With an hour to go before Bush gives his farewell address to the nation, I have resurrected the old Blogs For Bush logo in honor of a true patriot who has faithfully served this country these past 8 years.

As our readers here way know, Blogs for Victory began as Blogs for Bush back in November 2003. We worked tirelessly to unite bloggers who supported Bush’s reelection campaign. In the end, me built a community of 1500 blogs, and eve more blog readers. Blogs For Bush was one of the most popular political blogs of the 2004 campaign. Four years ago, I attending his second inauguration. I can’t say I agreed with everything President Bush did, but I am grateful he was the president these past eight years.

It is too bad more don’t appreciate what he has done to protect this country… but before the next four years are up, they will.

I will have more to say after Bush speaks.

UPDATE: Special radio show on Bush’s farewell…

NOTE: The Blogs For Bush logo will remain on this site, in tribute to President Bush, until January 21, 2009

UPDATE: Bush’s prepared remarks… Read the rest of this entry »

I’m a political junkie of, oh, nearly 30 years standing. I’ve seen a lot of politics in my life; the good, the bad, the ugly – but never, ever in my life have I seen something like the Obama phenomena.

On Monday evening, the wife and I went out to our local eatery and I couldn’t help but overhear the conversation of the people in the booth next to us. I’ve overheard a lot of conversations in my life, but this is the first time I heard Average Joes (and Janes) discussing Super Tuesday and a particular candidate’s prospects. They were wondering how Obama will do today.

As it turns out, the group in the next booth was all black, but that is more incidental than anything of importance – my 18 year old niece supports Obama; white, black and hispanic friends at work are in favor of him…heck, even I and the Mrs have felt the pull of the Obama charm. He’s a nice man, who says all the right things in exactly the right way. For me, of course, this is cross-checked by facts, and there is where Obama comes up short; he’s a very conventional liberal – if he ever has an original idea, I’ll pass out from shock. For all Obama’s talk, the plain fact of the matter is that on policy he’s nothing more than a liberal hack who hasn’t dared show an ounce of independence – but that, also, might end up being incidental rather than anything of importance.

You might recall that in the run up to the 2004 campaign, Democrats took heart from polls showing an “un-named Democrat” doing very well against President Bush. The reason for those polling results, I believe, is that an “un-named Democrat” could be the vehicle of the hopes and dreams of people – there was the reality of President Bush, and the dream of a perfect President…and the dream came out better in polling. Once a real Democrat was inserted into that slot, however, things started to go straight downhill for the Democratic party. The thing about a corrupt party of liberals who try to hide their true selves is that it tends to generate the worst sort of ruthlessly ambitious and dishonest people into positions of leadership; you’ve got to be cruel, ambitious and dishonest to get to the top in the Democratic party – until Obama. Obama, you see, fits into the “un-named Democrat” – he’s the dream candidate; the repository of the hopes and dreams of millions.

Good looking, charming, intelligent and with a grand speaking style, Obama has come across to millions of people as the answer to whatever it is that concerns them – without bothering to check into facts, people are assigning to Obama whatever is on their mind. He’s going to end the war. He’s going to fix health care. He’s going to unite us. Yes we can!

But, yes we can, what? He’s rather thin on details – you don’t just end a war; you don’t just wave a magic wand over health care and make it better; you don’t unite us by saying to at least 90 million Americans that their continued support for the liberation of Iraq was a fool’s errand at best, a crime at worst. Obama is playing blind man’s bluff – and, you know, he just might be able to play it al the way to the White House.

In our media-driven (and, hence, dishonest and cowardly) age, there might be a man who can play the media game and by sheer force of personality and story-line convince a majority of voters that he actually knows what he’s doing. The truth may not matter – and it would take a man of rare courage to point out about a Democratic-nominee-Obama that the Emperor has no clothes – that all his talk is just gaseous platitudes and that if we ever implemented Obama’s policies, we’d make a huge socio-economic mess. In just one for-instance of how vulnerable Obama is in his liberalism – he promises to provide affordable and high-quality child care. For whom? How is “affordable” defined? How does he determine “high quality”? Whence comes the people to staff this high quality child care system? Get down to the nuts and bolts on this guy, and he’ll be another floundering liberal…but, if his narrative is running strong and he’s a nice guy, then the temptation is to be a coward…instead of attacking the idiot idea of providing something as nebulous as affordable and high quality child care, an opponent might merely offer that he wants to promise it, too, but says he can do it better than Obama. Such would be a formula for ensuring a President Obama in 2009.

We’ll have to see how it plays out – I don’t think that either Obama or Hillary will emerge from Super Tuesday with the nomination wrapped up; my bet is a split decision…but, who knows?, one or the other of them might surprise and run away with the whole thing. But if Obama is the nominee, then the whole election will turn on whether or not the GOP nominee will have the courage to challenge, and the ability to challenge without coming off as a mean person. The Obama Phenomena has been fascinating, and it might prove to be more fascinating still.

…just you wait and see!

Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens’ offer of $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

In a letter to Pickens, who provided $3 million to bankroll the group during Kerry’s race against President Bush, the Massachusetts Democrat wrote: “While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false. I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt.”

Kerry, a Navy veteran and former prosecutor, said he was willing to present his case directly to Pickens and would donate any proceeds to the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

Pickens issued his challenge Nov. 6 in Washington, while serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary gala for American Spectator magazine, according to two Internet accounts of the gathering and Kerry, who said he spoke to people who were there.

The news story goes on to claim that many of the Swifties allegations were already proven lies…which doesn’t square with Kerry’s insistence that he’s now going to prove them lies; either they’ve already been proven lies, or they haven’t…so, either Kerry is lying, or the Associated Press is (leaving open the possibility that both are lying – this is a Democrat and the MSM, after all). It will be interesting to see how this plays out – my bet is that it will be like Kerry’s oft-repeated pledge to release his military records: he’ll say he’s gonna do it, not do it, and then after a while say he did what he didn’t do…and the lefties will just buy it.

I am pleased to announce the launch of Blogs For Victory.

Four years ago I launched Blogs For Bush with the purpose of uniting Bush supporters online during the 2004 presidential campaign. Blogs For Bush organized a community of pro-Bush bloggers, and encouraging grassroots activity on behalf of President Bush’s reelection, and became one of the most popular blogs of the 2004 campaign season.

The launch of Blogs For Victory marks a new era. With Bush’s second term coming to an end, it was time to look to the future, and the battles ahead of us: winning the White House in 2008, victory in the war on terror, control of Congress, judicial nominations, etc. etc. Blogs For Victory will help cover all these battles.

So, welcome again to our new home in the blogosphere. More exciting things will come. And don’t forget to join our blogroll.