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The End of an Era

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's. children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan

We Tried To Warn You

by. The Editors 

We tried our best to warn you but a half of a billion dollars can buy you anything including the presidency. The most expensive campaign in the world history, donations from terrorists and Wall Street, crooked politicians, a liable media and a great deal of happenstance made it possible for this man to become president. 

I don't believe Barack Obama is an American.  I don't think Barack Obama embodies the American spirit.  Senator Obama does not believe in the American dream or the American way.  Obama's beliefs go against America's founding principles. 

In this country we believe in the peaceful transfer of power.   If the man you voted for was not elected you respected the democratic system and you respected the man who took an office through the democratic process.

The man that just spoke in Chicago is not the president of the United States. That man wants to destroy the foundation of this country.  My grandfathers fought to keep this country free.  Hundreds of thousands of American's gave their lives to protect capitalism and the free market of America. I will not spit on the faces of these men by  honoring this man as president. 

This may be the darkest chapter in American history. This election may have been the death of democracy, capitalism, and American freedom. 

For the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country. 

Today Is The Most Important Day In American History by. The Editors

Get out and vote!  Even if you don't live in a swing state make sure you go vote to get republicans into local office.

Am I being melodramatic right now?  I don't think so.  I honestly believe, along with many respectable historians and political a

nalyzers, that a Barack Obama presidency with a democratic super majority will lead to the end of America as we know it.

Only you, the voters the ability to stop Barack Hussein Obama from seizing power over the United States of America.  Even though ACORN and Get Out The Vote of stolen hundreds of thousands of votes for Senator Obama there is still a chance we can stop him.  People must come out in large numbers to vote.  Make sure you tell everyone to go vote.  If you don't live in a swing state you must still vote.  Vote for republicans in local office.  If Barack Obama becomes president, which the polls show he probably will, we must have as many republicans in office as possible to stop his radical bills from passing.

Today will most likely be the most historic day in your lifetime.  I don't care how long the lines are at the polls or how busy you are at work -- Get out there and vote.  Vote to keep American greatest nation in the world.  Vote for a capitalist republic and a free market. 

 

As we speak millions of Americans, brainwashed by the leftest media, are lining up to vote for the most crooked politician in American history.  America has been duped by the west.  We are about to elect a former Muslim with a strong base in Black Liberation Theology with ties to terrorists, crooked politicians, crooked business men, anti-American Muslims, and anti-American Black Liberation Theologists. 

If you already voted and you want to help please go to www.JohnMcCain.com and make phone calls to poeple in swing states reminding them to get out and vote.  According to most national polls 8% of voters are still undecided to go out and campaign around your town.  Do whatever you can to help save this nation!

Annoy The Media: Go Vote & 'The Common Sense Effect'

by  Newt Gingrich

Today marks the end of one of the most dishonest, relentlessly one-sided campaigns of bias and distortion by the mainstream media in American history.

The latest tactic in this elite media campaign has been to declare the presidential race over in an effort to discourage some voters from going to the polls.  After all, if Barack Obama has already won, why should supporters of John McCain even bother to vote?

But this election won’t be decided by Keith Olbermann, or CNN, or the New York Times.

It will be decided by you.

So annoy the mainstream media.  Remember 2000.  Remember how close it was.  Remember how every single vote counted.  

Go out and vote.  Now.

The Bradley Effect vs. The Common Sense Effect

The same biased media that has declared the presidential race over has also (just to be sure) come up with a rationalization in the event that their candidate loses.   

They call it the Bradley Effect, after the former Mayor of Los Angeles Tom Bradley’s unsuccessful bid to be governor of California in 1982.  

A late election poll had Bradley, an African-American, ahead, but he went on to lose the election.  His supporters and others in the media blamed his loss on the so-called Bradley Effect: the supposed tendency of voters to tell pollsters they are voting for a minority when, in fact, they refuse to once they get in the voting booth.

The Bradley Effect has been widely discredited (see here and here).  

But that hasn’t stopped Obama partisans in the media from assuring us that the only way Senator Obama can lose is through the Bradley Effect.  In other words, the only thing that could explain an Obama loss is the fact that America is a society of closet racists.

Our Choice Today Doesn’t Have Anything to Do With Race

But I have another theory to describe the choice Americans face in this election -- call it the Common Sense Effect.

The choice we face today doesn’t have anything to do with race.  It has to do with which candidate believes in wealth creation and which one believes in wealth redistribution.

Which candidate believes in limited, effective government, and which candidate believes in unrestrained, liberal, big government.

Which candidate believes that the hard work and ingenuity of incentivized Americans can solve our energy needs, and which candidate believes that government taxation, regulation and litigation is the way to go.

It’s critical that this point be made now, before the results are in:  If Senator Obama loses the election today, it won’t have anything to do with the so-called Bradley Effect.  It will have everything to do with the Common Sense Effect.

Senator Obama in His Own Words:

  “If Someone Wants to Build a Coal Power Plant ….I Will Bankrupt Them”

But don’t take my word for it.  Take Senator Obama’s word for it.

"If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted." - Barack Obama

 “Under My Plan…Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket”

When Obama Arrogantly Talks About Bankrupting the Coal Industry, He’s Talking About Bankrupting Whole Communities

Senator Obama’s idea of solving our energy problems seems to be to inflict pain upon American consumers -- and to pronounce a death sentence on American producers of coal in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

 This is common sense people!   Article Here

Scenarios For Tonight

Kenneth Blackwell 
The latest FOX News/Rasmussen Reports battleground poll presents a plausible scenario for a narrow John McCain victory. While most pundits have written McCain’s political obituary, he is extremely competitive in Florida (McCain leads 50 percent to 49 percent), North Carolina (McCain leads 50 percent to 49 percent), Missouri (tied at 49 percent) and Ohio (tied at 49 percent). Factor in Monday’s Mason-Dixon Virginia numbers (Obama leads 47 percent to 44 percent) and this election is far from over.

The other wild card is the upset brewing in Pennsylvania. The McCain campaign actually thinks it will win that state, giving them a lifesaving electoral firewall.  

Looking at the battleground states a day before the election, I see McCain winning Florida, North, Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; and losing Colorado, New Mexico, and Virginia. If that happens, McCain will squeak out 273 electoral votes and win. 

 — Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio secretary of state, is a senior fellow at the American Civil Rights Union.  He has also served as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

 

Rob Long
To be succinct, I would say this about the election: Build an ark.

— Rob Long's column, The Long View, appears in National Review.

Elizabeth Crum
Like everyone who is willing to be honest about it, I have no earthly idea what is going to happen today in the presidential election so I’m going with the most interesting, historically significant (and actually plausible) outcome I can imagine:   

Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, and Pennysylvania go to The One; New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida go to McCain; and the electoral college is tied at 269. Ten thousand attorneys descend upon these eleven toss up states like one of the great plagues of Egypt. Obama wins because he has more money and more lawyers to defend the fraudulent votes cast by dead people and out-of-staters. 

In Nevada, Democrat Dina Titus will beat John Porter in our Distict 3 congressional race. Many feel that Porter deserves his loss: He has not been a reliable conservative in D.C. and ran a terrible campaign.   

The most interesting and controversial Nevada initiative — to raise our room tax by as much as three percent to fund public education — will pass, even though economic analysts have warned this will harm our already struggling tourism industry. And our educational system will no doubt continue to be ranked among the worst in the nation due to our Board of Education’s general hostility to fiscal responsibility, reform, and charter schools.

John J. Miller 
Barack Obama will win the presidential election. He will carry all of the 2004 blue states, including Pennsylvania, and also flip Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, and Virginia. This would give Obama 286 electoral votes, to 252 for John McCain. 

John J. Pitney Jr. 
As I explained Monday, one can think of a scenario in which McCain loses the popular vote but barely wins the electoral vote. But that outcome is just a remote possibility. The most likely result is that Obama wins 54 percent of the two-party popular vote to McCain’s 46. Obama wins the electoral vote 353-185, carrying the swing states of Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina.

In the Senate, Democrats pick up seven seats: Alaska, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and Virginia. In the House, Democrats gain 30 seats.

This scenario assumes that current polls are roughly accurate. But suppose they understate Obama’s support and the effectiveness of his GOTV operation. In that case, Obama wins 58-42 in the popular vote. He carries all the swing states above, plus Missouri, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota, Georgia, Arizona, West Virginia, and Arkansas. Here he wins the electoral vote 417-121. Democrats post additional Senate gains in Georgia and Minnesota, for a nine-vote pickup and a 60-vote total.

If the latter scenario pans out, here is a cinematic depiction of how we conservatives will view election-night coverage.   
 
— John J. Pitney, Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College.

 

More At NRO

One Day Away by. The Editors

We are one day away from the election and the numbers are getting pretty tight.  If the polls are any indication this will be an extremely close election.  Like the Gore Bush election of 2000 this may be an election one by a few thoasand votes.  There is a very good chance that Obama will win the popular vote but not the electoral college.  This would be an especially fitting way for Senator Barack Obama to loose the election because he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in the primaries but won the electoral vote because in this years primary race the democrats chose to use an electoral-college-type primary rather than a winner takes all.  This election if held any other year would have been Hillary Clinton vs John McCain.  

 Gender Obama McCain
 Male 40% 54%
 Female 52%37%
 Parental Status  
 Parents 46% 48%
 Non-Parents  47% 43%
Marital Satus  
 Single Women 62% 25%
 Married Women 43% 46%
 Display Flags  
 Yes  54% 34%
 No 62% 31%

 

Obama       46.7%

 

McCain       44.6%

 

Undecided   8.7%

Now if you look at the numbers based on income you will see why Obama is leading in the polls.  To people on welfare and people making under 50k a year the idea of distributing the wealth sounds great.

source: Technometrica Market Intelligence Poll Taken Nov. 1 of 844 likely voters

Investor Obama McCain
 Investors   43% 50%
 Non-Investor 55% 37%
Income Obama McCain
 30k or Less 60% 34%
 30k to 50k
 55% 34%
 50k to 75k
 48% 46%
 75k +
 40%

 45%

The Forgotten Lessons of 'Recount 2000'

by. Brian Darling 

 Americans want a fair election, not the embarrassment of Recount 2000. Yet we seem to have forgotten the lessons learned after Congress passed sweeping legislation to address the problems of “hanging chads.” The result may be another election determined by lawyers and judges.

Provisional Voting
The proliferation of provisional voting is troubling. After the 2000 election, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to address the problem of uncounted ballots. That law created the “provisional ballot.” Now, a voter can cast a provisional ballot when there’s a question about his eligibility. In theory, the provisional ballot insures that a person inadvertently left off the list of eligible voters can vote and prove eligibility at a later date.

There are numerous problems, though. If a voter has no identification, he must be allowed to cast a provisional ballot. If a name isn’t on the election list for a precinct or town, that voter also is allowed to submit a provisional ballot. Different names, a name on the wrong list or even evidence that you already voted doesn’t prevent a person from casting a provisional ballot. Because of varying election standards, unscrupulous election officials can use provisional ballots as an insurance policy to change results on Election Day with a few sympathetic judges.

Fraud
Fraud has been documented by the media in this election cycle. Although 34 states allowed citizens, and probably some non-citizens, to vote early, most Americans will cast their vote for president on Tuesday. States are bracing for record turnout and the lawsuits have already started in Ohio and Virginia. Recent headlines suggest that a multitude of lawsuits are likely, because serious questions are being raised about fraudulently registered voters.

The left dismisses these headlines as harmless mistakes. But the serious nature of voter fraud is evident in a recent Supreme Court decision relating to Indiana’s voter identification law. The Court said voting problems “have been documented throughout this nations’ history by respected historians and journalists” and those examples “demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”

Our military is also being disenfranchised. Virginia’s governor stepped in last week to ensure that a Fairfax County official didn’t discard absentee ballots from our troops. Military ballots many times don’t comply with state absentee ballot laws, because they don’t have a notarized signature and don’t have a post-marked envelope. If Virginia is close, military ballots may be challenged as they were in Florida in 2000 by partisans who understand that our military tends to vote for more conservative candidates.

Small Donor Transparency
No one has raised more money for a presidential campaign than Sen. Barack Obama, who out-raised Sen. John McCain by a quarter of a billion dollars. Change, transparency and reform were frequent themes for both men during the campaign; now we need to see how they will address the potential fraud in the process of contributing money using the Internet. Any fraud won’t be fully investigated until after this election -- in short, until after the harm is done.

Technology makes tracking large donors relatively easy, but campaigns have no obligation to disclose small donors (those giving less than $200) to the federal government. As a result, many small donors remain anonymous. For its part, the McCain campaign, which has accepted public financing for the general election, released its small donor list online. The privately financed Obama campaign has failed to disclose any information on small donors, which account for more than half of Obama’s total fundraising.

“Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations,” a recent Washington Post headline read. The Obama campaign is “allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed,” the article states. Some argue that this situation could be avoided by using anti-fraud tools that are commonplace in the business community.

If we are to restore America’s faith in campaign financing, we must root out the fraud that appears to have become widespread during this cycle. Conservatives want every valid vote to be counted, including those cast by our military. And we don’t want liberal judges to allow the left to game the system for partisan gain. Article Here

7 Questions for Obama On His Illegal Alien Aunt (in Public Housing)

Illegal immigration (and how to deal with it) has been among the most important political issues of this election year.  In a remarkable oversight, however, Barack Obama has somehow forgotten to mention one small fact regarding the issue: his own aunt is an illegal alien.

This incredible revelation followed an investigation by the Associated Press and was made public just days before Tuesday’s election.  The Obama campaign claims that the candidate did not know his aunt was here illegally, stated generically that all laws should be followed but overall has given only minimal comment on the discovery.

The woman, 56-year old Kenyan Zeituni Onyango, referred to fondly as “Auntie Zeituni” in Obama’s first memoir, Dreams From My Father, has been under court order to leave the country for four years. Onyango, however, has simply ignored the order and has instead been living in public housing in Boston, Mass.  Article Here

 1) Did Obama know his aunt was in willful violation of a court order to leave?

2) As a Harvard educated lawyer and a United States Senator, did Obama offer his Aunt Zeituni any advice or assistance with her case or her decision to defy the court deportation order?

3) Are any other members of Obama’s family in the country illegally?

4) How did his aunt manage to qualify for public housing assistance while under a court order to leave the United States?

5)  Since his aunt lives in public housing, does this mean that Obama supports public assistance for other illegal aliens?

6) Again, since his aunt lives in public housing, has Obama considered spreading any of his personal wealth to her, or is it just the wealth of taxpayers that he is in favor of “sharing” with others.

7) Most importantly, if elected president, will his family relationships compromise his enthusiasm for immigration law enforcement, and will he amnesty his aunt -- and the 12 million other illegal aliens currently trespassing in this country?

Beware of Exit Polls

Will they or won’t they – take a few minutes to take an exit poll, that is?

Democrats still ache over Election Day 2004 when exit polling showed John Kerry about to become the next president of the United States. The only problem was that the actual vote count put George W. Bush back in the White House for four more years.

And that came just four years after the disastrous exit polling in 2000, when the race on Election Night was called first for Al Gore, then for Bush and then at 4 a.m. was declared “too close to call.”
Many voters wonder why they can’t ever seem to get it right?

Part of the frustration may stem from the fact that the primary value of exit polling is to help us understand why people voted the way they did. This is an entirely different task than trying to predict a winner for Internet junkies who can’t wait a few more hours until actual votes are counted.

Reviewing Fox News/Rasmussen Reports data from key battleground states raises a couple red flags about the use of early exit polling data to predict a winner. Understanding this data from polling conducted last Sunday night may save some a repeat of 2004’s heartache. Article Here

The Price of Crazy Lawsuits

 by. Ralph R. Reiland

 There are already too many frivolous lawsuits -- How many lawsuits will there be if Obama makes it easier for trial lawyers to bring them?

You can't get your oil checked in Sea Isle anymore.

Heading back from the Jersey Shore for the start of another school year, we stopped at Sea Isle's only service station for gas.

With a seven-hour trip ahead of us, I asked the station's attendant (Jersey banned self-service gas pumping in 1949, so every station has an attendant) to check the oil. The station wasn't busy and he was just standing around, waiting for the gas pump to automatically click off at sixty dollars or so.

"I can't," he said, referring to the oil check.

"Some lady came in here in a junker and broke down on the way home and sued us for $10,000," he explained. "We put two quarts of oil in her car. Her car was worth $1,500 -- tops. Her lawyer said it was our fault she broke down because we were the last ones to look at her car."

He continued the story as I popped my hood and got out of the car to check my own oil. "She won. I don't know how much -- if it was the whole $10,000 or not. But the boss says we're not in the business of checking oil anymore."

So now we have a mandated-by-law "full service" station with no service.

There’s also no seesaw in our local playground. "They are rapidly disappearing, going the way of merry-go-rounds, diving boards and other joys of childhood," explained Philip K. Howard in USA Today. "Even the innocent game of tag has been banned in some New Jersey schools because a pupil might end up getting hurt and a parent might bring a lawsuit." 

School discipline is also rapidly disappearing, as are hugs. "Talk to teachers," says Howard, founder and chairman of Common Good, a nonpartisan legal-reform coalition. "Keeping discipline is hard when students can threaten that any decision might violate their presumed rights. Forget about putting an arm around an upset second-grader -- someone might claim it was an unwanted sexual advance."

Last winter, we stayed at The Breakers in Palm Beach. Henry Flagler, more than a century ago, picked the hotel's location and its name because he said his guests wanted to stay "by the breakers." They wanted rooms where they could hear the sound of the waves at night and feel the breezes coming off the water.

The windows used to open back then. Now they're bolted shut or open only two or three inches. So you're stuck setting the air conditioner at 70 degrees when the fresh air outside is 70 degrees, stuck listening to the hum of a motor instead of the sound of the ocean. The owners are afraid they'll be blamed if we jump.

Two blocks from the White House, it was the same thing. The view from our hotel room was inspiring, the outside air was cool, and all our windows were bolted shut.

First thing, before I unpack, I usually call the front desk with a deal: "I just checked in. I'll come down and sign a waiver if you unbolt our windows. It won't be your fault if I jump."

It never works, not in places where there's a "Do not use in shower" sticker on the hair dryers and the hotel-provided shower caps include a bold-type "Fits one head" warning.

 

Find two electrocuted nuts squeezed into one shower cap, and who can say that a jury can't be persuaded that a deep-pocketed hotel "should have known" about the dangers?

And so we've ended up with baby strollers with "Remove child before folding" warning labels and "Do not drive with sun shield in place" warnings on those cardboard shields that keep the sun off dashboards.

To protect mouths (and protect manufacturers and retailers), cleaning brushes for toilet bowls now say, "Do not use orally," and electric routers for carpenters have stickers that warn, "This product is not intended for use as a dental drill."

For really crazy people, there's now "Do not eat toner" warning labels on cartridges for laser printers and "Not for highway use" stickers on wheelbarrows.

Howard argues that lawsuits are important to prevent abuse but that lawsuits themselves can constitute an abuse. It's about common sense and where to draw the line.

"Lawsuits turn into a weapon for extortion," he says, "if the law doesn't draw the boundaries of who can sue for what." Article

What We Know About Obama

The illusion of pragmatism advances far-left goals, in baby steps.

By Stanley Kurtz

Reflecting on all that I’ve written about Barack Obama over these past six months, four inter-related points stand out: Obama’s radicalism, his stealthy incrementalism, his interest in funding and organization-building, and his willingness to use — or quietly support — Alinskyite intimidation tactics. Since we stand on the cusp of the election, I’ll lay out the bottom line. For those who want to know more, go back and read the detailed studies on which I base these conclusions.

Obama’s troubling associations are more than isolated friendships or instances of bad judgment. His ties to Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Michael Pfleger, James Meeks, ACORN, the New Party, and the Gamaliel Foundation all reflect Obama’s sympathy with radical-left ideas and causes — wealth redistribution prominent among them. At both the Woods Fund and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, for example, Obama and Ayers channeled money into ACORN’s coffers. ACORN, a militant group pursuing economic redistribution, succeeded in undermining credit standards throughout the banking system, thereby modeling the New Party’s plans to tame capitalism itself. So the association with Ayers is not an outlier issue, but part and parcel of a network of radical ties through which Obama’s supported “major redistributive change.” Via ACORN, that project has already nearly wrecked our economy. What will happen when it’s generalized?

Similarly, Obama’s “association” with Wright was far more than a mere pastor-parishioner — or even mentor-protégé — relationship. Obama’s work with the Gamaliel Foundation required him to “organize” left-leaning churches into a larger political force. His real interest in Wright, Pfleger, and Meeks was to turn them into the nucleus of a far broader politicized coalition of radical black churches — as shown, for example, by his work with them on the Illinois racial-profiling bill. Again, we are not dealing with mere “associations,” but with intentional political partnerships.

Although media malfeasance is at the heart of our ignorance about these broader patterns, Obama’s absorption of Alinskyite strategies of stealthy incrementalism have helped to hide the truth. Following well-worn organizer strategies, Obama knows how to wrap ideological radicalism in the soothing rhetoric of “pragmatism” and classic American values. There is a kernel of truth to the pragmatism, however. Radical though his ultimate goals may be, Obama follows classic organizer strategy — pursuing his ends in tiny, incremental, and cumulative baby-steps. The municipal “living wage” campaigns supported by Obama, Wright, and groups like ACORN and the New Party were never designed, in themselves, to bring fundamental economic change. These ordinances actually applied to only a very small number of companies. The broader purpose of these battles was to build coalitions for deeper structural change on the national level, when the moment was right. Obama would likely hew to this incrementalism in power, with the same radical long-term goals in mind.

Obama was a master at channeling funding to his organizer allies. He was the key force turning the Woods Fund toward a major increase in support for community organizers, at a moment when other foundations shied away from funding the militant and confrontational tactics of groups like ACORN. In his now infamous 2001 radio remarks, Obama’s preferred strategy for promoting “major redistributive change” was through society-wide organizing from below. As president, Obama would connect his massive youth-volunteer program to his favorite community-organizer groups, thereby creating a political force for long-term restructuring of the American economy. This was the program of the New Party, and I believe it is still Obama’s long-term goal.

In pursuit of his goals, Obama has shown himself willing to quietly support, and sometimes to openly use, radical Alinskyite tactics. At the Woods Fund, Obama’s allies bragged about the way their “post-ideological” cover had allowed them to fund ACORN’s confrontational tactics, while escaping public criticism. Obama has shamelessly used Alinskyite “direct action” to silence and intimidate political foes during the current campaign (a matter well-known to conservatives, yet little noted by the mainstream press). Victory would only cement the conviction in Obama and his allies that these tactics had “won,” and therefore should be used again. Article Here

The Audacity

An Especially Scary Halloween

Demand The LA Times Release the Video of Obama

By. The Editors

The LA Times has a video of Barack Obama praising terrorist Khalidi at an event in 2003.  The LA Times refuses to release the video so we must flood them with e-mails demanding that they do.

The Las Angeles Times has a video of Barack Hussien Obama praising known terrorist Rashid Khalidi at a party he attended in 2003.  This video according to The LA Times shows Obama giving a speach about the great work of Rashid Khalidi whom was a known terrorist at the time and it shows the words coming directly from Barack's mouth.  Apparently this wasn't as news worthy as Palin's wardrobe. 

Khalidi is a controversial figure, reviled by pro-Israel activists, though not a marginal one. A former professor at the University of Chicago, he’s now Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and respected by many in academia. He’s been criticized most for saying that Palestinians have a right to resist Israeli occupation and has been described as a former P.L.O. spokesman, a label he has denied.

Obama, then an Illinois state senator, lavished praise on Khalidi at the party, as did unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, according to Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor at National Review, who disclosed Khalidi’s link to “master terrorist” Arafat. The Times confirmed in April that it had a copy of the videotape. 

McCain and Palin demanded The LA Times release the video yesterday.  "Maybe some politicians would love to have a pet newspaper of their very own," Palin said at a rally in Bowling Green, Ohio. "In this case, we have a newspaper willing to throw aside even the public's right to know in order to protect a candidate that its own editorial board has endorsed. And if there's a Pulitzer Prize category for excelling in kowtowing, then The L.A. Times, you're winning."

 

"A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, citing Obama's friendship with Khalidi.

"The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job — make information public," he said.

 "Inspired by commentators on the Internet and cable television, thousands of people e-mailed and phoned The Times to demand the release of the tape.", The LA Times stated in an article yesterday.  We must put even more pressure on them.  The public needs to know about this.  Please write to  the LA Times and demand they release the video.

We must also write to other papers and demand they make this front page news.  The public has a right to know if their future president is partying with known terrorists.  

 

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The Los Angeles Times’s Strange Notion of Journalistic Ethics

Give us the tape … or at least a transcript of Obama’s radical shindig.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Journalistic ethics?

When it comes to insulting our collective intelligence, the Obamedia soundtrack of the ongoing campaign breaks new ground on a daily, indeed an hourly, basis. Still, the Los Angeles Times takes the cake.

Change you can believe in is a short hop from fairy tales you can be sold. In that spirit, the Times tells us, we’d really, really love to release the videotape we’re holding of that 2003 Khalidi shindig — the one where Barack Obama joined a motley collection of Israel-bashers, including the former terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, to sing the praises of Rashid Khalidi — former mouthpiece for PLO master-terrorist Yasser Arafat. But alas, our hands are tied by journalistic ethics.  Article Here

Obama to Air Infomercial Tonight on 7 Networks

 

By. The Editors

 Barack Obama makes the largest ad buy in electoral history to air a 30 minute infomercial on 7 Networks and delay a World Series Game.

 Barack Obama will air a 30-minute commercial tonight at 8 p.m. ET on three major networks, as well as smaller outlets.

Coming just six days before Election Day, the purchase is one of the largest ad buys in election history. Barack Obama will be responsible for delaying the World Series to air his infomercial. Let me repeat that -- The World Series.  This is the World Series game that was suspended at with a tie score in the 6th inning for rain for three days now and will be delayed another hour for Mr. Barack Obama.  

Sen. Obama bought time on CBS, NBC and FOX for about $1 million per network. The infomercial will also run on Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One. You will literally be forced to watch the infomercial as it airs on all major networks at prime time.

Flush with cash after record-shattering fund raising gained by reversing his vow to accept public financing, Obama has a huge financial edge in the last week of the campaign, having raised more than $600 million, including $150 million in September alone. Republican rival John McCain's campaign is relying on federal funding of about $84 million for the entire period between the Sept. 1-4 Republican convention and Election Day, Nov. 4.

Barack Obama spent his entire political career speaking out against politicians whom don't except public funding, saying that politicians that refuse public funding are "currupt".  His reasoning behind this is that Barack said private financing allows a politician to buy an election using their unfair financial advantage.  He now has run the most expensive campaign in world history.  He has literally done everything he spoke out about. 

 

According to Advertising Age, Obama is on track to spend more on TV ads in the last 25 days of the race than McCain's entire campaign. 

Speaking to several hundred supporters in Miami Wednesday, McCain took a shot at Obama's prime-time address, saying that "I will never delay the start of the World Series for an infomercial."

In response to Obama's infomercial the McCain campaign released an ad, the ad, called "TV Special," says Americans are unlikely to hear from Obama that his proposals to increase spending and increase taxes will hurt the economy."

"With crises at home and abroad, Barack Obama lacks the experience America needs," the ad's narrator says. "And it shows. His response to our economic crisis is to spend and tax our economy deeper into recession. The fact is Barack Obama's not ready yet."

Obama is also giving an interview to a prominent network news anchor, and appearing with fellow Democratic star Bill Clinton at a rally that is timed to hit the late-evening news.

Obama's campaign is reportedly being charged the "lowest unit cost" required under federal law for the massive ad buys Wednesday.

I urge you all not to watch this.  It is a 30 minute ad filled with lies and confusing facts meant to misinform the public.  Those of you that do watch please remember that you are watching an infomercial paid for by Barack Obama.  You are not watching a tv show about Barack Obama.  You are watching one long ad payed for by him.  

Obama and the Supreme Court

What’s really at stake.

By Edward Whelan

If America’s citizens care to wake up and pay attention before they elect as president a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one of the several matters they ought to think seriously about is the future of the Supreme Court. Simply put, the survival of the historic American experiment in representative government will be in serious jeopardy if Barack Obama is our next president. Article Here

Obama Infomercial To Offer America Rock Hard Abs

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will use his thirty-minute infomercial tonight to unveil a new breakthrough in exercise technology that will guarantee all Americans "sexy, rock-hard abs," the Obama campaign confirmed today.

While most political insiders assumed that Sen. Obama would use the costly airtime to attempt to "close the deal" with the American people, few expected him to include the promise of a sculpted midsection as the keystone of his closing argument.

"This is an issue that cuts across all voting blocs - Democrats, Republicans, independents, you name it," said Obama strategist David Axelrod. "Everyone wants well-defined, shredded abs."

In a clip of the infomercial released to the press, Sen. Obama appears in spandex exercise wear and demonstrates his ab-sculpting machine, called the "Obamaciser."

"America, you're probably asking yourselves, 'Can we really have rock-hard abs?'" Sen. Obama says. "Repeat after me: Yes we can." Article Here

One Week Remains

We are one week away from judgment day and the polls are tightening.

Obama   49%

McCain   46%

(According to GWU  3% margin of error)

McCain needs Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina to win the electoral college.

 
 

"Always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth." — Ronald Reagan

A Letter From The GOP Trust

 

Editors Note:  These guys are doing the leg work for John McCain.  They are saying the stuff McCain won't say and airing the commercials McCain can't.  They are our last hope in this election.  Go to www.goptrust.com to check out their videos or make a donation.

Never before in the history of our nation have we faced such a grave crisis: one of the most radical political figures ever to be nominated by a major party is just minutes away from becoming President of the United States.

That man is Barack Obama.

He promises to change America forever. If elected, he will do just that — but in ways you make not like.

Remember Obama is the most liberal member of the United States Senate.

He received a 100 percent Liberal Rating from the National Journal, making him the most left-wing Senator in Washington — more liberal than even Democratic senators like Ted Kennedy.

If you look at Obama's record, you will understand just how dangerous this man is.

He even has terrorist friends he won't denounce. One such man is William Ayers,  a leader in the radical terrorist group the Weatherman Underground. The group bombed several government buildings, including the Pentagon, killing civilians and police officers.

 

In 2001, Ayers said he had no regrets for his actions and wished he could have done more. 

The ties between Obama and Ayers are tight. Both served on two non profit boards and they worked closely together. Ayers even hosted a political event at his home for Obama.

Obama has acknowledged he is a friend of Ayers and defends his association by saying he, Obama, was only 8 years old at the time of the Pentagon bombing.

However, Obama has no explanation as to why he is still a friend of Ayers.

Obama has even been endorsed by radicals such as Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan.

No one can deny hearing about Obama's relationship with the America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

There should be little doubt that William Ayers and Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are rooting for Obama — because he is one of them.

In keeping with such friends, Obama has promised to meet with radical leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without "preconditions" even though Ahmadinejad has promised to "wipe Israel off the map" and "destroy" America.

Even radical Hamas terrorists have praised him.

"We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election," Ahmed Yousef, senior Hamas leader was quoted by ABC radio as saying. Full Letter Here

Barack Obama Wants Social Security & Driver Licenses for Illegals

  

Last Chance to Obama-Proof Your Portfolio

 

Do you know which special interest has given more money to the Obama campaign than any other?

If you guessed "trial lawyers" -- well, okay, that's too easy. But can you guess which special interest came in second?

Labor unions? Nope. The Green Lobby? Nope. AARP? Wrong, again. NEA? Nyet.

Give up? Okay, here's the answer: Wall Street.

That's right. According to CNNMoney.com, Wall Street securities and investment firms have given over $35 million to Democratic candidates this election cycle. And the amount they've given to the Obama campaign is nearly five times the amount they've given to McCain.

If you've been wondering why the financial industry has been in meltdown -- and taking your 401(k) or investment portfolio down with it -- now you know.

Let's face it: The former frat boys who populate Wall Street today understand economics about as well as the pinko professors whose courses they snored through.

That's why betting their entire industry on "subprime" loans to people with no jobs and no collateral made sense to them -- and why betting the entire U.S. economy on the likes of Obama makes sense to them now.

These jokers don't even know what's in their own self-interest, much less yours. Trusting them with your money is like trusting Bill Clinton to babysit your underage niece.  - Anne Coulter  (www.HumanEvents.com)

Obama’s Friendship with Khalidi

Jews are making a leap of faith that the Illinois Democrat is merely cynical, not anti-Israel.

By Mona Charen

Editors Note:  Just last week I read the book Obama Nation by Jarome Corsi and it brought to my attention the relationship between Barack Obama and Khalidi.  Like most people I was under the impression Obama had a much more distant relationship with Khaldi than he actually did.  This is very important and the Jewish community should be outraged. 


From the Palestinian Authority Daily: “Twenty-three-year old Ibrahim Abu Jayyab sits by the computer in the Nusairat refugee camp (in the Gaza Strip) trying to call American citizens in order to convince them to vote for the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama. . . . ”

Like many Palestinians, Abu Jayyab is excited about the prospect of an Obama presidency. (By the way, the Gaza Strip is completely under the control of Hamas. Why then do they persist in speaking of “refugee camps”? But of course, we know why.) If Abu Jayyab and many others in the Palestinian areas are delighted, why are so many American Jewish voters feeling the same way? One side or the other has the wrong man. Which is it? Article Here

Food For Thought

 

  

Judge This

Obama and the law.
By Thomas Sowell

One of the biggest and most long-lasting “change” to expect if Barack Obama becomes president of the United States is in the kinds of federal judges he appoints. These include Supreme Court justices, as well as other federal justices all across the country, all of whom will have lifetime tenure.

 

 Sen. Obama has stated very clearly what kinds of Supreme Court justices he wants — those with “the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old.” Article Here

Acorn, It's An Obama Scandal!

October 27, 2008

Obama   46%

McCain  43%

There is a 3% Margin of error making them statistically tied.

(According to IBD/TIPP and 46%-49% in Obama's favor according to GWU also a 3% lead with a 3% margin of error. Rasmussen as Obama's lead at 5% points and the NY Times some how has Obama's lead at 13% points)

 

 

Obama now wins 11% of Republican votes while McCain gets 10% of Democrats. The candidates are essentially even among unaffiliated voters. Obama leads by ten among women overall, but McCain has a five-point advantage among white women.

The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape

Obama, Ayers, and PLO supporters toast Edward Said’s successor, but the press doesn’t think it’s quite as newsworthy as Sarah Palin’s wardrobe.

By Andrew C. McCarthy

Let’s try a thought experiment. Say John McCain attended a party at which known racists and terror mongers were in attendance. 

Say testimonials were given, including a glowing one by McCain for the benefit of the guest of honor ... who happened to be a top apologist for terrorists. Say McCain not only gave a speech but stood by, in tacit approval and solidarity, while other racists and terror mongers gave speeches that reeked of hatred for an American ally and rationalizations of terror attacks.

Now let’s say the Los Angeles Times obtained a videotape of the party. Here

The Economy -- Barack Obama & The Dems Fault

ECONOMICS for DUMMIES

By David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia


Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten
comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go
somethinglike this:

            The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

            The fifth would pay $1.

            The sixth would pay $3.

            The seventh would pay $7.

            The eighth would pay $12.

            The ninth would pay $18.

            The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day
and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw
them a curve.

'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20.

Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the
first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But
what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide
the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized
that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from
everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up
being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be
fair to reduce each  MAN'S bill by roughly the sameamount, and he proceeded
to work out the amounts each should pay.!

            And so:

            The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing(100%
savings).
            The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
            The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
            The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
            The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
            The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to
drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare
their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20, 'declared the sixth man. He pointed to
the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten Times more than I!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I
got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down
and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they
discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of
them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax
system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from
a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they
just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas
where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

October 24, 2008

   Obama     52%

   McCain     46% 

Early Voting

36% of voters have already cast their ballots.

49% of African-American voters say they will be voting early.

Voters not affiliated with either major party are far less likely to vote early than partisans.

Barack Obama Breaking Campaign Finance Laws

We've previously noted the gusher of illegal campaign contributions flowing into the Obama campaign from contributors such as "Doodad Pro" and "Good Will." More recently, incidents have been reported in which people have seen credit card charges surface suggesting they donated to Barack Obama when they did not. Matthew Mosk and Sarah Cohen noted one such incident earlier this week:

Now comes the story of Mary T. Biskup, of Manchester, Missouri. Biskup got a call recently from the Obama campaign, which was trying to figure out why she donated $174,800 to the campaign -- well over the contribution limit of $2,300.

The answer she gave them was simple. "That's an error."

Is the Obama campaign knowingly receiving illegal contributions? Yesterday one of our readers reported the results of an experiment he conducted:

I've read recent reports of the Obama campaign receiving donations from dubious names and foreign locales and it got me wondering: How is this possible?

I run a small Internet business and when I process credit cards I'm required to make sure the name on the card exactly matches the name of the customer making the purchase. Also, the purchaser's address must match that of the cardholders. If these don't match, then the payment isn't approved. Period. So how is it possible that the Obama campaign could receive donations from fictional people and places? Well, I decided to do a little experiment. I went to the Obama campaign website and entered the following:

Name: John Galt
Address: 1957 Ayn Rand Lane
City: Galts Gulch
State: CO
Zip: 99999

Then I checked the box next to $15 and entered my actual credit card number and expiration date (it didn't ask for the 3-didgit code on the back of the card) and it took me to the next page and... "Your donation has been processed. Thank you for your generous gift."

This simply should not, and could not, happen in any business or any campaign that is honestly trying to vet it's donors. Also, I don't see how this could possibly happen without the collusion of the credit card companies. They simply wouldn't allow any business to process, potentially, hundreds of millions in credit card transactions where the name on the card doesn't match the purchasers name.

In short, with the system set up as it is by the Obama camp, an individual could donate unlimited amounts of money by simply making up fake names and addresses. And Obama is doing his best to facilitate this fraud. This is truly scandalous.

Our reader was not yet done. He tried the experiment on the McCain site: "I tried the exact same thing at the McCain site and it didn't allow the transaction." He then repeated the experiment at the Obama site:

I went back to the Obama site and made three additional donations using the names Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all with different addresses. All the transactions went through using the same credit card. I saved screenshots of the transactions.

Our reader reports, incidentally, that he was using his MasterCard for the contributions. We submit this report in the spirit of inquiry and would especially appreciate hearing from readers who can illuminate how credit card procedures might (or might not) allow this to happen.

UPDATE: Readers have replicated the experiment reported in this post. We will have to revisit the issue tonight or tomorrow and appreciate any information you can provide in the meantime.

CLARIFICATION: Many readers point out that the Obama campaign would exercise some control over the security level required to verify small dollar transactions and that no collusion with the card issuer or bank is therefore required. Mark Steyn elaborates here. Mark explains the question of security settings and then adds:

As the Powerline reader has noted, if "John Galt" of "Ayn Rand Lane" attempts a contribution at the McCain campaign, it gets rejected. Which is just as well. If the Republican candidate's website were intentionally set up to facilitate fraudulent donations, it would be on the front page of The New York Times. But, as it's King Barack the Spreader, we can rest assured the crack investigative units will be too preoccupied with Governor Palin's shoes over the next two weeks.

It is a point that needs making and that could be made every day.

Obama Wants to Give Illegal Immigrants Licenses

Fact Sheet Regarding Obama's Stance on Giving Licenses to Illegals

New Party?  Where is the press?

In "Something New Here," I laid out Barack Obama’s ties to the far-left New Party. Blogger Trevor Loudon, of New Zeal, did the pioneering work on this issue. Today, Loudon has posted good quality scans of New Party documents and pictures confirming Obama’s membership. We’ve seen most of this information before (although only recently), but never so clearly.

With all its lengthy background pieces, has the New York Times ever noted that Barack Obama was endorsed by, and was a member of, the New Party? What about the Washington Post? Has any major television network, any national news magazine, or any major daily newspaper ever mentioned that Barack Obama was endorsed by, or was a member of, the New Party? If any such outlet has ever mentioned that fact, have they ever gone on to explain in any depth exactly what the New Party was? For example, have they laid out the extremely close ties between the New Party in Chicago and ACORN? Especially with issue of Obama’s ties to ACORN so much in the news, isn’t this a major story right now?

Article Here

October 23, 2008

Obama Slipping in Polls

Texas                 McCain  54%    Obama 44%

Kentucky           McCain  52%    Obama 44%

West Virginia     McCain  52%   Obama  43%

Tennessee        McCain   54%   Obama  42% 

Florida                McCain   49%   Obama  48%

Ohio                    McCain   49%   Obama  47%

North Carolina   McCain   48%    Obama 51%

Pennsylvania     McCain   41%  Obama  54%

 

  • Amongst people who have money in the stock market McCain is ahead by 2 points.

Rasmussen Markets data shows Obama with an 85.9 % chance of winning in November.

 
  • 74% of Americans think the country is not doing enough to control the borders.
  • 69%  of Americans think controlling the borders is more important than legalizing illegal aliens.  
  • 21% of people polled think McCain will be ahead in the polls by Saturday.
  • 32% of people polled think Obama will be ahead by less than a 5 pts by Saturday.

*Our polling data comes from Rasmussen Reports™ the most reliable political polling organization according to many leaders in the field. 

 Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 1,000 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The margin of sampling error—for the full sample of 3,000 Likely Voters--is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large (see methodology). Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process. During the final two months of Election 2008, party weighting targets are updated each Sunday (see additional information). For polling data released during the week of October 19-25, 2008, the partisan weighting targets used by Rasmussen Reports will be 39.7% Democratic, 33.0% Republican, and 27.3% unaffiliated.

‘I Just Gave John McCain My Purple Heart’

The extraordinary people who come to see the candidate.

By Byron York

At John McCain’s rallies these days, the talk is of taxes and Joe the Plumber and the financial crisis and mortgage relief and an end to wasteful federal spending. Those are all perfectly fine things for a campaign to emphasize; polls show voters of all stripes are overwhelmingly concerned about the economy. But at McCain’s events, you’ll also find people who’ve come for another reason, one that is slipping in the polls of voters’ concerns but is deeply personal to them: the war in Iraq.

“I just gave John McCain my Purple Heart,” Marine Sgt. Jack Eubanks told me a few minutes after McCain finished a speech at a campaign rally in Woodbridge, Virginia Saturday. “I said, ‘I want to give this to you, sir, as a reminder that we want you to keep your promise to bring us home in victory and honor, so it will mean something.’"  Article here

Understanding the Democratic Super-Majority

If Barack Obama wins the White House and the Democrats also take enough new Senate seats to get to a 60-vote supermajority, they will be able to force floor votes by invoking "cloture" to end a GOP filibuster.  To grasp the impact of such an event, it is important to understand how the workings of the House and Senate differ.

The House runs on the will of the majority, with 218 Members able to run the place as dictatorially as can 435.  Hearings are easily stacked, with the minority given little notice.  Bills can be voted out on a party line, rules set for debate, bills voted through on the floor, under rules that prevent the minority from amending them.

The Senate is different: It runs on the consent of the minority.  Until Senate Rule 22 was adopted in 1917, no party truly held control, because no one could cut off debate and force a floor vote.   Article Here

The Obama Enigma

Change . . . from what to what?
By Victor Davis Hanson

Lame-duck Republican President Bush’s dismal poll ratings have descended to those of Harry Truman’s when he left office. The Democratic majority in Congress will probably widen after the election. Republican nominee John McCain has not run a dynamic campaign. Gen. Colin Powell, George Bush’s former secretary of state, has now enthusiastically endorsed Barack Obama.

The country is in two unpopular wars — amid the worst financial panic of the last 80 years. Not since prophet of change and newcomer Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford (post Watergate and the lost Vietnam war) have voters been so eager for a shake-up.

Why then is the charismatic Barack Obama not quite yet a shoo-in? Article Here

Top 10 McCain Donor Zip Codes

John McCain has received the most contributions from these zip codes

 

1.10021    New York, N.Y.                         $909,128

2. 85253    Paradise Valley, Ariz.               $827,280

3. 10022    New York, N.Y.                        $708,214

4. 06830    Greenwich, Conn.                     $644,184

5. 92660    Newport Beach, Calif.               $590,078

6. 22101    McLean, Va.                            $549,718

7. 75205    Dallas, Texas                          $540,426

8. 77024    Houston, Texas                       $540,399

9. 78209    San Antonio, Texas                 $486,434

10. 63124    St. Louis, Mo.                       $483,102 

 

 

 

 

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson

Rove: Doubts About Obama Are Real

On Wednesday, the Susan B. Anthony List held a luncheon to launch their Presidential Battleground Get Out the Women’s Vote Campaign.  SBA List is a premiere women’s group working on behalf of the pro-life issue nationwide.  Guest speaker Karl Rove was in his element, talking history, poll numbers and presidential politics -- with the elections less than two weeks away.  Article Here

Subliminally Political Ad from Charmin?

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Black Dog Republicans

We’ve always had Yellow Dog Democrats from the South and some of Pelosi's puppies say they're Blue Dog Democrats.   But now we have Black Dog Republicans.

Their constant companions are depression and melancholy, the moods that often descended on Winston Churchill. He labeled them his “black dog.”

There are two reasons the Black Dog Republicans fell prey to a depression equal to Churchill's. First is the constant chatter of the media, the Republican elite, and the Cassandra Republicans who are just as sure that John McCain will lose the election as they are that Sarah Palin is his ruination.  The second is that a lot of people are simply so angry at the Bush administration that otherwise sensible people are transferring their anger to John McCain or falling for Barack’s baloney.

Article Here

October 22, 2008

Obama   51%

McCain   45%

Universal Coverage Kills

Don’t resist innovation.

By Michael F. Cannon

In the final presidential debate, Barack Obama and John McCain continued to slug it out over health-care reform. McCain accused Obama of wanting to put all Americans in the type of single-payer system that exists in Canada and England. “Senator Obama wants to set up health care bureaucracies, take over the health care of America,” McCain warned. “As he said, his object is a single-payer system.”

McCain, Obama, and the voters would do well to keep in mind what this month — October 2008 — has to say about the quality of medical care when government is in charge. Article here

Paging Arthur Schlesinger

Eggheads who embrace Obama should be wary of the dangers of [intellectual whoredom] [hero-worship].

By Michael Knox Beran

Intellectuals on the Right are routinely accused of selling their souls to the devil and sacrificing their independent judgment in order to give conservative leaders cover. But which province of egghead-land is suspending disbelief now in order to indulge a high-brow hysteria not seen since Harvard decamped to the Potomac under Good King Jack?

Camelot-fever is raging out of control among the high-minded dilettantes of the Republic.

“Barack Obama is not the Messiah,” concedes Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, “and Biden is no Simon Peter, but it stretches credulity to say that Obama is no more qualified to be president than Palin is.”  Article Here

October 21, 2008

Obama   50%

McCain   46%

 

Electoral College:

Obama       260

McCain      163

Toss- Ups  115

 

48% of Voters believe Obama is a better leader than McCain.

44% of Voters agree with Obama's statement "When you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody." (The majority of which make less than $40,000 a year)

Among those earning $40,000 a year to $100,000, 52% have a favorable opinion of Joe the Plumber while 33% offer an unfavorable assessment. 

 

**All polling information from Rasmussen Reports™.

Florida

McCain 49%

Obama  48%

Ohio

McCain  49%

Obama   47%

Colorado

Obama    51%

McCain    46% 

Virginia

Obama  54%

McCain  44% 

North Carolina

Obama  51%

McCain  48%

The Fairness Doctrine

 The Fairness Doctrine is going to allow Barack Obama and the Liberal Mainstream media to control what is put on the TV and the radio.  Talk radio will no longer be legal under Barack Obama.

 

If you are wondering why you haven't heard about this before you should be.

 

Read how the Fairness Doctrine is anything but fair.


Biden's Latest Gaffe

Guiliani: "If a Republican had made these statements, it would be on the front page of the New York Times tomorrow..."

Democrat vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden made another huge gaffe on the campaign trail, this time telling a room full of high-dollar donors that if Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, to expect not only an international incident contrived specifically to test Obama’s mettle, but that Obama would most certainly need the help of these donors when they handle it in the wrong way. I am not making this up.

In the second of two Seattle fundraisers on Sunday, Biden said, “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

Biden told the crowd to, “Gird their loins,” and said, “I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate." Biden prophesied both Russia and the Middle East as possible points of origin. Biden then said, “And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you -- not financially to help him -- we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right.” Article Here

Obama’s New Tax Welfare

Behind the 95.

By Peter Ferrara

Barack Obama says he plans to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers. That sounds terrific, but there are three problems. One, it is meant to draw attention from the real core of the Obama tax plan: proposed increases in every major federal tax. Two, the structure of the cuts will create perverse incentives. And three, many of the people receiving “tax cuts” don’t pay taxes to begin with, meaning they’ll be in effect getting welfare.

The first point requires but a simple list. Obama proposes to raise the top two individual income tax rates by 25 percent or more, through both explicit rate increases and the phaseout of personal exemptions and all itemized deductions for upper-income earners. He’ll increase the capital-gains tax rate by 33 percent, the tax rate on dividends by 33 percent, and the top payroll-tax rate by 16 to 32 percent. He’ll create a new payroll tax for national health insurance, estimated at 7 percent. He’ll reinstate the death/inheritance tax, which is being phased out under current law, with a new top marginal rate of 45 percent. He’ll increase the corporate tax burden by 25 percent “by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens.” He’ll even increase tariffs through his protectionist trade policies. Article Here

Tribal Politics

Was Colin Powell's endorsement based on race?

Was race a factor in the decision of Colin Powell to repudiate his party's nominee and friend of 25 years, Sen. John McCain, two weeks before Election Day, and to endorse Barack Obama?

Gen. Powell does not deny it, contending only that race was not the only or decisive factor. "If I had only that fact in mind," he told Tom Brokaw, "I could have done this six, eight, ten months ago."

Yet, in hailing Barack as a "transformational figure" whose election would "electrify our country ... (and) the world," Powell seems to testify to the centrality of Barack's ethnicity to his decision. Article Here

Fair Taxation?

Redistribution of income punishes success and rewards sloth.

By Mona Charen

God bless him. Joe the plumber, that is, for coaxing from Sen. Obama his true motive for raising taxes. It isn't to fund the government, or deal with the deficit, or to establish a rainy day fund. It's to “spread the wealth around,” which the Illinois senator insists is “good for everyone.”  Article Here

October 20, 2008

Obama     50%

 

McCain     46%

For polling data released during the week of October 12-18, 2008, the partisan weighting targets used by Rasmussen Reports will be 39.7% Democratic, 33.0% Republican, and 27.7% unaffiliated. 

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 1,000 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The margin of sampling error—for the full sample of 3,000 Likely Voters--is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Other Polling Data from Rasmussen Reports

Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” is viewed

favorably by 44%   unfavorably by 41%.

(He earns his best reviews from middle-income voters and entrepreneurs.) 

Obama is given a 85% chance of winning the election according to market data.

McCain leads by 5 points amongst male voters

Obama leads by 11 points amongst female voters

45% of voters believe ACORN is intentionally committing voter fraud. 

25% of voters believe ACORN is not committing any fraud.

42% of African American voters think their vote might not be counted.

76% of voter believe photo ID should be required to vote.

60% of people view ACORN unfavorably.

4% of voters view ACORN very favorably.

68% of voters think Obama has ties to ACORN.

52% of Americans believe the U.S. is winning the war on terror.

48% of Americans believe the U.S. is safer today than before 9/11.

39% of voters believe the war in Iraq was a success. 

Obama Broke Ethics Law as State Senator, Will Media Igno

By John Stephenson

The media were quick to dig into Joe Wurzelbacher's personal and private information such as tax records, and trumpet it to the world in an attempt to discredit someone that dared question Barack Obama's tax plan.  Lets see if they even report on this when they don’t have any digging to do whatsoever.

Apparently, on Obama’s released tax records, he discloses income from speaking fees. The problem? Accepting payment for speaking fees when you’re a legislator is against Illinois state law

Apparently, as an Illinois state legislator through 2004, Barack was prohibited from taking honoraria for speaking under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act

But what about Barack Obama’s 2000 and 2002 tax returns?

2000: On his 2000 Schedule C-EZ, Barack reported that he received $16,500 as a “Foundation director/Educational speaker.” Article Here

ACORN’s White Horse

By Andrew C. McCarthy

This is rich.

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is complaining to the Justice Department about the attention being focused on the determined effort by ACORN, Obama’s wholly owned vote-fraud division, to steal the 2008 election. Adding ignorance to gall, the campaign demands that what it calls a “Special Prosecutor” must investigate not ACORN but — you guessed it — the McCain campaign and the Bush administration.

The art form to which chutzpah has been raised in this instance is a letter from the Obama campaign’s top lawyer, Robert Bauer of the Perkins Coie law firm in Washington. Of course these days, due to the intricate web of traps for the unwary known as “campaign finance regulations” — for which Sen. McCain has no one but himself to blame — all candidates for high office need legal teams. Obama, though, is a special case. Article Here

Universal Health Care Success...err, Wait...

by. Bob Panzenbeck 

Someone e-mailed me this bit of news from CNN:
Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."

The above scenario is more predictable than Mr. Fink would have you think, and a taste of what we're looking at should Barack Obama get elected. Government gets people to support universal health care because people perceive a government provided service as "free." Choosing between "free" and "expensive" is a simple task for most consumers. Candidate Obama has a similar plan in mind, yet assumes consumers will still take the private insurance option. Some of them will, and it will exist, for the short period where it remains economically viable. In short, the private option will eventually become the nonexistent option.

There are two problems with free government health care. One, it's not free, and over time, like all government programs, it becomes interminably expensive, as evidenced by this Hawaiian situation. As PJ O'Rourke famously said, "if you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free." Simply put, government doesn't "do" efficient. Things that originally cost a mere couple of billion invariably end up costing trillions. Whether you're paying at the desk, or you're paying with higher tax rates to cover the cost, in the end, well, you're paying.

Second, like most socialist ideas, universal health care is one of those well-intended schemes that pave the road to Hell. It's instituted to take care of the vulnerable and the poor without regard for the predictable havoc it wreaks for the rest of us, driving private care providers and eliminating consumer choice and accountability. Simply put, when you don't like the health plan you've been dealt by your employer, you can switch plans or switch jobs. When you don't like the one provided to you by the government, you can't do anything but stand in line and fork over your paycheck.

The Sweet on Obama 16

A sweet 16 layout of the most biased reporters that are sweet on Obama.

October 19, 2008

Obama     50%

 

McCain     45%

For polling data released during the week of October 12-18, 2008, the partisan weighting targets used by Rasmussen Reports will be 39.3% Democratic, 33.0% Republican, and 27.7% unaffiliated. 

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 1,000 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The margin of sampling error—for the full sample of 3,000 Likely Voters--is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

BARACK'S 'ORGANIZER' BUDS PUSHED FOR BAD MORTGAGES

WHAT exactly does a "community organizer" do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here's a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit.

 In the name of fairness to minorities, community organizers occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies, and confront executives at their homes - and thereby force financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgages to low-credit customers. Article Here

October 18, 2008

I decided to post these pictures in response to what I have been hearing on the radio, the news, and online forums.  These images show the heavy police presense and the cops in riot gear. As you can see the cops in riot gear just stood there as the crowd screamed at them and spit at them.  The crowd kept trying to puch through the line of police.  All photography was courtisy of Nick Parisse. (www.nickparisse.com)

Polls Tighten

Today:       Obama 50%  McCain 45%

Yesterday:  Obama 48%  McCain 46%

Today according to Rasmussen Reports, a non partison polling group, is putting Obama at 50% and McCain at 45%.  Yesterday, Obama was at 48% and McCain was at 46%.  One must also take into consideration that Rasmussen is polling 39.3% Democrats and 33% Republicans, a number they came to based on the number of registered voters for each party.  This numbers are now known to be an unreliable number because of all the proven false registrations.

 This information is from Rasmussen Reports. www.rasmussenreports.com

The Left Declares War on Joe the Plumber

By Michelle Malkin

Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s No. 1 Ordinary Joe, had no choice. Obama-Biden simply can’t tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.

The left’s political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life and predictably wielding the race card once again. It’s standard operating procedure for the Obama thug machine.  Article At NR

October 17, 2008

"Now, please.

There will not be race riots. Were there race riots in NYC when David Dinkins (the first African American mayor of NYC) was mayor?

Oh, sorry, bad example…

There will not be race riots. Were there race riots in LA when Thomas Bradley (the first African American mayor of LA) was mayor?

Oops, sorry, another bad example.

Look, the fact is that a president Obama will finally show once and for all that the white community in the US is not racist. It will prove once and for all that any person, no matter what their race/creed/color or religion, can grow up and become anything they want here in the US.

His first act as president should be to make all discrimination illegal. No more favoring someone over another purely on race. Such racist things such as affirmative action have no place in a land where, again, anyone can become president." - An Anonymous New Yorker

Thugs out in Hempstead in Support of Obama.

A Liberal Supermajority

Get ready for 'change' we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

[Review & Outlook]

Though we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.  Here is the full article at The Wall Street Jouurnal.

October 16, 2008

Joe from Save This Nation being Interviewed by Fox 5.

Photograph by Nick Parisse 

The Idiots Are Out In Full Force  BY THE EDITORS

So unfortunately the Town of Hempstead sabotaged our protest.  They blocked off our meeting ground that they assigned us. We couldn't get together at the event.  I apologize to everyone that came out but couldn't find us.  We did have  a small group of people there.  We handed out t-shirts, pins, stickers, signs, and brochures.  We did several interviews including one with Fox. 

Our presence to not go over well with the people of Hempstead.  Unfortunately the idiots were out in full force.  By around 7pm the crowd turned into an angry mob of around 500 African Americans screaming at the police. At one point two people from Save This Nation were surrounded by an angry mob of angry African American's who apparently found us to be racist for not supporting Barack Obama.  The crowd turned violent and started screaming and cursing at us. A few of the angry protesters began to bark threats at us.  Of course the media did not air any of the footage this morning of the angry mob threatening police officers and attacking any McCain supporter that walked by. The media didn't get any footage of black people attacking Save This Nation. 

Hempstead between the hours of 5-9pm was a race riot. It was more of a black pride parade than an Obama rally.  The people were completely uninformed about the candidates and didn't even know why they were there. 90% of the people there didn't know what ACORN was or why we were protesting it.  All of my signs went over the heads of the angry mobs.  I started handing out Anti-Obama stickers and shirts and Obama supporters were asking for them and wearing them because they didn't even understand that the shirts were criticizing Obama. It was pathetic.

I've never been more upset with the state of my country than I was last night.  I've never seen so many morons in one place in my life.  The average IQ amongst the Obama supporters hovered somewhere around 65. I saw a man walking around explaining to Obama supporters why they didn't understand the issues but it was completely going over their heads.  When I tried to draw attention to voter fraud I asked people, "Will you be voting once in this election?" and several Obama supporters started asking me questions wondering how many times they are allowed to vote. 

After this protest I was convinced, Obama will win this election and there is one reason why he will.  In the past only around 5% of the African American community voted.  This election probably 50% of the African American community will vote and as I confirmed last night, none of them are informed about the issues they just "want a black man in the white house".  

Nick Parisse (www.nickparisse.com) documented Save This Nation at the protest.   I'm confident that the main stream media won't show the violence of the Obama supporters and won't show all the McCain support that was there. America is in a terrible place.  We NEED literacy tests at the polls.

T-Shirts

This site has some pretty awesome t-shirts for sale.  You will see us sporting these at our protest on Wednesday.

 www.ouckfbama.com

 

Phrase Not Found

Debate omissions.

By John J. Pitney Jr.

Tomorrow night, John McCain and Barack Obama debate for the last time. After two presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, what is left for moderator Bob Schieffer to ask?  Plenty.

Transcripts of the previous debates are online. Thanks to the “Find” function of web browsers, it is simple to search for words and phrases appearing in questions and answers.  (Technical hint: Firefox is better on this score than Explorer.) It’s also easy to find out which terms have not yet come up at all. Some of the omissions are striking...

Abortion. So far, nobody has even uttered the word in the debates, though Biden made a glancing reference to Roe v. Wade. One might think that a journalist would want to probe the sharp differences between the candidates on this issue. McCain has a long pro-life record while Obama opposed the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.

Stem Cells, Cloning. In the 2006 election, Michael J. Fox made news with attack ads against GOP Senate candidates who opposed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. (Michael Steele had a nifty response ad.) This year, both presidential candidates have voiced support for embryonic-stem-cell research. In response to a questionnaire, however, McCain said: “I believe clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress.”

School Prayer, Evolution, Creationism. All of these hot buttons have gone unpressed.

Gun Control. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment secures an individual’s right to own firearms. Obama reversed himself on the case, first saying that DC’s gun ban was constitutional, then agreeing with the court’s decision to strike it down.

Supreme Court. As the 5-4 Heller case suggests, even a single appointment could have a major effect on the law. Amazingly, the transcripts show no mention of the phrase “Supreme Court” or any of the sitting justices. Biden did briefly note that he “led the fight against Judge Bork” in 1987, but failed to add that in 1986, he said he’d “have to vote for him.” In any case, there has been no discussion of standards for choosing judicial nominees.

Immigration, immigrant, immigrate. A couple of years ago, most observers assumed that immigration would be a pivotal issue of the 2008 race. It hasn’t been. Arguably, a reduced inflow of illegal aliens has taken some of the urgency out of the controversy. But with at least 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, does anybody think that we have solved the problem once and for all?

Race, racial, affirmative action. Here is the most stunning omission of all. In a contest featuring the first black major-party nominee, the debates have been silent on race. No one has used the word race except in the context of “presidential race” or “arms race.” But like immigration, racial issues are not going away. In a school discrimination case last year, Chief Justice Roberts wrote: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” It would be instructive if Bob Schieffer asked the candidates whether they agree.

It is natural that the economy and Iraq have occupied a large share of debate time. But McCain and Obama have probably used up their talking points on both issues. Viewers might learn more about the candidates if they had to discuss other matters, especially those that have dared not speak their names. Article Here

Obama's 95% Illusion

It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is.

One of Barack Obama's most potent campaign claims is that he'll cut taxes for no less than 95% of "working families." He's even promising to cut taxes enough that the government's tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% -- which is lower than it is today.
 

It's a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut."

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase "tax credit." Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:

- A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to "make work pay" that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple.

- A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition.

- A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies).

- A "savings" tax credit of 50% up to $1,000.

- An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support.

- A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year.

- A "clean car" tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles.

Here's the political catch. All but the clean car credit would be "refundable," which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer -- a federal check -- from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this "welfare," or in George McGovern's 1972 campaign a "Demogrant." Mr. Obama's genius is to call it a tax cut.

The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS. Read More

Wright 101

Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism

By Stanley Kurtz

It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.

John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign. Article Here

October 12, 2008

Obama's Magic

And now, America, we introduce the Great Obama! The world's most gifted political magician! A thing of wonder. A thing of awe. Just watch him defy politics, economics, even gravity! (And hold your applause until the end, please.)

To kick off our show tonight, Mr. Obama will give 95% of American working families a tax cut, even though 40% of Americans today don't pay income taxes! How can our star enact such mathemagic? How can he "cut" zero? Abracadabra! It's called a "refundable tax credit." It involves the federal government taking money from those who do pay taxes, and writing checks to those who don't. Yes, yes, in the real world this is known as "welfare," but please try not to ruin the show.

[Potomac Watch] Ken Fallin

For his next trick, the Great Obama will jumpstart the economy, and he'll do it by raising taxes on the very businesses that are today adrift in a financial tsunami! That will include all those among the top 1% of taxpayers who are in fact small-business owners, and the nation's biggest employers who currently pay some of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world. Mr. Obama will, with a flick of his fingers, show them how to create more jobs with less money. It's simple, really. He has a wand.

Next up, Mr. Obama will re-regulate the economy, with no ill effects whatsoever! You may have heard that for the past 40 years most politicians believed deregulation was good for the U.S. economy. You might have even heard that much of today's financial mess tracks to loose money policy, or Fannie and Freddie excesses. Our magician will show the fault was instead with our failure to clamp down on innovation and risk-taking, and will fix this with new, all-encompassing rules. Presto!

Did someone in the audience just shout "Sarbanes Oxley?" Usher, can you remove that man? Thank you. Mr. Obama will now demonstrate how he gives Americans the "choice" of a "voluntary" government health plan, designed in such a way as to crowd out the private market and eliminate all other choice! Don't worry people: You won't have to join, until you do. Mr. Obama will follow this with a demonstration of how his plan will differ from our failing Medicare program. Oops, sorry, folks. The Great Obama just reminded me it is time for an intermission. Maybe we'll get to that marvel later.

We're back now. And just watch the Great Obama perform a feat never yet managed in all history. He will create that enormous new government health program, spend billions to transform our energy economy, provide financial assistance to former Soviet satellites, invest in infrastructure, increase education spending, provide job training assistance, and give 95% of Americans a tax (ahem) cut -- all without raising the deficit a single penny! And he'll do it in the middle of a financial crisis. And with falling tax revenues! Voila!

Moving along to a little ventriloquism. Study his mouth carefully, folks: It looks like he's saying "I'll stop the special interests," when in fact the words coming out are "Welcome to Washington, friends!" Wind and solar companies, ethanol makers, tort lawyers, unions, community organizers -- all are welcome to feed at the public trough and to request special favors. From now on "special interests" will only refer to universally despised, if utterly crucial, economic players. Say, oil companies. Hocus Pocus!

And for tonight's finale, the Great Obama will uphold America's "moral" obligation to "stop genocide" by abandoning Iraq! While teleported to the region, he will simultaneously convince Iranian leaders to peacefully abandon their nuclear pursuits (even as he does not sit down with them), fix Afghanistan with a strategy that does not resemble the Iraqi surge, and (drumroll!) pull Osama bin Laden out of his hat! Read More

October 11, 2008

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a bass boat below. She shouted to him, 'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am.'

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, 'You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.'

She rolled her eyes and said, 'You must be a Republican.' 'I am,' replied the bass fisherman. 'How did you know?'

'Well,' answered the balloonist, ' everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help to me.'

The man smiled and responded, 'You must be a Democrat.' 'I am,' replied the balloonist. 'How did you know?'

'Well,' said the bass fisherman, 'you don't know where you are or where you are going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault.'

October 10, 2008

FBI, Others Probe ACORN for Vote Fraud

Republicans are in an uproar over claims of vote fraud by the group ACORN.

 

Sen. John McCain said Thursday that the allegations are serious and "must be investigated, and no one should corrupt the most precious right we have -- and that is the right to vote."

 

The community group has been registering new voters in key swing states as voter fraud charges have surfaced.  Read More

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Obama Witch Project

Be afraid.

By Michelle Malkin

Republicans don’t need to dress up for Halloween this year. They’re scaring the pants off Barack Obama’s followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear or do provokes instant cries of “RAAAAACISM!” Wink, blink or think critical thoughts about Obama? You’re a bigot!

How many racial bogeymen have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in “coded language” and attire?  Article Here

Why Ayers Matters by 

To listen to the Obama spin-masters you’d think that the McCain campaign’s questioning of their candidate’s association with unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is a smear tactic falsely elevating a casual relationship between the two men into one where they worked together in promoting Ayers’ far-left goals.
 
Their reaction to the continuing revelations that disprove that claim is one of sheer panic -- and they have a good reason to be scared witless that any in-depth probe of what went on between the two comrades will reveal Obama’s true colors -- all of them dark red!
 
If the truth becomes better known -- and it will if the Ayers issue is doggedly pursued -- it will be clear that Obama was not only deeply immersed the fetid swamp of Chicago’s far-left political scene, but was from the very beginning of his career carefully groomed by the city’s socialist left to follow the path he’s on now in his quest for the presidency of the United States. Articles Here

What’s Left of McGovern?

Barack Obama is there with Big Labor.

By David Freddoso

Poor George McGovern. For some time, people were comparing Barack Obama to the former candidate and his left-wing campaign of 1972. But as it turns out, Obama is far more liberal than McGovern was.

This fact is highlighted by a new ad campaign featuring McGovern as an advocate for American workers, in opposition to a bill long sought by labor unions that would limit their freedoms when it comes to unionization. The bill, known by the misleading name of the “Employee Free Choice Act,” would help unions take over American shops by eliminating the requirement that the employee vote take place by secret ballot.  Article Here

Obama 'Lying' About Muslim Past, Expert Says

By: David A. Patten

Sen. Barack Obama “is lying” when he insists that he has never prayed in a mosque and was never a Muslim, a prominent Middle East expert and journalist says.

Daniel Pipes, founder of the Middle East Forum think tank, says he fully accepts that Obama is a Christian now. But there is strong evidence that Obama received a Muslim upbringing during his years in Indonesia, Pipes said.

“It’s fine with me that he was a Muslim and a convert to Christianity,” Pipes told Newsmax. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal “is a convert from Hinduism. I have no problem with his conversion. What I have a problem with is that he’s lying” when he says he was never a Muslim. Article Here

October 9, 2008

Obama Wages War on Freedom of Speech by  Robert Spencer

Obama has people arrested for saying things he does not like.

Last week the Governor of Missouri, Matt Blunt, issued a statement on the Obama campaign’s “abusive use of Missouri law enforcement.” What was striking about the allegations Blunt made was the eerie parallel between the Obama camp’s activity and the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s efforts to stifle all criticism of Islam and destroy the freedom of speech -- also by means of legal intimidation -- at the UN and elsewhere.

Blunt charged that four Missouri state officials along with the leader of Obama’s campaign in Missouri “have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.” In declaring an intent to prosecute those who spread what they considered to be falsehoods about Obama, they were, said Blunt, “abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.” Article Here

The Anti-JFK

Praise his charisma, his ability to relate, the supposedly debonair figure he cuts in a suit, but realize Obama emerged Tuesday as the anti-JFK with a refrain that should offend young Americans: ask what your government can do for you, not what you can do for your country.

I’m part of this young vote, an age bracket known for waging daily Wars of Independence. And this dearly-bought trait is exactly what Obama wants to rob me of.

Take his tax plan. As a young voter earning a typical starting salary, (which puts me in the 95 percent Obama has decreed “middle class”), I get a tax cut, but at the expense of 5 percent of my fellow workers, who will pick up the slack in the budget.Full Article

What Is a Right and How Do We Know?

Do we have the right to wide-screen TV's?
By Bill Whittle

During the presidential debate Tuesday night, Barack Obama was asked if he thought health care was a “right.”

He said he thought it was a right. Well, if you accept that premise, I think you can ask some logical follow-up questions: Food is more important than health care. You die pretty quickly without food. Do we have a “right” to food in America? What about shelter? Do we have a “right” to housing? And if we do have a right to housing, what standard of housing do we have a right to? And if it is a right, due to all Americans, wouldn’t that mean that no one should have to accept any housing, or health care, which is inferior to anyone else’s… since it’s a right?

Do we have a right to be safe? Do we have a right to be comfortable? Do we have a right to wide-screen televisions? Where does this end? Article Here

October 8, 2008

Lee Harvey … What?!?
MSNBC goes too far.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez

‘John McCain, when he smiles, has a menacing quality.”

With that, Chris Matthews sounded like he was playing himself in what could have been a Saturday Night Live skit taking him to a ridiculous extreme. But this was not Saturday Night Live, it was Tuesday Night Live, and it was a countdown to dangerous absurdity on MSNBC.Article Here

October 7, 2008

Obama, ACORN, Voter Fraud!  AGAIN!

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players.

Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid, and "took a bunch of stuff."

ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson confirmed the group's Nevada office was raided.

It's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for irregularities in registration records.

In 2006, ACORN committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama

"Islamic leaders tied by federal investigators to the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America – including one under active investigation for alleged terror-financing – have recently donated to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by WND." Article Here

'Flag Spam' Latest Tool for Censors on the Left

 By Matthew Sheffield

 Editors Note: This article explains a huge problem with internet communities.  If you go around the internet you will see tons of Anti-Bush, Anti-Palin, Pro Obama propaganda.  However, you won't see much (compared to how much is posted) about Obama's Illegal fund raising and history of corrupt politics.  This is because it is removed from online communites with a leftest agenda. 

One of the hottest Internet videos during the mortgage and banking crisis has been a YouTube clip titled "Burning Down the House," which outlines the untold story of how liberal Democrats pressured banks and lenders to throw standards out the window and give money to people who couldn't pay it back.

Try watching it now, however, and you won't be able to, thanks to the growing problem of "flag spam," the practice of abusing online filter systems to squelch political speech with which one disagrees. Article Here

Planting Seeds of Disaster

ACORN, Barack Obama, and the Democratic party.

By Stanley Kurtz

‘You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.” So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness.

Militant ACORN
At the time, however, that 1995 Chicago newspaper article represented something of a triumph for Barack Obama. That same year, as a director at Chicago’s Woods Fund, Obama was successfully pushing for a major expansion of assistance to ACORN, and sending still more money ACORN’s way from his post as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Through both funding and personal-leadership training, Obama supported ACORN. And ACORN, far more than we’ve recognized up to now, had a major role in precipitating the subprime crisis.

I’ve already told the story of Obama’s close ties to ACORN leader Madeline Talbott, who personally led Chicago ACORN’s campaign to intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers. Using provisions of a 1977 law called the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Chicago ACORN was able to delay and halt the efforts of banks to merge or expand until they had agreed to lower their credit standards — and to fill ACORN’s coffers to finance “counseling” operations like the one touted in that Sun-Times article. This much we’ve known. Yet these local, CRA-based pressure-campaigns fit into a broader, more disturbing, and still under-appreciated national picture. Far more than we’ve recognized, ACORN’s local, CRA-enabled pressure tactics served to entangle the financial system as a whole in the subprime mess. ACORN was no side-show. On the contrary, using CRA and ties to sympathetic congressional Democrats, ACORN succeeded in drawing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the very policies that led to the current disaster. Article Here

Top Ten Federal Bailouts

1. Savings and Loan, 1989: $293.8 billion

2. Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, 2008: $200 billion

3. American International Group, 2008: $85 billion

4. Bear Stearns, 2008: $30 billion

5. Airline industry, 2001: $18.6 billion

6. Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust, 1984: $9.5 billion

7. New York City, 1975: $9.4 billion

8. Franklin National Bank, 1974: $7.7 billion

9. Chrysler, 1980: $3.9 billion

10. Penn Central Railroad, 1970: $3.2 billion

 

Source: Propublica.org

Theaters Defrauding Ticket Sales From 'An American Carol' Film?

By Warner Todd Huston

An American Carol debuted this past weekend and there have been some disturbing reports that ticket sales for the film have been fraudulently credited to other films in cineaplexes all across the country. The rumors are so persistent that the American Carol folks have added a section to their website for movie-goers to report the fraud. The filmmakers are reporting that at least 10 theaters are being investigated for this fraudulent practice.

So, if you have attended this film and happen to still have you ticket stubs, take a look at them to see if you were credited with having paid to attend the right movie.

There has also been a few reports by Eric Odom that some venues have incorrectly identified the rating for the film as sporting an "R" rating instead of the proper "PG-13" that the film rating board actually gave it.

We'll have to keep an eye on this situation, but it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that certain people are trying to doom this film.

Stealing Ohio by  Erick Erickson

 With polling trends like they are, Barack Obama might win Ohio outright, but his campaign and its surrogates are leaving nothing to chance. In a procedure designed to encourage voter fraud, Ohio’s Democrat Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, is doing her best to game the system for Obama.

On August 13, 2008, Secretary Brunner ordered a voter registration system that allowed same day voter registration and dispersals of absentee ballots to same day registrants. To compound the problem, Secretary Brunner has encouraged local elections officials to turn away poll watchers.

Under Ohio law, Republican and Democrat poll watchers are entitled to oversee the elections process on Election Day. The law is silent as to early voting. Secretary Brunner has interpreted that to mean poll watchers are prohibited. WTAM Radio in Cleveland last week challenged Secretary Brunner’s Press Secretary, Jeff Ortega, to explain why poll watchers were being prohibited from watching the on-going voting in Ohio. Mr. Ortega hung up on the radio host questioning him instead of answering the question. Article Here

Laura Ingraham Blasts Newsweek Reporter for Dismissing a 'Giant Conspiracy' by Obama

By Tim Graham

On Monday morning, Laura Ingraham interviewed Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff on her national radio show about his investigative report in the magazine about Barack Obama’s campaign being flagged for some obviously fraudulent donors:

Consider the cases of Obama donors "Doodad Pro" of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and "Good Will" of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000 – both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit. In two recent letters to the Obama campaign, Federal Election Commission auditors flagged those (and other) donors and informed the campaign that the sums had to be returned. Neither name had ever been publicly reported because both individuals made online donations in $10 and $25 increments. "Good Will" listed his employer as "Loving" and his occupation as "You," while supplying as his address 1015 Norwood Park Boulevard, which is shared by the Austin nonprofit Goodwill Industries.

But the fairly chummy interview broke down when Ingraham started asking questions about why the Federal Election Commission would drag its feet on Obama for fear of looking "political." (Isn’t foot-dragging also a way of looking political?) Isikoff said the FEC will probably have no choice but to look into Newsweek’s findings, but may put off a broader probe.

He added that watchdogs at the (ahem, liberal) Center for Repsonsive Politics said the Obama campaign could have avoided this kind of embarrassing story with more disclosure of donor information, at least Zip codes, if not names, of its smaller donors.

Obama Propaganda

The Obama Soldiers 

Why are people blindly following this man?  He is a great public speaker.  He makes promises for a better country.  He is a lot like most of the dictators that turned out to be terrible leaders.   It's a creepy cult following that Obama has.  His followers are idealistic, un/misinformed people that harbor feelings of class envy, social out casting, entitlement and/or racial discrimination. They are blindly following like Nazi's in the third reich.

 

 

October 6, 2008

Media Mum on Barney Frank's Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive. 

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute

Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?

 

     MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party on his Sept. 17, 2008, show, suggesting blame for Wall Street problems should be focused in a partisan way. However, he and other media have failed to thoroughly examine the Democratic side of the blame game.

 

     Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.

 

     The media coverage of Frank’s coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest. Only six of the appearances dealt with the economy in general and two of those appearances, including an April 6, 2008 appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” were about his opposition to a manned mission to Mars.

 

     Frank has argued that family life “should be fair game for campaign discussion,” wrote the Associated Press on Sept. 2. The comment was in reference to GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her pregnant daughter. “They’re the ones that made an issue of her family,” the Massachusetts Democrat said to the AP.

 

     The news media have covered the relationship in the past, but there have been no mentions since 2005, according to Nexis and despite the collapse of Fannie Mae. The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.

 

     Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) – all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk. Frank’s office has been unresponsive to efforts by the Business & Media Institute to comment on these potential conflicts of interest. Article Here

 

'Religulous'

Ratiing:

BY RAFER GUZMÁN

 You don't need to believe in God to take issue with Bill Maher's " Religulous," a quasi-documentary that mocks religion as ridiculous, crazy, even dangerous. It's a nasty, condescending, small-minded film, self-amused and ultimately self-defeating. Its only accomplishment is to make atheists look bad -- and in this political climate they didn't need Maher's help with that.

At least "Religulous" is timely. With eight years of George W. Bush's faith-based presidency nearly behind us, and the prospect of a creationism-espousing ViceSarah Palin before us, nonbelievers might well feel besieged. Maher, the onetime host of "Politically Incorrect" (and current host of HBO's "Real Time"), has the makings of an effective savior: He's an acerbic comedian and incisive critic, skilled at grinding sacred cows into hamburger. And as he proved with his famous comments after 9/11 (he disagreed with Bush about the hijackers being "cowards"), Maher doesn't pull punches. Full Review from Newsday

Obama received campaign contributions from Gaza Palestinians

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was apparently the recipient of nearly $30,000 in campaign contributions from a pair of Palestinian Arabs in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

While recently investigating online campaign contribution logs, Pamela Geller of the blog Atlas Shrugs discovered a curious set of entries from mid-2007 showing a series of contributions from two Arab men who listed their place of residence as "Rafah, GA."

Skeptical about the existence of a town in Georgia called Rafah, Geller did some digging and discovered that the contributions had in fact come from the Gaza Strip border town of Rafah.

It is illegal for a US presidential candidate to receive contributions from non-US citizens, or to receive in excess of $2,300 from a single individual.

Curious for more information, WorldNetDaily correspondent Aaron Klein tracked down the two Gaza Arabs, brothers Monir and Hosam Edwan.

The Edwan brothers said that they and many other Palestinians love Obama, and are confident he will be the US president to force Israel to surrender land for the birth of a Palestinian Arab state.

When pressed about their illegal contribution, the brothers altered their story and insisted that they had not made an online donation, but had rather purchased $30,000 worth of t-shirts from the Obama campaign website.

WorldNetDaily also learned that while Monir and Hosam are themselves believed to be non-religious, their clan is known for supporting Hamas.

Obama's Payoff to Unions by  Mark Sko

If Obama is elected president, which is highly likely according to the latest political futures market Intrade (now a 65% chance of winning), get ready for a unionized America and the end of the worker's right to a secret ballot.

If he gets his way, Obama is ready to force millions of Americans into unions by eliminating, for all practical purposes, this fundamental American right.

This betrayal of a bedrock principle of U.S. democracy can only mean one thing: America will go the way of Europe, i.e., higher unemployment, slower GDP growth, a higher cost of living, and no new job creation. That’s the history of highly unionized states like Michigan. Since the end of World War II, America has steadily moved toward a more dynamic, flexible labor market, which has resulted in huge job creation and a higher standard of living for all workers. But -- if Obama and the unions have their way -- that is about to change.

Obama is a strong supporter of the falsely-named “Employee Free Choice Act” (also known as the Card Check bill) sponsored by Ted Kennedy. It almost passed Congress this year and is certain to become law if Obama becomes president. Obama told the AFL-CIO this year, "I will make it the law of the land when I’m president of the United States." (President Bush has threatened to veto the legislation.)

What’s so bad about the “Employee Free Choice Act”? The name is positively Orwellian: instead of preserving workers’ ability to make the decision to unionize by secret ballot, it does just the opposite. The bill makes it much easier to create a union at a business -- the union bosses can publicly pressure a majority of workers to sign union authorization cards (thus, the name “card check”). There is no secret ballot -- workers sign the cards in front of other employees and union leaders, and union officials keep the signed cards until they obtain the required number. Under the watchful eyes (and arm twisting) of union organizers, workers will be intimidated into signing. Article Here

American Carol vs. Religulous -- The Numbers by The Editors

American Carol Opened this weekend in only 1,639 theaters (a rather wide release for an independent film released by Vivendi Entertainment).  So how did American like a republican ideal based comedy?  Americans sure were able to find a theater near them that was playing it because in the three days it has been out the movie has grossed $3,810,000.  People were sure this movie would tank but despite all the terrible reviews the liberal media was giving this movie it still pulls in over a million dollars a day!  This shows Americans value the the foundation this country was built on.

Religulous by Bill Maher was released the week as well by movie giant Lions Gate. This 1hr 40min video tape of Bill Maher walking around the world insulting every major religion has grossed only $3,500,000 in the five days it has been out.  Looks like American Carol is destroying Religulous at the box office and for good reason.  98% of world believe in form of religion and apparently they don't like watching an ugly  communist insult them for their beliefs that he describes as "a neurological disorder.”

Keep in mind that this is coming from a man that falls into the 2% slot.  I do not believe in a higher being that governs the happenings of things on earth.  I disagree with Maher because of his approach to this documentary.  He does not critique organized religion or investigate it in anyway.  Maher goes out with the intent of misleading people and insulting any person whom associates with a religion. It's just a text book example of a bad documentary.

Maher doesn't talk to religous authorities in his movie.  Rather, he interviews drunken preachers from small churches to make religion look foolish. Maher was never one to bother with the facts.  Any one that has ever watched his show on HBO knows that he often finds dumb people who disagree with him and puts them on his show so he can make them look foolish.  He thinks that his argument gains credibility if he can find a dumb person who disagrees with him.

Bill Maher is the scum of the earth.  Supporting this movie is like  spitting on the face of every person who has ever prayed or attended a religous event.  My hatred for Bill Maher does not stem from a hatred of his beliefs but rather the hatred I harbor towards bad journalism.

When Truth Doesn’t Matter, Any Old Lie Will Do by Hawkins

Few are calling the Democrats out on one of their biggest cover-ups since Ted Kennedy avoided charges in Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. 

The bailout finally passed. Bush pushed it, liberals loved it, and Republicans supported it. Yet it did not pass without the help of media personalities who made certain to distract the public from what the Democrats had done to cause the mess in the first place. In what proved to be one of the biggest Democrat cover-ups since Ted Kennedy avoided charges in Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, the media covered for the Democrats by blaming the “financial crisis” on everything from de-regulation to testosterone, while we did ourselves in by adhering to the tenets of political correctness.

Apart from Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, and a handful of others (who deserve praise for opposing the bailout from day one), hardly anyone in the media bothered pointing out that Democrats had caused the problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by granting loans based on applicant’s skin color instead of their credit score. The mainstream media’s goal was simple: there’s a crisis upon us, so they had to find a way to blame Republicans for it and conceal the Democrats’ culpability.

When the conservatives in the House of Representatives refused to take the bait and rejected the bailout the first time around (September 29), the leftist media was aghast. To remedy things, they threw away their Ritalin and went on a 24/7 binge of lies, lies, and more lies that may have even surpassed the example set by the master of falsehood, Bill Clinton. The kooks came out and the fringe left held nothing back because they understood that the facts had to be suppressed at all costs.

It was “Bush’s fault,” just like the hurricanes and 9/11, and an outgrowth the policy of deregulation. Thus Nancy Pelosi said: “We know that the free markets create jobs, create capital, and create wealth -- that's very important. But recently, left unregulated and undisciplined and unsupervised, [they’ve] created chaos.” By presenting the crisis this way, the Dems were able to make it seem like the only thing standing between American families and the “relief they deserved” was a stubborn House GOP. (I would like to say the Republicans in the Senate stood in the way as well, but we all know better than that.)

Of course the media didn’t stop here. Like a car salesman who never learns, they went into over-sale mode with a vengeance. Writing in the "Scientific American," Jordan Lite asked the poignant question: “Is testosterone to blame for the financial crisis?”   Article Here

October 5, 2008

With a Wink and a Smile
A citizen-politician runs for veep.

By Mark Steyn

Back in February, several political lifetimes ago, I was on the radio with Laura Ingraham and she played Stevie Wonder’s campaign song for Barack Obama, whose lyric, in its entirety, runs:

Ba-rack O-ba-ma
Ba-a-rack O-ba-a-ma
Ba-ra-ack Obama-a...

(Repeat until coronation.)

And Laura and I had a good laugh about it, until it occurred to me that, in politics as in pop, the tune is more important than the words. A guy can run for president with all the right lyrics — on the war, the economy, the social issues — but what matters is whether people respond to the underlying music: not what he’s saying, but how he’s saying it. At the time, I was reflecting on Mitt Romney: The song looked great on paper, but when he stuck it on the stand and started to warble it never quite soared.

That’s where Sarah Palin scored in the vice-presidential showdown. A lot of the grandees in the post-debate analysis reviewed the lyrics and missed the music. Whereas, I would wager, a big chunk of uncommitted voters out in TV land listened to Governor Palin, and liked the tune they were hearing. If you’re one of those coastal feminists who despise Alaska’s sweetheart as a chillbilly breeder whose knowledge of foreign policy is as full of holes as the last moose to make the mistake of strolling past her deck, Thursday night’s folksy performance isn’t going to change your view. But, if your contempt for her wasn’t already chiseled in granite, she came over as genuine, confident …and different. Change you can believe in, to coin a phrase. Article Here

October 4, 2008

American Carol -- A Must See

By. The Editors 

Well I just got back from the local movie theater.  For  a Friday night the theater was rather empty.  I guess people would rather see Bill Maher run around Europe looking like an idiot insulting the ideas that 98% of the world hold dear. (Note:  Saturday the Theater was packed.  The movie sold out!)

The previews they played before this movie, both times, W by Oliver Stone (a movie that is fiction but the liberal media is trying to consider fact) and Frost Nixon a movie about trickie Dick.  This was obviously not a counsidence. 

The humor is based on the the truth that main stream media ignores and when you are watching you will go "that's right" or "amen brother" to a large portion of it.  It's not a movie where you are cracking up throughout the whole thing.  Most of the dumb humor was necessary only to entertain the dumb people who don't get the more intellectual satire. 

They make fun of Micheal Moore but the film is not a Micheal Moore Satire.  The first scene with Micheal Molone is a criticism of the awful propaganda movie Sicko (which some schools actually show students as if it were based on fact). The movie makes fun of the liberal movement as a whole.  It has lots of Jokes about The Moveon.org culture. Jokes about the ACLU and dumb college liberals.  Great jokes about college professors.

The message of the movie is great.  It shows what the world would be like if it were run by liberals.  It shows why we need leaders like McCain.  It is a really positive movie about this great country. Take your kids to see it.  Take your friends to see it.  It's a movie every American Should See.

Go see it and enjoy it because you will laugh and today with this monstrosity of a bill being passed HUMOR is the best medicine.

October 3, 2008

Vote Early and Often — At the Box Office
Let the Hollywood Left know what you think of them: see An American Carol.

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Editors Note: I'm on my way out the door to see it and I will write a review right after.   Trailer looks great and from what I heard it is hysterical.

It’s election season, so it is appropriate that an important vote will be cast this weekend. No, I am not talking about early balloting in Ohio or Oregon for the November presidential race. Rather, this vote is a national one — and it will be taking place at a theater near you.

This weekend, the returns will be tallied on box-office sales of the opening weekend of An American Carol — a marvelously politically incorrect take-off on the timeless Dickensian morality tale. Set around the Fourth of July in contemporary America rather than a Victorian Yuletide, it has been created and directed by my friend, the zany and wildly successful David Zucker.

This Carol’s Scrooge character, played by Kevin Farley, is a dead-ringer for radical leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. The ghosts who visit him — including John F. Kennedy, George S. Patton, and George Washington — labor to teach their subject about the greatness of this country, the absurdity of the “Blame-America-First” Left’s toxic hatred for it and the opening the latter provides for Islamists bent on our destruction. Punctuated by trademark Zucker slapstick humor (his other credits include Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Scary Movie 3, and assorted sequels), the movie makes a deadly serious point: Everything is on the line in this War for the Free World and those of us who prize our freedoms will lose them if we fail to protect them against enemies foreign and domestic.

In a sense the pilgrimage Zucker chronicles is an autobiographical one. He had his own epiphany after 9/11, prompting him to break with Hollywood’s dominant left-wing politics and reflexive contempt for our government, military, and people (even, amazingly, the movie-going ones). With the passion of a convert, he uses his skills to poke fun at his industry, academia, political and media elites and such mainstays of the radical Left as the ACLU, MoveOn.org, Rosie O’Donnell and, of course, Michael Moore. Article Here

Obama's Racist Remarks That The Media Ignores

October 2, 2008

We Are On The Edge by. The Editors 

You Will Not Recognize The America Obama Promises

The American people are underestimating the danger of the fire they are playing with:  Machine politics, government bailouts, socialist healthcare, trillion dollar additions to government spending, income regulation, government incentives, and a flexible constitution.  Barack Obama is being underestimated.  This is not a democrat/republican issue.  If Barack Obama does not scare you then you are a communist or naïve.  

Picture waiting lists to see a doctor that you don’t choose but the government does.  Imagine a government that has absolute power over the stock market.  Look at pictures of the USSR and people waiting on line for hours to get toilet paper or a loaf of bread.   This is what Obama is promising to bring to America.

America is a capitalist society.  The constitution is not an optional guideline.   Barack Obama proposes unconstitutional legislation.  The fact of the matter is that Obama doesn’t believe in the constitution as it is.  He wants to reform it.  Obama does not believe in a free market.  He does not harbor the capitalist ideals that Americans do.   Obama has a socialist agenda for America.

People are overlooking the extreme nature of Obama’s political policies.  This is scary stuff.  Will an Obama presidency mean the end of America?  No, but it will mean the end of America as we know it.  Your children will not grow up in a free market.  This is not a conspiracy you can read all of this on Obama’s official website.   Obama’s proposed healthcare plan will rape your constitutional rights.  If government healthcare passes that will be the legal end to capitalism in America.  The government will then have the right to interfere in every aspect of your life. 

Government intervention in the free market is unconstitutional.  It is not up for debate.  There is no gray area here.  It is a clear line drawn in the sand and the government will be stepping over it forever ending the reign of United States of America. Full Article

Top Recipients of Fannie

Mae and Freddie Mac

Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008

Name Office Party/State Total
1. Dodd, Christopher J S D-CT

$133,900

2. Kerry, John S D-MA

$111,000

3. Obama, Barack S D-IL

$105,849

4. Clinton, Hillary S D-NY

$75,550

.This Information from OpenSecrets.org

2008 cycle totals based on data downloaded from the
Federal Election Commission on June 30, 2008.

New Pages Added

Michelle Obama

Today we added a section to the Obama page.  A section called His Wife.  It has information about the future first lady and her racist agenda.

 More Information on Michelle Obama

 

 

Financing

We Also Added The His Financing Section with information about his campaign financing.  More information on Obama's Financin

Debate, Tanked

by. Michelle Malkin

My dictionary defines “moderator” as “the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting.” On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions.

But there is nothing “moderate” about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She’s so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out.

In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on Jan. 20, 2009 — a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.

The title of Ifill’s book? The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. Nonpartisan my foot.

Random House, her publisher, is already busy hyping the book with YouTube clips of Ifill heaping praise on her subjects, including Obama and Obama-endorsing Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick. The official promo for the book gushes: “In ‘The Breakthrough,’ veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power. … Drawing on interviews with power brokers like Sen. Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vernon Jordan, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational conflict and the ‘black enough’ conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history.”

Ifill and her publisher are banking on an Obama/Biden win to buoy her book sales. The moderator expected to treat both sides fairly has grandiosely declared this the “Age of Obama.” Can you imagine a right-leaning journalist writing a book about the “stunning” McCain campaign and its “bold” path to reform timed for release on Inauguration Day — and then expecting a slot as a moderator for the nation’s sole vice presidential debate?  Article Here

Lou Dobbs, Reports on Ohio Early Voting Abuse<

 By P.J. Gladnick

How Ohio's Lax Early Voting Policies Will Lead To Voter Fraud.

Lou Dobbs, along with Glenn Beck, are probably the only two CNN hosts who are not completely in the tank for Barack Obama. So it is interesting to see this report by Dobbs about early voting in Ohio which allows people to register to vote and cast an absentee ballot at the same time. This opens up a great opportunity for election fraud as this report demonstrates. A check on Google News shows absolutely no MSM coverage, other than this story by Dobbs, on the topic of potential vote fraud in Ohio due to the relaxed rules instituted by the highly partisan Democrat Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, who changed the voting rules by directive (emphasis mine):LOU DOBBS: A presidential election now 35 days away. Election fraud still posing a dangerous threat to this democracy. Perhaps even worsening. Early voting began today in Ohio. After the State Supreme Court there ruled that absentee voters could register and cast their ballots on the same day. As Kitty Pilgrim now reports, that new law could lead to massive election fraud in that critical swing state.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're here to vote, let's go vote. They opened up early.

KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Ohio today, new rules allow one-stop voting. From now until October 6th, new voters can register to vote and cast an absentee ballot at the same time. But how can all those new registrations be checked before the votes are counted?

KEVIN DEWINE, DEP. CHAIR. OHIO REP. PARTY: There's a great opportunity for people who otherwise shouldn't be allowed to vote to be able to cast a ballot and we think that with the crush of other election activities that are going on in Ohio, that the Board of Elections workers, we think they're going to be hard pressed to get through and take care of all of the verification.

PILGRIM: No photo ID is required. New Ohio voters have only to write down the last four digits of their Social Security number or write down their driver's license number. They can also register with the utility bill, cell phone bill, bank statement or paycheck, even college ID if those documents include name and address. Ohio Secretary of State, Democrat Jennifer Brunner, changed the rules on absentee voting by directive.

Article Here

Ifill Must Be Removed by 

 Whether or not this proves to be the “Age of Obama,” no one who has a financial interest in the outcome of the election -- as does PBS’ Gwen Ifill -- should be permitted to moderate any debate in the campaign season.

Ifill, who is scheduled to moderate the important debate tomorrow night between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden, has a conflict of interest that, by even the most rudimentary ethical standards of journalism, must preclude her from moderating or even reporting on the debate.

Ifill is the author of “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama," a new book scheduled for release on Inauguration Day. Its Amazon.com promotional statement says, “In 'The Breakthrough,' veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s stunning presidential campaign and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold new path to political power.” 

We are used to liberal bias in the media, and it’s questionable if PBS can even find among its journalists someone who approaches an unbiased point of view. Nevertheless, Ifill has a financial interest in the outcome of the election. If Obama loses, her book will be DOA. If Obama wins, she wins greater book sales and thus far greater income from royalties. This, by any standard, is a disqualifying conflict of interest.

Ifill must be removed from the moderator’s slot -- today -- and replaced by someone who at the very least does not have a financial interest in the outcome of tomorrow night’s debate.   Article

Obama Short Changes His Female Staffers

A few weeks ago the Obama campaign debuted a new ad attacking McCain on the so-called “wage gap.”  In the first ad, the claim is made that women on average receive 77 cents for every dollar men make doing the same job.  As many have pointed out, this statistic doesn’t take experience, years in the workforce and hours worked into consideration.  When those factors are included, the “wage gap” virtually disappears.  In the campaign’s second ad, an older woman claims that John McCain needs an education on women’s issues.  She said:

“I worked at this plant for 20 years before I learned the truth.  I'd been paid 40% less than men doing the same work.  John McCain opposed a law to give women equal pay for equal work. And he dismissed the wage gap, saying women just need education and training. I had the same skills as the men at my plant.  My family needed that money. On the economy, it's John McCain who needs an education.”

Perhaps Obama’s female supporters need an education on his own actions.  If Obama wants to use the feminist formula, it should also be applied to his campaign staffers. 

Syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock used Legistorm.com, the online database of congressional employees’ salaries, to compare the candidates. Article Here

 Penny-Wise Politics by. Thomas Sowell

Congress is never more ridiculous than when it tries to look like it is serious.

In the midst of a major national financial crisis, what was one of the first things Congress zeroed in on? The pay of Chief Executive Officers of financial institutions.

If all those CEOs agreed to work for nothing, that would not be enough to lower the bailout money by one percent. Anyone who was really serious would start with the 99 percent and let the one percent come later, if at all.

But however insignificant the pay of CEOs is economically, it is big stuff politically. Whatever the shortcomings of the Democrats, they are consistent in their message, and class envy is a great part of that message.

People who say that they cannot understand how CEOs in general get so many millions of dollars seem not to realize what a trivial thing they are saying. Most people do not understand most things. But that is no reason to have national policy guided by their ignorance.

I do not understand one percent of what there is to understand about the very computer on which these words are being written — nor about the Internet on which these words will be transmitted to the syndicate that distributes this column. I don’t have a clue about how a syndicate is run, much less how much someone should be paid for running it.

What really sets some people off is the fact that a CEO who has mismanaged some corporation into losing billions of dollars is rewarded with a severance package worth millions.

Think about it. If the CEO’s decisions are costing the company billions, it is a bargain to get him out the door immediately for millions, rather than having his departure delayed by either internal struggles or battles in the courts.

It is the same principle if you are married to someone who is impossible to live with. The divorce may cost far more than the marriage — and still be worth every cent of it.

But what about the “social justice” of it all?

Such questions seem to carry great weight with people who act as if they are God on Judgment Day. But one of the little overlooked differences between themselves and God on Judgment Day is that God does not have to worry about what is going to happen the day after Judgment Day.

Rewarding someone for being impossible to live with may offend our feelings, just as rewarding someone for mismanaging a company does. But the real question is — what is the alternative and how will that alternative affect the future?

Politically imposed limits on the pay of CEOs is one of the most penny-wise and pound-foolish things that can be done. The difference between a top-notch CEO and a second-rate CEO can be billions of dollars on the bottom line. Article Here

Mislead by. Daniel J. Mitchell

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like religion without hell.

The proposed bailout of the financial system is a misguided scheme that will hurt the U.S. economy in the short run and long run. The economy currently is stumbling as a consequence of a government-created housing bubble, but a bailout of companies, executives, and shareholders that made unwise decisions would, at best, extend the economy’s adjustment process. More likely, the bailout would impose considerable additional economic damage because political factors would at least partially supplant market forces in determining the allocation of resources.

Some politicians and government officials are making reckless charges of greater financial turmoil in the absence of a bailout. These grossly irresponsible statements may cause short-term market losses as investors try to second-guess how other investors will respond, but the assertion that the stock market’s health — especially in the long run — depends on bigger government is belied by real-world evidence. Japanese politicians made many of the same mistakes in the 1990s that American politicians today are considering, and the Nikkei suffered a lengthy period of decline — and remains today far below its peak level.

Proponents of a bailout also are trying to rattle credit markets by arguing that inaction will cripple commercial and household lending. Fortunately, there is little evidence of a freeze in credit markets, thought the Administration’s rash rhetoric and the specter of a bailout doubtlessly are causing needless uncertainty and temporarily higher interest rates. Once the issue is resolved, one way or the other, credit markets will resume normal operations. The only question is whether capital allocation will be distorted — and long-run growth hindered — by government intervention. Article Here

Secret Foreign Money Floods Into Obama's Campaign

The Barack Obama campaign has raised a whopping $426.9 million -- nearly twice that of John McCain's campaign, according to new campaign finance report.

Unlike the McCain campaign, which has made its complete donor database available online, the Obama campaign has not identified donors for nearly half the amount he has raised, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).

Federal law does not require the campaigns to identify donors who give less than $200 during the election cycle. However, it does require that campaigns calculate running totals for each donor and report them once they go beyond the $200 mark. Surprisingly, the great majority of Obama donors never break the $200 threshold.

The FEC breakdown of the Obama campaign has identified a staggering $222.7 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less. Only $39.6 million of that amount comes from donors the Obama campaign has identified. Article Here

Young Jeezey Endorses Obama

Because I usually go to Young Jeezey for political advice.

 

Young Jeezey gave his official endorsement to Barack Obama.  I was unaware that admitted criminals  gave "official" endorsements  or that if they did it would warrant media coverage.  Apparently there are people out there who actually consider Young Jeezey's thoughts when voting for a president.  In all seriousness this is why we never should have done away with literacy testing at the polls.  If you listen to Young Jeezy you should not be legally afforded the right to vote.  The man refers to him self as  Young Jeezey!  That alone should disqualify him from being allowed to participate in political debate.  The man appears to have taken finishing classes offered by Lil' Wayne.  My 5 year old niece has better command of the English language.   In this brilliant endorsement Young Jeezey said,

“I told him the ‘hood was f—ed up, and he was like, ‘How you doing?’ ” Mr. 17.5 recalled. “Real talk. They know entertainers, so they shake your hand [and say], ‘I’m your friend.’ But my mama is about to have surgery that I gotta pay for out of my pocket because she can’t get insurance. I don’t really feel McCain. It ain’t just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression. I really feel that, all bullsh– aside. He’s gotta come in and keep it right.

“I be in the ‘hood every day, and I motivate the thugs. [Barack] motivates me,” he added. “To see somebody taking that extra mile … like, ‘OK, I can make some change.’ That’s how I felt when I got in the rap game. I felt I could make change. I did.”

 Young Jeezey's real name is Jay Jenkins.  He grew up in California.  When Jenkins was 12 years old, he started selling drugs in his neighborhood. By 1994, he was arrested and charged with possession of crack cocaine. He was arrested after an alleged shootout involving some of his friends in Miami Beach, Florida on Sunday, March 12, 2006. He was charged with two counts of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit.  During the early morning hours of June 18, 2008, the Atlanta rapper was arrested in Atlanta and charged with DUI, speeding, reckless driving, no tags, driving with an open container and no proof of insurance.

Wow, it's strange that a young African American living a criminal life style would support Barack Obama.  He must have really read up on the issues.

Young Jeezey is not the only rapper supporting Obama.  Infact, every rapper seems to be endorsing Obama.  Ludacris, Jay-Z, Three Six Mafia, Jadakiss, Jin, and many other criminals ridin' on 20 inch rims with fake names have jumped on the Obama band wagon.  Jay-z likes to wear "vote or die" t-shirts, a threat that MTV loves to lead.  

 Ludacris recently released a freewheeling song called "Politics" in which he repeatedly praised the candidate — as well as himself, for having found a home on the senator's iPod. But the Atlanta rapper also used a derogatory term to describe Hillary Clinton; asserted that John McCain should be in a wheelchair, not the White House; and declared that President Bush "is mentally handicapped."

A grown man that nick named himself Ludacris (also refers to himself as Luda and Chris Lova Lova)  is critizing a Harvard graduate for being "mentally handicapped".  Hey Luda, which Ivy League did you attend?  Article Here

Bailout Politi

The Congressional Dems who enabled this crisis are now being trusted to fix it?
By Thomas Sowell

Nothing could more painfully demonstrate what is wrong with Congress than the current financial crisis.

Among the Congressional “leaders” invited to the White House to devise a bailout “solution” are the very people who have for years created the risks that have now come home to roost.

Five years ago, Barney Frank vouched for the “soundness” of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and said “I do not see” any “possibility of serious financial losses to the treasury.”
Moreover, he said that the federal government has “probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing.”

Earlier this year, Senator Christopher Dodd praised Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for “riding to the rescue” when other financial institutions were cutting back on mortgage loans. He too said that they “need to do more” to help subprime borrowers get better loans.

In other words, Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default.

The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously.

But the magic words “affordable housing” and the ugly word “redlining” led to politicians directing where loans and investments should go, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and various other coercions and threats.

The roots of this problem go back many years, but since the crisis to which all this led happened on George W. Bush’s watch, that is enough for those who think in terms of talking points, without wanting to be confused by the facts.

In reality, President Bush tried unsuccessfully, years ago, to get Congress to create some regulatory agency to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Article Here 

The Candidate of Change Revokes Students First

The candidate of change, the shining proponent of a "new way" in national politics, says that you aren't allowed to bring a sign to his rally. So much for the right of free political speech. To add insult to injury, this rally was held at the publicly funded University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. So, now the government is lending the weight of its authority to squelch free speech. So, where is the hew and cry about this unAmerican activity? Did the media even note this heavy-handed policy? But, it is all true nonetheless. The rally was held and weak-spined school officials bent over and meekly accepted the rules derived from the fascistic penchant of the Obama campaign with its anti-first amendment proclivities. Some few small voices questioned this oppression of American rights, but for the most part no one seems to have noticed that Virginians had their Constitutional rights quashed that day.  (www.NewsBusters.org)

When hundreds of hippies hold up traffic in Manhattan with signs that say "No Blood For Oil" it is free speech (even though it makes no sense).  When riots are started outside the Republican National Convention with people holding signs saying "Arrest Bush", it is freedom of speech in action.  When a college student wants to bring a sign to an Obama speech, well, that can't be allowed.  Obama is known to avoid criticism at all costs.  He took it a step further now but choosing to ignore the constitution to further his campaign.  Libs are notorious for their signs. Could you imagine if Bush banned signs at a rally?  People would start flipping cars but Obama is God-like and can apparently break as many laws as he wants without the media giving him a second look.

Call me old fashioned but I like my freedoms as provided by the United States Constitution. When the New York debate rolls around I'll be there with my Obama signs and I will refuse to put them down on the grounds of everything that makes this country not Iraq.

by. The Editors 

I was cruising the internet in a desperate search for anything that resembled a reasonable argument for Barack Obama's presidential nomination. I stumbled upon a brilliant web site. Anotherprotestsong.org. It dares to ask the question, "What does a 21 century protest song sound like?".  Well, I immediately had a few great songs come to mind.  However, I had no idea what modern day Bob Dylan’s were hiding out at Another Protest Song.

On this site they display the lyrics written out.  They cannot over emphasize the brilliance of these words.  The cacophony of words that seem to be vomited together on this site are pathetic attempts at rational thought.   Take for instance the word smith Daniel Cioper.  He posted several songs on the website. This is an excerpt from his song George Bush Is The Anti-Christ;

"We turn now to Hitler,
 Adolph the fuhrer.
Many many Jews did he murder.
But did you know before that
he pulled this old trick
he burned down the Reichstag
and blamed it on the communists.
Most agree it was a plot
some still say it was not
like George Bush the Anti-Christ.
But those dictator powers
he sure got a lot
like George Bush the Anti-Christ.

George Bush is the Anti-Christ
George Bush is the Anti-Christ
George Bush is the Anti-Christ
George Bush is the Anti-Christ"

After reading the lyrics to the entire song I was paralyzed at my desk.  All that I could think about was how This is the problem with America.  This is the way a country is left choosing between Obama and McCain.  Hell, this is how Obama can stay out of jail and in Senate without so much as one major news paper printing an article.  People hate America right now.  It is trendy to criticize America and it is convenient to blame Bush. Full Article

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