http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/election2008/ en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:30:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276736/posts No, I don't think Obama is another OJ Simpson. The two men could not be more different. It's a common marketing strategy that links them. White guilt and that ache for black vindication were a huge part of OJ's celebrity campaign. That's also what got Obama elected over Hillary and then McCain. David Axelrod as a PR maven had obviously studied the opinion polls about black celebrities. They knew that a black man who looked and sounded good on TV could roll over the opposition; the media wouldn't dare to examine his background. OJ had demonstrated it, along with Oprah... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276736/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:30:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260344/posts The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton BY PETER BAKER Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet. Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260344/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 05:29:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231810/posts Arthur "A.B.'' Culvahouse, a prominent Washington attorney who served as White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan during the president's final two years and led Sen. John McCain's search for a running mate - a search that included a "long list'' of 26 candidates - told the tale today of picking Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. After the vetting of all the candidates, and paring them to a short list, McCain asked Culvahouse for the "bottom line'' on Palin. ""I said, 'John, high risk, high reward,''' Culvahouse said today. "His response - 'You shouldn't have told me that. I've been a... Swamp Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231810/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223541/posts OREM, Utah -- Kirk Jowers has an answer for whether Mitt Romney's presidential bid was lost because of Mormonism: "I can unequivocally tell you that the answer is 'yes, no and maybe.'" owers' comment elicited laughter at the "Mormonism in the Public Mind" conference on Friday, April 3, at Utah Valley University. He is director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah and associate director of the Institute of Public and International Affairs. According to Jowers, in October 2007 many pundits were saying Romney was on his way to winning. He had focused on the early... Mormon Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223541/posts#comment Mon, 6 Apr 2009 19:41:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2187552/posts Forecasts of Gathering Storms by: Daniel Allen, February 16, 2009 The Salon Speakers Series began in 2004 as an idea of Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani who felt that Canadians would benefit from learning more about international issues through conversations with those who know the issues best. This effort has grown and expanded, and now attracts some of the West’s most qualified experts. In late 2007 and early 2008, the Salon Speakers Series invited speakers from the U.S. to discuss the developing battle for the presidency. In a book called The Race to the White House that was published following... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2187552/posts#comment Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:47:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2128037/posts Historians refer to a special kind of revolution where a totalitarian regime is democratically installed: it is called a "Coup de Prague". We have just experienced one here. The band is still playing, the Captain is drinking his tea, and no one seems to be looking for the lifeboats - or even care for that matter. Czechoslovakia, 1948: in a general election, the Communists are elected and quietly, overnight, the old Republic is dismantled. Communist bureaucrats and officials take the reins of power and the nation remains in the stranglehold of socialism for forty years. So what happened here in... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2128037/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:56:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177672/posts This report (link), hot off the press, signifies a victory for Norm Coleman in the election contest with Al Franken: the court hearing the contest has ruled that "all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through no fault of the voter." Franken has been trying to prevent a number of ballots that complied with state law from being counted. PewerLine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177672/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:24:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169166/posts Rudy Giuliani analyzes the reason the Republican party is losing in recent years and what it can do to enlarge it's base. Stressing the importance of big tent politics and under-emphasizing social issues. In any case, the economy is the main reason McCain lost, but other social issues have also created a bad stereotype of Republicans in general. Crimson Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169166/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:36:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168302/posts Professors Heart Obama (Again) by: Bethany Stotts, January 20, 2009 January 20th is Inauguration Day for President Barack Obama, and Professor Andrew William Smith will certainly be among those celebrating this historic occasion. The editor at Interference.com, Professor Smith wrote on January 19th that “When U2’s anthem “Pride” first brought tears to my idealistic teenage eyes in 1984, I never imagined I’d watch the band perform the song on a January day on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial just hours before the inauguration of America’s first black president.” “While I believed then and now in dreaming the impossible, I... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2168302/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:03:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160793/posts Good news: Someone in the Justice Department took the Election Day intimidation tactics of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia seriously. The DOJ filed an injunction today against the NBPP bullies over their billyclub-wielding thuggishness at a Philly polling place, which was captured on video: Remember? Michelle Malkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160793/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:42:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151674/posts The sponsors of Proposition 8 asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative that outlawed gay unions. The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief arguing that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions. San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151674/posts#comment Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151108/posts Natural Born Citizen???? The Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151108/posts#comment Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:36:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2149116/posts I will admit it, Sometimes the Mainstream Media's Bias makes me stark raving, frothing at the mouth, CRAZY. Many of you readers have concurred with my opinion, especially during the two years since the Presidential election began. Former newsman Bernard Goldberg, a vocal critic of his former industry, is a bit more rational on the subject. He claims that the bias of the Mainstream Media is worse than it has ever been : Well, what do you think, as a very funny guy who looked like Joe Pesci said, what do you think the media would do if it was... Front Page Mag/Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2149116/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:25:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142678/posts I have sent the following letter via eamil and fax to my two Senators from Idaho, Seantor Crapo and Senator-elect Risch. I am also sending it to all of the other 48 US Senators. In my estimation, it is time we informed all of our representatives, from the President on down, who they really work for and what our expectations of them are. In particular, after the victory of Chambliss in Georgia (which was also a huge victory for Sarah Palin, showing the influence she has and what we can expect on a much larger scale in 20101), and... JEFFHEAD.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142678/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:09:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141608/posts Myths in politics take on a life of their own and the Obama campaign has been quick to cloak its incredible electoral success with a new coat of mythology. Two fantasies, in particular, pervade the amazing triumph of the Obama candidacy: That young people propelled him to victory by finally voting in large numbers and that small donors financed his campaign. Dick Morris.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2141608/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140698/posts INTERVIEW SNIPPET: "Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John Ziegler, a former talk show host who is the director of the documentary Blocking 'The Path to 9/11’. He is now working on a new project, HowObamaGotElected. FP: John Ziegler, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Ziegler: Thanks. It has been a weird and rather rough time. FP: Why has it been weird and rough? Ziegler: Well, when I released the Zogby poll of Obama voters I never anticipated the level of outright hatred and irrationality that would be unleashed on me. I spent most of that week deleting nasty e-mail from my inbox... FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140698/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:32:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137853/posts Headline and link only due to copywrite. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-11-24-obamadonors_N.htm USA Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137853/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137310/posts President-elect Barack Obama's 3 million campaign volunteers got re-enlistment notices this week. Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama's effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement. The volunteers' options are, Plouffe wrote: -Campaign for progressive state and local candidates -Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama's agenda -Train others in Obama's organizing techniques -Focus on local political issues. "Obama's building a political machine," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group. McClatchy Washington Bureau http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137310/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:18:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137175/posts After President Bush's reelection in 2004, top strategist Karl Rove proclaimed the arrival of a permanent Republican majority. Just four years later, the results from Sen. Barack Obama's definitive victory suggest that the opposite may be underway. The Democrats appear to have built a majority across a wide, and expanding, share of the electorate -- young voters, Hispanics and other ethnic minorities, and highly educated whites in growing metropolitan areas. The Republicans appear at the moment to be marginalized, hanging on to a coalition that may shrink with time -- older, working-class and rural white voters, increasingly concentrated in the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137175/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135466/posts Buried in a story in today’s New York Times is a fantastic notion - which is nevertheless entirely consistent with The Times’ worldview - that Obama’s win was a psychological defeat for terrorism. The story is about a tape released by Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, who referred to President-elect Obama as a “house Negro.” The article suggests that Al Qaeda is lashing out. The Times claims, “American antiterrorism officials and other experts dismissed the video as a desperate tactic by a terrorist group that suffered a defeat in the global war of ideas with Mr. Obama’s election”... Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135466/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:54:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134148/posts As is customary on election night, Republican presidential nominee John McCain called his rival, Barack Obama, to concede defeat and graciously wish the Illinois Democrat well as he prepares to move into the White House in January. The Arizona lawmaker then delivered that same message to disappointed supporters gathered in Phoenix and on national television. Now, two weeks later, it's time for Mr. McCain to make a second concession speech — this one to his fellow Senate Republicans, when they gather Tuesday [Nov. 18] to organize their conference for the 111th Congress — conceding that he ran the most incompetent... HotAir.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134148/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134052/posts Watch the Video at Here The video was prepared by John Ziegler, who also commissioned a poll to see what the average voter learned during the 2008 campaign. The result: 57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) 81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing) 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal... ObamaHood.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134052/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:30:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133553/posts But postelection, at least two white nationalist websites – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – report their servers have crashed because of heavy traffic. The League of the South, a secessionist group, says Web hits jumped from 50,000 a month to 300,000 since Nov. 4, and its phones are ringing off the hook. "The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style," says Mr. Levin. "They recognize Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they've been moaning about has come true." Supremacist propaganda is already on the upswing. In... Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133553/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:07:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133408/posts The Minnesota senate race is generating a level of heat rare in a Minnesota November. With a filibuster-proof Senate hanging in the balance, it is worthwhile looking to the fine hand of George Soros, operating through a network of fat cat leftwing money bags who have collectively funded a myriad of nonprofit political spawn. At least two entities funded by Soros and his plutocrat wannabe pals hav prepared the soil for the contentious and suspicious process of tabulating and recounting the vote totals of incumbent Senator Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken. We have written several times the rising influence... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133408/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:08:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133405/posts Author’s Note: The following is, unfortunately, a true story that took place this semester at the once-great (and once-conservative) Pepperdine University. No names have been changed to protect the guilty. They don’t deserve it. One Monday morning, just before the 2008 presidential election, a Pepperdine student (and College Republican, or CR) took a sign to the Office of Student Affairs. The sign read “Barack Obama socialism ‘08” in big letters, with “Socialism is bad. Do not vote Obama ’08. More info: CR meeting Weds 8pm, AC 245”. A young woman working in the office took out a stamp and approved... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133405/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:17:46 GMT