The Political Assassination of Christine O’Donnell

Why all the attacks on Christine O’Donnell?  Is she the second coming of  Imelda Marcos?  Is she some sort of horrible enemy of our blessed land whose sole purpose is to radically change our capitalist system into a socialist netherworld?  Nope, couldn’t be.  We’ve got one of those in the highest office in the free world already.

Ever since this perennial also-ran became, through the will of the citizens of Delaware, the Republican nominee for Senator, she has been under an egregious political attack, not seen since, dare I say it, Sarah Palin.

She has been accused of everything from being a human-sacrificing worshipper of the devil, to now, with just 5 days left in the campaign, the kind of girl that you wouldn’t take home to mother.  And the sad thing is, the attacks are not just coming from the opposition party.

Yesterday, in the latest attack against her, Gawker published some sleazebag’s story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O’Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off.   The funny thing is, all they did was smooch a little bit.  Big whoop.

Brad Kurisko, 28, a district executive with a Boy Scouts council in the Philadelphia area, had his uniform borrowed by Dustin Dominiak, (no, not Dustin “Screech” Diamond) who was wearing it as a Halloween Costume in a bar.  Gawker put a black bar over the name tag on the uniform, so that the jerk could not be traced.

Shortly after his last phone conversation with a reporter from thesmokinggun.com, a single name disappeared from Kurisko’s list of Facebook friends.

The man with whom electronic ties were abruptly cut is Dustin Dominiak, a 28-year-old buddy who attended Albion College with Kurisko. Records show that Dominiak has previously shared a Philadelphia address with Kurisko. One online posting reports that Dominiak, a Michigan native, has worked as an auditor at the Federal Reserve in Philadelphia.

Soon after Dominiak’s name vanished from Kurisko’s list of friends, Dominiak’s entire Facebook page (which listed 356 friends) was suddenly deactivated.  Can you say running scared?

This incident is so sleazy, even the National Association of Gals (or, as Rush Limbaugh refers to them, the NAGS) had to, reluctantly, come out against it.  Spokesperson Mai Shiozaki said:

NOW/PAC has proudly endorsed women’s rights champion Chris Coons, O’Donnell’s opponent in the Delaware Senate race, and finds O’Donnell’s political positions dangerous for women. That does not mean it’s acceptable to use slut-shaming against her, or any woman.

NOW has repeatedly called out misogyny against women candidates, and this election season is no different. Let me be honest: I look forward to seeing Christine O’Donnell defeated at the polls, but this kind of sexist attack is an affront to all women, and I won’t stand for it.

Translation:  Although we hate the (Joy Behar’s new favorite word), we have to speak out about this or lose what little support we have left.

The other hot news item about O’Donnell that came out yesterday, was a poll issued by Fairleigh Dickerson University in Delaware.  It presented the surprising conclusion that Coons is leading O’Donnell by 21 points, 57-36.

That’s kind of strange, because the  usually accurate guys at hillbuzz.org, posted the following on 10/26:

Yesterday, a poll went around showing Christine O’Donnell just five points behind Commie Coons in Delaware’s Senate race. This SORT OF explains the weird amount of time the White House has been spending in a slam dunk blue state.

But, Democrats are ferociously attacking CoD as hard as they attacked Scott Brown in Massachusetts.  If she is so far behind, what is the point in beating up on this woman?

This is anecdotal, but I think I know why they are doing this…just like with [Scott Brown] there are internals showing O’Donnell ahead.

Today I talked to a friend from Team Hillary who is a big Dem fundraiser. He told me that for the last week or so the DNC has been at DEFCON 1 leaning HARD on the rainmakers because they are terrified of a CoD win in Delaware.

The problem is some internal poll that apparently shows that a high percentage of Democrats early voting are voting straight ticket Republican instead…they are Democrats voting against Democrats.

So, how did that esteemed institution, Fairleigh Dickerson University, come up with such different information than hillbuzz.org? 

Well, according to the university’s website:

The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll of 797 randomly selected likely voters statewide in Delaware was conducted by telephone, using both landlines and cell phones, from Oct. 20 through Oct. 26, 2010 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percentage points.

Dr. Dan Cassino with Fairleigh Dickinson University says O’Donnell has firmed up her Republican base, but not without great cost:

We’ve seen that the voters in Delaware have become increasingly polarized about Christine O’Donnell, and we’re seeing that right now, she has a very unfavorable number of 44 percent, and that is up significantly.

Chris Coons’ unfavorability numbers, earlier in this month, were at 27 percent. His unfavorability numbers are now up to 36 percent.

Who is Dr. Dan Cassino?  He’s an Associate Professor in Social Science, in charge of their political polling department/initiative named Public Minds.  What are his bona fides?  Well, let’s let his biography page on the school website tell you:

APPOINTMENTS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: (2007-) Fairleigh Dickinson University Department of Social Science and History

DIRECTOR OF OUTSIDE RESEARCH: (2007-) Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Survey

LECTURER: (2006-2007) Fairleigh Dickinson University Department of Social Science and History

STAFF RESEARCHER: (2005-2006) Princeton University Department of Politics

INSTRUCTOR: (2003- 2005) Stony Brook University Department of Political Science

PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Academic Publications
“Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Politics, Religion and Masculinity in Young Men’s views of Abortion.” Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality 1:2.

“Motivated Ignorance and the Dynamics of Partisan Presidential Approval.” (with Matthew Lebo) Political Psychology 28:4.

“Information Processing and Public Opinion.” (with Charles S. Taber and Milton Lodge) Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Political Science Quarterly) 48:2.

Books
Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Symbolic Politics and the Youth Vote in America (with Yasemin Besen). Under Contract with Associated Universities Press, for delivery in 2008.

Book Chapters
“The Primacy of Affect in Political Evaluations.” (with Milton Lodge). In The Affect Effect. Marcus, Neuman, et al., eds. 2007: University of Chicago Press.

Non-Peer Reviewed Journals
“Bush Withers Republican in Garden State Senate Race,” (with Peter J. Woolley) The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 16 (August 28, 2006), pp. 1, 7-8.
“Why Menendez Won,” (with Peter J. Woolley) The Polling Report, Vol. 22, No. 22, (Nov. 27, 2006), pp. 1, 5-6.

EDUCATION
PhD. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2005)
Stony Brook University
Areas of specialty: Political Psychology, Political Economics, Methodology

M.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2003)
Stony Brook University

B.A. POLITICAL SCIENCE (May 2001)
University of Arizona

UNDERGRADUATE CLASSES TAUGHT
Parties and Interest Groups
The American Presidency
Research Methods
Introduction to American Politics
Congress
Statistics
Constitutional Law
Political Psychology

GRADUATE SEMINARS TAUGHT
Introduction to Quantitative Methodology in Social Sciences
INQUISIT programming seminar

MY RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA
(selected examples)

“New Poll Gives Sen. Menendez Edge in NJ,” Washington Post, Forbes, CBS News, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, October 5, 2006.
“Poll: Democrat Leads NJ Senate Race,” MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, Thursday, October 5, 2006.
“GOP Hopeful Says Rumsfeld Should Resign,” New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 2006.
“Iraq Weighs Heavily in Kean’s Balancing Act.” New York Times, Sunday, September 10, 2006.
“Gibes are Traded by Rivals for Senate.” Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, August 31, 2006.
“Poll: War Concerns Hamper Kean Bid.” Newsday, San Jose Mercury News, others, Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
NPR’s Talk of the Nation, August 30, 2006.

So…Dr. Cassino, the guy responsible for the Fairleigh Dickinson Political Poll is a Liberal Pinhead.  I’m shocked, I tell you.  Shocked!

Christine O’Donnell walked across the stage with the undergraduates at Fairleigh Dickinson in 1993.  She did not earn her degree until 2010.

This academic pinhead-driven poll couldn’t be liberally slanted, could it?  Nawww.  Of course, not.

 
 

Dems: The Dirty Tricks Aren’t Working, Let’s Get Ready for 2012

It appears that the Democrat Party, with 5 days to go until their Political Massacre on November 2nd, 2010, are attempting to come to grips with the inevitable. 

Gallup’s recent tracking of the generic ballot for Congress has shown the Republicans with substantial leads over the Democrats among likely voters, partially because the underlying registered voter population leans Republican.  Compared with previous elections, that tilt is an extraordinary advantage for the Republicans, who are in a tie with the Democrats among registered voters. The GOP’s position is further enhanced by the generally strong manner in which Republicans turn out to vote, which appears to be even greater than usual this year.

In some important demographic respects — namely, gender, age, and education — 2010 midterm voters will be very similar to past electorates. However, if the figures reported at gallup.com stay the same through the final poll conducted this coming weekend, this will be only the second time in the last five midterm elections in which the majority of voters on Election Day were Republican in their party identification or leanings, likely exceeding the 51% found in 2002. Much of this is due to a surge in Republican-leaning independents.

Therefore…

The Democratic National Committee has formally asked the Pentagon for reams of correspondence between military agencies and nine potential Republican presidential candidates, a clear indication that Democrats are building opposition-research files on specific 2012 contenders even before the midterm elections.

An internal Army e-mail obtained by ABC News indicates that the DNC has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for “any and all records of communication” between Army departments and agencies and each of the nine Republicans — all of whom are widely mentioned as possible challengers to President Barack Hussein Obama.  Mm mmm mmmm.

The agencies are asked to respond to the request by this Friday, just four days before Election Day.

The nine Republicans that Democrats are seeking information on are former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska; former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass.; Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Gov. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind.; Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.

Such requests are typical in the world of opposition research, which involves casting a broad net for publicly available material that may at some point prove embarrassing or incriminating to political candidates.

The request isn’t for details of military service or lack thereof, but appears to be designed to find information on letters and memos sent to and from the potential candidates in official positions they’ve held.

DNC officials declined to comment, but did not dispute that the information has been requested. An Army spokesman confirmed that the DNC’s formal request for information has been received.

The spokesman, Col. Tom Collins, said:

We did receive a FOIA request, and now we are responding to that FOIA request.

Following up on yesterday’s article, where I presented footage of the Rand Paul incident in which Paid Professional Liberal Agitator Lauren L. Valle, 23, of MoveOn.org, one of the websites that George Soros funds, was pinned to the ground and had her neck and shoulder area pressed on by the boot of a Paul volunteer, I now give you, as the late, great Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story :

While the boot pressure was unnecessary, Ms. Valle is not the innocent little angel that all the Liberal Blogsites are trying to portray her as.  She, along with her unnamed and unmentioned posse, were there at the rally for no other purpose than to try to stage a media event and to disrupt a Conservative politician’s message.  They are no better than those pitiful individuals that get paid to sit in their Mom’s basements and surf the web, trolling Conservative websites all day in order to disrupt and obfuscate the Conservative message that has been resonating from one coast to the other.

Bill Maher summed up the Far Left’s view of Conservatives thusly:

Hey, Bill, if you ever become relevant again, let us know.

The Lauren Valles and Bill Mahers of this nation are in for a rude awakening on November 2nd, 2010.  That’s why Hillary Clinton has already left the country for Australia and President Barack Hussein Obama is leaving on a 12 day Asian Tour right after the election.

The Sleeping Giant has awakened…and I’m loving every minute of it.

 

6 Days of Dem Dirty Tricks to Go

In Boulder City, Nevada, Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.  Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. Her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.

Ferrara said:

Something’s not right.  One person, that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five-minute period of time — that’s wrong.

Exactly.  Guess what?  Voting machine technicians in Clark County are members of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU spent $63 million in elections in 2008 and is planning on spending $44 million more this election cycle — nearly all of that on Democrats. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is formerly the SEIU’s top lobbyist, and former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House last year.
 
But wait, there’s more…
 
According to Jon Ralston, Sharron Angle’s campaign attorney:

Two days ago, the Democratic Secretary of State announced that voters can be provided “free food” at “voter turnout events.” Harry Reid has been offering free food and, according to other reports, some Democratic allies such as teachers’ unions are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Reid.

Before we were even able to document the reported infractions to report to the authorities, the Democrat Secretary of State slammed the door shut on preventing this behavior and issued a public statement permitting these ACORN-style tactics. THESE are the kinds of shenanigans that can turn this race.

Harry Reid intends to steal this election if he can’t win it outright.

It appears that the democrats are pulling out all the stops…

A volunteer for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul faces a fourth-degree assault charge after the man was charged with stepping on the head of a liberal activist when she tried to pull a political stunt on Paul Monday evening.

Police said Tuesday that a criminal summons would be served on Timothy Profitt, 53, of Bourbon County.

According to Profitt, he was concerned the woman was trying to attack Paul and acted only to subdue her:

The way she went after him it looked like something bad was getting ready to happen.

However, the activist with MoveOn.org, Lauren L. Valle, 23, claims that her rough treatment by Paul supporters was premeditated.

Several Paul supporters got behind her just before her planned disruption and photo , and another MoveOn.org volunteer heard one say, “We are here to do crowd control (and) we might have to take someone out.”

At least, that’s what Valle told the Huffington Post, a liberal blog which just received a generous $1,750,000 donation by George Soros for its Investigative Journalism Department. 

Hmmmm…MoveOn.org…HuffPo…Soros…can you say SET-UP?

For his part, Paul’s campaign issued a statement condemning Profitt’s actions, without naming him, and saying it had cut ties with him:

Whatever the perceived provocation, any level of aggression or violence is deplorable and will not be tolerated by our campaign. 

Profitt was one of two Bourbon County residents listed as important Central Kentucky supporters of Paul in an ad that appeared in Tuesday’s Herald-Leader.

Here is the video, judge for yourself.  It looks like the guy’s foot is on her shoulder to me.   From all the faux concern for this paid protester’s safety on the internet, you would have thought the Hindenburg had crashed again.  Oh, the humanity!!!

Last night, this professional agitator appeared on MSNBC’s unwatchable “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann where she described the incident from her point of view and noted that she plans to proceed with legal charges against the Rand Paul supporters.

Go ahead, Princess.  Your background of professional disruption will make for interesting drama in court.

For the last couple of weeks, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) and his sycophantic minions have been pushing the message that those wascally Wepublicans have been getting campaign money in “from God knows where”.  Well, methinks they protest too much:

So far, the latest figures show that the Democratic Party machinery has outraised its Republican counterpart in this campaign cycle by almost $270 million.

And even when outside spending on television advertising and direct mail is added to the mix, Republicans still haven’t closed the gap.

The money race totals come to $856 million for the Democratic committees and their aligned outside groups, compared to $677 for their Republican adversaries, based on figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

Included in that total: conservative groups have spent $169 million on ads attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates, compared to $80 million by liberal-leaning groups, based on figures as of Tuesday.

So, where are all these machinations, getting the party that George Soros has bought and paid for?

Not very far.  According to a poll published by Harris Interactive yesterday, Scooter’s dropped to a new low.   Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job he’s doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion.

And, according to RealClearPolitics, even though they always predict conservatively, the  Dems are not going to fare well next Tuesday.  In the House races, they show 178 Democrats, 223 Republicans, and 34 Toss Ups.  In the Senate races, they show 49 Democrats, 45 Republicans, and 6 Toss Ups.

We have 6 days left to make a difference, Americans.  If you have friends who are still wishy-washy about what’s happening in this country, make an effort to speak to them about the elections.  This is our moment.  This is our opportunity.  Let’s make it a historic night.  In fact, let’s make it unprecedented!

One Week to Go: Illegals and the Vote

With one week to go until the most important Midterm Elections in modern history, let’s compare some presidential quotes, shall we?

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy –

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

 

President Ronald Wilson Reagan –

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.  Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. 
 
President Barack Hussein Obama –

If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.

I thought this guy was supposed to be The Great Uniter?

In a divisive piece of propaganda waaaay beneath the dignity of his office, President Barack Obama told Hispanic voters to turn their anger and resentment over stalled immigration reform against Republicans on Election Day.

Facing a Political Massacre on November 2nd, a desperate Obama and his party are trying to get Hispanics, a crucial voting bloc in several battleground states, to get up off the couch and vote.

Yesterday, Scooter promised Hispanics that he would push an immigration overhaul after the midterm elections, which, in reality, will be very hard to do, considering the Democrats may lose both Houses.

Bringing up Republicans such as Senator John McCain, who formerly supported an overhaul but now are stressing border security and supporting strict immigration laws like Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration measure, Scooter said:

Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

What do you mean OUR CORE VALUES, Scooter?

Stumping for Senator Harry “Dinghy Harry” Reid, locked in a dead heat with his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, Obama warned voters that Ms. Angle “is completely opposed to comprehensive immigration reform.” He also dismissed an ad encouraging Nevada’s Latinos to stay home on Election Day as “cynical.”

Democrats have put forth a number of proposals aimed at overhauling the nation’s immigration laws. But talks floundered after Senator Lindsey Graham, the lone Republican who was working with them on the overhaul, walked away because they wanted to ram cap-and-trade down Americans’ throats with that bill, and RINO Senator Grahamnesty did not want that kind of publicity.

The Justice Department even went so far as to sue an American State, Arizona, over its immigration law, arguing that it interfered with the federal government’s role in enforcing immigration laws, even though Obama’s administration was not enforcing them, endangering Arizona’s citizens. Arizona has appealed a stay imposed by a federal judge.

Comparing the immigration fight to African Americans’ decades-long struggle to gain civil rights, Obama said:

…instead of us giving up, we just have to keep working until it gets done.

One problem, Scooter.  Those African Americans were legal American citizens.  What part of the word illegal, don’t you understand?

Obama proclaimed:

I’m going to keep my promise on immigration reform.

After November 2nd, only if you bypass Congress, Scooter…and I would not put that past you.

Out in America’s West, Illegals have teamed with SEIU to try to undermine the votes of American citizens.  Allow me to acquaint you with Mi Familia, a Latino “social justice” group and Big Labor satellite.  According to discoverthenetworks.org:

  • Run by progressive labor leaders
  • Works to naturalize new citizens, to register new voters, and to use the 2010 Census as a redistributive mechanism

The Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF) is an open-borders group that advocates “social and economic justice.” It maintains offices in Arizona, Colorado and Texas. As a national partner of the Ya Es Hora, Hagase Contar! (“It’s Time, Make Yourself Count!”) campaign, MFVEF works in conjunction with the NALEO Education Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the Service Employees International Union, Univisión Communications, Entravisión Communications, and ImpreMedia to naturalize new citizens, to register voters, and to use the 2010 Census to redistribute wealth and power in the direction of Mexican immigrants. MFVEF is also part of the Center for Community Change’s massive Reform Immigration for America campaign and operates as a prominent member of the We Are America Alliance.

MFVEF identifies the following as its major objectives:

  • “Expanding the electorate through direct, sustainable citizenship, voter registration, census education, GOTV [Get-Out-The-Vote] and issue organizing in key states”;
  • “Forming and supporting key alliances at national, state and local levels to increase civic engagement”;
  • “Providing technical assistance and support to other organizations”; and
  • “Increasing public support for full civic participation for New Americans.”

Our problem is not just out West, however.  America’s Illegal Immigration problem is affecting elections from one coast to the other.

Portland, Maine residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it.

Opponents of the measure rightly say that immigrants already have an avenue to cast ballots — by becoming citizens. Allowing noncitizens to vote dilutes the meaning of citizenship, they say, adding that it could lead to fraud and unfairly sway elections.

Exactly right.

Portland resident Barbara Campbell Harvey said:

My primary objection is I don’t think it is right, I don’t think it is just, I don’t think it is fair.

In San Francisco, a ballot question Nov. 2 will ask voters whether they want to allow noncitizens to vote in school board elections if they are the parents, legal guardians or caregivers of children in the school system.

In America, in order to vote one week from today, you must:
 
1.  Be a citizen of the United States of America.
2.  Be a resident of the state in which you are voting.
3.  Be 18 years old.

 

Our Best and brightest have died on battlefields, in lands far, far away, to protect and preserve this right.  Those who have entered this country illegally, as a burglar enters a home, in no way deserve this right.  Period.

 

 
Obama and the Progressives ought to be ashamed of themselves for trying to give away this proprietary right of American citizenry.  But, in their quest to preserve their political power, conscience has taken a backseat to desperation. 

The Fading Message of the Progressives

One week from tomorrow, an awe-inspiring moment in the history of America will occur:  Americans are going to stand up on their hind legs and begin the process of taking their country back.  Even the leader of  The Regime is beginning to admit it. 

Obama told a crowd of roughly 8,000 enthusiastic supporters at the University of Minnesota:

There is no doubt that this is going to be a difficult election.

At a fundraising dinner after the rally in Minneapolis, Scooter laid it on the line with the 100 attendees who paid between $2,500 and $50,000 to attend.

I’ve got to admit, Mr. President, sometimes over the last couple of years, with all the negative ads and all the money that’s been pouring in, all the filibustering and obstruction in Congress, sometimes I just start losing altitude, start losing hope.  It just seems like change is so hard to bring about.

Especially when the American people don’t want the change you’re trying to accomplish.

Then the president went on to once again prove that denial is not just a river in Egypt.  Obama, who has attacked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads in the past week or two, did not mention any organizations by name on Saturday in Minnesota but, instead, called them “phony front groups.”

They are pouring millions of dollars through a network of phony front groups, flooding the airwaves with misleading attack ads.

Once again, Scooter was reprising his charge that the money from unknown donors is “a threat to our democracy.”

San Fran Nan was with Scooter at the fundraiser and she, too, was throwing stones from the Democrats’ Glass House:
 

Everything was going great and all of a sudden secret money from God knows where – because they won’t disclose it – is pouring in.

Hey, soon to be deposed Madame Speaker, what about Candidate Obama’s Campaign donations from the Gaza Strip?

Things are so bad for the Dems that Monica Lewinsky’s favorite president can’t even fill a high school gym.

Bubba appeared at a rally for Virg Bernero, held at Renaissance High School Gymnasium in Detroit. Bernero is running for Governor of the state of Michigan.  

While the crowd hoisted signs that stated “Virg Surge,” the turnout at the rally was anemic. More than 500 people came to the rally, but the gym at Renaissance High School was only about one-third full, even though Clinton used to command full houses wherever he went, especially in Detroit.

The thrill is gone.  The American people aren’t buying what Obama and the progressives are selling anymore.  They’ve seen enough.  Like the silent, long-suffering hero in a Gary Cooper movie, Americans are fed up and about to assert themselves in defense of what is right.  For example, in my blog yesterday, The Pledge and the Progressives, I wrote about American citizens reciting the pledge at an Illinois House of Representative Debate, hosted by the League of Women Voters, when the Moderator refused to lead it.  The man who led that Pledge wrote me in response to my post.  His story is representative of the majority of Americans:

My name is Joe Ptak and I live in Island Lake, Illinois. I attended the Joe Walsh-Melissa Bean “forum” and I WAS THE INDIVIDUAL who stood up and wanted to know why the pledge of allegiance was not going to be recited…I thought it might have been an oversight. I was flabbergasted and stunned to hear the LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS moderator say to me, and the audience, that it was never part of their program at these events and will not allowed.

Please keep in mind that this “forum” was organized in Grayslake High School for the benefit of the students, who were asking the questions. Furthermore, there were numerous students present (gaining extra credit) as well as 350 adults and media who packed the auditorium.

I served in the USAFR’s for ten (10) years and there were many veterans in attendance. I was so proud when the audience rose up one by one, then in mass to recite the pledge of allegiance with loud and heavy emphasis on the words LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. The moderator then had the gall to admonish the audience and for “disrespecting her”…my wife told me if that woman did not shut up she was going to get her “Brooklyn up” (being from NY).

I happen to be an Hispanic immigrant from Peru, South America, who was brought to this great country by my parents, along with three other siblings in 1960, when I was eight years old. I was raised in Chicago, have seen, and experienced a lot in this world. People are literary dying each day for just the OPPORTUNITY to live in this great land I call my home.

There are ignorant people in this land who do not have the slightest idea, nor understand, what it means to be an AMERICAN. Our Liberty, Freedom of Speech and the Press are never guaranteed and we must always fight to maintain them. I think our students in attendance witnessed that first hand and gained a lot of extra credit for themselves.

Isn’t is funny how two Americans named Joe: one an unassuming plumber, and the other, a good man, born in South America, who honorably served the country his freedom-seeking parents legally immigrated to, have both so clearly illuminated the anti-American message of the agenda of Obama and his fellow travelers.

Average Americans are the strength of our country.  In eight days, we’ll prove that again.

The Pledge and the Progressives

Last Wednesday night, something  that will touch your heart happened at the beginning of a candidates forum with 8th Congressional District candidates Joe Walsh, Melissa Bean and Bill Scheurer at Grayslake Central High School.

According to Illinois’ top League of Women Voters official, “phony patriotism” is driving criticism over a moderator’s reaction when she was asked if the Pledge of Allegiance would be recited before an 8th Congressional District debate this week.

Executive Director Jan Czarnik said what happened at Wednesday’s debate and a firestorm of criticism afterward, directed at moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish, was an attempt by supporters of Republican candidate Joe Walsh of McHenry and tea party members to bully the organization.

Czarnik said someone is not a better American just by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
And just whom should we pledge our allegiance to?  Wait…don’t tell me.
 

This clueless woman said:

It’s a phony patriotism issue is what it is.  They must think it helps their campaign.

Brought in from the League of Women Voters Evanston branch because she doesn’t live in the 8th Congressional District, Tate-Bradish handled the event at Grayslake Central High School that featured Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean of Barrington, the Green Party’s Bill Scheurer and Walsh.

As you heard in the video, Tate-Bradish was asked by a man in the audience whether the Pledge of Allegiance would be recited after she went over some ground rules and directed the candidates to make opening statements.

As Tate-Bradish condescendingly explained that the debate was not scheduled to start with the pledge, almost all in the crowd of more than 300 stood and enthusiastically recited it anyway. Tate-Bradish, who joined in the pledge, issued a scolding, like a petulant schoolmarm, when the crowd finished.

Walsh campaign manager Nick Provenzano still does not understand why Tate-Bradish did not appear to welcome the Pledge of Allegiance suggestion. He said it was spontaneous and not orchestrated by Walsh’s campaign.

He said:

That neutral stance (by Tate-Bradish) toward the Pledge of Allegiance is troublesome.

Not just troublesome, sir.  Borderline treasonous.

Tate-Bradish stood by her unpatriotic actions and said she’s been surprised by personal attacks directed toward her on the Internet since the forum, particularly posts stating she “hates America.” ( I’m shocked, I tell you.  Shocked.)  She claims that she ran the debate in the format established by some Grayslake High students and agreed to by all three candidates, none of whom asked for the pledge in advance.

She petuantly whined:

It’s pretty patriotic to run forums in election seasons where every candidate can be heard and they’re not stomped on.

Island Lake resident Joseph Ptak, a Walsh supporter, claimed Friday he asked for the pledge at the debate. Provenzano said he was not certain who made the request.

Ptak, 58, a U.S. Air Force veteran, said the pledge was a proper way to begin the event that was in a high school and had student participation. He said many veterans were in the audience, and he objects to Czarnik questioning the request’s sincerity.

Ptak said:

I’m a Joe Walsh supporter, but first and foremost I’m an American.

Bean spokesman Jonathan Lipman declined to comment.    Somehow, I don’t doubt that.

Meanwhile, Czarnik said she’s tiring of attacks on how the League of Women Voters has operated debates leading to the Nov. 2 election. She said league volunteers run the candidate forums and voter education programs.

League of Women Voters members throughout Illinois hold elected offices in both major parties and are generally allowed to make political contributions. Tate-Bradish acknowledged she’s contributed money to Democrats, but that it would never affect how she moderates a debate.

When we host a political forum, we are scrupulously fair to each party.

Of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that Ms. Tate-Bradish is a member of Obama’s Organizing for America, does it?  Of course not.

With its operations on the third floor of the DNC’s Capitol Hill headquarters, OFA consists of a vast network of volunteers whose mission is to:

let their friends and neighbors know about the President’s plan to invest in America’s future, improve health care and education, create green jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut the deficit in half over the next four years.

A New York Times report describes OFA as:

an army of [Obama] supporters talking, sending e-mail and texting to friends and neighbors as they try to mold public opinion.

What these Progressive ladies and their ilk, all the way up the ladder to the object of their affection, Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), don’t understand, is that they have awakened a sleeping giant.  And this giant will flex his muscles on November 2nd.

Maybe these ladies were never properly explained the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance?  As I take my leave today, America’s Clown Prince, Mr. Richard (Red) Skelton will explain it, so that even they might understand.  God Bless America!

A Phone Call From Bubba

Hello…this is KJ.  Who’s this?  Well, Howdy, Mr. President.   How are ya?

Yeah.  I heard you were out on the stump for the Democrat Candidates, trying to minimize the damage before the November 2nd Massacre…Lotsa Luck…Heh. 

The other day, you were in Espanola, New Mexico, speaking to a crowd of 4,000.  You’ll go anywhere, won’t you?  But, I’ve got to ask you.  Just who were you campaigning for?

I planned to do about one stop for everybody that helped Hillary run for president because she’s one of only two members of the president’s cabinet who cannot participate in politics .

Y’know, as Secretary of State, Hil is not permitted to campaign. Then I got out here and started stirring around and realised that a lot of people were mad and even more confused and I didn’t want it on my conscience so I just loaded up and started strolling around.

Criminently.  The schedule you guys keep means you two see each other about as often as Lindsey Lohan sees sobriety.  Do I hear a smile in your voice, Bubba?

Well, I can understand your reluctance to campaign on behalf of Hil’s boss.  You two haven’t exactly been the best of friends since the knockdown-dragout fight y’all had in 2008.   Hey, was Gov. Bill “Judas” Richardson out there with you?  

Why, Mr. President.  I didn’t know that you knew such words! 

Did you hear about Scooter campaigning for Dinghy Harry out in Las Vegas last night?  Yeah.  It was supposed to be a rally for Harry Reid but the crowd kept chanting Obama’s name.  Pretty funny.  Scooter said to the crowd, who busted a gut, laughing:

Harry is not the flashiest guy, let’s face it.  Harry kind of speaks in a very soft voice. He doesn’t move very quickly. He doesn’t give stem-winding speeches. But Harry does the right thing.

Thant was a backhanded compliment if I’ve ever heard one.

At one point, Scooter had to stop his sycophants from chanting:

I appreciate everyone saying ‘Obama,’ but I want everyone to say ‘Harry, Harry, Harry. 

He then had to lead the crowd in the cheer and, after they finally joined in, he said:

That’s right.

Yep.  Harry and Angle are locked in a dead heat.  And that’s not the worst of Harry’s problems.  Nevada’s unemployment rate is sitting at 14.4 %!

And his penthouse at the Washington Ritz-Carlton has not gone over well with the Nevadan taxpayers, either.

Scooter’s speaking in Minnesota tonight, after being in Portland and Seattle this week.  The personal charisma of you and Scooter are all that’s keeping hope alive for your political party with 9 days to go before the Midterm Election.  Lord knows these Congresscritters can’t run on their record.

Y’know, there have been a lot of rumors about Hil.  No, not those kind of rumors.  Political rumors, like her replacing Crazy Uncle Joe as VP.  She wouldn’t do that, of course.  She’s been  loyal to Obama – it would have been politically foolish to appear otherwise – but her under-the-radar job means she can remain distant from most of what he does.  She’s not interested in the VP slot in 2012, is she, Bubba?

She’s already answered that.  I’ll tell you what, she likes being Secretary of State and she’s doing a great job.

By the way, where’s Hil going to be on the night of the elections?  Oh.  She’ll be out of town on November 2nd.  She’ll be on the other side of the globe, on a tour including stops in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. How convenient.  Y’know, Scooter’s leaving town right after her, going on a 12-day trip Asian trip.  I guess they’re both gettin’ the heck out of Dodge.

I realize that challenging Scooter for the nomination in 2012 might be a no-win situation. To seek to get rid of  the first black president would split your party in two and almost guarantee a Republican victory, even if Hillary won the nomination.  Heeeey…on  second thought…you guys need to go for it!

However, 2016 would be a completely different situation.  You guys aren’t fooling anybody.  Everyone knows that she still has her eyes on the White House.  I heard that her former chief strategist Mark Penn recently polled her popularity compared to Obama’s.

So, is Hill going to run for president in 2016?

She speaks for herself on these things.

Ummm.  Okay.   Hey, before you go, one more thing.  There is a new story out now that you lost the card the president is meant to keep close at hand, bearing the codes that he has to have in order to launch a nuclear attack.  

Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under you as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that you lost “the biscuit” in 2000.  In a previously released book, Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson, said that you lost it in 1998.  Patterson was one of the men who carried “the football”, the nuclear briefcase. 

No one seems to have all the facts, but that’s not unusual when national security matters are involved.   In fact, there’s an old story that Jimmy Carter left his biscuit in a suit that got sent to the dry cleaners. Even to this day, no one will confirm the story, but no one will deny it either.

Never mind, Bubba.  It’s been quite while a while now.  I’m sure you don’t remember where you left it.  By the way, while Hil is out of town on November 2nd, what are going to be up to?  Oh……never mind.

Bye, Bubba.

Defund NPR…Now!

Three Republican leaders and possible future presidential candidates weighed in on Thursday concerning the firing of NPR news analyst Juan Williams, with two of them calling on Congress to hold hearings about NPR’s federal funding. 

Williams was canned Wednesday night for comments he made on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor about Muslims. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) all called NPR’s move an act of censorship and political correctness.

Huckabee said in a statement:

While I have often enjoyed appearing on NPR programs and have been treated fairly and objectively, I will no longer accept interview requests from NPR as long as they are going to practice a form of censorship, and since NPR is funded with public funds, it IS a form of censorship.  It is time for the taxpayers to start making cuts to federal spending, and I encourage the new Congress to start with NPR.

House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio), who could be House speaker next year, said that “it’s reasonable” to examine federal subsidies for NPR, which he called a “left-wing radio network.”

Boehner told the conservative National Review:

We need to face facts – our government is broke.  Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network – and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is.

What horrendous, awful thing got Williams shown the door at NPR after 12 years there?

Williams told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on his program:

Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

NPR explained Williams’s firing in a statement saying his comments were “inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”

NPR operates using both private and public money, though most of their revenue comes from non-public sources. 

Newt Gingrich, who was the top House lawmaker from 1994-1998, said that Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting its funding.

Calling the incident “a total act of censorship, Gingrich said:

The U.S. Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting off its money.

Gov. Palin put her response on her widely read Twitter account, saying :

NPR defends 1st Amendment Right, but will fire u if u exercise it. Juan Williams: u got taste of Left’s hypocrisy,they screwed up firing you.

This comes on the heels of NPR receiving a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations (Institute) to begin a project called Impact of Government that will add at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years.

The reporters, editors and analysts are supposed to cover state governments and how their actions affect people.

Vivian Schiller, NPR’s clueless president and chief executive, said that the project:

…creates capacity for local stations to hire reporters and to cover issues that matter that other places aren’t doing. Everything that we’re doing as relates to member stations comes down to two things: building local news capacity and making sure the content we create is available to all people across all platforms.

Ms. Schiller said the journalists would not be part of typical statehouse coverage, but instead would work on [enterprise journalism ?] that looks at how state government decisions play out over years, and extend beyond a single state’s borders. 

As you’ve probably heard by now, George Soros, the Puppet Master, is the money behind the Open Society Institute.   The following information comes from discoverthenetworks.org:

Established in 1993, the Open Society Institute (OSI) is the most prominent of the numerous foundations belonging to Soros. OSI proclaims that it is “a nonpartisan, nonpolitical entity” whose funding agendas are “wholly separate” from “George Soros’s private political activities,”.  Yeah, right.

OSI describes itself as “a private operating and grantmaking foundation [that] “aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform; … implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media; [and] works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.”

In other words, it is one of Soros’ spider-web of shadow groups trying to radically change America.

OSI’s Director of U.S. Advocacy is Morton Halperin (President of John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, and a longtime affiliate of the Institute for Policy Studies and the National Lawyers Guild).

The President of OSI and the Soros Foundation Network is Aryeh Neier.  He  worked for the American Civil Liberties Union from 1963 to 1978, serving as its Director for the last eight of those years. Then, from 1978 to 1990, he was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy President Bill Moyers is a former trustee of the Open Society Institute.

Another noteworthy former OSI trustee is Lani Guinier, who served on the OSI board until the end of 2007. Guinier is best known as President Bill Clinton‘s 1993 nominee for the post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Derided by some critics as “Clinton’s Quota Queen” because she favored proportional representation (based on race and ethnicity) in local political elections, Guinier ultimately failed to impress the Senate and her nomination was withdrawn by Clinton.

What has gotten everybody’s attention is the fact that  Juan Williams’ firing also comes on the heals of a fatwa issued by Soros against Conservative Commentator Glenn Beck and the entire Fox News Network.

America’s News Headquarters fired back.  Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes signed Williams to a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable raise from his previous salary. Williams will now appear exclusively and more frequently on the cable news network and have a regular column on FoxNews.com.

Ailes said in a statement, while getting a dig in at NPR:

Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997.  He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.

NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard continues to make stupid statements, disparaging Williams’ character, because they’ve received tremendous heat from Conservative and Liberal Americans about the egregious over-the-phone firing.

On Fox and Friends this morning, Williams spoke about NPR trying to put him in a box and being upset that he was on Fox News, having an honest, open discussion about current issues.  He added:

If they want to compete in the Marketplace, they should compete in the Marketplace.  They don’t need Public Funds.

Americans agree.

Progressives Hate Free Speech: Two Examples

Juan Williams, well-known Fox News political analyst and author, was fired by National Public Radio late Wednesday after he said on Fox News that he was often nervous when boarding a plane with people who are dressed in “Muslim garb”.  NPR released a statement it had given Williams notice of his termination Wednesday night.  That’s a nice way of saying they canned him.

Williams appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday where Bill O’Reilly asked him whether the United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.”

O’Reilly said:

The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.

Williams agreed with O’Reilly.

Williams, an avowed Liberal, added:

I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot.  You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

NPR has long been concerned with appearances by its staffers on Fox News. Williams’s contributions on Fox raised eyebrows at NPR in the past, according to the New York Times.  In February 2009, NPR said it had asked that he stop being identified on “The O’Reilly Factor” as a “senior correspondent for NPR,” even though that title was accurate.

Glenn Beck is under attack by George Soros and his spider’s web of Progressive Propaganda-spreading, shadily-funded, internet-utilizing organizations. During his television program on Fox News on Monday, he invited Soros to be his guest for the whole show.  Yesterday morning, during his radio program, he repeated the offer, adding 2 hours of radio time to the proposal.  Tuesday afternoon, on his television program, he responded to the news of the day, concerning a $1,000,000 publically-acknowledged gift to Media Matters from Soros to help facilitate an organized attack on Beck:

Now, here’s the scary part. We are heading down the same path as France or Greece or, oh, Venezuela. Venezuela, beautiful this time of year. Oh, when the trees start to change color to be a little more red like the flag, oh, it’s beautiful.

Of course, things aren’t going well, there. What a surprise. Hugo Chavez now is seizing grocery stores and rationing food. Who would have seen that coming?

Anyway, this is what eventually happens when you try to control people, because people don’t like to be controlled and so they give up. That’s weird.

But all of that is happening when good people do nothing. See what I mean? Yes. As a whole, America, for a long time, has done nothing. But here’s the great part. We’ve been doing a lot lately.

George Soros, however, while we were like — he was wide awake and he’s obviously been busy for many, many years. He’s been expanding his influence through groups such as the Tides Foundation. And if you think it’s too much to call him the evil emperor from “Star Wars” episode, really more of the “Episode Six” emperor.

If you think it’s too much, well, he is the guy who’s called for the managed decline of the U.S. dollar. Gee, George, thank you so much. I can’t wait for my money to be worth less. Thank you

I want you to watch for something. I want you to watch for his editorial because it is coming — only a matter of time. George, do you have it written yet? It will be the end of the dollar when writes it. He’s done it with four other currencies and each currency has collapsed.

See, what he does is buys up everything he can. He buys gold, like, right now, he’s buying gold in huge sums, and then he just — he waits for the right time and then he says, I don’t know, I think maybe currency is not going to go so well, I’m not sure if I’m going to stay, and he sells and everybody panics, and they collapse. Four times. You’re going to go for number five?

We will keep an eye out for that spooky, spooky dude. Opinion piece that you are — so, next week, when is it, six months from now? We’ll watch. Take your time.

He’s also done other things like he bought up the secretary of states for elections recount. SOS. Yes. In fact, the SOS, it’s the secretary of state that he helped that helped count the votes for Al Franken.

And now, here’s what he’s doing. He loves us so much he’s like a spooky, old grandfather. He’s buying up journalists. Soros’ Open Society Institute just announced for you $1.8 million to add 100 journalists at NPR radio stations across the country. The only good thing here is at least George Soros is now just buying the reporters out in the open. So, that’s great.

So, the Huffington Post is going to be funded by George Soros and the Tides Foundation and their investigative arm. Yes. And then Soros Open Society Institute is helping fund NPR. That is great.

I know George Soros is only doing this — bloggers, by the way, pause your — you know, World of Warcraft for a second, wipe the Cheetos off your fingers. Are you ready? Because I’m going issue a challenge here — because I’m sure spooky dude, George s Soros, now at the end, do you understand? Just like the emperor.

I’m sure spooky, old dude George Soros would be able to explain all of this and he’d say, well, that’s not what I’m doing here. I’m not calling for the collapse. I haven’t collapsed four currencies. No, no, I haven’t done any of those things. The Tides Foundation, what Tides Foundation? I thought I was buying laundry detergent.

I’m sure that’s what it is. And I know George Soros — I know he wants to get to the bottom of it. That’s why he’s spending all of those millions of dollars with NPR. He wants to get to the bottom of things. That’s right.

So, George, I’m offering you one hour on this broadcast, you and me, mano-a-mano, no minions, no spin doctors, no NPR journalists, just you and me. You are so much smarter than I am. You are so much more worldly. You have lived over in Europe, I haven’t.

You’re not afraid. No. You’d come on because you’re the man. Now, I might disagree with you on some of your spooky, spooky ideas, but I’m sure you could just explain them to the American people. I’ll give you the whole hour to do it.

I don’t know if you know this, we don’t have very many guests on the show. Rarely do we have a guest. You, the whole hour. One on one. It’s great. It will be the battle of ideas to fix America. I shouldn’t say “fix” because that is like neutering America. I mean fix kind of a different way than you probably mean fix America.

You can tell me and I will just — I’ll be right here. Call me. The White House has the number. I’m sure you will be for that. There it is. Mr. George Soros on this program, mano a mano. You and me, George. Come on, brother. Come on.

I realize that was a long quote, but it was necessary.  The same people who forced Political Correctness upon America during the Boooosh administration, now are waging their own unholy jihad  (Yeah, I said it.) against Conservative Free Speech.  This bunch of Pharisees have believed for a while now that rights of the 21 % per cent of Americans that claim to be Liberal supersede the rights of the 79 % of the population that are not.  Since their attempt at Liberal Talk Radio, Air America, failed in such a spectacular fashion, they are now seeking to control the flow of information that Americans are receiving through the internet, Conservative Talk Radio, and Fox News. 

Take an objective look at the Nielsen and Arbitron ratings.  Look at the best sellers list on Amazon.  Investigate which Political websites are most popular.  There’s no contest.  Like Rush Limbaugh always says:

Conservatism wins.

And the Progressives can’t stand it.

The Obamas: Ain’t Too Proud to Beg

America’s First Couple have released a video, begging for volunteers, in an effort to combat the Political Tsunami scheduled to hit November 2nd:

The Obamas, after all, have made a career out of Community Organizing.  I wrote about Obama’s start in that field in The Great Disconnect, Part 2: Columbia, Community Organizing, and “Hahvahd”. 

His Community Organizing skills served him well as he transitioned into his political career. He worked for seven months in 1992 on a voter registration and education project that helped elect Bill Clinton as president and Carol Moseley Braun as the state’s first African-American female senator.  

You may have heard of it:  Project Vote.   In 2008,  Project Vote and ACORN were responsible for a voter registration drive targeting battleground states Obama needed to win the White House.

Though officially non-partisan, the ACORN/Project Vote voter drive focused on groups that they thought would vote Democratic in the presidential contest: African-American, young, Latino and low-income earners.  They referred to these groups as “historically underrepresented in elections” in a press release they issued, in an attempt to justify what they were doing.

ACORN/Project Vote operated voter registration drives in 21 states in 2008; including the battlegrounds Colorado, Florida, Michigan (since move to Obama) Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  They were very instrumental in Obama’s victory.

The Democratic Party is banking on Obama’s skills in organizing and getting out the vote. Desperately trying to get Pookie off the couch (Obama’s words, not mine) to vote in the midterm elections in Chicago and other cities, Democrats are aiming a less-than-subtle message at African-American voters:

Our President Needs You.

A big African-American turnout is key to the end game strategy for Illinois Senate Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias, just as Republican rival Mark Kirk is going to the deep well of GOP votes in western DuPage County to mine his base vote, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

With the Senate race deadlocked for months, and with even a torrent of negative ads not budging the 15 percent or so of undecided voters, getting out the Black Democratic vote is now the number one priority.

President Obama turned out African-American voters in record numbers in 2008 for his historic election as the country’s first African-American president. The Giannoulias campaign is counting on Obama to be able to crank up turnout in his adopted hometown like no other place in the nation.

Obama has been to Chicago twice to fund-raise for Giannoulias, and Illinois Democrats want him to return during the final weekend before the election for a get-out-the-vote rally.

Points to ponder:

Chicago is one of 18 cities with a President Obama radio ad blitz targeting African-American voters. The Democratic National Committee is buying $3 million worth of radio spots on stations with African-American audiences, including WGCI-FM, WGRB-AM and WVAZ-FM in Chicago.

In the spot, Scooter says:

Two years ago, you voted in record numbers, and we won a victory few dreamed possible.

First lady Michelle Obama took on a niche but crucial demographic, hosting a conference call on Oct. 12 aimed at getting female African Americans in the faith-based community to vote. (Because, you know, the Obamas are in church all the time, too)  Just as Scooter has reached out to African-America media, Michelle, on Oct. 13, phoned into shows hosted by Tom Joyner and Michael Baisden , both of which host programs aimed at African-American audiences.

In an excellent article for humanevents.com, contributor Jerome Hudson explores the phenomenon of 91% of American’s Black population still supporting Obama. 

What I don’t understand, is why they don’t rally behind Lt. Colonel Allen West?  Col. West is running as the Republican nominee of House District 22 in Broward County, Florida.  What kind of man is he?  James Lewis answered that question in an article for americanthinker.com, published 3/16/2008:

Colonel West is a man who has proved himself, not just in the rigors of combat, not just in leadership, not just in the technical craft of military tactics and strategy, but in the most difficult life-and-death dilemma a human being can face. He made an agonizing moral decision to save his men from a likely ambush. To do so, he shot off a pistol next to the head of a suspect, forcing him to confess vital lifesaving intelligence. Col. West didn’t do that to punish the man, but to save lives. It worked.

When Col. West reported his own actions to superiors, he must have known that his decision would cost him his military career. He might have ended up in prison for years. He knew it would lead to months and months of personal agony. But he made the right decision in the face of a life-and-death moral dilemma. 

Col. West has been very active in the Tea Party Movement, speaking at rallies throughout the country.  He made news recently by challenging the president to a debate:

Personally. I would support  a real American Hero over a community organizing Alinsky-ite any day of the week.  How about you?

As I take my leave today, here’s a treat.  You knew, with the title of today’s post, that this ol’ Memphis boy wouldn’t leave without laying some Temps on you, didn’t you?  Enjoy and God Bless!