On Tuesday night whether Senator Obama wins, or Sen McCain wins, or no one clearly wins one thing is almost certain: Chris Matthews will surely cry. In the event of an Obama victory, Americans can easily expect the puny pundit to leave his set and sniffle away like he did after Senator Obama’s nomination acceptance speech. Given that he’s 100% in the tank for Senator Obama it’s not unreasonable to see him wailing, “I’m so happy. This is just a great day for America. BWAAAAAAAAA!” Conversely, if Senator McCain wins you can bet that thrill that goes up Matthews’ leg whenever he hears Senator Obama speak will turn to a warm and wet sensation running down his leg followed by perhaps fist pounding denial. He might even break into some slurred speech; sounds more like a raving Don Vito from Viva La Bam than someone who is supposed to be covering the election as a news item. Lastly, in the event that no clear winner is decided Tuesday Night is there anyone out there who doesn’t think that by 1 or 2 am when it’s still anyone’s game…Matthews will crack? Will he stand up (revealing the floral pattern Hawaiian short pants he wears under the desk), throw his talking point notes high into the air, begin speaking in tongues, and cry when his head spins around ala The Exorcist?
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Mike blogged on this Monday morning. Yesterday, before work, I decided to go out and see this for myself.

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I thought it might be fun to provide a list of cabinet level positions (slightly expanded), and we could discuss who might hold what job in either a McCain or Obama Administration.

Who is your nominee for
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Another example of how the left controls free expression to outlaw anything of which it does not approve!

In West Hollywood, California an effigy of Sarah Palin hangs from a roof of a residential home. “I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would’ve probably thrown things through our windows,” said the homeowner.

So why is it O.K. to hang Republicans like Sarah Palin (President Bush and U.S. soldiers have also been targets)?

How many days of media outrage did we see ginned up over the phony report that someone at a McCain rally shouted “kill him” in regard to Obama? Obama even brought it up in the debates. And yet violence towards Republicans is treated as a joke… something to laugh at.

It was wrong when someone hung a cardboard Obama in effigy in Oregon. But it’s equally wrong when someone hangs Sarah Palin in California. But if the left can’t see that, then they have no right to get all worked up about it when someone does it to Obama.

Either the standards condemning violent displays towards one group are applied to all or they don’t apply at all.

Recently Celebrity funnyman and half assed political pundit, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show, took it personally and was offended when Gov Sarah Palin remarked that she was happy to be in a small town where REAL AMERICANS can be found. Stewart and other liberals were offended because they saw that as a claim that they are less patriotic, that big city dwellers are less patriotic, and that they as individuals were less patriotic. Turns out, statistics back of Gov Palin’s claim (though I doubt we’ll see an apology from Stewart, Biden, Obama, or other faux liberals).

Naturally, how to measure patriotism is a matter of argument. One way is to look at differences in military involvement: Rural and small-town families are more likely to see their children go off into combat, and return in body bags. Or, we can turn to one of the few recent non-partisan surveys on the matter, the American National Election Study from the University of Michigan. It’s produced every election year, and the most recent data is from 2004.

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When I was a kid, my late father made it a point to take me to see every President. I don’t remember it, but clearly it had an effect on my adult interests. I saw Nixon, Ford, Carter. I’ve been to DC more often that Joe Biden has gaffed (well, more than he’s gaffed this month). Still, when the McCain/Palin campaign came to my hometown this week, I couldn’t resist. My gawd, it’s less than a mile away as the crow flies. This time, I took MY kids. They had a blast, and so did I.

I have to say, I had been told in advance by my partisan friends to watch out for rednecks, racists, nazis, neocons, and hate-mongerers of all sorts. The news reports about people at McCain rallies screaming about Obama being a Muslim, or crying out for his head, all that made me concerned. When I saw the internet video yesterday of the protesters trying to block the campaign convoy, I became very concerned. The web is swamped with reports of McCain supporters burning Obama in effigy, and of Obama supporters screaming like mobs against McCain supporters. At times it seems as if the tenor of supporters on both sides is reported as on the edge of armed insurrection.

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LIBERAL used to mean tolerant, understanding, open-minded, open-armed. Not anymore. In 2008, the Democratic Party has become a party of hate, power, and fear rather than open-mindedness, tolerance, etc., and no one picks up on those sentiments faster than American youths.

Central Florida 7th grader called racist for wearing Palin t-shirt
She’s only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this election year.

That’s because the seventh grader at New Smyrna Beach Middle School was called a racist by classmates for wearing a pro-Sarah Palin t-shirt.

Jones is volunteering at the Republican Headquarters in New Smyrna Beach. The Palin t-shirt was a gift from her fellow volunteers.

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A storm is approaching. It will arrive on November 4th, and last for years. Just as there are unknowns with any weather forecast, there are varying degrees of certainty for the 4th. No one is writing off Sen. John McCain’s chances, but even if he were to win…the storm will still be here. Half of the American people are going to be very upset before midnight on 4Nov.
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How can you trust him to do what he says on taxes, education, health care?

Obama is LYING about Ayers!

Charlie Gibson held an interview with Barack Obama on Wednesday. Readers will recall Charlie Gibson’s gotcha question for Sarah Palin on the “Bush Doctrine.” Did Gibson press Obama on his association with Ayers? Nope! The report on the ABC News web site reads more like a press release from the Obama campaign:

Obama: McCain Scoring ‘Cheap Political Points’
Democratic Contender Discusses Economy in Post-Debate Exclusive With Charlie Gibson
ABC News
Oct. 8, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama says the personal attacks levied against him by the campaign of his presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, particularly references to his association with 1960s anti-war radical Bill Ayers, are an attempt to “score cheap political points.”

“Why don’t we just clear it up right now,” Obama told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview for World News. “I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”

Obama went on to suggest that these questions about his character were a distraction from the real issues facing Americans in this campaign.

But Obama LIED about Ayers. The two have a relationship that goes back many years during which Ayers continued to express his profoundly anti-American views. Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career and has been at his side throughout Obama’s early career. (see here and the short video Curt posted here).

No snide followups from good old Charlie Gibson on all that… No surprise there!

Obama is LYING about ACORN
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My first instinct, I’m ashamed to say, was to laugh. It’s wrong to laugh at other people’s suffering-PERIOD, and it’s even more wrong to do so when people are suffering because they’ve been misled about simple ideas. I mean, if someone loses a family member you don’t laugh at em (even if it was during a freak dynamite fishing incident gone bad or something similarly stupid). We’re supposed to feel empathy for each other. We’re supposed to take care of each other. So it is that I’m trying hard to feel sympathy for those who have been SO SO SO misled about McCain/Palin that they’re losing sleep, can’t think, can’t eat, and are actually seeking therapy over their fears; their misled paranoia.

Remember, these people are Americans. They are our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers. They are our friends. They are Americans, and they are in pain. As funny as it might be to laugh at someone for being afraid of Sarah Palin, it is wrong to laugh at their pain. A more appropriate response is to try and comfort them, and that can only be done by informing them that their fears, paranoia, panic, and obsession is based on political propaganda rather than reality.
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Never before in the course of American history, has a pair of high heels caused so much terror.

Sarah Palin did something tonight that SHOULD cause a chain reaction of terror in Washington DC. She might not have won on technical points or gotchas or whatever barometer a pundit or spinmeister chooses. However, she did tap into the chord that Americans are pissed off at the finger pointing, at looking back, and doing the same ole same ole. They want a change in Washington, and a hope for a new future. Obama promised that once, but he’s changed. He’s campaigning old school. Instead of making bi-partisanship (something which he has no experience in) his core theme, he’s abandoned it to gotcha politics, name-calling, half truths, etc. Instead of promising real change, he’s put it on a podium and a banner behind him like every other marketed product. He used to talk about how there are no more red states, blue states, just red, white, and blue states.

Tonight, Sarah Palin picked up Obama’s baton. She did it when she said, “Never again. Never again will we…” and the rest was irrelevant. She didn’t say Republicans or Democrats, or Bush, or whatever.

Sarah said, “…we…”

That might sound like nothing to some people, but to the people that matter in the last 4 weeks of the election-people who don’t follow politics with a passion, people who are sick of politics, people who are sick of partisanship, and incumbents, and lobbyist payoffs, and tax loopholes for Puerto Rican Rum makers…to those people “…we…” makes all the difference.

Now we get to see if the campaigns noticed.

Thank you Sarah

A few weeks ago the far-left Canadian network, and state run mind you, put up a hateful piece by Heather Mallick attacking Sarah Palin and John McCain (you can view the pdf of the article here). If you’ve ever visited Democratic Underground you will recognize the rhetoric and anger that emanated from her pen as something similar in nature to what is written every few minutes at that waste of a site. Stuff like describing McCain as nothing but a old hateful man, Sarah as a porn actress (a particular attack we are seeing quite a bit lately from the left, reducing her to some kind of slut) and that the pick of Sarah was to get the white trash vote.

Beautiful stuff like that…..Brit Hume talked about it:

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One simply has to marvel at the absolute arrogance of Fareed Zakaria’s latest articles. It’s not surprising…just a perfect example of how an intelligent, educated, over-marketed mind can be rendered utterly stupid by political partisanship.

First he wrote an article complaining about Republicans and people who warn that planet Earth is not a civilized place, but rather it is a very dangerous one where evil exists in men-often powerful men with increasing access to dangerous technologies and equally decreasing reluctance to take action due to a lack of deterrence that stems from denialists like Zakaria.

The World Isn’t So Dark
There is some truth to both visions of the world, but in my view the reality is much closer to Obama’s—more so than most American politicians seem willing to admit. We live in remarkably peaceful times. A University of Maryland study shows that deaths from wars of all kinds have been dropping dramatically for 20 years and are lower now than at any point in the last half century. A study from Simon Fraser University finds that casualties from terrorism have been steadily declining since 9/11. It is increasingly clear—look at their voting from Indonesia to Iraq to Pakistan—that very few Muslims anywhere support Islamic fundamentalists. More countries than ever before now embrace capitalism and democracy.

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Three HUGE gaffes about simple American history all in as many sentences:

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” …He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

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