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by PRESIDENTIAL WATCH August 11, 2008
Obama is out of change - VIEW VIDEO HERE.
"America is not what it once was." - Barack Obama. If you think that he couldn't possibly have said such a thing, CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.
Political Cycles
Peggy Noonan, Online WSJ.com
Things are shifting around a bit. That's what I see looking back at the past four weeks.
For the first time the idea began to take hold that John McCain can win this thing. You saw the USA Today-Gallup poll this week, with Mr. McCain gaining six points since late June among those Gallup dubbed likely voters. Mr. McCain took the lead, 49% to 45%. Among registered voters, it's still Barack Obama, 47% to 44%. A poll came out saying people are tired of hearing about Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain took the lead in YouTube hits. Small stuff, and there will be a lot of twists and turns before this is over, but there's movement down there beneath the crust of the Earth.
The other day a friend said something I hadn't heard before: "This is 1948, and Obama is Tom Dewey"—the sleek, well-groomed, inevitable one who lost. I pondered this and said maybe he's Dewey, but Mr. McCain's not Truman, not so far. He is still, on the trail, his scattered self, not "Give 'Em Hell Harry." But the point is, even the clichés have begun to shift.
The daring and exciting European trip was probably a wash, and possibly a mistake in the bridge-too-far sense. Read article.
Hillary’s Growing Shadow: The Left convinced Democrats to go with a messiah rather than a dependable nominee — and now they have neither
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO.com
Barack Obama and John McCain are running neck and neck.
Impossible?
It would seem so. Republican President Bush still has less than a 30-percent approval rating. Headlines blare that unemployment and inflation are up — even if we aren’t, technically, in a recession. Gas is around $4 a gallon. Housing prices have nosedived. Sen. Ted Stevens (R., Alaska) has been indicted — another in a line of congressional Republicans caught in a financial or sexual scandal.
Meanwhile, the GOP’s presumptive candidate, John McCain, is 71 years old. The Republican base thinks he’s lackluster and too liberal.
So, everyone is puzzled why the Democratic candidate isn’t at least 10 points ahead. It seems the more Americans get used to Barack Obama, the less they want him as president — and the more Democrats will soon regret not nominating Hillary Clinton. Read article.
Could Obama still lose the nomination?
Denis Keohane, American Thinker.com
Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute?
Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning the nomination and the presidency. Her words and actions on the subject of the convention itself always left the door open for a return, should Obama falter or suffer some calamity.
Her artful evasions were enough to lull journalists and (more importantly) Obama and his supporters into the presumption of inevitability. No further rumblings of a mass protest in Denver should the first black candidate be denied his rightful due were heard. After all, he received enough publicly expressed support from super delegates to put him over the top. And he won the popular vote in the primaries, we were assured, lending legitimacy to the super delegates who voiced their support.
Everyone presumed the presumptive nominee was a lock.
Now there are a few signs that Hillary may be making her move. Read article.
Obama's Oil Anxiety - Why he must pump up drilling
Kirsten Powers, NY Post.com
Some credit the McCain camp's ads ridiculing Obama as a celebrity airhead; others think his overseas trip made Americans feel neglected. But it's more likely that oil prices, not cheering German crowds, are swaying cranky voters.
In 2004, many commentators noted that Bush's approval ratings tracked with gas prices. Gas prices went up; Bush's approval went down.
Few things affect Americans' day-to-day lives as do prices at the pump. They don't have to watch the news or read the paper to learn that things are bad.
And things are bad. An August 1 CNN/Opinion Research poll found that 75 percent of respondents said gas prices are a "financial hardship."
Another pollster, Rasmussen Reports, found recently that McCain is trusted more than Obama on energy by 46 percent. Obama is trusted more by 42 percent. Two months ago, Obama had the edge on the issue.
What happened? Read article.
Oil Money May Buy Drilling Vote, Liberal Says
Josiah Ryan, CNS News.com
Oil money in Congress has polluted our democracy to the point where it is no longer functioning democratically, a liberal activist says.
If Democratic leaders allow a vote on expanded domestic oil drilling, it will be a direct result of money donated from by the oil industry to the 110th Congress, Nadine Bloch, the campaign director for the liberal group Oil Change International, told CNSNews.com at a Capitol Hill protest on Tuesday.
But Nan Swift, the campaign coordinator at the conservative organization Freedom Works, said the fact that there has been no vote to lift the offshore drilling ban is proof that oil money has less influence than Bloch claims. Read article.
The Tax Rebate Was a Flop. Obama's Stimulus Plan Won't Work Either.
Martin Feldstein, Online WSJ.com
Congress enacted the tax rebate program earlier this year because it perceived a growing risk of recession. In addition, it feared monetary policy alone would not be effective because of the dysfunctional credit markets. As American taxpayers know, most of the rebate checks have now been mailed and cashed.
Those of us who supported this fiscal package reasoned that the program would boost consumer confidence as well as available cash. We hoped the combination would cause households to spend a substantial fraction of the rebate dollars, leading to more production and employment. An optimistic and influential study by economists at the Brookings Institution projected that each dollar of revenue loss would increase real GDP by more than a dollar if households spent at least 50 cents of every rebate dollar.
The evidence is now in and that optimism was unwarranted. Recent government statistics show that only between 10% and 20% of the rebate dollars were spent. The rebates added nearly $80 billion to the permanent national debt but less than $20 billion to consumer spending. This experience confirms earlier studies showing that one-time tax rebates are not a cost-effective way to increase economic activity.
He Was Always a Fake
Kirsten Powers, NY Post.com
John Edwards "shocked" the political world yesterday by admitting he'd cheated on his wife of 30 years with a campaign aide, Rielle Hunter.
If it looks like a phony, walks like a phony, quacks like a phony, it's a phony.
Normally, cheating on your spouse is a private matter. Many Americans wind up facing it; many families stay intact and recover. I hope that's so for the Edwards family.
This is not a private matter: Following his affair, Edwards chose to run for president, using his family as a centerpiece for his campaign. In June of last year, he accepted the Father of the Year Award from Father's Day/Mother's Day Council. Shortly afterward, he renewed his vows with his wife and provided pictures to People magazine.
And in December, Katie Couric asked the candidates about the importance of marital fidelity in assessing a presidential candidate. True to form, Edwards said that it was a "fundamental" way to "judge people and human character" - but shouldn't be a "controlling factor" in choosing a president.
Unfortunately she didn't ask him what it would tell you about a politician if he used his family as a campaign prop and then lied to the public repeatedly about an affair. Read article.
Obama and Pelosi: Drill Americans, Not Oil
Arnold Ahlert, Political Mavens.com
Only in a country completely ignorant of basic economics could an “Emergency Economic Plan” proposed by Barack Obama be taken seriously. A brief summary of the details? Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Barack Obama proposes taking “excess” oil company profits and giving individual Americans five hundred bucks apiece and married couples a grand. No doubt this is an attractive plan to those Americans convinced of certain “realities:” oil companies are inherently evil; an endless supply of cheap fuel is a birthright; government can solve any problem; the law of supply and demand is irrelevant; I deserve the money.
That such a plan does exactly nothing to help the country in the long run is irrelevant to the legions of self-absorbed nitwits that buy into the politics of envy and class warfare. And it is mother’s milk to the enviro-nazis who yearn to see America reduced to a Third World country.
Never forget for a second the immutable reality of big government do-gooders: any devastation wrought on this country by their “enlightened” thinking will NEVER affect them personally. They will always have limousines and private jets. They will always have large secure houses, properly heated and cooled. They will always have enough food, clothing and money–even if the rest of us are living in mud huts, riding donkeys and eating wild berries. Read article.
People Vs. Pelosi
IBD Editorials.com
If Congress removed the ban on drilling offshore, gave access to the massive deposits of oil in the Alaskan Arctic and allowed the oil shale of the Western states to be tapped, the global petroleum market would immediately react positively, bringing pump prices down. Crude futures prices would plunge — as they already have over mere talk of a possible softening by Congress on drilling.
That's the last thing House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama want. (Obama now claims he'll "consider" drilling as part of an environmentalist package.)
More drilling and lower prices would mean that Big Oil is no longer the boogeyman, but rather the key to the solution. And it would mean that all the windmills, solar panels and geeky plug-in cars the Pelosi Democrats want to force down the throats of the American people would have to wait until they're economically viable.
That could spell disaster for Democrats in November. Read article.
The Democrats' Big Problem: The War In Iraq Wasn't About Oil
Ben Shapiro, Townhall.com
The war in Iraq was never about oil, of course. And that simple fact, ironically enough, spells doom for Democrats. With oil prices ridiculously high, Americans are demanding that Congress open domestic territory to oil exploration -- and Democrats are stonewalling. House Republicans are demanding that Congress allow drilling; Democrats are denying an up-or-down vote. And Americans don't like it at all.
Only 14 percent of Americans now approve of Congress' no-drilling energy policy. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's anti-drilling, "save the world" strategy is making her dramatically unpopular -- so unpopular that she is secretly telling Congressional Democrats to vote for drilling. And Barack Obama -- who just recently suggested that Americans ought to focus on properly inflating their car tires in order to best conserve gasoline -- is now backtracking on his no-offshore-drilling pledge.
If the war in Iraq had been about oil, Democrats would be sitting in the catbird seat right now. Read article.
Obama site: Jews must be 'burned'
Aaron Klein, WND.com
Jews should be "burned" and "thrown in the oven."
Israel murdered 6 million Arabs.
Jews control American politics and dictate decisions of war and peace.
The Jewish state is leading a "Holocaust" against the Palestinian people and was responsible for 9/11.
The above are just a sampling of a large volume of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda that can be found on user-generated pages on Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign website, which allows registered members to form groups and post content in online "community" blogs. Read article.
Emperor Obama's New Clothes
James Lewis, American Thinker.com
What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more than a century ago? Because Obama is straight out of Andersen's classic fairly tale, The Emperor's New Clothes. Old Hans Christian, who lived in Denmark from 1805 to 1875, had Obama's number down pat. All he needed was a good grasp of human nature.
Nothing has changed. Pretentious frauds still parade down the boulevards of Copenhagen and Washington, D.C., and only little kids notice their nakedness. Nobody dares to snicker, for fear of being called a bad name.
But there's no there there. Not a single, solitary rag of clothing. Barack Obama has the least amount of relevant experience of any major party candidate in the last hundred years. He just makes it up as he goes along, with sublime arrogance. If he wanted to be interviewed for President of General Electric they wouldn't give him the time of day; but President of the United States? No problem! Obama is a total stage prop, a media fiction, a complete unknown, a rolling stone. Read article.
Obama’s Ten Commandments
Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media.com
McCain and Obama are essentially even in many of the polls. We all know why—the flip-flops, the evocation of the charge of racial politics, the serial gaffes, the playing up to European crowds, the lack of experience, and public weariness with the media bias, etc.
What should Obama, then, do to reclaim his “hope and change” mania of last spring? I think it is going to be difficult at anytime to elect a Northern hardcore liberal (not since JFK in 1960), even in a year perfect for Democratic politics, but nonetheless in the pursuit of fairness, here’s a blueprint… (in no particular order).
1. Outlaw the use of the word “they.” He recently claimed “they” would evoke the race card, in the manner of Michelle’s serial use of “they” raised the bar. Who is “they”? (The mean University of Chicago who paid the Obamas quite well? The parsimonious state legislature of Illinois? A racist Harvard?). The result of this “they did it” is the image of a sort of whiny elite, well-off victim claiming that a nebulous posse (conservative white Republicans?) is out to get him. Victimization, conspiracies, and whining lose, not win, elections.
2. Avoid sermons: no more lectures about guns, religion, and clinging, or what we eat, how we cool our homes, what kind of cars we drive, how we should pump up our tires, etc. It all comes off as a lean charismatic arugula-eating metrosexual talking down to a nation of obese NASCAR flag-wavers (who outnumber the former by the millions). Play Harry Truman, not Jesus Christ (and get rid of the silly first-year Latin Obama seal; fire the guy who wrote the oceans recede line; demote anyone who tries to get more mileage out of the corny “this is the moment” refrain; and get grainy pictures of a sweating Obama, not that airbrushed haloed Obama gazing off into the powder-blue sky of the sort they photoshop up at the County Fair booth). Read article.
Why Obama's Flip-Flops Matterand McCain's Really Don't
Dan McLaughlin, Redstate.com
If you looked at Barack Obama's record, public statements and campaign platform as of any time before June 3, 2008 (the last day of the Democratic primaries), you could detect a trend: on issue after issue after issue, there was a conservative position, a moderate position, a liberal position.and then there was an Obama position.
Other liberals opposed the Iraq War; Obama called for complete withdrawal by March 2008. Other liberals opposed confrontation with Iran; Obama pledged to meet its leader unconditionally. Other liberals supported abortion on demand or even partial-birth abortion; Obama went beyond that to oppose any legal protection for a child born alive after a failed abortion. Other liberals supported amnesty to give illegal immigrants citizenship and "bring them out of the shadows"; Obama championed giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens even as they continued to live outside the law.
On issue after issue after issue - taxes, guns, energy, you name it - Obama not only stood outside the national political mainstream, but on the far left edge even of his own party, which is how he earned the National Journal's "most liberal Senator" rating for 2007 despite the presence of a self-described Socialist in his caucus.
Indeed, he was the candidate who promised Democrats that he would eschew Clintonian triangulation to lead "not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction" - to run as the same arch-liberal he has been throughout his (admittedly brief) political career. Read article.
Marxist Momma Leah Daughtry Heads Denver Dem Convention
Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press.com
Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a skirt is Chief Executive Officer of this month’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.
While the media hounded Wright for his anti-American rants and while presidential hopeful Senator Barack Hussein Obama divorced him as his personal pastor, Obama’s head will be crowned by Leah Daughtry, who ardently believes in the same Marxist “Black Liberation Theology” preached by Wright.
It’s little wonder why Barack Obama is the DNC’s Golden Boy coming to Denver with mainstream media garnered rock star status.
His lack of experience, no substance, nobody home in an empty suit or even valid proof of what Bruce Springsteen would call “Born in the USA” matters not to the White House coveting Dems.
“Have you been to our conventions? Music and waving and happiness, it’s perfect,” Daughtry told Betsy Rothstein.
“Is the Democratic Party suicidal,” asks conservativepunk.com.
No, just Marxist! Read article.
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Ky. primary has Barack Obama doing battle with a phantom; Let the mockage begin!
May 22, 2012 07:50 PM
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May 22, 2012 04:29 PM
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Media still covering for no Biden access for press, blame Romney
May 22, 2012 03:39 PM
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May 22, 2012 03:08 PM
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