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by PRESIDENTIAL WATCH August 4, 2008
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The Obama Voter – Not This Jew
Joan Swirsky, NMJ.us
For the most part, American Jews are politically liberal. For decades they have supported leftwing politicians who are antagonists if not outright enemies of Israel.
Why does this matter?
It matters to me because the Holocaust in which the Nazis wantonly murdered six million Jews in the 1930s and ‘40s has been the defining event of my life – the event against which I measure the political philosophies and actions of both individuals and nations.
It matters to me because while Obama makes the perfunctory and requisite statements of support for America and Israel, his policies – and those who formulate them – would do irreparable harm to both nations.
Among the other people Obama has chosen to affiliate himself with are:
George Soros, the multibillionaire, self-hating Jew who has devoted a good part of his life to vilifying Israel and funding groups that work unstintingly to destroy the tiny state. With his 527 groups, he has funded people – like Obama – to shatter the bonds between Israel and America. Read article.
Obama's Bad Turn
Review & Outlook, WSJ.com
Is there a way that Barack Obama and John McCain could reboot the Presidential campaign? Both men this week have locked up in modes that surely have little interest to voters.
Senator McCain's latest "inexperience" TV ad about his opponent opened with fleeting images of celeb babes Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, who likely don't know who he is. The celebrity link was a leap that fell flat.
If that was silly, Senator Obama's verbal crackback at his opponent's criticism was more troubling. Campaigning in Missouri, he said: "So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, 'He's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'He doesn't look like all those other Presidents on the dollar bills.'"
The Obama camp says the reference to dollar-bill portraits wasn't meant to suggest that all of them are white and he is black. We might give him the benefit of the doubt on this were it not that it's the second time Mr. Obama has used this device. In late June in Florida he said: "They're going to try to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. 'He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?'" Read article.
Jesus Christ, Superstar
James Taranto, Online WSJ.com
John Kerry ran for president as GI Joe (or his naval equivalent), the war hero. This fell apart when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth called attention to Kerry's history of slandering his fellow servicemen. Now Barack Obama is running as Jesus Christ, Superstar, the glamorous savior. Can the McCain campaign counter this inspiring narrative?
The persona of Barack Obama, Superstar, was clear as early as February 2005, when the Washington Post profiled the "rising star" who'd been in the U.S. Senate all of 7½ weeks:
"Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame," says Barack Obama. "I've already had an hour and a half. I mean, I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse." . . .
Unlike Jesus, Obama does not claim to be related to God by blood. But he does use messianic language. A witness told Post's Dana Milbank that at a closed-door meeting of House Democrats, Obama said, "This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," and, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." Read article.
Obama energy policy: 'Inflate your tires' - Candidate claims oil savings would equal new production plans
WND.com
If you think there isn't urgency to getting Congress to drop its bans on offshore drilling and development of the ANWR oil reserves, listen to what Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had to say in Missouri yesterday.
"There are things you can do individually, though, to save energy," Obama said. "Making sure your tires are properly inflated – simple thing. But we could save all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling – if everybody was just inflating their tires? And getting regular tune-ups? You'd actually save just as much!"
That's his energy plan? Inflate your tires? Get more tune-ups? Read article and VIEW VIDEO.
Where did Barack Obama's mojo go?
Andrew Malcolm, LA Times.com
Is there a simmering concern over arrogance by the Ivy League lawyer and mere candidate who so blithely patted the French president on the back for a well-done news conference? Asked the other day if he ever doubted himself, Obama replied smartly, "Never!" And grinned broadly. Sounded more like a 20-year-old than someone about to turn 47 next week.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy, the last sitting senator to win the presidency, announced his candidacy on Jan. 2. In 10 months he not only won the Democratic nomination in a blaze of freshness, but he beat 47-year-old Richard M. Nixon, who'd been a prominent vice president for eight years and a House member and senator before that.
Obama's had nearly twice that long to campaign. He's barely ahead and should be pulling away. But isn't. How to explain this?
Well, it is summer -- vacation time when millions of Americans are actually having personal fun, enjoying "The Dark Knight" and the bright beach, just before the back-to-school sales. It's already been a long campaign -- 19 months -- for everyone to pay attention all the time. And the interregnum between winning the nominations and getting them is a long, hot one.
Also, the down side to "fresh face" is "little-known face." Obama's still a very new character on the national stage. And though Europeans have shown they can fall in love with an American politician during one speech in a platz, Americans historically take much longer to grow comfortable with a potential national father figure.
For a large number of Americans who don't make up their minds anymore according to their parents' "D" or "R," they let the anecdotal impressions of candidates accumulate over time to create a larger, whole portrait for their gut ballot decision. The TV debates could be crucial.
Despite awfully quick denials by party officials and the smiling summit of Obama and Hillary Clinton in Unity, N.H., is the Democratic Party perhaps more severely fractured than it looks? Is race more important than many let on? Read article.
August is the Time to Take Obama Down
Morris & McGann, Vote.com
When is the McCain campaign going to get serious? It seems to be marking time with softball ads, more appropriate to the soundbites campaign media spokespeople exchange with one another than to strategic paid media hits. One ad talks about how the media loves Obama. Another mocks him as a celebrity. Each throws pitty-pat punches, far short of the kind of knockout blows one would expect from a presidential campaign. Were I a donor to McCain's campaign, paying for these pathetic spots, I would demand a refund. Or sue for malpractice.
Yet despite this softball nonsense, Obama remains vulnerable, no better than two points ahead despite the bounce from his overseas trip.
Are the McCain people waiting for September to get serious? If so, they are making a big mistake and missing an important opportunity. History indicates that the best time to beat a new candidate is in the summer. August to be precise.
Dukakis, Mondale, and Kerry all were destroyed in the summer, long before the fall campaign began. In 1984, the offensive against Geraldine Ferraro crippled Mondale well before Labor Day. In 1988, the pledge of allegiance, revolving door, and Willie Horton ads all ran in the summer. Dukakis was dead by September. And the swift boat attack on Kerry defeated him well before the summer was over.
McCain needs to make voters afraid of Obama. Not, as he suggests self-servingly, by emphasizing that he "doesn't look like all the other presidents on dollar bills," but by hitting him on the two fronts where it would really hurt -- the economy and national security. Obama's inexperience and the wildly liberal proposals he has made in his primary campaigning, both set him up for a crippling blow this month. Read article.
Obama's Ongoing Foreign Policy Implosion
David Limbaugh, David Limbaugh.com
There is one unexpected gift that John McCain's presumptive nomination brings to the GOP. McCain was certainly not my choice, but if any other Republican candidate were running, it's unlikely we'd be seeing as much emphasis in the campaign on foreign policy, and Obama's unfolding incompetence in this area might have escaped essential scrutiny.
Democrats were no doubt looking to capitalize on the Iraq issue before it became apparent that the success of the surge had exceeded all but our most optimistic expectations. Because McCain is perceived as one of the most ardent proponents of the surge and Obama fiercely opposed it, Obama finds himself caught in a trap over the entire issue.
Obama's worst attributes are coming to the fore: his pride and arrogance, which paralyze him from admitting any real weaknesses, such as his egregious foreign policy judgments, and his astounding shortcomings as a would-be commander in chief, starting with a profound naivete, inexperience and either ignorance or fundamental dishonesty. Read article.
Obama's Iraq Fumble
Karl Rove, Online WSJ.com
In a race supposedly dominated by the economy, both Barack Obama and John McCain have spent a lot of time talking about Iraq. Why? Because both men have Iraq problems that are causing difficulties for their campaigns.
How each candidate resolves his Iraq problems may determine who voters come to see as best qualified to set American foreign policy.
If Mr. McCain wins the argument on Iraq, he will add to his greatest strength -- a perceived fitness to be commander in chief and lead the global war on terror. As the underdog, Mr. McCain needs to convince voters that he is overwhelmingly the better choice on the issue.
Mr. Obama needs to win the argument because his greatest weakness is inexperience and a perceived unreadiness to be president. That's dangerous. Voters believe keeping America safe and strong is a president's most important responsibility. Read article.
McCain Cannot Win But Obama Can Lose
Steve McCullough, Conservative Outpost.com
These surely are the most unimpressive choices for the office of President of the United States since the 1976 Ford vs. Carter campaign. In many ways the two candidates today are similar to the 1976 candidates. We have a far Left liberal Democrat with no international experience vs. a moderate Republican with a dull personality and a resume of extensive experience in the senate.
The candidate representing the Republican party is expected to lose because of the hatred by the Left for the current administration. The candidate representing the Democratic party promises "change" and a clean slate. Because of his pardon of Nixon, Ford was hated by the left and was not embraced by conservatives either. McCain is closely associated with Bush's policies and the slogan "4 more years of Bush" is repeated like a mantra by Obama supporters.
The more we learn about Obama the more we realize that he is truly unqualified to hold the nation's highest political office. However, the media and the Bush haters are trying their best to drag their candidate to the finish line. A disastrous liberal administration achieved power in 1976. Will the same happen again in 2008? Read article.
McCain Talks Straight on Fan-Fred Reform - This is Big Mac at his very best.
Larry Kudlow, NRO.com
There will be no more business as usual for housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if John McCain is elected president. That’s McCain’s clear message in a recent hard-hitting op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times and in various straight-talk media interviews.
Politically powerful Fannie and Freddie may be popping champagne corks in Washington, where a congressional bailout package provides full government backing for their outsized management pay packages, massive political-contribution and lobbying practices, and private portfolio hedge-fund activities. These government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) got just what they wanted, and they now have the power to pay more dividends to their shareholders without any caps on compensation.
But Big Mac is gonna put an end to this if he’s elected come November.
“Americans should be outraged at the latest sweetheart deal in Washington,” writes McCain. “Congress will put U.S. taxpayers on the hook for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It’s a tribute to what these two institutions — which most Americans have never heard of — have bought with more than $170-million worth of lobbyists in the past decade.” Read article.
McCain Campaign Should Become More Sun Tzu and Less Sun Dole
Charles Adler, Human Events.com
While the mainstream media continues to guzzle Barack Obama's bath water, it is high time for John McCain to douse heartland voters with the cold shower of truth.
Senator McCain ought to enunciate these 7 indisputable truths.
1) The genius of American governance lies in the concept of checks and balances.
2) The greatest threat to checks and balances is undivided government, in which all three branches all held by the same party
3) There is no doubt about which party will control the legislative branches for the next two years. The only mystery remains who will be in the White House to check and balance the Pelosi/Reid Democrats.
4) Americans have identified the economy as the number one issue in this campaign
5) The number one threat to a growing economy is the high price of energy.
6) The Republicans are for drilling offshore.
7) The Pelosi/Reid Democrats won't even allow a vote on it.
Barack Obama in recent days has been pursuing a strategy that Leonard Cohen would give high marks too, "First we take Manhattan. Then Berlin." With all due respect to the Canadian poet, Senator McCain should take his inspiration from the second century Chinese realist, Suz Tzu. In the "Art of War," he offers two pronged strategic path that the McCain campaign needs to take. Read article.
Democratic convention brings challenges to Denver
Nicholas Riccardi, LA Times.com
For nearly a decade, city leaders here have wooed the Democrats, hoping to lure their national convention to this often-overlooked town and showcase its new public transit system, bustling downtown and sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains.
Municipal leaders were jubilant when they won the right to hold this year's event. But the convention is raising questions about whether this perennial booster town has bitten off more than it can chew.
The host committee is as much as $10 million short in fundraising, and financial difficulties have forced it to cancel two dozen parties for delegates. Denver officials are scrambling to deal with the logistical challenges of Barack Obama's acceptance speech being held at an outdoor stadium instead of in the arena where the rest of the convention will take place. Read article.
Obama's Global Tax
IBD Editorials.com
A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we're also going to be taxpayers of the world.
Speaking in Berlin, Obama said: "While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history."
What the 20th century really showed was a series of totalitarian threats — from fascism to Nazism to communism — defeated by the U.S. military. Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Tojo's Japan and the Soviet Union offered destinies we did not share. Read article.
"Allah will send an 'American Gorbachev' to end the American Empire soon" (Obama?)
Former Obama Supporters.com
Following are excerpts from an interview with Lebanese Sunni cleric Sheik Muhammad Abu Al-Qat’, which aired on Al-Manar TV. CLICK HERE.
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The #twittergulag saga continues: @gopfirecracker suspended, others still trapped
May 21, 2012 11:54 PM
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Cory Booker tweets #IStandWithObama; Hashtag hijackers flood the zone
May 21, 2012 11:39 PM
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, the Democrat who defended Bain from the Obama campaign's attacks yesterday morning, has been backpedaling more furiously than a clown on a high wire. Tonight, in an effort to mollify his critics on the Left, he posted four tweets that included the hashtag #IStandWithObama. Conservatives immediately took over the #IStandWithObama hashtag to mock President Obama, and within an hour it became a trending topic.
Cory Booker tries to clear up his position on Bain attacks
May 21, 2012 10:25 PM
Cory Booker continued his quest to run screaming away from the apparently too candid comments he made on Meet the Press on Sunday. Despite attempts earlier today to #FreeCoryBooker from those trying to force him to apologize Booker went on the Rachel Maddow show to do everything he could to walk back what he said. Que the mockery.
Obama's 'When you're president' picture spawns hashtag
May 21, 2012 09:59 PM
"When you're president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." -Barack Obama
Cue #WhenYouArePresident
Obama takes anti-Romney rant to Twitter
May 21, 2012 09:49 PM
It started off this morning with a video of a woman named Valerie from Indiana posted by Barack Obama’s official Twitter account. 12 hours, 12 tweets and a failed hashtag later, Obama’s reelection team took the day to tweet ongoing misinformation about Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector, specifically Bain Capital’s work with the [...]
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