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FOX News’ managing editor of Business News interviewed millionairess business magnate Martha Stewart this week. Cavuto asked Stewart who she was voting for and Martha responded she was voting for Obama. Silly question, mused Stewart. I made that “silly question” part up but it’s probably true.

Cavuto then asked the maven madam who turned homemaking into a marketing marvel what she thought of Obama’s moving toward socialism with higher taxes. Martha said the public (that’s you and me) doesn’t understand. Martha said the “poor” people,

“Need to suck it in and budget. And be more careful…how they spend their money.”

That is Martha Stewart’s answer to higher taxes from Obama. People will just have to suck it in and pay their taxes. I guess I’ll just have to hold off on those Martha Stewart Towels I’ve had my eye on.

Martha Stewart reminds me of the old ’80’s poster, “Poverty Sucks.”

Millionaires become millionaires by anticipating events and preparing for them.

Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga said last Sunday he is preparing to sell up to 45% more of the team to co-owner Stephen Ross.

Huizenga said the presidential election is among the issues weighing on his dcecision. That’s because a Barack Obama administration is expected to mean higher capital gains taxes.

“He wants to double the capital gains tax, or almost double it,” Huizenga said. “I’d rather give it to charity than to him.”

“If you do it this year or you do it next year, the difference is humongous because of the taxes,” Huizenga said.

The Obama campaign disputed Huizenga’s figures, saying the candidate’s “plans are to raise the capital gains tax maximum from 15 percent to 20 percent — a 33 percent increase, not double. And the top rate would be for families earning more than $250,000 or individuals earning more than $200,000.”

That should make Mr. Huizenga and the rest of happy. Instead of a 50% increase in the capital gains tax, it’s only a 33% increase.

And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.

Newspapers and television networks across the nation are all reporting a spike in gun sales. Gun dealers are reporting sales are up by at least 10%.

CBS News in their report tried to make a lame attempt that a portion of the increase in gun sale sales is due to concerns about the economy. That dog don’t hunt. CBS does get it right in the end. The increase in gun sales is driven by fears that if Barack Obama is elected president, he will join with fellow Democrats in Congress to enact new gun controls. CBS should just be frank and honest and say that if Obama is elected with a Harry Reid run Senate and a Nancy Pelosi run House, the 2nd Amendment is in peril of being repealed.

CBS said that more than three dozen interviews with gun dealers and buyers in Virginia and Maryland and with experts nationwide indicated that the increase in gun sales appears to be driven predominantly by concerns about the presidential election. 

“I think right now people are scared Obama is going to take their rights away,” said Margaret Marcus, who was carrying a Glock 19 9mm semiautomatic pistol under a blue jean jacket embroidered with “Winnie the Pooh” characters. “He’s definitely anti-gun, despite what you see in the mainstream media.”

The Pittsburgh Leader Times reports that a number of gun owners apparently agree with the National Rifle Association’s position: Barack Obama is “…the most anti-gun presidential candidate in American history.” With that thought in mind, many gun owners are “stocking up” on guns and ammo in anticipation of gun bans should Obama win the presidential election next Tuesday.

Harvey Wingard of Harvey Wingard Guns said that many people expressed their willingness to hide guns in the event of a nationwide registration or confiscation program. He said many people he knows believe that a gun confiscation program is in the offing if the Democrats win.

During his first run for the Illinois Senate in 1996, Mr. Obama said on a candidate questionnaire that he supported legislation to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns.”

Last month at a political event in Duryea, PA., a woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban if elected president.

“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.

So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said.

With the Democratic Party on the cusp to a filibuster-proof 60 seat majority in the Senate in this election, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi projecting an additional 20 to 30 House seats to Democrats, what do you think the odds are now of keeping your guns?

Last week the Obama campaign shut out Orlando, Florida television station WFTV-Channel 9 from further interviews because they “didn’t like” the questions posed to Joe Biden. The Obama campaign said “This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely at best…”

Today the Obama campaign has decided to heave out three large metropolitan newspapers from its plane for the final few days of the campaign because…because all three newspapers endorsed John McCain for president.

The New York Post, the Washington Times and the Dallas Morning News have been told to move out by Sunday to make room for network bigwigs, also know as drooling media clowns in the business of electing Barack Obama.

The reporters for the three newspapers are already planning how to cover the final days by flying comercial airlines or driving from event to event.

Welcome to Mr. Obama’s world.

No wonder Hollywood’s bubbleheads are held in such low esteem. They lie.

During the 2000 presidential campaign between George Bush and Al Gore, Hollywood airheads like Susan Sarandon, Barbara Streisand, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Tim Robbins all “threatened” to pack up and move out of the country if Bush won.

Bush won. And they’re still here.

Forward to the 2004 presidential election between Bush and John “Francois” Kerry. The same silly bunch of Tinsel town liberals and a few new ones vowed once again to move out of the country if Bush won.

Bush won. And they’re still here. What does it take to get these people to leave?

Next Tuesday (Wednesday if you’re a Democrat) is the 2008 presidential election. Today the Los Angeles Times reports on the horror of all horrors. Heidi Klum and Seal are warning us that if McCain wins (steals) the election, they are leaving the country. Seal says:

“If McCain is elected and America staggers on further towards the abyss, then we will leave the country. That is not a problem for us.”

Thank you Mr. Seal. If you and Heidi; and Susan and Tim; and Babs and Brolin; and the Baldwin brothers leave the country, that is not a problem for us either.

But, please try and keep your promises this time.

A report yesterday from Florida Today says that Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting. Numbers released Wednesday show that registered Democrats voting outnumber Republicans 54% to 30% among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early.

The only problem with that rosy scenario is that, according to a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, Sen. John McCain is leading Sen. Barack Obama 49 to 45 among those Floridians who have already voted.

Being somewhat of a contrarian, I would have been more surpised if this had not been the case.

Adding to Democrat worries,  Republicans continued to show a traditional strength, leading 50 percent to the Democrats’ 30 percent in the 1.2 million absentee ballots already returned.

I suspect this news snippet of early voting does not bode well for the Obama campaign. What if ACORN registered voters Bugs Bunny, A. Hitler, and the Dallas Cowboys also vote for McCain?

Mark Levin writing in The Corner today, The Obama Temptation, senses that “what’s occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.”

“There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama’s name on it, which adorns everything from Obama’s plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama’s name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world.”

“The media are open and brazen in their attempts to influence the outcome of this election…Virtually all evidence of Obama’s past influences and radicalism — from Jeremiah Wright to William Ayers — have been raised by non-traditional news sources. The media’s role has been to ignore it as long as possible, then mention it if they must, and finally dismiss it and those who raise it in the first place. It’s as if the media use the Obama campaign’s talking points — its preposterous assertions that Obama didn’t hear Wright from the pulpit railing about black liberation, whites, Jews, etc., that Obama had no idea Ayers was a domestic terrorist despite their close political, social, and working relationship, etc. — to protect Obama from legitimate and routine scrutiny.”

”So in the tank are the media for Obama that for months we’ve read news stories and opinion pieces insisting that if Obama is not elected president it will be due to white racism.”

“But beyond the elites and the media, my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue…It is a populist appeal that disguises government mandated wealth redistribution as tax cuts for the middle class, falsely blames capitalism for the social policies and government corruption (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) that led to the current turmoil in our financial markets, fuels contempt for commerce and trade by stigmatizing those who run successful small and large businesses, and exploits human imperfection as a justification for a massive expansion of centralized government. Obama’s appeal to the middle class is an appeal to the “the proletariat,” as an infamous philosopher once described it, about which a mythology has been created.”

”The question is whether enough Americans understand what’s at stake in this election and, if they do, whether they care. Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency?

First it was Sen. Hillary Clinton who last month said, “Once we get through this immediate crisis, the country should look at some Great Depression-Era type of government entity to deal with it.”

Now Sen. John Kerry says the “change” we need to deal with the current financial crisis s to reinstall President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”

At a Boston Herald editorial meeting yesterday, John Kerry said:

“The nation’s battered economy needs an old-fashioned “Rooseveltian lift” of regulatory reforms and government spending on the infrastructure, clean energy and other sectors.”

Calling current financial woes the most “complicated economic time we’ve had since the Great Depression,” Kerry said new approaches are needed to reform the current financial system.

“We’re operating with old institutions that are incapable of responding fast enough, dealing with vast sums of money that cross boundaries in different financial centers,”

John Kerry says we are operating with old institutions so he wants to re-install even older operating institutions.

I’m waiting now for Barack Obama to jump on board and re-define once again his “hope and change” message to that of FDR’s failed plan of 1933.

Roosevelt inherited what was a deep recession and turned it into a 12-year depression. While most European countries had shaken off the depression in just a few years, the United States had to suffer until our entrance into World War II to recover.

Joseph Stalin did it. So did Adolf Hitler. Control the media and there is no opposition. Control the media and dissent is negated. George Orwell wrote about it in 1984.

WFTV- Channel 9’s Barbara West in Orlando, Florida tried to conduct a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden last Thursday. West wondered about Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber”, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama wasn’t being Marxist when he talked about spreading the wealth?

“Are you joking,” asked Biden?

Next she asked Biden about his comments that Obama would be tested with an international crisis in his first months as president. She wondered if Biden was saying America’s days as the world’s leading power were over.

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden fired back.

Biden disliked West’s line of questioning so much the Obama campaign has canceled any further interviews including one previously scheduled with Joe Biden’s wife, Jill.

THe interview is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXcImQfubM

Laura K. McGinnis, the Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign said:

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election”

Any further questioning by this station to the Obama campaign is over for the simple reason Joe Biden didn’t like the questions.

Maybe Biden thought he would be interviewed by Larry King, Chris Matthews, or Keith Olbermann.

The other day when Joe Biden said the election of Barack Obama as president would precipitate a world crisis in his first six months of office, I was somewhat alarmed.

The New York Times reports today that Barack Obama has cleared up that statement.

“I think Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes,” Obama said as he and the MSM once again “sought to sweep aside another dustup” created by the leading gaffe architect of our time, Senator Joe Biden.

I get it now. When Joe Biden predicts an international crisis in the next six months, or when the he says the U.S. and France kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, or that President Roosevelt went on television two years before he was elected president to explain the 1929 stock market crash, or when he said the surge in Iraq would fail and that what should be done is to split Iraq into three separate countries…well, those are all just “rhetorical flourishes.”

When you’re a Democrat and say something stupid and ignorant, you’re rhetorically flourishing. If you’re a Republican and say something stupid and ignorant, you’re simply stupid and ignorant…and probably a bigoted racist to boot.