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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • That didn’t take long

    Richard Nixon was a shifty-eyed crook, Ronald Reagan was a doddering old fool, George HW Bush was a wimp, George W Bush is an idiot. And now John McCain is a cheater. Last night I first read on Ace of Spades that Andrea Mitchell-Greenspan was accusing John McCain of cheating in the Saddleback non-debate. From Michelle Malkin;

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  • It’s Obama’s fault

    As I’ve said a few times, this year just isn’t a good year for protests. It’s difficult for me get decent pictures anymore of Code Pink trolls on rolling beds or flocks of SEIU purple-clad socialists being herded by their handlers on the subway.

    All this time I thought the anti-war peace movement was petering out because of their intellectually invalid message. But from Don Surber, I learn that Tom Hayden is blaming Obama in The Nation.

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  • A peek into the future

    The Georgia crisis has given us a peek into the future and a glimpse of what President McCain and President Obama would do in a crisis. An AFP story reports;

     “During an international crisis when bipartisanship is needed most, it’s disappointing that the Obama campaign has chosen to launch inflammatory and baseless political attacks,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.

    He was responding to an attack from Obama’s top foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, who said the Republican’s strident rhetoric against Russia would backfire.

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  • Obama losing his grip

    Being a big Obama supporter, I always get these personal emails from the campaign which understands me so well. Today’s gem you can believe in (I hate ending a sentence with a preposition);

    Friend —

    John McCain and the Republican National Committee are trying to convince you that you’ve been swept up and tricked into wanting change.

    Naw, we’ve been tricked into believing that we want the kind of change Barack and Michele want to inflict upon us.

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  • The race tightens, Obama slipping

    The Washington Times warns that centrist Democrats, the Reagan Democrats, are leaning away from Obama;

     Sen. Barack Obama is doing what Republicans once thought only a presidential candidacy by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could do – uniting the right and center.

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  • Michele Obama opening night headliner at DNC Convention

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    Photo by TAH member Frankly Opinionated

    Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire has the line up for speakers at the Convention and Obama’s wife is the headliner for the opening night;

    On August 25, Michelle Obama will headline the opening night of the convention, while former presidential rival Sen. Hillary Clinton will headline Tuesday night. The DNCC statement tout’s Clinton as “a champion for working families and one of the most effective and empathetic voices in the country today.”

    I guess that’s the reason she’s been kept under wraps the last few weeks…so she can learn what it is she says that pisses people off. Washington Wire posits that Clinton speaking the second night negates the rumors that she’ll be the VP candidate since the VP is scheduled to speak the following night…so I guess that’s good news. Probably the best news we’ve had all year from the Democrats. If you’re really worried about who he’ll pick, the campaign is offering a chance to be the first to know (along with several million other people);

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  • The Change we still don’t believe

    Ace of Spades‘ s Purple Avenger picked up a story buried in the Washington Post political blogs last week about Obama outpacing McCain in contributions from bundled donors in the oil industry;

    Turns out, the biggest recipient of contributions from Exxon executives and employees during this campaign is not McCain. It’s Obama.

    The non-partisan center writes: “Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain’s $35,166. Chevron favors Obama $35,157 to $28,500, and Obama edges out McCain with BP $16,046 vs. $11,500.”

    “McCain leads the money race with nearly every other top giver in the oil and gas industry, though — Koch Industries, Valero, Marathon Oil, Occidental Petroleum, ConocoPhillips,” the report says. “McCain also has a big edge with Hess Corp. — $91,000 to Obama’s $8,000 — which has gotten some attention. And, overall, McCain’s campaign has gotten three times more money from the industry than Obama’s has — $1.3 million compared to about $394,000.”

    The report comes from OpenSecrets.com which also claims that McCain has begun pulling ahead of Obama since he came out for drilling.

    But I went a step further and checked the largest donors of the two candidates;

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    First is Obama‘s and the second is McCain‘s. Aside from some universities and MoveOn.org in the Obama column, the lists are essentially the same – at least the same types of contributors…so where’s this change we’re hearing about all of the time? OpenSecrets offers the following disclaimer;

    This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization’s PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

    Wait. I thought Obama wasn’t taking money from PACs and special interest groups. MoveOn.org is a special interest group…no different than the NRA. These chart shows contributions since 2004. What’s that $1.3 million from PACs in the last chart?

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    Well, they breakdown like this;

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    Most of that PAC money came in 2006, before the Presidential campaign started, but you  can’t tell me he returned it and started with a zero balance. He’s not squeaky clean from PACs this year either;

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    I must’ve missed the part where change got tossed under the proverbial bus.

  • McCain in his element

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    John McCain stopped by the Sturgis motorcycle rally this week. Don Surber caught Fark.com being their typical elitist selves;

    The lefty Fark.com site mocked this story as “John McCain is set to capture that key ‘bikers who like REO Speedwagon’ demographic at Sturgis this week.”

    ‘Tis another reminder that as hip as they pretend they are, lefty bloggers are pretty clueless about life unless they’ve seen it on TV.

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