To help out Senator Chambliss who, with Franken still trying to steal Minnesota, may be all there is between liberty and 60 Democratic Senators:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will come to Georgia next week to campaign for incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss on the eve of the runoff election.
Palin, who drew large crowds while running for vice president with Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, will appear at Chambliss rallies in Augusta, Savannah, Perry and Atlanta on Monday, the day before the Dec. 2 senate runoff between Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.
A Chambliss victory following hard upon a Palin visit will make Governor Palin a top draw as we head towards 2010, and thus give her a massive leg up for the GOP nomination in 2012.
Strictly speaking, of course, this is ok - governor Jindal is running for re-election as governor of Louisiana at the moment, and as that election happens prior to 2012, its all good. Meanwhile, however, Jindal isn’t coming in top ranked in GOP enthusiasm at the moment:
Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are most interested in seeing Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee run for the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Those three received the highest scores among the 10 possible candidates evaluated in a recent Gallup Panel survey.
GOPers are clearly not blaming Palin for the loss - and rightly so; without Palin it would have been a bigger loss. McCain was crushed when the financial crisis hit and, in hindsight, all the effort post-crisis was towards lessening the loss, and in this Palin did far more than McCain. Jindal, on the other hand, is still my early favorite, though his numbers are much weaker than Palin’s - on the other hand, he’s not nearly as well known as Palin and it could be that once people get a good look at him, his numbers will rise.
On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes.
Now, if they were aborting turkeys, our liberal friends would be ok with it…just how do you get to be a sissy and a hypocrite?
I didn’t think I could like Sarah Palin more than I do, but the nancy boys at MSNBC bleating all over the screen about the Great Turkey Carnage is hilarious. This is a great caption:
TURKEYS DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MEDIA
Or was it: MEDIA DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM TURKEYS.
After she’s sworn in in 2013, I hope President Palin arranges for a ritual turkey slaughter to be going on behind her at every press conference, if only during David Shuster’s questions.
Sorry, but it is getting funnier all the time - who knew that the lefty media was this whipped?
Just 2% of voters who supported Barack Obama on Election Day obtained perfect or near-perfect scores on a post election test which gauged their knowledge of statements and scandals associated with the presidential tickets during the campaign, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows.
Only 54% of Obama voters were able to answer at least half or more of the questions correctly.
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President–Elect Joe Biden. The telephone survey of 512 Obama voters nationwide was conducted Nov. 13-15, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points. The survey was commissioned by John Ziegler, author of The Death of Free Speech, producer of the recently released film “Blocking the Path to 9/11″ and producer of the upcoming documentary film, Media Malpractice..
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has emerged as one of the hottest names in national Republican circles since John McCain’s defeat last week, was never vetted as a vice presidential pick, according to sources close to the Pelican State chief executive.
Jindal was approached by McCain forces to gauge his interest in the vice presidency and told them he was not interested in being vetted due to his desire to continue on with his current job, to which he was elected just one year ago.
While the official reason that Jindal took his name out of contention was his lack of a desire to leave the Louisiana governorship, there was also real trepidation within his political inner circle that Jindal might wind up as the pick — McCain was attracted to his comprehensive health-care knowledge — and be caught up in what they believed to be a less-than-stellar campaign that could pin a loss on Jindal without much ability to change or control the direction of the contest…
…The end result — intentional or not — is that Jindal, should he run in 2012, will be free of any taint of President George W. Bush or McCain.
Our conservative love for Palin is undiminished, but no matter how you slice it, she’s a battered political quantity at the moment. Plenty of time for her to repair herself and set foot back into national politics, but of conservative political stars, only Governor Jindal has the bona-fides, the personal success and an undiminished reputation. If Jindal wants the GOP nomination in 2012 - and his scheduled speech in Iowa on November 22nd speaks volumes about this - then he’s in a commanding position to obtain it…provided his governorship continues to be the success is has been thus far.
If Obama’s hopenchange comes a cropper - and it almost certainly will - then Jindal will be able to step forward in 2012 with a real message of genuine change backed by success in his past, not just heralded by smooth speeches in the present moment. Reform of all types is what America needs, and it is precisely this reform which Obama is least likely to attempt as he (a) probably doesn’t suspect its a problem and (b) his power partners - especially in Congress - will resist tooth and nail any attempt to bring accountability to DC (and, shamefully, those Democratic Congresscritters can count on at least some GOP support for their shennanigans).
By the way - if it sounds like I’m taken by the man, Jindal, then you are catching clearly what I’m saying. Not saying that I’m 100% behind a Jindal nomination for 2012 - its a long way off, isn’t it? - but as I survey the political scene today, I don’t see a better prospect, with the only thing Palin has which Jindal has not here to for demonstrated is an electrifying speaking style.
A — I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration, how have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration?
If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party had been representing. People desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. … It’s amazing that we did as well as we did.
It is a certainty that the run up of debt, the various Congressional GOP scandals and the long war with its errors (real and imagined) played a huge role in our defeat last week. McCain’s mishandling of Palin’s roll out post-convention also played a role, as did McCain’s decision to eschew attacks on Obama over his racist, anti-American pastor of 20 years standing. The final nail in the coffin was - in retrospect - McCain’s decision to get deeply involved in the bail out. All that accomplished was to remind people what they didn’t like about the GOP Congressional delegation, that McCain is part of the terribly unpopular Congress and that he’s in the same party as George Bush. Pretty much, take any of the varied factors which contributed to the defeat and turn it around, and McCain stood a good chance of winning.
On top of all of this, however, is the current institutional weakness of the GOP. The Democrats have a motivating desire - they want power; all of it, all the time, in order to enrich themselves and their cronies and remake the United States in their sophomoric image of what America should be like. They don’t care how they acquire power and will use everything short of rape and murder to obtain it. Ok, fine; they probably also wouldn’t use cannibalism. I think. Maybe…. Meanwhile, the GOP doesn’t know what it wants. Conflicts between social and fiscal conservatives, various fights over how libertarian we should be and then whether or not we should work with or fight tooth and nail against the Democratic party push and pull the party in various directions and make it nearly impossible to have a coherent message for the elections.
The first task of the GOP is to sit down quietly for a bit and think:
1. What do we want?
2. How do we want to do it?
Until we’ve got good answers to both questions, we’ll continue to flounder about and fail to create that generational majority we’ll need to really reform America and excise the left wing poison in our system. Answering those questions might not be necessary for electoral victory - Obama’s almost-certain-to-fail policies may well usher us, deserving or not, back into power - but they are necessary to make our efforts worthwhile and lasting. Governor Palin is at least understanding why we lost, and it will be up to her - and others - to figure out over the next four years what we need to win.
Mr. Obama, you have won a handsome victory and will have a commanding position in American political life when you assume office on January 20th. Use your power well for the benefit of the American people.
Now I’ll do a very Catholic thing:
O Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, at this most critical time, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care.
Most Holy Mother, we beg you to reclaim this land for the glory of your Son. Overwhelmed with the burden of the sins of our nation, we cry to you from the depths of our hearts and seek refuge in your motherly protection.
Look down with mercy upon us and touch the hearts of our people. Open our minds to the great worth of human life and to the responsibilities that accompany human freedom.
Free us from the falsehoods that lead to the evils of abortion, commercialism and pornography and which threaten the sanctity of family life. Grant our country the wisdom to proclaim that God’s law is the foundation on which this nation was founded, and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
O Merciful Mother, give us the courage to reject the culture of death and the strength to build a new Culture of Life. Guide your son, Barack Obama, in his duties as President of the United States to use mercy, justice and love as his guiding lights.
I offer my congratulations to Senator John McCain for running the best campaign he could muster in a very hard year for conservatives and Republicans. It is my belief that absent the financial meltdown things might have come out differently, but we play the hands we are dealt and McCain played his very well.
I offer my hopes for the future for Governor Palin - but also take note of Governor Jindal. My prayer is that both these fine servants will draw the correct lessons out of this election and work tirelessly to revive the Republican party for victories in 2010 and beyond.
I offer my congratulations to our liberal friends - you’ve elevated your man to the White House and it will be primarily your responsibility to keep check upon him. It is now for you to defend the government - and I who am now free to attack it.
…if Aunt Zeituni had settled in Wasilla — say, in lodgings across the way from Bristol Palin’s boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s uncle’s sled dog’s veterinarian’s ammunition dealer — the fact that she’s an “illegal immigrant” might have come out a lot sooner, even if only from the Atlantic Monthly investigative unit driving by and asking her whether Joe the Plumber had ever serviced Trig’s real mother’s double-wide.
On the other hand, what could be more American than an Undocumented First Family? If I’d known it was this easy, I’d have run myself.
I was away for much of the summer and, when I returned, the entire campaign felt like an absurd satire I wasn’t quite up to speed on. But truly, in a world in which the many illegal foreign contributions to the leading candidate’s unprecedented fundraising include his own deportation-ordered aunt, satire is dead.
I don’t think in my lifetime I have ever witnessed quite a campaign in which the wife of the Presidential candidate has been sequestered lest she voice yet another sweeping generalization that can be rightfully interpreted as denigrating both the American system at large or the values of other Americans; or in which the Vice Presidential candidate has been sequestered from press questioning lest he once again in an interview or an impromptu says something that either is so bizarre that it makes no sense at all or serves as a good argument not to vote for his running mate; or in which the Presidential nominee himself knows that if he stays on the teleprompter he has a good chance of winning, but if he wades in to banter wtih the crowd there is equally a good chance that he may say something so disturbing that the entire facade that he has so carefully constructed simply collapses.
In sum, the voters suspect that there is something wrong with these faux-wizardly images on the campaign stump, but on the rare occasions they hear or see a gimpse of something real behind them that understandably makes them uneasy, they are sort of given the message “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
Personally, I think the mask is off and right now we’re in a race between the Truth and Obama; and if by November 4th Truth is ahead, then Obama loses.
This will not sink in for most liberals - just as the fact of Reagan’s astounding intelligence and knowledge never sank in:
I’m a Democrat, but I’ve worked as a consultant with the McCain campaign since shortly after Palin’s nomination. Last week, there was the thought that as a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine as well as a feminist activist in my pre-journalism days, I might be helpful in contributing to a speech that Palin had long wanted to give on women’s rights…
…Now by “smart,” I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.
For all those old enough to remember Senator Sam Ervin, the brilliant strict constitutional constructionist and chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee whose patois included “I’m just a country lawyer”…Yup, Palin is that smart.
Like Reagan (and, though she’s got a long way to go to achieve this level, like Churchill), Palin’s critics are hammering her for being dumb when she’s actually thinking so far ahead of them that they can’t even grasp the concept. What newspapers do you read? For crying out loud, who reads newspapers at all anymore? Why on earth would a governor of Alaska be even remotely interested in, say, the New York Times? Other than glances at papers while sitting in waiting rooms, its been some years since I’ve read newspapers - there’s usually no point, as the news is something I read a day or two before on the internet. I don’t know where Governor Palin draws her information from, but she’s certainly drawing from better sources than the MSM.
A lot of things go into making a person smart - and very often these days, an Ivy League diploma, outside of the sciences, is an indicator not of smarts but of the willingness to swallow and regurgitate the reigning liberal orthodoxy. The crucial divider between “smart” and “dumb” is intellectual curiosity - a willingness to consider a different point of view. Our friends on the left are convinced it is they who have this talent, but the fact of the matter is that they are rigid ideologues who are terrified of anyone questioning their beliefs.
And this, I think, is what scares them most about governor Palin - her very existence is a question to their beliefs. How can it be that a woman can be an ardent Christian, a great mother and wife and still rise high in a career? This is supposed to be impossible - Christians are too dumb, wives and mothers lack motivation and to rise high in a career requires the abandonment of children. Allow Palin to rise higher in the American political spectrum and all you’ll get is endless proposals to correct liberal errors - and liberals would rather not be bothered trying to defend themselves. This requires thought - and our braniacs on the left have amply proved one thing over the years: Their lack of intelligence.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin’s Friday speech describing her commitment to policies which assist children with special needs was praised by the president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List as an offer of “compassion and concrete help” to those in need.
Palin’s remarks came in her first policy speech on the issue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She advocated school choice opportunities for special needs children, fully funding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and lowering taxes on special needs trusts which families establish to fund long-term care for their children.
“Very rarely does an issue in the public forum speak to the heart so poignantly as protecting children with special needs. Governor Sarah Palin offers compassion and concrete help to those of us hungry for information, support and solutions,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser in a Friday press release.
“Why does Sarah have such a beautiful perspective? Because she sees the value, necessity, and joy inherent in every human life,” she continued.
No one is ever promised an easy time, but life is always beautiful and it is always not just the right choice, but the only rational choice. To see an unborn life and consider killing it an acceptable (let alone good) option is to be soaked in our modern Age of Lies - to be emotionally crippled by despair.
We have no more urgent task and no more noble calling than to restore the respect for life to the center of our civilization’s existence - it was what we were built on, in firm rejection of the Greco-Roman world’s cruelty and inhumanity, it was Christian civilization which asserted that each life is important and must be respected. We have to get back to that - and only by getting back to that can we really cure all our social ills because if there is no right to life, there really is no right to anything; and if killing unborn children isn’t wrong, then nothing is wrong.
The MSM has been trying the tactic of non-reporting - in other words, having failed to produce a campaign-killing gaffe from governor Palin (while hiding a half dozen from Biden which, in a normal year, would have already finished off Obama’s campaign), they are trying to just ignore her and hope she goes away. Well, she ain’t:
The bundled-up crowd of nearly 15,000 trudged in line through Friday morning’s gray light.
From retirees to babies swaddled in blankets, they traveled from all over the state. Vendors hawked buttons and T-shirts; people laughed and interacted with neighbors in line. Many wiggled out of work or school to be there, to experience history — to see Sarah Palin.
“I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life,” said Charlotte Christ, a 37-year-old cook from Buffalo. “But Sarah’s one of us. You can hear it in her voice.”
Christ and her husband, Shawn, have two children, ages 2 and 4. They are drawn to the Alaskan governor’s conservative values and persona as a Washington outsider.
“They finally found one who talks to me,” Shawn Christ said.
About 4,000 people got tickets to see the Republican vice-presidential candidate and another 11,000 or so showed up and took their chances.
“I believe in her,” said Ryan Haggard, 19, who traveled from Kansas City to be in line at 5:45 a.m. “She has true conservative values and wants for us to keep our money in our own pockets.”
Some who traveled to see Palin felt a personal connection with her family life — particularly the raising of her son Trig, who has Down syndrome.
“She stands up for children, especially those with special needs,” said 70-year-old Ben Southerland, from Kimberling City, who also has a son with Down syndrome. “And she stands up for women — not females — but real women who raise children.”
People are getting a bit angry, by the way. Angry at how the MSM jumped on Palin’s wardrobe, but has never even asked how much Obama’s suits cost. Angry at how Palin is slandered as dumb while Biden can’t even open his mouth without making an ass of himself. Angry that one of ours is being savaged by MSM elites in order to help a political elite.
I’ve got news for the elite - we glory in Sarah Palin. We have love and respect for John McCain - but governor Palin is someone we all know. There is one like her - and often more than one - in each of our lives. A no-nonsense woman who takes care of business without complaining and without any expectation that any other than God will appreciate what she’s done. For women, Palin is a fellow warrior in the struggle for family; for men, Palin is our wives and daughters, we’re awestruck at what she’s able to do. We’d rather have Sarah Palin running the show than any dimwitted professional Senator from Delaware or pinheaded pinko from Chicago.
You have bitten off far more than you can chew when you go after governor Palin the way you have - all you do is draw us more tightly around her and make us more determined than ever win.
But all the makeup in the world can’t cover over this fact: The gleeful, personal attacks being waged by Democrats and pundits against Palin on this front are just the latest in a relentless and unprincipled season-long smear campaign against the Republican candidate for vice president. They are proof positive that because she is a conservative woman, Sarah Palin simply cannot win.
For months Palin has been mocked by the liberal elite as a hick from Alaska. Because she can’t explain the Bush Doctrine to Charlie Gibson’s satisfaction or otherwise gives less than perfectly crafted answers to questions, she’s an idiot. Her opponents have spent unparalleled amounts of time and energy trying to convince voters that she is not “just like you.” She’s even dumber.
But now, because the McCain campaign has budgeted some money for new clothes, questions about her intellect are shelved for another discussion, and her image takes center stage. Never mind that Republicans aren’t supposed to bring up William Ayers, Tony Rezko, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or any other non “Issues” with a capital “I.” Now Democrats are hoping to make a serious issue out of Palin’s high heels, her glasses and her new suits.
The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the past year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one”), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
There’s just no comparison. Obama’s own running mate warned this week that Obama’s youth and inexperience will invite a crisis — indeed a crisis “generated” precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?
And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he’s been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.
The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.
Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.
Indeed – to try to find an excuse for supporting Obama, one has to reach into a very large sack of bull feces. One can decide to support Obama, but the reasons those few turncoats have used are stupid, and reveal that their larger worry is not what will happen to the United States, as a whole, but what might happen to their fellow elitists if McCain and Palin start to call people to account for what they have done with the public trust. The elite hates John McCain, because he is not one of them; never has been, never will be. The elite hates and fears Sarah Palin because not only will she never be one of them, she’ll also be a person who will wage relentless war against the elite. The last thing our governing class wants – regardless of whether they call themselves liberals or conservatives – is to have a hard-hitting, articulate “woman of the people” deciding what to investigate.
As I’ve said before, no matter what happens on November 4th, the conservative movement wins. The liberals will saddled with Obama and his pied pipers of failed socialism, while we conservatives will still have Sarah Palin, and rising up fast behind her, Bobby Jindal. It is my view that both the present and the future are ours – but even if we take a temporary hit in the here and now, tomorrow is still ours, because we have leaders of tomorrow, while the Democrats have only the worn-out retreads of the liberal yesteryear.
In John McCain and Sarah Palin we have what the Founders envisioned we should have – citizen leaders who will adhere to the stern, republican virtues and never see politics as a means of advancing one’s self, or one’s party. I pray God to protect them both and impart to them the sense of love, the desire to serve and the good sense necessary to win on November 4th, and govern well starting on January 20th.
Near the hometown of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin guaranteed a come-from-behind victory for the McCain-Palin ticket in Pennsylvania.
“This morning we were in Ohio, we were in the home of Joe the Plumber,” Palin said to a crowd of supporters packed onto the football field of Beaver Area High School near Pittsburgh, Pa., this evening. “And now, we are here in Beaver County, Pa., home of Joe the Quarterback.”
Palin was referring to former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath, who was born and raised in nearby Beaver Falls, and led the underdog Jets to an upset win in Super Bowl III over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, after Namath had guaranteed a win three days before the game.
“Now, Joe Namath is probably a little bit before your time,” Palin said to the high school students in the crowd. “But do you remember, though, in the biggest game of his life, all the experts had Joe Namath and the Jets written off to defeat? They were up against the elite team that had all the money, and they were held in awe by the media. And Broadway Joe replied, ‘we’re gonna win the game, I guarantee it.’ And they won.
“And I hope Joe won’t mind if I paraphrase him some in this state, his home state, Pennsylvania, with your help, we’re going to win this state. I guarantee it,” Palin said to wild applause.
Somebody’s internal polling must be looking pretty good - but, also, this is needed; with the MSM relentlessly driving home the “its all over so why don’t you GOP losers give up” meme, the GOP and GOP-leaning independents needs to keep up a high level of intensity. Turnout will be the name of the game on November 4th, and as long as the conservative and centrist majority of the United States hangs together we can stop Barack Obama in his tracks.
Given the amount of variables in this race at this point in time, it really could result in anything from Obama landslide all the way over to McCain landslide - I don’t trust anything coming out of the MSM, am mighty concerned about the accuracy of the polls and believe that Obama for America is a 24/7 Lie Machine. I’m just going to keep battling it out, commend my party and my country to God, and see how things come out on November 4th.
That would be Thomas Sowell, for you liberals out there:
Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend.
It is much the same story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don’t want to be confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts.
An e-mail from a reader mentioned trying to tell his sister why he was voting against Obama but, when he tried to argue some facts, she cut him short: “You don’t like him and I do!” she said. End of discussion…
…many today seem to assume that if things are bad, “change” will make them better. Specifics don’t interest them nearly as much as inspiring rhetoric and a confident style. But many 20th-century leaders with inspiring rhetoric and great self-confidence led their followers or their countries into utter disasters.
These ranged from Jim Jones who led hundreds to their deaths in Jonestown to Hitler and Mao who led millions to their deaths.
What specifics do we know about Barack Obama’s track record that might give us some clue as to what kinds of “changes” to expect if he is elected?
We know that he opposed the practice of putting violent young felons on trial as adults. We know that he was against a law forbidding physicians to kill a baby that was born alive despite an attempt to abort it.
We know that Obama opposed attempts to put stricter regulations on Fannie Mae — and that he was the second-largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae. We know that, this very year, his campaign sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines…
…The public has been told very little about what this man with the wonderful rhetoric has actually done. What we know is enough to make us wonder about what we don’t know. Or it ought to. For the true believers — which includes many in the media — it is just a question of whether you like him or not.
All very true - I’ll only add this point: at bottom, to support Obama is to take the coward’s way in politics. Other than once or twice asking parents to turn off the kids’ video games, Obama asks nothing of us other than that little detail of turning all power over to him. He’s not going to do anything to us (95% of the people won’t get a tax increase, right?), but he will punish “they” who have caused our problems. You see, it isn’t us who screwed the pooch, it is “they” who did it, and Obama’s gonna get ‘em and fix their little, red wagon! Oil companies, insurance companies, drug companies…we’ll get them for what “they” did to us! And all will be well - the malefactors punished, we can expect pure, unadulterated bliss without us having to do anything, ’cause we never were at fault, it was “they”, not us.
Of course, there is no “they” - there is only us, and it is we who have made a hash out of it, and only if we roll up our sleeves and get to work behind a President who has the courage to take the hard road will be get out of our current crisis. You can believe all you want that “hope ‘n change” will do the trick, but what is really going to do it is investigating carefully what has happened and letting the chips fall where they may, and then resolving - as a people - to not do that sort of thing again. Greedy bankers and corrupt politicians got over on us because we let them do it - because when voices were raised for reform we turned a deaf ear. John McCain and Sarah Palin are raising the voices for reform - Obama is saying “trust me, I’ll make it all better”. Which will you choose, fellow Americans?
The New York Times doing oppo research on Cindy McCain for the Obama campaign generates this response from Mrs. McCain’s attorney:
…Any further attempts to harass and injure her … will be met with an appropriate response. While she may be in the public eye, she is not public property nor the property of the press to abuse and defame.
It is worth noting that you have not employed your investigative assets looking into Michelle Obama. You have not tried to find Barack Obama’s drug dealer that he wrote about in his book, Dreams of My Father. Nor have you interviewed his poor relatives in Kenya and determined why Barack Obama has not rescued them. Thus, there is a terrific lack of balance here.
I suggest to you that none of these subjects on either side are worthy of the energy and resources of The New York Times. They are cruel hit pieces designed to injure people that only the worst rag would investigate and publish. I know you and your colleagues are always preaching about raising the level of civil discourse in our political campaigns. I think taking some your own medicine is in order here…(emphasis added)
If it was just peachy to have us treated to President Bush’s ancient DUI in 2000, why can’t we get a page 1, above-the-fold interview with Obama’s drug dealer? Is he dead? In jail? What is the story on the guy? How about some conversations with an ex-boyfriend of Mrs. Obama? And the people have a right to know just how many of Obama’s cousins live in abject poverty in Kenya. But, none of that - and, of course, none of it would be relevant, anyways…but the fact that we are getting the MSM looking into the less flattering aspects of Mrs. McCain’s life (and who among us doesn’t have some of those which we’d be mortified to find reported in the pages of the New York Times?) and not getting the dirt on the Obamas shows the MSM bias.
You can bet dollars to donuts that the MSM - in coordination with the Obama campaign - will dump as many nasty stories about the McCains and the Palins as they can in the last week of the campaign. Tabloid trash to be trotted out when its too late for McCain/Palin to make a response. And while Team Obama will say they had nothing to do with it, the facts of reporting on Campaign ‘08 clearly indicate collusion between Team Obama and various elements in the MSM…they are just too often on the exact same page at the exact same time for it to be mere coincidence (this, by the way, is another criminal investigation to have done once McCain/Palin are in office - whether or not the apparent coordination between Obama and the MSM can be proved and, if it can, who gets to go to jail over it).
I will give this advice to Obama and the MSM - for us on the right, chivalry is not dead. When we see you launching cruel attacks against honorable women, it makes our blood boil and all the more determined to emerge victorious, if only to teach you how to treat ladies with proper resp
