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Hopey-Changey:

Barack Obama is committed to creating good, middle-class jobs, and wants to end tax breaks for corporations that send American jobs overseas. He will protect Social Security and has a plan to make health care affordable for all Americans. Obama will be a candidate that stands with working people, not the corporate elite.

John McCain has been part and parcel of the war on working people. He’s stood with George W. Bush to protect the interests of the very wealthy and his lobbyist friends from Big Oil and corporate America.

The middle class is disappearing — America’s workers can’t afford another day of the disastrous Bush policies.

There’s no question that our very future — and our children’s futures — are at stake in this election. That’s why I believe Americans will make history this November and turn our nation in a new direction.

Actual Facts:

There are at least three necessary ingredients for jumpstarting a faltering economy. John McCain embraces all three; Barack Obama shuns them. It’s just that simple.

Free Trade — Economist Milton Friedman once said that of all the pro-growth policies a government should adopt, free trade is the most important. Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan has said that taxing trade between countries makes no more economic sense than taxing trade between states.

McCain aggressively pushes free trade agreements. Obama, especially since pandering to the union vote in the Ohio and Pennsylvania primaries, talks like a protectionist and even opposes the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Low, simplified taxes —  McCain maintains the current tax rates on income, capital gains and dividends and cuts the corporate tax rate. Obama proposes numerous “tax cuts,” many of which are nothing more than income transfers to people who don’t pay taxes. He would complicate the tax code and, because he’s targeting the cuts, he gets to pick the economic winners and losers.

Reduced government spending and regulations — According to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, during the first session of the 110th Congress:

•  McCain sponsored or cosponsored 22 bills, which would have increased federal spending by $8 billion annually.
• Obama sponsored or cosponsored 114 bills, increasing federal spending $75 billion annually.

That’s a little more than $9 of government spending for Obama for every $1 for McCain.

Pwnt!

And activism, which we discussed in the top half of the show.  You can (of course) listen to the archive copy of the show here, or if you prefer download an .mp3 copy of the show or just click the embedded player below this to listen.

While the segment on activism and being informed was valuable, the part of the show that I personally enjoyed most was where we took call-ins from our dedicated listeners who told us their stories about their personal favorite guns. I talked about my Marlin 25M (which I promise I’ll blog about soon), Breda talked about the 1911s she covets, and it just took off from there. One of my favorite stories of the night was Jay G, who talked about the Colt Official Police that was his grandfather’s gun that he carried on the force.

The last half hour of the show was almost touching – the talking of all the guns that were passed down from generation to generation really struck a chord with me; and I hope that when you listen to the show, it will for you as well.

We are doing a slight format change tonight on Gun Nuts Radio – instead of having one dedicated topic for the duration of the hour, tonight we’ll be shifting to a “two-topic” format.  Tonight at 9pm Eastern, tune in to the top half of the hour for a discussion of grassroots activism and how it can directly impact this extremely important election; then in the bottom half of the hour, stick around while Breda, myself, and our listeners talk about our favorite firearms and why.

For both halves of the show, if you’d like to call in and share your views and opinions, our listener call in line is (347) 539-5436 – and if you’re listening live at www.blogtalkradio.com/gunnuts you’ll be able to participate in the conversation. Join Breda and I tonight at 9pm Eastern to talk a little bit of guns, a little bit of politics, and a lot of fun.

If you are in a battleground state, or even if you’re not, call your campaign headquarters and offer to help. They will be so grateful. And so…if a one-legged librarian can be on her feet for two hours, walking alone in an unfamiliar neighborhood, hoping to change hearts and minds, you can do it too.

From my good friend and co-host Breda.

That’s the sort of thing that gives me hope for this election.  Real hope, not manufactured “hopey-changey” bullcrap.

As I mentioned Friday afternoon, my wife and I attended the Sarah Palin rally at Verizon Wireless Music Center.  As a mentioned in the LiveBlog, the vast majority of the event was her hitting the major talking points of the campaign, such as taxes and national security.  However, there were a few interesting moments that I wanted to expound on.

First off as I noted in the liveblog was the palpable atomsphere of excitement.  If the national media is to be believed, we conservatives are simply sitting around waiting to lose (when we’re not too busy being racist, of course).  Wherever they got that idea, it certainly wasn’t at the Indiana Sarah Palin rally – the crowd was seriously juiced up and ready for her – I am not exaggerating a little when I saw it was almost like a rock concert.  It was that atmosphere of excitement and enthusiasm that actually had me feeling okay about John McCain’s chances come November.

The 2nd item is in regards to the protesters that were escorted out during the rally.  If you read Huffington Post then you might have seen the blog from a woman associated with Code Pink in Indiana – she claims that when they unveiled their banner that “angry men” tried to “rip it out of their hands”.  I was there.  I saw what happened, and I’m calling bullshit unless I see some video to prove me otherwise.  What I saw was them whip out their banner, and then a group of gentlemen try to stand in front of the banner so that you couldn’t see it.  Police moved in to separate the groups, and then the Code Pinkos continued to yell their slogans until the police escorted them out.  Never at any time did I see the men do anything violent, or try to “rip” anything out of the hands of the Code Pinkos.  I will admit that I did not see the entire altercation as my view was partially obfuscated, however unless I see actual video that proves me wrong; I have no reason to believe that this woman is doing anything other than “enhancing the truth” to make it sound like she was assaulted by mean old Republicans.

Finally, a comment on Sarah Palin – people who think she can’t speak well need to see her live.  Our Democrat friend who attended with us said that she did a good job – almost as if when Sarah Palin is subjected to the vagaries of MSM edited, she comes off as less than intelligent.

I had an excellent time at the rally, after it was all said and done.  It was certainly interesting for me to see a part of our political process that I had never before seen; and I think it shed a little bit of light for me personally on why exactly these rallies and events are important.  Ultimately, you win elections by having more votes than the other guy – and by energizing the people who are most likely to vote for you to actually get out and vote, you stand a much better chance of victory in the election itself.