[NeedKarma]

Cavuto: Frankly, neither of your numbers adds up. But I’ve come to see a consistent pattern in Obama's. For the life of me, Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight thing with yours.
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You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That's why you're losing right now, Senator McCain.

[tomder55]

From a conservative point of view Cavuto is right on. No one in the conservative side is voting for McCain due to his stance on limited government . When McCain talks about big government and big business he thinks he is wearing the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt ,who was a "progressive" reform Republican.

My number one and biggest reason for supporting McCain is national security and foreign policy.

[magprob]

As if Cavuto or any other FAUX News talking head have a clue about how our economy works. All they really understand is that growth is good. Yea! The Dow is up! Pitiful!

[speechlesstx]

My number one and biggest reason for supporting McCain is national security and foreign policy.

You mean for reasons like this?

Iran threatens suicide attacks against the US
Posted at 10:45 am on October 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Iran stepped up its rhetoric against the US today by threatening to use suicide-bomber attacks against America. Ari Larijani, the former nuclear negotiator, referred to the 13-year-old boy sent by the mullahs to disable an Iraqi tank in the 1980s as a model for the fight against the Americans. Larijani promised an “unexpected response”:

Referring to the US army’s attacks in Pakistan and Syria, Larijani said they would not be answered with diplomatic protests.

“The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set by the martyr Hussein Fahmida,” Larijani said during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.

Fahmida was 13 when he detonated an explosive device he carried on him, destroying an Iraqi tank during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.

“America should be aware not to put its huge body on top of the suicide bombers’ explosive devices,” Larijani said.

Larijani was not alone yesterday in Iranian verbal volleys against the US. Supreme leader Ali Khamanai spoke less literally when he warned nations who didn’t respect Iran’s independence that they would “have their hands cut off”. Khamanai said that reconciliation between Iran and the US would not be possible because Iranians hate America too much, presumably because of our opposition to the ruling mullahcracy and our support of the Shah — although the latter occurred before most Iranians were alive.

The threat to use suicide bombers marks a cassus belli, if the US wanted one as a pretext for strikes. Openly threatening attack on a non-belligerent nation gives that country a right to defend itself. Israel didn’t take the bait with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s genocidal lunacy over the last two years, and it would be madness to attack Iran now anyway.

However, that doesn’t diminish the seriousness of an Iranian leader standing in its parliament and endorsing terrorism as a state policy. That’s exactly what Larijani did in this statement today, and the US should respond by placing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organizations in order to freeze its funds. The Kyl-Lieberman bill would have done that last year, but it was opposed by Barack Obama and most of the other Democrats in the Senate. Larijani’s threat is an open declaration of Iran as a terrorist state, and a lack of response would encourage others to follow suit.

[magprob]

As Americans began moving westward in great numbers, the Apaches and the military met in frequent battles. The gold rush of 1849 also brought prospectors to the West and further encroachment on Indian land. The Apaches continued their reign of terror against settlers, which now included great numbers of Anglos.

Warriors and chiefs like Mangas Coloradas , Cochise, Geronimo, Victorio , Nana and others staged numerous bloody battles in the Southwest. They led their warriors into Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Mexico, causing hundreds of deaths. Even the settlers of El Paso del Norte became the victims of the relentless and destructive Apache raids.

Historian Howard Lamar says that in 1872, the U.S. Army pursued a policy to exterminate all Indians unless or until they agreed to surrender and live on reservations "where they could be taught Christianity and agriculture." Geronimo and his people reluctantly agreed to accept the Chiricahua Reservation in southeast Arizona, but the Apaches found it difficult to adjust to confinement and some kept raiding.

In 1876, after an altercation where several settlers died, the federal government split the reservation into two parts. Geronimo and his warriors escaped to Mexico. Eventually, the U.S. government undertook a long pursuit of Geronimo and his warriors in the Sonora Mountains, finally forcing him to surrender to General Nelson Miles in 1886.
Geronimo and the Apaches were sent by train to a confinement center in St. Augustine, Florida, that same year and relocated to Oklahoma in 1864. It might have been the end for them because of exposure to malaria and tuberculosis, but the Apache have prevailed. Oscar J. Martinez notes that Apaches continued their guerilla tactics from the border mountains as late as the 1920s, despite the elimination or capture of famous leaders.

Today, seven reservations in the United States are under Apache sovereignty: Camp Verde , White Mountain and San Carlos in Arizona; Jicarilla and Mescalero in New Mexico; and Fort Sill and Anadarko in Oklahoma.

[speechlesstx]

By the way, Neal called Obama's numbers consistent... so why is his tax break threshold fluctuating so much? 250,000, 200,000, 150,000, it keeps changing.

And at least someone outside of the US is pulling for McCain...

US election: If Iraqis could vote it would be for McCain

[NeedKarma]

This is one of the lamest stories the Drudge has pimped yet, folks. A reporter walking around asking people who they support somehow equals "Iraqis would support McCain"? It's not a poll, just random opinions. 70% of Iraqi's polled want US troops to leave.

Then, why doesn't McCain run for president of Iraq?

Edit: story is from Steve. Sorry tom.

[tomder55]

Do you even know who you are talking to ?

[NeedKarma]

Edit made. My apologies.

[speechlesstx]

This is one of the lamest stories the Drudge has pimped yet, folks. A reporter walking around asking people who they support somehow equals "Iraqis would support McCain"? It's not a poll, just random opinions. 70% of Iraqi's polled want US troops to leave.

Then, why doesn't McCain run for president of Iraq?

Edit: story is from Steve. Sorry tom.

First you don't know who you're talking to and then you're seeing things that aren't there. Where on earth did you come up with Drudge? The article I linked to is from Breitbart and originated with AFP, which is I believe Agence France-Presse:

Copyright AFP 2008, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium

A search of the link reveals no mention of Drudge. Had a little too much cold medicine today, NK?

[NeedKarma]

A search of the link reveals no mention of Drudge. Had a little too much cold medicine today, NK?

Are you still sniffing coke?

[speechlesstx]

Are you still sniffing coke?

By all means, NK, show us how my article came from Drudge.

[inthebox]

Wow - Fox News / Cavuto - is not a Republican station?

I'm voting for McCain - not because he is the Messiah - but on foreign policy, experience, pro-life, service to country.

Yeah, he is human ;)

[speechlesstx]

Cavuto also goes nuclear on Sen. Menendez over Obama's tax plan... maybe Bobby can help Menendez out with the math

[BABRAM]

I'll be glad to help. That whole interview was based on a Cavuto tangent. Cavuto claimed Obama would raise the Capital Gains tax rate at 40 percent and that's not true. In fact the other night Obama was asked about how much and said it probably would be around 20 percent, but no more than 25 percent approximately, at the advice of Warren Buffet. Reagan had it down to 20 percent in 1981, but went to 28 percent with the Tax Reform Act in 1986.