David Corn

McSame and his crew are making it hard for the con's to take them seriously.

It just shows they have nothing on the issues and are making it up as they go along.

It is almost getting sad.

Obama last Friday said, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

That's funny, since Obama is for gun control~

Obama is trying too hard to be cool instead of being serious. He acts like he's running for President of BET instead of President of the US.

Latest Poll: Half Say Not Comfortable With Obama's Experience

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:40 AM

The latest ABC News-Washington Post Poll shows that Obama leads McCain nationally by small margin -- 48 percent to 42 percent -- but lurking in the numbers is the data that nearly half say they're not comfortable that Obama has enough experience to be president.

This translates to a large number of doubters.

Among two pivotal swing groups, the rivals split independents evenly, while McCain is ahead among white Catholics.

Strain from the drawn-out Democratic primaries still shows: While nearly nine in 10 Republicans back McCain, just eight in 10 Democrats support Obama. Yet Obama leads McCain in trust to handle most issues asked in the survey, including the top problem — the economy. He also does better on most personal attributes, including better understanding peoples' problems, and is tied with McCain on leadership, an issue on which the Republican led three months ago.

The ABC News-Washington Post poll was conducted from June 12-15 and involved telephone interviews with 1,125 adults. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.


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Maybe age does matter~

hahahahah!

Independent groups launch new anti-McCain ad

(CNN) – Two major liberal political action committees are launching a new spot that attacks John McCain’s foreign policy judgment, one of his biggest perceived strengths.

MoveOn.org and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — who had been on opposite sides of the primary fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — jointly launched the 30-second spot Wednesday on national cable and in key Midwestern swing states, with a buy of more than half a million dollars.

"Hi, John McCain. This is Alex. And he's my first,” says a woman in the ad, as she holds an infant in her arms. “So far his talents include trying any new food and chasing after our dog. That, and making my heart pound every time I look at him. And so, John McCain, when you say you would stay in Iraq for 100 years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can't have him."

http://tinyurl.com/55v44r

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Overstatement seems to infect the GOPhers. The words come home to roost one way or the other.

And here is the new narrative - Barack is ahead but not ahead enough?

"A ABC News/Washington Post poll shows Obama, D-Ill., leading McCain, R-Ariz., by a margin of 48 percent to 42 percent. It is a surprisingly small lead considering that the incumbent Republican president George Bush is at record lows and public opinion overwhelmingly feels the country is on the "wrong track".

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I'm sure it will work! This will bring down Obama and McSame will rocket to the top because Barack isn't leading by enough.

Kerry should have added:

" In the meantime, wouldn't it be nice if we really did have to worry about what to do with a captured bin Laden?"

Such a good remark should be repeated each time they want to address the subject.

Getting more sad by the day. . .

I'm sure it will work! This will bring down Obama and McSame will rocket to the top because Barack isn't leading by enough.
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You mean after that huge 3% surge Obama got after Hillary bowed out?

How can this be when Bush is at a all time low nad McCain is running for a third term?

Too funny!!!

Kerry should have added:

" In the meantime, wouldn't it be nice if we really did have to worry about what to do with a captured bin Laden?"

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Answer: Get him one of the finest ACLU lawyers on the Dems payroll so he can have a fair trial.

But while the McCain campaign apparently believes that women are easy marks for its latent feminist cross-dressing, a reality check suggests that most women can instantly identify any man who’s hitting on them for selfish ends. New polls show Mr. Obama opening up a huge lead among female voters — beating Mr. McCain by 13 percentage points in the Gallup and Rasmussen polls and by 19 points in the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey.

How huge is a 13- to 19-percentage-point lead? John Kerry won women by only 3 points, Al Gore by 11.

(kos)

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So there you go.

The real question is how Mr. McCain and his press enablers could seriously assert that he will pick up disaffected female voters in the aftermath of the brutal Obama-Clinton nomination battle. Even among Democrats, Mr. Obama lost only the oldest female voters to Mrs. Clinton.

But as we know from our Groundhog Days of 2008, a fictional campaign narrative, once set in the concrete of Beltway bloviation, must be recited incessantly, especially on cable television, no matter what facts stand in the way. Only an earthquake — the Iowa results, for instance — could shatter such previously immutable story lines as the Clinton campaign’s invincibility and the innate hostility of white voters to a black candidate.

(NYTimes)

When McCain Drops Out

[...]

Here's how it could happen:

At some point in mid August, John McCain will announce that he has decided that he can not accept his party's nomination for president. The reason will be health-related, and that may turn out to be the truth. Anyone who's seen him on stage these days knows he looks like he's about to keel over. And anyone who's been on a presidential campaign knows the physical demands are grueling and can be a challenge for a young man.

But excuses or facts hardly matters. He won't be accepting his party's nomination.

The reasons are simple. He can't win. Now that Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee -- the polls all show that McCain's pro-war stance and Bush endorsement make him a lost cause in November. That combined with soft stand on litmus test conservative issues make him an unpopular candidate among the base. I know some Democrats that think the Republicans are planning to let McCain lose and 'sit this one out' so that they can hang the democrats with a bad economy and a war that is a morass. But that just isn't how they play. They play to win every hand -- think about 2000 with a popular Democratic president and good economy and a solid VP running for president. Why did they put up Bush? And why did they fight so hard? Because, you don't ever throw a game. And they're not going to throw this one.

(huffpo)

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Now this is a scenario the M$M would love to see. It is the only wat they will ever get a real horse race.

Perhaps Obama should consult with the man who actually prosecuted the WTC case to which he refers. He disagrees entirely with Obama's analysis.

Caroline kennedy has a huge task a head to pick a VP for Obama.

The real task will be to find someone that isn't more qualified to be President than Obama.

So far they haven't been able to find anyone that fits that description.

Helpful hint: Al Franken~~~

Next time Obama is asked about habeas corpus he should reply that he intends to run a law abiding government unlike the Republican proclivity to ignore the law and claim that ends justify the means.

Obamas Global Warming Czar?

Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month

Gore’s personal electricity consumption up 10%, despite “energy-efficient” home renovations

NASHVILLE - In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy-efficient, the former Vice President’s home energy use surged more than 10%, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

“A man’s commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption.”

In the past year, Gore’s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

In February 2007, An Inconvenient Truth, a film based on a climate change speech developed by Gore, won an Academy Award for best documentary feature. The next day, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered that Gore’s Nashville home guzzled 20 times more electricity than the average American household.

After the Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposed Gore’s massive home energy use, the former Vice President scurried to make his home more energy-efficient. Despite adding solar panels, installing a geothermal system, replacing existing light bulbs with more efficient models, and overhauling the home’s windows and ductwork, Gore now consumes more electricity than before the “green” overhaul.

Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.

In the wake of becoming the most well-known global warming alarmist, Gore won an Oscar, a Grammy and the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, Gore saw his personal wealth increase by an estimated $100 million thanks largely to speaking fees and investments related to global warming hysteria.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Gore’s actions prove that he views climate change not as a serious problem, but as a money-making opportunity,” Johnson said. “Gore is exploiting the public’s concern about the environment to line his pockets and enhance his profile.”

The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a Nashville-based free market think tank and watchdog organization, obtained information about Gore’s home energy use through a public records request to the Nashville Electric Service.

McCain confused about his own energy policy

It just keeps getting worse with the Arizona senator. From his press conference yesterday:

QUESTION: The European Union has set mandatory targets on renewable energy. Is that something you would consider in a McCain administration? […]

MCCAIN: Sure. I believe in the cap-and-trade system, as you know. I would not at this time make those — impose a mandatory cap at this time. But I do believe that we have to establish targets for reductions of greenhouse gas emissions over time, and I think those can be met.

As Kate Sheppard explained, McCain new position is “completely out of line with his own proposal for a cap-and-trade scheme, both the plan he proposed with Joe Lieberman last year and his own presidential plan, released last month. They both would, by nature, be mandatory — hence the ‘cap’ in the name.”

(C&L)

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Gramp's just gets confused. He hasn't a clue.

MCCAIN: Sure. I believe in the cap-and-trade system, as you know.

And..... Lets start with Al Gores 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity.

What an energy pig!

Democrat Barack Obama says he'll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer. GOP rival John McCain's campaign criticized Obama Tuesday for speaking approvingly of the successful prosecution of terrorists.

A McCain aide said, "Obama is a perfect manifestation of a September 10th mind-set" and does not understand the dangers posed by U.S. adversaries.

Obama told reporters that the Republicans have no "standing to suggest that they've learned a lot of lessons from 9-11."

He said they "helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11." He said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because of their failed strategies.

(huffpo)

Democrat Barack Obama says he'll take no lectures from Republicans on who will keep America safer:

Obama Foreign Policy Adviser:“Winnie the Pooh seems to be a fundamental text on national security.”

A runaway metaphor is not the worst sin in the world. But if former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig really is a potential national security adviser under President Obama, he's doing his potential future boss no favors when he talks like this:

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.

(Lest anyone suspect that the Telegraph is exaggerating Danzig's role in the campaign, note Obama called Danzig "one of our key foreign policy advisers" in November 2007.) The best explanation of the metaphor in the article comes here:

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”

(So in the Danzig/Obama foreign policy vision... who's Tigger? We know Piglet has already been banned from the metaphor out of sensitivity to Muslims. Apparently Sen. Harry "the war is lost" Reid is Eeyore under this scenario.)

Jen Rubin suggests "Obama get rid of advisors who make people wonder if he is really ready to sit at the grown-up’s table." We've already seen Obama defend his summits-anytime-anywhere-with-anyone policy by pointing out that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are geographically tiny, a strikingly irrelevant piece of data in a world of asymmetrical threats.

It's good that Obama is going to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he would be wise to articulate a national security policy that relied more on personal meetings with Gen. David Petraeus and less on reading Winnie the Pooh.

I repeat:

It's good that Obama is going to Iraq and Afghanistan. And he would be wise to articulate a national security policy that relied more on personal meetings with Gen. David Petraeus and less on reading Winnie the Pooh.

Its Winnie-THER-Pooh.

Christopher Robin said so.

:-)

Headlines - Baracknophobia

Behind the mild-mannered facade, Barack Obama is intent on enslaving the white race.

http://tinyurl.com/6loexb

Just yesterday, McCain said, "I believe in the cap-and-trade system, as you know. I would not at this time make those -- impose a mandatory cap at this time." Details are stubborn things: His own campaign proposal includes a mandatory cap.

And this isn't the first time: In another interview, he said: "It's not quote mandatory caps. It's cap-and-trade, OK. It's not mandatory caps to start with. It's cap-and-trade. That's very different. OK, because that's a gradual reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions. So please portray it as cap-and-trade. That's the way I call it."

Call it anything you like -- but nobody would call it "straight talk."

(huffpo)