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The Heritage Foundation today asked Barack Obama to immediately pull two ads that misrepresent the views of Heritage’s Rea Hederman. The campaign has released a 30-second TV ad with false information and repeats it on the campaign website.

The following letter was sent by Heritage lawyer Alan P. Dye to the Obama campaign.

Dear Senator Obama:

Two recent campaign advertisements seriously misrepresent the views of my client, The Heritage Foundation. They suggest, quite falsely, that The Heritage Foundation and one of its analysts support your tax plan.

The print ad on your Website as well as your ad entitled “Try This” reference a quote from policy analyst Rea Hederman. In fact, Mr. Hederman never said what is quoted there. Rather, the words you quote are from a New York Sun reporter who interviewed Mr. Hederman and summarized his views erroneously.

That the reporter’s summary is erroneous is evident from the actual quotes from Mr. Hederman presented in the article, which make is quite clear that Mr. Hederman believes your tax plan would be bad not only for the country, but for the middle class. By omitting the direct quotes from Heritage that are contained in the article and attributing to Heritage a conflicting statement not made by its analyst, the advertisement appears to be an intentional attempt to mislead.

Surely there can be no doubt within your campaign as to how Heritage truly views your tax plan. When one of your economic advisors, Jeffrey Liebman, made this same misrepresentation in a September 4, 2008 letter to The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hederman promptly sent a corrective and very public letter. It appeared in the September 16 issue of The Wall Street Journal under the title: “A Bad Plan That Is Less Bad Is Still Not A Very Good Plan.” In it, Mr. Hederman strenuously decried Mr. Liebman’s blatant misrepresentation and set the record straight.

The Heritage Foundation believes that your advertisements’ use of its name is not only not a fair use of its intellectual property, but is an intentional attempt to mislead and misinform voters. As a responsible candidate, you should insist that your campaign cease to run these false advertisements immediately.

Very truly yours,

Alan P. Dye

The Heritage Foundation has conducted several analyses comparing Senator Obama’s tax proposals to that of Senator John McCain.

• Heritage’s most recent analysis concluded that McCain’s tax proposals would do more to strengthen the economy than Obama’s.
• A comprehensive report by Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis closely compared the two tax plans and measured their economic impacts. It concluded that the McCain plan would have overall better economic effects. A related study compared job creation arising under the two tax plans on a state-by-state basis.

It’s perhaps telling that the campaign advertisement did not cite any of these reports.

 
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Florida Women for McCain 

Why Every Woman Should Vote

 Remembering the Night of Terror, America 1917  

Special Guest Columnist Sandy Mortham, former Florida Secetary of State

 What Women Leaders Need to Know

October 26, 2008

 

 They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,  Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

 

American Heroine: Dora Lewis suffered a beating at the hands of the guards

Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

 

They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

 

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This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers...the courageous struggle they lead and the horrors they suffered

Jailed, beaten and starved to obtain the right to vote... 

They lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

                     Unafraid, the suffragettes marched on Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote

 

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917 when women's suffrage was born

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.   

The warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote. 

 

 

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. 

 

 

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks
until word was smuggled out to the press.

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Dear Ladies,

As we get down to the wire, I want to ask every woman to think about how far women have come and just how far we have yet to go.  Over the past week, I have been brutally reminded about how women are treated so differently from our counterparts. 

Think about which other Governor in this nation that could have been chosen to run with Senator John McCain would have been put through a polling process to evaluate whether he was qualified to be Vice President.  It just would NOT have occurred.  As women we need to say enough is enough and get out the vote to ensure that our daughters and granddaughters can read about the history we are making today. 

The women that are somehow trying to say Gov. Sarah Palin does not represent women are just plain wrong.  Women do NOT have to be 100% simpatico in their views.  What we do need to do is understand the need to network, be supportive and leave our pettiness at the door.  If I truly believed that Governor Palin was unqualified I would not ask anyone to be supportive but she didn't get to where she's at without considerable moxie and smarts.  

Thanks for passing this message on to women that can help make history.

 Sandy Mortham
smortham@aol.com 

 

The Obama File

America is facing a financial crisis: the economy is slowing to a halt, unemployment is rising and home values are plummeting.

What is Senator Obama's solution? He wants to take more of your money!

The Facts:

Joe the Plumber wants to buy the company he works for, but purchasing it would make him a target of Barack Obama's plan to tax the "wealthy." When Joe raised questions to Barack Obama about the plan, Senator Obama told him that it was important to "spread the wealth around."

Senator Obama received a lifetime rating of 22% from Citizens Against Government Waste, and he was named "the most liberal Senator" by National Journal.

Senator Obama's health care plan is full of massive mandates and tax increases.

To pay for his massive spending increases, Senator Obama proposes "higher taxes on income" and he will "raise the cap on the payroll tax."[1]

Senator Obama's health care plan "will create a brand new government-run health plan at the cost of $243 billion a year - a financial burden of more than $3,000 a year on American families."[2]

In addition to his other proposed tax hikes, Senator Obama has even called for "higher Social Security taxes."[3]

One newspaper has even warned that Obama's highe r-tax plan is a "recipe for economic disaster."[4]

The Bottom Line:

Why would Senator Obama want to raise taxes during an economic slowdown? His big government spending and tax increases prove he lacks the judgment and experience to make important economic decisions.

Senator Obama: ready to tax and spend, but not ready to lead.

[1] Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks at a Campaign Event, New Albany, IN, 4/23/08; U.S. News & World Report, 2/13/08
[2] Roger Feldman et al, "Impact of Barack Obama 2008 Health Reform Proposal," HIS Network, LLC., 8/21/08
[3] U.S. News & World Report, 2/13/08
[4] Las Vegas Review-Journal, 9/20/07

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CAPITOL REVIEW   ·   By MARK HILLMAN   ·   October 24, 2008

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 Don't reward labor's lies

Politicians and campaigns are masters of "spin" - selectively presenting facts in a way that leads the target audience to believe what the spin doctors want them to believe.

Like it or not, spin is unavoidable because everyone has a unique perspective, formed by their own experiences and beliefs.

But there's spin, and then there are lies - outright, premeditated, willful lies that have no basis whatsoever in truth.

That's the campaign strategy now being employed by labor union bosses who are, ironically, fighting against the rights of workers by opposing Amendments 47 and 49.

Amendment 47 (also called "right to work") simply guarantees that an employee cannot be required to join a union or pay union dues in order to get or keep a job.  It neither encourages nor discourages union membership, but simply protects the right of every working man and woman to make that choice without coercion from labor union bosses or pressure from management.

Those principles defend freedom for all workers, plain and simple.

Amendment 49 ("ethical standards") prohibits state and local governments from intercepting a worker's paycheck to collect dues or contributions for unions, lobbyists or any other special interest.  It simply requires all interest groups to ask supporters directly for their contribution, rather than use government payroll systems as their collection agency.

Groups from the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club rely on voluntary contributions, so why can't labor unions and other special interests?

To hear the outrageous lies of labor union bosses, you'd think these amendments would catapult Colorado back to the days of dirt roads, oil lanterns and outhouses.

An unbelievable commercial paid for by Protect Colorado's Future shows a fireman claiming these amendments would "keep (public workers) from speaking out on public safety" and "silence the voice of firefighters, teachers and nurses."

Strangely, they never identify the language that repeals the First Amendment, but maybe union lawyers have special glasses that reveal the super-secret code when viewed in black light.

Another hyperventilation by the same disreputable outfit warns that these amendments "put Colorado's economy at risk" and suggests that passing them would "let special interests do to Colorado what they did to Wall Street."

The only thing these amendments put "at risk" are the cushy accommodations reserved for labor bosses and their leverage to crack heads of workers who don't join the union.

Then there's the whopper by the "Coloradans for Middle Class Relief" that claims "a few rich owners" - "Big Bad Wolf" was already taken - want to pass these amendments so they can "cut wages and reduce health care for their employees."

What stops those greedy owners from treating their employees like indentured servants today? The good old profit motive, of course.  It's tough to sell goods and services without productive, properly compensated employees.

The Denver Post called the union attacks dishonest, noting that Amendment 47 "does not in any way prevent unions from organizing and collecting dues from willing employees."  The Post also pointed out that the firefighter in the commercial works in a department where union membership is voluntary.

Why then are unions crying wolf and destroying what remains of their own tattered credibility?`                                    `

Because when workers are allowed to choose for themselves, 92% of private sector workers and 64% of government workers decide against union membership.

As this campaign demonstrates, union leaders don't give a darn about protecting the little guy. They want to force the little guy to pay union dues to enhance their own political power, and they are more than willing to play dirty.

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A majority of voters (52%) favor John McCain's plan for the federal government to buy up distressed mortgages and refinance them so homeowners can stay in their homes, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose the plan.

Monday, October 6, 2008

President and Mrs. Bush attended a Congressional Trust 2008 reception in San Antonio, Texas. Later, President Bush made remarks on his judicial accomplishments and philosophy in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Our democracy requires us to come together and to get things done for the citizens of this great republic. I'm confident we can do that. And I'm grateful that there are dedicated people like you all who are working so hard to help us put good judges on the courts, and equally important, to help invest the American people in the process."

President Bush Discusses Judicial Accomplishments and Philosophy

• Fact Sheet: Judges Who Honor the Constitution
• In Focus: Judicial Nominations

 

Is Obama the Manchurian Candidate?
News from Florida Women for McCain...What Women Need to Know

 October 10, 2008- Vol 1, Issue

In This Issue

Ayers Steps on America

Seven Versions of a Lie

The Back Story on Ayers

Greta Digs

Take 'em One by One

 

Quick Links

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 Bill Ayers as Bomber 

 A Mature Ayers Steps on American Flag in 2001 to Promote Book on Terrorism

 

 

Bernadine Dohrn the Bomber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The leadership team of Florida Women for McCain are determined to keep our coalition leaders informed on the background of the emerging Obama stories.

 With only days to go, knowledge has never been more powerful or necessary, especially when competing with the liberal media machine.

 We will continue to publish informative accounts of the man America does not know and who is such a danger to our country. Please keep up the good work and strive harder than ever the Get Out The Vote in Florida!

 Obama's Ever Developing Ayer's Story

Since Monday, The Obama Campaign Has Had Seven (7) Distinct Stories About Barack Obama's Relationship With Bill Ayers:

 

 
STORY #1:               David Axelrod And Robert Gibbs Said For The First Time That  Barack Obama Did Not Know About Bill Ayers' Past When Ayers Held A Coffee For Obama In 1995

 
STORY #2:             Obama Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs Said He Didn't Know The "Details" Of Ayers' Relationship 

 
STORY #3:             Obama Spokesman Bill Burton Said That Barack Obama Did Not Launch His Political Career At Ayers' House And Didn't Write A Blurb For An Ayers' Book.

STORY #4:              David Axelrod Confirmed That Barack Obama Knew About Ayers' Past After Their Initial Meetings; Contradicted Earlier Story And Said "No One Is Suggesting That He Never Knew"

STORY #5:              Obama Senior Adviser Anita Dunn Says When Barack Obama Went To Ayers' House, He Was Merely Attending A Meeting Of State Senator Alice Palmer's Supporters - A Statement Contradicted By Palmer

STORY #6:              Obama Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs Says After Barack Obama Knew About Ayers' Past He Continued To Associated With Bill Ayers

STORY #7:             On ABC's "World News Tonight," Barack Obama Said He Only Ever Talked With Bill Ayers About School Reform Issues

 

What is the Truth?

 

Of Note:
Despite Being The Chairman Of The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama Has Not Engaged In Education In His State And U.S. Senate Career.

 

"Education is a policy area he hasn't aggressively pursued either as an Illinois state senator or in his federal office.   In his eight years in the state Senate and two years in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Obama hasn't made a significant mark on education policy." ("Obama's Annenberg Stint Informs White House Bid," Education Week, 3/7/07)
 

 

 

Digging for the Truth on Ayers Obama Connection...The Back Story

 

STORY #1: Obama Did Not Know About Bill Ayers' Past When Ayers Held A Coffee For Obama In 1995 
 
ACOSTA: "Now a college professor in Chicago, Ayers and Obama served together several years on a nonprofit board. And in 1995, Ayers hosted a coffee for Obama when the young community organizer was making his first run for the state Senate. At this point looking back, should he not have done that, do you think?" DAVID AXELROD, OBAMA CAMPAIGN CHIEF STRATEGIST: "Well, I mean, when he went, he certainly, he didn't know the history." (CNN's "American Morning," 10/6/08)

 

FLASHBACK: When Senator Hillary Clinton Made Similar Attack, Obama Campaign NEVER Made Argument That He Didn't Know About Obama's Radical And Violent Past. (Obama For America, "Fact Check On Obama And Ayers, factcheck.barackobama.com, 4/17/08)

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Greta Digs for the Truth 

 

STORY #2: Obama Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs Said He Didn't Know The "Details" Of Ayers' Relationship
 
FOX NEWS' GRETCHEN CARLSON: "But Robert, let me ask you this because as time goes on here, there seemed to be more ties between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers, for example, he wrote the foreword or a blurb at least for Bill Ayers' book. If you don't know somebody very well, do you participate in their book?" GIBBS: "Look, I don't know all the details of this. I know what I read in the newspapers, and I know what I've seen throughout any number of publications that looked at this this weekend." (FOX News' "Fox & Friends," 10/7/08)

 

Stories Challenged One by One

STORY #3: Obama Spokesman Bill Burton Said That Barack Obama Did Not Launch His Political Career At Ayers' House And Didn't Write A Blurb For An Ayers' Book.
 
FOX NEWS' MEGYN KELLY: "I want you give you the chance to set the record straight with the Obama campaign is concerned, because they want to know about this. They cite the fact is they served together on this board, the Woods Fund, which was a community group for several years. That Barack Obama chaired this group, the Annenberg Challenge, that Ayers founded. That Barack Obama wrote a blurb for Ayers' book. That they appeared together on several academic panels. That Barack Obama kicked off his political career in Ayers' Chicago home in 1995. These are the things they cite to us saying these two seem awfully chummy, why shouldn't we care?" BILL BURTON: "Ok, well let me say a couple of things. You already know my point about the McCain campaign purposely trying to distract from the economy because they know they lose when they talk about it. But on the facts, since you asked, as The New York Times sent an investigative reporter to take a hard look at Barack Obama and Bill Ayers' path have some crossed over the course 15 years or so that Barack has been in Chicago. He did not launch his career from Bill Ayers' home. He did not write a blurb for Bill Ayer's book." (FOX News' "Live," 10/7/08)
 
FLASHBACK: In 1997, Barack Obama Wrote A Review Of Bill Ayers Book. "Barack Obama State senator - A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court by William Ayers (Beacon Press - 'A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.'" (Chicago Tribune, 12/21/97)
 
STORY #4: David Axelrod Confirmed That Barack Obama Knew About Ayers' Past After Their Initial Meetings; Contradicted Earlier Story And Said "No One Is Suggesting That He Never Knew"
 
"So when did Obama learn of Ayers' past? 'It was sometime after their first meetings, you know, he became aware of that,' David Axelrod, Obama's chief campaign strategist, said on board the Obama campaign plane from Asheville, N.C. to Nashville for tonight's debate. 'I don't know the exact moment.'" (John McCormick, "William Ayers' Past Was Unknown: Obama," Chicago Tribune's "Swamp" Blog, http://www.swamppolitics.com, Posted 10/7/08)   
 
·         Axelrod Said That Barack Obama Became Aware Of Ayers' Past After The 1995 Reception That Ayers Held For Obama. "Did Obama know of Ayers' history before or after the event, a small reception for Obama's state Senate campaign, in 1995 at Ayers' home? 'My understanding was that he, when he went there, he did not know, so I would say after,' Axelrod said  - confirming that he has asked Obama about this. 'Yes, yeah.'" (John McCormick, "William Ayers' Past Was Unknown: Obama," Chicago Tribune's "Swamp" Blog, http://www.swamppolitics.com, Posted 10/7/08)   
 
Axelrod: "No One Is Suggesting That He Never Knew." "'No one is suggesting that he never knew,' Axelrod notes of Obama, who has since repudiated Ayers' protest tactics. 'I mean that's not, we weren't offering that.'" (John McCormick, "William Ayers' Past Was Unknown: Obama," Chicago Tribune's "Swamp" Blog, http://www.swamppolitics.com, Posted 10/7/08)   
 
STORY #5: Obama Senior Adviser Anita Dunn Says When Barack Obama Went To Ayers' House, He Was Merely Attending A Meeting Of State Senator Alice Palmer's Supporters - A Statement Contradicted By Palmer
 
Obama Senior Adviser Anita Dunn: "A Democratic state senator organizes a meeting of her supporters at the house of another one of her supporters. What is the problem here, Drew? It is the worst kind of inference and the worst kind of politics to say that somehow that says something about Barack Obama." (CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," 10/6/08)
 
CNN's Drew Griffin: "Number One, Former Senator Alice Palmer Says She In No Way Organized This Meeting And She Was Invited And Attended It Briefly." "Anderson, this meeting at Bill Ayers home has been classified in many different ways. What I can tell you from the two people who were actually there, is number one, former Senator Alice Palmer says she, in no way organized this meeting and she was invited and attended it briefly. And Doctor Quentin Young, a retired doctor, told us this indeed was Barack Obama's political coming out party and it was hosted by Bill Ayers." (CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," 10/6/08)
 
STORY #6: Obama Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs Says After Barack Obama Knew About Ayers' Past He Continued To Associated With Bill Ayers
 
Robert Gibbs: "Yes" Barack Obama Continued To Associate Himself With Bill Ayers After He Found Out About His Past. TIME'S MARK HALPERIN: "Is it fair to say that [Barack Obama] continued to associate with [Bill Ayers] professionally - and personally on a casual basis - even after he learned?" GIBBS: "He continued to serve on a charitable board and an educational grant board with money supplied by Walter Annenberg, a Republican who was an ambassador under Richard Nixon. Yes." HALPERIN: "But with the knowledge of Ayers' past?" GIBBS: "Yes." (Time's "The Page," 10/7/08)
 

 STORY #7: On ABC's "World News Tonight," Barack Obama Said He Only Ever Talked With Bill Ayers About School Reform Issues
 
Barack Obama: "And We Served On A School Reform Board Together - And So I Talked To Him About School Reform Issues." ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: "Are you going to have to address that again? How are you going to explain it? Have you had a continuing connection with it? And why didn't you just cut it off once and for all once when you knew?" OBAMA: "Why don't we just clear it up right now. I'll repeat again what I've said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois. And we served on a school reform board together, by the way, that was funded by Walter Annenberg, who had been an ambassador and close friend of Ronald Reagan. And so I have talked to him about school reform issues. And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that he -- I've palled around with a terrorist, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points." (ABC's "World News Tonight," 10/8/08)
 
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kEQ_2ZWLNg

 Please help spread the word and demand the truth about Obama, America's Manchurian candidate! Our country's future depends on your efforts here in Florida.

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Florida Women for McCain
 

 

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The New York Post has an article titled "The Lies Biden Told."  The Post writes "for all the focus on Sarah Palin's graceful performance in Thursday's vice presidential showdown, a more significant spectacle was taking place behind the other rostrum. 

That's where Joe Biden, speaking with the pompous self-importance befitting his 36 years in the Senate, told one baffling fib after another.  Read the complete article here

The BBC has an interesting article about the
United States Presidential election.  It is called "The US Election Nightmare
Scenario."  Professor Larry Sabato discusses the electoral college and the
scenario that could play out.  Read his complete article here.

Heeeeeee's   Baaaaaack !     He has his charts too, so if you can prove him wrong please contact his site with the information and proof of where you obtained it. 

 

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SENATOR ALLARD

The DC Examiner, a daily newspaper for our nation’s Capital, ran an Op-Ed article that I wrote about Senator Barack Obama’s real ‘record of change.’ Click HERE to view the article.

SENATOR ALLARD

It’s clear that we are experiencing a monumental shift in the future of financial markets. While it is reasonable for the government to take steps to mitigate widespread damage to our economy, the functions of the free market are based on risk and reward. Only the rarest of circumstances warrant the federal government or taxpayers simply absorbing the risk in investing equation. In the end, the responsibility of wise management lies at the feet of executives and boards of directors of individual companies.

Rough times in the financial markets are not necessarily the result of bad government and Congress should resist the temptation of sweeping reactionary legislation, which generally has a poor track record of actually addressing underlying problems. I do look forward to holding thorough, careful hearings to better understand the causes of the current difficulties, as well as the most practical and effective ways to prevent them from happening again.

Click HERE to view the video of my interview with FOX Business Channel’s ‘Money for Breakfast.’

Senator Allard

I received a report this week from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior Inspector General Earl E. Devaney containing allegations about misconduct by employees at the royalty-in-kind program of Interior's Minerals Management Service.

The culture of ethical failures outlined in the Inspector General’s report is shocking and clearly unacceptable. I expect steps to be taken to ensure that the illegal activities and appalling misconduct of several former and current employees in the Minerals Management Service’s Royalty in Kind program never happen again. The actions of these rogue employees cast a shadow over an otherwise honorable agency. Firm disciplinary actions must be taken to correct these unacceptable practices and I look forward to hearing the progress on these actions.

As Ranking Member of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee I will certainly be discussing this report with the Inspector General and the Secretary of the Interior and pushing to ensure that responsible individuals are dealt with appropriately. The recommendations outlined by the OIG report should be a first step in ensuring that this gross misconduct never happens again.