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The other night, Joe and I were sharing some excellent wine, Smoking Loon, a wonderful Pinot Noir while discussing the sad state of affairs in our country. Looking at the label the term ‘loon’ of course turned my thoughts to the Democrat presidential candidate. Originally, about a year ago, before I got to know him I figured new, well spoken who knows. Now, after Alinsky, Ayers, Wright and a few other pals of his turned up I see that the guy has strange tastes.

I still think this election is Obama’s to lose, but I think the more we get to know him, the more he has to define himself, the less the pablum of buzz words like hope and change will be able to carry him. I have read his Web site, there are no specifics there either. So I realize the more discussion regarding this man the better. Obama is a teleprompter reader extraordinaire: he gives a great speech. I am not at all sure that a senator who worked 5 months in the U.S. Senate before going on to campaign for president is ready. Maybe 2012 or 2016. His short resume is backing him into a corner and he is looking less like something new and more like the standard small minded political hack. He can do better. We need better.

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An oldie but goodie, and one of the most painful moments in television history:

Obama’s goes to that city and makes a presidential visit, before he is president. He refers to himself as “a fellow citizen of the world.” I am not interested in a citizen of the world being my president, I am looking for an advocate, someone who puts his country first. The rock concert that followed Obama’s speech did well enough despite Obama playing the part of ‘opening act’. Hurry, hurry, hurry — step right up and see the amazing shrinking messiah!! What Rock Concert? I was wondering when that aspect of the 200,000 Germans being there was ever going to be mentioned in the MSM. Glad to see they maintain a perfect 1000 batting average in the predictable category.

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The Obama kids came to my door yesterday evening.  Children under 20 years old with the mentality of an acorn when it comes to politics?  How can I assume this?  They were soliciting votes for the messiah, that’s how.  Today I got an e-mail today and I wish I could have shown this to these kids.  Could it have made a difference and turned them around?  I don’t know.  Common sense is no longer something natural to mankind.  Watch this video and then submit others to it.  Make a call and make a difference.  After all, a president is pretty useless without a congress to back him/her up.

Guest Post By Nancy Matthis at ADMC

The election of 2008 promises to be an all-out battle throughout the country for the soul of America. Will we continue to be a nation of individuals who pride themselves on personal responsibility? Or will we keep sliding deeper into increasing government entitlement programs (and meddling) on the path to socialism?

The answer will largely be determined by the outcomes of the 435 hard-fought Congressional races throughout the United States. And in many of those races, the margin of victory or loss on average may be less than three percent. Which is to say that illegal aliens may decide the future of our democracy.

Our voting processes are deeply flawed. For quite some time the problem of voter fraud has been discussed, but tolerated. The website Illegal Aliens US comments:

Those ‘undocumented’ are actually ‘highly documented’ with fraudulent documents our government readily accepts.

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Gerard Baker gets the genius award for the year. This tongue in cheek piece from the British Times Online is ‘bloody hilarious‘. Perfect in tone and timbre.

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness …

The Messiah hath cometh, now, can we collectively stop chanting praises of HIM and get around to explaining to this poor man why a politician with 143 days in the U.S. Senate is qualified to become the President of the U.S.?

Ahem.

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UPDATE: Much more here (scroll down). Professional bloggers, of course, provide the best content.

Yes, folks, there will be a Big Tent at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:

The Big Tent will be the place to be for new media journalists, bloggers, reporters, and non-profit leaders covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.

What does one find in a Big Tent?  A circus with a bunch of clowns and freaks.  Welcome to the Democrat Party.  (And the sign said, “Long-haired freaky people need not apply themselves.”)

If any modern celebrity cries out to be mocked it is certainly Barack Hussein Obama, and lo and behold the John McCain campaign team appears to have finally gotten that memo. I still cannot bring myself to send money to McCain, but I have to say he is gaining my grudging respect:

With austere language by both the narrator and Obama, the ad begins with a high-minded narrator’s voice referring to Obama as “The One,” the nickname McCain aides are using for their opponent and the aura around him. The ad intersperses equally high-minded sound bites from Obama.

I don’t know that this McCain ad really puts the fine point on the fact that screams for public dissemination - namely, that Barack Obama is totally full of shit - but it gets about halfway there. And let me tell you, I am enthused. I have all kinds of problems with John McCain, but I do respect truthful, effective marketing. If voters have the facts, they will make the right choice in November. This McCain ad campaign takes the first important step in painting the landscape for the next few months.

Based on these first few “hard hitting” TV advertisements I have seen from the John McCain campaign, I will also say this: The theme of “damning Obama with his own voice” could carry the day.

The crap this guy has been spewing, the utterly vapid, mindless new-age claptrap phraseology he has dished out, might not need any spinning or packaging. Think about that (please!) Obama seems to have derived some of his most powerfully-delivered phrases less from rational thought than from automatic writing. He is spinning this nonsense out of his ass into the loudspeakers and if it were not for the velvety voice he would be getting laughed off the stage from Portland to Peoria.

Here’s the challenge to the John McCain PR folks: Channel Barack Obama. You do not need to swift boat this guy, you only need to quote him. Stupid is as stupid says. Let the American people really focus in on Obama’s statements, and they will quickly discern that Obama’s is a campaign predicated entirely on emotion.

Oh man, you can have all kinds of fun with that.

The Democrat party decided they would go on vacation without allowing a vote on off shore drilling, or on shore drilling or any kind of other than that of oil executives. In fact when the Republicans stayed in order to stir up debate regarding oil relief the Democrat party leadership ordered the lights turned off. From the Politico …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House, turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m., and they are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.

Speaker Nancey will now go down in history with the quote “Give me vacation or give me death!” The oil issue is obvious not important enough to stick around; getting to the beach is far more important. I am not sure which would be worse than her ridiculous statement as noted in the Washington Post:

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.”

With gas prices around $4 per gallon the American public is ready to drill. According to Rasmussen nationwide support for increasing the domestic oil supply is near 67%. Instead Nancy and Harry are seeking to punish the oil industry a la James Carter with a windfall profits tax; this tax had a huge impact, it damaged the economy and it helped get Reagan elected. Playing class warefare games with the economy did not help Carter, nor will it help Reid and Pelosi.

Obama is looking to raise taxes on the Oil companies and give $1000 to each family. This is little more than smoke and mirrors economics. With one hand Obama plans will take money from the Oil company’s. The Oil companies will then raise the prices at the pump. We, the people will pay more at the pump, and a check might then arrive in the mail. In short, nothing will get done.

Here we are thirty years later. Oil prices are now five times their 2003 average. The Democrat party is playing politics with our economy by their refusal to do anything about the oil shortage. We are at a cross roads and the race to the bottom between the two parties needs to end. The American people deserve better than the sophomoric antics or a the Democrat Speaker who turns off the lights and microphones in the peoples house.