VP Debate Moderator Releasing Pro-Obama Book

WordNetDaily had the story earlier today.

The moderator of tomorrow’s vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out on the day the next president takes the oath of office that aims to “shed new light” on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other “emerging young African American politicians” who are “forging a bold new path to political power.”

Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program “Washington Week” is promoting “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama,” in which she argues the “black political structure” of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the struggles over racial equality.

Greta Van Susteren reports that the McCain campaign was unaware about the book:

the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book (I think I told them when I made my efforts – emails about midnight – to find out!) I am stunned….the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair – in law, this would create a mistrial.

Okay, so here are my thoughts. For one thing, the McCain campaign should have done its homework on Ifill. With or without the book Ifill should have never been agreed on to be the moderator, as she’s shown incredible bias in the past

Of course, Ifill herself should have never been considered as moderator, as the book clearly presents an undeniable conflict of interest, as Ifill has a financial interest in Obama winning the election.

What this means in the end is that the deck is stacked heavily against Palin tomorrow night.

Pelosi Paid Husband with PAC funds

The Washington Times has the exclusive:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband’s real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.

Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker’s “PAC to the Future” over the PAC’s nine-year history.

The payments have quadrupled since Mr. Pelosi took over as treasurer of his wife’s committee in 2007, Federal Election Commission records show. FLS is on track to take in $48,000 in payments this year alone – eight times as much as it received annually from 2000 to 2005, when the committee was run by another treasurer.

Lawmakers’ frequent use of campaign donations to pay relatives emerged as an issue in the 2006 election campaigns, when the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal gave Democrats fodder to criticize Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and Rep. John T. Doolittle of California for putting their wives on their campaign and PAC payrolls for fundraising work.

Last year, Mrs. Pelosi supported a bill that would have banned members of Congress from putting spouses on their campaign staffs. The bill – which passed the House in a voice vote but did not get out of a Senate committee – banned not only direct payments by congressional campaign committees and PACs to spouses for services including consulting and fundraising, but also “indirect compensation,” such as payments to companies that employ spouses.

This is not the first time Pelosi has been corrupt with her political action committees. She was previously found guilty by the FEC for running two similar PACs (one of them being PAC to the Future) with the intention of raising twice as much money to give to Democrats. It was funds from those PACs with which she bought loyalty in her bid to become Minority Leader in the House after Dick Gephardt’s retirement.

Pelosi earlier election law violations were detail in Caucus Of Corruption, written by Mark and myself. Looks like Nancy is still up to her old corrupt ways. No suprise there. The question is, will House Republicans let this fade away or will they do something about it?

Stealing Wisconsin

Looks like ACORN is working overtime to steal this election for Obama.

A Milwaukee woman is charged in what appears to be the state’s first election fraud case of the season. 21-year-old Endalyn Adams is accused of submitting dozens of false voter registration applications to the city.

It was her job to sign up potential voters for the Community Voters’ Project and she could have been fired if she didn’t submit 15 registrations per day, according to prosecutors. Authorities said it amounts to a quota. The same thing happened in the 2004 presidential contest and the state responded by banning payments for each registration an outside group submits. It was supposed to remove the incentive for submitting false names.

Milwaukee prosecutors said Adams is now one of 49 people being investigated as a part of two groups the Voters’ Project, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Prosecutors allege she submitted well over 50 false names and the city was able to remove them all from its voter list.

Wisconsin is a state I believe George W. Bush won in 2004, but was stolen for John Kerry. This is why it is important for McCain not only to win key battleground states, but to win outside the margin of fraud.

Make no mistake about it.. Obammunists are desperate to get Barack Hussein Obama elected.. they’ll stop at nothing — not even fraud — to get him in.

New Documents Reveal Obama's Deep Ties To Domestic Terrorist

And yet the mainstream media is curiously silent

While Barack Obama has long downplayed his connection to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the violent Weather Underground radical group, new documents show the two worked much more closely together in starting an educational foundation than has been previously known.

Recently released board-meeting minutes for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge show the two were present together at least six times in 1995 as the foundation’s members discussed how to organize and operate the project, which was Ayers’ brainchild.

Obama has always acknowledged he and Ayers both worked at the foundation, but has insisted they never had more than a passing acquaintance.

Peter Kirsanow, over at NRO, notes the media silence:

It’s been nearly a week since Stanley Kurtz presented evidence that Sen. Obama has seriously misrepresented his relationship with William Ayers, yet there’s no indication that news organizations are pressing the candidate for an explanation.

Among other things, Stanley shows that it’s reasonable to conclude that Ayers selected Obama, then a ” young and inexperienced lawyer”, to chair the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. There, Obama and Ayers directed substantial sums of money to radical organizations (see Stanley’s article today via the web briefing).

A few years later, Obama launched his political career at a gathering at Ayers home. The Ayers-Obama relationship certainly appears to be more like a mentor—protégé relationship than it does Obama’s description of a random acquaintance of two guys who happen to live in the same neighborhood.

Is this country going to elect someone who has a relationship with a domestic terrorist? Not a chance. Once this story gets the attention it deserves, Obama will be toast.

Barack Obama Will Never Forget The Soldier Whose Name He Forgot

Kevin noted yesterday that despite the objections of the fallen soldier’s family, Barack Obama continues to wear the bracelet with the soldier’s name on it and using it as a political tool.

What I find just as horrible as Barack Obama using a fallen soldier’s life for political purposes against the family’s wishes was his apparent lack of caring enough about the soldier that he couldn’t even remember his name during the debate, and had to look at it, in order to read the name:

From Charles Hurt via the New York Post:

The results are in, and Barack Obama clearly lost the Dueling Bracelets segment of Friday night’s debate at Ole Miss.

It began when John McCain mentioned a bracelet he wears on the campaign trail that was worn by a soldier killed in Iraq.

As he often does while campaigning, McCain told how the soldier’s mother gave it to him as a reminder to make sure her son’s death “was not in vain.”

Obama wasn’t about to get left out of the patriotic symbolism.

“I’ve got a bracelet, too,” he said.

Then things seemed to go bad.

“From Sergeant . . .” he paused awkwardly as he fumbled through the layers of his suit jacket and shirt, looking for the bracelet with the soldier’s name.

“From the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek,” Obama finally said.

The Obama spin is that he was merely attemping to show the bracelet, but few are buying that one:

“McCain knew the name on his bracelet. Obama had to read the name on his,” fumed Bob Arnold from Fayetteville, Ga.

“I don’t think that this guy’s life is exactly burned into the memory of Obama,” Lyle Shive said. “Sincerity is not Obama’s strong suit.”

Char DeWalt, a wife and mother of naval aviators, said the moment was telling.

“Obama is an elitist who only wears the bracelet in a feeble attempt to make points,” she said. “Nice try, but it didn’t work.”

“Never Forget” is something said a lot. Whether it’s about the Holocaust, 9/11, or fallen soldiers, it is something most of us take seriously. Unfortunately, Barack Obama doesn’t.