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Palin and Truman...

Much is being made about the one meeting between McCain and Palin before he met her at his Ranch last week. So, the Dem talking heads are bemoaning that fact, only met once before she was brought to the Ranch. Yet, one only has to look back to the Convention of 44 to see that FDR wanted Henry Wallace replaced becuase he had been openly campaigning for the job, that to replace FDR, as everyone knew his time was coming.
FDR allowed for the brokered selection of Truman, from the Pendergast Gang of Kansas City to be seated as the nominee. Truman, to the best of my research, had never met FDR...it is certainly possible they had, not I can not find any evidence of such. The current DEMS seem to not know, realize or care about this.
IT GETS WORSE, for the DEMS...
 
FDR only spoke to Truman twice after the election while Truman served as Vice President before FDR's death. Yes, so while the World was at War, the decisions of the post War and Nazi World was being carefully considered, the reigning Democratic President of the United States only choose to speak to his Vice President twice.
 
Sarah Palin has a decided advantage over Harry Truman, she has served as a Governor so understands the role of a chief executive. Truman, however, had significantly more experience as a chief executive than Joe Biden had as a VP nominee as Truman had failed in business prior to politics.
 
Ulitmately, Truman succeeded as President by most accounts. Perhaps it is becuase he had experienced the 'buck stops here' requirements of being an executive.
 
The Dems should learn American History before they speak
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Electoral Math...Palin the new Mary Richards

   Barack Obama garnered an amazing 38 million households per Neilson...amazing...unreal...scary!
 
yet, the Election will still come down to the Electoral Map...
Keystates that will determine the next President include these 18...PA, OH, FL, MI, MO, CO, NV, WI, IO, NH, ND, MT, AK, NM, GA, NC, VA and IN...
 
Obama leads in PA, OH, and FL by the slightest of margins...holding slim leads also in MI, NV, NM, WI, NH, and IO.
While McCain holds slim leads to is tie in: AK, GA, NC, VA, MO, IN, CO, MT and ND.
 
So the largest states here, PA, OH and FL are amazingly important, but with 15 others...the race is on!
 
Palin helps bring women into play, who supported Obama by a 47 to 43 margin in a recent poll. So can Palin help peel off some of this advantage. Becuase if she can, it can turn this election in key battleground states.
 
Sarah Palin is a some town girl, who will sell well in western PA, OH, and southern States. Having the outdoor, frontier spirit it will also likely help in MT, ND, NV and CO. Her maverick and independent streak could play well in NV, NH and VA.
 
Most importantly, Sarah Palin will help bring women into play by being the alternative to the History Narative that has helped Obama. As she noted, the 18 Million Cracks can be shattered and blown through with her selection as the VP nominee.
 
Biden was chosen for two reasons, foreign policy experience and Pennsylvania. Hillary beat Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Palin will help McCain to make OH and PA Red States.
 
Despite the amazingly well run Convention and the record audience who watched Senator Obama Thursday evening, the Palin selection places Obama in a tight box. It was white women, white men and working class American's who gave Hillary Ohio and Pennsylvania, 18 million women voters supported the second choice in the Democartic Primaries...Palin can help peel off some disgruntled women in particular...Reagan Democrats in general.
 
Since June the Democratic Narartive has been about a historic Campaign...they were and are right. But that Narative has the feel of a well written novel...the latest twist is the entry of a new character...the Horatio Alger charcter Sarah Palin...the hard working Hockey Mom, the PTA champion who rose to become Vice President, the small town girl going to Minneapolis tossing her beret in the air(ala Mary Richards)...I can see it already.
Cue the Song MR. Williams...
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all


How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
 
Sarah is off to Minneapolis with John McCain...the Conservatives are in Love with Sarah. Her smile has lifted a party. Sarah, AKA Mary Richards...should enter the Convention with a beret and throw it to the throngs of adoring faithful...this will be her town, her Emmy performance...opening in D.C. on January 20th 2008...in the First Female Vice President!
 
I for one cannot wait for the sequel...Sarah Palin, the First Female President premiering no later than January 20th 2016...perhaps sooner!
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Palin and the media black out of Obama

   the choice of Sarah Palin was brilliant and brilliantly handled by McCain!
 
First, consider that becuase she is widely unknown, the next three days will be 'get to know Sarah' days...pushing Obama off the Major Networks and the front pages of your local papers...
 
Second, consider that the air from the Obama speech last night has been blown away like a trailor home in Hurrican Andrew...
 
Thirdly, Women are primed to make history...not as they thought it was to be for the last 18 months, with Hillary as the first female Presidential nominee...but (possibly) as Sarah Palin as the first female Vice President...and if elected, possibly as the first Female President.
 
Finally, as the day ticks away here on Friday, it is Sarah Palin Media Day...this will turn into Sarah Palin Weekend, then the Republican National Convention...it will be nearly a full week of Sarah Palin discovery, the intoduction to America...all on the close of the Democratic National Convention...Brilliant...(this should be the script for the next Guinness Commerical)!
 
 
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Palin advantage

   (Anchorage) 4575 Miles from D.C...she is an outsider...three Senators and one Chief Executive
 
Juneau is 3754 from the White House... 
 
Sarah Palin is as far from D.C. insider as you can get!
Ethical, strong and decisive!
 
 
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Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin!!

Sarah is tough, strong, intelligent, accomplished, normal, tough, athletic, attractive, and the NEXT VP!
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Palin is Key to winning

   Consveratives unit!   Palin is the next Vice President!!!
 
 
 
 
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Palin family...the new Kennedy clan!

   what a great family!
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Miss Congeniality for Vice President

Governor Sarah Palin would be the choice that would make the biggest splash as Vice President. John McCain has the opportunity to select the winner of Miss Congeniality at the Wasilla Alaska Pageant, before going on to the Miss Alaska Pageant. Why is this important, because she would be debating the ever-smiling and often loose lipped Joe Biden.
All kidding aside, Sarah Palin would help secure many demographic groups into the McCain camp.
Palin is Pro-Life, she gave birth to her fifth child who had been diagnosed as having Down Syndrome.
Palin is Pro-Gun with a lifetime NRA membership, and against Gay Marriage
Palin is a strong Fiscal and Social Conservative.
yet, perhaps the most important thing...
She can help bring in the women vote for McCain.
She is a transitional leader who has a strong record of making decisive decisions and challenging the orthodoxy.
Palin has a plus 80% approval rating in Alaska, but can bring McCain votes from every part of the country by being the candidate to make history as the first women to be eleceted to the Vice Presidency.
The 18 Million crack's in the glass ceiling will be long forgotten by January 20th 2009 as she is sworn in as Vice President.
 
Sarah Palin would also help bring vigor to the campaign as a young diligent campaigner. She has a background as a journalist so feels very comfortable with words. She has experience in Energy has used the Veto pen, targeted both Republican and Democratic spending.
 
The strength that may pay off most is her Quixotic efforts to defeat the Repbulican incumbent in the Primary (Murkowski) and the former Democratic Governor Knowles in the General...she is a Giant killer!
 
So, should McCain like to find a Protestant who may help with the Catholic vote, here she is...should he want to find a women to skim off the Hillary supporters who have been exiled to the far reaches of the Denver Convention like the Delegates from Rhode Island up in the rafters...here is Sarah Palin.
Should McCain like to find a strong pro-life, strong personal story, advocate for sound fiscal government, here is Sarah Palin. Should he like to find the transitional candidate who will advocate his policies and be ready for the mantle of leadership when the time comes...here is Governor Sarah Palin!
 
Did I mention the shallow point of her attractive looks...
Sarah Palin
Governor Sarah Palin
 
Sarah Palin is everything you should wnat in a VP...
Accomplished, Articulate, Smart, Prepared, Determined, Issue Oriented, and Ready to lead!
 
Yet, what may lead and should lead McCain to Sarah is her own Maverick credentials...she resigned from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission because she saw too many ethical violations from, guess who...Republicans. She sold the plane that Governor Murkowski had purchased; she is a rebel in (Sometimes) a red dress.
 
McCain needs to select Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee...Joe Biden would be unable to debate an articulate women without uttering an unflattering condescending comment...I cannot wait!
 
So Sarah!
 
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Bill Clinton playing the race card on Obama?

 
Much has been made about former President Clinton's comments at the forum yesterday...but what strikes me at first blush, is the RACE CARD flapping in the wind of his spokes. I hear it clicking along like the ticking of a clock...I heard his referencing a hypothetical and was amazed that he used the letters X and Y as if it were an algrebra problem and not a hypothetical. One does not have to look too deep to see that candidate "X" referenced is Obama, while his "Y" is seemingly Hillary. It is not a vivid imagination that can canotate the 'X' with the crude reference to the past...to the 'X'...that is Malcolm...to the race card!
 
It seems to me this is payback time for Clinton against his charges of Racism being played against him in South Carolina. One has to wonder if Bill Clinton is the Genius we all have been told he is, then it would figure an opaque reference like this, is not accidental.
read for yourself...
 

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.

The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.

He said: “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”

Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”

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Dems fiddle as US burns

   The Democrat Congress is led by a women who does not realize Natural Gas is a Fossil Fuel. So it should not surprise anyone that she ignores the need for drilling to lessen the foreign grip on our Fuel Prices. Yes, our fuel prices...not just gasoline are fixed to the international supply of fossil fuels. Yet, we hold our future hostage, it is being held hostage by Nancy and her Democrat Mafia in Washington.
 
As we approach the fall and the retooling of our refineries to produce home heating oil, the looming cloud of higher prices is darking the future. Those Americans struggling in the declining northern cities, the rust belt, who are watching the days tick away like a bomb are being held hostage by a Congress unwilling to release the known reserves we have in this nation.
 
The Party that claims it cares, seemingly cares less for the people and more about the fear-mongering from Environmentalists. While we have great reserves off the coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, in ANWR and in the Western states, the Congress refuses to free up America's supplies.
 
The idea to NOT use the billions of dollars in the ground, under the water in the cold tundra of Alaska or in Shale in Colorado is like not spending your pay check and putting it into a desk uncashed. Where is the logic to not pull the Millions of barrels of crude out of the ground, from the under the water that at the current time are worth $120 per barrel? The Democratic Congress has held the value of Billions of dollars away from the American Economy at a time that could help Millions of American's.
 
Yet, who is getting richer and richer while the US sends our petro dollars to stations around the globe...not Americans. Who is going to suffer under record high Home Heating Oil prices while blaming it on Big Oil, not middle class America! How is Congress helping the people who are staring down the barrel of a gun, when the relief of these coming high prices has been deprived from them by the Rules, Laws and Regulations set forth by Democrats over the last 30 years.
 
SO while Million of Americans have already had to make terribly tough decisions on how to spend the precious dollars, choosing between medicine, food and gas, will soon have to add heating their homes to this list. Not becuase of Big Oil, but rather Big Government!
 
Congress, led by Pelosi, the Emperor of Washington, has been fiddling on vacation as the clock ticks closer to the fall and then winter...to the cold days ahead, to the high prices of Home Heating Oil...but Nancy just fiddles away. She has ignored the needs for a comprehensive energy policy that includes drilling, adding refining capacity, Nuke, alternatives, and freeing the regulatory hurdles to bring cheaper more bountiful supplies from our domestic reserves.
 
Nancy and the Democratic Mafia has been using racketeering practices to steal from the american people and keep them in desperate situations, holding them down. Drilling would free use, reduce our foreign needs, and bring a strategic strenght back to the US, while allowing us to control more of our future than we have in decades. Yet, this does not play to the narative that she wants, for it would empower people over the government.
 
Drill, Drill now, and bring sanity to our Energy Policy. Not utilizing our own domestic and OTC resources is insane...leaving $125/ barrel crude and Shale un-utilized is like leaving your paycheck in the desk and not cashing it...you have earned the money, but stubbornly refuse to spend the money...everyday we do not drill is another day lost...is another day we are being held hostage by the International Markets with complicity of the Democrats in Congress.
 
We are the only nation that does not exploit their own resources...We are the Saudi Arabia of Coal...We have amazing amounts of Shale, we have crude deposits in places people never go-ANWAR...we have means to drill, produce, transport and deliver this resource safely...it is done everyday...but Nancy, Barrack, and the Dems fiddle while, soon...Americans may not be able to afford to burn the heating oil they need...all the while the Dems play class envy politics, and refuse to utilize our billions of dollars beneath us!
 
 
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Obama's Moral Compass is stuck...so are most liberals'

When you listen to Liberals and, more recently Obama himself, during the Saddleback event, you see that their moral compass is stuck...stuck on Relativism.
When Warren asked Obama about America's moral failure, Obama answered..,

Obama: I think America's greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that we still don't abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers you do for me. And that notion of -- that basic principle applies to poverty. It applies to racism and sexism. It applies to, you know, not thinking about providing ladders of opportunity for people to get into the middle class.

I mean, there's a pervasive sense, I think, that this country, as wealthy and powerful as we are, still don't spend enough time thinking about "the least of these."

This is so endemic of Liberals...not seeing the forest through the trees. They (Liberals and Obama) often speak of Civil Rights and the causes of the poor, less fortunate as a motivating catch all for Liberal Policy's moral necessity. Yet, they are stuck on Relativism, they fail to see the order of things, the primordial nature of life.
One cannot be eight before one is seven, nor can one climb to 27,000 feet before 26,999...simple enough for a child to understand, eh. However the importance of this Primordial nature of things fails the gravity of Democratic, Liberal and, in particular, Obama politics.  
 
One cannot begin fighting for the causes of the poor, the less fortunate, the class struggles, the weak or as the Gospel of Matthew offers, the "least of these" without first fighting for the least of us, the unborn child! We cannot pick up this fight after they are no longer 'the least of these".
 
For, the goal is to protect those 'least' able to protect themselves, 'least' able to to fight for themselves, 'least' able to express their natural rights as granted by our creator. Our Declaration of Independence is clear on this fact, this Primordial nature of things.
 
Obama wishes, as most liberals do, to by-pass the 'least' of us and move to those 'most' likely to vote based upon their current condition.
 
This 'by-passing' is a decision based upon the relative nature of power. The threat to this power is the Creator himself. IF the unborn (man) is created in his image, then killing that unborn child is killing him. The power obtained by committing this act of killing, is an act of power over those who believe in the Creator. This is truly a fight for the soul of America.
 
Obama professed a faith in a Christian belief while holding the most preciously vulnerable hostage.
 
Warren also asked Obama about his most glaring Moral weakness...to which he replied..,

Obama: Well, in my own life, I'd break it up into stages. I had a difficult youth. My father wasn't in the house. I've written about this. You know, there were times when I experimented with drugs, I drank, you know, in my teenage years. And what I trace this to is a certain selfishness on my part. I was so obsessed with me and, you know, the reasons that I might be dissatisfied that I couldn't focus on other people. And you know, I think the process for me of growing up was to recognize that it's not about me. It's about --[Warren: I like that. I like that.]

Absolutely. But look, you know, when I find myself taking the wrong step, I think a lot of times it's because I'm trying to protect myself instead of do God's work.
Again Obama is failing to see the work God asks us to do...help the 'least of these'...the unborn child. IF we cannot start by protecting them, how could they justify this to God himself...how could they really believe that God would find killing the weak, the innocent the powerless an act of his will. They do not believe this is O.K. at 3 weeks of age, or 27 years, why is it OK to do so a conception plus 90 days? Or, anytime?
 
Abortion is the Slavery issue of our day and for an African American candidate to fail to see the primordial nature of life is a failure of our educational system. Few people have the unique vantage point and nearness to the issue of having the law deem you unworthy as do African Americans. The remarkable, sometimes frustrating, empathy the Israeli Jews show to the Palestinians’ who are in Settlements is a living example of this perspective in use.
 
Today, too many Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants and other Christians fail to place proper order, fail to see the primordial nature of life, and thus allow themselves to be manipulated by those who only aim to weaken their  relationship with the Creator. The Polar North of the Moral Compass is not negotiable and is not Relative, it is singular and precise--it is the Truth.
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Obama shows mettle on Georgia

Sen. Barack Obama released a series of comments on the Russia invasion of Georgia. Stepping off his Campaign plan at Heathrow Airport in the effort to court ex-patriot American's, Obama remarked that "having been to Atlanta many times, we cannot sit by while Russian forces move across the border and threaten the good people of Georgia."
 
When querried about what the heck are you talking about Candidate Obama, he said, "his foriegn policy mentor Jimmy Carter still resides in Georgia and that a threat against a former President is a threat against the whole of our nation." Obama went on to say that he looks forward to traveling to Rome, Georgia soon and to toss a coin in the fountains there. I will pre-emptively release my wish, as to not allow it to become a political issue as it did in the Jewish Whinning Wale. I will wish for the Russian invassion to cease and for the international borders of Georgia and Russia to be respected...I urge and wish for World Peace! The people of Georgia are suffering enough with consequences of slavery haunting them today."
The campaign quickly issued a press release correcting the medias failure to understand the original releases and clarified that Obama knows well that the Repubic of Georgia is not a state in the United States. Obama, retorted that, the media is failing to understand the specific references and comparisons trying to be made.
Asked if he would issue additional comments on the Georgia and Russian conflict, he said, "The Soviet Union is free nation, but Georgia deserves the same respect for its borders, I need to go now, but thanks, tally-ho"
 
 
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Olymipic failure!

   Why cannot liberalism see the failings of the United Nations and the failed concept of using the Olympics to build world peace. The United Nations has allowed for corruption in the Oil for Food Program, raping in Africa, and killing all over the world, but liberals cannot admit the failure of this organization. This same mentality has allowed the Olympics to be held in Nazi Germany(36), scheduled for militaristic Japan(44), communist Moscow (80) and now repressive Beijing(08).
 
Tonight marks the next example of failed liberal ideals and forced diplomacy.
 
The United Nations has failed to prevent more deaths, and robbed the dignity of too many nations. They have recognized rogue regimes all around the globe and given them cover by allowing them to join the civilized world...all in an attempt to persuade them from doing exactly what they have tacitly endorsed by recognizing the very people who commit the horrible offenses aganist humanity.
 
Watching the beautifull pagentry in Beijing can blind one to the real ugliness of what lies behind the color, technology and sheer magnifisense of the opening ceromony tonight. Precission on the grandest scale hides the forced abortions, while the pristine stadium blocks the view of a millions of politically abused people. A high profile recognition of China's 56 nationalities ignores the plight of the people many of these represent.
 
Giving the Olympics to China is the very worst message to to send to Chinese who suffer under the oppression of tyrany. The UN giving Chad, Libya, Iran seats on prestigeous committees like Arms, and Human Rights is obnoxious. Liberals fail to understand the carrot and the stick to change.
 
The Olympic refussual to allow Tiawan to hoist there own flag, is an insult to free people everywhere! The allowing of nations who do not agree to the most basic human rights into the UN is an insult to humanity. Giving creedence to rogue states and countries sends the wrong message to people everywhere struggling to bring down oppressive regimes.
 
Tonight, is a sad celebration of what happens when liberals think they can change the world with hope instead of action. Possibly the only good that comes from the next 17 days in China, is that energy use will be down at the factories.
 
finally, as the games begin, one can only hope that the wise and sage minds that decide such things will finally come to there wits and stop awarding the games to nations whlo oppress there people...but then again, it is too late!
 
A simple rule should exist that no nation can belong the UN unless they respect basic human right and allow for the freedom of thought, religion and movement. This should include the exclussion to the Olympics of naitions who do not do the same.
 
Here is to the courage of the dissidents in China, like the recent departed Solzennitzen(sp), we must celebrate those who put their lives, the fortunes and their sacred honor into the ring of fire!
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John Edwards or Gary Hart

   Former Senator and twice defeated presidential aspirant John Edwards is a pathological Liar. Today, he admitted to having an affair he has previously denied. However, he continues to claim, (1) he is not in love with her, (2) he did not father her child, (3) he should be believed now.
 
Edwards had been hounded by the National Enquirer...a punishment no person should have to face. Yet, despite the efforts to expose his daliances, he continued to Gary Harte it...He was caught visiting his women and love child last month. This despite knowing they are onto him.
 
John Edwards talked about two America's, well he is right...one where you have Campaign Aids lie about fathering your children and the other where people father there own!
 
John Edwards is the Clinton and Hart of our day...to weak to lead and too weak to live right. Hey, everyone can stumble, but knowing when not to run for President, should have number one on the list, while you are cheating on your spouce...Double Astrick should be, especially when she has Cancer...
 
See if Edwards gets the treatment Gingrich received?
Bet Not!
 
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It is about me, about I, about Obama!

Charles Krauthammer wrote...
 

Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.

Does this not just say it all...McCains camp should repeat this over and over and over again...Obama would be the dawn of destruction!
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