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Obama spokesman or unbiased reporter? You decide.

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:42:27 GMT

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The difference between Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush is that McCain steps harder on the gas, but he is driving down the same path, and so, there is no difference between them.

The problem with Mr. Obama is his education. He is a Harvard graduate. The Americans cannot accept him because they consider him an elitist – someone who thinks he is above others, because he is better educated. They don’t understand that his education would enable him to serve them better.

Mr. McCain, who considers himself such an expert in international politics, still says “Czechoslovakia.”

He doesn’t know whether Iran is Shiite or Sunni, or the difference between the two.

She doesn’t have any experience.

She was the mayor of a town of 10,000 residents.

The previous governor of Alaska was a very corrupt man, and anybody running against him would have won. That’s how she won.

Will she manage to attract Clinton’s voters? No.

Tags: liberals, obama, talking points, iran

Sexism and Sarah Palin

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:33:22 GMT

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Clip Source: womencount.org

It started Friday afternoon with John Roberts on CNN, and then in a slow build over the weekend it became clear what the leading sexist charge would be against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: Is it appropriate for her to accept the vice presidential nomination given the magnitude of her current family responsibilities?

The obvious retort is whether anyone would ask the same question of the father of a four-month-old with Down Syndrome and a pregnant teenager. We think not.

The very notion that Sarah Palin should not have accepted this nomination because she is a mother with demanding challenges underscores just how far we have to go.

WomenCount was born of the passion its founders had for Hillary Clinton’s clear view of social issues and progressive values. We cannot pretend that Governor Palin meets any standard of progressive politics or social values.

But regardless of the candidates’ ideology, we will work to stamp out sexism when we see it on the campaign trail.

Tags: palin, women, election, politics, msm, media, bias, sexism

Ferraro likes McCain's choice of Palin

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:29:29 GMT

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Clip Source: hotair.com

How does the first female VP candidate feel about the second? Geraldine Ferraro says that many women feel disaffected by the way Hillary Clinton got treated by the Democratic Party and the media — and they will appreciate an opportunity to support a historic ticket:

Sarah Palin made explicit reference to Hillary Clinton’s remark about “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling”, an overt reference to the historic opportunity for women in this campaign. Will that convince some of Hillary’s supporters to cross party lines? A large number of them already seemed open to that possibility — and Palin certainly has Ferraro intrigued.

Ferraro’s comments point up another potential land mine for Barack Obama. The media may stoke all those leftover resentments if they try to hit Palin hard in the next few weeks, which may drive off even more women than otherwise.

Tags: ferraro, mccain, palin, election, politics, sexism

Democrat convention bounce....for McCain

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rasmussenreports.com

The Democratic National Convention has begun and the poll numbers are bouncing, but not in the direction that most people anticipated.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Barack Obama attracting 44% of the vote while John McCain also earns 44%. When "leaners" are included, it’s still tied with Obama at 46% and McCain at 46%. Yesterday, with leaners, Obama had a three-point advantage over McCain

Obama is supported by 78% of Democrats while McCain gets the vote from 85% of Republicans. The GOP hopeful also has a slight advantage among unaffiliated voters.

Today’s results are the first based entirely upon interviews conducted since Joe Biden was named to be Obama’s running mate.

Obama’s support has declined in each of the last three individual nights of polling.

McCain is viewed favorably by 57% of the nation’s voters, Obama by 53% (see trends). Clinton is viewed favorably by 47%.

Tags: mccain, obama, biden, election, politics, poll

Party Unity My A**

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:10:02 GMT

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Clip Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

A number of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top advisers will not be staying in Denver long enough to hear Barack Obama accept the nomination for president, according to sources familiar with their schedules.

Clinton will deliver her speech Tuesday night. She will hold a private meeting with her top financial supporters Wednesday at noon, and will thank her delegates at an event that afternoon. Former president Bill Clinton will speak that night. Several of Hillary Clinton's supporters are then planning to leave town. Among them, Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's campaign chairman, and longtime supporters Steve Rattner and Maureen White. Another of Clinton's top New York fundraisers, Alan Patricof, did not make the trip to Denver.

Tags: clinton, obama, democrats, campaign, election, convention

3 AM

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:12:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: obama, mccain, clinton, campaign, election, politics

47% of dem women wanted Hillary as VP

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rasmussenreports.com

Nearly half of Democratic women (47%) say Barack Obama should have chosen Hillary Clinton for his running mate instead of Senator Joseph Biden as the former First Lady prepares to speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagree.

Only 35% of Democratic men believe Hillary should be on the ticket

Interestingly, younger voters prefer Clinton on the ticket.

While Democrats overall by a 61% to 33% margin give Obama the nod over Clinton as the candidate best able to beat McCain, unaffiliated voters, perhaps the key bloc at play in this election cycle, prefer Clinton 48% to 33%.

Clinton continues to get high marks for her conduct since quitting the race for the nomination on June 7, despite a great deal of reported behind-the-scenes intrigue over her speech at the convention and putting her name in nomination. Sixty percent (60%) of voters rate her conduct good or excellent, while only 10% characterize it as poor.

Tags: hillary, clinton, obama, democrat, poll, election, politics

Lou Dobbs: Media 'in the tank supporting the Obma candidacy"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:28:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

HANK SHEINKOPF, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Good for democrats, not so good for the nation in the long term. Barack Obama is interesting, he's new, therefore he is news. OK. The fact that a black man can reach that pinnacle of success, raise the amount of money, run this kind of organization, beat Hillary Clinton is big news. At some point there has to be some fairness in the discussion. The problem here from the beginning is from day Obama showed up, I was wondering when the reporters will start chiseling his face on to Mt. Rushmore and the guy hadn't even won the nomination yet. That's the danger here, Lou. And people know it and they're not stupid. Average guy says wait a second, I want news and he isn't getting it.

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

LOU DOBBS

My colleagues in the national media are absolutely biased, in the tank supporting the Obama candidacy while claiming the mantle of objectivity.

Well, I think the way the national media in this country right is performing, is disgraceful.

"The Washington Post" has put Barack Obama on the front pages of the Washington Post three times as many times as Senator McCain.

"Time" magazine has run seven covers with Obama. McCain two.

I mean, this is not close, folks. And it is ugly. It is nasty. And I guarantee you, we are watching a shift in the way in which the media in this country, which is already reviled by the public, I believe it's going to be even worse.

When these news organizations are doing this and trying to pretend cloaking themselves in the mantle of objectivity, you know, they're silly, (trulish), absolutely in my opinion, despicable phonies.

Tags: dobbs, media, msm, bias, obama, campaign, politics

Clinton supporters not happy

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:49:17 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

a former Clinton strategist told CNN's Candy Crowley. "Focus on the politics of it and you have about a quarter of Clinton loyalists still not joining the caravan…for God's sake, not to even make a show of taking her seriously is flatly stupid."

A top Clinton advisor also told CNN they were "outraged," over how the process was conducted.

You can't put [Obama VP vetters] Eric Holder and Carolyn Kennedy on an hour plane ride to Chappaqua just to check the box?

"They thought her supporters were mad before? They are really mad now," this person also said. We knew it was never going to happen but you would have thought they might at least make a show of it."

"I think there are a lot of Hillary voters who are going to say, 'Hey, wait a minute, man You said you were going to put her on the short list. You know, you didn't even vet her. You didn't call her. You didn't seek her advice,'" Begala said

he didn't seek President Clinton's advice either

Tags: obama, clinton, biden, election, politics, democrats

Why Obama should drop out

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:38:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta go get some more popcorn. Oh ya, I just couldn't help clipping that book cover. The sub-title 'Chronicles of a Collapsing Party' was just too ironic to pass up.

Clip Source: noquarterusa.net

Sen Obama should drop out of the race. Having just seen the new attack ad that the GOP is showing in NC — condemning the state’s Democratic leadership for backing Obama, replete with Rev Wright cursing America — it is clear that Senator Obama is detrimental to the Democratic brand nationwide. As Jerome Armstrong wrote nearly one month ago, “That’s fall-out from Wright, not against just Obama, but also Clinton, and most likely against the Democratic Party in general. It’s branding of Democrats Obama, and Clinton, as anti-American.”

Obama earned his lead early on, prior to being vetted. After he lost Texas and Ohio, the Wright videos appeared, shocking the nation. Slowly, information about his relationship to Rezko, and his affiliation with William Ayers have also entered the mainstream.

He should quit while he’s ahead, so to speak, and give the Party a chance to win the General Election.

Tags: obama, clinton, democrat, politics, election

Obama blames staffers again, and again, and again....

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:51:43 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.abcnews.com

We started covering Sen. Barack Obama's inability to hire good staffers in June 2007, when he blamed staffers for

research trying to link Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to outsourcing in India

injecting some venom in the David Geffen/Hillary Clinton fight

missing an event with firefighters in New Hampshire

In December, we noted again

answers on a 1996 questionnaire

his touring with "cured" ex-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin

Those five buck-passing incidents were apparently not enough.

in 2004

in a questionnaire Obama refrained from denouncing Yasir Arafat

In an e-mail message, Mr. Obama blamed a staff member for the oversight,

In January

Our supporters, our staff get overzealous

In February

asked about an earmark

It did not come through us, through me or Michelle

In a March

questions about Tony Rezko

a form letter of the sort that I did all time. And that I wasn’t, by the way, aware of

I wasn’t a decision maker in any of this process

that's ten instances of Obama publicly blaming his staff

Tags: obama, politics, staff, blame

You can't make this up

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:00:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought it was a joke when I first read it, but anything you could make up wouldn't be nearly as ironic as this.

Clip Source: thepage.time.com

Hillary Clinton enthusiastically picked a filly named Eight Belles to win the Kentucky Derby and compared herself to the horse. Eight Belles finished second. The winner was the favorite, Big Brown.

Eight Belles collapsed immediately after crossing the finish line, and was euthanized shortly thereafter.

Tags: hillary, obama, politics, horse, race, irony

OBAMA OR DIE! ...DNC McCain Supporter Gets the Boot

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:34:49 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Obama or Die... Or, at least get sent home.
This big tent just got a little smaller.

Diane Behrens and delegate Debra Bartosevich (on right) follow speeches in the Hillary Clinton delegate selection room at an earlier Democratic caucus. (Photo by Scott Anderson Journal Times)

The state party is asking the Democratic National Committee to unseat Debra Bartoshevich, an emergency room nurse from Racine County who was locally elected in May to be a delegate for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the party’s national convention in Denver in August.

“I still very much want to be a delegate for Hillary,” Bartoshevich said Wednesday night. “I still support Hillary Clinton as the nominee. I hope to still go (to Denver). All I can do is sit and wait.”

Bartoshevich made public her support for McCain over Democrat Barack Obama in an interview with the Journal Sentinel this month. Bartoshevich said that she felt the nominating process had been unfair to Clinton and that Obama was inexperienced and risky.

Tags: dnc, obama, clinton, mccain, democrat, politics

Postage stamp on a football field.

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:14:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When the US is sitting on such vast energy reserves while it is experiencing an energy crisis, one can conclude that there are other forces at work here.

Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) talked about his trip to ANWR including and exposed the Democrat's big lie:

[Video]

"If the Arctic National Wildlife Area was a football field, the (area to be developed for oil) would be like a postage stamp on that football field... So it is totally outrageous what they say. What Americans forget too, is that the Republican Congress opened up ANWR every single year that we were in power. But, what happened was in the Senate, the democrats killed it every year in the senate."

"So, you had Clinton veto it in 1995, and then every single year after that you had the democrats kill it in the US Senate."

Last week author George Will explained why Democrats are against drilling

I believe that on the Left in this country what they want is a manufactured scarcity so that government can have the rationale to ration which gives the government what the Left wants, an ever more minute supervision of our daily choices... There's a fear that someone somewhere may make a profit

Tags: anwar, oil, gas, energy, politics

Dem delegate supports McCain

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:42:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jsonline.com

As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton's defeat.

She’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.

And she’s not entirely alone in saying she’ll vote this fall for Republican John McCain instead.

But what makes her unusual is that she holds these views as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.

Joe Wineke, chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, reacted with disbelief when first told Friday afternoon that one of his state party delegates is now a McCain supporter.

“Not a delegate? To the national convention?” said Wineke

“We have a Clinton national (convention) delegate who says she’s voting for John McCain?” Wineke repeated, for clarification. “I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

“No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her — that’s by Susan B. Anthony,” said Bartoshevich

Tags: democrats, mccain, obama, clinton, women, politics