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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • Governor Palin’s speech at the RNC

    In case you missed it last night, here’s the whole thing. It’s 45 minutes long

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    An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;

    Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin’s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans. Person who gave her the credentials is probably Fort Wayne Realtor Ann Eckrich

    Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER….with extreme radical ties

    Jodie Evans, co-founder of the radical group Code Pink, rushed the stage while Sarah Palin was speaking.

    Code Pink has a Flickr account which includes this photo of Jodie being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag “Annie Eckrich, Indiana”

    Code Pink’s press release says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;

    Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them. (Read a Washington Post description of the incident).

    Ann Echrich is an alternate delegate and RNC contributor

    Of course, reaction to Palin’s speech must’ve been resounding because the Obama campaign (David Plouffe) immediately sent out this email;

    Friend —

    I wasn’t planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

    I saw John McCain’s attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

    But worst of all — and this deserves to be noted — they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

    You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Make a donation of $5 or more right now to remind them.

    Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

    Let’s clarify something for them right now.

    Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

    And it’s no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

    Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

    Meanwhile, we still haven’t gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

    Emphasis is mine, btw. If being a “community organizer” is so important, why isn’t Obama still a “community organizer” since he claims he’s doing all of this for us? I’d like intellectually vacant David Plouffe to explain what attacks were made last night.

    The only people who benefit from “community organizers” is community organizers – it’s an easy way to make a living without actually having to do any work. Let’s see something Obama actually accomplished while he was a community organizer since, apparently, Plouffe wants to credit him with women’s suffrage and a forty-hour work week.

    Added: The updated post is here.

  • Experience

    Barack Obama has already admitted that he’s less experienced than John McCain for President, that’s why he named Joe Biden his Vice President to overcome that shortfall. So when John McCain named Sarah Palin as his VP, Obama immediately decided he’d run against her instead of McCain by proclaming himself more experienced than Palin.

    The McCain campaign has struck back;

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    Ball’s in your court, Barry.

  • The Palin false outrage continues

    Of course, all of the anti-Palin maniacal false outrage continues, despite Barack Obama’s call for it to cease yesterday. And of course, it’s to make Governor Palin withdraw using the model of the Harriet Meirs crucifixtion. The Wall Street Journal catalogues some of the “inside the beltway” criticism;

    – Eleanor Clift, the McLaughlin Group: “If the media reaction is anything, it’s been literally laughter in many places across newsrooms.”

    – Sally Quinn, Newsweek: “It is a political gimmick . . . I find it insulting to women, to the Republican party, and to the country.”

    (more…)

  • Democrats and women

    I guess the activities of the Democrat sound machine should wake up most women to what Democrats really think of them. Heck, the sound machine of the last six months should have told them something. They’re political pawns in the game of the rich white dudes that run the party.

    As soon as Sarah Palin was named as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, she was referred to as a “pawn” in John McCain’s quest for power. She was attacked for being a mother, she was attacked for “choosing” to keep her Downs syndrome-afflicted child, she was accused of the wildest conspiracies ever, even her family was attacked for twenty-year-old DWI cases and for having a bit of belly fat.

    She couldn’t have been choosen for non-gender-related reasons, I suppose. Even though I thought she was an excellent choice as far back as April based solely on her politics – I mean after all that’s why we choose politicians, isn’t it?

    Alan Colmes blamed Palin for her child’s afliction, and this morning, I read Washington Post’s resident partisan hack Eugene Robinson‘s bit this morning indicating that Palin’s daughter should be forced to have an abortion (I had to screen capture it because they’ve moved it around so much, it’s hard to link to it);

    I think Robinson does all of his research exclusively on HuffPo and Daily Kos. I’ve never seen him depart from the party line on any issue. I suppose that makes him think he’s smart – but actually, he’s just a useful pawn. It also makes me think he’s the affirmative action columnist for the Post, seein’s how his only talent appears to be cutting and pasting from the moonbats.

    I’d like to know how Robinson knows that keeping the baby isn’t the “choice” of Bristol. But, then the Democrats have disposable principles and they don’t understand people who live out the principles they stand behind instead of just passing out advice for everyone else to follow – like Democrats.

    Ruth Marcus, in the Washington Post, excuses the media’s overblown coverage of the 17-year-old mother-to-be;

    And it will be that much more difficult in the media glare. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and (the father) Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palins said in their statement.

    As a parent, I sympathize. But as a parent in the media, I also know that the Palins assumed this risk. Anyone who watched coverage of the Bush twins’ barroom exploits knew that the avert-your-eyes stance toward candidates’ children has its limits.

    It’s naive to imagine, in the anything-goes Internet era, that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would go unremarked upon. It’s also mistaken, I think, to expect it. Like it or not, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is intertwined with an important public policy debate about which the two parties differ and on which Sarah Palin has been outspoken.

    I wonder if she was any more forgiving of the media during the Clinton years.

    I remember reading all of the venomous comments that continue to this day about Hillary Clinton from the Obamaniacs.

    Now, I’m not a woman, obviously, but I’m pretty sure if I were and I were to be a Democrat, I’d think long and hard about belonging to a political party that so willingly attacks any candidate based solely on their biological composition and uses the camoflage of a word like “choice” to dictate to candidates of a particular biological composition the future of their families. A party that hides behind a misnomer like “choice” to advocate for the cavalier termination of lives because of aesthetics and political convenience.

    When a woman makes a “choice” that doesn’t fit the narrative of Democrats, she’s shamed into thinking she’s done something wrong. Just like Hillary who decided to fight the campaign out to it’s conclusion was shamed for it. All for the rich white guys of the Democrat Party clinging to their sad little empires built on the backs of minorities and women.

    Heh! Someone just sent me an email warning me that Sarah Palin is a “redneck” whose husband works in the oil fields and races snowmobiles and she hunts beasts in Alaska. I guess because I live in the Metro DC area, this should scare me about our future VP/President. Actually, I envy them. Smoke that.

    Added: Contrast what the Washington Post said about moms in politics before Sarah Palin became the VP candidate at Michelle Malkin.

  • Palin’s “Troopergate” non-scandal

    Of course, it doesn’t take any real evidence for the Democrats to create a scandal out of nothing, but Mata Harley at Flopping Aces has put together a timeline of the events that the Democrats plan to use against our newest rising politicial star;

    The investigations against Wooten started more than a year before she was elected governor, and about two months before launching her campaign”.

    Mata Harley does an excellent job of getting ahead of the Obama attack machine on this non-scandal. But of course we’ve had to listen to crap about George Bush’s drinking and cocaine habits for eight years without any evidence, we’ll probably hear about this for the next twelve years of the Palin VP/Presidency.

    UPDATED: As a precursor to what we’re in for in scandal area, here’s the top search terms from search engines on this blog last night. Apparently someone is searching for information on Palin being Jewish and a Zionist;

    Like I said yesterday, they’re just throwing stuff at the wall hoping for something to stick. My buddy/alter ego Robin at Chickenhawk Express has some more of the classless things they’re throwing at the wall. Ace of Spades and Michelle Malkin catch them looking for bikini pictures.

  • IVAW, police face-off

    Photo from Reuters

    While the Democrats were enjoying their convention last night, IVAW was leading an estimated crowd of 3500 protesters (varying sources put the number at 5000 and 7000, so you tell me) and demanded they be given time at the DNC podium to read Barack Obama their three aims. Those aims being;

    Removing U.S. troops from Iraq immediately, providing full health care benefits to returning veterans, and paying reparations to Iraqis for the damage done during the war.

    According to the Denver Post, there was a “tense stand off” between police and the veterans;

    The veterans were arrayed in formation and in uniform, marching slowly toward a line of police, who had warned them they could be pepper sprayed and arrested. They were being watched by a crowd estimated by police at more than 5,000, many of whom had marched with the veterans from the Denver Coliseum.

    As the vets got within a few yards of the police, the cavalry arrived in the form of two white-shirted Obama staffers who asked a representative of the veterans to be escorted inside the security zone.

    After a brief conversation, a veteran’s representative said they had been promised a meeting with Obama’s liason for veteran’s affairs. A cheer went up, the veterans did an about face, and the Democrats appear to have avoided providing John McCain with some very unflattering video footage of veteran’s being pepper-sprayed hogtied and handcuffed outside their convention.

    Another story, however shows up on the Indypendent;

    The march was met with a line of more than 100 Denver Police Department officers clad in riot gear and armed with batons and pepper ball guns at the intersection of Market and 17th Streets. The police refused to let IVAW or the thousands of antiwar demonstrators closer to the convention. After long moments of contention between the demonstration and the police, finally one IVAW representative, former U.S. Marine Liam Madden, was allowed to cross police lines to meet with representatives of the Obama campaign.

    As Madden left on his mission, it seemed as if more than 50 IVAW members were prepared to engage in non-violent civil disobedience and likely arrest. Less than 10 minutes later, at approximately 7:40pm (CT), an announcement was made by IVAW to the crowd, indicating that Obama had endorsed their three points of unity, causing the crowd to uproar in applause.

    Some veterans were visibly emotional by the end of the march. In a highly stirring and symbolic moment, members of IVAW gave a peace salute towards the direction of the Pepsi Center. There was then a moment of silence for casualties of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    “Sen. Obama, we won’t forget this,” said Jeff Engelhart, IVAW member who served in Baquba, Iraq, with the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division, to the crowd via microphone and loud speakers. He went on to indicate that if Sen. Obama did not make good on his endorsement, more antiwar protests would come.

    Well, there’s no confirmation that Obama endorsed their three points, in fact his website hasn’t changed one word of his plan for Iraq. The Rocky Mountain News confirms the Denver Post story that all the veterans got was a meeting, no endorsement of their three points;

    Iraq War veterans who led a march through the streets of Denver won a meeting with a liaIson from Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign.

    The news ended a tense standoff between the veterans and riot police near and entrance to the convention, and brought tears to the eyes of several vets.

    So, the Leftist independent media either got it wrong, or they intentionally lied. If they honestly think that Obama will ever agree to reparations to Iraq or immediate withdrawal from Iraq, they’re seriously deluded. I wonder if John Solz is taking notes on the people in the picture above and getting ready to dress them down for expressing political views while wearing a uniform.

    I have yet to see the big guns of the IVAW in Denver, yet. Apparently, they’re in Minnesota for the Republican convention.

  • VFF ad: I am the surge

    Vets for Freedom asked me to put this new ad up for them;

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    The Vets For freedom are asking Senator Barack Obama to simply admit that the surge worked. According to VFF, as recently as last month, Barack hasn’t been able to form the words;

    “So far, I think we have not seen the kind of political reconciliation that’s going to bring about longterm stability in Iraq.” Obama speaks during a news conference at the citadel in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, 7/22/08

    “But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we’ve spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted. Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.” Barack Obama, Op-Ed, “My Plan For Iraq,” The New York Times, 7/14/08

    It’s like Fonzie trying to admit he was wr…wr….wr…wrooonnnngggg. Basically, VFF is simply asking Obama to support Senate Resolution 636 “ Recognizing the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq and expressing gratitude to the members of the United States Armed Forces who made that success possible.“

    Should that be so hard? Well, when it means throwing the shrieking harpies of Code Pink under that proverbial bus, you can bet he won’t until it becomes politically expedient…your phones calls, letters and faxes will make it politically expedient.

    Obama’s contact information;

    Washington, D.C. Office:

    713 Hart Senate Office Building,
    District of Columbia 20510-1305
    Phone: (202) 224-2854
    Fax: (202) 228-4260

    Chicago Office: (more district offices)
    230 South Dearborn Street, Suite 3900
    Chicago, Illinois 60604
    Phone: (312) 886-3506
    Fax: (312) 886-3514
    Crossposted at Eagles Up! Talon

  • My BFF Barry’s email

    My BFF (best friend forever) Barry just sent me the best email EVER! Click the thumbnail to read the email.

    It says;

    Friend —

    I am so lucky to be married to the woman who delivered that speech last night.

    Michelle was electrifying, inspiring, and absolutely magnificent. I get a lot of credit for the speech I gave at the 2004 convention — but I think she may have me beat.

    You have to see it to believe it.

    And make sure to forward this email to your friends and family — they’ll want to see it, too.

    You really don’t want to miss this.

    And I’m not just saying that because she’s my wife — I truly believe it was the best speech of the campaign so far.

    Barack

    I thought I was in high school getting a text message from some kid, for pete’s sake.