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There’s been a lot of talk about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin over the last several weeks as people are weighing in on who they think McCain should pick as his VP running mate. While I think she is short on experience at this stage in her political career, I believe she has a bright future in politics, and perhaps we may one day see her on the national stage. Last July, while the primary campaign season was just warming up and way before any talk of VP selections, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes wrote a good piece on who Palin...

Senior officials from McCain Camp have confirmed that Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin will be McCain's running mate. Considered to be a Republican Maverick (much like McCain), Pawlin defeated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski to claim her current position, which she has held for the last two years. She is the states first female Governor and will be the country's first female Vice-President. At age 44 Palin is younger than both Obama and Biden and is the mother of five children. Foxnews reportso n Palin's family and work ethic stating: "Sarah and Todd Palin have five children: boys Track, 19, and Trig,...

Despite the hoopla of the Democratic National Convention and the great publicity for Democratic nominee Barack Obama this week, he has not received much of a boost in the public opinion polls. In fact, his poll numbers have declined slightly. The pick of U.S. Senator Joseph Biden has been a big failure and has not helped the ticket at all. According to the National Journal, Barack Obama is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, while Biden is the third most liberal member. Since this ticket is so liberal and the American people are starting to focus on the...

Senator McCain takes Senator Obama to the woodshed (again) using clips of Senators Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Obama, et al and President Clinton describing Obama's inexperience, with the backdrop of scenes from the Russian/Georgian war. GREAT AD!

In a brilliant attempt to capitalize and steal the spotlight from yet another one of Obamessiah's speeches, Camp McCain has decided to release an ad in battleground states tonight while Obama delivers his speech at the Democratic Convention. Reports out of Politico and DrudgeReport indicate that there may even be an early leak from Camp McCain in order to draw the attention away from Obama's sermon, I mean speech, and shift the focus of attention back to Camp McCain. Individuals close to the campaign state that the running mate choices are and continue to be : "Governor Mitt Romney of...

I made the mistake of watching the whole of Joe Biden's keynote DNC speech at the gym tonight. How underwhelming! Forgiving the inadvertent (and repeated) stumbling and bumbling, the substance of the speech itself was just painfully awkward. First, the theme of the evening was national security. CQ reports that one of the Democrat talking points was "stewardship of the armed forces." In line with this, I'm guessing, Biden threw in minor, trite, awkward mentions of the troops. The first was sandwiched, awkwardly disconnected, between his fawning adoration of Hillary Clinton and before the typical pandering to his home state...

The theme of tonight's Democrat Convention follies will be "Securing America's Future", or in dem language "abandoning your friends and kissing your enemies." In honor of this event, John McCain has released his latest ad called "Tiny", using Barry's own words against him. Here is the original clip, which I really wish they would have used in the ad. Barack also turned around the very next day and called Iran a "grave threat", something I believe should also be in the ad. Those video clips played back to back would not only strike at how naive and, frankly, stupid Barack...

The Democrats kicked off their convention to less than stellar poll results. After "President" Obama announced his VP choice, today polls shifted in favor of McCain. ((Side note / rant: I thought it was hysterical that former Messiah to the people John Kerry kept referring to Obama as PRESIDENT Obama, guess he hasn't been paying attention to public reactions or polls. )) Evidently the ads that were released by the RNC and McCain Camp showing Biden's distrust of Obama's experience regarding his White House Bid have struck a cord with voters... and rightfully so. Granted the Gallup poll showing McCain...

If you missed Hillary's speech tonight, let me summarize it for you: Obama is the Democrat nominee so I will support him, since he is the Democrat and I am a Democrat. She also talked about her campaign and how her candidacy inspired women and little girls. She looked great and her video was great. She just didn't make the case for Obama. She didn't talk about how he is qualified to lead. She said his name plenty of times, but she really didn't talk about him. Tomorrow night Bill Clinton will speak. We all know what he will talk...

First the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs Senator McCain, you should grab this video and play it on every ad you can. This is absolutely shocking reprehensible. He plans to universally disarm our nation. The question is for what, and more specifically “for whom”. UPDATE: Also see new more clearer and longer video here.

Two polls separate polls show a substantial number of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are considering voting for a Republican president, rather than Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in November. A USA TODAY/Gallup poll conducted last Thursday-Sunday found 23 percent of Clinton’s supporters said they may vote for GOP presidential candidate John McCain in November. 47 percent said they were “solidly” Obama. A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, released late last week, showed similar results. According to their poll 21 percent of Clinton’s supporters are planning to vote for McCain and 27 percent are undecided. 52 percent of the Clinton supporters polled said...

The Obama campaign has launched a new ad that fails to dispute a single fact in the American Issues Project's initial ad questioning Barack Obama's relationship with admitted domestic terrorist, William Ayers. "This response ad is more smoke and mirrors from a candidate desperate to obscure his longstanding relationship with admitted domestic terrorist William Ayers," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project's president. "Senator Obama is pretending to barely know the man who hosted the launch of his political career and with whom he has worked for years to advance a liberal agenda." Sen. Obama has defended his friend Ayers as...

The Texas GOP is accusing Barack Obama of leaving his own family out to dry after reports surfaced that his half-brother George is living in a run-down hut in Kenya. The Daily Telegraph and other publications have recently drawn attention to the unusual report in the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, which tracked down George Hussein Onyango in the outskirts of Nairobi. He apparently spoke to the magazine for the first time, telling them he lives on less than a dollar a month, and that “no one knows who I am.” The Republican Party of Texas released a Web video...

UPDATE: Please go to Alegre’s Corner for this video of another Hillary Clinton Delegate that will not vote for Obama. I cannot embed the video on WordPress or it would be here also! 08-23-08 I guess the dam is starting to break? Wow, just wow. In this article from the Rocky Mountain News, ANOTHER Clinton supporter has not jumped from one candidate to the other, but to the other side of the river completely. Hele On!!! Silverio “Silver” Salazar has been an active Democrat for decades, just like his cousins, U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar and U.S. Rep. John Salazar. But...

I know that most of my visitors have been linked here from lib propaganda sites using me as an example. I get the joke: I am the only black man for McCain. Hilarious. Never mind that there are several others at my church alone who agree with me. What surprises me is the litany of racist, sexist and generally disrespectful comments I have been inundated with over the past 72 hours. Here are just a few: “I’ve heard of the Log Cabin Republicans. Is this site the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Republicans?” “Silly black man, McCain is for honkies!” “Idiot, Republicans...

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Maybe they're reading a bit too much into the tea leaves but Wonkette noticed that the web address ObamaNelson.com redirects to Barack Obama's official website. The internet never lies. While similar combinations of Obama and suspected Veep's names lead to Go Daddy holding sites or other internet flotsam. Nelson who? Most likely democratic Florida Senator and former spaceman Bill Nelson. Maybe Obama has found the perfect running mate who can help him deliver Florida, but not secretly poison his coffee.

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in Montgomery (PA)...

Barack Obama leads John McCain by five percentage points in Pennsylvania for the second month in a row. Both candidates have lost some support from a month ago, with the Democrat now favored by 45% while his Republican opponent earns the vote from 40%. When “leaners” are included, Obama’s lead is down to just three points, 48% to 45%. A month ago, Obama led by six when leaners were included. The data in Pennsylvania reflects patterns seen elsewhere in recent polling. McCain has more support from Republicans than Obama does from Democrats, and McCain also wins more crossover votes from...

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Political rivals and Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama met this past weekend at Saddleback, an Evangelical mega church, in California to discuss their respective bids for the Oval Office. Investors Business Daily had an interesting editorial released earlier this week regarding the issue. It discusses Obama's eagerness to take on McCain in the earlier days of the Democratic primary and his strange reluctance to accept McCain's offer to appear before the American public in 10 Town hall meetings across the US. Although the meeting in California wasn't technically a debate as much as a 'political forum', it was...

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Yesterday I went over a couple questions from the Saddleback Church Interview done with Rick Warren, where John McCain answered clearly and concisely and Barack Obama did not. A very clear example of why Obama backed away from his "Anytime, anywhere" challenge and refused to conduct 10 townhall style forums with John McCain. Obama stinks one-on-one, without his teleprompter. Yes, it is that simple. The good news is that Obama, his campaign and his supporters know how badly he did and better news yet, they understand how good McCain did, which is why they are in desperation mode to make...

I've never seen anything like it. The latest controversy has it that Barack Obama did so poorly at Saturday's Saddleback civil forum that left-wing commentators and members of the Obama entourage have made allegations of cheating against John McCain. I first saw the story at Newsbusters, which noted that NBC's Andrea Mitchell suggested to her colleague the possibility of McCain cheating by overhearing Pastor Rick Warren's interview with Obama. Betsy Newmark responded to the Newsbusters piece: These guys are so full of themselves and their guy's miraculous abilities that they can't imagine John McCain would actually come off as more...

This is deeply troubling. Acorn is responsible for voter fraud in several states. They pay their workers a fee to register new voters. They have been found to sign up people who are convicted felons, illegal immigrants, dead people, etc. Several people from multiple states have been indicted. Acorn is closely affiliated with the Democratic party and they have also been found to throw out Republican registration forms -- leaving citizens unable to vote on election day. It is a disgrace that any taxpayer money would go to such a corrupt group. The housing bill signed Wednesday by President George...

Go ahead, prove me wrong. But I defy any of you out there to show me how Obama did not A) vote against keeping babies born alive from being killed and B) lied about it. Let the evidence speak for itself. As a state senator in the Illinois legislature, Barack Hussein Obama torpedoed SB.1082 which would have required medical providers to give normal medical attention to infants born alive during an abortion. In other words, without this bill if a mother is trying to abort her pregnancy, but the baby is born alive anyway, the doctor could kill it or...

Democrat Barack Obama defeats Republican John McCain 51% to 44% in an election for President of the United States in Washington State today, 08/13/08, 83 days until the election, according to this latest SurveyUSA pre-election tracking poll conducted exclusively for KING-TV in Seattle and KATU-TV in Portland Oregon. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released one month ago, when Obama led by 16 points, Obama is down by 4 points; McCain is up 5. Among women, Obama had led by 22, now leads by 15. Among men, Obama had lead by 10, now trails by 1. Among voters younger than...

Camp Obama is making a significant attempt to gain popularity among his "fellow Christians" this week by supporting the Democratic platform to "embrace motherhood". The new (and not so much improved) democrat platform is calling for additional funding to pre and post-natal health care, in attempts to gather the Evangelical vote in November. Bush took over 70% of the Evangelical vote in 2004, and Camp Obama is hoping to cash-in on some of those much needed votes in order to put a greater wedge between him and McCain come November. According to recent Gallup polls McCain has a 64% approval...

From Jonah Goldberg in the LA Times: The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. Then in July, he conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a “prenaugural” address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan. Now fate has given Obama a chance to be presidential rather than pretend…. Obama’s response? First, late Thursday evening, he gave a conventional written...

Stories out of Denver are reporting that the DNC is expecting mass arrests at their upcoming convention. City officials have created holding cells in a local warehouse to house all the expected rebel rousers and protesters. The conditions are not exactly posh, to say the least. There are warnings on the walls indicating: "Warning! Electric stun devices used in this facility." Nice of them to warn the extreme liberals, dontchya think? Zoe Williams of Code Pink sounds off on the conditions of the interment camp, I mean holding cells: "Very bare bones and very reminiscent of a political prisoner camp...

An interesting article appeared in TheSmokingGun.com chronicling an interesting trend among men soliciting prostitutes in the good ol' US of A. Supporters of Obammesiah have been arrested in his hometown of Chicago for soliciting sex from undercover cops. The one thing these gentleman callers seem to have in common is their candidate of choice: Obama. This outstanding members of society were arrested wearing "Obama for Change" or "Barrack for Change" shirts...

There’s speculation on the US site, VP Watch, this evening that Barack Obama might be considering the former general and 2004 contender for the presidential nomination - Wes Clarke - for the VP slot. This is the report: “Gen. Wes Clark’s slogan — “Securing America’s Future” — is the theme for the night Barack Obama’s running mate is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention. Clark’s political action committee is called WESPAC — Securing America’s Future. It could just be a coincidence. After all, Clark appeared to dash his hopes of running with Obama in late June when he...

DENVER (CBS4) ― Hotels and restaurants in downtown Denver are planning to wine and dine guests in town for the Democratic National Convention with some politically inspired food and drink. Elway's at the Ritz Carlton, that hotel's bar and the Corner Office Restaurant at the Curtis Hotel are among the eateries and watering holes with some creative offerings. The bar at the Ritz Carlton has two special cocktails for DNC guests. The patriotic drink is red, white and blue and called "changing tide." The bar is also offering the Obama Granite Martini. "Guest walks up to the bar, they're going...

In an election for President of the United States held in Virginia today, 08/11/08, 12 weeks to Election Day, John McCain and Barack Obama tie, according to this SurveyUSA poll conducted for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke and WJLA-TV in Washington DC. Today, it's McCain 48%, Obama 47%, within the survey's 3.9 percentage point margin of sampling error, effectively even. Obama leads by 13 points in SE Virginia and by 11 points in the NE Virginia; McCain leads by 23 in the Shenandoah and by 5 in Central Virginia. McCain holds 89% of the GOP base. Obama holds 86% of the Democrat...

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a co-chair of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, announced the themes of the convention today on a conference call with members of the media. Sebelius said the overall theme of the Democratic National Convention is "America's Town Hall" and each night, a different keynote speaker would lead the discussion with delegates, elected officials and people from across America who never have had a chance to participate in a convention before. "This will be an incredibly exciting and innovative convention," Gov. Sebelius said. "One like we've never seen before." Each night of the convention will carry a...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Will he or won't he? Vice President Dick Cheney is one of the nation's most prominent Republicans, but there are doubts about whether he will attend the GOP convention. ... Separately, at least five Republican senators have decided to skip the GOP convention. Sens. Gordon Smith of Oregon, Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine all face tough re-election campaigns. Two others, Wayne Allard of Colorado and Larry Craig of Idaho, are retiring.

I'm starting to smell a little roasting chicken. What's the Obamessiah afraid of? WASHINGTON — Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain’s challenge for a series of joint appearances before the political conventions, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall. In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, “I think that’s a great idea.” In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events. On Saturday, in a letter...

Readers may recall that I'm a bit down on the prospect of John McCain finding a running mate who will do him more good than harm. However, one person who might fit this description is John Kasich. He was a popular nine-term Congressman from Ohio, a state Republicans desperately need to carry. And he's originally from western Pennsylvania, another key area. Kasich seems to possess a blue collar appeal that his party desperately needs. To be sure, he was never a Senator or a Governor, but he held a leadership position in the House, serving as Chairman of the Budget...

"I am never better. I'm so glad that you three called me. I'm stunned here. It's great to hear from you," Limbaugh said. (Go to link to hear)

Obama goes for the rural Missouri vote... One dilly bar at a time. The Missouri Republican Party started questioning the validity of Obama's new field offices on Friday after it was reported one in Sikeston appears to be a Dairy Queen -News-Leader. And, the Obama Campaign staffers are not actually in theri rural Nixa, Missouri offices. In fact, they haven't signed the lease yet. But, they do set up a table and chairs in the parking lot certain hours of the day. The News-Leader reported: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's winning strategy in Missouri rests on getting votes in rural...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Former Virginia Governor and Democrat Mark Warner has succeeded in a state that has traditionally voted Republican and some are wondering if Barack Obama will be able to do the same. The state's demographics have made it a battleground in the upcoming presidential election. In fact, rural Virginia could make the difference between a Republican or Democrat in the White House. Virginia, however, hasn't voted for a Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson in l964, but Democratic rural strategist Dave "Mudcat" Saunders insists that inside every rural Virginia Republican is a Democrat trying to get out. "The question...

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So much for the famed "bounce" from his week-long "non-political" worldwide tour. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll McCain now trails Obama by only 3 points, even after Obama's trip. But that's not the worst of it for Barry. McCain now beats him among likely voters according to the latest Gallup survey: Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among "likely" voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. McCain still trails slightly among the broader universe of "registered"...

In my humble opinion, the "experts" have totally missed the essential reason why Obama isn't resonating with the public in terms of the presidential race. Obama looks like a typical errogant sports figure or Hollywood star (who takes himself far too seriously) traveling around the globe spouting politically correct leftwing platitudes, with the lapdog media in tow. The Media have actually succeeded in their goal, making Obama a "rock star", but to their surprise, I believe, it has shown he is definitely NOT presidential material. It's funny, and ironic, and the talking heads have totally missed this. McCain looks like...

Does anyone know who (I think it was someone prominent) said something to the effect of this during the Dem primaries, that in picking Obama, the Dems had managed to find a candidate who made Hillary Clinton seem moderate and politically attractive? I'm trying to remember who said it, because at the time I remember thinking it was a scathing indictment of how radical that party has become.

* Refers to the rated R language that was changed from the original text * And its about time! According to The Hill Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to go balls to the wall to stop surging fuel prices and hold Democrats accountable for the obstruction on drilling in the outter continental shelf (OCS). What are they planning to do? Well, play some hardball: Senate Republicans have threatened to block nearly all other bills pending before the August recess if Democrats refuse to vote with them on expanding offshore drilling. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said bills...

My reasons for leaving the Party that I’ve felt at home in since I became politically aware are numerous. I will start with quoting countless conservatives who feel as I do - I didn’t so much leave the Republican Party, it was the Party that left me. The elected Republican officials failed to implement a conservative agenda, despite having the Presidency and both houses of congress. No Child Left Behind, Prescription Drug Entitlements; they even tried to force Amnesty for illegal aliens upon us. They have given us a government that would make even LBJ blush. Our businesses and land...

Glenn has pretty well covered the imbroglio-inducing statement, but here’s a less-examined claim that really shows how separated from reality Klein has become: Obama, the poker player, has drawn to an inside straight: the Iraqis favor his plan over McCain’s long-term bases. Only the most intellectually dishonest reading of the situation could justify that statement; the WaPo has devoted an entire op-ed to debunking the ridiculous notion that Iraqis would rather see al-Ameriki withdraw on a fixed timetable from Washington without regard to conditions on the ground: But an Iraqi government statement made clear that Mr. Maliki’s timetable would extend...