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McCain picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for VP

Posted 29 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, John McCain, Sarah Palin

I’m stoked that John McCain has picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate! Palin, 44, is the second woman to be picked as vice presidential candidate and the first in the Republican Party. She is widely popular in her home state, with approval ratings hovering above 80% since she took office in 2006. Like McCain, Palin has developed a reputation as a political maverick who doesn’t always toe the party line. As governor, she’s pushed ethics reform and challenged the old guard of Alaska’s long-dominant Republican Party, earning the ire of GOP elders but support from most voters. “A maverick with a record of reform picks a maverick with a record of reform,” an official in the...

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Obama’s big speech: long on platitudes, short on credibility

Posted 29 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama

I found it difficult to watch Barack Obama accept the Democrat nomination last night. Not just because I think he’s a dangerous radical wolf in sheep’s clothing, but because he’s such a damned slick speaker. Whatever one thinks of Obama, one must admit the man knows how to give a good speech. But honestly, I think that’s where his qualifications end. As I watched and listened, I kept hearing lofty talk of “promises” and common-ground phrases followed closely by clever populist euphemisms for “I’m gonna tax the hell out of y’all to do this.” “It’s a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have...

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Survivor of Weather Underground terrorism speaks out about Obama

Posted 28 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, terrorism, William Ayers

I’ve already blogged a post this week about Obama’s questionable friendship with domestic terrorist William Ayers, but because this article by John M. Murtagh is a first-person perspective from someone who survived one of Ayer’s bombing attempts, it deserves a look. (h/t: Ace) During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago,...

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New Vets For Freedom ad: The Surge Worked

Posted 28 Aug 2008 in Democrats, jihadists, Nancy Pelosi, victory, war

While Obama tries to pretend he’s Martin Luther King Jr. redux in front of his “temple/monument” prop, Vets For Freedom is airing a new commercial about Senate Resolution 636 which is specifically worded to recognize “…the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq and expressing gratitude to the members of the United States Armed Forces who made that success possible.” Contrast this with the blindly partisan denials by Senator Obama and the Democrat party. In July, after evidence was amassing that the surge was working, Obama said, “My assessment is that the surge has not worked.” Obama, then, was not only wrong about the surge; he was spectacularly wrong. And he continued to remain wrong even as mounting...

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Immigration raid catches nearly 600 illegals

Posted 27 Aug 2008 in illegal immigration

Good news in Mississippi. LAUREL, Miss. — The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. One worker caught in Monday’s sweep at the Howard Industries transformer plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Gee, I wonder why Americans would be happy to see illegal immigrants being arrested? Could it perhaps have to do with being fed up with… Brazen marches and protests where thousands of illegals boastfully thumb their noses at American citizens with impunity Arrogant boycotts demanding continued access to taxpayer-funded social services Petulant demands for...

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Worship at the Temple of Obama!

Posted 27 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, cult of Obama, Democrats

Now I see why Obama wants to accept the Democrat nomination at Invesco Field; his pompous ego wouldn’t fit inside Denver’s Pepsi Center. DENVER (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple. The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos’ National Football League team plays. Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington’s Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party’s nomination for president. He will stride out to a raised platform...

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Obama asks DOJ to censor political ad

Posted 26 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Barack Obama, intolerance, terrorism, William Ayers

Sounds like Barack Obama is following the stellar traditions of Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Leon Trotsky, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-Il, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin; all of whom used the power of the government to silence any criticism of their “cult of personality”. DENVER (AP) – Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressive response to attacks than John Kerry did when faced with the 2004 “Swift Boat” campaign. Obama not only aired a response ad to the spot linking him to William Ayers, but he sought to block stations the commercial by warning station managers and...

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DNC moonbat opening ceremonies

Posted 25 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, Democrats, socialism, stupidity

Let the games begin! The DNC convention began this weekend, and Democrats from around the country will now have a chance to “dance with the ones that brung ‘em”: namely, the extreme left of their party. Cindy Sheehan, Ward Churchill, Cynthia McKinney, and a crowd of other nutcases were there pushing their own particular brand of cognitive dissonance, captured in photos by Zombie stringer El Marco, whose site features MANY more photos of the liberal circus. (h/t: LGF) These cretins openly support Muqtada al-Sadr (depicted on the left of this banner), the radical Shiite cleric whose “Mehdi Army” operated a torture chamber inside a mosque in Iraq. Anarchists and communists alike seem to either be hiding their identities or...

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Victory in Iraq is almost official!

Posted 25 Aug 2008 in Iraq, victory, war

I saw this little tidbit today and was surprised it’s not getting more play. It looks like we will soon be able to declare “mission accomplished,” not for just removing Saddam Hussein and his regime, but for helping Iraq establish a new era of self-governance. Our military has done a fantastic job and after six years it’s almost time to bring them home! BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday that an agreement had been reached in negotiations on a security pact with the United States to end any foreign military presence in Iraq by the end of 2011. “There is an agreement actually reached, reached between the two parties on a fixed date...

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Corps of Cadets "fish Fry" at Texas A&M

Posted 23 Aug 2008 in military, patriotism, personal

Yesterday was quite a long day. Not just for traci and me, who spent most of the day in the car driving to College Station and back, but also for traci’s son, Chris, who just completed his Freshman Orientation Week. He’s a freshman in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University, where he will be studying to be an aerospace engineer in the U.S. Air Force. And here’s an interesting little fact: the A&M Corps of Cadets form the largest uniformed body of students outside the U.S. military academies! All first-year cadets at A&M are known as “fish” by their upperclassmen, and yesterday was an event where the parents had a chance to come down and visit their...

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