ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error... McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, one day, polling. He is beginning to cut into Obama's lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all...
In response to: Today's Polls
He kept his word on taking public campaign financing.
He doesn't vote "present" in tough votes on legislation.
He has never taken an earmark.
He is pro-life. Making a decision about abortion is not "above his paygrade".
He can make tough decisions that put country above himself, such as when he refused early release as a POW, knowing that this would mean more torture for him.
McCain might have made more of the fact that he rebuilt his broken body after being tortured in prison, defied the pessimistic medical prognostications, and flew combat aircraft again. Then he took command of the Navy's largest air squadron, which he revived to flight readiness. That is an act of executive prowess no one else in this presidential race can claim. Next, he became naval liaison to the Senate and helped rebuild the American military by working with senators on both sides of the aisle. As a congressman and a senator, he has continued this sort of bipartisan reform.
He doesn't cry "racism" every time someone disagrees with him.
His character allows him to associate only with pro-American political supporters.
He has a profound respect for American patriotic traditions, such as holding his hand over his heart for the National Anthem.
He attends church for reasons of faith, not ideological and political expediency.
He favors the Defense of Marriage Act.
He has a sense of humor.
HEALTH CARE
His health care plan will make health care more affordable using a market solution. He will not create a vast bureaucracy that will insert the Federal government between you and your doctor. "McCain's health care proposal will improve the world's best health care delivery system. He proposes to reform the most distorting aspect of our current system (the tax break for employers) and give the tax break to individuals instead."
THE CANDIDATE OF THE PEOPLE
His political ideology matches that of mainstream Americans.
He listens to small-town Americans, never putting them down.
MEDIA
The mainstream media hates him and Sarah Palin, which is a badge of honor.
THE ECONOMY/TAXES/GOVERNMENT SPENDING
McCain wants to spread opportunity around.
He is against further Wall Street "bailouts" using taxpayer money.
He will cut wasteful government spending.
McCain is against new taxes, especially during a recession, when taxpayers can least afford it.
He fought to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but was opposed by Democrats in the Senate.
He will cut corporate taxes so that corporations can survive the recession, then grow, pay dividends to shareholders and hire more employees.
THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY
He understands that judges need to be guided by the Constitution, not "empathy". "John McCain has said that his models for good judicial picks are John Roberts and Samuel Alito."
LEGISLATION
He opposes Card Check, which will lead to union intimidation of workers and violates the tradition of the secret ballot election. "Even George McGovern has denounced this job-killing, freedom-smothering law that Obama supports. Greater unionization will translate into lost productivity, inflationary pressure, and fewer jobs."
He opposes the "Fairness" Doctrine. Its proponents want to use it to silence conservative pundits.
He will oppose the designs of the Democrat majority in the House and Senate.
If Barack Obama is elected president and Democrats control large majorities in the House and Senate, the Obama/Pelosi/Reid triumvirate will move the country decisively in the direction of dying Europe -- low productivity, high joblessness, low birth rates, high taxes, and limp foreign policies. The triumvirate will do this at a time when a vibrant America is more necessary than ever -- with Iran seeking nuclear weapons, Pakistan teetering, al-Qaida regrouping, China and Russia telegraphing hostility, and Iraq just barely emerging into the sunshine. This election has become about far more than John McCain versus Barack Obama; it has become about whether the United States will remain the champion of freedom -- economic and political -- or whether we will join the queue of formerly great nations now struggling to pay for all the social welfare "benefits" their aging and lazy populations demand.
At best an Obama presidency would be a return to the Carter years. At worst it would place this country in a condition of peril that we have never experienced in modern times. McCain will protect the country and put it on the road to recovery. He has protected America all his adult life and deserves another tour of service.
Compiled from:
Thirty Reasons to Vote for John McCain -- John Hawkins
Top Ten Reasons to Vote for McCain/Palin -- Mona Charen
The Reasons to Vote for McCain -- Emmett Tyrrell
In Response To: Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
Recent polling suggests that Norm Colemen is starting to pull away from Al Franken in the race for Senator of Minnesota. Listen folks! Losing to Obama will be pretty bad if it happens, but losing to the "hamster" will be unbearable!
Here at the two most recent and relevant polls:
Rasmussen Coleman +4
NBC/Mason-Dixon Coleman +6
In response to: MN-Sen: Flip a coin
The solution is to take the job of voter registration for federal elections out of the hands of third parties (and out of the hands of the counties and states) and give it to the federal government. The Constitution grants Congress wide authority over congressional elections. The next president should propose legislation to have the Census Bureau, when it conducts the 2010 census, also register all eligible voters who wish to be registered for future federal elections. High-school seniors could be signed up as well so that they would be registered to vote on their 18th birthday. When people submit change-of-address cards to the post office, election officials would also change their registration information.
"The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of "hope" and "change" are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy."In response to: Open Thread
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.So, if McCain actually did not allow some college students into his event, that is bad. Isn't it worse to not allow somebody based on race and religion?
"I haven't cleared this with him and he may even be mad at me for saying this so close to the election, but I know what else he said to his economic advisers (during the crisis)," Clinton told the crowd at a Wednesday night rally with Obama in Florida. "He said, 'Tell me what the right thing to do is. What's the right thing for America? Don't tell me what's popular. You tell me what's right -- I'll figure out how to sell it."So not only is Obama totally clueless on world affairs, the Middle East, Israel, and Russia, but now we find out he's a total empty suit when it comes to economics.
The development is not lost on Mr.Chambliss. "There has always been a rush to the polls by African-Americans early," he said at the square in Covington, a quick stop on a bus tour as the campaign entered its final week. He predicted the crowds of early voters would motivate Republicans to turn out. "It has also got our side energized, they see what is happening," he said.Now here is how Mr. Brownsox spins it via the usual, brain-dead, Socialist manner:
Wait, wait...hang on. Saxby's supporters are getting energized because they see blacks going to the polls? They, er, "see what is happening", as Saxby puts it...and they're energized to go and stop it?So let me get this right. We know that ninety percent of Black Americans plan on voting for Barack Obama. We also know that the majority of Black Americans historically vote for Democrats. And finally, Black Americans have made up a huge part of the early voting in Georgia. So with all that said. Why is wrong for Republicans to be energized by witnessing a high turnout of Black Americans for early voting? They're not energized because of the color of their skin, their energized because they know how they're voting!
bamboozle: to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often fol. by into): They bamboozled us into electing Obama.
deceive: to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the public by disguising the candidate as a moderate.
dupe: To deceive; to trick; to mislead by imposing on one's credulity; to gull; as, dupe one by repeatedly referring to hope and change.
hornswaggle: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance by tripling the gift tax"; "He defrauded the middle class who trusted him"; "the Democrat gypped me when he gave me too little of a rebate check"
hoodwink: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled America into thinking that he wasn't a Socialist"creepy: 1. of or producing a sensation of uneasiness or fear, as of things crawling on one's skin: Watching the Obama Youth Brigade worship "The One" gave me a creepy feeling. 2. annoyingly unpleasant; repulsive:The creepy Obama infomercial reminded me of the Psychic network, but with worse acting.
In response to: Cheers and Jeers: Thursday
ELIZABETH VARGAS: If it doesn't go your way on Tuesday ... 2012?Now let's see how Barack Obama responded to a similar situation in 2004:
GOV SARAH PALIN: I'm just ... thinkin' that it's gonna go our way on Tuesday, November 4. I truly believe that the wisdom of ... of the people will be revealed on that day. As they enter that voting booth, they will understand the stark contrast between the two tickets. ...
VARGAS: But the point being that you haven't been so bruised by some of the double standard, the sexism on the campaign trail, to say, "I've had it. I'm going back to
Alaska."
PALIN: Absolutely not. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doin' this for naught.
Sarah Palin is invited to meet with the Pope while he is vacationing south of Rome in Venice.
The liberal press reluctantly watches the semi-private audience, hoping they will be able to get minimal coverage, if any.
The Pope asks Governor Palin to join him on a gondola ride through the canals of Venice.
They're admiring the sights and agreeing on moral issues when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.
The gondolier starts to reach for the Pontiff's cap with his pole, but this move threatens to overturn the floating craft. Sarah waves the tour guide off, saying, 'Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry.'
She steps off the gondola onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Pope's hat, bends over and picks it up. She walks back across the water to the gondola and steps aboard.
She hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence.
The next morning the topic of conversation on the Daily Kos, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, among Hollywood celebrities, and in France and Germany is:"Palin Can't
Swim."
I recently got this e-mail reminding me of something. Remember a while back when the Marxist Obama campaign drones tried to make McCain seem incompetent about his use of computers? Well they forgot one thing. Not all computers are the same.
click on image to enlarge"Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan," said Pelosi.
Senator Obama has made a lot of promises. First he said people making less than 250,000 dollars would benefit from his plan, then this weekend he announced in an ad that if you're a family making less than 200,000 dollars you'll benefit — but yesterday, right here in Pennsylvania, Senator Biden said tax relief should only go to "middle class people — people making under 150,000 dollars a year." It's interesting how their definition of rich has a way of creeping down. At this rate, it won't be long before Senator Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just 42,000 dollars a year should get a tax increase. We can't let that happen.
One of the newest high-rated sites on digg.com is... the Daily AntiKos!They are crazy to think we have no comments, we're a destination site for Conservatives all over the internet.
Mocking Kos' familiar orange and black header, and with a hard-to-read black background, the site insists that "Dems are power hungry and they smell blood" (story on the "real DNC agenda"); and Democrats incite everyone to cheat (story on "pin the tail on the Donkey). A link to support poor Joe the Plumber who has no work "due to the Dems and the media."
Silly site, but surprised to see it with so many tags on digg.
UPDATE: No comments, but scroll down for bunches of google ads on the AntiKos site
Hope. Change. Fraud. Nice.One of my favorite cyclists likes to say, "Leave everything on the road", meaning that when he crosses the finish line, he will have burned every last ounce of energy in his body. If he falls short? No regrets because he gave it his all, every last bit of it.
We can't have regrets on Election Night, thinking that some Democrats came up short because we failed to leave everything on the road. We can't have Republicans winning simply because more people voted for them. We have to make sure to vote multiple times. We have to make sure that McCain ballots are thrown in the garbage. We need to ensure that the Cowboys show up to vote. We need to get that fake Mickey Mouse driver's license. Also, we need to ensure that those 200,000 unmatched ballots never get a close look. Even if all you can do is steal a vote from a mentally handicapped person, please make sure you do.
In today's zany episode, Obama gets exposed for the Socialist he is, forcing staffers to say:
"This is a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months." In this seven year old interview, Senator Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all.
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Standard Obama spin. It's old and it is taken out of context. Let me tell you, we could fill a phone book with everything said by Obama that he claims was taken out of context. Interesting spin, since the story was discovered by an individual working to do what the National Media Outlets refuse to do, and, we don't need interpretation, we can read Obama's words himself:
OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.
But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
And then, Obama decided to spit on the constitution.
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Tune in again next week in about 17 minutes, for the next installment of Obama, interrupted.
Looks like Bill Ayers may not be the the only terrorist supporting Obama as we have a couple of bomb throwers in Portland, brake lines cut on vehicles, and the DUmmies works of "political art".
Lefties, and their friends in the Legacy Media are trying their best to spread a false meme of conservative violence...while they ignore the real property damage and potential loss of life due to lefty attacks.
We know they have nothing to offer when all they can do in response is say "Cuckoo Bananas" or engage in ad hominems or attempt to establish a moral equivalency.
In the light of Malone's article, it is very amusing today to see the Daily Kos' negative posting on Barbara West, whose live TV interview of Joe Biden was covered by Daily AntiKos on Saturday (followed by a lively commentary from our readers). Apparently DK was not pleased that an MSM reporter stepped out of line -- the line being the liberal bias that all journalists are expected to display in their work.
Malone traces the history of the emergence of this bias in the mainstream media (MSM), starting with the "New Journalism" that grew out of the 1960s. Still, journalists were expected to understand that "this work [was] to segregated from 'real' reporting, and, at least in mainstream media, usually was."
This principle went out the window in the 1980s: "Personal opinions and comments that, had they appeared in my stories in 1979, would have gotten my butt kicked by the nearest copy editor, were now standard operating procedure at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and soon after in almost every small town paper in the U.S." The defining moment was CNN International's coverage of the war in Lebanon in 2006:
For Malone, however, coverage of the current Presidential election campaign is a second sentinel event:
Malone is not a Republican shill. He is not averse to hardball coverage of Republican candidates, such as the intense scrutiny of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin. He points out correctly, "This is the big leagues, and if she wants to suit up and take the field, then Gov. Palin better be ready to play." Yet while the MSM has played hardball with McCain and Palin, it has served up big fat softballs to Obama and Biden:
In particular, the MSM has failed to perform journalistic due diligence on Obama, who is "essentially a cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography." Illumination of Obama's past is not the Democratic Presidential candidate's job, it's the MSM's. "[I]t alone (unlike the alternative media) has had the resources to cover this story properly, and has systematically refused to do so."
Malone provides a list of issues and events that have been written about incompletely, not at all, or in an attempt to rationalize and explain away the story:
The MSM's "Joe the Plumber" coverage ranks, for Malone, as the "absolute nadir" of the MSM's malpractice of election journalism:
So when one television reporter dares to throw a few hardball pitches at Senator Biden (who has been playing in the "big leagues" a lot longer than Governor Palin), let's not start whining and crying. After all, the rest of the MSM is ready, willing and able to do damage control.
In Response To: Barbara West's Audition Reel For Faux News Channel
“There is no question that this race continues to tighten and that McCain is finding his message again,” said Pollster John Zogby. “It is after all about the economy and that is how McCain tightened it up the last time. I have said over and over again, when he focuses on extraneous issues, he screws up. In today's single day of polling, it was 49% to 46% in favor of Obama. McCain has moved his own numbers each of the three days and Obama has gone down from 54% to 50% to 49%. I have alluded before to this strange, magnetic pull that brings Obama down to 48% or 49%, a danger zone for him. McCain's gains are among white voters, where he now leads by 12 points, and with men, where he again has a healthy lead. There is still a lot of campaign to go. A lot of campaign to go.”
I suspect that the main reason for the dramatic swing in the polls is something less concrete and more meta than the fact that events have discredited free-market fundamentalism. As the economic scene has darkened, I’d argue, Americans have rediscovered the virtue of seriousness. And this has worked to Mr. Obama’s advantage, because his opponent has run a deeply unserious campaign.
The invisible hand is a metaphor coined by the economist Adam Smith. Once in The Wealth of Nations and other writings, Smith demonstrated that, in a free market, an
individual pursuing his own self-interest tends to also promote the good of his community as a whole through a principle that he called “the invisible hand”. He argued that each individual maximizing revenue for himself maximizes the total revenue of society as a whole, as this is identical with the sum total of individual revenues.
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