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INTERESTING FACTS ----- NOTICE LINK AT BOTTOM

Some unreported stats about the 2008 election

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota ,

points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:



-Number of States won by: Democrats: 20; Republicans: 30

-Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000; Republicans: 2,427,000

-Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million; Republicans: 143 million

-Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2; Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was

mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens. Democrat territory mostly

encompassed those citizens living in rented or government-owned tenements and

living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency

and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty

percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental

dependency" phase.

Notice that only in the states of Alaska and Oklahoma : All counties were won by McCain/Palin.

The original posting with this information is below this Newsweek article at this link: http://www.newsweek.com/id/163337.

Okay, so an objective journalist threw his shoes at our President.

The parodies have no end. Many people are laughing. Many Americans think it's funny......heck, many Americans wish their own shoes were used.

This gives me a sick feeling. Even if I didn't like President Bush, which I do, I would never find this humorous. How can we have such a lack of disrespect?

Americans are so stupid. The world is so stupid. Find me a place where the mobs of ignorance don't rule, and that is where I'll hang my hat.

"Remember that popularity is as fleeting as the Texas wind.
Character and conscious are as sturdy as the oaks on this campus.
When you go home tonight, look in the mirror and be satisfied that you have done what is right--you will pass the only test that matters."

Things change so fast. One minute you’re on top of the world, hopeful, optimistic, young. Then it all comes crashing down. My dreams are shattered, my joy gone. Hope Schmope.

I use to have piles of respect for President-elect Obama. I used to think that he was a different brand of politician and could bring about substantive change. I studies his policies and read his books. I believed in him. I trusted him.

No more.

He uses a Zune.

How can I ever trust his judgment again?

Yeah, so click here.

I grew up thinking the reason we don't gamble is because we're getting something for nothing......that can't be the reason though.......I'm an American citizen!

I'm sure you guys missed me to no end. I thought I would drop in and say ha ha. I mean, hi.

Two thoughts. First:



Second: My thoughts on where we go from here.

After all the hull-a-baloo, the time has finally come. For those of you undecided about who to vote for at this point, please read closely. The decision has to come down to who has the experience, the skills and talent to be the next president. McCain does. He will be able to step into the White House on day one and make some positive things happen. Obama would be hung-over from his 5 million dollar preemptive celebration party in IL. There are just too many questionable relationships, comments and strategies that have turned Obama into this morphed Papa Smurf who is designated by his crimson communist-implied red beanie.

This is the time to really gut check the American people. Obama will destroy what our founding fathers stood for: democracy, small government and a country for the people and by the people.

In 48 hours, where will you be? Hopefully at a polling station doing your American duty.

I can say I will be possibly doing two things: just completed my vote and counting on the intelligence of the American people to oust Obama and bring in McCain, or applying for citizenship to Germany...

HAPPY VOTING!!

Maybe this is why we don't have fair and balanced media.......

All she did was ask questions. I don't feel that she was manipulating the masses or misleading the nation.

I've watched it a couple of times.........I thought she was very professional.......there was no way of knowing who she was going to vote for. Was there?

Let me know if I am blind and deaf. My beef with anchors nowadays, is that I'm able to tell who they are supporting. I don't mind questions, just hate the added opinions.

Haven't had anything of legitimate worth to say for a while.

Politics has become downright annoying.......everywhere I look, listen and feel; It is unavoidable. I'm in Obamaville FL, so it is really annoying. Got accused of being a racist the other day by a student.....apparently, I need to vote for Obama to avoid the name calling. Interesting how her only method of convincing me to vote for Obama was that we can't have another Republican in the White House.....she got annoyed with me when I asked her what Obama would do to make things better--I was willing to listen to her reasoning.

I guess that's what's bothering me the most.....ignorance. People don't know why they're Democrat around here.......they just know they don't like Bush.

I'm annoyed that the campaigns have literally spent over a billion dollars this year.......pretty sickening considering the financial mess we find ourselves in. I have a proposal for campaign finance reform--here it is:
Politicians aren't allowed to raise money. Let grassroots, responsible media, and the candidate's merits, hard work, and vision be what fuels a campaign. Not likely, right?

Obama's campaign ads are aired more frequently (8:1) than McCain's here in FL...........it feels more like 10:1 odds. Is that how we base who should be the next president? The man who has the most commercials? Commercials that, I might add, are non-substantial, barely factual (if not outright lies), and downright manipulative. Mr. Powell has said that he is switching teams because of McCain's campaign strategy.......is he listening to the same crap I'm listening to? Does anyone really think that Obama has run a clean campaign? The double standard is astounding.

I was willing to give Palin a chance, but she is just a horrible pick for VP. McCain should be ashamed of himself. Either he didn't do enough research on her, or he thought Americans were just as dumb as I think they are.......unfortunately/fortunately, the media has exposed her as a weak candidate--at best.
When most people get their news from SNL, Colbert, and Stewart, it sure doesn't help McCain's cause having a clown as his running mate.

Obama is going to be our next president........we're just going to have to get used to the idea. I don't even think the votes will be close. I think it will be landslide victory.

.........And I'm scared to death........but at the same time, if McCain/Palin is the best the Republican party can come up with--they deserve to lose.......if anything, to learn from their mistakes and be more careful and less anti-Mormon in the future. Our country needs the Republican party.....it may be our last stand against socialism.

"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."

I think this is pretty telling. If I ever hear anyone else say again that there is not a bias towards the right in the media, I will play them this video. It was absolutely brutal. I admire McCain for confronting Letterman and holding tough. Though it was very apparent that Letterman had set up McCain.

Compare this video to Biden on Leno. It is absolutely a night and day difference. It is so obvious it isn't even funny.



Thoughts?

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
Wait a second, I thought Obama just had the support of Ayers, Wright, and ACORN? It looks as if he is being proposed as the new Messiah from Farrakhan. This has to scare you. It really does me.

A known Islam radical extremist is promoting Obama. Now, this is not specifically an accusation that Obama has ties or relations with Farrakhan, but if I had a guy like this supporting me, he would be one of the first supporters denounced by my campaign. Help me out with this one guys...

WASH TIMES Friday: Obama secretly tried to sway Iraqi government to ignore Bush deal on keeping troops in Iraq... Developing...

The Drudge Report

Click the picture to read an interesting article.....not sure how this effects anything, but Obama has proclaimed that his executive experience comes from running a campaign......this reporter isn't terribly fond of Obama's "executive experience"--citing examples of chaos, improvisation, and mistreatment.

This one is long. But since know so little about Sen. McCain it gives a good insight into his judgment and role as a leader.

Who is the real John McCain. Will the real Maverick please stand up?

Maybe he is the Messiah.........this is a religious movement if I ever saw one. I'm weirded out. Parents should should feel nuts for having their kids do this. I understand Obama had nothing to do with this.

Thrilla from Wasilla takes on Jabber Jaw Joe.

How's it going to go down?

The bar is set so low for Palin that showing up conscious is going to pull things in her favor. While there is an incredible potential for her to make Quayle look like JFK I personally anticipate she will do fine. She won't make a lick of sense but it won't matter. Biden will bore us all to tears. Palin will win.

But, I sure hope I'm wrong. I would love for more Palinisms. When it comes to substance, she makes GW look eloquent.

Commentary: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

Not too many youtube moments. What did you all think?

Katie Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundry that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don't know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state.

It was bad enough when conservative pundits were pulling this baloney. To hear it from her mouth is more than awesome. I just don't have enough sarcasm to top that.

But I can try.

I had leftover sesame chicken for dinner. I am now an expert on Chinese foreign policy.

I don't want to say 'I told you so'... Aw, who am I kidding, yes I do!

Two weeks ago conservatives were all a twitter when polls showed that McCain had managed to pull a minor lead out of a hat. This blog was home to comments such as:

I have noticed, as have the polls, that McCain has all but wiped out any bounce that Obama woul've received. too bad he shot himself in the foot with that Biden guy...

The Dems are worried man. Joe Biden didn't affect the polls at all, which has them worried as well.

I don't care too much, but I can't resist getting a chuckle at Hollywood's expense. I think they might actually be hurting Obama's campaign.

I'm sure the Hollywood liberal conspiracy must be relieved. All thanks to political wizard Jason Bourne. I hear he hunted those polls down and choked them to death with his bare hands. With his eyes were closed.

As I said before:

You might be excited for now, but just wait. There's still plenty of time for McGrumpy to bore us all to tears before the election. And just wait until Minnie Mouse is asked actual questions instead of just repeating the tired, and patently false, "and I said thanks, but NO THANKS to your bridge to nowhere."

Give it a week, maybe two.

Then we'll talk.

Anyone want to talk about polls now? McCain is asleep at the wheel (dang ambien) and Palin can't answer four questions without that moose-in-the-headlights look on her face.

Let me be the first to admit: we're not there yet, but things are starting to get a little more comfortable. With any luck John McCain will have a few more Hail Mary's up his sleeve that will utterly decimate any hope he has of a meaningful political future. For his next trick we can expect him to suspend his campaign and threaten to skip any debates until Barack Obama joins him on a personal mission to find a cure for skin cancer.

Any legacy the man had of honesty and mavericky-ness have been erased by his stunning tailspin. It ain't over, but I feel better about it.

Que the Celine Dione music.

John McCain isn't content to flail hopelessly. He now has to make a complete embarrassment of himself by knighting himself Savior of the Economy. He has decided to suspend his already dead campaign so he can run to Washington and save everyone from evil capitalists. Populists rejoice.

Here are 9 good reasons John McCain should sulk back to his dark little corner and let people who know what they are doing fix things.

1. He isn't the Stephen Hawking of economics.
2. He isn't president.
3. Someday, he will have to debate issues with Barack Obama.
4. If he actually shows up in the Senate they'll have to scrape the dust off the seat he's left vacant since January. He already missed votes on the GI bill, energy policy, and basically everything that has gone through the Senate including, I'm sure, insignificant bills that would have saved your children from terrorists. But those weren't important.
5. He knows less about economics than Sarah Palin knows about foreign policy. The McCain campaign will soon announce that McCain's wife sometimes let him look at her credit cards and he is, therefore, an expert on the economy.
6. It's only been a month since the last time he promised to end his vacation from his elected duties and return, triumphantly, to DC to save the economy.
7. They don't want your 'help'.
8. The last time he was involved in 'fixing' banks the dang economy almost collapsed. I think it would be in our best interest if he started fretting about liberal media conspiracy again.
9. Having a press conference (first one in eons) to have your picture taken in Washington pretending you are actually doing something is not suspending your campaign. That's called a publicity stunt. He'd have more luck posing with Paris Hilton.
   

I would have done 10 but I have decided to suspend my blogging and return to Utah and save the beleaguered and collapsing education system. 'Cause, you know, I'm an expert on all things educatiomanal.

I wait, in rabid anticipation, for John McCain to sweep in and save us all from sure economic destruction. I'm so glad he's there for us. It's like he's superman for our wallets. And everybody loves superman.

Not slip-ups. Not half-truths. Not misunderstandings. Not quotes taken out of context. These are bold-faced, outright lies.

Iraq is like Arizona. Only without all the crazy old golfers:

"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today."

A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Genocide!
Even Mittens called him a liar after he said:

"If we surrender and wave a white flag, like Senator Clinton wants to do, and withdraw, as Governor Romney wanted to do, then there will be chaos, genocide, and the cost of American blood and treasure would be dramatically higher."

Barack Obama wants to burn money to keep poor people warm
On nuclear power:

it's 'clean and it's safe and we can recycle -- excuse me -- reprocess and we can store. My opponent is against nuclear power...'

Uh, no. Maybe his campaign needs to visit Obama's website to see what their position really is instead of making up one for themselves.

Raise taxes
McCain has repeatedly claimed that Barack Terrorist Obama will bring about:

'the largest tax increase since the Second World War.'

Right. Liar. According to that liberal smear machine Factcheck.org McCain's tax plan would decrease taxes for zillionaires all over America. Both plans would decrease taxes for middle-class American's. Barack's would give my tax bracket almost $300 dollars more than McCain's.


Sarah Palin was the inspiration Democracy in the Soviet Union.
There isn't enough time to go into the lies they churned out for her. One of my favorites:

"You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay -- and made a profit!"

Nope. Someone else thought of putting it there. It didn't sell. So, they sold it privately. At a loss.

Another whopper: Sarah Palin is qualified to be president because she stopped needless projects that sucked up tax dollars. What a maverick.

Truth: She campaigned for the $300 million dollar bridge. Then cancelled it when the fed wouldn't allow it. But she still took the money.

I could go on about her all day. But I won't. Bill Clinton wouldn't like it.


John McCain is the new Aerosmith
McCain campaign claims the Secret Service counted 23,000 raging fans waving lighters and singing 'More than Words' at a Palin-Some Old Dude rally.

'We didn't provide any numbers to the campaign,' said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service.

Real crowd? ~8,000

Pigs ears will fuel future wars for generations to come.
Again from factcheck:

"McCain's talk about eliminating $100 billion a year in earmarks is largely fantasy. His advisers are now promoting a more realistic plan of eliminating $100 billion in overall spending. But it is difficult to take even that promise very seriously given the fact that the senator refuses to identify exactly which projects he will be cut. To use a phrase coined by George H.W. Bush, this is 'voodoo economics,' based more on wishful thinking than on hard data or carefully considered policy proposals."

Barack Obama wants to give pornography to your sweet, innocent, little children.

"Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach 'comprehensive sex education' to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Barack Obama. Wrong on education. Wrong for your family."

Liars everywhere will look to this ad for generations to come, it will be the standard by which all future lies are judged. McCain's pants are still burning from this one. Not only did they lie about a well-intention and meaningful bill (it's akin to like me claiming McCain wants to destroy freedom and kills babies in his spare time because he supports the war) but also Obama's role in it.

Carol Ronen, the now-retired state senator who sponsored the bill, said its main intent was to make sure that teenagers got information that was "medically accurate," a requirement that wasn't then part of the school code. A secondary effect was to expand age-appropriate sex education down to lower grades, to allow things like teaching school children to avoid sex predators, Ronen said.

"Barack never had anything to do with it," she said.

McCain is an honest, folksy, old-timey politician.
Uh, what happened to the Straight Talk Express?

There's no more need for honesty in his campaign. Just a concerted effort to keep up appearances. It doesn't matter what's true, it's just about what people think is true. Campaign manager Rick Davis:

"This election is not about issues, this election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

I'd keep going but I've run out of energy. And when you've told too many lies for me to whine about, you know you have gone too far. I'll close with the words of someone else on this here blog. A year or so ago James summed up what we are all thinking about McCain at this stage in the game: that he's lost it. He's crashing and burning. He's abandoned his good image and resorted to lies to get anyone to listen.

"...the more I listen to McCain and Rudy though, the more I'm convinced they can't beat Clinton or Obama"

Let's hope you were right, James. Let's restore some honor to the office. Don't elect McCain.

Just to break up the monotony a bit, does any other college football fan think the Pac-10 should finally admit, (or be made to admit) that they just aren't all they are cracked up to be? After all, last week every WAC or Mtn. West team beat whatever Pac-10 team they were playing: Boise State, BYU, and Utah. Boise State even knocked off #17 Oregon in Eugene. Pretty awesome considering the stats stacked against any of those teams in any other conference but their own. I know this has nothing to do with politics, but just wanted to see if anyone else had interest in it. Thanks for indulging me...

Nuff Said

Well, I assume most (if not all) of us have seen the youtube video of Obama's defense strategy.....uh, err......or lack thereof.

The American Thinker has a great article from Ed Lasky that is worth a read.

Click here to read it.

Obama Backtracking on Wide Range of Policy
--Ed Morrisey
(article provides direct quotes from Obama)

"...........Less than 48 hours after telling CNBC that his health-insurance plan was fully funded and would not get affected by a massive government bailout of the credit markets, Obama has reversed himself and put his expensive federal programs on hold.

"...........Now Obama wants us to forget the massive spending that he proposed because the Treasury bailout will pre-empt it. Okay, fair enough. But even before the credit market meltdown, we faced (and still face) an entitlement program meltdown of even larger dimensions. Neither candidate has adequately addressed that, but at least John McCain acknowledges its existence and its size. Obama has campaigned on adding to that burden without the least thought of reform, at least until he belatedly realized that the money simply doesn’t exist now, and it never really did.

"............The most amazing part of this is that he reached this conclusion not at the start of the current meltdown, but more than a week later. The general parameters of the bailout were widely known on Friday afternoon. Sunday morning, Obama tells John Harwood that it won’t affect his big-spending policies, since they’re “paid for”, in his words. By Tuesday morning, Obama’s hitting reverse. What happened to all that funding? Obama realized that the meltdown will rock the economy, and all of those soak-the-rich tax increases will produce little or no revenue — and imposing them will worsen an economy threatening to go into shock.

"Obama appears to be seriously adrift. Circumstances have forced him out of the entire range of his domestic policies, including a middle-class tax cut, while the two Democrats seem more at war with each other than with Republicans. What argument does he have left for the Presidency — his deep executive and foreign-policy experience?"

Mitt Romney was labeled a flip-flopper over abortion. That was, in fact, the only legitimate thing that he changed his political stance on.

Why isn't Obama held to the same standard, especially when his flip-flops are only months/weeks apart? Mitt's abortion stance happened years before running for POTUS. Josh, that was your major beef with Mitt.......his flip-flops (which again, abortion was the only thing with any credibility). Well, I must say, you're championing a real winner.

The AP 7/5/2008 (Italics are my own words):

"On Iraq, Obama said that his trip there might lead him to refine his promise to quickly remove U.S. troops from the war." He was the guy to say "I will bring this war to a close. ... I am not searching for maneuvering room with respect to that position,"......didn't he?

"Obama recently supports broader authority for the government's eavesdropping program and legal immunity for telecommunications companies that participated in it." He voted against this a year ago.

"After the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's gun ban, the handgun-control proponent said he favors both an individual's right to own a gun as well as government's right to regulate ownership."

"Obama became the first major-party candidate to reject public financing for the general election after earlier promises to accept it."

"He not only embraced but promised to expand Bush's program to give more anti-poverty grants to religious groups."

"He objected to the Supreme Court's decision outlawing the death penalty for child rapists, even though he has been anti-capital punishment."

"Obama also said 'mental distress' should not count as a health exception that would permit a late-term abortion, saying 'it has to be a serious physical issue,' addressing a matter considered crucial to abortion rights activists."
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Okay.......The flip-flops that are bothering me the most lately concern energy. I was against off-shore drilling before I was for it. I was against nuclear power before I was for it........I think I'm against it again. I was always against coal burning.....except when I'm in Kentucky, Montana, or any swing state that might make me reconsider.

Fortunately for Obama, he can weasel his way out of most messes......he can make a pile of crap sound appetizing. It is my belief that Romney was too honest and straight-forward for his own good.

Josh, I know you are going to try to pull an Obama and make him seem flawless through a bunch of fluff and by redirecting blame........but you held Mitt to such a high standard, why is it so different now?

This video is interesting, because when Obama visits Kentucky or Montana, he's singing a different tune..........

Check out this article:
"Obama, in Montana, Supports Clean Coal"

Hey! I hate coal burning.....it's non-renewable. But does anyone else tire of Obama's flip-flops on energy? I mean I still don't know what he believes TODAY about off-shore drilling, nuclear power, and clean coal. What the heck? Is anybody calling him out on this crap?

Ha! Beat down by the ladies on the View. If you get a chance it's worth watching the whole thing, there are several other parts on youtube.

My favorites:

On the latest lies the campaign calls ads: "Senator Obama chooses his words carefully. He shouldn't have said it." I on the other hand, have all my words chosen for me or I say something stupid in a fit of rage. But it's ok. I'm a POW.

On Sarah Palin as a reformer: Barabara Walter: "You've been in Washington for twenty years. Who's she coming to change, You?" McSame: "She'll change Republicans, she'll change Democrats even an independant. She'll CHANGE ALL OF WASHINGTON! She's Mary Poppins and Harry Potter all mixed together but without all the horrifying anti-christian cult stuff. Don't ask how, you can't explain magic. She'll just wave her wand and *poof* we'll all be princesses and princes. Washington will be renamed the Land of Love, Temperance, Congeneality, Cooperation, Prosperity and Mooseburgers and we will all move to Alaska where we'll frolic through the happy fields of oil. The Caribou will be our friend and the Wolf will be our shoe-warmer. All thanks to Sarah Palin. Yay.

On earmarks: "She's a reformer. She cut a half a billion dollars in earmarks... She never took them as governor." Except for that 300 million or so this YTD. But it's OK. If I smile hard enough nobody will notice that I'm lying through my teeth.

And Whoopi being worried that John McCain wants to make her a slave again. Yea, makes you look at those supreme court candidates and their 'strict constitutional interpretation' a little differently. Kinda-sorta sounds like a bigot.

You have to watch the conductor and how the band responds to his every gesture to understand this post.

One of the only things I can compare this too is marching band. (Just bear with me for a second.) I am as tired all both of you with the lack of better candidates. Josh, you could even admit that there were far more qualified candidates on the Democratic side of things than Obama for President. I agree that even though McCain isn't the most ideal candidate, his goods definately outweigh Obama's goods and bads. In comparison to a well directed marching band it takes skill, precision, and pin point accuracy to know how to direct a group of highly talented and qualified musicians. Having directed a prestigious band for two years in college, I know what that entails. No one in their right mind would pretend to have that kind of skill set, be awarded that position and know the first place to begin if they didn't have the training. Obama has none of that. At least McCain has learned how to read music, play an instrument and marched in a few bands. Obama has just picked up his recorder to squeek out Puff the Magic Dragon. Experience must be in play here. (No pun intended.) I hope this makes sense, becuase it did to me at least.

Here's what John McCain had to say about why he is ready to be president as compared to some other... less ready... people.

The fact is, I'm running on my record as a reliable conservative of 24 years. And the indicators of that, obviously, is that I've fought wasteful spending, I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I've been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism.

I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training.

I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't a governor for a short period of time.

He was referring to not-so-ready Mitt and inexperienced Captain 9/11, for reference. Why does McCain think Sarah Palin was a much more prepared and qualified candidate than anyone else in his party?

Q: Can you honestly say you feel confident having someone who hasn’t traveled outside the United States until last year, dealing with an insurgent Russia...

MCCAIN: Sure...Alaska is right next to Russia. She understands that.

That's the best they can come up with?

Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Gibson, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Almost being able to see Russia from an uninhabited island in Alaska's territory does NOT a foreign policy expert make. That's like saying you are an expert on technology because you live near the Silicon Valley.

Who forgot to teach her that the answer to any question about war is, at least, "war should be avoided at all costs," or, "all avenues of diplomacy should be explored." Instead she jumps right into the war mentality and say: 'Perhaps so.' What is obvious from her shockingly poorly-handled 'war with Russia' question is she lacks the experience and judgment for the job she's running for. What American thinks reigniting the potential for nuclear war should be a "perhaps so" kind of thing.

I'm done with Sarah Palin. She is the unfortunate pawn in an ugly campaign. She is in a position where she has to lie continually to maintain her talking points. Judging by the way she is coming across on these celebrity-style interviews I don't think the future is boding well.

If her running-mate doesn't think she's qualified, I don't know why I should give her the time of day.

Done with Palin. Can we get back to the issues now?

What Is the Bush Doctrine, Anyway?
--click to read article from the Washington Post.

Awkward!
1st. What experience does she have in the field of National Security? ENERGY! (wha?)
2nd. She's the most knowledgeable person on energy in THE WHOLE UNITED STATES! (Bill Nye is crying somewhere, right now.)



My two cents: I'm no expert, but knowing what the Bush Doctrine is, that basic understanding of our foreign policy approach that was the justification of two invasions and thousands of detainment... that's not just required reading. Where has she been for the past 8 years? Moose hunting? She doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is! I can forgive most people for not knowing, we're all kinda stupid. But she's got no excuse for this one. She was clueless!

McCain, send her back to to the classroom. She's got more learnin' to do. Next, earmarks. After that we should address the proper way to answer questions like "war with russia?" Perhaps so, is the wrong answer war-monger. The minute this lady opens her mouth she dooms this campaign. Straight talk express has taken a severe detour folks. From here on out, it's straight bull.

"In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3 points for both samples."

--Susan Page, USA Today

The McCain campaign is stooping to lows that the Obama campaign had the decency to rise above.



Instead of doing the right thing, McCain and Palin have trotted this private matter around the yard like their favorite show-dog. It's a simple attempt of faux-outrage. They have no answers to the legitimate questions that have been raised about Palin's lack of experience, her alliance to a party that is set on succession from the union, her abuse of power, her desire to ban library books, and MUCH MORE.

Instead, they make Palin's 17 year-old daughter a straw-man. They trot her boyfriend out on the tarmac where John McCain proceeds to give him a full-contact massage in front of the national media to make Evangelicals hearts go all a flutter. They concoct nonexistent liberal stories about DNA tests and media scrutiny in order to fool Americans into thinking the Obama campaign is unfairly targeting an innocent girl. It's the same as the person who runs into the street, dives in front of an oncoming car, and calls it attempted homicide.

Make no mistake. The Obama campaign has too much class to descend to this level of political desperation. It is, however, telling that the McCain campaign has no problem taking a private matter and using a 17 year-old as a human Pinata. It's no surprise. Before this came out their only approach to legitimate questions was, "You can't ask that. She's a woman. You're sexist."



Not even Tucker Bounds has answers. He's only the head of the McCain campaign. He loved it when voters new little about Obama. Now, he can't even defend their own VP candidate. The irony is so rich I can almost taste it.

What on earth were they thinking? How can they sleep when they think that spending 15 minutes on a plane in Ireland or "Alaska borders Russia" is a legitimate answer to people questioning her foreign policy experience.

Alaska borders Russia? Are they claiming that Sarah Palin is the reason we haven't been living a real-life version Red Dawn is because Sarah Palin protected us from the communists?

I would laugh but it can't bring myself to do it. You just can't laugh at a car wreck, when innocent people are going to get hurt. So I weep for you, Republicans. It's no longer a nomination. It's a travesty.

Barack/Biden vs. McCain/Palin.

I relinquish my obligation to vote in November. God help us. Thomas S. Monson is going to be my American leader for the next 4 years.

Mitt Romney--2012!

Completely plausible conspiracy #1.

There is a masochistic dental conspiracy.

It's true! Dentists are indoctrinated from their earliest days of dental school on the proper mauling and torturing of poor folks who just want to get their cavities filled. How do I know this? Well, duh, all dentists hurt people, like, every day! That means there is a grand conspiracy created by these genuinely evil executioners parading around in smocks and goofy face masks. They want hurt you and then overcharge you by thousands of dollars. First they drill holes in your face and fill your teeth with toxic cement and then they send you an overinflated bill. Physical and emotional pain! They want you to scream out in pain until that funny little vein on your head is doing an awkward tango like Marie Osmand on Dancin' with the Washed-up, Has-Been, Daytime-TV Stars.

I can't remember exactly where I saw it but there was this poll where dentists were asked things like: Do you enjoy punching innocent children in the face?; and, Have you ever tossed bags of cute little kittens off of the Golden Gate Bridge? Not surprisingly, 92% of all so-called "dental professionals" were self admitted kitty-killers and child-face-punchers. That's what the poll said, and polls are always right.

You might not believe me, but that doesn't make it not true. I know it's true.



Completely plausible conspiracy #2.

Nursing homes are just a front for meanies to kill nice old folks.

It's true! I saw this Gallup poll that showed that 137% of people who live in a nursing home will die within 5 years. OHMYGOSH! Nursing homes must be just like Buchenwald but all over the whole stinking country! The picture above shows a sweet elderly woman at what she thinks is just a friendly Tuesday Night Ice Cream Social, but really they are feeding her frozen arsenic. Nursing home administrators are even worse than dentists. At least dentists pretend to give you laughing gas. Nursing home administrators just poison your prune juice. While dentists are deviant and cruel, nursing home administrators are really a modern-day embodiment of the demon Charon but they go the extra mile and kick you in the kneecap before ferrying you to Hades. Never go to a nursing home. You'll die!

Now excuse me, I have an election to rig. We can't let J. Sidney McCain deny the Benevolent Socialist Revolution from what is rightly ours to steal, now can we?

I don't know about you guys, but being a nursing home administrator I can say for a fact that such events in the nursing home are really awesome. That being said, my intention for saying this isn't to specifically compare McCains's personality to a rockin' nursing home reunion, it is just to set the record straight about nursing home events. Heaven forbid people get the wrong idea about what goes on in a nursing home. The liberal media can count that one as a fabricated success.

Now on to the stuff that matters. Obama's latest trip to over seas was greatly considered as a flop. A pathetic 39% of Democrats saw the trip as positive. (USA Gallup Poll 7/29/08) It really seems that McCain benefitted from the trip better than B. Hussein Obama. McCain has now surpassed Obama in national polls. McCain is leading in the latest Gallup poll by 4 points. This has happened since the trip of Obama.

If I have to endure continued elaboration of a shallow, self-centered socialist I swear I will check myself into a nursing home. When the Democrats love child's response to high gas prices is, "I would've like to see a more gradual increase in prices..." you know we are in trouble. Please make it stop!!

I just hope and pray the American People can see through this guy sooner rather than later. My feelings suggest they will...

Sorry I haven't been responding. I've been too busy attending the latest round of seminars at work about 'How To Overthrow America And Get A Socialist-Liberal-Muslim-Child-Eater Elected Using Hypnotism And Magic'. It just part of working at a newspaper, you have to keep current or the liberal conspiracy will just keep moving without you; leaving you behind in the dust.

Did you know that America didn't really land on the moon? It's true! That was just Hollywood. Also, aliens are recording you right now and killing hapless cows every night. LBJ ordered JFK's assassination, Bush planned 9/11, Masons run the world, Paul McCartney is dead, Elvis is alive, the Holocaust never happened and I, of course, am a just a figment of your imagination.

There's a reason they're called conspiracies. It's because they are stupid ideas that defy reason and appeal to people who are too convoluted to accept reality or too stubborn to admit that they are wrong.

I'm going to post two videos and I want you to ask yourself: If I were a news organization, what would I want to show my viewers? First McCain:



He's meeting with 5 people in a grocery store and it only gets interesting when someone spills the applesauce. As Jon Stewart said, "Campaign clean-up in aisle 5!"

Here's what Barack Obama was doing (I know you won't watch the whole video but give it a few seconds to get what's going on):



No applesauce. Only 200,000 Germans waving, get this, AMERICAN FLAGS! When is the last time anyone in Germany waved an American flag? Dang, he even gets the Europeans to be patriotic!

So what would you choose? Spilled applesauce or 200,000 Europeans who are starting to remember how dang great this country is. It's a simple question of what people in this country are wanting to see on television. Obama is interesting; McCain is moldy cheese.

Two people are standing on the street waiting for a bus during a drenching storm. One person looks up and knows that the whole universe is conspiring against him: God, nature and all of humanity are out to him utterly and completely miserable.

The other guy looks up and sees a rainstorm and kicks himself for not bringing an umbrella.

So, it's raining on you. Who do you blame?

If you do not get a clear image, click on the pic for a better view.

The irony of this picture is that the "Election 2008 Full Coverage" is placed directly under an article discussing conservative paranoia the media doesn't give them fair and balanced news. The amount of press Obama gets compared to McCain is obvious........is it because Obama has more news? I don't know........but here we have the option of reading about Obama's well-behaved children or McCain's gaffes or his "dangerous dance" with George Bush.

The bias is so painfully obvious......I can barely watch the news. If it's not some professor preaching liberalism in the classroom, it's Hollywood or our fantastic news.

Josh, I know you might find this laughable because you know what goes on in making a newspaper..........try picturing yourself as a Republican for a second.........if you still think media is fair, I can accept that.

Just curious, do you work with any Conservatives, Josh? My guess is not a lot........there are certain jobs, for some weird reason, that attract mostly Liberals.................I just wish they weren't the ones always in the spotlight.

Dear James:

I wanted to send you a quick email about the latest outrageous action by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership in Congress.

When Americans are canceling vacations because gasoline is over $4.00 per gallon, Democrats plan to adjourn work for a month-long vacation the first of August WITHOUT holding a vote to drill for American oil.

This is inexcusable.

I know you’ll agree with me that there should be no recess without voting on legislation that can help lower gas prices.

No wonder the new Gallup Poll this week that shows Congress’s approval rating has slipped to an all-time low of 14%. It’s not hard to figure out why.


The Democrat Majority in Congress is putting their extremist ideology ahead of common-sense solutions to bring down the price of gas and reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources in unstable regimes.

If you are as outraged as I am, I need you to do 2 things:

Send a strong message to Pelosi and the Democrat majority to vote now. Sign our online petition demanding Congress take immediate action to lower gas prices before taking their vacation. You can sign the petition by clicking on the following link --
http://www.nrcc.org/actioncenter/default.asp?ID=288

Help us spread the word by forwarding this email to your email list!

I hope you join our efforts to force the Democrat leadership to vote and lower gas prices today!

Sincerely,

Tom Cole, MC
Chairman


P.S. Nancy Pelosi plans to begin her month long vacation in two short weeks so please make sure to sign the petition today by clicking on the following link-- http://www.nrcc.org/actioncenter/default.asp?ID=288!

In case you are wondering........I'm pissed at the NYT. I wish I could accurately describe how pissed I am..........just rest assured, I'm pissed.

I am not a McCain enthusiast, but NYT put a little fire under my butt..........I plan on posting a lot more crap in the future--maybe so I can go to bed knowing I did my part, however little, to help offset the media's love affair with Obama. This is ridiculous and I'm pissed.

Click the following links for the scoop:
CNN
Fox

To read Sen. McCain's submitted editorial, click here.

NYT didn't, however, have any reservations with Obama's editorial.......

I’m so sick of biased media…..how a man can become a presidential candidate whose only accomplishments are writing two books, about himself I might add, is beyond me.

How a man can develop foreign policy, before ever visiting Iraq/Afghanistan, is a complete crock o' the worst crap.

How a man can say he was against the war from the beginning is fine, even dandy I daresay......but seein' how he wasn't even a congressman at the time, it sure makes his position one of political convenience.

What is he going to do about illegal immigration?..........Nothing.
He preaches self-reliance, but his words are hollow and rendered meaningless with his promises of entitlements.
What is he going to do about gas prices? I don't know, but good luck getting him to support drilling in Alaska or even off-shore.
He wants us to hold him accountable if he doesn't fix health insurance/healthcare. Just words apparently, because he doesn't have a plan.........just speeches, I guess.

I am so sick of "itching ear" Obama.........he is a media fabrication. Famous for being famous. Thank you, Oprah.

I'm not alone in my disapproval, apparently.

Here's what I propose: both candidates, one ring and a preference for sleeper holds. First one to say 'uncle' loses.

It would be less painful than having to watch John McCain and Barack Obama bash each other's heads across the airwaves for the next few months. I loathe political TV ads. McCain's newest batch make me want to wretch.

November can't come soon enough.

I've also got a long post of a similar vein at my other blog if you are so inclined.

The time has finally come. I know it may shock some of you, it has certainly taken me by surprise, but I've finally decided who I am going to vote for this election year. I'd tell you who it is but that would ruin all of the dramatic tension that I wanted to build up in the first few paragraphs of this post. So you're just going to have to wait three or four more paragraphs till I get around to it.

It's very simple when you get down to what's really important. There's only one person who's man enough to take our country where it needs to go. Only one man has the ability to inspire us with his rogue spirit, his daring approach in taking every challenge head on, and if that doesn't work then he's brave enough to reverse direction and pretend that it never happened even if it is on them youtubes. I want a leader who could rip the head off of a megalodon with his bare hands and roast it on a spit if need be and, gosh darnit, there's but one candidate gritty enough for that kind of job.

So I'd like to announce that this blog will become the official grassroots blog for the entire north-eastern half of my block for our next president, John McCain and his running mate, John McCain. (he's so awesome he doesn't need a vice president- and it gives our campaign a chance to cover both sides of every issue)

This Obama guy, we're everything that he's not. Sure he's dynamic. Sure he's a good 2,000 years younger than McCain. Sure, he's good-looking and doesn't need to use bifocals to read stop signs. Who cares if people are flocking to him like hippies to a Grateful Dead Concert. It doesn't matter if he hasn't been around the beltway longer than the Potomac like good ol' Johnny-boy McCain has been but... Oh, wait. Never mind.

Let's just say we know we'll win if we can frame the debate in terms of how bad Obama is. Obama is all about change, so let's do him one better. McCain can be the alternative to change, the anti-change candidate! McCain's the man you rally behind if you really, really want things to stay on the exact same course that we've been on for the past eight years because, as you know, things are just sweet as is. Old white guys have done wonders for America since it's inception so why change now?

Change is dangerous people, don't believe it. Change is scary, change will hurt you, punch you in the face and take your wallet and then come back to kick you in the shins until you cry for mercy kind of scary. That's not change you can believe in. Believe in sameness. That's McCain; as dependable as skim-milk. Unless you're lactose intolerant. In that case, he's like soy-milk.

In closing, let's all do our part. Go visit a nursing home near you, deface some Obama campaign signs. Use racial slurs, degrade Obama's third cousin-twice removed and remake McCain's to match this years hottest trends in window blinds. And, if none of that works, we'll just do whatever the heck Obama is doing.

Now that's change that I can believe in. Or anti-change. Whatever.

To commiserate, or commemorate this momentous occasion I would like to share with you some of my own home-spun campaign material. Feel free to spread it around. This is my neighbor Elsa, she's voting for McCain because, as she said, "young people play their music too loud and my kids never visit me." I feel your pain Elsa, I really do. Vote McCain!




Oh yea! He's also promised to veto every beer and I don't drink beer. Mormons for McCain!