October 31, 2008

All indications are that there is movement to McCain/Palin throughout the United States.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell confirms this — (click here Rendell says race is closer than polls indicate)

Future more, Barack Obama has now scheduled campaign stops in Iowa and Joe Biden has dropped off the face of the Earth.

Senator McCain and Governor Palin are aggressively pressing on all fronts — Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Virginia.

My contacts throughout New Hampshire indicate that Senator McCain is much stronger than recent polling here shows.

Senator McCain returns to New Hampshire Sunday, November 2, 2008 at the Peterborough Town Hall.

Please see the message below from a former Hillary Clinton staffer. It offers an insider explanation of what is happening.

It is worth the read.

Be Energized every vote counts. It only takes one more vote than the other side to win and that vote could be yours!!

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A Hillary staffer comes clean (via Redstate)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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.

I’m going to let you in on a few secrets here, and this is not because I enjoy the gossip or the attention directed my way. I’m doing this because I doubt much of you know the true weaknesses of Obama. Another reason for my doing this is that I am lost faith in this campaign, and feel that this choice has been forced on many people in this country. Put simply, you are being manipulated. That was and is our job – to manipulate you (the electorate) and the media (we already had them months ago). Our goal is to create chaos with the other side, not hope. I’ve come to the realization (as the campaign already has) that if this comes to the issues, Barack Obama doesn’t have a chance. His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up until now. Joe the Plumber has put the focus on the issues again, and this scares us more than anything. Being in a position to know these things, I will rate what the Obama campaign already knows are their weak links from the most important on down.

1 – Hillary voters. Internal polling suggests that at best, we are taking 70-75% of these voters. Other estimates are as low as 60% in some areas – particularly Ohio and western PA. My biggest problem with this campaign’s strategy was the decision NOT to offer Hillary the VP slot. She was ready and able to take this on, and would have campaigned enthusiastically for it. This selection would have also brought virtually all of her supporters into the fold, and the Obama campaign knew it. Though I have no way of knowing this for certain, and I do admit that I am relying on internal gossip, Senator Obama actually went against the advice of his top advisors. They wanted him to choose her, but the only significant opposition to this within the campaign came from Barack and Michelle Obama. In short, he let personal feelings take precedence over what was the most logical thing to do. Biden, by the way, has been a disaster inside the campaign. Everyone cringes whenever he gives an interview, and he creates so many headaches as the campaign has to stay on their toes in order to disseminate information and spin whatever it was he was trying to say.

2 – Sarah Palin. Don’t believe what the media is telling you about how horrible a choice she was. Again, our internal polling suggest that though she has had a minimal impact on pulling disaffected Hillary Democrats to McCain, she has done wonders in mobilizing the base for McCain. Another thing – we were completely taken by surprise with her pick. In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs. Pawlenty was going to get the “Quayle treatment”, or more precisely: a pretty face, with no valid experience. Tom Ridge was going to be used to provide a direct link from McCain to Bush. As you can see, we were quite enamored of all of them. Then the unexpected happened – Sarah Palin. We had no clue as to how to handle her, and bungled it from the start. Though through our misinformation networks, we have successfully taken some of the shine off. But let there be no doubt. She remains a major obstacle. She has singlehanded solidified “soft” Republican support, mobilized the McCain ground game, and has even had some appeal to independents and Hillary voters. This is what our internal polling confirms.

3 – Obama’s radical connections. Standards[sic] operating procedure has been to cry “racism” whenever one of these has been brought up. We even have a detailed strategy ready to go should McCain ever bring Rev. Wright up. Though by themselves they are of minimal worth, taken together, Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Pfelger, and now, Rashid Khalidi, are exactly what the campaign does not need. The more focus on them, the more this election becomes a referendum on Obama. The campaign strategy from the very beginning was to make this election a referendum on Bush. Strategists have been banging their head on how successfully McCain has distanced himself from Bush. This has worked, and right now the tide is in his favor. People are taking a new look at Barack Obama, and our experience when this happens tells us this is not good news at all. When they take a look at him, one or more of these names are bound to be brought up. McCain has wisely not harped on this in recent weeks and let voters decide for themselves. This was a trap we set for him, and he never fully took the bait. Senator Obama openly dared him to bring up Ayers. This was not due to machismo on the part of Obama, but actually due to campaign strategy. Though McCain’s reference to Ayers fell flat in the last debate, people in the Obama campaign were actually disappointed that he didn’t follow through on it more and getting into it. Our focus groups found this out: When McCain brings these connections up, voters are turned off to him. They’d rather take this into consideration themselves, and when this happens, our numbers begin to tank.

4 – The Bradley Effect. Don’t believe these polls for a second. I just went over our numbers and found that we have next to no chance in the following states: Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Florida, New Hampshire and Nevada. Ohio leans heavily to McCain, but is too close to call it for him. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa are the true “toss up states”. The only two of these the campaign feels “confident” in are Iowa and New Mexico. The reason for such polling discrepancy is the Bradley Effect, and this is a subject of much discussion in the campaign. In general, we tend to take a -10 point percentage in allowing for this, and are not comfortable until the polls give us a spread well over this mark. This is why we are still campaigning in Virginia and Pennsylvania! This is why Ohio is such a desperate hope for us! What truly bothers this campaign is the fact that some pollsters get up to an 80% “refuse to respond” result. You can’t possibly include these into the polls. The truth is, people are afraid to let people know who they are voting for. The vast majority of these respondents are McCain supporters. Obama is the “hip” choice, and we all know it.

As part of my research duties, I scour right wing blogs and websites to get somewhat of a “feel” as to what is being talked about on the other side. Much of it is nonsense, but there are some exceptions which give the campaign jitters. A spirited campaign has been made to infiltrate many pro-Hillary sites and discredit them. A more disorganized, but genuine effort has also been made to sow doubts among the unapologetically right wing sites such as redstate.com. Don’t you guys get it? This has been the Obama campaign’s sole strategy from the very beginning! The only way he wins is over a dispirited, disorganized, and demobilized opposition. This is how it has been for all of his campaigns. What surprises me is that everyone has fallen for it. You may point to the polls as proof of the inevitability of all of this. If so, you have fallen for the oldest trick in the book. How did we skew these polls, you might ask? It all starts with the media “buzz” which has been generated over the campaign. Many stories are generated on the powerful Obama ground game, and how many new voters were registered. None of this happens by coincidence. It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.

I changed my somewhat positive opinion of this campaign during the unfair and sexist campaign against Sarah Palin. I will never agree with her on the issues and will probably never vote for her, but I am embarrassed of what has happened. I can’t ignore our own hand in all of this. What I do know is that I will not be voting for Obama this time around. Treat that as you will.

It kind of cracks me up when I see this guy.

Because on first glance, he reminds me of someone.

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More and more is coming out about his mother’s parents.

Obama: Red Diaper Baby

It’s no wonder McCain is rising in the polls…

Gruesome and sick…from the Chicago Tribune.

Twenty-eight years after Ronald Rice stood before a Cook County judge and asked for forgiveness in concealing the death of a young Oak Forest boy after hitting him with his car, authorities said today new evidence shows he purposely hit the boy and later sexually assaulted and killed him in a forest preserve.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said investigators believe Rice (right), now 54, purposely struck 11- year-old Edwin Gulbransen as he was riding his bicycle that June day and then persuaded him to get into his car before driving a short distance to a forest preserve, where he sexually assaulted the boy. Rice strangled Edwin, and then jumped up and down on his chest to make sure he was dead, the sheriff said.

Rice was charged with first-degree murder this week after new evidence came to light with the help of Illinois Department of Corrections officials, where Rice is currently serving a 60-year prison sentence for a sexual assault.

HuffPo Moonbat Pokes 222 Holes in Lesbian Lover An Obamunist lesbian who covered Obama’s campaign for the Huffpo blows her stack and kills her lesbo lover - stabbing her 222 times with a phillips head screwdriver and then blows her own brains out. What a nice example of that harmless alternative lifestyle progressives are always pushing; another harmless example we can hold up for children to emulate.

The Left-Right Spectrum and the Big Lie Tactic (e.g., Hitler was a socialist)

And Our Country Deserves Better Pac’s hilarious video of rogue nations getting a call from Obama.

SG at Sweetness and Light has a lot of contradicting stories that have come from the Messiah regarding his mother’s terminal cancer, and the situation regarding insurance, medical treatment, and her ability to pay for it.

The stories don’t match up, what a surprise.

Just a small distance from where Obama studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest circumstances in Boston, have a contrasting American story.

But he has plans for them…and it isn’t from his own pocket; it’s from yours and mine.

On a twitter tip from Mike’s America.

I covered some of this ground with Herb Romerstein last night, but it was nice to see it validated today at the American Thinker in the article “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis”.

Also read this, from the NBRA:

OBAMA’S TYRANNY OF SOCIALISM

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.” - Confucious

A vote for Obama is a vote for Socialism.

Sen. Barack Obama has sounded the alarm bell. By his words and deeds, Obama has told America that he is a Socialist who will rule with an iron fist. Is America listening?

In an unguarded moment when speaking impromptu with an average citizen, Joe the Plumber, Obama laid bare his intent to end capitalism with his socialist policy of redistribution of wealth.

Obama’s own words demonstrated starkly that he shares the goals of Karl Marx who wrote: “What is the present family based on, the acquisition of private property? It exists of its meaning only for the Bourgoise.and will vanish when capitalism vanishes. Are you accusing us that we want to end the exploitation by parents of their children? We confess to that crime.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the danger that socialism, the heart of Communism, poses to America when he wrote: “In spite of the glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communisms’ methods and philosophy strip a man of his dignity and worth, leaving him little more than a depersonized cog in the ever turning wheel of the state.”

Using the voice of a mesmerizing messianic figure, Obama scoffs at efforts to shine the light of truth into his dark corner of socialism and expose his ties to Marxism.

However, in his book, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama confesses that his early childhood mentor was a Marxist and, while in college, he was drawn to socialists and Marxists. Later in life, Obama continued to seek out and associate with anti-American radicals, such as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and domestic terrorist Marxists, such as Bill Ayers, even choosing in 1995 when he was age 34 to launch his political career in Ayers’ home.

The alarming fact that Obama’s socialist policies will incite class warfare and plunge our nation into a severe economic decline has been recognized by some black Americans who have made their voices heard.

I’m Not Drinking Your Kool Aid Obama (link below) is a video by a black American woman who took the time to produce her own message explaining clearly why she cannot vote for Obama.

For more information about the National Black Republican Association, please visit www.NBRA.Info/

“The Repugnance of Socialism” - at the American Thinker

“The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They come from within…They come from a peculiar type of brainy people, always found in our country, who if they add something to our culture, take much from its strength. Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals.”
- Winston Churchill, on Leftists

Earlier this year I read a column in which the writer rejoiced because the word, “socialism,” is no longer a scary bogeyman to Americans. When I Googled the writer and learned he was only 31 and graduated from Columbia, it wasn’t hard to figure out how he got it all wrong.

read the rest.

A few thoughts about rights

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to William Hunter, 11 March 1790)

Where do our rights come from? Are they a gift to us from God or do they come to us from our government? I think that that’s an important question. It also seems to be central to the divide between liberalism and conservatism in our modern American political discourse.

Here’s another question — who actually possesses the rights we’re talking about? Do rights belong to the individual or do they belong to society? Do they belong to the people or to the government?

Barack Obama sees the Constitution, and particularly the Bill of Rights as sort of a“charter of negative liberties”, bemoaning the things it doesn’t say about what government must do for you. They’re documents that say what government can’t do to you, but that omit what it must do for you. It’s clear which side of these questions his political philosophy falls on. He sees rights as being provided by the government and belonging to the government.

Also at Perri Nelson’s website; read the rest.

Thanks to Grizzly Groundswell for the tip

Now why would you suppose THAT is?

People have expressed some doubts as far as the influences of the far left in our justice system; but there are more and more indications that prove it, this being just one of them.

Department of Justice decides NOT to investigate voter fraud at the polls this year. This decision was made by DOJ lawyers who have contributed heavily to the Obama campaign.

WSJ: Voter Fraud Lawyers Support Obama

MEGYN KELLY, CO-HOST: Well, the Department of Justice is supposed to enforce the federal voting rights law, but now we learn from the Wall Street Journal that just two weeks after justice attorneys met with left-wing activist groups, they decided to abandon the DOJ’s practice of sending criminal attorneys to the polling stations. That will not be happening any more this year, even though it’ been happening since 2002.

And it turns out — the same lawyers who reportedly supervised voting issues are also donors to Barack Obama’s campaign. So, is that legal?

You would think it would be ILLEGAL, but they’re completely redefining what is legal and what is not. Now it would appear as though voter fraud - and up to 1/3 of the Acorn-related voters have to be thrown out because of fraud, but they wouldn’t want to “discover” that, so let’s just brush it quietly under the rug by letting it all go.

On a tip from Hoosier Army Mom.

The late Marxist activist Frank Marshall Davis, frequently accompanied by young Barack Obama and his grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, sold marijuana and cocaine from a “Chicago style” hot dog cart Davis operated near his home on Kuhio Avenue in Waikiki in the early 1970s, WND has established.

Read more here at WND.

After having talked with Herb Romerstein, the Author of the Venona Secrets last night, i’m not surprised by all this - and it makes Sinclair’s story all the more credible. Obama’s white grandfather, himself a drunkard, introduce Barry to Davis as a black role model, who taught Barry to overlook and ignore the love his white grandmother gave him, and to understand that “black people have a reason to hate”.

In Barry’s case, you can hear some of the contempt and bitterness he learned from his commie mentor when he describes his grandmother as a ‘typical white person’. Davis taught him to identify with people based solely on race and to see America based completely on racism. This brought him to conclude after listening to his grandmother’s story about the panhandler, to identify with the panhandler instead of her.

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We will be talking with the Author of The Venona Secrets, Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors (Paperback), Herbert Romerstein, about Barack Obama and Frank Marshall Davis.

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FBI: Photos Show Massachusetts Lawmaker Stuffing Bribes in Bra

BOSTON — Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, who cuts a glittering, energetic figure around the Massachusetts Statehouse, stood alone and soberly attired in federal court Tuesday after being charged with accepting $23,500 in bribes — including $10,000 to fund her write-in campaign next week.

The Democrat was freed on a $50,000 unsecured bond. FBI agents arrested her at her Boston home earlier in the day on charges of attempted extortion as a public official and theft of honest services as a state senator.

An FBI affidavit includes a series of still photographs from video recordings allegedly showing Wilkerson accepting money from undercover agents, in one case stuffing cash under her sweater and inside her bra.

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Obama’s real target is the middle class.

“Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.”-Bill Ayers

Obama is may not be killing us yet, but he is attacking the middle class for wealth redistribution.

The Treat To Our Markets

Are Obama’s proposed tax increases adversely affecting our financial markets? We say yes, unambiguously. The senator has done a masterful job distracting attention from his tax increases with his $500-per-worker tax credit supposedly for 95 percent of Americans.

Obama has also set forth more than half a dozen additional refundable income tax credits targeted to low- and moderate-income workers for child care, education, housing, welfare, retirement, health care and other social purposes. These tax credits are devised to phase out based on income, which will ultimately increase marginal income tax rates for middle-class workers.

I know I’m probably one of the few who hasn’t seen this yet…but it looks amazing. I saw the trailer at the website for the movie.

Here’s the music video.

There are a lot of messages to be had here….important lessons that can add another dimension to the love in our lives. Without Christ, there is nothingness. Thanks to Stacy Harp for the recommendation.

I haven’t stopped taking pictures, I just seem to be slowing down because my right shoulder is tightening up again. It is so tight that it feels like there’s a piano wire in there…and it hurts like hell.

I caught a glimpse of a deer on the road today; I didn’t think I would see any until the trees were completely bare and there was snow on the ground.

In the woods, there have been a lot of robins flying through the air as though they’re in a race. I don’t know why they’re in a frenzy; they’re not going anywhere, they’re just racing through the air.