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Having a real distaste for all the potential candidates for president I have started a write-in campaign to elect my dog Rocky for president with his buddy Potato as his VP. I asked for their opinions on the issues and here is what they have told me: Rocky (right) with his running mate Potato On the IssuesClimate Change Rocky & Potato will demand that all their canine friends relentless chase and harass all bovine creatures until they cease all flatulence. In addition they will invest heavily in innovative technologies to create a national dog sledding network and require 50% of...

Date: May 15, 2008 Listening this morning to Sen. John McCain outlining his plans as president, should he win the November election, I wanted to shout things like, “Drill in Anwar, you moron!” and “Liberals are liars – we don’t want you to work with these leftist lunatics!” It has become clear that, like President George W. Bush, instead of leading the country into true conservative policies, Sen. McCain is another wimpy Republican who tries to combine radical social engineering politics from the left with a few watered-down Republican, conservative principles. Some Republicans have been calling people like Bush and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQaOOLmFjU Song parody of Plain White Tees "Hey There, Delilah" pointing out that Mr. Obama is everywhere but Illinois and Washington,DC and yet continues to accept a senate paycheck despite abandoning the people who he is paid to represent.

How did a freshman nobody senator from Chicago, with little more on his résumé than a 20 year membership in an anti-American church of racism, derail the Clinton juggernaut to become the undeniable front-runner for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination? Who is funding Obama? - Who is voting for him and why? – What does he really believe in? - And why do Hillary Clinton supporters swear they will never support him in a general election? Is Obama an unstoppable locomotive or a train wreck barely clinging to its track? Answers to all of these questions exist. But do any...

LGF nails them to the wall, but the Times’s complicity in this whitewash is actually even worse than Charles suggests.

Here's the RNC's new. I had not seen it linked here before.

I just got a call from a Republican pollster asking if the election were held today would I vote for McCain or a Democrat. I said there really isn't much difference between the two and he laughed and said " I've been hearing that all day". I said 'pass it on to McCain'.

Financial Times reports “OPEC says oil could hit $200,” up from the record $120 a barrel today. If and when that happens, predicted to be this summer, the $3.50 to $4.00 prices you see at the pumps today will top $5.00 per gallon and you can thank liberal environmentalists for that! When Bill Clinton took office in January 1993, the average retail price of gasoline was $1.06 per gallon. By the time Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, that average per gallon price had become $1.25 per gallon, a 17.9% increase in less than four years. By the time George...

A story I had never heard before about John McCain: [Ret. Col. Bud] Day relayed to me one of the stories Americans should hear. It involves what happened to him after escaping from a North Vietnamese prison during the war. When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple." The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese...

Just when it looked like Obama might actually survive the firestorm surrounding his connection to the racist pastor Wright, the good Reverend comes out of hiding to pour more fuel on the fire. The good Reverend is becoming about as helpful to Obama as Bill is to Hillary… With friends like this, who needs enemies? Well-known leftist ABC news commentator Bill Moyers set the stage for Wright’s National Press Club début by tossing Wright softballs to hit out of the park unchallenged. For a man who isn’t running for office, Wright sure has his campaign strategy down pat. Like an...

Obama's subprime pal PENNY PRITZKER Finance chief's bank failed in 2001, costing 1,400 customers some of their savings April 28, 2008 BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com White House hopeful Barack Obama talks a lot on the campaign trail about how failing banks have used subprime loans to victimize customers. "Part of the reason we got a current mortgage crisis has to do with the fact that people got suckered in to loans that they could not pay," he told a crowd in Reading, Pa., last week. "There were a lot of predatory loans that were given out, a lot...

I just saw a clip on Fox News of Obama playing basketball, wearing a USMC T-shirt. Does anybody know the backstory on this?

When is the last time food managed to become a campaign issue? The answer is four years ago, when Republicans and conservatives made much of the fact that the “elitist, effete” John Kerry ordered a Philly cheese steak sandwich topped with Swiss rather than Cheez Whiz. Campaign coverage has become more and more substance-free over the years, with this year’s obsession over ministers and Hillary Clinton’s experience with firearms ranking as the absolutely silliest display, probably ever. There was a day when American journalism had no standards, but even those – by comparison – were sobering, serious discussions of policy....

Unable once again to score a knockout, Sen. Barack Obama is likely to make his new negative tone even more negative -- with a sharp eye on trying to end the Democratic presidential nomination fight after the May 6 primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's victory yesterday in Pennsylvania has only accentuated the quandary that Obama faces: Stay negative and he risks undermining the premise of his candidacy. Stay aloof and he underscores Clinton's argument that he will not be able to beat a "Republican attack machine" sure to greet him this summer. Obama campaign manager...

WASHINGTON, April 22, 2008 – New campaign stars authorized for wear on the Afghanistan and Iraq campaign medals represent tangible recognition and honor for the sacrifices and contributions servicemembers have made in support of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, a senior defense official said today. The Defense Department announced the campaign stars yesterday to recognize participation in specific campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Servicemembers who quality for the Afghanistan Campaign Medal or Iraq Campaign Medal may now display a bronze campaign star on their medals for each designated campaign phase in which they participated. In keeping with military tradition,...

Leaders of national and Pennsylvania women's organizations convened at Philadelphia's City Hall Friday to declare their support for Hillary Clinton's agenda for women and families. It's no surprise, I suppose, that she would be endorsed by groups like the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus, Women's Campaign Forum and Feminist Majority. But beneath the surface of this formal endorsement lurks something else: anger and frustration at the way they perceive Clinton's treatment by the media.

Robert Mugabe 'mobilising command centres for national terror campaign' By Peta Thornycroft in Harare Last Updated: 8:06pm BST 18/04/2008 Hundreds of "command centres" led by war veterans in police uniforms are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. These centres are responsible for keeping President Robert Mugabe in power through intimidation, violence and ballot-rigging. Watch: Robert Mugabe hits out at Britain in his Independence Day speech By these methods, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mr Mugabe in the presidential election's second round. Three weeks after the poll's first round, no...

A coalition of 16 Iraq War Veterans have united to support each other for a run at Capitol Hill. In a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. last week, timed to coincide with the arrival of Gen. David Petreus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker to Capitol Hill, six members of “Iraq Veterans for Congress,” IVC, outlined their frustration over the lack of representation in Congress of the new generation of veterans. (snip) Lt. Col. William Russell, an Airborne Ranger, husband, father and small business owner has a tougher fight on his hands in his congressional race than...

It is only four months into 2008, but the presidential campaign — already too long and nasty — is still a long way from over. And the casualties are mounting. First, George W. Bush’s popularity remains dismal — even though some of the complaints about his first term have gone by the wayside. The French and German governments are now staunchly pro-American. Violence in Iraq is still way down from a year ago. America has been free from a terrorist attack since 9/11. No matter. Nothing has seemed to help the president. His approval rating stays at, or sinks below,...

Not a blog, so to speak.. a comment... Saw on Drudge yesterday, was a picture of Hillary doing shots and downing beer. No problem with that, but I fear she could probably drink anyone under a table, then steal your wallet, all while shouting.. "When I am president, I'm gonna take it anyway, might as well get it now.." Sorry, I thought this was funny as hell when I first wrote it. markbureau

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Youth Leadership School Radisson Hotel Chatsworth Chatsworth, CA May 3rd – 4th, 2008 Since 1979, no other organization has prepared as many people with the nuts-and-bolts techniques necessary to be effective youth leaders as the Leadership Institute. The Institute was founded in 1979 by Morton C. Blackwell to train the next generation of conservative leaders; to date we have trained over 59,000 conservatives. Attend the Youth Leadership School and join the ranks of Morton Blackwell’s notable graduates: • Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff for President Bush • United States Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky • United States Congressman Patrick...

Clinton Campaign Senior Strategist Mark Penn Steps Down After Disclosure of Colombian Meeting Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, left the campaign Sunday after it was disclosed he met with representatives of the Colombian government to help promote a free trade agreement Clinton opposes. "After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton Campaign," campaign manager Maggie Williams said in a statement released Sunday. "Mark, and Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, Inc. will continue to provide polling and advice...

It’s always illustrative when liberals say what they really mean. And we need to hear more about what Barack Obama really means, because the whole change/hope/we’re-in-it-together thing is going to get awfully tired by November. This past Saturday, Obama enlightened us a bit by delineating some of the things he categorizes as punishment: Look, I've got two daughters, nine year old – nine years old and six years old. I'm going to teach them first of all about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished...

Dear Reagan, It is a bedrock American principle: we are all equal in the voting booth. No matter where you were born or how much money you were born into, no matter the color of your skin or where you worship, your vote deserves to count. But millions of people in Florida and Michigan who went to the polls aren't being heard. The delegates they elected won't be seated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August -- and that's just not fair to those voters. The people of Michigan and Florida must have a voice in selecting our...

Meet Obama's new preacher, Otis Moss, the man who has replaced Jeremiah Wright. Is he any different than his demagogue predecessor? Watch the video and decide for yourself.

Posted: 03/31/08 07:54 PM [ET] Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.) top aide spent more than $2,000 of campaign money to buy a rifle and other items for himself at a National Rifle Association (NRA) charity auction, raising questions about whether the transaction violated House ethics rules and campaign finance law. John Hugya, Murtha’s chief of staff, reimbursed the campaign Friday for the expenses after The Hill inquired about the use of campaign money for personal items. The Murtha for Congress campaign paid for Hugya, a decorated retired colonel in the Marine Corps, to buy a rifle, knife, NRA blanket and other...

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has made little secret that it has been routinely outspent by rival Barack Obama in the extended race for the Democratic presidential nomination and has been forced to curtail checks for some of its vendors and staff. But stiffing your high school alma mater? That’s apparently the case, according to federal campaign disclosure reports that show that among more than $8.7 million listed as debts, the Clinton campaign owed $3,161 to Maine South High School in Park Ridge for renting the school for an event, as well as for catering.

The Obama campaign has made political points over Hillary Clinton’s dishonest comments about coming under “sniper fire” in Bosnia, but Obama also has some opportunist lies for which to account. The Washington Post calls it “overstating,” but make no mistake; this is a flat-out lie: Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father.

Turn on the lights the party's just beginning.

SENATOR CLINTON STILL RUNNING – Political Satire Upee (New York) – Here we are in the year 2048 and Former US President Chelsea Clinton is vacationing in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Meanwhile, Chelsea’s mother, former New York Democratic Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, is still running for President. Forty years after she began her run for President in 2008, Senator Clinton vows to keep on running, against all odds. Senator Clinton, now 100, insists she will never quit. “I’m supposed to be the President! I’m going to win! I’m not going to quit! I’m never going to quit!” Former...

We have all known people who felt the need to embellish their own lives’ stories, figuring that no one would be all that impressed with the genuine article. “Would you like to go out with me? What do I do? I work for the police. In fact, I’m the chief of police!” What Jon Lovitz introduced into pop culture as pathological liar Tommy Flanagan on Saturday Night Live, Hillary Clinton now brings to our presidential politics. She went to Bosnia and was greeted by a little girl – no, scratch that, was greeted by sniper fire! Yeah, that’s it. And...

Now that’s an expensive pie. When presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton had pizza at Revello’s Cafe in Old Forge on March 10, it cost borough taxpayers almost $400 a bite. Mrs. Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, spoke for less than 10 minutes during his appearance at the Society of Irish Women dinner on St. Patrick’s Day. The cost to Scranton taxpayers? About $90 for each minute he was on the dais. While the parade of presidential hopefuls through Northeastern Pennsylvania before the April 22 primary is expected to give the voting public an unprecedented firsthand look...

THIS IS A MUST SEE ... I will post the YouTube Video on the next response ... YOU MUST SEE I did an exact title search of 'Cult of Personality' so sorry if already posted

News broke tonight that 3 contract employees violated Barack Obama's privacy by snooping around his passport records for what is said to be curiosity's sake. Two of the employees were fired, the other has been disciplined. There will, no doubt, be a major investigation and the left-wing will go crazy with black helicopter theories. Since nothing is know at this point, MSNBC is now speculating wildly about the Bush Administration being diabolical and being behind this for political reasons. This makes no sense, but it explains why the Obama campaign is jumping all over it. They really need a...

Hillary Clinton's campaign uses pastor scandal to undermine Barack Obama By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 12:55am GMT 21/03/2008 Hillary Clinton's campaign has seized on the fallout from the furore over Barack Obama's pastor to argue that her Democratic rival would be dangerously vulnerable in a presidential election against John McCain. While ordering staff not to comment directly on the controversy surrounding the inflammatory black liberation rhetoric of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, senior Clinton aides have privately made the case to Democratic officials that nominating Mr Obama would be a reckless gamble. Watch: Obama's race speech | Part 2...

It’s unfortunate that young Americans, ages 18-29, are the least likely to vote, despite the fact that their lives are affected the longest by the decisions of elected officials. One 18-year-old is trying to change that by encouraging students to find their voices in a way that appeals to them, and that works. It all began when Michael Gershoni, a high school senior at David Posnack High School in Plantation, FL, noticed that less than a handful of students in his class were registered to vote. To encourage his peers to get involved and stay informed, the teen decided to...

SACRAMENTO -- State Sen. Carole Migden has been fined $350,000 by the California Fair Political Practices Commission, the largest penalty ever levied against a state office candidate, for dozens of violations including failing to disclose seven years' worth of political expenses that she paid with credit cards, the watchdog agency said today. The agency's investigation was prompted in part by a complaint filed last fall by fellow San Francisco Democrat Mark Leno, an Assembly member who is one of two Democrats trying to unseat Migden in the June primary. The agency's initial probe concerned $397,000 in credit card expenses from...

SCRANTON, Pa. - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday promised Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans help with their grievances - save one. "I know it drives you nuts. But I'm not going to lower the drinking age," the presidential candidate said. Army veteran Ernest Johnson, 23, of Connecticut, said one of the things that peeved him before he turned 21 was that he couldn't come home and drink a beer - even though he was old enough to serve in the armed services and die for his country. Obama told Johnson he sympathized, but that setting the legal drinking age at...

Now that my furnace is fixed (and I seem to have another of those blasted ear infections) today is the mental health day I tried to take yesteday. I leave you the gem of the day, Vanderleun taking off from the famous “Salsa/Selter/Show-about-nothing” episode from Seinfeld (clip below) and runs with it, brilliantly. The only trouble is…remember, America loved the “show about nothing.” Obama: You know it must be impossible for a Spanish person to order seltzer and not get salsa. (Angry) “I wanted seltzer, not salsa.”Hillary: “Don’t you know the difference between seltzer and salsa?? You have the seltzer...

"6.7 million abortions in the UK since 1967 Happy with that? Neither are we!" Very worthwhile site to visit for abortion stats in the UK. It also contains a searchable database of every MP in the country and their record on the issue.

To observe Democrats this week, savaging one of their heroines, is to understand why the party is unready to rule. What Barack's allies seem to be demanding is immunity, a special exemption from political attack, because he is African-American. And those who go after him are to be brought up on charges of racism, as has Bill Clinton, Ed Rendell and now Geraldine Ferraro. Hillary, hoping to appease Barack's constituency, is ceding the point. Will the Republican Party and the right do the same? Play by Obama rules, and you lose to Obama.

After being forced to respond to three separate incidents in recent weeks of conservatives alluding to Barack Obama's middle name, John McCain's campaign manager today sent a memo to top supporters urging them to stick to the campaign's preferred message -- and to avoid taking gratuitous shots at their Democratic rivals. "We expect that all supporters, surrogates and staff will hold themselves to similarly high standards when they are representing the campaign. To help guide you, please find talking points below."

While experts agree that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton’s TV ad asking viewers who they’d want answering a 3 A.M. phone call at the White House may have been a key factor in her comeback wins in the March 4 primaries in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, polling data hints at possible trouble down the line. Poll respondents expressing a desire that the person answering the phone be Hillary Clinton did out-number those preferring Obama by a two-to-one margin. Unfortunately for both candidates, the actual percentages were 8% for Hillary vs. 4 percent for Obama. Thirty-two percent said they...

"Hillary Clinton's run-up to the Texas and Ohio primaries was the political equivalent of Hell Week for a Navy SEAL. At least it felt that way for the reporters who'd been participating in this killing Democratic marathon since the Iowa caucuses in January and now, dosed up on Airborne and bad coffee, were covering what was being billed as Hillary's last stand. As a campaign virgin who joined the press bus on Saturday morning in Ft. Worth, Texas, I was staggered by how isolated accompanying reporters actually are most of the time. It's like being trapped in a moving bathysphere...."

McCain will begin a cross-country tour emphasizing his life story. His advisers believe that while most Americans have a vague sense that McCain served his country in the military and in political life, they don't actually know his story. This trip--the "Service to America" tour--is intended to fill out that narrative.

I don't care how many pens, pencils, t-shirts or whatever you give to a Democrat with your Republican campaign logo on it ... the truth is, if they're a die-hard Dem, they aren't going to vote for you. Problem is, when you're walking a parade route or working a fair booth, you don't know who's a Republican and who's not. And if your list totally sucks you don't know the dem houses from the Republican houses. (In which case you need a list guy that can create effective walk lists for you.) So you end up wasting your money on...

There they go again. Democrats have contrived a nominating contest that even Rube Goldberg would have considered too convoluted, too dysfunctional and too improbable to name as his own. The happiest people in the country right now are Hillary Clinton and Rush Limbaugh—Clinton because she has survived, and Limbaugh, because he’s eager for the contest to go on so Barack Obama can be “bloodied up.” Talk about a vast and unexpected conspiracy. Oh, yes, and John McCain is chuckling, too. His obligatory meeting with President Bush on Wednesday produced videotape far more likely to be used by Democrats than by...

Well, if you are pretending to be John McCain and assuming Barack Obama is the eventual Democratic nominee, you are in luck. Instead of bearing the burden of being the first person to attack Obama, you can simply echo what Obama's primary opponent has been saying. And with the Democratic contest slated to go on till who-knows-when, expect plenty of material forthcoming from the Clinton camp. In the last week, the Teflon seems to have come off Obama, and Clinton scored direct hits by challenging his national-security credentials (with her creepy have-you-checked-the-children ad) and his campaign's forthrightness (on its NAFTA...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $55 million in February, a record for any presidential campaign in a single month, a campaign official said on Thursday. The amount is well above the $36 million the Illinois senator raked in during January and is also much higher than the $35 million raised by his rival Hillary Clinton during February, even though that month marked a record for her fundraising...