Saturday, August 30, 2008

Opinion Roundup on Palin

Jonah Goldberg at NRO:
I've been thinking about it and I think the bottom line on Palin is pretty simple. If she does a good job at the convention and survives about three weeks of serious media scrutiny — no horrible gaffes, no unforgivable I-don't-knows to gotchya questions (fair and unfair), no botched hostile interviews — she will emerge as the single most inspired VP pick in modern memory and she will give the Democrats migraines for a long time to come, assuming there are no terrible skeletons we don't know about. But, if she screws up in the next three weeks, gives the press and the late night comedians sufficient fodder to Quayelize her, she'll be seen as anything from a liability to an outright horrible pick. That's it.


The NRO Editors on the Palin Pick:

By picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has wowed the public and enthused the Right. He has reinforced some of his winning themes — that he has the mindset of an outsider and a fighter against corruption. He has also reinforced his appeal as the candidate more in touch with traditional values on moral issues.

McCain and Palin can and should say that they will fight to protect Americans from our foreign enemies, to stop liberal excesses, and to reform dysfunctional institutions. They should not accept the portrait of middle-class Americans as hapless victims that so many of the Democratic speakers this week portrayed; but they need to show that they share middle-class frustrations. Strength in foreign policy; reforms of taxes and health care geared to the middle class; and a moderate social conservatism: It’s a potentially winning message, and now Republicans have a ticket that is suited to it.


Tom Gross, at NRO, who points out many people miss - making the right foreign policy choices requires the right thinking and values. Yes, Biden has more "experience". But his choices in the past have been very poor. One example is here. Quote from Tom Gross's article:
It is true that Biden talks of his support for Israel in principle, but the reality is that he has done his utmost to thwart keeping the possibility of a military option open to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. As a result he was even praised recently on the Iranian regime’s official propaganda arm, Press TV.

It is no accident that Biden was dubbed “Tehran’s favorite senator” in an article in the Washington Post last week.

By contrast, the very first reference to foreign policy that Palin made in her acceptance speech after being chosen as John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate Friday was that Iran must be stopped from getting nuclear weapons. She mentioned this even before she mentioned the issues of Iraq and Russia.


N. Emery has 14 points on how McCain's pick shakes up the race.

4. Revs up the base AND excites independents, which no one else in the party, or perhaps in the world, could have accomplished.


Bill Kristol thinks it is a wise and shrewd move:

So what we will see in the next days and weeks--what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination--is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.

He took the gamble--wisely, we think--of putting her on the ticket. McCain's choice of Palin was McCain being McCain. Now his campaign will have to let Palin be Palin.

Palin will be a compelling and mold-breaking example for lots of Americans who are told every day that to be even a bit conservative or Christian or old-fashioned is bad form. In this respect, Palin can become an inspirational figure and powerful symbol. The left senses this, which is why they want to discredit her quickly.


Fred Barnes, in an excellent editorial, says it's 'providential':

And it looked like we were in for the selection by McCain of a humdrum vice presidential running mate, followed by a not very interesting Republican convention in St. Paul.

Sarah Palin changed all that. She was not only a surprise choice but also an electrifying one, and her selection has far-reaching implications. Her entry will change the nature of the presidential race. And if the McCain-Palin ticket wins, it has the potential to carry Republicans through a rough patch and even ensure conservative dominance of the party--for years to come.

So Republicans were beginning to come together, but it was thanks largely to Democratic noisemaking. Republicans weren't on offense. Now, with Sarah Palin's elevation, they are. McCain couldn't mobilize the Republican base, but Palin can. Indeed, she already has. By 10 P.M. Friday, the day her selection was announced, the McCain campaign had raised $4 million online--more than six times its previous daily record.

She brought down Alaska's governor, attorney general, and state Republican chairman (see my "Most Popular Governor," July 16, 2007). She killed the "bridge to nowhere." She used increased tax revenues from high oil prices to give Alaskans a rebate. She slashed government spending. She took on the biggest industry in Alaska, the oil companies, to work out an equitable deal on building a new gas pipeline. Obama can't match even one of these accomplishments.


James Taranto makes a keen observation:

At 44, Palin is actually younger than Obama, and she has two years' less experience in statewide office than he does. On the other hand, she has more executive experience than McCain, Obama and Joe Biden combined, and the Democrats have a rookie at the top of the ticket.


Wall Street Journal Editorial: it proves McCain is serious about changing his party

Barack Obama aside, Senator McCain's biggest problem is a Republican brand that has suffered -- both among independents and the GOP base -- from the party's business-as-usual mentality in Washington. The public wants change. This pick could prove Mr. McCain is serious about changing his party.

Against the odds, Mrs. Palin won that 2006 election against the state's former Democratic governor Tony Knowles. Most recently, she promoted the effort of her GOP lieutenant governor to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young, who with Senator Stevens created the earmark that sank the GOP, the notorious "bridge to nowhere."


IBD Approves:

Finally, Sarah Palin is a governor with two years of authentic executive experience. This spares this race the specter of an all-senator show. And history shows it's far better preparation for the presidency than other offices. A governor must execute budgets, pull factions together, compromise on tough issues and make the buck stop there. If Palin's short stint as governor calls into question her experience, it's still superior to Barack Obama's two years in the U.S. Senate.

WaPo editorial spends much time regurgitating the "but McCain is 72!" stuff, and finally gets to a point:


Above all, she has no record on foreign policy and national security -- including terrorism, which Mr. McCain posits as the top challenge facing America and the world. Once the buzz over Ms. Palin's nomination dies down, the hard questions about her will begin. The answers will reflect on her qualifications -- and on Mr. McCain's judgment as well.


The New York Times editorial is boring and predictable, I won't even quote it here.

Dick Morris on his blog: Sweet Pick

McCain has reached for the stars and grabbed one. On a recent cruise to Alaska, I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Sarah Palin. She is brilliant and articulate and, in Alaska politics, is a breath of fresh air as an alternative to their corruption epitomized by Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. Now Obama, who has spent two years preventing a woman from being president, will spend two months preventing one from becoming vice president – and hopes to do so with women votes. The entire premise of the Democratic convention was the fungibility of Bush and McCain. Now McCain has vividly demonstrated the difference. Sarah Palin is no Dick Cheney!


UPDATE:
Newt Gingrich's first thoughts, sent in an email to The Weekly Standard:
[hatip: LGF reader links]

There is something unaffected and "unsophisticated" (in the Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and University of Chicago meanings of the word) about Governor Palin. She really was point guard of a state championship basketball team. She really is a competent hunter. She is a hockey mom. She has one son about to go to Iraq.

She has 13 years in elected office.

By any practical standard she has done far more in the real world with much more spontaneity and practicality than Barack Obama. And there is something deeply real and courageous about John McCain ignoring most of his advisers and all of the "insider wisdom" to reach out to a younger woman whose greatest characteristic is undaunted courage and a willingness to clean out the corruption in her own party.

NOONAN on Obama Speech: "A Bit of Floppalini"

Man, this is great.
Maybe MSNBC does have a future.

Noonan, a WSJ columnist, makes a hillarious comment about MSNC pundits, and their "fatuous suck-upping". The rambling Joe Scarborough almost ruins with it talking, but it's great.

[hat tip: LGF]




I agree with Noonan, and disagree with those who think this was a great speech.

Obama needed to hit a home run - he hit a double.
And just when it actually started to get good, he ended it.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Friday Fun - "Who's Callin'?"

The Unreported Comments on Sarah Palin

These are the quotes you know are true, but you'll never find in the media. But the truth is out there, somewhere...



"I'd prefer if she hunted with a .3oo Winchester Mag, everyone knows you don't take moose with a 30-06 Springfield." - Moose hunting friend, who asked to remain anonymous




"She's a known terrorist, hates the earth, and has deliberat
ely killed precious wildlife in Alaska. Plus, she's evil. Why McCain couldn't pick a trans-gender candidate I can't say. "- whacko post from Daily Kos









"Damn it. I hate that guy." Mitt Romney, shunned Republican VP Pick










"I'm worried about the increase in global warming - she's sooooo hot!!!" - President Bill Clinton








"The kid said, 'Don't taze me, bro', so I zapped him anyway. Then she's tries to kick my hiney off the force!" - Mike Wooten, former brother-in-law and one of 7 Alaska State Troopers







"McCain could've had an evangelical stud, but instead he goes for the winner of the Babes in Christ contest." - Mike Huckabee, vocation unknown









"She is not insanely great. Al Gore is. McCain should've picked him." - Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., where Mr. Gore is on the board







"She was picked for what? But she was supposed to bring snacks to the next Hockey Moms social!" - Juneau Hockey Moms Group Leader

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Palin: The Reactions



"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," - Obama spokesman Bill Burton


"She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of `Me first and Washington second.'" - John McCain

"Governor Palin is an admirable person and will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.” - joint statement from Obama and Biden

No one knows anything about her,” unidentified GOP strategist, @ Politico


"After trying to make experience the issue of this campaign, John McCain celebrated his 72nd birthday by appointing a former small-town mayor and brand new governor as his vice presidential nominee,” - Former DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel, from Politico

"She will be an ideal running mate for John McCain, and will make a major contribution to our country’s future.” - Fred Thompson

"Sarah Palin is not the right choice. She shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies. John McCain and Sarah Palin will not bring the American people the New Direction they need.” - a gracious Nanci Pelosi, who has not yet named her choice for McCain VP

"Conservatives will be thrilled with this pick" - Greg Mueller, a conservative GOP strategist.

A Hail Mary pass - Sentator Chuck Schumer


"She completes a strong ticket that will bring a real record of change and reform to Washington” - Senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)

"Smart pick, she completely changes the narrative." - Senior GOP Senate aide

"Although only holding an executive, state-wide office for less than two years, Gov. Palin has already shown that she is a fierce opponent of equality." - Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese


"A woman of faith who has a strong position on life, a consistent opinion on judges,"
- Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law and founder of the legal group Liberty Counsel

“Sarah Palin is a pleasant surprise for those of us who had hoped that Senator McCain would pick a principled and authentic conservative pro-life leader." - Mike Huckabee

"We just can’t afford a gamble like this with our future.” - Eli Pariser, Exec. Dir. of MoveOn.org, speaking of VP nominee Palin, not presidential nominee Obama.


It would seem that the most important thing to consider for the VP pick would be to have someone who was ready on day one to take over as president - not only is this critically important for the leadership of our country, but the press is going to be hammering on this.
I guess McCain felt that getting Hillary supporters was more important. You know, for that feminist-conservative symbiosis!

In many ways though, this is a very shrewd pick - evangelical conservatives, often put off by McCain, now a have a VP pick that suits them. And it makes the McCain ticket very attractive to voters who'd like to see a woman on the ticket. Plus, it's bound to sew-up the Alaska vote!


Palin VP Roundup





Bio from the Gov's Site.

Currently, the site is overwhelmed with traffic and unresponsive!!

UPDATED:
U.S. News & World Report: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Sarah Palin
1. Sarah Louise Palin (nee Heath) was born Feb., 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her family moved to Alaska when Sarah was an infant. Her father, Chuck, is a retired schoolteacher.

2. She attended Wasilla High School where she played point guard on the state champion basketball team. Her nickname was "Sarah Barracuda."

3. Palin graduated in 1987 from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism. She worked briefly as a sports reporter in Anchorage.

4. She refers to her husband, Todd, as the "First Dude." He's worked as a commercial fisherman and as a production operator on the North Slope for BP. He enjoys snowmobiling and has won the Tesoro Iron Dog, billed as the world's longest snowmobile race, four times.

5. Palin and her husband have five children, Bristol, Piper, Track, Willow, and Trig. Trig, born in 2008, has been diagnosed with Down syndrome. Her son Track joined the army in 2007.

6. Her favorite meal is moose stew.

7. She comes from a family of outdoor enthusiasts. Her parents, Chuck and Sally Heath, enjoy hunting and fishing, and have both completed marathons.

8. Palin was named Miss Wasilla in 1984 and was a runner-up for Miss Alaska. In 1996 she was elected mayor of Wasilla.

9. She's a lifetime NRA member and enjoys hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling.

10. Elected in 2006, she's Alaska's first female governor and the youngest governor elected in the state.


Wikipedia has this.
Palin was elected Governor of Alaska in 2006 after defeating incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and former Democratic Alaskan governor Tony Knowles in the general election. She gained attention for publicizing ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders.[2] Before becoming governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected mayor of Wasilla (population 5,470 in 2000) in 1996, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002. She is the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing the Republican Party and the second female vice-presidential candidate representing a major political party. (The first was Democrat Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.) She is also the first politician from Alaska to run on a national ticket in a campaign for President or Vice President.



Fred Barnes wrote about her in July of '07.


" "She's as Alaskan as you can get," says Dan Fagan, an Anchorage radio talk show host. "She's a hockey mom, she lives on a lake, she ice fishes, she snowmobiles, she hunts, she's an NRA member, she has a float plane, and her husband works for BP on the North Slope," Fagan says. Todd Palin, her high school sweetheart, is a three-time winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race from Wasilla to Nome to Fairbanks. It's the world's longest snowmobile race."


MSNBC took a break from fighting to post the "pros and cons..."

Palin brings to a McCain ticket. She also reinforces McCain's maverick image. She bucked her own party, launching an ethics investigation into the state party chairman with regard to his dealings with oil companies in the state. And being from Alaska, she's the ultimate outsider. She also also reinforces McCain's drilling message -- though she's for drilling in ANWR; McCain is not. She also represents the next generation of Republican leaders -- she's a fresh face.

But there are some potential pitfalls as well. Palin is currently under legislative investigation herself, accused of firing the state's public safety commissioner for not firing her former brother-in-law.

Video of her from the Glenn Beck show (go to the 4:20 mark)...




Fox News has this.
Describing Palin as someone with “grit and integrity and devotion to the common good that is exactly what we need in Washington today,” McCain said Palin “knows where she comes from and she knows who she works for. She stands up for what is right and she doesn’t tell anyone to sit down. She’s fought oil companies and party bosses and do-nothing bureaucrats and anyone who puts their interests before the people they serve.”

Palin, 44, brings to the Republican ticket a resume that challenges conventional wisdom while also playing into the party’s conservative base. A former beauty queen, the Alaska governor is, among other things, a mother of five, abortion opponent, union member, hockey player and moose hunter. She is said to be a reformer who takes pride in standing up to the “good ole’ boy network” and has served as the top ethics watchdog in her state.


More video - from Larry Kudlow's Show



developing...

FLASH: McCAIN PICKS ALASKA GOV. SARAH PALIN





McCain picks for his VP slot a woman: Sara Palin.

Quite the surprise pick.

Palin, like McCain, is a conservative with a maverick streak who has shown a willingness to clash with others in her own party. A self-styled hockey mom and political reformer, she has been governor of her state less than two years.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

MSNBC - "The situation is about to blow up"

Wow, Politico reports on an explosive situation at MSNBC...

"MSNBC prez defends convention team"

Amid a spate of awkward on-air conflicts among MNSBC anchors at this week’s Democratic convention, some staff members say there are sharp internal disputes at the cable network over whether its opinion and personality-driven political coverage has crossed the line.

“The situation at our channel is about to blow up,” a high-ranking MSNBC journalist told Politico on Wednesday.

Two other MSNBC sources said some of the testy on-air exchanges between Keith Olbermann — whose quick-witted and often caustic commentary has fueled ratings growth — and other network personalities were a public glimpse of much more intense behind-the-scenes turmoil.

Video is here:




More funny video here at HotAir.com.

MSNBC is awash and drowning in liberal pundits. Scarborough is a conservative, but he is simply not entertaining.

What a simply awful moment in television - did they really air this? They had nothing better? This network is toast.

Scarborough talks too much and still misses the point. The point is this: only NOW are the Iraqis talking about a pull out, and even then it's still 3 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD. 2011. Only now - that we have the upper hand and have beaten the terrorists back and ground the Shia militias to nothing, and now they've joined us.
Liberal pundits and Democrats can not now pretend that this is the same thing as them demanding a pullout in 2006, at the low point in the war - WHEN WE WOULD HAVE LOST, AND IRAQ WOULD'VE BEEN GONE FOR YEARS.


Barack Obama had the audacity (not of hope) to imply that Iraqi President Maliki is following Obama's lead on a pullout.

Intial Thoughts on the Obama Speech

HOW? how are you going to do it?
HOW MUCH is it going to cost?
WHO are you kidding?


more americans are out of work
- more than what? Not more than the Clinton years. Way less than the Carter years.

Broken Politics.
- every election cycle we see the classic "throw the bums out" campaigns. Has any major media outlet even brought that up?
Obama's change message is nothing new - throw the bums out is an old strategy.

That brought you George bush and Dick Cheney
- as if that meant something. Saying "Dick Cheney" isn't an accusation in and of itself unless you're an ultra-lib.
Liberals create a myth and then repeat it enough to convince others that it's true.
Cheney. Haliburton.
Cheney has more experience than Barack Obama could ever dream of, even when the dreams are from his father.
Simply because he was a CEO before being a vice president - this is evil?
And Michelle Obama getting promoted to a position on a corporate board for $300k a year AFTER Obama became a senator - that's not bad?

Did he really say that a company's responsibility is to create jobs?
- creating jobs is a by-product of investment and success.
the only responsibility that they have is to obey the law while they under go their proclaimed right to the pursuit of happiness

- promises to end our dependence on foreign oil in 10 years.
- this is the same guy who says we will see no benefit at all in 10 years if we allowed more drilling today, right now.

Mid-way through I'm thinking...
who does this guy think he is?
end all misery...
make all people equal...
right the wrongs of prejudice

michelle and him were given a chance.
michelle went to Harvard because of equal opp. policies - has anyone ever asked which student was it that did NOT get into Harvard because of that? It was one who actually had the appropriate grades that was bumped out. That person may have even been another african american.

Wow - no one has ever before thought of cutting wasteful programs and making existing ones more efficient. He didn't say how, but he said he'd do it. And that's going to raise an additional $1 TRILLION bucks in 4 years? Now that is a dream from his father.

take out osama bin laden - what nonsense. Does he think we are not trying to do this?
The cave where he lives - is in Pakistan, an unstable country who cannot be seen by most of its populace as supporting a christian nation.

Clinton, not McCain, is the one who did not see the future and only saw the past - he promised a peace dividend after the cold war ended but could not see the Islamic holy war against the west - even after the FIRST attack on the WTC in the FIRST YEAR of his admin.


HOW HOW HOW HOW???
He'll stop Iran and Russia, but he won't say what steps he'll take to do that. Talking to them will do that? Russia and Iran's only problem is that they have not been talked to?

The Dems and Obama cannot escape the fact that we would have LOST IN IRAQ HAD THEY GOTTEN THEIR WAY in 2006 and 2007.

Think of Muqtada al-Sadr running Iraq with his thugs and al-Qaeda in tow.

Finally a great line:
Change doesn't come from Washington, it comes to Washington.

Once again a Dem leader of the national ticket invokes for his own purposes the scriptures. And in this time instead of faith and hope in God, we can only assume Obama meant faith and hope in him. Shameful.

CNN has live streaming of the Obama Speech

awesome.

Very good quality video as well. Quite impressive.

Dems as Patriots, With Help of Spielberg

In light of the Democrats showing a Spielberg-produced video supposedly to honor our vets, it would seem to be a good time to look at some of the leading democrats and their views...

New and improved:
We forgot Dick Durbin, who also tried and convicted the troops in the court of opinion before any trial really occurred...



John Murtha, calling the troops murderers...




John Kerry, grabbing the limelight after Vietnam duty.




Thank God, Harry - if you had had your way, it would've been lost. Over and over your party pushed for simply pulling out. If Bush went in with a poor plan, you wanted out with no plan at all.

Last of all, the steadfast and coherent policy of Barack Obama - who was for the surge and against the surge, and now refuses to acknowledge that it worked.

Obama Speech Prep

"This film is pro-humanity and anti-bad things."
- Monty Python


Here is a detailed review and analysis of Obama's speech tonight. Before we even hear it.

His plans can be found here: in "A Blue Print For Change", by Barack Obama.

You can download it here.


And now, on to the analysis of his speech that we've not yet heard...

[Obama's major points of his future speech are in bold. Analysis in regular font.]

Do you want 4 more years of Bush? McCain is 4 More Years of Bush.
Wait, I thought The Media love McCain, because he's a 'maverick" and has thwarted many of Bush's plans throughout the years?
McCain is his own man, and his first four years will be his own first four years, not a continuation of anything.

The Republicans are going to try to scare you into thinking I'm the wrong guy, because of previous associations and because I don't look like all those presidents on those dollar bills.
The republicans don't have to scare anybody, unless you mean they shouldn't be allowed to talk about Obama's political formation vis-a-vis his associations, his total lack of experience ("Community Organzier"???), and his too-hard-to-take-it-all-in public gaffes and reversals on important issues. Even Obama himself said that at least one critical issue is "above his paygrade".

And race - Obama is the only one who is race-baiting with his "don't look like all the presidents on those dollar bills" statement. This is at once a racial slur on present-day republicans and a slur on our nation's history.

I will get us out of Iraq.
" He will end the war responsibly by bringing our troops home within 16 months" - pg. 51.

Too late - a timetable for that is already being worked out, now that the Iraqis themselves can assert the ability to fight, after we had a chance to train them. The scary thing is, Obama would've have even started a pullout when we were at a crucial and perilous point in the war - and he would have gladly lost it by letting the terrorists know we'd be out soon.

I have no idea what to do about Russia invading a sovereign democracy in Georgia.
Neither does President Bush, but no doubt Obama's ideals of talking, subtlety, and nuance will work things out.


I will stop corporate lobbyists, except in the case that they are close relatives of my administration.

I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists
that their days of setting the agenda in
Washington are over. I have done more than
any other candidate in this race to take on
lobbyists – and won. They have not funded my
campaign, they will not get a job in my White
House, and they will not drown out the voices
of the American people when I am president.” - pg. 3

Wow, this issue is so important to Barack Obama, that he starts out his entire policy plan with it - page 3!

The only problem is, his pick for VP has a son who is a majorly powerful lobbyist, who of course never discusses his work with his father. Never. Never even thought of doing that.

See ABC's story here.

I promise $1 Trillion in new spending.

A few trillion here, a few trillion there, pretty soon we're talking about real money.


I promise to make the wealthiest 1% of Americans, who earn 21% of all income but only pay 40% of all taxes, pay more.


"President Bush’s policies of giving tax breaks for the wealthy will cost the nation over $2.3 trillion by the time they expire in 2009. " - pg. 29

"Cost" the nation? Wow, that's a complete inversion of reality - it didn't "cost" the nation anything. It saved $2.3 trillion from being taken out of the economy. When Obama raises those taxes, it will certainly "cost" a lot from those who are paying it. Is it better to have $2.3 trillion spent directly in the economy by individuals and businesses, or is it better to funnel that to huge, never-ending bureaucracies that will get budget increases automatically every year, ensuring they'll spend ever penny they get? Is it better to have $2.3 trillion to expand the government, or $2.3 trillion to be invested in new technologies, better efficiency, pay worker's salaries, create more jobs, and everything else that happens with private capital?

I promise more happiness for everyone, except those who are creating and sustaining non-government jobs in this economy.
"We’ll require employers to provide seven paid sick days each year. We’ll enforce laws that prohibit caregiver discrimination." - pg. 35

A tax raise on all businesses, but mostly hurting the small businesses which make up most of corporate America and thus our economy.
Where does Obama think the free money will come from? Will more money fall out of the sky, allowing businesses to give more paid time off to their employees? Will their sales and profits automatically and commensurately increase to offset this? No.
Obama proves here that he's the candidate of changing things for the worse. He doesn't trust companies to come up with their own benefit packages to attract employees and he doesn't trust a person's ability to choose the job with the benefits they can get at the pay they want, given their skills.
Nope, trying to ensure the outcome and not the opportunity is what Obama is trying to do, and that is not change - it's standard Democratic policy.

I promise to to legalize all those "undocumented workers", so that they'll forevermore increase the membership and power of the Democratic Party.

On page 29, Obama all but promises to stop immigration enforcement - "immigration raids are ineffective." He'll then legalize all immigrants now, with no real penalties.

Illegals immigrants would "pay a fine, learn English, and ...opportunity to become citizens. "


The evils of the world will disappear once I can talk to those involved.

"Obama will turn the page on the Bush-Cheney diplomacy of not talking to countries that we don’t like. " - pg. 51

Either Obama is completely ignorant of foreign policy issues, or he is outright lying.
The Bush administration has been negotiating with nearly ALL countries that it "doesn't like".
"Doesn't like" is an immature simplification, isn't it? I mean, if you're talking about a country of Persians whose leadership is driven by radical religious ideology, whose relationship to the Arab world is at once adversarial and cooperative, who produce a lot of oil and can threaten the major shipping lanes of the world's oil supply, who have repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and who are obtaining nuclear and military technology from non-democratic major world powers - "doesn't like" really doesn't fully describe the issue, does it? It doesn't matter if Bush and Cheney "like" them or not. Iran is a violent regime with violent intentions - and the Bush administration has spent a lot of effort to deal with this - all while not dignifying a state sponsor of terrorism by talking with him directly, with "no pre-conditions".

Obama has not and will not address what's actually being done, and what he will do differently.
"Talking" is not doing anything differently.


"Obama will launch the most aggressive diplomatic effort in recent American history." - pg. 51

Liberals always think that bad events happen around the world simply because they were not there personally to talk to the other side.

The 2008 budget request for the State Department was $36.2 BILLION dollars, with a few more billion thrown on top to cover "urgent" events.
What does Obama think the State Dept. is doing? Is he pretending that we aren't constantly dealing with Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia, you name it??
It's arrogance to assume nothing is currently being done, and that all that is needed is for Obama to talk to, say, Iran.

And what will he do when talking fails?

The Clinton administration talked and talked to North Korea. The talking ended in an agreement where North Korea agreed to give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Clinton administration would give them nuclear technology so they could have nuclear power. I'm not making that up. If a country has a nuclear power plant, all they need is enriched uranium, and they have nuclear bombs.
After all the talking and hand shakes, Clinton left office, and the North Koreans openly mocked the U.S., saying that they had lied all along and were always pursuing nuclear weapons. Now, they have them. And now the North Koreans are making a lot of money by giving this technology to the Syrians (state sponsors of terrorism), and who knows else.
But no, all that's needed is for Mr. Obama to talk to our enemies, who couldn't care less about talking, and only desire to pursue their own dark agendas.

I will solve all healthcare problems by making it 'universal'.

"Obama will sign a universal health care plan into law by the end of his first term in office." - pg. 7

Obama has not read "Vision of the Anointed" by Thomas Sowell, and does not intuitively get that solving big problems is always a matter of trade-offs, and not simply a matter of finding a "solution".

Obama's answer to healthcare is not "change" at all - in fact, it looks like every other takeover of healthcare offered by the Democrats, starting a decade and a half ago with the Clinton administration.

We can look at universal coverage in other countries that have it, and see what the results are. Critical surgeries can't be scheduled for months or longer - even for something as important as removing cancer. Specialists can't be scheduled for months in advance.

How can Americans manage healthcare costs, when we don't even know the cost?
Laser eye surgery prices have come way down, and are very affordable. Why? Why has this area of healthcare not ballooned out of control? Because it's not covered by insurance typically, which means people pay for it themselves, and are thus engaged in making a trade-off between price and quality and necessity.
Where else in healthcare can you shop around for prices? Say you need cancer surgery - what price is it to get it from the best doctor versus someone who is just OK? Can one shop around for the best price on check-ups?

No. The reason: single-payer insurance, where everyone gets every benefit for a low co-pay, while the insurer is the only one who knows the real price. Low prices unconnected to the real value of a resource mean artificially high demand. Example - got a cold? Go see your doctor and take up a half-hour of his time. Your cost: $30 (the co-pay). Would you still have made that appointment if you had to pay the real cost, say, $150? Probably not. You'd wait to see if it was a normal cold or if it turned out to be something serious. Multiply this effect by millions of people, and you have a supply and demand equation that is way out of whack.

We've got to be able to make price-versus-quality-of-life decisions with healthcare, and universal coverage and single, government-paid healthcare only make that situation worse. That means prices will still spiral out of control, but the government will "pay" for it.
Except that the government has no money. It only has your money. Again, a trade-off: who's better at spending your money - you or some person in a distant office, totally unconnected to your well being, who is not paid for performance, so he can spend how much he likes on whatever he likes, with the guarantee that his budget will increase every year at 5% forever?

Obama: Hope you can only hope for. Change that will make things worse. A speech we can't wait to hear.

Steve Jobs Dead According to Accidental Bloomberg Release

[image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/88343420/]

Very odd.

Bloomberg accidentally released a newswire report with Steve Job's obituary.


But rumors of his death, of course, were greatly exaggerated, since he's still alive.

"The obituary contained blank spaces for Jobs’s age and cause of death to be inserted.
The opening sentence described Jobs as the man who “helped make personal computers as easy to use as telephones, changed the way animated films are made, persuaded consumers to tune into digital music and refashioned the mobile phone.” "

An Analysis of Obama's Speech, Before He Gives It

"This film is pro-humanity and anti-bad things."
- Monty Python
http://pantheonjournal.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-speech-prep.html

Very Telling Article on Joe Biden

In October of 2001, right after 9/11, The New Republic did an article on an ebullient Joe Biden, now enjoying the spotlight as the lead Democrat on foreign policy issues.

We also covered some of this article in a previous link: Joe Biden wanted to give Iran $200 million after September 11.

Salient quotes...

A blandly handsome man in a pilot's cap steps forward and asks Biden to help pass emergency benefits for laid-off airline workers. Biden nods as the men and women cluster around him with fawning smiles. Then he speaks. "I hope you will support my work on Amtrak as much as I have supported you," he begins. (Biden rides Amtrak to work every day and is obsessed with the railroad.) "If not, I will screw you badly."

A dozen faces fall in unison as Biden lectures on. "You've not been good to me. You're also damn selfish. You better listen to me..." It goes on like this for a couple of minutes. Strangely, Biden keeps grinning--even fraternally slapping the stunned man's shoulder a couple of times. When we finally head into the building, Biden's communications director, Norm Kurz, turns to me. "What you just witnessed is classic Senator Biden."

No other Democrat has been as visible in the weeks since September 11, and Biden, who began promoting himself almost immediately after the attacks, is likely to speak, for the foreseeable future, for a party lacking in foreign policy experts. That's good news for a man who is thinking seriously about running for president in 2004. But is it good for the Democratic Party?

"He lacks the filter," says one Democratic strategist. Or as a senior Senate foreign policy aide put it: "Biden is an unguided missile."

Speech is at once Biden's great strength and his great weakness. As a presidential candidate in 1987 he brought audiences to tears with his stump speeches about reclaiming the lost dream of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Then his campaign imploded when he was caught plagiarizing from British Labour Party head Neil Kinnock.

And when Biden spoke before a meeting of Democratic senators shortly after the September 11 attacks, to explain the importance of the use-of-force authorization he had helped craft, he received a standing ovation. Afterward California Senator Barbara Boxer approached Biden to say, "Thank God you're here."

In fact, the only thing Biden likes better than reminding people about his anti-terrorism bill is reminding them that he predicted the September 11 attacks. On September 10 Biden delivered a foreign policy speech to the National Press Club complaining about the administration's fixation on missile defense. "The real threat comes to this country in the hold of a ship, the belly of a plane, or smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack," Biden said. So give the man credit.

"This," Joe Biden announces, "is what I've spent my entire adult life preparing for." It's exactly three Tuesdays since the September attacks, and Biden is presiding over a morning meeting of his committee staffers. It's a formidable group--a collection of super-earnest twentysomethings and grave committee veterans, all wearing dark suits and grim faces. Biden, with his pearly smile and sugar-white hair, seems almost to glow in contrast.

At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.




Aggressive New McCain Ad

I hate simply putting up McCain campaign ads, but some of these are very good.

This one's a keeper...



[hat tip: exurbanleague.com]

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Dems Pretend to Be Patriots at Convention

Updated link has moved to here.

World Record Protest Sign

Over 52 million and counting...




[hat tip: michellemalkin.com]

Biden After 9/11: Give Iran $200 Million

Joe Biden is probably very informed on a lot of inner workings of various foreign policy matters under consideration by our government.

This does not mean that he has the wisdom or sound judgement to make the right decisions.
How could anyone in their right mind have wanted to pull out of Iraq in 2006??? Signal to the terrorists, way before they're defeated, that the US is pulling out, and they'd wait until we leave and literally take over much of the country of Iraq. Terrible, terrible policy pursued by Biden and most democrats.

Now, NRO has a great piece on some Biden suggestions right after 9/11.


The month after the 9/11 attacks, The New Republic profiled Biden and caught this brainstorm:

At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.

The staffers offer various objections, but no one notes the obvious one: Iran is not Arab and is the enemy of most Arab regimes.
Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.

Wanting to send $2oo million to Iran, a known state sponsor of terrorism, right after the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil is astoundingly unwise. This is a very telling response. Biden may appear tough, but he's no different than most liberals on defense: terrorists attacked us, it must be our fault, offer them concessions.

And so much for subtlety and nuance - the chief goals and values of liberal foreign policy. Cutting a check for $200 mill??? A very knee-jerk reaction with no value and no forethought. Iran would be mocking us now for it, and celebrating our weakness.

What a strange twist of fate that would've been if Biden had given Iran $200 million, so that they could turn around and use that to buy nuclear technology from Russia. The fruits of that are too ugly to imagine.

Original article found here at The New Republic.


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Site o' The Day: Cupcakes!!!



Muy delicioso slideshow.

Hillary's Speech At the Dem Convention




BBC has a nice summary found here.

Let's analyze one part of her speech...

"After eight years of George Bush, people are hurting at home, and our standing has eroded around the world. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Jobs lost, houses gone, falling wages, rising prices. The Supreme Court in a right-wing headlock and our government in partisan gridlock. The biggest deficit in our nation's history. Money borrowed from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis. Putin and Georgia, Iraq and Iran."

"After eight years of George Bush, people are hurting at home," - We were more hurting at home when the first World Trade center attack occurred in Bill Clinton's administration, during his first year in office. After many more attacks on US targets around the world for 8 more years, while Clinton was in office the whole time, 9/11/2001 happened. That's when we hurt at home. If she's talking about the economy - it's doing just fine, and has been, though you'd never know it from the MSM. Have you ever seen a headline proclaiming that unemployment for most of Bush's time in office is lower than that during most of Bill Clinton's??

Gateway Pundit has an excellent write up on this.

"and our standing has eroded around the world." - the biggest joke that the Dems keep telling. Look, Schroeder and Chirac (Germany's and France's leaders, respectively, during the early years of the Bush administration) are gone. They hated us. Merkel and Sarkozy, the current leaders of Germany and France, respectively, largely support the US. And there are many countries that are thankful for us, such as the former Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe, which are quickly emerging as solid, free-market economies and great allies of the U.S. The Dems never mention all the places where we are favored. They hate America, they project: everyone else hates us.

" We have a lot of work ahead of us." - translation: "Gosh, we can't wait to raise taxes on everything!"

" Jobs lost" - the unemployment rate has only recently crept up to 5.7%, which is barely higher than it was for most of Bill Clinton's years. For a long time under Bush they were at 4.4%, which is lower than the typical year in the Clinton administration. Unemployment in Germany? 10%. Down from 12% a few years ago. But that doesn't prevent the Dems from wanting to be more like Europe in every respect.

"houses gone," - wait, I thought the Democrat-controlled congress just passed a multi-hundred-billion dollar package to rescue all those unfortunate home buyers? Don't they lead all the oversight committees for this stuff? At least she could've made a specific criticism of the Treasury and the Fed, at least this would be credible.

" falling wages," - This one is mostly true - comparing wages to inflation, especially counting food and energy, are flat - or at least year 2000 levels. But this is after decades of expansion brought to you by Reagan and the 1994 Republican revolution. It was not brought to you by the first two years of President Clinton -when the Dems also controlled all of congress. That gave us a failed attempt to take over health care (thanks for failing, Hillary - have you released the records of those secret meetings yet?), a failed attempt to pass a fake $8 billion dollar stimulus after the recession was already over, expanded gay rights, and massive new taxes.

"rising prices". Wow, how'd she get that right? I guess she reads the news. And is she implying that the Dems will bring prices down if they control the White House, Senate, and the House of Reps? How?

"The Supreme Court in a right-wing headlock and our government in partisan gridlock." Not! "Gridlock" in this case I guess means that former head legal counsel of the ACLU, Justice Ruth Ginsburg, is not always getting her way, though she often does.

"The biggest deficit in our nation's history." Finally, she's spot on. The Republicans and McCain should own up to this and promise to fix it. But McCain loses no points here - he's the biggest opponent of earmarks - that nifty invention that lets any congressman slip in any amount of money for any project, on any bill - even if the bill is completely unrelated to the funds being earmarked.

"Money borrowed from the Chinese to buy oil from the Saudis. " Now this is plainly false. Liberals are intentionally ignorant on economics. They're not stupid - in fact they're pretty crafty. But they intentionally ignore economic principals, which often fly in the face of their stated goals. Foreign governments have purchased U.S. Treasury obligations - government debt. This was not to buy oil, it was to finance all those unfunded mandates that Democrats think are unalienable rights.

"Putin and Georgia, Iraq and Iran." Why even mention these? I notice she didn't make a point, she just mentioned them. Let's review the Dem strategy on these critical foreign policy issues: run, run, run.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Finally, Excitement at the Dem Convention


I know all these protesters don't represent all Democrats. But these folk definitely qualify as Moonbat status...

This video starts out as hilarious, and gets outright scary.
I believe shouting "Kill Michelle Malkin" would be a felony threat.


[hat tip: Gateway Pundit]

Quote of The Day



"Suppose for example 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 person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?"
- Bill Clinton, Tues. Aug. 26, right before his wife, Hillary Clinton, was to speak at the DNC convention


Full story here.

The Video Obama Thinks is a Crime


Politico reports that the Obama campaign has written a letter to the Dept. of Justice...

[hat tip: HotAir]
Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.

The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers.


This is the video (shown in previous posts on Pantheon Journal...)



Here is a link to a response ad from Obama...

CRITICAL: Obama Labor Union Law Would Threaten Economy



Barack Obama is co-sponsoring a bill that is an outright attack on business owners and workers. It's a stunning assault on voting rights in the work place.

Many people are unaware of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill co-sponsored by Barack Obama, and sure to become law if he is elected - he's promised it will.

It's been through the House and the Senate already, and only two Democrats voted no for it. And the Democrats are set to take more seats this year in Congress.

The name of the bill is a complete euphemism - it's not at all about free choice. In fact the bill takes away (in most cases) an employee's right to a secret ballot when voting in a union election. Think of union organizers and their henchman who will have a list of every person that stands in their way of making all employees of any company members of a union. Unions aren't exactly known for their gentle and democratic ways of convincing others to join them.

Think of what a violation of basic democratic principles this is - forcing employees to vote in the open under possibly extreme coercion.

Two more ways it takes away freedom: employees wouldn't even get to vote if the union gets a simple majority of card signatures - the National Labor Relations board would be forced to certify the union as official. Also, companies who can't come to terms with this union would be forced into federal arbitration, and be stuck with whatever decision is forced on them.

Check out this excellent editorial here at the WSJ, where Bernie Marcus makes the case of how this is a threat to our economy.


Salient quote:
'George McGovern, a former Democratic senator and a champion of organized labor, called this bill what it really is -- "a disturbing and undemocratic overreach not in the interest of either management or labor."'

More info here from The Heritage Foundation.

Salient quotes:

"In one card-check campaign investigated by the NLRB, a pro-union employee threatened a co-worker by saying that if she refused to sign the union card, "the union would come and get her children and that it would also slash her tires."[9]
In another case, Thomas Built Buses agreed to recognize a United Auto Workers (UAW) card-check drive in exchange for significant advance wage concessions from the union. Employee Jeff Ward successfully challenged the sweetheart deal before the NLRB and forced the company to allow its workers to vote.[10] In response, the UAW posted flyers around the plant with Mr. Ward's home address, home phone number, and a map to his house. The flyers stated, "Jeff Ward lives here. Go tell him how you really feel about the union."[11]"

"Moreover, some organizers go beyond pressure to outright harassment. Hotel workers in Los Ange les, for example, had to seek an injunction against union organizers after groups of eight to ten organizers harassed employees on their homes' porches late at night.[14]"

"The Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private-ballot vote, require companies to submit to binding arbitration, and increase penalties for unfair labor practices committed by employers but not by unions. Each of these provisions would be bad for American workers."

Card signing, instead of voting, is often carried out more like a high-pressure sales call, with union reps trained in how to agitate and coerce. They don't present the pro's and con's of joining a union, they are trained to manipulate the employee, in the coziness of their own home, into believing their lot will never improve unless they join the union.

So this bill gives the unions an edge in the fight - instead of a discussion of pro's and con's followed by a private vote, they only have to harass and pressure 50% of the employees to sign a card, and then this law will allow them to take control.

Why can't the unions and Barak Obama fight fair and let employees choose? Private ballot is critical to democracy. Imagine if you had to vote in the open for a presidential election, and when you walked in, thugs from the other political party were there in the polling station, ready to 'discuss' the situation with you before and after you vote, with them knowing exactly how you voted.

I guess this is the kind of "change" Barack Obama is hoping for. Issues like this are only a portent of things to come if the Democrats control the White House and all of Congress.


McCain Takes Lead In Polls




No bounce for Barack Obama as McCain takes the lead in the Gallop poll, and pulls even in the Rasmussen poll.

Gallup results.

Rasmussen.

Quote of The Day

"The recent death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn should make us recall what he said when he was awarded the Nobel Prize: "The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles." What would a Barack Obama presidency mean, other than more concessions and broader smiles, while Iran goes nuclear?"
- Thomas Sowell


Full doubleplusungood article, soon to be purged from the archives for the sake of Big Brother, can be found here.

Monday, August 25, 2008

DNC is Always Only for the Little Guy

Nope, not into big money like those evil Republicans, as the Wash Times reports on special interest money flowing to the DNC.
Salient quotes:
"From a $5,000 "kick-off the convention" golf outing to VIP credentials being handed out for $1 million "Presidential Sponsors," corporate and special interest money is flowing into Denver this week right along with the politicians."

"Federal law limits corporate donations to political parties, but the rules don't apply to corporate donations to the nonprofit committees hosting the parties' conventions. Ethics experts said the Denver money events afford well-heeled special interests an opportunity to mingle privately with political leaders."


And check out this list of the top 10 political donors of the last 20 years or so.


1. American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees $39,590,603
98% to Democrats, 1% to Republicans

2. AT&T Inc $39,449,726
44% to Democrats, 56% to Republicans

3. National Association of Realtors $32,869,456
48% to Democrats, 52% to Republicans

4. American Association for Justice $29,160,389
90% to Democrats, 10% to Republicans

5. Goldman Sachs $29,066,962
63% to Democrats, 37% to Republicans

6. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $28,489,834
97% to Democrats, 2% to Republicans

7. National Education Association $28,136,629
93% to Democrats, 7% to Republicans

8. Laborers Union $26,707,839
92% to Democrats, 8% to Republicans

9. Service Employees International Union $26,560,513
96% to Democrats, 4% to Republicans

10. Carpenters & Joiners Union $25,745,082
90% to Democrats, 10% to Republicans

These lists are always dominated by unions of all kinds.

The Biden of '88: More Attitude, Less Hair



Clip of the famous "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do" speech can be found here.

How is it he had less hair back in 1988?

The Long Goodbye To Margaret Thatcher

"I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life." - Ronald Reagan

NY Times reports the great lady of the '80's has had dementia for several years.


Bio can be found here.

The Greatness of Rent Control


Charles Rangel rents 4 apartments in New York. All them are cheaper than they would normally go for due to New York's radical rent-control laws. Charles Rangel is not poor - he's one of the most powerful congressmen in Washington.

4 apartments. That means there are 4 less spaces to rent for families or other renters because Congressman Rangel can rent them for cheaper.

Check out the NY Times article here.

This is not an isolated incident. Thomas Sowell, in Basic Economics, explains the simple supply-and demand result of rent control. Congressman Rangel exemplifies it perfectly - when one can get something at a cheaper price (and in this case, less than what it's actually worth), they tend to get more of it.

This hapens over and over. Stockholm, Sweden, experienced a massive back log of renters when when rent control was implemented. Why? Because young single people who otherwise would've stayed at home could now afford to rent more and bigger apartements. That meant that families who need more space and are willing to pay more have to sit on a waiting list to get into an apartment.

Not only does demand increase at the lower price, but the supply goes down, since fewer buildiers and private owners are willing to buy a building with a high mortgage, only to be stuck with fixed rental rates. Sowell provides a stat that says there are many more vacant buildings in New York city than there are homeless people.

Getting rid of rent control laws would mean that fat cats like Congressman Rangel no longer get a free ride. It also means the supply-demand equation can now work itself out, as more rental units become available on the market. More selection, better prices, which helps the lower income renters.

Just let people buy and sell how they like. Otherwise, we'll keep subsidizing the rich, like Congressman Rangel.

The Wrong Way To Get Crossover Votes?

McCain has an ad here that's great in concept - feature a former Hillary supporter.

But, how could any conservative agree with these words...
"I'm a proud Hillary Democrat."
"She had the experience and judgement to be president."

Hillary has terrible judgement - she married Mr. Clinton, didn't she?
It's not as if this person is switching from one great candidate to another.

Here's the ad anyway...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Biden Overview



Quick Summary:

Wikipedia article is here.

Praise & Criticism From Both Sides.

Good Summary of the Negatives can be found here, at the WaPo...