Category: Politics

Tomorrow, Tomorrow. You’re Only a Day Away!

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The final USA Today/Gallup measure of how Americans’ plan to vote tomorrow in the Midterm Elections shows Republicans continuing to hold a huge lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them the majority in the U.S. House.

The results are from Gallup’s Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot — depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup’s analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. (I’m thinking they’re a little low with their estimate.)  This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided.

There are some more numbers that I want you to consider today as you prepare for the biggest Midterm Elections in our lifetimes.

America is more Conservative today than we were when Newt Gingrich and the Freshmen Class of 1994 swept into Congress.  54% of likely voters proclaim Conservatism.  This is not very good news for President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and the Progressives.  Would you like some more proof?

Yesterday, in Cleveland, Obama could only manage to draw a crowd of 8,000 for the Democratic National Committee’s Moving America Forward’ rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty.  Organizers whined in explanation that the president was competing on a Sunday afternoon with church, football and Halloween.  Obama drew a huge crowd of about 35,000 when he was in nearby, Liberally run Columbus, Ohio, in an earlier October rally.  The thrill is gone.

Even Democratic campaign professionals are admitting that the House is gone.  The only question that remains is how many seats they will lose.

While few of them have the courage to come out on the record for fear of  losing their jobs or depressing what meager Democrat turnout, that there will be, every one of nearly a dozen Democratic House consultants and political strategists surveyed expect a GOP majority to be elected Tuesday.  Their consensus was that Democrats would lose somewhere between 50 and 60 seats.

A senior party consultant who was on the low end with his predictions said the party would lose between 40 and 50 seats. On the high-end, one Democratic consultant said losses could number around 70 seats.

Dave Beattie, a Florida-based Democratic pollster who is working on a slate of competitive House races wrapped up the Democrat viewpoint very succinctly:

It s*cks.  I’m resigned to the fact that it s*cks.

On the Republican side, two Republican leaders told it like it is on yesterday morning’s talk shows.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Republican Governors Association chairman, said on NBC that “the midterm election is a referendum on Obama’s policies” and predicted that the Republicans will take over the House.

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee, said on “Fox News Sunday”:

It’s going to be a political earthquake and the message will have been sent to the left that they blew it.

 Yes, ma’am.  Perhaps it was a moment like this that blew it for the Dems:

Or maybe it was a moment like this:

But, hey, we can always count on Obama to put Americans first:

And, if the Domestic issues and Scooter’s arrogance aren’t enough to get you fired up about tomorrow, chew on this from Breitbart.com:

The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN’s top human rights assembly’s for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.

The 12-day session of the 47 member council starting on Monday will include regular “universal periodic reviews” of 16 members of the United Nations, including the United States on November 5.

Some 300 US civil liberties and community groups in the US Human Rights Network on Monday called on the Obama administration to bring “substandard human rights practices” in the United States into line with international standards.

The United States only agreed to join the Council in May 2009, after the Bush administration had shunned the body which replaced its similar though discredited predecessor, the UN human rights commission, in 2006.

The Network produced a 400-page report criticising “glaring inadequacies in the United States? human rights record,” including the “discriminatory impact” of foreclosures, “widespread” racial profiling and “draconian” immigration policies.

[Among the] UN member states scheduled for review in this Council session will be Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Liberia, Libya, Lebanon Malawi, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, and Panama.

The greatest, most charitable nation in the world is under Human Rights review by a bunch of under-developed Third World countries?  We can all thank our anti-American President, his entire idiotic administration, and the Far-Left controlled Democrat Progressive Party for this.   As we look forward to a glorious, righteous election day tomorrow, I wish to leave you with a reminder from Mr. Ray Stevens.  God Bless America!

Through the Night With the Light From Above

On By kingsjesterIn Christianity, Politics6 Comments

The late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was a commander during the Six Day War between Israel and Egypt in 1967. 

We join our story in progress:  By nightfall, Sharon’s forces had advanced three-quarters of the way from Abu Agheila to Nakhl. Their progress had been extremely difficult and slow, following the course of a wadi through the desert. Their average speed for much of the way had been a snail’s pace of 3 mph. As they continued their advance by night, they ran into a minefield and lost one of their armored troop-carriers. Sharon decided to halt their advance for the night. . . .

At dawn, as they advanced on, they suddenly came face to face with a whole brigade of Stalin tanks, much more powerful than their own tanks.  Behind the tanks were several large self-propelled guns. The Israeli tanks charged into battle,  but the Egyptian tanks, strangely, made no move at all. The Israelis couldn’t believe what they were seeing: every tank was intact but their accompanying troops had left.  Later, after the battle, Sharon spoke with the commander of this Egyptian tank brigade, who had been taken prisoner.

He told Sharon that he did not believe his armored brigade could resist the Israeli attack (although he had no idea of the size of the Israeli force) so he had decided to escape with all his men without even stopping to blow up his tanks.

He sorrowfully told Sharon:

You spoiled all my plans.

The Egyptian, El-Naby, said that on Tuesday night, he heard the noise of a large body of tanks coming up on his position nearby. The tanks in fact turned out to be an Egyptian armored brigade that was also moving up from the west about which he had not been told.

On Wednesday night, El-Naby again heard tanks advancing toward him. By now he had been informed of the Israeli advance, and, afraid that he was about to be attacked, he decided to abandon all his tanks and artillery and withdraw his men in half-tracks westward toward Bir Thamada, which he believed was still in Egyptian hands.

A grinning Sharon replied:

 It wasn’t.  Our boys were already there.

After a brief battle with the Israelis, El-Naby skipped out on his troops and, taking with him a lieutenant-colonel and a major, headed south-west on foot.

In an interview with Charles Mohr of the New York Times, when asked why he did not destroy his tanks, he said:

I had orders to withdraw. My orders did not say to destroy my tanks. . . . If I had blown up the tanks the Jews would have heard me. It makes a lot of noise to destroy a tank.

El-Naby said that the first part of his withdrawal took place ‘in very good order’ with his troops still organized by units and responding to discipline. The trouble happened at a road junction in the central desert when Brigadier El-Naby’s men hit what he called an ‘ambush’ or an Israeli roadblock:

Because of the ambush we had to take different roads and head for the Mitla Pass further south.

Why didn’t he try to fight his way through the roadblock?

He said:

That was impossible.

An Israeli captain who was monitoring the conversation broke in:

Why? What kind of force and weapons do you suppose we had in that roadblock?

The Egyptian replied:

Well.  I heard light machine guns and I think I heard .50-calibre heavy machine guns.

The Israeli captain threw his hands and eyes upward and said:

You had a whole brigade and we held the roadblock with light forces. (A brigade is 3000 to 5000 men.)

El-Naby Said:

Yes , but you must remember that I had left the tanks behind. . .

At the Mitla Pass, the brigade fell to pieces, although it was not in contact with enemy forces.

The Egyptian added:

I lost all my order at the Mitla.  Everyone wanted to flee for his own skin. All vehicles were abandoned and the men set off on foot to cross the mountains to the west.

Many of the Egyptians discarded their weapons, helmets and much of their personal equipment.  Brigadier El-Naby left in such a hurry that he did not take any food or water with him when he started his own trek.  He was asked whether he attempted to keep any men under his command with him. He answered:

No, no. As I said, everyone wanted to save his own skin.

Some accounts say it was a desert mirage that caused El-Nady to see hundreds of Israeli tanks where there were no more than a dozen.  The Israelis will tell you that it was Divine Intervention.

On November 3, 2008 , in an article for the New York Times titled The Republican Rump, Economist Paul Krugman said:

I’m not saying that the G.O.P. is about to become irrelevant. Republicans will still be in a position to block some Democratic initiatives, especially if the Democrats fail to achieve a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

And that blocking ability will ensure that the G.O.P. continues to receive plenty of corporate dollars: this year the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has poured money into the campaigns of Senate Republicans like Minnesota’s Norm Coleman, precisely in the hope of denying Democrats a majority large enough to pass pro-labor legislation.

But the G.O.P.’s long transformation into the party of the unreasonable right, a haven for racists and reactionaries, seems likely to accelerate as a result of the impending defeat.

This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.

On Tuesday, November 2, 2010,  a Political Tsunami, fueled by a Conservative awakening, is scheduled to sweep Conservatives back into political relevancy, thanks to the failed policies of a tone-deaf president who said the following while on a trip to Turkey:

Now Progressives will say that Tuesday’s Midterm Elections, predicted to be the biggest Congressional sweep since 1894, is nothing more than a cyclical event that happens all the time.  However…there are  a lot of Americans who have spent a lot of time on their knees before their Creator (You remember Him:  The One who gave Americans our inalienable rights?) who know better.

Enemies Foreign and Domestic

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Nothing like a quiet Friday, huh?  As America watched breathlessly for 5 hours, authorities mobilized, tracked down, and investigated suspicious packages delivered from the tiny country of Yemen, sent by a group of Islamic Terrorists who wish to not just pull our chain but wipe us off the map. 

Two packages mailed from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat,” Obama said Friday afternoon, as he gave a brief statement before the cameras and answered no questions.

These packages came from an increasingly lethal affiliate of al-Qaeda.

Our country’s counterterrorism officials suspect that the packages, which were intercepted in Britain and Dubai, were sent by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who had already been the puppet masters behind Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who murdered 13 American soldiers at Fort Hood and the failed Underwear Bomber, whose Panty Bomb malfunctioned in an attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

Obama would not specify any new security measures that would be taken, nor would he say that the nation’s terrorist alert level had been raised.  But he described the threat as serious and pointed once again to Yemen as the source of a terrorist plot, saying his top terrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, had been in touch with that country’s president. 

By the way, do you remember what this rocket scientist said about Islam, terrorism, and jihad?

The two packages were intercepted at separate locations, one on a UPS plane at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, England, and the other at a FedEx facility in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Officials gave no details on the kind of explosives found, but they said that they thought that the substance used was PETN, the same explosive used in the Christmas Day plot.

A U.S. official said the search for the devices was triggered by a “tip from a very close ally of the United States.” The tip was relayed to U.S. authorities Thursday and contained “very specific information” about devices in packages being shipped to the United States from Yemen, the official said.

Brennan, in a statement, said the United States was

…grateful to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their assistance in developing information that helped underscore the imminence of the threat emanating from Yemen.

 

We were looking for packages that were of concern.

He said he briefed Obama before the first package was found in Britain about 3:30 a.m. Friday local time.

U.S. authorities were looking at other packages coming from Yemen, but only the two packages found in Britain and Dubai had been identified as dangerous. Those devices were “intended to do harm,” Brennan said.

Friday’s activity will reinforce the government’s focus on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, an organization in which an American-born cleric, Anwar al-Aulaqi, plays a leading role.

Twice in the past year and a half, AQAP was able to get a PETN-based bomb past security and in position to strike a major target. The first time, in August 2009, one of the group’s operatives smuggled an explosive hidden in a body cavity into a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s top counterterrorism official. The bomber was killed; his intended target, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, survived.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian trained in Yemen, had a similar device hidden in his underwear during his alleged attempt to take down the Detroit-bound airliner in December.

Both devices are said to have been developed by AQAP’s bomb making expert, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.

And, as I mentioned before, this insane Imam was the mentor of the mass murderer of Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hassan.

In a (ahem) non-related story, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) will visit one of the world’s largest mosques when he makes good on a long-delayed promise to visit Indonesia, the island nation he called home as a child.

Scooter will visit Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta — the largest mosque in Southeast Asia and the third largest Muslim house of worship in the world — during his swing through the country Nov. 9-10. Islam is the dominant religion in populous Indonesia, making it the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

White House national security aide Ben Rhodes said the visit is standard protocol for Obama, who visited the famed Blue Mosque while on a visit to Turkey shortly after his inauguration.

According to Rhodes:

When he visited Muslim-majority countries as president, he has often visited the most prominent mosques.

Obama called off his first visit to Indonesia to focus on ramming Obamacare down America’s throats, and he canceled a rescheduled visit to appear that he was dealing with the BP-Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Gulf of Mexico in April.

It’ll be a big crowd, as Obama is “very popular” because of his biography and policies, according to Rhodes.

He also said:

He wanted to have the opportunity to reach more Indonesian people.

I’m sure.  Remember the article Obama:  Man of the World, written by Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times in 2007?  No?  Here’s an excerpt from Scooter’s own website, Organizing for America:

He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.”I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my [Kristof’s] blog, http://www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his
elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ”one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite.

And, of course, after he ascended to the most powerful position in the Free World, he gave a conciliatory speech to the Muslim world at the University of Cairo on June 5, 2009.

How’s that working out for ya, Scooter?

The crux of the matter is this: yesterday’s sound and fury was designed by those responsible to intimidate us….to make us fearful…to try to manipulate us like a shepherd would a flock of sheep…to try to influence Tuesday’s elections.  The plain truth is:  we have an administration and political party in power that do not exactly strike fear into the hearts of our nation’s enemies.  In fact, P.J. Crowley of the State Department tweeted Iranian President Ahmadinejad and wished him a happy birthday yesterday:

Happy birthday President #Ahmadinejad. Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be.

Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open #Iran to a different relationship with the world.

How sweet.  Please, as you step into the voting booth on Tuesday, November 2nd, remember your faith…remember your family…remember our country…and vote accordingly. 

God Bless America!

The Political Assassination of Christine O’Donnell

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.