Oct 13, 2008
I’m an organizational psychologist and pollster. Notwithstanding what the MSM reports to demoralize and deactivate Republicans, I assure you that this is a VERY CLOSE race; it’s two points in either direction after adjusting for (1) the Bradley Effect and (2) and what is likely is exceptionally high McCain-Palin turnout based on fear and loathing of Obama’s radical socialist ideology, Chicago machine origins, terrorist connections and black separatist church roots. This second factor CANNOT be captured in the current sampling frames. Bottom line, if the McCain-Palin registered voters participate at a 75% level, the election is ours.
Stir the turnout motivation by speaking directly to everyone about how an Obama presidency would be a disaster for America through legislation, executive orders and judicial appointments:
X A massive tax increase on small business owners sucking the life out of an already weakened economy and sending us to the brink of a depression
X Increases in capital gains rates—another economy-killing measure
X An end to any reasonable prospects for offshore drilling for oil and gas to create energy independence
X Open borders, subsidized college tuition, social security and drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens
X Unfettered far left policy making power in the troika of Obama, Pelosi and Reid
X Reinstitution of affirmative action and racial quotas
X Increased federal funding for abortions
X Restriction of the Bill of Rights with union thug card-signing intimidation and imposition of the inappropriately labeled Fairness Doctrine
X A weakened defense and foreign policy, including derailing the Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative
X Appointments to the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal and District Courts that distort the Constitution.
Monday, October 13, 2008
McCain Victory Easily within Grasp By Dr Chaz
Palin argues for economic freedom by Salena Zito
Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/10/12/palin_argues_for_economic_freedom?page=full&comments=true
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sarah Palin sat down Friday night with Tribune-Review political reporter Salena Zito for a wide-ranging interview that covered the economy, education, energy and the Alaska governor's approach to governing. It was Palin's first face-to-face interview with a print reporter as Republican vice presidential candidate. John McCain's running mate was in Pittsburgh for a fundraiser at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown.
About stimulating the economy:
Palin: Energy independence ... certainly will stimulate our economy, circulating the dollars that we're presently spending overseas and in other countries; ... but also the clean coal technology that we got to be able to tap into; and the alternative sources of energy; and also, and as we wean ourselves off the hydrocarbons, the conservation efforts that Americans have got to undertake. So, we got that all-of-the-above approach towards energy independence that we need.
But also -- reducing taxes on our businesses, so that our businesses can keep more of what they're owing and what they are producing and what they are earning, and that way they’ll be able to hire more people. That’s how jobs are created.
So, those two parts of the solution ... and then also government spending, reining that in for now so that we can get a handle on this $10 trillion debt. ... We got to get a handle on every agency, every expenditure. Those things that are absolutely vital ... keeping those things going, but then freezing the spending on other areas of government. We get in there and find the efficiencies that can be created and just spending other people’s money wiser than how we’re spending it today to get a handle on that debt.
About small businesses:
Palin: My husband and I ... owned a business ... and struggled to figure out how are were going to offer (employees) health care and make payrolls, some months, of course, being such a struggle. And then ... my sister and her husband just opened up a service station up there in Alaska also. And I think of my sister, Heather, and her husband, Kurt, and I think now how will increasing taxes on a small business like theirs help them? It will not help them. It will prohibit Kurt from hiring more employees and then those people who cannot get that job, they will become more and more reliant unfortunately on kind of a bureaucratic system that sometimes in a way penalizes hard work and productivity. So it’s win-win if business taxes are reduced like I did in the city of Wasilla where I was mayor. I eliminated small business inventory taxes, wanting again for small businesses to be able to grow and prosper and thrive.
About improving education:
Palin: I’m a governor of a state where I believe in state’s rights and John McCain too. ... As a federalist, he’s saying -- come on -- let our states and let our local districts have more control of curriculum, have more control of their districts, get the federal government out of the business of telling our local districts what they can and cannot do, especially unfunded mandates coming down from the feds ... too many politicians in D.C. (are) so out of touch with the most responsive and responsible level of government -- that’s the local level; that’s your city councils and your borough assemblies and your county commissioners and your local school districts. Let them have more say and more control and really that is the way to turn things around in education also.
How her experience as a mayor and Alaska governor has prepared her to be vice president:
Palin: Yeah, well, I think, of the four candidates, I’m the only one with the executive experience. That needs to be put to good use here, because of course, it’s an executive office that I’m seeking there, and as a mayor and manager and as a small-business owner, as a governor, as a commissioner of regulating oil and gas, that executive experience will be put to very good use. But you know I think even more important than that ... is the world view that John McCain and I share. And that world view is that America is, of course, for good in this world, and we have such a great potential here. We’ve got to get our economy back on track so that we can start reaching that potential. Our world view, too, ... is the vision that Ronald Reagan used to talk about that America just being a beacon of hope for others seeking tolerance and freedom and equal rights, women’s rights. That America needs to be allowed to get back to that place in our world.
About how being a woman would affect her approach to vice presidential duties and decision-making:
Palin: I believe we, perhaps, have less patience for some of the baloney that goes on and some of the time that is wasted, that I think as moms, as women, we don’t have the patience in terms of allowing time to be wasted. There’s just too much to do. So how that would relate to politics is –- I’m not going to let and I’ve never let -- obsessive partisanship get in the way of just doing what’s right for the people whom I’m serving, that’s forced me to take on my own party time and again, and you know I’ve ruffled feathers along the way, too, but it always comes back to, come on, we’ve got work to do, let’s go, don’t have any time to waste.
About her advocacy for special needs children. Her infant son Trig was born with Down syndrome:
Palin: Even before Trig was born, I was a strong advocate for increasing funding for special needs kids in our schools and that’s what I did in Alaska. We increased ... state funding, 20 thousand per student up to $70,000 per special needs student to allow equal access to education opportunities for special needs kids. It comes down to my belief that every innocent human life is to be cherished and provided opportunity. So being able to live that out in a position in the vice presidency I think will be very good for our nation and not just those with special needs and their families but for all of America.
About the role of coal in America's energy independence. Pennsylvania is the nation's fourth largest producer of coal:
Palin: It’s so abundant, we’ve got to use it. It’s got to be environmentally friendly, the development of new technology also. The jobs that can be created as we figure out the clean coal technology ... we can then ... share with other nations like China and other areas that right now are producing the coal, but do not have the stringent oversight ... and do not have the technology ... to clean up our environment as the production takes place. We should be developing the technology, selling it to China and these other countries, and we kill a couple of birds with one stone. We allow those nations also to be productive, but at the same time we clean up the air, the water, the environment, and it can be American ingenuity that gets us there, and, again, that goes back to the bigger picture here where America can be a beacon of hope. There also as we’re making this world a cleaner, better, safer, healthier place, creating jobs at the same time, allowing our own economy to be bolstered with energy independence that this new technology can provide. It’s all win-win.
About establishing a better way for federal money to get to states and communities:
Palin: There’s nothing wrong with a state, with a governor or a mayor requesting of the federal government a share of the federal budget. That’s what the federal government takes our, parts of our, income and puts it in a big pot of money and then they distribute the money. There’s nothing wrong with the mayor or governor asking for that. The problem is the abuse of the earmark process -- those 11th hour behind-closed-door deal-making things ... that John McCain has just been disgusted about and has promised the reform. ... Priorities can be set via a local community’s processes and then have the federal government vet what those projects are and see if they’re in the nation’s best interest also. It can be reformed and needs to be.
About reforming the federal government:
Palin: John McCain and I have the track record of showing real change, real reform, I’ve done that on a city level, on a state level, I want to do it on a national level also. And John McCain, of course, having been known all these years as the maverick wanting to put government back on the side of the people and been very successful there in the opportunities he’s had. That’s what the reform is all about. What that proves, too, is we’re not just talk, talking the talk about hope for change some day in the future. No, we’ve got a track record that proves that we’re the candidates who can make this reform happen, to put government back on the side of the American people.
About an investigation -- the report was released after this interview -- that found Palin that violated Alaska ethics laws and abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper:
Palin: Haven’t heard what all that report is, but we certainly don’t have anything to hide. It’s important for a governor to take on the responsibility of making sure that everybody in her cabinet is in the right place at the right time to best serve the public. I dismissed a cabinet member because he wasn’t the right person at the right time in his position -- dismissed him having nothing to do with telling him to hire or fire anybody else. In fact, he said I’ve never told him ever to hire or fire anybody. ... (T)he buck stops with you also in an executive position ... But thankfully, ... John McCain, never having run with the Washington herd, he has distanced himself from that herd mentality that just kind of gets to protect one another and not be held accountable. McCain wants to be held accountable and so do I.
Salena Zito is a political analyst, reporter and columnist.
No room in America for class warfare By Nolan Finley
Source: http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/OPINION03/810120311/1271/OPINION01
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The odds were steeply stacked against my dad ever striking it rich. Born deep in the Kentucky hills, he traded high school for work and war, tried to scratch a living out of poor dirt and finally moved his family to Detroit, whose factories were wide open for cheap, unskilled labor.
He worked his way up to working class, managing to pay the monthly bills with a little help from the local loan office. But he had bigger dreams. He borrowed enough money to buy a laundromat near Wayne State University, and then a second in Delray, and when he punched out of the chemical plant he spent another long shift patching up washing machines.
His vision was of a laundromat empire. And if he hadn't died young he might have got there. But keeping the doors of those two stores open consumed most of what he made at his day job, and in the end, he was worse off than when he started.
Still, when he looked in the mirror he saw a potential rich guy. In his mind, no rungs on the economic ladder were beyond reach. That belief is what has kept generations of Americans striving and climbing; it's the energy that's powered all of our innovation and prosperity.
That's why it's distressing to endure a political season that's made class warfare a central campaign theme.
Populism usually falls flat with American voters. Witness the failure of Al Gore's "people versus the powerful" or John Edwards' "two Americas." We don't identify ourselves by economic class because we hold economic mobility as a core value.
But there's something different about this year. The Wall Street debacle has turned "CEO" into a dirty word and branded anyone in an executive suite as a robber baron. Hefty salaries aren't the pay-off for long hours and personal sacrifice, but ill-gotten gains lifted from the pockets of working people.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has found his treasure in this attitude shift. The wealth redistribution schemes that form the heart of his economic plan -- once red flags for Americans who understood that when they became rich, it would be their money that was being confiscated -- are now embraced as the change we need.
Equalizing income based on need saturates Obama's platform. Nearly every bullet point involves -- paraphrasing the candidate -- giving less to those at the top and more to those at the bottom.
It sets my teeth on edge when I hear him say that because it reveals a belief system that views wealth as a collective asset to be parceled out by the government, not the property of the individuals who earned it.
The obvious outcome of penalizing success is that it destroys the incentive to succeed. Adopting European-style socialism will turn us into France, sluggish and unambitious, with productivity and growth falling as taxes and handouts grow.
My father, were he alive, would be a major beneficiary of Obama's Robin Hood plots. But he'd have rather taken a beating than a government check.
America risks its identity if it tells folks like him to stop reaching for their own reward and instead pick the pockets of those who've already made it.
Nolan Finley is editorial page editor of The News. Reach him at nfinley@detnews.com or (313) 222-2064. Watch him at 8:30 p.m. Fridays on "Am I Right?" on Detroit Public TV, Channel 56.
Another John Edwards: Vera Baker Is Obama's Donna Rice
Who is Vera Baker — and why is she in Martinique?
Source: http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/who-is-vera-baker-and-why-is-she-in-martinique/
October 12, 2008
Who is Vera Baker?
Some people in Chicago claim she was Obama’s Finance Director for his 2004 Senate campaign. FEC Senate campaign records show she was paid a pretty penny as “Finance Director”.
However, people familiar with Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign say Claire Serdiuk was Obama’s Finance Director. Looking through everything we can see online for that 2004 campaign, Claire Serdiuk is consistently listed as the Finance Director - because that’s what she was.
There’s no mention of Vera Baker…but Vera Baker was paid as the “Finance Director” too.
And then, suddenly, Vera Baker was relocated to New York.
Right around the time Michelle Obama got incredibly angry about something. We know it was hard to tell, because Michelle’s angry about something on a good day…but this was EXTRA angry.
And then, even more suddenly, Vera Baker was relocated to the island of Martinique, where she remains.
We hear it’s lovely there. They get lots of sunshine on Sundays. Paradise. A lovely place to read between the lines and ask lots of questions. All reporters should go there and feel inspired.
Does anyone else get the impression the media doesn’t want to report on people like Vera Baker until after the election — and that both the Clinton and McCain campaigns have been unable to force them to do otherwise? Do you ever get the feeling reporters sit around, perhaps on top of piles of stories they choose not to report, asking each other, “You don’t really want McCain to win, do you?”.
Of course they don’t.
The piles make better chairs than stories. “We’re all so comfy!”
That’s why you’ve never heard of Vera Baker…and most likely won’t in the next three weeks.
Will Media Investigate Obama Affair Rumors?
Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/10/13/will-media-investigate-obama-affair-rumors
October 13, 2008 - 02:39 ET
By John Stephenson
Remember how the media had to play catch-up with the National Enquirer and blogs after rumors that begged for investigation were ignored? Many enjoyed that. Will the media repeat the same mistake again now that strong rumors are surfacing of an Obama affair?
The rumors are swirling, but I never heard them. The first I heard of them was in this preemptive defense calling them smears. Larry Johnson is talking this up, but he isn’t the most reliable source…however when Jammie Wearing Fool has info and predicts this will be a scoop I listen.
From Sharon Churcher’s preemptive defense piece:
The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a personal friendship with her.
The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks before the convention at which Obama finally beat his opponent for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton.The woman, now 33, vigorously denies the vicious and unsubstantiated gossip.
And some Washington insiders suggested that she was the victim of an 11th-hour attempt to smear Obama by die-hard Hillary supporters.
But now the rumours have resurfaced, suggesting that they may be coming from elements in the Republican Party.
Having now spoken to someone tracking the story, I can say:
1) It’s not just a silly little rumor.
2) It will break in some form shortly. The question is how prestigious an outlet breaks it. (PS, at best, it won’t be that prestigious, at least at first, but there’s a lot here so when someone finally touches, there is a good chance of an Edwards-like “Oh yeah, we were working on that too” pile-on.) Fire is being held as those who know the story try to get someone of import to break it; if they pass, it will be flooded out through secondary channels.
3) The story has a Fred Baron. Not The Fred Baron. But actually– an even better Fred Baron. The woman is “working” in the Caribbean drawing a salary from…. uhhh… let’s say from someone who is a big, shiny part of the dirty Chicago political machine. And it makes no sense that she’s doing her supposed “job,” for which she seems unqualified anyway, in the Caribbean, of all places. It’s unclear how she could possibly do this job at all, never mind from the Caribbean. And she’s been there for at least a year. (At least.) This isn’t some sabbatical or few months’ of “work” on an island paradise.
4) This woman was a major, big-time fundraiser. She raised x millions of dollars for various Democratic interests (connected to Obama) and then opened her own shop in DC. Since she was (as any fundraiser does) getting a cut of the take, this was a lucrative job. But she, for reasons unfathomable, suddenly shut the shop down and decamped to a little Caribbean island. And somewhere along the line got a “job” from her own Fred Baron. Which conveniently put her far away from Obama, Michelle, and the media.
5) Within hours of the Daily Mail article breaking, she called the Illinois hq of the Obama campaign. They wouldn’t talk to her.
Some people in Chicago claim she was Obama’s Finance Director for his 2004 Senate campaign. FEC Senate campaign records show she was paid a pretty penny as “Finance Director”.
However, people familiar with Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign say Claire Serdiuk was Obama’s Finance Director. Looking through everything we can see online for that 2004 campaign, Claire Serdiuk is consistently listed as the Finance Director - because that’s what she was.
There’s no mention of Vera Baker…but Vera Baker was paid as the “Finance Director” too.
And then, suddenly, Vera Baker was relocated to New York.
Right around the time Michelle Obama got incredibly angry about something. We know it was hard to tell, because Michelle’s angry about something on a good day…but this was EXTRA angry.
And then, even more suddenly, Vera Baker was relocated to the island of Martinique, where she remains.
We hear it’s lovely there. They get lots of sunshine on Sundays. Paradise. A lovely place to read between the lines and ask lots of questions. All reporters should go there and feel inspired.
I agree with Andrew Sullivan: Full disclosure.
Let’s see this banished staffer’s work records, pay stubs, and travel schedules. With an eye to seeing how those travel schedules may match up with The One’s.
I’m a journalist. It’s my duty to demand these answers. And I’ll never stop.
Sweet Potato Pie? Just remember…this is only a rumor until the media get off their behinds and actually investigate this. I heard another rumor that they plan on doing that the day after hell freezes over. We are not claiming this rumor to be true, only offering certain facts that raise serious questions we believe any unbiased media has the obligation to investigate. If only an unbiased media existed. Remember how the media played catch-up with the blogs on the John Edwards affair? It will be fun to see them repeat their mistakes if this pans out.
—John Stephenson is editor of Stop The ACLU.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Governor Sarah Palin & Daughter Piper At Way Fruit Farm
Source: http://www.centredaily.com/news/politics/story/897516.html
Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008
STORMSTOWN — The Way Fruit Farm Fall Festival had a surprise pumpkin picker Saturday: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Palin made the unannounced visit with her youngest daughter, Piper, on her way from a rally in Johnstown to the University Park Airport, where her plane was taking off for Philadelphia.
The visit was kept secret until seconds before John McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” bus rolled up and caught festivalgoers completely off guard.
“I saw the bus come up, took a picture of it,” said State College resident Ty Arbutiski, who had come with his wife and kids to the festival. “The kids were still out petting the bunnies. I said, ‘I’m going to go see if they’re stopping,’ ran up here and sure enough they did stop.”
“I yelled to her, ‘She rocks,’ she waved to me and said ‘Thank you,’ and came over and shook my hand. So I’m a happy guy. I may never wash it again.”
Even Way Fruit Farm’s owner, Brooks Way, and the press had little advance notice.
Sarah and Piper Palin spent a few minutes picking pumpkins with Bellefonte Elementary School student Max Theuer, who Palin grabbed from the crowd while greeting people.
“I said, ‘OK, I’ll help,’ ” Max, 9, said. “I just pointed to a pumpkin.”
Max picked out a plump, round pumpkin that Piper apparently wasn’t satisfied with. After Piper whispered to her mother, Palin said: “An even bigger one? Piper!”
They ended up with two pumpkins, one for Piper and one for Max, before Palin greeted some in the crowd and then left.
“She asked, ‘Would you like a pumpkin?’ ” Max said, who added that he “was kind of excited” about the experience.
“We were floored that she was so down to earth,” said Mike Theuer, Max’s father. “She paid literally out of her pocket.”
Palin spent about 15 minutes at the festival before leaving for the airport. She was scheduled to drop the puck Saturday night at the Philadelphia Flyers game.
“I introduced her to my mom and dad,” Brooks Way said. “They are fourth generation farmers. I’m fifth. My daughter Megan is sixth and my grandchildren Emma and Katie are seventh. She was impressed with that.”
Brooks Way said he doesn’t like to be political because that alienates him from 50 percent of people, and didn’t say if he was a McCain-Palin supporter.
“I am a Republican, yes,” he said. “I have not decided. But it’s changing today. Have you noticed, there’s no signs for either candidate. It will stay that way.”
The fall festival takes place every year on the second and third Saturdays of October. And on this beautiful sunny fall day, it drew hundreds of people.
“Go get her, governor!” screamed a man in the crowd. “Hey,” Palin said, then waved. “Thank you.”
One mother of five tracked down an agent to tell him that she has a son with Down syndrome, as does Palin.
Palin spent a few seconds with them and others who snapped pictures and shook her hand.
She didn’t field any questions from the press and didn’t make any public comment. This was just a quick, drop-in visit, staff said.
Local Republicans had been pushing for Palin to make an appearance in Centre County on Saturday.
Friday afternoon, Fox Hill Road leading up to the University Park Airport was lined with “McCain-Palin” yard signs, and one local Republican committee insider said it was unclear how they got there, stirring the rumors of a surprise Palin visit.
“We saw her and were like, ‘Oh my gosh, we love her!’ ” said Brenda Webb, who had arrived at the festival just before Palin.
“We’ve been watching her in the debates and everything,” Webb said.
Her daughter, Moriah, and Moriah’s friend, Ashley Reed, got to see in person the woman they’ve been so excited to watch on television, Webb said. “It’s so exciting for them. They’ve been really interested, so it was great for them to actually meet her.”
Sara Ganim can be reached at 231-4616. CDT staffer Matt Hymowitz contributed to this report.
Talk Turns To Jive About Ayers
Source: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308530627185173
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Campaign '08: Barack Obama now says he knew who Bill Ayers was but thought he was "rehabilitated." And they say McCain is erratic! Where are the fact-checkers when you need them?
Read More: Election 2008
In an interview with sympathetic Philadelphia radio talk show host Michael Smerconish, taped Thursday and broadcast Friday, Obama changed the story of his relationship with Weatherman terrorist William Ayers yet again. He even had the chutzpah to lay the matter at the feet of Ronald Reagan.
"Ultimately, I ended up learning about the fact that (Ayers) had engaged in this reprehensible act 40 years ago, but I was 8 years old at the time and I assumed that he had been rehabilitated," Obama said.
You'd think a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School would have known that the actions of America's premier terrorist bomber did not, due to tainted evidence, result in a single day of prison time. So just when and where did he think Bill Ayers was rehabilitated?
And just when and where did Obama learn about "this reprehensible act"? He does not say. But when you meet someone for the first time and end up in his house as he hosts your first fundraiser, isn't it customary to inquire about his background?
Michelle Obama was asked about the relationship on "Larry King Live" on Thursday. "I don't know anyone in Chicago who is heavily involved in education policy who doesn't know Bill Ayers," she said. Or his background?
When Obama did find out, and learned Ayers did not regret his deeds, the savvy and politically ambitious Obama should have dropped him like the plague. Instead, he lied (and that's the only word for it) about their relationship.
"The gentleman in question, Bill Ayers, is a college professor, teaches education at the University of Illinois," Obama told Smerconish. "That's how I met him — working on a school reform project that was funded by an ambassador and very close friend of Ronald Reagan's" along with "a bunch of conservative businessmen and civic leaders." This is the mother of all stretches.
University of Illinois records show that in the 1990s, Ayers was instrumental in starting the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, securing a $50 million grant to reform the Chicago Public Schools, part of a national initiative funded by Walter Annenberg, the former ambassador who died in 2002.
Annenberg wanted to reform schools, but certainly not along the socialist lines intended by Bill Ayers, who sees Venezuela's system as a model and has a mutual admiration society going with Hugo Chavez. And to suggest Ronald Reagan had any connection is obscene.
In a Thursday column in the Philadelphia Daily News, Smerconish writes that "the facts suggest that Ayers is on the periphery of Obama's public life." This, we suppose, is Latin for "just a guy who lives in the neighborhood," as Obama claims. In fact, Obama and Ayers worked intimately on many projects and served on boards together, routinely exchanging ideas.
As reported on pajamasmedia.com, Obama's first known meeting with Ayers had to occur in Chicago in 1987. Ayers was an activist in the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools. Community organizer Obama's Developing Communities Project was a member of that alliance.
The canard that Ayers' crimes occurred when Obama was 8 is irrelevant. Obama was 24 at the time of the Weathermen's last attacks. He was 29 when the last remnants of the Weather Underground and the affiliated May 19th Communist Organization were sentenced to prison in 1990. Surely Ayers' background was in news accounts.
The claim that Barack Obama did not know who Ayers was when he launched his political career in Ayers' living room is bogus. Ayers was a player in Chicago's radical left politics. So was Obama, who has a problem with the truth.
The Media's Bad Faith Claims About McCain Crowds By Merv Benson
Source: http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/medias-bad-faith-claims-about-mccain.html
Friday, October 10, 2008
The media has been buzzing the last couple of days about the statements of some in the McCain rallies that indicate they do not have a high regard for Obama. In fact most have been more temperate than Howard Dean in discussing President Bush.
In fact these media hypocrites never said anything about the intemperate things said about President Bush up to and including suggestions of assassinations by many on the angry left. They have in fact given good reviews to books and movies on that subject.
These people just have not credibility on the subject and McCain and Palin should ignore them and continue to speak to passionate crowds who are enthusiastic about defeating the evils of liberalism.
Source: http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/025622.php
October 11, 2008
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE? So we've had nearly 8 years of lefty assassination fantasies about George W. Bush, and Bill Ayers' bombing campaign is explained away as a consequence of him having just felt so strongly about social justice, but a few people yell things at McCain rallies and suddenly it's a sign that anger is out of control in American politics? It's nice of McCain to try to tamp that down, and James Taranto sounds a proper cautionary note -- but, please, can we also note the staggering level of hypocrisy here? (And that's before we get to the Obama campaign's thuggish tactics aimed at silencing critics.)
The Angry Left has gotten away with all sorts of beyond-the-pale behavior throughout the Bush Administration. The double standards involved -- particularly on the part of the press -- are what are feeding this anger. (Indeed, as Ann Althouse and John Leo have noted, the reporting on this very issue is dubious). So while asking for McCain supporters to chill a bit, can we also ask the press to start doing its job rather than openly shilling for a Democratic victory? Self-control is for everybody, if it's for anybody. . . .
UPDATE: Well, here's an opportunity to see how they do.
Plus, days of rage.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hey, it's not my rage. Remember, I lack fire. "Reynolds, at his most, barely reaches the level of mildly peeved."
