How stupid are Democrats? This stupid.
"As a Republican and strong McCain supporter in 2000, ..."
Just one problem as noted at the end of the story.
"Tarsa is chairman of the Lebanon County Democratic Committee. "
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
What did McCain really say about the economy?
Here's what he said.
"People are frightened by these events,'' he told a friendly crowd of 3,000 supporters on the opening day of a two-day Florida tour. "The fundamentals of our economy are still strong but these are very, very difficult times. I promise you we will never put America in this position again.''
Markets crash while Obama holds $28,000 a plate dinner
Talk about out of touch!
Update from The Corner.
Update from The Corner.
""When a hurricane threatened New Orleans, John McCain and the Republicans cancelled a day of their convention, and directed their supporters to help pay for relief to the threatened city. When a financial hurrican threatens Wall Street and Main Street, what does Obama do? Direct his celebrity supports to help pay . . . HIM."
McCain and "A Prisoner’s Mind "
A fellow POW speaks about John McCain.
Contrast that with Obama's friends Ayers and Rezko.
"The years in a brutal prison were equivalent to earning a Ph.D. in psychology. We saw that peace without freedom is empty. We gained a deep appreciation for justice and courage. We learned that survival depends on teamwork. We were colorblind — whites, blacks, Asians, we were all the same. We learned the value of always doing what is right regardless of consequence, as John did by refusing early release though he knew he would be tortured for it. A president who has been tested in this way can be counted on to make wise decisions."
Contrast that with Obama's friends Ayers and Rezko.
New York is on its way to becoming a battleground
Obama falling fast.
"The poll by Siena Research Institute, conducted between September 8 and 10, found that Mr. Obama holds a 46% to 41% lead among likely voters, barely outside the survey's 3.9% margin of error. This represents a decline for Mr. Obama, who led by 8% in the same poll in August, 13% in July, and 18% in June."
Obama says he puts out more negative ads
that are completely unrelated to the issues
"If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily," Obama said.
Latest Palin scandal
You're not going to believe this one! OMG This could end her career. Sit down for this one. The governor of Alaska, where the sun doesn't shine like it does in the lower 48, installed a tanning bed!
I know, I know, I was as schocked as you.
Good grief. Obama has ties to terrorist Ayers, convicted felon Rezko while Biden and Obama are tied to the biggest financial collapse in US history and this is the best the left can come up with? No wonder they're losing.
I know, I know, I was as schocked as you.
Good grief. Obama has ties to terrorist Ayers, convicted felon Rezko while Biden and Obama are tied to the biggest financial collapse in US history and this is the best the left can come up with? No wonder they're losing.
Monday, September 15, 2008
New Obama ad: Hey, McCain’s a liar
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Really, is this the best Obama can do?
As Tim Blair notes:
As Tim Blair notes:
Interestingly, Obama’s latest ad doesn’t directly target alleged McCain deceit. Instead, it cites criticism of that alleged deceit by Democrat pundits – including leading plouffer Joe Klein. If these ads didn’t work the first time (when they were provided free of charge) why does the Obama campaign think they’ll work now?
Press Section of Biden's Plane Is 'Totally Deserted'
They can't stand the windbag.
I agree with this:
I agree with this:
"Heck, the McCain camp might find this worth complaining about - think of all the gaffes being missed by the major press. "
Biden: Americans Want " Sleepover With People They Like!"
God, please give Biden all the air time he wants.
I can't stop laughing!
That's his big answer for adressing America's problems? A sleepover? No wonder he said Hillary would have been a better pick for VP than himself.
When telling the story of how his granddaughters had a slumber party with Barack Obama’s daughters during the week of the Democratic National Convention, Biden equated it to what he says Americans want.
“I believe that's a metaphor, a metaphor for what the country is looking for. They're looking for a sleepover with people they like!”
I can't stop laughing!
That's his big answer for adressing America's problems? A sleepover? No wonder he said Hillary would have been a better pick for VP than himself.
Biden - vote for Obama because he's black
Oh no he didn't. Oh yes he did. Mr. Gaffe does it again. Is Biden saying don't vote for McCain because he's white?
Why would Biden say such a thing?
From a commenter at Freerepublic. "Don’t Be A Racist - Vote For Obama Because He’s Black"
Ed has some thoughts.
Team Obama said McCain would make race an issue but Biden proves him wrong.
"Charlotte, N.C. — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says electing a black person to the White House would be transformative."
Why would Biden say such a thing?
"Biden said he and Obama are reaching out to North Carolina voters. He led a community rally at the Phillip Berry Academy of Technology Sunday evening."
From a commenter at Freerepublic. "Don’t Be A Racist - Vote For Obama Because He’s Black"
Ed has some thoughts.
"Now Biden has made the Obama campaign look like it needs to make overtly racial pleas to garner votes, and to play on fears and guilt of white voters."
Team Obama said McCain would make race an issue but Biden proves him wrong.
Excerpt from McCain remarks in Orlando
Team Obama are already twisting McCain's words. One of Obama's people was just on Fox and quoted Obama saying McCain said the US economy's fundamentals are strong. Here's what McCain actually said.
It's clear McCain was talking about the American worker when he said "those fundamentals". Is Obama's team saying the American worker is not strong? Watch for their ad.
"“Today we are seeing tremendous upheaval on Wall Street. The American economy is in crisis. Unemployment is on the rise and our financial markets are in turmoil. People are concerned about our economic future. But let me say something: this economic crisis is not the fault of the American people. Our workers are the most innovative, the hardest working, the best skilled, most productive, most competitive in the world. My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong. No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today.
“But their efforts are not being matched at the top. From Washington to Wall Street, the top of our economy is broken. We have seen self interest, greed, irresponsibility and corruption undermine the hard work of the American people."
It's clear McCain was talking about the American worker when he said "those fundamentals". Is Obama's team saying the American worker is not strong? Watch for their ad.
Freddie and Fannie and Obama
Oops!
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac survived scrutiny by manipulating, cajoling, and lobbying politicians and hiring board members who were politicos (e.g. Jamie Gorelick) rather than mortgage gurus. They hired lobbyists, gave massive donations, obtained nice tax breaks, and sailed below the regulatory radar screen.
Of the 354 lawmakers who received money from Freddie and Fannie between 1989 and 2008, Sen. Chris Dodd (D) received the most. But next was . . . drumroll . . . Barack Obama. Yup. And he was only there for three years. Not too much went to John McCain, about a sixth of what Obama received (h/t Glenn Reynolds.)
On the stump, Obama drops hope
and goes back to politics as usual.
So much for change.
"Barack Obama sounds more like a man trying to shake a rain cloud these days, dispensing a teeth-clenching, I-get-your-pain stump speech in town after town that offers only snippets of the unbridled optimism that long permeated his campaign pitch.
Beginning in the days before his party's convention, the inspirational has given way to the traditional: attacks on John McCain, a register of policy prescriptions and partisan language with the sting of a needle"
So much for change.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
The management style of Palin, and her popularity
are ignored by the left wing media. The left wing media really are embarrassing themselves now.
Seeing through Obamanomics
The more people really look at Obama, the more the don't like what they find.
"If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, I'm going to pay a little bit more? That's neighborliness." If that is Obama's rationale for making the tax code even more steeply progressive than it already is, it's no wonder voters are having second thoughts about his economic aptitude.
"Neighborliness." Perhaps that word has a nonstandard meaning to someone whose home adjoins the property of convicted swindler Tony Rezko, but extracting money by force from someone who earned it in order to give it to someone who didn't is not usually spoken of as neighborly. If Citizen Obama, "sitting pretty," reaches into his own pocket and helps out the waitress with a large tip, he has shown a neighborly spirit. But there is nothing neighborly about using the tax code to compel someone else to pay the waitress that tip.
Taxation is not generosity, it is confiscation at gunpoint. Does Obama not understand the difference?
Nevadans get fired up by Palin
There's one word that scares the hell out of Democrats these days - Sarah.
...
Tracy had planned not to vote in November until Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Aug. 29 chose the little-known Alaska governor as his running mate.
"Now I am on fire," Tracy said. "The reason I will vote for McCain is because of Sarah Palin."
...
The line waiting in 90-degree heat to go through metal detectors and into the pavilion was 300 yards long at 2 p.m. -- nearly four hours before Palin arrived to deliver her 18-minute speech.
The New York Times goes after Palin
Tom Smith has some thoughts.
"All this, taken together, goes far beyond Maureen Dowd's searing revelation that Sarah Palin wears shoes that are really intended for much younger women. Now we know that far from a pit bull with lipstick, Governor Palin is a merely human politician who rewards friends, punishes enemies and plays "hardball" just like one of the guys. Who does she think she is? And, she's ambitious. She confided to a friend that she wants to be president someday. Should such a person be allowed inside the White House?
But, seriously now, if the NY Times wants to bring down their favorite hockey mom, they are going to have to do a lot better than this. Forget about sending anybody to Chicago to go through Sen. Obama's record with a similarly fine toothed comb. Or more like a manure fork. I know that's not going to happen. Politics in Alaska is a lot like everywhere else, with friends, enemies, grudges, favors made and repaid, and those who get ahead often have sharp elbows. If Palin does become VP she will need every bit of those skills she may have."
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Chgo Sun-Times: 'Sarah Palin Makes Me Sick'
As I keep saying, the left have gone completely insane.
I wonder if these deranged people even read what they write. For instance:
If that's all it took, Obama didn't have much mojo to start with now did he?
I wonder if these deranged people even read what they write. For instance:
"Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama's mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt."
If that's all it took, Obama didn't have much mojo to start with now did he?
Clinton's gift to Internet age: only 2 e-mails
Too bad Obama didn't do his homework.
"Most of the decisions in the Oval Office are made through decision memos," Rutherford said.
The 40 million e-mails of the Clinton administration are almost exclusively comprised of memos, notes and correspondence among his aides and cabinet members
Then as now, Rutherford added, Clinton was more apt to write personal notes or telephone than communicate through e-mail.
McCain's Web Explosion
A blast from the past.
This just highlights how sloppy and clueless Obama is.
"Six months ago, no one would have pegged McCain as the most cybersavvy of this year's crop of candidates. At 63, he is the oldest of the bunch and because of his war injuries, he is limited in his ability to wield a keyboard. But McCain's job as chairman of the Senate commerce committee forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him. Well before he announced his exploratory committee, McCain had assimilated the notion that the Web could be vital to the kind of insurgent, anti-establishment campaign he wanted to run."
This just highlights how sloppy and clueless Obama is.
Obama's latest ad backfires
Big time.
Consider: In a single not-very-compelling ad calling McCain a clueless geezer who can't even send email, the Obama campaign managed to draw attention to his war injuries again, to show that it doesn't even know that the 2000 McCain campaign actually pioneered the insurgent Web tactics that Obama used in the 2008 primary, and to produce an ad that seems tailor-made to alienate voters more than a few years older than Obama, all without providing any actual reason to, you know, vote for Obama. That's a combination of cluelessness, sloppiness, and narcissism -- it's clear they can't conceive that McCain could have pioneered anything on the Web, and they're probably too young to actually remember the 2000 election -- that seems emblematic of where that campaign has been lately. Hubris coupled with poor execution is not a recipe for success.
'She's one of us': Palin wins over Obama women
The UK Times reports.
"“I like that she’s a brand new mother, and that she has the courage to stand behind her pregnant daughter. She relates to working women. For all of us who have children at home but have to go to work every day – she has given us a sense that we can still do it and can be an excellent mum,” she said. “Sarah Palin is a role model. She’s made me more likely to vote Republican.”
If Mr Obama should be in any doubt how gravely the vice-presidential nomination of the Governor of Alaska has imperilled his White House ambitions, then a day spent in Macomb County will make this clear: white women who voted for John Kerry in 2004 are suddenly deserting the Democratic Party."
Obama owes McCain an apology over the email slur
Here's why.
So, McCain overcame his torture induced disability to become "the U.S. Senate's savviet technologist". Instead of mocking McCain's disability, Obama should be praising McCain's character to overcome his disability.
Don't hold you breath waiting for an apology, Obama doesn't do "I was wrong".
"In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits."
So, McCain overcame his torture induced disability to become "the U.S. Senate's savviet technologist". Instead of mocking McCain's disability, Obama should be praising McCain's character to overcome his disability.
Don't hold you breath waiting for an apology, Obama doesn't do "I was wrong".
In Palin, working independents see themselves
Bye, Bye Obama.
"The second and more important group of voters is working independents. Polling analyst Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com identifies these voters as the sort of people who supported Ross Perot's bids for president.
They resent the power elites in Washington who look out for themselves without a second thought for the working woman or man; who sing the praises of deregulation, globalization and tax cuts that always seem to benefit only them; who are indifferent to families struggling to carry on as manufacturing jobs disappear, gas prices soar and health care prices itself out of reach."
Panic sets in for Obama, Democrats
And people who panic often make mistakes. A panicky President?
"The selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has so thrown him off stride, as it has most other Democrats, that all the momentum he had has vanished. He’s getting panicky advice from everywhere. He intends to launch more and sharper attacks, abandoning any pretense of a new and different, more civil campaign.
Democrats know something, and desperation is setting in. They have a novice campaigner who wanders off message. With every advantage in the primaries, Obama couldn’t win the big states — New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania — against Hillary Clinton, even when he got to define the rules for running against him. She could never risk alienating the base she’ll need in 2012; John McCain and Sarah Palin have no such constraints — hence the panic.
For a “change” candidate, Obama appears to be a man locked in time, unable to move past criticism, unable to move from the grip of the Democratic left, unable to adapt to the changed reality that the campaign is not the referendum on the war in Iraq or on the administration of George W. Bush that he’d envisioned."
47 percent say Obama lacks the proper experience
an even worse reading than the 36 percent who had the same criticism about Palin...
"Eighty percent say McCain, with nearly three decades in Congress, has the right experience to be president. Just 46 percent say Obama, now in his fourth year in the Senate, is experienced enough. Another 47 percent say Obama lacks the proper experience—an even worse reading than the 36 percent who had the same criticism about Palin, now in her second year as governor after serving as a small-town mayor in her state.
"This is his fourth year in the Senate, and two of those four years he spent campaigning for president," said Arthur Koch, 63, an undecided voter from Wallington, N.J. "I'm not too comfortable with that."
Russians like Putin and Obama, polls find
No surprise there. Putin is bent on recreating the Soviet Union and Obama has promised to gut he military if elected. What's not to like?
Rumors grow that Biden will drop out
Glenn reports.
I'm with Glenn on this. I don't see it happening because the annoited one can't admit he made a mistake. Remember the O'Riely interview where Obama couldn't admit he was wrong on Iraq? But if Obama is going to dump Biden for Hillary, he has to do it soon or McCain will be too far ahead to catch.
I'm with Glenn on this. I don't see it happening because the annoited one can't admit he made a mistake. Remember the O'Riely interview where Obama couldn't admit he was wrong on Iraq? But if Obama is going to dump Biden for Hillary, he has to do it soon or McCain will be too far ahead to catch.
Obama attacks McCain's disability
Obama should apologize immediately.
Glenn has a massive roundup of reactions from all around the web.
This is a monumental blunder by Obama and has, once again, blown up in his face.
Sample:
And
Glenn has a massive roundup of reactions from all around the web.
This is a monumental blunder by Obama and has, once again, blown up in his face.
Sample:
And this comment has got to hurt: "I think they spent months trying to figure out how they can position Obama as better qualified than McCain, and basically came up with the fact that Obama can type."
ChicagoBoyz: What does this blunder tell us about Obama? "Such an intelligence blunder on the part of a President could cost lives."
And
"Really, the ad is supposed to reflect McCain being out of touch because of his age, yet in actuality it makes fun of a partially disabled senior. Not a very good move on Obama's part."
Friday, September 12, 2008
Battle for Congress Suddenly Looks Competitive
Early days yet but the Democrats are in free fall. And that's a great thing.
We Shouldn’t Need Permission To Go After Folks That Killed 3,000 Americans.
Who said that?
Obama.
Obama.
"Obama: We Shouldn’t Need Permission To Go After Folks That Killed 3,000 Americans. Obama said, “Sen. McCain and George Bush all suggested that I said something wrong when I said we should be going after bin Laden, in high-value targets, and if we've got him in our sites, we should ask for Pakistan's cooperation, we should ask Pakistan to take him out. But if they don't, we shouldn't need permission to go after folks that killed 3,000 Americans.” [Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/24/08]"
1982 John McCain goes to Washington
22 years later Obama showed up, spent 143 voting for over $1 billion in earmarks (including $100,00 for his wife's employer) and then decided to campaign for President - where he's been stuck ever since.
Obama plays the age card
Makes you wonder even more why Obama picked Biden.
LOL, Biden became a Senator 11 years earlier in 1973!!
Things have changed a lot in the last 36 years, but Biden hasn't!
And how is this attack going to play out with older voters?
"1982, John McCain goes to Washington," an announcer says over chirpy elevator music. "Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't."
LOL, Biden became a Senator 11 years earlier in 1973!!
Things have changed a lot in the last 36 years, but Biden hasn't!
And how is this attack going to play out with older voters?
McCain gains in Washington state
Rassmussen reports.
"The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Washington finds Barack Obama still ahead, but barely. It’s Obama 49%, McCain 47%. A month ago, Obama was up by twelve percentage points. Recent polls have shown McCain gains in Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota. "
Palin and the Bush doctrine
Here is why Palin asked Gibson to clarify his question. Which part was Gibson referring to?
More here.
More here.
Obama's governor says Palin has the experience
to be President.
"The reality is, governors every day have to make decisions for better or for worse. That's part of the job. It's an executive position. And it's a position that is like what you're going to do when you're president. Legislators, they do different things. They debate and they pass their bills back and forth," he said.
"But governors make decisions, and I think it's a tactical mistake for the Democrats to question Gov. Palin's experience when she's been a governor of a state," he said. "I don't think the size of the state is relevant. It's the kinds of decisions you have to make as governor."
Bill Clinton to campaign with Obama
Fantastic news! This will highlight Obama's poor judgement in picking Biden, who recently said Obama should have picked Hillary as his running mate.
Great rounup of the Palin interview
Palin won hands down.
Even the left say so.
Even the left say so.
TalkLeft: "Indeed, her eventual answer to the question is extremely sensible (unlike Bush and McCain's actual policies) and smart politics. She did not accept the premise of Gibson's question and then gave a sensible answer to the question."
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