Media Perspective... Obama Wins! Unity!

Amusing cartoon and so true. Great check on the biases of most media outlets. Minor correction since I believe the latest number was 53% for Obama.

Charlie Rose: A Conversation with Jon Meacham & Evan Thomas

Excellent conversation on Charlie Rose with Newsweek's Jon Meacham & Evan Thomas. Also Newsweek's "behind the scenes" pieces on both campaigns is a must-read for you politics junkies, which they have been running since 1984.

Obama and Former Hillary Staffer Comes Clean?

HatTip to RedState, "What you were never intended to know in this election"

After a long and careful consideration of all the implications and possible consequences of my actions today, I have decided to go through with this in the hope that our country can indeed be guided into the right direction. First, a little personal background… I am a female grad student in my 20’s, and a registered Democrat. During the primaries, I was a campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy. I believed in her and still do, staying all the way to the bitter end. And believe me, it was bitter. The snippets you’ve heard from various media outlets only grazed the surface. There was no love between the Clinton and Obama campaigns, and these feelings extended all the way to the top. Hillary was no dope though, and knew that any endorsement of Obama must appear to be a full-fledged one. She did this out of political survival. As a part of his overall effort to extend an olive branch to the Clinton camp and her supporters, Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign. I was one such worker. Though I was still bitterly loyal to Hillary, I still held out hope that he would choose her as VP. In fact, there was a consensus among us transplants that in the end, he HAD to choose her. It was the only logical choice. I also was committed to the Democratic cause and without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator Obama... (read the whole post!)

Interesting post supposedly from an Obama campaigner. Who knows? It's interesting to note how critical the VP selections have been and will be in this election year versus prior presidential election years.

I am almost certain Obama would had a guaranteed win if he choose Hillary. So if he loses, I would place most of the blame on this decision. Same with McCain, if he loses, I would place most of the blame on his selection of Palin.

I still give Obama a gut-check call of a 70% chance of winning. Exciting, exciting.

Summary of the Obama Campaign and Camp

A great cartoon that summarizes many in the Obama camp. Ever read political discussion threads between McCain and Obama supporters? Many times some Obama supporter will infer or directly say that the McCain supporter is being racist because of their criticisms on Obama. Can someone throw out these intellectual light-weights? I believe some of this stems from the Obama campaign itself and Senator Obama's own words and inference.

There is criticism of McCain's campaign being so negative and "hateful," but those of less intellectual rigor cannot identify how subtle tactics are just as negative.

Saturday Night Live Provides Better News Coverage on Biden Than AP

HatTip To WSJ's James Taranto. It's sad when Saturday Night Live provides a better commentary on Biden's statements than the AP and other media outlets. From WSJ's Best of the Web...

Jason Sudeikis as Biden elaborates on the real Biden's warning:

"Let me tell you something else--and listen to me well. As sure as I'm standing here today, during his first few weeks in office, this brilliant young president is going to be tested! Tested by an international crisis, the likes of which this nation has never before seen! A deliberately manufactured crisis, designed to test his mettle! All right?

Now, in this crisis, he will have to make decisions, decisions that may at first, though they may seem, to the casual observer, seem a little ill considered. Our military may invade Pakistan! Or surrender to the Chinese! We may sell Hawaii to Saudi Arabia! Or just destroy it, so it can't fall into North Korean hands. But just reserve your judgment. We know what we're doin'! That's right! . . .

Mark my words! If you take away nothing else from what I say here today, or, indeed, in this entire campaign, remember this: If Barack Obama is elected, we will have a crisis! And when this crisis hits--and it will!--in the second week of February, we may do some weird things. We may cede Florida back to Spain! Or Alaska to the Russians! We may blow up every nuclear power plant in the country! We may set fire to Washington, D.C.! We may round up all French-Canadians. But don't lose faith, it's all part of a plan. . . .

I'm going to say something else now, and I want you to mark well the words that I say! The words that I say--and remember that I said them here today. In the second year of the presidency of Barack Obama, a young child shall come from out of the North, from a city of steel! And this child shall rule for a time! But the child shall rule falsely! In deceit! By the trident of Neptune! What I have spoken is the truth!"

Obama Speechwriter & Huffington Post Columist Switches to McCain

Ah, the things you would never learn from the NYTimes:

A speechwriter for Obama, Edwards, and Clinton on why she’s voting McCain.

Since I started writing speeches more than ten years ago, I have always believed in the Democratic Party. Not anymore. Not after the election of 2008. This transformation has been swift and complete and since I’m a woman writing in the election of 2008, “very emotional.”

When I entered this campaign, it was at the 2006 Edwards staff Christmas party. My nametag read “Millie Worker.” When former Senator John Edwards read it, he laughed and said, “That makes you like my parent.” He went on to say, “Would you please come down to Chapel Hill so we can talk about what’s coming up.” I sat in John and Elizabeth’s living room for two and half hours. I left North Carolina, energized about politics for the first time in months.

I didn’t hear from anyone for three weeks.

When I finally received the official offer, it was the kind of political offer that said, “Go away.” That happens. It’s their campaign and I just assumed that I had been pushed out. The problem was that I had canceled a number of freelance writing jobs because I had assumed that when John said, “Start right away” I would. I needed a job right away and so I took the one in front of me with Senator Barack Obama.

When we first met, Obama and I had a nice conversation about speeches and writing, and at the end of the meeting I handed him a pocket-sized bottle of Grey Poupon mustard so he wouldn’t have to ask staff if it was okay to put it on his hamburger. At the bottom of the bottle was the logo for “The South Beach Diet” and he snapped, “Oh so you read People magazine.” He seemed to think that I was commenting on his bathing suit picture.

I helped with his announcement speech and others. I worked in the Senate when he was in D.C. One day after a hearing on Darfur, we were walking back to the office. I was still hobbling from a very bad ankle injury and in a very kind and gentle way he offered his arm when we approached the stairs. But later in debate preps and phone conversations and meetings, I realized that I had made a mistake. I didn’t belong. No matter how hard I tried, my heart wasn’t in it anymore.

See campaigns get complicated when you’ve written for so many Democrats. Not only had I written for Senator Edwards, but I had also been Senator Hillary Clinton’s speechwriter. Senator Joe Biden is a “good looking” man and his care after my father almost died from an aneurysm is the kind of kindness you never forget. When I saw Edwards at a traffic light in D.C. about a year after our meeting, he asked for help and I did and it was an honor to help him with his concession speech. And when the primary ended, it was a privilege to help Michelle Obama with a stump speech, be considered as a speechwriter for the V.P. nominee again, and send friends in Chicago ideas until the financial crisis hit. This is what the Democratic Party has been for me; it’s family. Now, it doesn’t even feel like a distant cousin... (full article)

Pew Research States 70% of Obama's Coverage is Positive, 60% of McCain's is Negative

Phyllis Schlafly's recent article, "Big Media Pull Out All Stops to Elect Obama," discusses the strong media bias that is obvious and confirmed by prior research:

"Pew Research confirms that 70 percent of Obama's media coverage has been positive and 60 percent of McCain's has been negative."

Extreme Media bias, outspent 5 to 1, the fact that an incumbent party rarely wins the White House three times in a row, and failing economy. It's amazing that McCain is within the margin of error in national polls and has gained over the past week.

Also blog posts like this is amusing, "The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape." So it doesn't matter to people that Obama attended an event honoring a known anti-Semite? Oh yeah, and there was that "guy in the neighborhood" Bill Ayers there too. It's all good if you support Obama, but just don't be blind to him.

"Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?"... Orson Scott Card Calls for Journalistic Integrity

A great op-ed by Orson Scott Card, who the author of Ender's Game and a Democrat. He's asking for journalistic integrity. Begging.

Just a few days ago I was meeting with my French-Canadian buddy who is so far left it amazes me that he wants to live in the U.S.:) Anyway, while we were disagreeing on various topics we both agreed that the discourse in the U.S. has boiled down to rubbish. We were talking about how sad it is when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert penetrate the daily conversations of political discourse. The majority of media outlets are just PR hacks for both parties, and rarely are people able to criticize both parties consistently. Reading Card's op-ed speaks to this:

"I remember reading All the President's Men and thinking: That's journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.

This housing crisis didn't come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.

It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.

What is a risky loan? It's a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.

The goal of this rule change was to help the poor – which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can't repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can't make the payments, they lose the house – along with their credit rating.

They end up worse off than before.

This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.

Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It's as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of congressmen who support increasing their budget.)

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Instead, it was Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.

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This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.

If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe – and vote as if – President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.

If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats – including Barack Obama – and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans – then you are not journalists by any standard.

You're just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it's time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city."

"CNN's Rank Dishonesty"... Shady, Unethical Drew Griffin

The National Review's Rich Lowry catches a CNN reporter in unethical and shady behavior.



CNN's Drew Griffin reads a quote out of context to draw out negative reaction from Gov. Palin and mislead the general public. The text he was "quoting":

Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president, it’s sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above. Palin, the governor of Alaska, has faced more criticism than any vice-presidential candidate since 1988, when Democrats and the press tore into Dan Quayle. In fact, Palin may have it even worse than Quayle, since she’s taking flak not only from Democrats and the press but from some conservative opinion leaders as well....

Yes, there are legitimate concerns about Palin’s lack of experience. Who wouldn’t, at the very least, wish that she had more time in the governor’s office on her résumé? But a look at Palin’s 20 months in power, along with interviews with people who worked with her, shows her to be a serious executive, a governor who picked important things to do and got them done — and who didn’t just stumble into an 80 percent job-approval rating.

TIME'S Hack Job on McCain

This week's cover story on Time magazine is "Does Temperament Matter? How a President's personality can determine success - or failure - in times of crisis." It's a total hack job. If you're going to endorse Obama and smear McCain, just come out and say it. It was written by one of their editors, Nancy Gibbs. Here is my letter to them:

Dear Editors,

Nice hack job by Nancy Gibbs on "Does Temperament Matter?." Where is TIME's journalistic integrity especially for a cover story? If you're going to position an article in support of Obama, it would be best to just come out and state it instead of insulting your readers' intelligence with an article that dances around its true intent. The "fiery" McCain's negatives are painted by third-party sources while the "cool" Obama is described by McCain. Wow, I wonder who sounds more credible? Anyway, if you're going to do an endorsement of Obama, you should just use this article as the foundation for the piece. Thank you.

Bernard Moon
Palo Alto, CA

"How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis"

Insightful commentary by Kevin Hassett:

The financial crisis of the past year has provided a number of surprising twists and turns, and from Bear Stearns Cos. to American International Group Inc., ambiguity has been a big part of the story.

Why did Bear Stearns fail, and how does that relate to AIG? It all seems so complex.

But really, it isn't. Enough cards on this table have been turned over that the story is now clear. The economic history books will describe this episode in simple and understandable terms: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exploded, and many bystanders were injured in the blast, some fatally.

... But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.

Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000. (full article)

McCain & Obama Are Idiots About Detroit... Don't Bailout The Big Three!

George Will has a good op-ed at The Washington Post, "Bailout on Wheels"

I'm disappointed in both McCain and Obama for bowing to the Big Three auto manufacturers on this bailout issue. I'm actually more disappointed in John McCain. He's a maverick and has gone against the majority and his party's leaders numerous times before. Obama has no track record of being a maverick or of standing up against greater powers, so he's hitting par for me.

The GM, Ford and Chrysler do not need help from our government and their demise will not affect our economy in a significant manner. This is a purely political situation that the auto manufacturers are taking advantage of. Michigan is such a critical state in this election that both parties have to submit to this chokehold by Detroit's Big Three. Let them survive on their own merits! Down with Detroit!

Senator Biden Calls Paying Higher Taxes Patriotic

I love Joe Biden. He's great for the campaign and McCain :)

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto has a great analysis:

Joe Biden opened his mouth yesterday, and something foolish came out. We know, dog bites man. But everyone's talking about what he said, so we thought we'd weigh in too. From the Associated Press:

Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. . . .

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: "It's time to be patriotic . . . time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."

Since Biden is resting his case on patriotism rather than economic efficacy, let's analyze his statement in those terms.

If paying high taxes is patriotic, then Biden and Barack Obama, in putting forward a plan they claim will result in lower taxes for 95% of Americans, seem to be trying to undermine American patriotism.

In order to avoid this problem, the AP infers that Biden has a double standard in which paying higher taxes is patriotic only for "wealthier" Americans. But it seems odd to say that patriotism demands something of one class of people, while making no such demand on everyone else. You guys, if you want to be patriotic, salute the flag. You guys over there, go ahead and burn it, we don't care.

What is more, Obama and Biden are not proposing higher taxes in order to serve some common purpose such as national defense. Rather, what they want, as Biden makes clear, is outright redistribution: take money from a minority and give it to "middle-class people." As Forbes's Susan Lee notes, many of the Obama-Biden "tax cuts" are actually credits, often "refundable" credits--which is to say, subsidies.

The Obama-Biden tax plan consists in asking a select group of Americans to sacrifice while effective telling everyone else to go shopping.

Where have we heard this before? And can we really afford four more years of the same?

"Why Replacing Biden With Hillary Makes Perfect Sense for Obama"

The Huffington Post's Andy Ostroy ("Why Replacing Biden With Hillary Makes Perfect Sense for Obama") is a few days late, but he follows my old blog post from this past Wednesday, "Obama Asks, Hillary Declines, Then The Leak"

Of course I'm coming from a Republican perspective :)

Obama Asks, Hillary Declines, Then The Leak

So my colleague Dan asked me about my thoughts Senator Biden's comment today that "Hillary is a better pick than me."

First, you know this spells trouble for the Obama campaign either way. Biden is feeling the heat and realizes that he's a non-player now with McCain's pick of Palin.

Dan stated that it's not unprecedented for a VP candidate to be replaced mid-campaign This would be a tough call for Obama, but probably the best strategic move. It would be played as huge negative by McCain's campaign, but Hillary's popularity would probably override the negatives.

Question for me is that if Obama asks, will Hillary accept?

I've always thought that the Clintons wanted Obama to lose. My read between the lines on Hillary's speech at the DNC convention confirmed this for me. The Clintons want Obama to lose so that Hillary can win. I bet her desire is even greater with Palin on the Republican ticket and her opportunity to be the historic first woman president in the U.S.

My guess is Clinton would only accept if Obama guaranteed that he will not run for re-election in 2012. This would never happen, so my guess is that Clinton will decline and this will be leaked to the press. Game over for Obama.

Paul Begala is a Tool and Other Comments on the RNC Convention

I just have to start off by stating that Paul Begala is a tool. He's the annoying kid in grade school that pestered everyone and thought he was witty and smart but was not. Then he grew up to be even more annoying in high school. Reminds me of Bill Maher. Anyway, I'm trying to get the transcript, but in providing his response to McCain's speech he discounted McCain's proven record of change and said that "Obama is change incarnate!"

(Double take) Eh? Obama is change incarnate? You did not just say that. What has Obama done? Sponsored a major bill? Changed campaign finance reform? Led a platoon? Led a division within a company? Ran a budget? Ran a city? What has he tangibly changed during his career? Nothing.

McCain's speech tonight was decent. It got the job done. He's never been a great orator and never will. The Republicans are riding high after this convention and I know the Dems are really worried. The liberals in the media are worried.

Also I'm not sure if this strategy of pinning McCain and Palin as a continuation of President Bush is going to work (i.e. "George W. Palin" & "RNC Video Diary: Bringing the Bush Years to the Convention" from The Huffington Post). I guess that's the most tangible strategy, but I'm not sure if it's the right path. It's seems like a general plan for any Republican candidate. It would be have most effective if the nominee was Rudy Giuliani or Mike Huckabee, but McCain has been a maverick for his career and went against his party on several major issues. We'll see how this all pans out.



More partisan newsclips from me... :)

"Palin draws 37 million viewers, just shy of Obama" Reuters

"Why Obama Can't Close the Sale" WSJ Opinion by Al Hubbard and Noam Neusner

Palin and Giuliani Homers, Huckabee Triples

The Republicans answered the challenge of the left-leaning media's bashing of Governor Palin over the past several days. I missed Mitt Romney's speech, but everyone else tonight hit their stride. Mike Huckabee's speech was solid. I would have classified it as a home run, but then I saw Giuliani's and Palin's speech afterwards and changed it to a triple. Giuliani and Palin hit homers, and they might have been upper deck home runs. I think the Obama/Biden camp is sweating.

Rudy's delivery and words were simply excellent. Here are his best lines (full transcript here):

"... He worked as a community organizer. He immersed himself in Chicago machine politics.

Then he ran for -- then he ran for the state legislature and he got elected. And nearly 130 times, he couldn't make a decision. He couldn't figure out whether to vote "yes" or "no." It was too tough.

He voted -- he voted "present.
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But he's never -- he's never run a city. He's never run a state. He's never run a business. He's never run a military unit. He's never had to lead people in crisis.

He is the least experienced candidate for president of the United States in at least the last 100 years.

Not a personal attack, a statement of fact. Barack Obama has never led anything, nothing, nada.
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Let's look at just one example at a lifetime of principled stands that John McCain's brought about: his support for the troop surge in Iraq. The Democratic Party had given up on Iraq.

And I believe, ladies and gentlemen, when they gave up on Iraq, they had given up on America.

The Democratic leader -- the Democratic leader of the Senate said, and I quote, "This war is lost."

Well, well, if America lost, who won, Al Qaeda, bin Laden?
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They would have acted in their self-interest, and they would have changed their position in order to win an election. How many times have we seen Barack Obama do this?

Obama -- Obama promised to take public financing for his campaign, until he broke his promise.

Obama -- Obama was against wiretapping before he voted for it.

When speaking to a pro-Israeli group, Obama favored an undivided Jerusalem, like I favor and like John McCain favored. Well, he favored an undivided Jerusalem -- don't get too excited -- for one day, until he changed his mind.

Well, I'll tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I'd want to get that V.P. thing in writing.

Our hero, our candidate, John McCain said, "I'd rather lose an election than a war." Why? Because that's John McCain.

When Russia rolled over Georgia, John McCain immediately established a very strong, informed position that let the world know how he'll respond as president at exactly the right time. Remember his words? Remember what John McCain said? "We are all Georgians."

Obama's -- talk about judgment. Let's look at what Obama did. Obama's first instinct was to create a moral equivalency, suggesting that both sides were equally responsible, the same moral equivalency that he's displayed in discussing the Palestinian Authority and the state of Israel.

Later -- later, after discussing this with his 300 foreign policy advisers, he changed his position, and he suggested the United Nations Security Council could find a solution.

Apparently, none of his 300 foreign policy security advisers told him that Russia has a veto power in the United Nations Security Council.

By the way, this was about three days later. So -- so he changed his position again, and he put out a statement exactly like the statement of John McCain's three days earlier.

I have some advice for Senator Obama: Next time, call John McCain."


These last lines were hilarious and really reflects the inexperience, lack of knowledge, and the lack of fortitude of Obama. We really need a President to hit the ground running during these dangerous times. We don't need a President to go through on-the-job training.

More on Rudy's home run speech, "Giuliani Questions Obama’s Qualifications" NYTimes

"Giuliani rips Obama, touts 'hero' McCain" USA Today



Governor Sarah Palin's speech was a home run too. Maybe a grand slam considering that it was her first time on the national stage. My favorite excerpts (full transcript here):

"... I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom and signed up for the PTA.

I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.
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I guess -- I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

I might add that, in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they're listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

No, we tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.
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When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged: directly to the people of Alaska.

And despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things the way that they were, we broke their monopoly on power and resources. As governor, I insisted on competition and basic fairness to end their control of our state and return it to the people.

I fought to bring about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. And when that deal was struck, we began a nearly $40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.

That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are open, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

... Americans, we need to produce more of our own oil and gas. And...

And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: We've got lots of both.

Our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems, as if we didn't know that already.

But the fact that drilling, though, won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines, and build more nuclear plants, and create jobs with clean coal, and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need...

We need American sources of resources. We need American energy brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."

McCain's Picker Is A Winner... Biden is Boring

Headlines are in...

"Alaska Gov. Is McCain's VP Shocker
Sarah Palin, 44, Is First Female Republican Running Mate" CBS News

"McCain Chooses Palin as Running Mate" NYTimes

"Surprise, surprise. John McCain picks Sarah Palin" Christian Science Monitor

Brilliant move by McCain. This shows that he's willing to take risks and change the landscape. I know Obama's Biden pick disappointed many on the left. Biden doesn't excite. It's boring. He's boring. Palin as Vice President of the United States excites. Don't you hear the footsteps of moderate women and Hillary supporters pacing towards the Republican ticket?

Palin is an excellent choice for the base of the Republican party especially conservative, pro-lifers. People have an incredible amount of respect and admiration for her since she chose not to have an abortion after learning she was carrying a child with Down syndrome.

Like Obama, she is inexperienced but at least had gone through difficult executive-level decisions which Obama has never faced. She doesn't have foreign policy experience but doesn't need it. As Vice President, she will learn it all and then be ready for the presidency. As I posted a while ago, I still believe that the first woman President will be from the Republican party.

"D.N.C. Veteran Tribute Video"

Just have to post this video here that played during last night's DNC Convention, and give props to Stephanie Stone. Stephanie had a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy and gave an excellent testimonial (7:03 in the video) in this veteran tribute video, which was produced by Steven Spielberg. Stephanie and I both serve on the Coro National Alumni Board and are alumni of the Coro Fellows Program. She currently is Vice President of Programs and Outreach for Coro Southern California.

Denver Police Are Goons... ABC Should Sue, Cops Fired

I didn't know that the City of Denver was similar to my hometown of Chicago :) Watch these goons push around and then arrest ABC's Asa Eslocker for taking pictures of Democratic senators and big-time donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel from a PUBLIC sidewalk. I wonder what promises these cops got for playing enforcers roles? Shady, shady.