Obama Worship. Liberal Propaganda. Journalism?

Supplicants in the press continue to promote their hero, Barack Obama.

Obama worshiper Fatimah Ali wrote a particularly dishonest piece. in the Philadelphia Daily News. I'm not saying she's a liar; I'm sure she believes the manure she swallows and regurgitates. My fiskers are out, so let's get started.

She starts by asserting John McCain is just like George Bush. This is a willful distortion. Different men, different biographies, different political styles, different beliefs on the role of government. But she's duty bound to spout the Democratic party line.

She mentions Barney Smith from Marion, Indiana, the ordinary guy who proclaimed himself a Republican for Obama at the DNC Convention. He's an unemployed man living in a liberal sinkhole hollowed out by populist policies and cocky union overreach.

Yes, there are two Americas: Liberal reservations ran by dysfunctional governments that tax businesses into leaving while promising gullible citizens more goodies it can't afford.

Then there is the rest of America, where responsible Democratic and Republican governments encourage people to take care of themselves by participating in free-market capitalism. California and Massachusetts pay the same federal taxes as Alabama and Tennessee, but they tax their businesses more. So who is to blame for the decline of the former and the continued job growth of the latter? Could it be local and state governments?

We have a fundamentally strong economy; some states are more adept at taking advantage of it than others. To blame President Bush is ridiculous. States and cities that engage in leftist Eat The Rich rhetoric (Michigan, Ohio) are suffering. Oklahoma, Texas and other business friendly regions are enjoying lower unemployment.

Here's another outright lie from Ms. Ali:

Over the last eight years, we've lost 3.2 million jobs

This is easily refuted by this Economic Policy Institute negative article lamenting slow but positive job growth. And of course, she fails to mention those minor factors known as the dot-com bubble and 9/11. But no lie is too big to advance the cult of Obama.

He (Obama) promises to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers and ease the burden for millions of families.

Does she realize how little taxes the bottom 50% of income earners pay? For the record, the bottom 50% makes less than 32,000/year and pays 3% of the income tax. 35% of wage earners pay no taxes at all. They don't need a tax break, they need jobs! And jobs are provided by rich people that she wants to tax into oblivion.

The top 1%, those making over 388,000/year, pay almost 40%. I'm not sticking up for rich people, but how can you cut taxes for the bottom 50% when they pay little or no taxes already? Answer: You give them "tax Credits" that are thinly disguised government handouts. This Wall Street Journal article explains it well:

Mr. Obama claims to offer a tax cut to moderate-income families, but a significant portion of Mr. Obama's tax plan is a welfare giveaway costing more than $648 billion over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center.

How so? He would authorize a hodgepodge of refundable tax credits covering everything from education, mortgage payments, child care and other items for people who do not pay income taxes now.

About 38% of U.S. households pay no income tax today. Under a President Obama (whose policies would shave 15.3 million households off the tax rolls) that share would grow to nearly half of all American households.

We have been repeatedly told that everyone should pay their fair share. So this sounds grossly unfair and like a return of tax-and-spend liberal economics. No wonder there is a lot of doubt about the wisdom of the junior senator from Illinois.

Liberals are enamored of Billion Dollar Schemes when all that is really required is following some simple advice. Walter E. Williams, a brilliant and witty economist I greatly respect, has a simple plan for success in life:

Avoiding long-term poverty is not rocket science. First, graduate from high school. Second, get married before you have children, and stay married. Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage. And, finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior.

It really is that simple, just ask the tens of millions of successful Americans who have tried it. Ms. Ali closes her propaganda piece with her real bottom line:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!

Translation: If you backwoods hicks elect the old white guy and we'll tip it all over, man! Hand over the loot and nobody gets hurt.