ve seen the news over the past few days you know this is a global financial crisis. The troubles are felt from Russia to Europe to South America and everywhere in between. Read More→

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The McCain campaign has issued a statement by one hundred economists who believe Barack Obama’s policies would push our country into a deep recession.

Barack Obama argues that his proposals to raise tax rates and halt international trade agreements would benefit the American economy. They would do nothing of the sort. Economic analysis and historical experience show that they would do the opposite. They would reduce economic growth and decrease the number of jobs in America. Moreover, with the credit crunch, the housing slump, and high energy prices weakening the U.S. economy, his proposals run a high risk of throwing the economy into a deep recession. It was exactly such misguided tax hikes and protectionism, enacted when the U.S. economy was weak in the early 1930s, that greatly increased the severity of the Great Depression. Read full statement.

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Oct
07

MSM on Spin Cycle

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As John McCain and Sarah Palin turn up the heat on Barack Obama the mean stream media’s feeling the need to go into full spin cycle.

Since Sarah Palin’s jabs about Obama’s relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers, the media had no choice but to report the news, but they’re doing their darndest to change the subject or downplay the ties between Obama and Ayers. Read More→

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No, I don’t mean the the stock market will bounce back by Christmas, credit will return to the market as freely as before, or jobless numbers will turn the corner and head down. I’m not talking about the nation as a whole, I’m talking about you and me and what gives us worth. Our personal economy is strong and the position of the dollar or the size of the national debt cannot change that fact.
Our economy is strong because we have our priorities straight. Certainly we would like to go through life with no worries, but even in the best of times life seems to remind us that we do not write the future. We know that our families, friends, and faith are the gold standard of well being. You don’t have to be a Republican or a Democrat to understand.
What is wealth after all? For those who lose it and are devastated by that loss it is a crutch. For those who lose it and start over it is just a signpost on their journey. As I was growing up in a farming community in central Iowa I was surrounded by people who measured success by smiles and failure by frowns. My dad worried about money constantly yet smiled every day at almost everyone he met.

 

Abraham Maslow developed a theory that accurately describes many realities of personal experiences. He put forth that physiological needs, safety needs, needs of love, affection and belongingness, and needs for esteem form a hierarchy or ladder which must be climbed one rung at a time. You must pass the lower rung to move up to the next. The top rung on the Maslow’s hierarchy is the need for Self-Actualization. When all of the foregoing needs are satisfied, then and only then are the needs for self-actualization activated. This he suggests is a person’s need to be and do that which the person was “born to do.” “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write.”
I didn’t realize until after he was dead that my father was a self-actualizing man. Through school and my early years of adulthood I had equated that with being financially well off. He once told me, “Son, we are Iowans. We may not always have new clothes or live in big houses but there will always be food on the table and a fire in the stove.” In his own way he was teaching me the fundamentals of personal economy. In his life he provided the foundations my siblings and I required to be our own persons. He loved my mom until he died. Through all of this and most importantly he always smiled.

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Oct
07

The Politics of Hope

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Looking ahead at the effects of a potential Obama presidency it occurred to me that the outcome may be the same for his supporters whether he wins or loses. It is possible that in either case there will be wide scale discontent. 

You might ask, “If he wins wouldn’t there be a general euphoria? Certainly the Democrat’s stars would be in alignment.” Following wins in the House of Representatives and the Senate, a Democrat in the White House would mean that for the first time in a very long the ideology of their party would be on solid legislative footing.  Read More→

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