He chose NOT to take tax money out of the national coffers because it turned out, he didn't need it.  Again, as CONSERVATIVES how are you faulting him for changing his mind TO THE COUNTRY'S FINANCIAL BENEFIT?!

Your boss and CFO should wait to see what tax plan CONGRESS enacts and lobby their congressmen and senators NOW if they feel those provisions are detrimental.  Just because this is Obama's current and best plan during a campaign season DOESN'T mean this is the plan that will actually get amended and passed through both houses of congress.

I'm more worried that it sounds like your boss is using scare tactics to push his employees to vote one way or the other.  That happens to be ILLEGAL in this country.  If any of this has been recorded or in in writing, their ass is grass. 

He did.  Here is Barack's birth certificate, which has been a matter of public record.

It's just yet another fact.

This article on snopes that breaks the whole Obama and requirements for running for President thing down.  Bottom line, he was born in Hawaii - a US state even way back then.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp

Yeah, but, you know, McCain was a P.O.W. for YEARS and could have been BRAINWASHED like in that movie, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE.  How do we know he's not the commie plant ready to take down the country as soon as he sees the Queen of Diamonds (Sarah Palin's Alaskan Independance Party code-name?!).

You see just how RIDICULOUS this can get?? 

Rest assured, though my employers political views, which are largely economically based, are no secret to his employees, this latest tidbit was a private aside to me. The last thing he needs is a company full of people who think that they're going to lose their jobs. That's why I was asked to not discuss it with my co-workers. I happen to know that they will lose their jobs, but only for economic reasons. Right now, we're doing quite well, and the owner is inclined to believe that Obama means what he says. And it would seem that anyone inclined to vote him into office should believe that he means what he says too. Otherwise, why vote for him... unless it's simply a vote against Bush, who isn't in the race, as I've discoverd in lunch break conversation is the primary reason most of my co-workers and friends are voting Democrat: "anything but Bush", who isn't running.

And if BO intends to implement tax policies of redistribution of wealth as he said in his Boston radio interview and and several times since and that the Constitution is flawed for not making provisions to do so, then if he can't do it, despite a Democrat Congress, then voting for him would really be a mistake, if not getting what you voted for, in a candidate's campaign promises, is considered a not-good thing.

At least it would appear that way to me, at first glance.

You know, I measure character differently than you do, I guess.  While McCain clearly had the balls of steel and chutzpah as a P.O.W. and I commend him for that, he just did a complete 180 on everything he believed in 2000, just to get the nomination and contribution cash from the powers that be this time.  

So selling your soul to the devil to try and win your one last chance at world domination strikes me as a quintessential example of a FALLEN character. 

I guess, so would dumping your crippled wife for the richie rich you'd been cheating on her with...

...but that's just me.

It would be so cool if the judge sitting on the lawsuit in Philadelphia regarding Obama's citizenship would save the taxpayer's some money by referring to snopes.com to render jurisprudence, instead of trying to do his own research all these months. As a matter of fact, I think all courts should run that way and save us some money. We're gonna need it, I think.

Nothing whatsoever.

Anyone can send a check from anywhere to any campaign.  Eventually all campaigns have to bounce some of them because they are fraudulent or illegal for some reason - like they came from overseas.  Sometimes they catch them immediately, sometimes it takes a while to sort through them all.

It happens to EVERY campaign from either party and it's one of the every four year red herrings the other side pulls out when they want to take the public's eye off of a scandal breaking against them.

Like clockwork.

I used the snopes site so it would be easy for everyone to be caught up.  The birth certificate I linked to (also found in that snopes article) is more legally relevant, of course.

And yes, anyone can bring a lawsuit for any reason.  Whether it holds up in court or is thrown out as a waste of the court's time is another matter entirely. 

Campaign contributions can be made by credit card (most are) and the "overseas" factor disappears completely.

You're actually closer than you know.  For many of the McCain voters who are 50 years and older, the world is passing them by and the new younger generation of Americans scares them on many levels.  In some cases, there is closet bigotry since many of them are old enough to remember the civil rights movement and the hateful ignorant things their parents often were saying at the time.

For example, my paternal grandmother was a racist old bitch.  My father, while not openly racist, has no friends "of color", lives in the redneck asscrack of Pennsylvania, and despite the fact that my last girlfriend was wealthy, a genius, and one of the most beautiful women in the world, it was clear he did not approve of her...I can only assume because she was black.

Now that didn't matter to me.  It just didn't work out with her and we're really good friends.  But if it had gone the distance, his approval was neither solicited nor required.   

So if you see a lot of white haired old coots (male and female) at those McCain/Palin rallys, try to remember that bigotry comes from fear of the unknown and old habits can be hard to break - but often quite easy to stir up.

PS PLEASE be clear I specifically did NOT say that ALL McCain/Palin voters are white haired bigoted old coots.  With this group, I have to include such disclaimers. 

Dudette  , what do you think "cruel and unusual punishment" covers?!  It's supposed to be about incarceration, interrogation, awaiting trial, punishment, etc.  The very DEFINITION of torture is "cruel and unusual".  Don't go all semantic on me here.  You KNOW what the spirit and the letter of that refers to, the same way your soul tells you what's right from wrong.

But some people don't have credit cards, and some people pay with their COMPANY credit card, which has to be flagged as right out, and then some people live overseas 1/2 the time and here in the US 1/2 the time, and...well you get the drift.  Either way, each campaign works hard to screen these out because the embarrassment is never worth the chump change of the donation.