August 27, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has settled on a running mate, and the pair will appear together on Friday at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, according to Republican sources outside the campaign.McCain will notify his choice on Thursday, one source said. The decision is closely held among just a handful of the senator's top advisers.
Speculation has centered on several candidates, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.).
Here's hoping it isn't Lieberman. I might be able to live with dark-horse Tom Ridge, but I think that would be a bad choice as well. But does the choice of Dayton make it more likely that we will see an Ohioan like Rob Portman? I'm not sure -- though I would be happy with Romney, Pawlenty, Alaska's Sarah Palin or Virginia's Eric Cantor. And as I said yesterday, I don't think that Kay Bailey Hutchison would be a bad pick -- though I find it highly unlikely.
Closing question -- can the choice be kept secret until the announcement on Friday, or will it leak earlier? And will such a leack come before or after Barack Mugabe Obama's Nuremburg rally at Invesco Field?
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Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is organizing its supporters tonight to confront Tribune-owned WGN radio in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air."WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers."
"Lies, distortions, and manipulations"? Most folks would call them facts -- but not the neo-Stalinists in the Obama camp.
What does Kurtz have to say?
- Obama has a long, close association with Bill Ayers.
- Bill Ayers engaged in terrorism against the US and remains unrepentant.
- Strenuous efforts have been and are being made to hide documents about that relationship and suppress efforts to bring it into the public eye.
But then again, why should we be surprised by the efforts of the Obama campaign? He's already seeking to have his political critics jailed for engaging in political speech heresy against Obama. Why not try to silence journalists?
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Barack Hussein Obama, a freshman senator who defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics, was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the 44th president of the United States.The unanimous vote made Mr. Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president. It brought to an end an often-bitter two-year political struggle for the nomination with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who, standing on a packed convention floor electric with anticipation, moved to halt the roll call in progress so that the convention could nominate Mr. Obama by acclamation. That it did with a succession of loud roars, followed by a swirl of dancing, embracing, high-fiving and chants of “Yes, we can.”
But let's be honest here -- despite the claim of unanimity, anyone who has been observing the process must acknowledge that his nomination was anything but. That is why there were such strenuous efforts to keep an actual vote on the nomination from being broadcast in prime time.
At best, Obama got 40% of the delegate votes, based upon estimates I've seen. Hillary's little "party unity" parliamentary maneuver can't obscure that fact -- though Obama's toadies in the media will try.
Oh, and one question -- is the New York Times hatemongering by calling the newly-minted candidate "Barack Hussein Obama"?
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Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.
* * * During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."
Sounds rather like Beijing, doesn't it? Let's not forget -- Barack Mugabe Obama has said he wants the US to become more like Red China.
I wonder if this is the same event that resulted in this story that is sure to have embarrassed Obama and the Democrats.
Former Senator John Edwards has stayed away from the Democratic convention in Denver, but the close friend who helped hide his one-time mistress is receiving VIP treatment here.Fred Baron, a wealthy Texas trial lawyer and former finance chairman for Edwards' presidential campaign, was seen Tuesday at a private luncheon for top party donors and key senators.
Baron, a longtime major contributor to Democratic candidates, would not answer questions from ABC News and walked away when he saw cameras.
You know, it certainly seems like there might be a connection -- after all, it highlights one more example of how dirty the Dems are.
And as for the Denver Police, these fascist tactics against a reporter seem quite at odds at how they dealt with a situation in which an assault was committed and repeated death threats were made against at conservative member of the press by liberal protesters.
Taking photos of Democrat fat cats? Arrest and threats of violence from the police.
Assault and threats of murder by liberal thugs? Nothing to see here, just move along.
UPDATE: Anyone hear me talking about this with Hugh Hewitt this evening?
UPDATE 2: Here's some of the video -- including the one cop's attempt to further suppress the press by ordering the cameras turned off. Seems to me that Denver cops do not know crap about the First Amendment.
Also, this report from Howard Kurtz.
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Well, that was before the success of the surge -- and on Monday the Iraqi government will take responsibility for security in the former al-Qaeda stronghold.
US forces will hand over control of Anbar province to Iraqi troops in the coming days, military officials said Wednesday, touting improved security in the region."We believe the province could turn over to Iraqi control in just a few days," Marine General James Conway said.
"The change in the Al-Anbar province is real and perceptible," Conway said of the majority-Sunni region, which is Iraq's largest province.
Remember this as the Democrats nominate cut-and-runner Barack Obama tonight in Denver -- AMERICA IS WINNING!
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At a forum on Sunday, when Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell called MSNBC "the official network of the Obama campaign," Brokaw said, "I think Keith has gone too far. I think Chris has gone too far."Insiders say Olbermann is pushing to have Brokaw banned from the network and is also refusing to have centrist Time magazine columnist Mike Murphy on his show.
I'm not necessarily a fan of Tom Brokaw, but I do respect him as a journalist. To argue that his criticism of The Sportscaster should result in a ban from MSNBC is the ultimate proof of the megalomaniacal view that Olbermann has of himself and his importance -- and his slavish devotion to the Obama campaign.
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And fortunately, the scientific evidence is pretty clear on the matter.
In his new book, "Embryo," [Professor Robert] George and co-author Christopher Tollefsen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, left religion behind and set out to establish the embryo's personhood by reviewing all the major scientific works on human embryogenesis and early intrauterine development.Included was American medicine's most prominent human embryology text, "The Developing Human," whose authors are not imprecise on the matter of life: "Human development begins at fertilization when a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to produce a single cell -- a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual."
In other words, human life begins at conception. That is not a religious posture, but a scientific fact that the lowest paid laborer on the planet can assert without qualm. What we do with that understanding is another matter, but no one in the 21st century should pretend not to know when human life begins.
Let's take deconstruct that for those at lower pay grades.
- Sperm meet egg.
- Zygote of species
is created.
- Said zygote is alive, and human, ergo constitutes human life.
- There is no stage after that point at which the zygote/embryo/fetus can be legitimately argued to not be human until the cessation of biological functioning.
- Said zygote is alive, and human, ergo constitutes human life.
Now, that leaves those who support abortion in an interesting quandary, since they cannot argue that science does not establish the beginning of human life. They must either argue, as do Pelosi and Biden, that theology trumps biology in determining when human life begins (which would constitute a big First Amendment no-no) OR argue that the life question is irrelevant and that certain members of our species are subhuman and therefore merit no protection under law (Paging Adolf Hitler!).
But then again, Barack Obama's actions while in the Illinois Senate demonstrate that he takes the latter view -- and even extends it to include newborn infants who survive an assault in the womb at the hands of the abortionist. Sadly, he lacks the integrity to admit that this is his position, even though the record is unambiguous in that regard.
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DD, August 26, 2008
"We should be led by Osama bin Laden," he said, then quickly corrected himself. "I mean Obama and Biden."
What is it with Democrats that they can't tell the difference between Barry Hussein and the world's foremost terrorist? Is it the connection to Bill Ayers? The fact that both Osama and Obama want US defeat in Iraq? I just don't get it.
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Ayers was unrepentant about the group’s planting of bombs in the Capitol, the Pentagon, and other sites. “I think I was on the side of justice and ultimately it will be seen that way,” Ayers said. “I don’t think our move was so much towards violence.
Now that is a statement made in 2004, and was a part of an attempt to parse a difference between his group's attack on America and the attacks of Osama bin laden against this country. What Ayers fails to recognize is that Osama thinks he is on the side of justice, too -- terrorists always do.
No wonder Obama and his campaign want to jail critics who publicize his connection to Ayers.
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The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.One worker caught in Monday's sweep at the Howard Industries transformer plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago.
Not until one gets to the fourth paragraph does one find the actual numbers -- that close to 600 immigration criminals were caught, that 475 were held and another 100 given humanitarian release with ankle-bracelets so that they could care for family members. That is a whole lot better than "victims" of other law enforcement crackdowns on crime get.
My only regret in all this -- that no executives or managers of this company were arrested. We need more of that to discourage their illegal activity, too.
And the most absurd quote in the press coverage of the raid? Try this on for size, from the son of the pastor of many of the detainees.
“It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals.”
Heaven forbid that we treat lawbreakers like lawbreakers!
When will the press take the side of the US and its immigration laws, rather than the foreigners (and American employers) who break those laws?
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Russia on Tuesday recognized the independence of two enclaves that have long sought to secede from neighboring Georgia. The action deepened strains with the West over the conflict in the economically vital crossroads of the Caucasus and roiled a broader debate over how to respond to separatist movements around the world.
* * * The Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, declared in a nationally televised address that South Ossetia and the other pro-Russian enclave, Abkhazia, would never again have to endure what he described as oppressive Georgian rule.
“This is not an easy choice, but it is the only way to save the lives of people,” Mr. Medvedev said.
Hey -- Russian actions in Chechnya have been pretty heavy-handed and oppressive. Why shouldn't the rest of the world start adopting the logic of Medvedev and Putin and recognize the independence of a part of Russia that has been fighting for independence for years -- and any other part of the country that wants to break away as well?
And after all, Russia seems to be welcoming a new Cold War.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told convention-goers Tuesday morning that polls are underestimating the strength of Barack Obama, contending he will defeat John McCain with the support of new or intermittent voters, who are not generally polled.“I’m very comfortable with those polls,” Pelosi said at a rooftop breakfast panel near the Democratic National Convention. “I think he is trouncing him. I want more of a spread, of course — I want it all.”
In other words, just ignore the numbers -- she's sure that they are wrong and that Obama is going to win by a landslide, regardless of what the polls are actually showing.
Call it faith-based interpretation of the polls. No matter what the data shows, just believe that Obama is winning.
I'm curious -- if that does happen, will Democrats complain that the disparity between polling data and election results is a sign that someone tampered with the electronic voting machines? You know, like they did in 2004.
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It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate.Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama's Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week's standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.
These results are not dissimilar from Rasmussen and Zogby, so I think it is fair to say that the race is tied right now -- though I'm sure Barry Hussein leads in the 0/11 Truther/Daily Kos Poll, which is the only one that Democrats put any faith in.
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Michael Medved makes the case for that move.
I would suggest – strongly – that the campaign reconsider the Senior Senator from Texas, the Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison.Okay, she’s not a dynamo of fiery charisma; in fact, as I’ve noted before, she’s a bland and sometimes boring speaker, and a pleasant if unprepossessing television presence. Nevertheless, she is a she--- and that fact in itself would allow McCain’s choice to upstage Obama’s.
Current polls show that only half of Hillary’s voters currently back The One; a full 20% already support McCain. The remaining 30% of one-time Clinton true believers are undecided or thinking of staying home, and the idea of a first female in national office would, no doubt, appeal to some of them—perhaps even many of them.
And given her record of never winning a statewide election with less than 62% of the vote, Hutchison is a proven vote getter -- something necessary this year when the race is so tight.
Best of all, Hutchison is undeniably conservative, and shores up the conservative base even as she attracts those disaffected PUMAs. When a candidate gets ACU ratings in the high 80s and low 90s, there is no other way to categorize her -- which should make those who question McCain's recent conservative bona fides much more comfortable with the ticket.
So while I've liked the thought of Romney, Palenty, Cantor and Palin as possible Veeps, I could be really happy with my state's senior senator on the ticket this year.
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August 25, 2008
A network television interview platform stands directly in front of some of the Texas delegates on the lower rows of the Pepsi Center.The state banners for Guam and Alaska partially block others.
And while the view of the podium is better for the delegates seated above Row 13, there's no doubt that the Texas delegation is about as far from the center of action at the Democratic National Convention as it can be.
That makes some of the delegates from the Republican red state of Texas blue.
"I think we're being punished for being a red state," said delegate Reynaldo Trevino, of Lyttle. "The consensus is: The closer you are, the more important you are."
Keisha Smith, of Victoria, said that sitting on the bottom row of the delegation gives her the opportunity to watch famous people walk by, but not much of anything else.
"The only worse thing would be to sit outside and watch it on a big screen," she said.
Maybe smaller delegations were easier to fit onto the convention's floor than the 260-person Texas delegation, said state Rep. Joe Deshotel, of Beaumont.
"I would hope they aren't putting more emphasis on Guam and Alaska," Deshotel said.
State Rep. Aaron Peña, of Edinburg, said the delegates should be moved to the front because they work hard to promote the party despite three decades of losing presidential elections. "We're the true believers, the die-hards," he said.
I'm curious -- is it that Texas is very red? Or could it be the high number of Hillary Clinton delegates that this state sent to Denver?
Either way, the message from Obama and the Democrats is pretty clear -- Texas and its electoral votes just don't matter to them.
One more reason, my fellow Texans, to vote for John McCain.
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Federal and local authorities in Colorado are questioning several suspects to determine if one of the men made a threat against Sen. Barack Obama, who will be in Denver this week to accept the Democratic presidential nomination.After pulling over Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, for allegedly driving erratically early Sunday morning, police discovered two rifles, one of which is reportedly stolen, a scope, a bulletproof vest, ammunition, walkie-talkies and the drug methamphetamine in the rented 2008 Dodge Ram truck, Aurora Police Detective Marcus Dudley said at a Monday evening press conference.
When authorities questioned Gartrell about the findings, he pointed to an associate of his whom he claimed made a threat against Obama, officials told ABC News.
Frankly, these guys appear to be a bunch of neo-Nazi sskinheads, according to some other reports I've seen. They don't represent the mainstream of anything, and are worthy of nothing but contempt and condemnation.
The last thing this American wants is an attempt on the life of Barack Obama -- and I can say with confidence that my view is shared by every true Republican.
By the way -- where is the coverage of the street disturbances in Denver?
UPDATE: Oops -- maybe not a threat at all.
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Isn't this the silliest thing you have ever sen?
Looks like a neon nightmare!
Tackiness and excess incarnate.
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I cried tonight, watching the tribute to Ted Kennedy and his speech.
As a teen, he represented something special about America to me -- until I came to understand what he stood for and realized I disagreed with his approach to America.
As an adult, I viewed him as a worthy adversary -- though one I have not always treated with respect.
And as a student of history, I recognize his significance over the last half century of American life.
And so I made a point of watching Ken Burns' tribute to the ailing Senator, and his speech to the convention.
And as I said, I wept.
Because I know that this is likely the end of an era -- and that in 2012, one face and voice that will likely be missing from the rough and tumble of the election season will be that of the man who has served as Senator from Massachusetts since before I was born. I recognize that one of our links to the past will have been severed by mortality. And that does sadden me as an American.
God bless you, Senator Kennedy -- and thank you for your service to our nation.
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No, not the one where they make Coca-Cola -- the one where the Russians continue to violate their agreement to withdraw.
It's not every aspiring First Lady whose comfort zone is a war zone, but such is the case for Cindy McCain, who left today on a mission to Georgia to assess the civilian casualties of the Russian invasion.McCain is traveling with the U.N.'s World Food Programme, whose work she monitored in Southeast Asia and Africa this spring and summer. McCain plans to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and to visit wounded Georgian soldiers. She would also visit representatives of the HALO Trust, which works to remove land mines and on whose board she serves.
But this shouldn't be a surprise, given her long record of humanitarian work.
Contrast that with Michelle Obama's work dumping poor people from the hospital where she works -- and steering contracts to her husband's political allies.
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And they were right.
Only it is the Obama campaign seeking to have the government punish political speech.
Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads.
As much as I've always disliked John McCain's cavalier attitude towards political speech, this attempt to criminalize such speech by Obama is much more frightening to me.
And not only that, but Barry Hussein's surrogates are threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of any station that carries the ad -- a potent threat from a guy who will have appointment power over that agency's commissioners.
“The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.” … Obama’s campaign has written a pair of letters to station managers carrying the ads. The letter calls the ad’s attempt to link Obama to terrorism “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the senator’s patriotism and commitment to the rule of law.” Airing the ad “is inconsistent with your station’s obligations under Federal Communications Commission regulations,” the letter continues, saying Simmons’ group lacks formal incorporation.
In other words, the President of the United States (if we win) will personally argue that your airing of the ad is a violation of the terms of the broadcast license under which you operate -- a threat which could lead to a great many stations deciding to take a hardline view of any anti-Obama ad this year.
What is worst about the ad? How about the fact that everything in it is true. Barack Obama has a long association with a confessed terrorist who openly lamented not doing more to overthrow the American government. It doesn't matter that Obama was a child when the events happened -- his willingness to have such a close association with the man is a contemporary failure of moral judgment. If McCain had a close political and personal relationship with a former Kluxer who publicly lamented not doing more to save segregation, would he so easily be forgiven that association? Of course he would not -- nor would anyone with an ounce of decency suggest he should.
And in the end, that is why Barry Hussein needs to bludgeon his opponents into silence -- the truth will not set him free, but will instead cost him the election if the American public is confronted with the reality of Barack Obama's distasteful choice of friends.
H/T Patterico, Time, Belmont Club, Ben Smith, Malkin
UPDATE: Here's what Barry Hussein is afraid the American public might see.
You gonna come after me and the rest of the conservative blogosphere next?
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But there is another aspect to his Senatorial career that ought to be noted by those considering whether how out of place Biden is on the ticket of"Hope and Change" -- when Joe Biden became a US Senator, John McCain was still a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
Think about it -- liberals often denigrate McCain's heroic suffering on behalf of his country because it was so long ago. If that is the case, what place does a man who has been a senator for three-and-a-half decades have being on their national ticket?
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1st place Council post: Bookworm Room – McCainiacs thinking outside of the box.
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August 24, 2008
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August 23, 2008
Well, sort of.
"You know what," said Pelosi "I'm going to tell you something: lighten up folks. We have a planet to save.""If Sen. Biden thinks that his wife is gorgeous, that's a-okay with me," she added.
I'll agree with the second half of the comment -- to this day I refer to my Darling Democrat as "my lovely wife" or "my darling wife" in the course of routine conversation. I didn't even realize how often I do it until one of my students a couple of years back walked up to me and asked how my beautiful wife enjoyed an event at which we had seen him at school. It is just how I feel -- and the same thing can be said about the Biden comment. It was something that was very genuine -- after a really stupid comment about her educational attainment.
Maybe he meant it was that her degree was a problem for Michelle Obama -- not only is Jill Biden better looking, but she is living the "giving back to people" lifestyle that Michelle Obama preaches about -- and that her hospital employer somehow can't live up to itself -- which points out the hypocrisy of Michelle Obama.
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Barack Obama has chosen Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate, a pick designed to shore up the Illinois senator's foreign policy credentials in advance of the November election against John McCain.Biden's selection was confirmed by a Democratic source after an evening of speculation that centered on the Delaware senator when it was reported that the other top contenders were no longer under consideration. Biden had been considered the frontrunner for the job in recent weeks -- a position confirmed by a last-minute, unscheduled trip last weekend to meet with the president of Georgia.
News of the pick was reported in advance of the Obama campaign's planned Saturday announcement to supporters via email and text message.
First, let me say that the confused, incoherent manner in which the Obama campaign handled the announcement was disturbing in and of itself. Days kept changing, and the proposed text-message idea was just absurd. Add to it the fact that the campaign had to leak the whole thing out hours in advance of the planned Saturday morning text message and you are left wondering if these folks will be able to handle a 3:00 AM overflowing toilet in the West Wing, much less a 3:00 AM phone call regarding an international crisis.
And that is part of why they picked Biden -- the ultimate insider and "non-hope and non-change" candidate. Obama recognized he needed a grown-up on the ticket, and so went for one who merely highlights all of his weaknesses even as he helps balance some of them.
And I bet a lot of folks on the left side of the spectrum are fuming. After all, here's a guy who supported the Iraq war and a surge (until he was against them for reasons of political expediency). He's got a history of insensitive remarks of a racial nature. And, of course, there is that speech he stole from Neil Kinnock -- something that didn't get Barry Hussein in trouble when he stole one from Deval Patrick earlier this year.
But most importantly of all, he isn't Hillary Clinton. He doesn't mend fences there, and he carries with him no great constituency. In the end, I don't see him as giving the campaign the sort of electoral heft it needs -- which will make a McCain victory more likely.
Oh, and how confused and mismatched are these two?
Consider Obama's introduction of Biden in Springfield.
And Biden's introduction of Barack.
Good God! What a pair of screw-ups!
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But one (indeed the only one I've encountered) has written a piece criticizing John McCain and arguing against his election to the presidency. He is Phillip Butler, who served this nation honorably and spent 8 years in the same hellish conditions that John McCain endured during his time as a POW. I honor that service.
He concludes as follows.
Senator John Sidney McCain, III is a remarkable man who has made enormous personal achievements. And he is a man that I am proud to call a fellow POW who "Returned With Honor." That's our POW motto. But since many of you keep asking what I think of him, I've decided to write it out. In short, I think John Sidney McCain, III is a good man, but not someone I will vote for in the upcoming election to be our President of the United States.
There are two sets of arguments at work in this commentary. The first set goes back to McCain's time at the Naval Academy and as a POW.
- John was a bit of a wild child during his late teens and early 20s. Of course, you have to ignore that having been a half-century ago to consider it to be relevant, but hey -- what is intellectual honesty.
- John McCain wasn't the only guy who suffered -- but then again, that is only relevant if you consider some unique experience of suffering to be a requirement to be president. In addition, John McCain's experience as a POW was not unique -- but then again, no one has ever claimed that it was.
All three of those arguments are irrelevant -- and come frighteningly close to an effort to denigrate McCain's service and experience as a POW. I presume that is not Butler's intent -- but given a point I will make later, I think it is important that I note it.
But Butler's other arguments are not irrelevant -- age, temper, and ideology. Let's look at them.
- Age -- yes, many of the POWs are dying off, some at a younger age than their contemporaries, due to their treatment in Vietnam. But any number of them are still in great health -- and McCain is clearly one of them. Besides, there is nothing to say that 47-year-old Barack Obama won't drop dead of a heart attack tomorrow -- just like a 49-year-old former colleague of mine did the other day while attending an in-service session in the district where he worked.
- Temper -- yeah, McCain has a temper. He's a passionate man. But there is nothing in his character that shows his temper is not restrained by intellect and morality. He may yell, and raise his voice -- even curse -- but he has time and again demonstrated that he acts in a rational fashion.
- Ideology -- for all some of us on the right might find McCain to be a bit less conservative than we like, it is clear that the Left finds him much more conservative than Barack Obama. So you have a choice -- a strong liberal or a moderate conservative. Take your pick.
Of course, one might consider Butler's biography beyond his time as a POW.. His biography includes his work as a "peace and justice" activist -- and member of "Veterans for Peace". yeah -- that Veteran's for Peace. You know, a group that objects to military recruiting and the Blue Angels. In other words, a group of extreme Leftists who regularly attack and insult our troops. I'm not hanging that tag on Phillip Butler -- he hung it on himself. So if you read his opinion piece and think it sounds like it belongs on Kos or DU, please recognize that its author would be welcome and comfortable on either of those two sites.
UPDATE: Looks like Obama surrogates are now using Butler against McCain. Can you say "Swiftboat"?
Here are my questions:
- Will Obama try to get these ads pulled?
- Will he seek to get those behind the ad jailed, as he has those running the Bill Ayers ad?
- Will he threaten to use the FCC to punish stations that air this ad?
- Given that no one on his side heeded his call to lay off Bristol Palin, is the statement by its sponsors that they will not pull the ad even if Obama asks them to simply more evidence that Obama is not even taken seriously by his supporters, much less America's enemies abroad?
On the other hand, significantly more of McCain's brothers in arms support him. Proof once more that Butler is what pollsters call an "outlier"..
H/T Hot Air, Don Surber
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August 22, 2008
Now it is always possible for the student to go to a paper service to buy essay an online. Masterpapers is a respected service with over 500 freelance writers who will help you at whatever stage of the project you are at. They are well known for providing their services online, providing the solution to essay projects problems and even research papers. And being able to write a strong paper is important, because many courses now have research writing as part of their syllabus, and this is something difficult for a generation reared on television and various forms of musical devices
And yes, there are many online services now that sell essays or research papers, but I don’t recommend such services because they are noted for outright plagiarism. On the other hand, I think you need to visit the link for Masterpapers to see examples of all the types of essays they can do. And I do say “all the types” because at Masterpapers they do contrast and compare essay and many other varieties of papers.
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The United States has agreed to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by next June and from the rest of the country by the end of 2011 if conditions in Iraq remain relatively stable, according to Iraqi and American officials involved in negotiating a security accord governing American forces there.
And that is the difference between this agreement and the proposals of Barack Obama and the "Defeat at any cost" Democrats. While they want out immediately, consequences be damned, this proposal is based upon the security of Iraq and the stability of the region. As such, it is not a cut-and-run strategy, but instead is a plan for victory with honor.
And while that means that the goal for withdrawal is 2011, that could change depending upon the conditions on the ground. But given the consolidation of the gains made as a part of the successful surge still opposed by Barack Obama, I expect the bulk of the troops to be home by 2012.
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Now for those of you who have forgotten about the fundraising campaign, I'd like to direct you back to the original piece I wrote on it, lending my support (after I contributed to the effort, putting my money where my mouth is on the issue).
Unfortunately, fundraising has been slow, as information about the effort has not gotten much coverage.
She rushed to fill the financial void, forming a California nonprofit to funnel money to the African school. With a flair for drama, she named it "Save Senator Obama Kogelo School" and held a mini fund-raiser. She's raised $3,500, so she's a long way from the $750,000 she wants to raise within two years.
This isn't just politics. It is also an opportunity to work wonders in the lives of impoverished people who need your help. Several years ago, friends from church started a ministry that has done wonders for Kenyan orphans. The effort to save this one school in one village has a similar potential to improve the lives of the people of one village. I'd like to encourage you to consider a donation to this effort to fulfill the promise made and broken by Barack Obama.
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FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said.
The piece cited above makes pretty clear what I asserted earlier -- the image of the document released earlier was a true image of a real document. And for what it is worth, it contains more information than the document the my wife used a couple of weeks ago to get back in the US after our trip to Canada -- a document I know with 100% certainty was issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania because I ordered it myself on her behalf.
I still think he ought to issue a copy of the original birth record filled out by the staff at the hospital where he was born, but I have always taken the earlier release to be legitimate. I do, however, still wonder if there might be some embarrassing information that keeps a true copy of the original document from being released.
H/T RedState, LGF, Right Angles, Hot Air
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That is not the view of Barack Obama, as the very words of his own mouth demonstrate.
TRANSLATION: She paid for a dead baby, so she's entitled to a dead baby by any means necessary, damn it!
How can anyone with a scrap of moral decency vote for Barry Hussein now?
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Someone makes a statement that is primarily about health care for veterans, and at the end throws in an aside about reinstituting the draft.
The candidate responds "I don't disagree" -- and launches into a long answer about veterans benefits, especially as regards medical care.
Is he
A) Agreeing with the need to improve health care for veterans;
or
B) Agreeing with the need for a new draft.
Well, if you have an IQ above room temperature, context should make it clear that what the candidate agreed with was the part about health care for veterans, NOT the part about the draft, which he did not address at all.
But if you are a partisan liberal, you attempt to spread the notion that the candidate supports the draft (which is actually the position of a number of members of your own party -- including your own candidate, who supports "mandatory voluntary national service"). You post this snippet on your website to support your case.
QUESTIONER: If we donÂ’t reenact the draft, I donÂ’t think weÂ’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.[Appaluse]
MCCAIN: MaÂ’am, let me say that I donÂ’t disagree with anything you said.
What you don't do is post the full answer which goes on to say this.
McCain: I'm grateful for all of our veterans. I carry with me quite often a quote from General George Washington in 1789. He said, "The willingness with which young Americans will serve their country in future wars is directly related to the treatment of those who have previously served and sacrificed in conflict." He was right in 1789 and he's right today.All too often our veterans do not receive the care that they have earned, and the scandal of Walter Reed is a blot on the honor of the United States of America and we can never let it happen again.
Now here's what.. I'll make this as short as possible, our veterans have earned our highest priority. And yet we know that there is also routine health care needs that veterans have that in my view, they should not have to go to the VA to receive. OK?
We have tragically and unfortunately in this war a dramatic...well, we're going to have a lot of PTSD. We also have severe combat injuries. Because thank God, we're able to get the wounded from the battle field to medical treatment more quickly than any time in history. That puts an increased burden on our medical, military medical care, as well as our VA.
So, you mentioned Albuquerque VA I believe. I could take you to Albuquerque VA or the Phoenix VA quite often and the waiting room is crowded, the veterans are standing in line to stand in line to get an appointment to get an appointment. That's not the fault of the people that work there. The people that work there are some of the finest in the World. It's just that they're overloaded.
So we have to focus our attention, expand our capability to treat PTSD, combat related injuries, brain injuries, etc. that we're best at. And for a veteran with a routine health care need, why shouldn't we give that veteran a card and take it to the health care provider; or the doctor of their choice and get the routine health care that they need.
That's what...and that way we could utilize the VA and the medical, the military medical, system to it's greatest affect. And also relieve this burden. I don't ever again want to have a veteran stand in line to stand in line to get an appointment to get an appointment. That's not...that's just not acceptable in America. And again, I do praise the people that work there. They're some of the most dedicated people I've ever known in my life. The problem is that there's just not enough of them.
There is really only one term for such behavior -- intellectual dishonesty. But then again, we've seen a great deal of intellectual dishonesty from the Obama campaign and its supporters this year, so why are we even surprised.
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The case itself seems pretty straight-forward (sorry about the term) to me.
When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.
The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a "witch hunt" against gays. Davis was demoted, and school employees must now go through sensitivity training.
Let's be real honest here -- the principal was wrong in how he handled the situation. While I don't have a problem with his having the position he does on homosexuality (or even with expressing it), I do have a problem with the directive to "stay away from children. And while I don't have a problem with his telling the girl's parents (she was clearly "out" in the school setting, and it would not be unreasonable for a faculty member to discuss such public information with her parents), I do have a problem with his efforts to suppress the First Amendment rights of the students who supported her. And while I oppose "sensitivity training" as nothing less than indoctrination, I would thoroughly support a workshop on how to deal with bullying, harassment and student rights.
But I'm particularly bothered by this statement by a representative of the ACLU.
"I think a shirt that says 'I support gays' is very different from a shirt that says 'Gays are going to hell,'" said Benjamin Stevenson, an ACLU attorney. "One can be very disruptive for a child's self-esteem; the other supports other people and their ideas."
And that is where I have a problem -- the notion that schools should be censoring one side of the debate on a controversial social issue. I've seen it all too often -- support for homosexuality or abortion is OK, but support for traditional morality is banned as "hateful and intolerant". Apparently all it takes for the ACLU standard to be invoked is one student on the right (make that "left") side to be troubled by the message for it to be banned -- but if a conservative or Christian student were to object to the right (make that "left") views supported by the ACLU and d teh kid would be deemed a hate-monger and referred to a sensitivity class a brainwashing program.
For the ACLU to support such a message ban while also supporting the rights of the KKK creates the warped situation where the most extreme views are protected by the Constitution, but mainstream views are not. And for us to attempt to raise students to be responsible citizens fully aware of and prepared to exercise their rights by showing them that government actors are free to censor "unacceptable" speech at every turn is utterly absurd.
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John McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters.John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.
McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, which is outside the poll's margin of error. Reuters/Zogby had Obama ahead by 7 points as recently as mid-July.
McCain's resurgence comes at the doorstep of the Democratic Convention, and follows other polling that collectively indicates the presidential race has become a dead heat.
* * * Today's Reuters/Zogby poll, conducted Aug. 14-16, by contrast, seems to follow a recent trend.
Frankly, I think this development was inevitable given Obama's naked resume and John McCain's long record of service to his country and significant accomplishments in the course of that service. While there may be many of us who disagree with some positions taken by McCain over the years, we still recognize quality and substance when we see it.
Simply put, Obama peaked too soon (not by a matter of weeks, but by about a decade) and is likely to continue to slip in the polls -- until America dismisses him back to the obscurity from which he emerged in a burst of media-driven celebrity four years ago.
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