Election in 19 days!
400-408 – From Drudge: "GALLUP's 'traditional' likely voter model shows Obama with a two-point advantage over McCain on Thursday, 49% to 47%, this is within poll's margin of error... Developing..."
• CBS News (10/15/08), Transcript: Final Presidential Debate.
• Karl Rove (10/16/08) Obama Hasn't Closed the Sale: Both candidates continue to tinker with their strategies.
• CNSNews.com (10/15/08) Obama's Tax Cut is Actually a Spending Increase, Says Non-Partisan Group.
• AP (10/16/08) Ohio elections chief appeals court ruling.
(:57) 4-1, Joe Wurzelbacher the Plumber: MCCAIN: You know, when Senator Obama ended up his conversation with Joe the Plumber -- we need to spread the wealth around. In other words, we're going to take Joe's money, give it to Senator Obama, and let him spread the wealth around. I want Joe the plumber to spread that wealth around. You told him you wanted to spread the wealth around. The whole premise behind Senator Obama's plans are class warfare, let's spread the wealth around. I want small businesses -- and by the way, the small businesses that we're talking about would receive an increase in their taxes right now. Who -- why would you want to increase anybody's taxes right now? Why would you want to do that, anyone, anyone in America, when we have such a tough time, when these small business people, like Joe the plumber, are going to create jobs, unless you take that money from him and spread the wealth around. I'm not going to... OBAMA: OK. Can I... MCCAIN: We're not going to do that in my administration.
(1:00) Joe 1, cut employees
(:48) Joe 2, redistribution
(:40) Joe 3, tax cuts
(:42) Joe 4, Ayers-ACORN
(:39) 4-7, Joe's rich: MCCAIN: Hey, Joe, you're rich, congratulations, because what Joe wanted to do was buy the business that he's been working for 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week, and you said that you wanted to spread the wealth, but -- in other words, take Joe's money and then you decide what to do with it. Now, Joe, you're rich, congratulations, and you will then fall into the category where you'll have to pay a fine if you don't provide health insurance that Senator Obama mandates, not the kind that you think is best for your family, your children, your employees, but the kind that he mandates for you. That's big government at its best.
413-423 – Calls
428-437 – Chuck Smith, senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa (calvarychapelcostamesa.com), on the upcoming 19th Annual Men's Conference at Anaheim Convention Center this Saturday, October 18th, from 7:30AM - 4:00PM. Admission is free. Parking is $10.00. Doors Open at 7:00am.
443-452 – Calls
458-508 – Ron Blue, President of Kingdom Advisors (masteryourmoney.com), Faith Based Family Finances talked about today on Focus. His core financial principles: 1) Spend less than you earn. 2) Avoid short term debt. 3) Build saving into your plan. 4) Set long term goals, and continue to give. 5) God owns it all. (www.crown.org, get a money coach.)
512-523 – Calls
523 – [2:00] Don Rohde (818) 262-2092. For the past 36 years, Don has been a sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 18 consecutive years. Galpin has been family-owned and operated for the past 59 years, and 90% of their business is repeat or referral. Galpin offers Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Mazda, Saturn, Volvo, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. Located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley at Roscoe and the 405.
528-539 – Calls.
539 – [1:30] "Your Independent, Unbiased, Advisors: The Money Guys" Robert Micone/Bill O'Connor at Applied Financial, 866-SEEK-COUNSEL, and online at appliedfinancialplanning.com.
544-554 – Robert Micone at Applied Financial, 866-SEEK-COUNSEL, and online at appliedfinancialplanning.com.
558-608 – Calls
612-623 – (:57) 4-1, Joe the Plumber: MCCAIN: You know, when Senator Obama ended up his conversation with Joe the Plumber -- we need to spread the wealth around. In other words, we're going to take Joe's money, give it to Senator Obama, and let him spread the wealth around. I want Joe the plumber to spread that wealth around. You told him you wanted to spread the wealth around. The whole premise behind Senator Obama's plans are class warfare, let's spread the wealth around. I want small businesses -- and by the way, the small businesses that we're talking about would receive an increase in their taxes right now. Who -- why would you want to increase anybody's taxes right now? Why would you want to do that, anyone, anyone in America, when we have such a tough time, when these small business people, like Joe the plumber, are going to create jobs, unless you take that money from him and spread the wealth around. I'm not going to... OBAMA: OK. Can I... MCCAIN: We're not going to do that in my administration.
(:39) 4-7, Joe's rich: MCCAIN: Hey, Joe, you're rich, congratulations, because what Joe wanted to do was buy the business that he's been working for 10-12 hours a day, seven days a week, and you said that you wanted to spread the wealth, but -- in other words, take Joe's money and then you decide what to do with it. Now, Joe, you're rich, congratulations, and you will then fall into the category where you'll have to pay a fine if you don't provide health insurance that Senator Obama mandates, not the kind that you think is best for your family, your children, your employees, but the kind that he mandates for you. That's big government at its best.
(:11) 4-2, I am not President Bush: MCCAIN: Yes. Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago. I'm going to give a new direction to this economy in this country.
(:36) 4-3, Ayers-ACORN: MCCAIN: Yes, real quick. Mr. Ayers, I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist. But as Senator Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of that relationship. We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy. The same front outfit organization that your campaign gave $832,000 for "lighting and site selection." So all of these things need to be examined, of course.
(:28) 4-4, Biden qualified?: SCHIEFFER: Do you think Senator Biden is qualified? MCCAIN: I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength. He voted against the first Gulf War. He voted against it and, obviously, we had to take Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait or it would've threatened the Middle Eastern world supply. In Iraq, he had this cockamamie idea about dividing Iraq into three countries.
(:24) 4-5, offshore drilling: MCCAIN: Well, you know, I admire so much Senator Obama's eloquence. And you really have to pay attention to words. He said, we will look at offshore drilling. Did you get that? Look at. We can offshore drill now. We've got to do it now. We will reduce the cost of a barrel of oil because we show the world that we have a supply of our own. It's doable. The technology is there and we have to drill now.
(:13) 4-6, health care: Senator Obama wants to set up health care bureaucracies, take over the health care of America through -- as he said, his object is a single payer system. If you like that, you'll love Canada and England.
(:55) 4-8, SCOTUS: MCCAIN: Now, let me say that there was a time a few years ago when the United States Senate was about to blow up. Republicans wanted to have just a majority vote to confirm a judge and the Democrats were blocking in an unprecedented fashion. We got together seven Republicans, seven Democrats. You were offered a chance to join. You chose not to because you were afraid of the appointment of, quote, "conservative judges." I voted for Justice Breyer and Justice Ginsburg. Not because I agreed with their ideology, but because I thought they were qualified and that elections have consequences when presidents are nominated. This is a very important issue we're talking about. Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences. They should be judged on their qualifications. And so that's what I will do.
(:14) 4-9, "fairness and justice": OBAMA: Well, I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
(:56) 4-10, abortion: MCCAIN: Senator Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion. He voted against that. And then, on the floor of the State Senate, as he did 130 times as a state senator, he voted present. Then there was another bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the state of Illinois not that long ago, where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion, one of the late-term abortion, a really -- one of the bad procedures, a terrible. And then, on the floor of the Illinois State Senate, he voted present. I don't know how you vote "present" on some of that. I don't know how you align yourself with the extreme aspect of the pro- abortion movement in America. And that's his record, and that's a matter of his record.
(:30) 4-11, partial-birth abortion: OBAMA: With respect to partial-birth abortion, I am completely supportive of a ban on late-term abortions, partial-birth or otherwise, as long as there's an exception for the mother's health and life, and this did not contain that exception. And I attempted, as many have in the past, of including that so that it is constitutional. And that was rejected, and that's why I voted present, because I'm willing to support a ban on late-term abortions as long as we have that exception.
(:51) 4-12, "health for the mother": SCHIEFFER: Let's give Senator McCain a short response... MCCAIN: Just again... SCHIEFFER: ... and then... MCCAIN: Just again, the example of the eloquence of Senator Obama. He's health for the mother. You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, "health." But, look, Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives. We'll do everything we can to improve adoption in this country. But that does not mean that we will cease to protect the rights of the unborn. Of course, we have to come together. Of course, we have to work together, and, of course, it's vital that we do so and help these young women who are facing such a difficult decision, with a compassion, that we'll help them with the adoptive services, with the courage to bring that child into this world and we'll help take care of it.
628-639 – (1:00) Joe 1, cut employees
(:48) Joe 2, redistribution
(:40) Joe 3, tax cuts
(:42) Joe 4, Ayers-ACORN
644-655 – Ben Shapiro, nationally-syndicated columnist (benjaminshapiro.com), on last night's debate.
• Amir Taheri (10/14/08, NY Post) The O Jesse Knows. If Obama wins, our current Israel policy will end. Or, as Jesse Jackson put it, "decades of putting Israel's interests first" will end. Jackson believes that, although "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" remain strong, they'll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House.
