2008
Posted at 10:26pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Michelle Obama: Spend $600 stimulus check on earrings
By wsjreader
After a lull, Michelle Obama is opening up her big mouth again. Enjoy!!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/11/michelle-obama-spend-600...
Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan Wednesday that if her husband is elected he will offer more than a "quick fix" on the economy.
"You're getting $600 - what can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month," she said. "The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."
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Posted at 9:48pm on Jul. 11, 2008 A Winning Strategy for Republicans…Umm…Wait…They’d Have to Stand For Something…Well...Never Mind.
By aceintx
OK…So, We’re a month away from the Republican Convention and here’s my take on where we are!
Gas is over $4.00 a gallon and I’m paying $65 dollars to fill up my Mercury Villager, (It’s a Mini Van. Forget buying a tin can that get’s 40 mpg since I have a wife and 3 kids). I’m reading polls approaching 70 % of the American People that want to drill here and drill now yet the Democrats are standing in the way of drilling in ANWR and on the outer continental shelf for oil. It’s been 30 plus years since a new refinery has been built in this country and the Democrats are standing in the way of building any new ones.
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Posted at 8:41pm on Jul. 11, 2008 LA-06: Sweet.
By Vladimir
LA-06 is the Baton Rouge vacated by Rep Richard Baker (R), a ten-term incumbent. The special election to replace Baker was won by Don Cazayoux, a Dem, over Woody Jenkins just a couple of months ago.
Qualifying for this fall's regular elections closed today. In an interesting twist,
Jackson throws wrench in 6th District race
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Posted at 7:24pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Senator McCain will get my vote.
By Tim Schieferecke
I wanted to take this opportunity to pass on a recent letter to the editor I read in the Topeka Capital Journal. It helped me soften my own hard opinion about Senator McCain.
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/070808/opi_301147857.shtml
Senator McCain will not only get my vote because he's not Obama, he will get it because he's a decent, honorable man. I've recently seen in him the ability to adapt to more conservative positions in the effort to meet current hard edged realities head on. As he does so, I would like to encourage others to reconsider Senator McCain with his recent improvements in mind. As opposed to Obama, this historical and existential election is too important for us to lose over the real but infinitely smaller disagreements we have with our candidate.
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Posted at 6:36pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Dueling June Obama fundraising claims?
Seems like there's an easy enough way to settle this.
By Moe Lane
To walk you through this: today there was a Wall Street Journal article discussing yesterday's fundraising announcement by the McCain campaign. Said article noted in passing (via Political Punch):
Meanwhile, June fund-raising for Sen. Obama appears to be falling below the expectations of some supporters. The campaign hasn't released its June numbers, but people close to the fund-raising operation say the total will likely be just over $30 million. While this isn't a poor showing, it is an underwhelming haul for a campaign that has ballooned in recent months, has promised a true, 50-state electioneering effort and has told its biggest fund-raisers that it wants to collect $300 million in general-election cash by mid-October.
The reason for the lower-than-expected numbers for Sen. Obama, fund-raisers said, was his continuing difficulty in getting former supporters of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to open their purses for him, following a protracted, bitter primary battle. Sen. Obama has also tacked to the middle on some recent policy issues, annoying many in the left wing of the Democratic Party. These more liberal-leaning supporters make up a large proportion of his small-donor cadre. The campaign says that some 1.7 million people have given $200 or less, making up 45% of Sen. Obama's total.
A bit of an eye-opener, that. And subject to what is ostensibly a swift pushback (Read on)...
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Posted at 3:10pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Attention All Conservative Bloggers!
By PoliticalWizard
The Republican Party has historically been the Conservative Party, our party, but it has been pretty disappointing by abandoning America's First Principles, practically only supporting incumbant Republicans, and supporting a maverick Republican over Reagan Conservative Fred Thompson for President (my opinion added).
But the Republican Party has created us a major opportunity to influence the Party with our pro-freedom Conservative Ideas by influencing the Party Platform.
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Posted at 12:36pm on Jul. 11, 2008 You Can't Do That on Television!
By Ericka Andersen
So...ya can't say "nuts" on TV. It's reminding me of that old Nickelodeon show, "You Can't Do That on Television." If you did something you shouldn't on that show, you got slimed. It seems like Wolf Blitzer, Joe Scarborough and others thought they might get slimed if they repeated the words of the REVEREND Jesse Jackson verbatim. If you are out of the loop, this in reference to the comments Jackson made regarding Obama's anatomy (nuts!) when he thought the mic was off. This clip is simple but genius. Well it made me laugh out loud if nothing else:
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Posted at 12:28pm on Jul. 11, 2008 What Does John McCain Believe About Barack Obama?
The Burning Question
By Dan McLaughlin
Here's the thing I keep coming back to about this election and what it will take to win it. It's a point that Hillary Clinton grasped, albeit too late to save her. And it's an open question about our own nominee and how he will approach the next 116 days.
Most people who would consider voting Republican in this (or any) election either like McCain, grudgingly respect him, or are hard-core Republicans/conservatives who ought to be persuadable for any Republican, even McCain. But none of those groups is going to be fired up with positive enthusiasm for the guy or his platform. On the conservative side, he's got folks who need regular reminding why they should vote for a guy who has butted heads with them so many times; on the moderate side, he's got people who are OK with him but are feeling like maybe the new guy from the other party deserves a shot. McCain has the experience and the biography, he is good on some issues (your mileage may vary as to which ones), and has some good ideas (ditto), but very few people are super-enthused about the things he is promising to bring to the Oval Office. Reassured, perhaps, but not enthused.
At the same time, McCain's opponent is not Generic D but rather a left-wing extremist with no experience, horrible, tried-and-proven-failure ideas and terrible judgment in friends, supporters and staff. That ought to frighten moderates and conservatives alike when they contemplate giving him the car keys. McCain's path to victory, then, is in collecting the people who like him, the people who respect him, and the people who can force themselves to tolerate him, and persuading them that an Obama presidency would be a disaster for the nation.
But McCain can only do that consistently and effectively if he, himself, believes that Obama would be a disaster for the nation.
Does he?
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Posted at 11:21am on Jul. 11, 2008 Barak Obama, a political eunuch ?
By wsjreader
I'm a lurker on www.hillaryis44.org, a hardcore anti-Obama, pro-Clinton website who's been around for a loooong time.
I'm laughing my ass off after reading this latest acerbic commentary from this site.
http://www.hillaryis44.org/?p=678
Yesterday, an angry Jesse Jackson threatened to slice off Obama’s testicles. Jesse Jackson apparently does not realize that Obama has no “nuts” to cut off.
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Posted at 10:54am on Jul. 11, 2008 The end of THE bump
By mbauer
It appears that the Obama party unity bump is coming to a close. Over the past few weeks polls have been showing a constant narrowing between the two candidates nationally. What was an 8% edge snear the end of June for Obama has fallen into that "statistically insignificant" department. With leaners Obama takes a 2% lead and without merely a 1% lead.
To further tighten the race, in the Rasmussen poll Obama and McCain share identical favorable to unfavorable ratings.
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Posted at 10:38am on Jul. 11, 2008 Barry at the Gate. He's not wanted.
Angie Merkel: "Nein!"
By Mark Kilmer
German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not want Obama to speak at the Brandenburg Gate.
Earlier, I had whined, as is my recurrent wont, about Barack Obama's strangely arrogant desire to speak at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate when he visits Europe later this year. That Gate, when it was metaphorically closed, was the scene of one of the modern world's historic speeches, when Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to open the gate and to "tear down this wall!" Now, Barry wants to invite the requisite Reagan-comparisons by talking HopeChangeHope at a place where the world's reality changed. What a lightweight!
Well, this is apparently getting some bad air in Germany these days.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she opposes the idea, referring to the highly symbolic landmark as an “inappropriate” setting for a speech linked to a domestic American political campaign.
And, as Politico.com reports in the same peace, an anonymous "American in Berlin with high-ranking diplomatic experience" describes:
“If he comes here, and does something like [speak at Brandenburg] against the wishes of the head of Germany’s government, he could be seen as somewhat arrogant, as presumptuous, that he disregarded her wishes and went ahead to do this anyway,” said another American in Berlin advising the German government on the matter.
Barry says he wants his foreign policy to be based on folding to the whims of foreign governments, though he phrases it differently. His politics of personal appeasement would be on shaky ground if he were to try to play Reagan in a TV event at the scene of one of Reagan's greatest symbolic triumphs.
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Posted at 9:12am on Jul. 11, 2008 Blue-on-Blue Watch: NYT versus Charlie Rangel.
Although there's a subtext, here. There usually is, with these things.
By Moe Lane
Let's say that you're a news/media organization, and you have yourself a problem. There's this guy running for President. You loved that the guy was running for President. You got totally into fact that the guy was running, to the point where you pretty much gushed and cooed and did all sorts of really, really embarrassing things on your front page in support of the guy. You did everything that you could to get the guy the Democratic nomination, and lo! - he did.
And then the guy abandoned public financing for the election.
You loved public financing. It was like a starving puppy that you found in a storm drain during a blizzard, all whimpering and scared and alone. You took public financing home and kept it alive, cleaning its sores and giving it its worm medicine, making sure that it had all its shots and got housebroken. And the guy? When he came over, he made you think that he loved public financing just as much as you did... up until the moment where he took a rock and did his level best to bash its brains in. And when you came home to discover what he had done, he shrugged at you. He actually shrugged.
So what do you do?
Well, if you're the Washington Post, you tell your editors to take off the filter that gives the guy his halo. If you're the LA Times, you let your house blogger know that it's no longer Be Kind To The Guy Millenium. If you're ABC News, hey, Jake Tapper suddenly sees himself on TV more often. But if you're the New York Times, maybe you don't have those options. Direct action is going to get squashed before it starts. The people who control your paper don't care about public financing, really. They're still entranced by the guy. So, you can't go after him directly.
But that's actually OK: he has friends.
Read on.
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Posted at 2:47am on Jul. 11, 2008 Dark Horse Conservative VP Candidates
By edm
Let's be perfectly frank with ourselves, here - the list of John McCain's VP candidates that is being tossed around in the media is filled with people who either are not popular with large elements of the conservative base, or just aren't conservatives, period; have little or no experience in government; have little national exposure; or would likely prove to be more of a political liability than a benefit to the Senator, once they got on the trail.
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Posted at 12:59am on Jul. 11, 2008 Obama/... DODD?
Clearly, I am in some sort of benevolent version of the Truman Show.
By Moe Lane
It's like this entire election season was created to make me laugh like a loon on a regular basis.
Obama seeks info on Dodd in vice president search
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 57 minutes agoWASHINGTON - Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd as part of its search for a possible vice presidential candidate.
The former White House hopeful and Connecticut lawmaker indicated Wednesday that he has been approached by the campaign. "There's been some inquiries, yeah," Dodd said. "They ask for a lot of stuff. I'll leave it there."
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton and Dodd's Senate office declined comment Thursday.
Probably wise of both. Free hint to the Obama campaign: when the AP, on looking over a potential VP candidate's recent history, decides to go with the "may be implicated in mortgage kickback scandal" bit over the "sorta-kinda fought to derail the FISA bill" bit... yeah, maybe this was a bit of a time-waster for you. But don't let me stop you from picking the man. All I ask is that you wait for my air-popper to finish the latest bowl of popcorn.
Because you can't put BACON SALT* on microwave popcorn, of course.
Moe Lane
*It's even kosher! No, really.
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Posted at 10:22pm on Jul. 10, 2008 Updates from Team Sununu
By El Cabra
Jeanne Shaheen and the NH DP have added Sununu's latest Medicare vote to their ongoing editorial and media efforts to paint Senator's Sununu and Gregg as elitests. They had previously attacked Sununu's Farm Bill votes basically claiming he's against poor people. It's empty rhetoric but most people won't read the farm bill. I have attempted to battle back on my blog Live Free or Die, and with letters of my own but we all know how that can go. I officially joined Team Sununu this week and here's there latest response to the attacks...
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