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Category: John McCain/Sarah Palin

  • They’re paying attention now

    In today’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, in an opinion piece entitled “They’re paying attention now” explains why John McCain has suddenly surged ahead of Barack Obama in the polls;

    There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention.

    Despite the year-and-a-half of the media showing us snippets of Obama from his carefully scripted and directed speeches, Americans really didn’t care – certainly not as much as the rest of us who tear apart every word spoken by any politician.

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  • Reality sets in

    Through the primary season, we were treated to stories of women swooning during Obama speeches, the media couldn’t help themselves from running photo layouts of a haloed Obama speaking to the multitudes, the nearly daily announcement of some other celebrity-type who had been struck with an epiphany about the Barack. We were treated to photos of Euro-wienies praying at the altar of the Barack. (My daughter, living in Germany says no one over there knows who McCain is).

    But the scales are falling from our collective eyes, the race pulls up even to within the margin of error. So what happens to “hope” and “change”? Under the proverbial bus, apparently. (Breitbart link)

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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