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Saturday, September 27, 2008

THE DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN HAS A THEME SONG…..

And I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty special….“majestic” might even be the right word.
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. This was produced by the Glenn Beck show, and they called their usual agency for the singers they use in the parodies they do all the time….only for this one it was different.  Not a single professional singer would do this music for them.  Eventually, the father of one of his staff - a retired opera singer - agreed to voice it.  Wonderful work.

Posted by Earl on 09/27 at 09:35 PM
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THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN HAD THIS BIT OF VIDEO OUT *DURING* THE DEBATE…...

Someone over there is on the ball!

Posted by Earl on 09/27 at 09:31 PM
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

NO TAXPAYER-FUNDED BAILOUT—DON’T TREAT THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ANY BETTER THAN ENRON…UPDATED

When Enron was revealed to be a shell—its assets not worth what they had claimed, no one suggested that the American taxpayer buy up the bad stuff and “save” Enron.
. We’re being told that if we, the taxpayers, don’t ride to the rescue with our saddlebags full of money, our economy is going to crash, and we’re all going to suffer terribly.  It’s probably true that hard times are coming, but I’m betting that the real suffering our political class is afraid of is the suffering that will be done by the ripoff artists at some of these big banks and those politicians who were ‘WAY too cozy with them, and took their money for years and years.  Don’t listen to these guys, and swallow their socialistic scheme for “making things right”.  Remember, Enron was no slouch in terms of its effect on our economy:

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Posted by Earl on 09/24 at 03:36 PM
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

SOMEONE FINALLY CALLS OUT THE NEW YORK TIMES

HERE IS THE AUDIO of the conference call in which a McCain senior campaign official finally told the truth about the legacy media.
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But let’s be clear and be honest with each other about something fundamental to this race, which is this: whatever the New York Times once was, it is today not by any standard a journalistic organization. It is pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama.
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There’s no level of public vetting with regard to Senator Obama’s record, his background, his past statements. There’s no level of outrage directed at his deceitful ads. This is an organization that is completely, totally, 150% in the tank for the Democratic candidate, which is their prerogative to be. But let’s not be dishonest and call it something other than what it is.
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Everything that is read in the New York Times that attacks this campaign should be evaluated by the American people from that perspective: that it is an organization that has made a decision to cast aside its journalistic integrity and tradition to advocate for the defeat of one candidate - in this case John McCain - and to advocate for the election of the other candidate, Barack Obama.

Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 09:42 PM
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WHY HASN’T OBAMA WRITTEN OR TALKED ABOUT HIS MOST EXTENSIVE EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE?

Seems curious, doesn’t it?  One of the major negative criticisms leveled is that he’s not ready for the Presidency, because unlike McCain (military - leading an entire air group after his return from ‘Nam) and Palin (years as mayor and governor), he’s never made executive decisions.  But, he has!
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From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

 

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Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 09:23 PM
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IF YOU WANT TO CHECK OUT THE LATEST SARAH PALIN RUMOR…..

HERE’S THE SPOT
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I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the rumors about Sarah Palin that have appeared in the weeks since John McCain announced her nomination. (The new list is up to 91 and still growing.) Its given me a whole new insight into rumors and how the press responds to them. It seems to be very predictable — and very artificial.

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. The first example is the “she cut Special Olympics funding in half”, when it really got a 10% increase from the year before, but received a good deal less than was requested….typical Washington politician “truthiness”......

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Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 09:16 PM
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JOHN McCAIN AS PRESIDENT IS A SCARY THOUGHT…..

And George Will has explained why, in an excellent column at the Jewish World Review (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/), which isn’t available at the moment, for some reason.

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. ...It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

Will exposes one of the McCain characteristics that gives me the most pause when considering him as President…..the fact that his sudden enthusiasms and rages would lead to harmful proposals that would be supported by many Democrats and most Republicans is the precise reason that I suggested Hillary Clinton might be a SAFER CHOICE for President.  The idea was that although Hillary might propose very similar, and similarly damaging, policies…..she wouldn’t get the Republican support that McCain would, and we might escape most of the damage that either of them would bring to the table.

Still don’t know that it’s true…..but McCain is looking scarier and scarier—and Hillary isn’t on the ballot!

Posted by Earl on 09/23 at 08:48 PM
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