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If Obama is such a fan of spreading the wealth to help the less fortunate why hasn’t he shared any of the 650 million he has raised to buy this election with McCain ?
Not fair, because McCain is a serious threat ? Why hasn’t he shared any with Bob Barr or Ralph Nader ?
Because [...]

I hadn’t even really thought about this, and I won’t comment on it much, but it’s gonna happen either way. This is what happens when you raise two generations on grievance politics. This is the liberal education system coming back to bite these big-city liberal politicians right in their stupid asses.
Public safety officials [...]

I used to follow Politico many times a day. Now I check it once a day, if that. It has become as much of an Obama-booster as the rags the others used to work for. But I did like this, that- yes, HotAir again- picked up on….. Politico is giving McCain advice [...]

HotAir has, as usual, ripped this to shreds, but what is amazing to me is that the American public can even see it with the thick, heavy, choking cloud of the media smoke screen that has been floating around this election cycle. I mean…. it’s so incredibly obvious that it amazes me people still [...]

From what I will dub a “who gives a flying frock ?!” file, the media are having a itshay itfay about the RNC supposedly buying Sarah Palin some new “style”. I guess she could have worn her normal attire, but I think it would probably suck to be standing in an airport hanger in [...]

No brain scans in released Biden medical records
Joe Biden has no brain. I’m not exactly sure what one of these “no brain” scans shows, but this should be a bigger story, no ?

The Washington Post has endorsed Barack Obama for President.
In other news, ice is cold, knives are sharp, and puppies are cute.
Seriously- do media endorsements serve any purpose at all ?

Get this guy off script, and he gets funny.
At some concert fundraiser shindig- why is He still raising money ? I thought the election was over already. Anyhoo… At some event headlined by Bruce Springsteen (who hasn’t done anything good since “Born in the USA”) and Billy Joel (who I like, and [...]

This should, in a just world, infuriate every person in this country. So the Supreme Court (in a 5-4 decision to follow, I’m sure) has decided that Ohio doesn’t really need to follow their own laws or federal law regarding voter registration veracity. Ain’t that just perfect ?
Ohio is in the middle of [...]

I’m not gonna quit working for him to win, because I want to plant seeds about how terrible an Obama presidency will be. But McCain said something today that probably lost him the election.
And I won’t post much more because I’m so pissed off about it I can’t even see straight, and I’m out [...]

Actually, not channeling at all- flat out theft. From the “Yeah, What He Said” file:
The Campaign for Real Debates
That’s a lobby group I can get behind. Mark Levin’s point that McCain “doesn’t flat-out lie the way Obama does” is a way of acknowledging that the stilted artificial formats of these debates principally benefits the [...]

I really want to be in politics. I would be a fantastic campaign manager. I understand this stuff more than most, and a lot more than some of the “elites”. Plus, if you take Bob Beckel and Dick Morris as any indication, ya get hookers and stuff.
I won’t sell my soul for [...]

First, my thanks to Mr. Jim Treacher for giving me the opportunity to get a few comments in over at his live blog. I am sure I was making him crazy, because if you read the transcript you will see he allowed roughly 25 of the comments I submitted. That’s about 10%. I [...]

I’m not gonna do it here, I’ll be joining Ace or Treacher on theirs.
Considering my tremendous wit and delightful insight, I’m sure I’ll become a major player published from their comments. You agree, don’t you ?
UPDATE: I’ll be lb’ing over at Prof. Treacher’s place. With any luck he’ll let me sneak a [...]

As noted below TTA will be live-blogging the event, but I thought I might offer a few ideas before we actually get there tonight.
First, I really don’t get the expectations game. The consensus seems to be that this is a make-or-break night for Sarah Palin, but Ole’ Joe can all but punch her in [...]

This is just scary. A bunch of Obama’s fellow travelers- most notably the head of NBC TV ?!?!- have begun the process of actually brainwashing young children into singing songs about the Dear Leader. I mean…. this is like an SNL parody, except it’s…. real. I really can’t believe this.
Anyone who knows [...]

From Amy Holmes over at NRO: (yes, I’m stealing the whole thing, because it’s brilliant and it’s brief)
It seems to me that the real problem with [Nancy Pelosi's pre-vote] speech was its illogic. She stridently attacked George Bush’s “failed economic policies” and then, in the same breath, implored members to support his most [...]

I must admit that the results of the vote this morning came as a bit of a shock to me. Much has been said about the reasons for/against passage, and what the potential fallout may be. The motives of the votes from various members have also been thrown up, ripped apart, and examined [...]

Since the media seems so hell-bent on investigating people, let’s spread the field a little. McCain has gotten mired in bad strategy over the last week or so, but has shown a streak open to game-changing ideas, so here’s one. Start rolling out potential cabinet personnel immediately. There are currently 15 cabinet [...]

This crazy itch-bay needs to stop drinking beer at noon on Tuesday.
Is there anything more vapid than some empty-headed celebrity type trying to cash in some street cred to gain political sway, when the only arrow in their quiver is some idiotic slogan ? (come to think of it, isn’t that pretty much the [...]

I gotta say, at this point, I am not feeling optimistic. I think both had good stretches, but overall I think Obama had a better night.
But have no worries, kiddo, I am a geek, so I will watch it two or three more times before I have a full analysis. The lingering feeling [...]

Kathleen Parker has new fare out that, I gotta say, is just so completely bizarre I am not sure where to begin. Here’s a piece of it:
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
The basic [...]

Award winning screenwriter and proud conservative Burt Prelutsky has written a gem over at Townhall.com. Read it all, but here’s the closer:
The brains and values of left-wingers have decomposed to the point where they actually believe Keith Olbermann, Rosie O’Donnell and Chris Matthews make sense and that people like Whoopi Goldberg, Al Franken and [...]

After pseudo-praise of Paul Krugman I have to have something to wash the filthy taste outta my mouth. Enter stage left- Joe Klein, about whom it can’t be said to “stick with what you know” because, well, he doesn’t know anything.
From his new blather:
John McCain faced another crisis yesterday–a political one, not the financial [...]

So the Oxford, MS debate is up in the air at the moment. I have mixed feelings on the issue, personally, but let me offer a few thoughts as I work my way through it.
I do think this is a bit of a stunt. Not sure if it’ll play one way or the [...]

Treacher posts this as an Obama/Biden lap-dog kinda deal, but I see it a little differently.

What I see is a cute, fluffy, adorable little creature with a small mind but a devotion and love for it’s handlers. Handlers who feed and water and pet it on it’s little head every day.
And a dog.
PS: [...]

I’ve been pondering this for a few days. I am not one to discuss race often, mostly because I find it a fruitless discussion in near all cases. Living in the south one of the quickest ways for a conservative to get the ubiquitous “Hitler” gambit played against them is to get into [...]

This piece is priceless. I don’t know that I’ve read this young lady previously, but I shall certainly read her in the future. Kudos to you, Ms. Kristina Goetz.
What’s that ? A few excerpts ? Why of course, dearhearts:
Welcome to Oxford, East Coast Media Elite. I’m sure your advance sheet included [...]

This cat over at the Weekly Standard is a genius. I’ll post the whole thing under the fold, but suffice it to say it has a little fun with the whole Palin/email kerfuffle.
Be sure to check all the messages, both subject and sender, and the message that is open. Also, be sure to [...]

Ben Smith at Politico posts, but does not elaborate, on a little-noticed Biden blurb. And of course The Perky One lets it slide, probably because she spent all of history class making goo-goo eyes at the quarterback.
Joe Biden’s denunciation of his own campaign’s ad to Katie Couric got so much attention last night that [...]

See post below if you don’t understand the reference.
As a tribute to Biden himself, allow me to state with complete confidence the exact opposite of what I said yesterday. OF COURSE Biden agrees with Obama that the McCain ad was just fine. Really. I promise. Why, you may ask ? [...]

Stanley Kurtz at National Review has a piece up regarding Obama’s long-standing ties to William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist, and how every statement Obama has made in regards to Ayers has been a distortion at best and a blatant lie at most.
Considering the long list of associations that Obama has with less than [...]

Nice try, Joey. We ain’t buying it.
Barack Obama’s running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was “terrible” and would not have been done had he known about it.
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Asked about the negative tone of the campaign, and this ad in particular, during an [...]

I gotta believe that Hil is behind this just a bit. I know that there is that PUMA outfit out there, and I have personally heard from a few fence-sitters/disaffected Dems who are doing the same, but this thing, making news now….. I just have to believe that the Clinton machine is behind it [...]

Is there a better stupid, cranky old fart than CNN’s Jack Cafferty ? Check out this jaw-dropping gem.
Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about.
Really ? Nobody has been talking about race ? In the 20 months that this interminable election season has been [...]

Those two great words, change and hope, have been thrown around a lot in the last few years. Hell, they have been thrown around a lot in the last few centuries, I suppose. But what do they mean ?
I have mucho hope, and think change is bueno. As vapid ideas. Once [...]

Joe Trippi- remember him, the genius behind Howard Dean and John “I DID have sex with that woman, but I ain’t da baby daddy” Edwards- has a piece up on RealClearPolitics, and he uses a term that I despise.
There is no such friggin thing as “post-partisan” politics. There just isn’t. Nor is there [...]

I finally realized why Carolyn Kilpatrick, and Kwame Kilpatrick, and Barack O’Bama are always so pissed all the time. They are Irish.
Maybe what Detroit and South-Side Chicago need is more soccer fields. If only we had a community organizer around to help with something like that….

Speaking of quotes, I’d particularly like to point out a few of the ones I put up there that are more on-point now than they were even when they were first uttered. Damn I miss seeing more of P.J.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what’s good for people than people do [...]

First, my new buddy Bytetips. He did the base design for what I’m using here now, and it was really easy to use and manipulate and customize and all that. I haven’t had a good chance to check out all the other things that he does over at his site, but if it’s [...]