koko chassid

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Bio: Hello my name is koko. I am a Democrat with a litle bit of a libertarian opinion on taxes (I used to be a total libertarian nut!) I am currently supporting anybody for the general election.

In support of the “empty check”

The United States economy is clearly coming to its worst state since the 1929 depression; and the only way to keep us out of a mild depression is to bailout mortgage companies and loan banks. We made a mistake by letting Lehman Brothers fail, and we made the mistake by not bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac months ago. We have to stop threatening companies such as Country Wide with federal and state investigations that have no base or cause and affect on the American citizen; thus making stockholders pull out.

I am a fiscal conservative, but in a time of economic turbulence we need the government to get involved to avoid another severe recession.

The free market can not always bail itself out.

The opinions stated in this post are the views of Koko Chassid and not necessarily those of ThinkYouth.org

Barack Obama, President

For months I have been mulling a Bob Barr endorsement. But after some consideration, I will reluctantly support Barack Obama.

In the first months of the primaries, I supported libertarian Ron Paul, since I am a libertarian. If Ron Paul would have won the Republican nomination, I am confident he would win in a landslide. But once it was inevitable that Paul had lost the nomination after loses in Iowa and New Hampshire he did fairly well in Nevada and won in Louisiana - people will tell you McCain won it, but Paul did - I endorsed Bill Richardson.

Shortly after that Richardson dropped out, and I endorsed the last good candidate left in the race, Hillary Clinton. I felt Hillary had the executive experience, and that Senator Obama’s only executive experience was on the board of Chicago’s Annenberg challenge, which is not presidential.

Obama was a state Senator, only active in the US Senate for 146 days, whoever supported him in the primaries (nearly 18 million voters) must have been high on something! But Hillary Clinton (a little over 18 million votes) had the experience to be president. But once Joe Biden was picked, I knew Barack Obama was walking away from just saying “change” and “hope” to focusing on the issues like Hillary Clinton.

Bob Barr seems like a good candidate with seven percent of responders in today’s Rasmussen tracking poll choosing someone besides Obama or McCain. But he still seems like a waste of a vote.

And so I reluctantly support Senator Barack Obama for president.

Stop acting like we won! And vote the right way.

I was not pleased with the Democratic convention last week, when all the big Democrats were acting like we won this election and there is no need to attack John McCain’s negative personal record. I could tell you, during next weeks Republican national convention, the Republicans won’t be talking about how  Barack Obama is a great patriotic American, and how he is only wrong on the issues! We have to stop playing Mr. Nice Guy and attack McCain for running a campaign based on his POW record. We need to swift boat him!

I was recently talking to a progressive, and asked him who he is voting for, and he said ‘McCain’.  I asked why, and he said ‘ Well, Obama will win New York anyways, so lets give the underdog some respect’. The Obama camp must talk to these crazy voters!!!!

Back in 2004……

So I went to the bookstore and bought Jerome Corsi’s book “The Obama Nation”. After reading some of it I came to this conclusion: it was misleading, but believable. The reason why I named this post “Back in 2004…” is because the same thing will happen. Like in 2004, Corsi wrote a misleading but believable book about John Kerry, and Kerry gave a very minimal response. Obama has minimally responded and will probably not do the thing he should do, put out millions of dollars worth of ads slamming Corsi so the American people should know what a lie the “Obama Nation” is. By the looks of this book, it looks like Corsi wrote this book in 2 weeks, because it is just a ‘copy paste’ of a bunch of right wing blogs. As a commenter on BN.COM said “this book is an assault on our intelligence” because Corsi so many times uses himself as the source! Media Matters for America proved many of the dates that Corsi mentioned, could not have been true since Obama was someplace else.

Since the Obama campaign will not fight this, I believe it is up to the people that don’t want to see John McCain become president. Yesterday the New York Times reported on a website called syasme.tv.

Here is a segment from the article.

“The business plan works like this: Saysme.tv offers a service over the Internet that streamlines the submission process for homemade television advertising and offers cheap slices of cable-TV time — perhaps as little as $6 for a 25-second spot, assuming you are O.K. with appearing on CNN Headline News sometime next week in parts of Charlotte, N.C., in the wee hours.

The hope is to get commissions from the legions of small-time commentators, political bloggers and local advertisers, who may have as strong opinions as T. Boone Pickens on renewable energy, but do not have his millions to bombard the public with them. Instead, the dream goes, there would be millions of individual commentators placing ads a few at time, market by market, either by uploading their own ads YouTube style or choosing from those already hosted at the site. Let the buckshot bombardment begin.” (End Quote)

If Obama supporters all over the country made sure Corsi’s lies were retaliated with their own ads. We may win this election. We do not want to be back in 2004.

Voting Race: How the Republicans can or will beat Obama.

In the past few weeks I have seen lifelong Democrats reluctant to vote for Barack Obama. In my neighborhood (which is Democratic by a large margin) most people supported Hillary Clinton (as I did). I have seen cars parked who used to have Hillary stickers now have McCain stickers. Why? I asked some people about it and they think Obama would be the presidential version of the former NYC African American mayor David Dinkins, who was not popular even among the black community.

Polls show Barack Obama winning by a razor thin margin. There is always the possibility that people are donating money and telling pollsters that they will vote for Obama to sound politically correct, and by the election they will vote for McCain or not vote at all.

I asked that question to Professor KC Johnson (BA and PhD. from Harvard University, MA from University of Chicago) who a few weeks ago predicted Obama would win in a landslide with well over 300 electoral votes.

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Autism is real; Why Savage is wrong, and the need for free speech on the air waves.

On his July 17th broadcast, talk show host Michael Savage (who is not shy of controversy) claimed that autism is a “fraud” and the kids who have it are just “brats”. Immediately after his comments ,the Autism Society of America issued the following statement.

This week, talk show host Michael Savage made inaccurate and derogatory comments about autism on his radio show, calling the condition “a fraud” and the result of a lack of parental discipline. Mr. Savage’s unsubstantiated comments reflect the misconceptions of over 50 years ago that autism was caused by “refrigerator mothers” or unemotional parenting, which have been completely disproven by the scientific community. Autism is a neuro-developmental medical condition that requires early identification and lifelong treatment. For over 40 years, the Autism Society of America has worked tirelessly to educate people on the nature of autism spectrum disorders, the services and support families need, and the tremendous potential of people on the autism spectrum.  We are dismayed that these grossly inaccurate remarks would be aired in any platform, much less on a nationally syndicated show. We will continue to work with families, people with autism and the broader public to raise awareness of autism spectrum disorders.

I would rate this comment as his most inflammatory ever. More than his comment on protesting students who went on a hunger strike, and the one about Islam.

But nevertheless the efforts by Congressman Maurice Hinchey of Woodstock, NY are absolutely overbearing and wrong. He is attempting to bring the back the unconstitutional “fairness doctrine.” And now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now too supports this horrible bill.

Supreme Court fails on 2nd Ammendment

*Picture from ABCNEWS.COM

Many people support gun rights for defense and for hunting uses. But, handguns are not needed for any of those two purposes. Handguns can easily be concealed and used for a series of crimes. You do not need a pistol to hunt for deer or other wild animals. By the means of protecting yourself, you are still allowed to have rifles and shotguns, which cannot easily be concealed.
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A series of picks for VP

In the past, the vice president has usually been ignored, and has not been given much to do. But this year is different. Since the assemblyman from Chicago got the Democratic nomination, I thought I would most definitely be screwed this election with nobody to support. Until I thought of Hillary as VP. She will be more then vice president, since Obama doesn’t really have much experience. Hillary Clinton was cheated out of the Democratic nomination by a flawed primary process of kindergarten games and not counting votes. She has earned at least to be second on the ticket.

Also, the Obama/Clinton ticket appears to be the only democratic ticket that will win. (Yes, sorry to inform Obama supporters, but if the election were held today, he would lose.). If Obama makes a mistake and does not pick Clinton as a VP, here are some other choices.

My top choice: Hillary Clinton

Joe Biden - Would bring foreign policy experience to the ticket.

Chris Dodd- Would win support of many teachers and education unions.

Ted Strickland- Would get independents and NRA supporters to vote for the ticket.

Ed Rendell- Would win support of steel and other labor unions.

Colin Powell- Would bring a lot of moderate republicans to vote for the ticket.

John Edwards- Could win votes of white working class voters.

The Bad Choices:

Kathleen Sebelius- Is not known around the country, and would probably lose her own state.

Bill Richardson- Not trusted, not tested.

Claire McCaskill- Please see Kathleen Sebelius.

Disgrace: Democrats refuse to count full delegates in Michigan and Florida

Today the Democratic Party brought itself another inch closer to a 2008 defeat by only seating Michigan and Florida’s full delegations with only half votes.

Florida was a fair primary and Clinton won, so there should be no debate there if they should be counted fully. Now in Michigan it is a different story. I think Clinton should get what she won, and the “uncommitted” delegates should be split EVENLY between who was in the race at the time. The reason for that is, because not all the voters who voted “uncommitted” were intending to vote for the inexperienced Senator from Illinois. Another sad fact that I would like to mention is, Hillary probably would have won the nomination if it was not for the DNC’s “everybody gets some delegates, even if you lose”. That childish process has to end.

Obama’s war on liberty.

As the news media was gloating about 70,000 people attending an Obama rally, as ignorant as they are they did not play the content of the speech (besides snippets of “change” and “hope”).

He said.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”

Source: Free Republic

What Barack Obama has done has brained washed so many Democrats that they have turned into deaf mutants that cannot even listen to what he is saying (besides of course “change” and “hope”). Eating the way we want, driving the way we want, and heating the way we want, are fundamental liberties that we CANNOT lose. Barack Obama would be a president like the people who made the decisions in Costco and Sam’s Club who recently limited the purchase of rice to 80lbs per visit. Which is against personal liberty. Congress should condemn Costco, Sam’s Club, AND BARACK OBAMA.

Michelle Obama - Bringing ignorance to the world, EVERY DAY!

Michelle Obama would make a great ignorant showing as a first lady. Just last week she vetoed the chance of a dream ticket if Obama were to be the nominee. She would be an ignorant adviser to the president because of her vetoing of this dream ticket. A dream ticket of Obama-Clinton would be a monumental victory for the Democratic party, but of course ignorant Michelle does not like Hillary because she did not give her husband an easy path to the White House.

Here is some of the article by Robert Novak

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama.

The Democratic front-runner’s wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party’s nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility.

A footnote: Support is growing in Democratic ranks for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland as vice president. He would bring to the ticket maturity (66 years old), experience (six terms in Congress) and moderation (rated “A” by the National Rifle Association). He is very popular in Ohio, a state Republicans must carry to elect a president.

-Real clear politics.

Note: Ted Strickland is a Clinton supporter.

What I think is going to happen.

Note: my predictions are based on if Michigan and Florida’s votes are counted.

Here are my predictions for all the states to come.

Kentucky - Hillary wins.

Oregon - Obama wins.

Puerto Rico - Hillary wins.

and the upset: Hillary wins South Dakota.

End result:

Hillary wins the popular vote, Obama wins the delegates. The DNC will have to choose Hillary because of the popular vote and large states won.

The hypocrite that John Edwards is.

After learning that John Edwards was planning to endorse the inexperienced Senator from Illinois, I thought, ‘Why is he doing this?’ His health care plan covered everybody and so does Senator Clinton’s, and Obama’s does not. So why is he endorsing him?

My answer is this is another “jumping on the band wagon” moron. But there is some sort of hypocrisy as I mentioned before. Barack Obama has sucked a large amount of the Democratic party into his change balloon.

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The case against Barack Obama.

Pennsylvania was famous for constructing the United States. And last Tuesday it was famous for re-constructing the Democratic Party by helping Hillary Clinton beat the unexperienced Senator from Illinois , Mr. Obama. When Senator Obama entered this race , Most normal Democrats thought this would be a long shot run and he wouldn’t make it. But unfortunately it has come to beyond our wildness dreams. His message of change and hope has sunk into progressives and completely has tied them into this rope which experience does not matter.

The reason why John McCain is also gaining ground on Clinton is because if something unfortanate that happened 15 months ago, Which was Senator Obama entering the race. He has basicly stole a Democratic victory in 2008. The reason for this is , Because Obama has distracted Hillary from going after John McCain. Instead she has to deal with the unexperienced Senator from Illinois.

Then people are going to say… “But koko you are not talking about the issues”…

Well now I will.

Barack Obama wants to hike the short term capital gains tax from 15% to 28%. Which I am against firmly, and I am not alone 65% of likely votes too. The reason why this issue is so important to me is because I invest more then $5,000 closer to about $11,000 and this will effect me personally.

Barack Obamas health care plan will leave out 15 million uninsured Americans.

And of course the experience factor. Which I have explained hundreds of times.

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