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Posted at 3:08pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Editors, writers and Google employees load Obama up with campaign donations
By KBDay
Popular opinion holds that mainstream media and Web content lean Democratic, and a cursory look at campaign donations by professionals lends weight to that opinion. Even without figures, it’s easy to compare story lines for the candidates. Sen. Barack Obama spends 20 years in a church led by a pastor who damns America from the pulpit and media accepts the senator’s explanation he didn’t hear words of hate during the whole time he attended the church. But former senator Phil Gramm mentions whining, and the media not only takes his comments out of context, they make it sound like he stomped on a puppy. Media overwhelmingly want sunshine in government, even on classified military situations. But media is not so accommodating when it comes to in-house sunshine.
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Posted at 11:03pm on Jul. 10, 2008 No Speaka
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
Ah, small town Americans with their guns and their religion. Antipathy for those who aren't like them. Kansas values and American traditions...a speech on patriotism. What else can Senator Obama do to win over those precious working class folks that gave him the voting finger during the Democratic primary? Oh, oh, I know this one, pick me, pick me. Senator Obama can express his shame for those who aren't bilingual. He can make fun of the very people he's trying to appeal to in front of his base.
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Posted at 1:10pm on Jul. 8, 2008 American Idol
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
So how can you tell when someone is trying to sell you a product? When a marketing firm wants to know what clicks and what doesn't? All you have to do is stick around for the Democratic Convention in Denver. The Democrats are selling us Barack Obama. When they created the tag, "America in Decline" like words from a movie trailer they gave us the star of the film. Barack Obama, young, handsome, charismatic, fresh. He's the star of the show. His upcoming concert proves that point. The Democrats packaging him and his wife as JFK and Jacky Kennedy also prove just how manufactured the Obama's really are. Just how much of a product they have to be in order to win.
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Posted at 9:44pm on Jul. 7, 2008 It's The Economy Stupid
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
So what should Senator McCain do? Talk about the economy. It's not at all accurate that the Democratic nominee Barack Obama has the advantage when it comes to economic issues this election. Remember, Barack Obama ran on an anti-war sentiment and a speech made back in 2002. All throughout the primary he tagged Hillary Clinton as a Washington figure head in part because of her vote for the war in Iraq.
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Posted at 10:50am on Jul. 7, 2008 Why the Republican message has failed [closed and annotated]
By RepublicanRealist
[Kids, next time get somebody who grew up speaking English to proof-read. This was better than most, but the language really is difficult to master if you're not immersed in it from birth. - Moe Lane]
Why has Republicanism failed?
Republicanism has failed and will fail because of single of idea which America under President Bush has become fixated upon. The new idea and hegemony of Bush and America is the realization of freedom. It has been American’s claim to an absolute idea predicated on the absolute strength of such an idea in the world for other regimes to become and emulate. Is not” You are either with us or against us” a favorite slogan of this moment in history?
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Posted at 11:50pm on Jul. 6, 2008 Gee Hillary.. Slick?
By ilitigant
It has come to my attention that after Obama and Hillary asked the 'former' Hillary supporters to donate money to her campaign to help retire her debt, the link provided to do that, was changed, without anyone knowing about it.
Instead of donations going to retire debt, it redirected to her 2012 Senatorial Campaign account. So those people who took the word of their leaders and tried to help Hillary have less debt to deal with, got pushed into unknowingly supporting her 2012 campaign for the Senate.
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Posted at 2:18pm on Jul. 6, 2008 Mad Men
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
What has stripes, stand tall and slim, reads from scriptures yet talks from both ends
If you can't figure that one out I don't blame you. It seems Barack Obama went from messianic figure with pure vision and truth, to ambitious flip flopper whose trying to pull the wool over our eyes. From Iraq to gun rights Obama flips faster than Japanese Gymnasts. Perhaps a bit faster considering the circumstances. We'll have to wait and see.
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Posted at 11:49pm on Jul. 5, 2008 To Live and Die In LA
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
The Democratic hopefuls for the 2010 Governors' race in California, current San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsom and LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mark the beginning of the end in the golden state. Both Newsom and Villaraigosa support illegal immigration and open border policy. Newsom, seen as the "counter culture" mayor gained national recognition for his support of gay marriage and promoting San Francisco as a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, and Honduran drug dealers. Villaraigosa on the other hand is known for a more infamous event; the murder of an African American teenager by the hands of a Mexican gang member. The man was released by authorities who complied with Los Angeles' backwards immigration laws. Those laws are openly supported by Mayor Villaraigosa who has stated illegal immigrants help the economy in Los Angeles, so he has no intention of cracking down on the problem. No matter how many innocent people end up like the African American teen I spoke of earlier.
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Posted at 12:41am on Jul. 3, 2008 Asleep At The Wheel, VP Choices, and Other Scenarios
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
As Barack Obama goes on a "Define Myself" tour John McCain seems to be asleep at the wheel. It's like he's the only one standing still in a room full of moving people. As a Republican this concerns me because he's missing out on a chance to really set his message and theme of his campaign in stone. While Obama freely flips from one stance to another, turns everything from Patriotism to socks into a speech or a theme; John McCain goes to Columbia?
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Posted at 6:39pm on Jul. 2, 2008 The Parable of the Scorpion
By Dave in Fla
Or why Obama is acting so stupid right now.
The Obama campaign has launched an all out offensive to try and discredit John McCain. In what would appear to be a mindbogglingly stupid tactic, they are trying to discredit the 5 years he spent in a POW camp along with the rest of his military service. This may in fact go down in history as the worst campaign tactic of all time, surpassing the former winning entry from Walter Mondale, who thought it would be a great idea to promise to raise taxes. Of course, we have many months to go, so there are plenty of additional opportunities for the Obama campaign to surpass even this paragon of imbecility.
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Posted at 10:15am on Jul. 2, 2008 Question and answer time: the Wes Clark thing.
Some Snide that Got Fed Ex'ed?
By Moe Lane
Q. OK, so what's going on?
A. Senator Obama has lost control over how his campaign will reference Senator McCain's military service.
Q. Lost control, or gave it up?
A. Hah! I have a cynical questioner this time. No, this was taken away from him; he didn't and doesn't want to go there.
Q. Why?
A. Because Senator Obama doesn't make a habit of urinating on electric fences.
Read on.
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Posted at 2:07pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Just When You Thought The Democrats Couldn't Sink Any Lower
By Voter_Registration_Turnout
They go and attack John McCain's Military service. One of the unwritten rules in America is you never, ever attack a man in uniform. Whether he's liberal, conservative, Democrat, Libertarian, or Republican, you never bash the service of a man or woman who served this country. Americans tolerate many things but that ain't one of em'
I guess Wesley Clark didn't get the memo. It's one thing to have some Code Pink loon spew verbal discharge at Military men and women in Berkeley, but for a Military man to attack another Military man is just wrong. Both men served in Vietnam and both men are honorable for that. But Wesley Clark should know better, especially when our troops have been under attack by the left in this country for quite some time. He said John McCain's service, no matter how honorable doesn't qualify him to be president. Oh and Barack Obama's community organizing days and his trips to Pakistan as a teenager does? Or maybe his ethnicity makes him qualified to be president of the United States. Oh I get it, a speech 5 years ago makes you qualified to be president right? I mean that's all Barack Obama has; a speech made 5 years ago. He never had to make a decision on the war, he never voted for the war, and he even said had he been in the Senate he doesn't know how we would have voted. So what am I missing here?
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Posted at 2:29pm on Jun. 28, 2008 Heh, Bill to Obama "Kiss my ***"
By Dave in Fla
(h/t KLo over at NRO)
Seems that Bill is just a tad "bitter". From the UK Telegraph (full article):
The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence.
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Posted at 3:02pm on Jun. 27, 2008 Wash Post doesn't appear to believe in the Obamessiah
By Dave in Fla
I am by nature a curious person. For awhile now I’ve been listening to and accepting the general impression we all have that the main stream media is completely in the tank for Obama. Let’s face it, given the number of differing positions and outrageous statements made, and the collective resulting silence, it is an easy conclusion to draw. But a recent blog entry about the Washington Post criticizing Obama for not participating in townhall debates with McCain piqued my interest (h/t Bill Dupray) regarding their coverage.
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Posted at 12:46pm on Jun. 27, 2008 I Promise, You Won’t Get Pregnant
By Marcus Traianus
Some have perhaps been unfortunate enough to partake in the title conversation. Irrespective of which part of that dialogue you participated in, it is a quintessential moment of personal responsibility and a metaphor for life. One’s response and action at that moment can spawn a life changing epiphany regardless of which decision you made. The effects can be physical, emotional or philosophical. Did it make you bitter, angry, confident or proud? Are you more dependent on others, less trusting or regretful? One prevailing issue is certainly inescapable; that moment taught you something about individual accountability.
Specific to this issue, we certainly see some positive signs but there are others which are less comforting. In the end, many parents may blame themselves. Did they do enough to help their children make responsible decisions? Were they too concerned with their own lives? Do they still continue to deny and demur writing it off as a sign of the times and societal change? Are they dismissive and part of an oleaginous cultural shift which passes events off as the ultimate responsibility of our government? These are certainly all pertinent questions in the unsettled countenance of our upcoming elections. Why you might ask?
Please read on.
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