Mike Huckabee’s mascot, Chuck Norris, talks about the fairness of Mike’s fairtax (aka 23% value-added sales tax) idea. Why, says Chuck, I once saw one of those Saudi princes practically buy up a whole store and not pay taxes. Except he probably did pay sales tax and he didn’t pay income tax because he didn’t earn the income here. But nevermind, we love to hate those Saudi princes. Chuck and Mike also try to say that this tax won’t affect old people because they don’t buy much new. They only buy used? Oh, who cares, it’s Chuck Norris!
Archive for December, 2007
Barack Obama is returning to his early-campaign empty rhetoric in recent speeches and ads, including the latest:
Sound bite: “A nation healed, a world repaired, an America that believes again.”
John Edwards get more and more anti-corporate with every ad.
Sound bite: “Corporate greed won’t be stopped without a president who fights for you. Saving the middle class will be an epic battle and that’s a fight I was born for.”
The Brits are scared of Rudy. Guardian films makes a video about Giuliani with supporters his anti-biographer, Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice.
Voter sound bite: “I don’t want to live like an Israeli. No offense to them, but I don’t want to watch a Palestinian come walking in to wipe out a pizza parlor. This is America. We are not going to live that way. I believe that Rudy will make sure we don’t.”
“Voter sound bite: “He has the guts and I believe the knowledge and the judgment to attack of one the most difficult problems in current history and that is the rise of the Muslims. . . . These people are very, very dedicated and they’re also very smart in their own way. . . . We need to defeat them or chase them back to their caves or in other words get rid of them.”
Sadly, the videos are embeddable. See it here.
And then for a one-two punch, the Guardian asks the old spoiler, Ralph Nader, his views. He says Giuliani is Bush on steroids.
(Dislosure: I write for the Guardian.)
Obama reminds Iowa voters to vote on January 3rd and then reminds them that he’s the cool, rock-star candidate.
Looks like the Romney campaign is taking John McCain’s recent surge in the New Hampshire polls seriously. This 30-second spot calls McCain an “honorable man” who wants to raise taxes and is soft on illegal immigration.
John Edwards reminds South Carolina primary voters that he was born in South Carolina, that his daddy worked in the mills, that he was the first member of his family to go to college, that big corporations control Washington and that he will never forget where he came from.
John McCain bagged the most newspaper endorsements among Republican candidates for the New Hampshire primary and he brags about it in this 30-second spot.
Joe Biden flogs his foreign policy experience in this 30-second spot running Iowa.
Sound Bite: “For 35 years Joe Biden has been tested and made the tough decisions that have protected our nation and saved lives.”
How many times can you say “conservative” in 30 seconds? A lot.
Future Secretary of Defense Chuck Norris talks to Mike Huckabee about his recent visit with troops in Iraq. Don’t miss Chuck’s amusing anecdote about posing for gag photos with marines — he accidentally chokes one of them unconscious.
Some unlucky Iowa pheasants sacrifice their lives for a Mike Huckabee post-Christmas photo op.
Sound Bite: “If you’re not taking flak, you’re not over the target. So, clearly we’re over the target. We’re taking a lot of flak.”
Rudy Giuliani
Mitt Romney
Joe Biden
John McCain
Hillary Clinton has been positioning herself of late as the candidate of “change.” Don’t listen to that noise, says Barack Obama in Carroll, Iowa. I’m the REAL change candidate.
Sound Bite: Imitation’s the best form of flattery. I’m getting flattered a lot. Suddenly everybody’s for change.”
Hillary Clinton says we’re in an economic mess, selling assets and borrowing money to with China to buy oil from Russia. So Rudy Giuliani is asked:
Q: “Do you think the economy is strong right now?”
A: “I think the economy is what it is.”
Milton Friedman, he ain’t. He goes on to say that we need restraint on spending, lower taxes (but he modifies that usual Republican cry by adding that they should be lower where it helps the economy) and reduced (here, again, he modifies by adding the word “moderately”) regulation.
