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New Obama ad: McCain not liked by MSM

Wow…The One of Supremely Thin Skin is whining like a scolded child (one that didn’t get an Obama-style post-birth abortion) that Old Man Mac sure is being mean.  Because, you know, Mac’s “pig with lipstick” veep attacks and “Tee-hee-hee, Mac can’t use a computer ‘cuz the Viet Cong broke his arms” ads are not beyond the pale, right?

Anywho, this new ad where The Chosen One calls McCain “dishonorable” will probably go over as well as a fart in church.  Even Mickey Kaus of Slate (not exactly a conservative) thinks the ad is a loser’s ad.  It’s especially hilarious in that the ad cites examples of liberal media’s chides of McCain as “proof” that McCain’s been less than truthful.  Good point, because Americans aren’t prone to believe that the MSM is drinking the Obama Kool-Aid, right?

With PA, MN, and MI in play, and now even NY and NJ not as safe as expected, no wonder Team O is more nervous than Ted Kennedy taking a breathalyzer test.

September 15, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 4 Comments

Obama less bipartisan than McCain

I’ve been amused watching The One talking about how he’s going to bring Hopenchange to DC through “reaching out” to Republicans, when he’s had zero record of doing that.  The Washington Times has noticed that, too:

Sen. John McCain’s record of working with Democrats easily outstrips Sen. Barack Obama’s efforts with Republicans, according to an analysis by The Washington Times of their legislative records.

Whether looking at bills they have led on or bills they have signed onto, Mr. McCain has reached across the aisle far more frequently and with more members than Mr. Obama since the latter came to the Senate in 2005.

In fact, by several measures, Mr. McCain has been more likely to team up with Democrats than with members of his own party. Democrats made up 55 percent of his political partners over the last two Congresses, including on the tough issues of campaign finance and global warming. For Mr. Obama, Republicans were only 13 percent of his co-sponsors during his time in the Senate, and he had his biggest bipartisan successes on noncontroversial measures, such as issuing a postage stamp in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

Way to go out on a bipartisan limb with those “Rosa Parks stamp” efforts, O.  By the way, that “Obama-Lugar” bill that Barry O is fond of mentioning as “proof of bipartisanship” is a load of crap.  The bill was actually just a revival of the Lugar-Nunn bill of 1991, so the Obamaliar didn’t even come up with this initiative on his own.

Granted, I’ve not been fond of McCain’s bipartisan ventures, especially the hideous McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy bills.  But at least McCain can argue that he’s tried to solve problems with the other side.  Obambi can assert no such thing.

September 15, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | 1 Comment

Why can’t McCain use e-mail?

The One has settled on a new course of attack on McCain: apparently, one of the primary qualifications to be president of the USA is a frequent use of e-mail.  Why, McCain is so old and stuck in the 1970′s that the geezer doesn’t even use e-mail!

Actually, replace “is so old and stuck in the 1970′s that the geezer” with “was tortured so extensively during his stay at the Hanoi Hilton that his torturers guaran-dang-teed that to this day, he”…got it?  The Boston Globe was all over that breaking story…eight years ago!  Excerpt:

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.

Thinking of this new ad by Obama brings to mind a quote from one of the great thinkers of our time: Butthead.  “Uh-huh-huh…dumb#ss!”  I mean, McCain doesn’t use the computer much, but judging by the lack of Googling skills by team Barry, I’d say The One doesn’t have much room to talk!  :lol:

Also, a recent survey showed that about 20% of Americans (mostly seniors) don’t use e-mail.  Way to go after that senior vote by insulting them, Obotchedit.

Jonah Goldberg makes an awesome observation:

The day after 9/11, as part of its “get tough” makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn’t use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

“Our economy wouldn’t survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”

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Lord knows I think the chicken-hawk arguments are stupid. And I don’t think the fact that Obama never served in the military should count against him in and of itself. But how stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can’t grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can’t understand first order national security issues because he’s never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting “send” on AOL or fighting a war?

Obama…a chickenhawk!  I freakin’ love it!  Yes, there is a God, and He is good!  :lol:

September 14, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama, shameful | 2 Comments

9/11/2001

To those of you on the left: Feel free to Google that date if it doesn’t ring a bell for you.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been seven years since that fateful day.  All of us remember what we were doing when we heard about the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, as well as United Flight 93 going down in Shanksville, PA.  The face of this country changed forever.

See, gone were the days of Clintonian capitulation.  Gone were the days of Reagan’s scamper out of Beirut.  Gone were the days of bombing an aspirin factory in the Sudan, or trying to serve an warrant to Osama bin Laden or reading him his rights.  That fateful day marked the turning point in this country when we looked at the backwards savages who slaughtered in the name of their god and said “We will hunt you down like the couscous-sucking dogs that you are and snuff you out, for however long it takes!”  We meant it, too.

At least, we meant it back then.

You see, we’re at another turning point in this nation.  We seem to live in a short-attention span society, where more people can tell you who won American Idol rather than who Al Qaeda is.  We’re in a time that seems to expect, if not demand, quick answers, preferably those that can fit on a bumper sticker, regardless of whether or not such “answers” are even feasible.  When President Bush said seven years ago that this war against an enemy that will stop at nothing to destroy us will take several years, including well after he is gone from office, we all said “So be it!”

Apparently, for many, they’re now saying “Are we still at this?  I mean, 24 is over in an hour, so why are we still trying to crush the Islamic zealots seven years later?”  It’s as if some people are content with the fact that we have foiled every attempt to attack us since then, thinking that we’re immune from future attacks.  Don’t these folks realize that Social Security reform, health care, unemployment, mortgage defaults, energy, etc., are all meaningless issues if we’re friggin’ dead??

This year, we have two choices for our president.  We have a choice between an imperfect man who knows fully well the evil that lurks in some cretins’ black hearts, having personally experienced said evil; a man who is willing to do whatever it takes to obliterate our sworn enemies; a man who has spent his entire adult life dedicated to protecting and serving our country, and has to prove to no one how well qualified he is to be leader of our armed forces.  In short, a flawed man whose chief desire is to serve country over self.

The other choice is a self-absorbed, petulant, serial liar who wants to Mirandize Islamic terrorists; a man who thinks that terrorism is a mere law-enforcement issue, not a multi-faceted issue (military, diplomatic, financial approaches); a man whose heart bleeds for Islamic terrorists (but not for infants who survive botched abortions, whom he deems “not persons”), and whose primary concern is that bloodthirsty camelhumping jihadists get access to an ACLU attorney; a man who has spent his post-law school days trying to pad his resume and further his own ambitions, with little substantive achievement to show for his efforts; and a man who is as ignorant of the Constitution (despite being a “constitutional law scholar”) as he is of economics.  In short, an empty suit whose chief desire is to serve self over country.

Al Qaeda may have hit us with a sucker punch that stung mightily, but because of our resolve, they didn’t destroy our way of life.  We will be voting for the leader of the free world this November.  While I strongly advise you to choose wisely, I also remind you of this:  the winner will be whomever God wants to win.  God has allowed this country to be blessed with great leaders (George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan), and He has allowed this country to have poor leaders (Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton).  While leaders are incredibly important, it is foolish to put all your faith in a man instead of in God.  Do your part, and let the chips fall where they may.

To use a phrase that is sure to torque Rev. Wright: God bless America!

September 11, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, religion of peace | 22 Comments

A couple of MSM’ers are apparently telepaths

Geez, you’d think with such awesome powers they’d pick a more lucrative way to exploit such supernatural abilities.  Anywho, from Newsbusters:

Fineman the Magnificent? Here’s how Howard Fineman begins his MSNBC column today [emphasis added]:

No, Barack Obama was not making fun of Sarah Palin when he talked about some Republican putting “lipstick on a pig.” 

He was trying to be colloquial, and John McCain’s campaign knew as much – even as it was going theatrically ballistic.

To which I have a simple question: how does Howard know?

Seriously.  Short of sodium pentathol, or Carnac-like gifts, how can Howard possibly know what was in Obama’s mind when he uttered his lipstick line?  At the same time, does Fineman have some fabulous sources at the highest levels of the McCain campaign who were willing to divulge for the record things that would be intensely damaging if true?

Presumably neither scenario obtains.  So how does Fineman come off relating what he did, not as his considered opinion but as flat, declarative statements of fact?

Hard to see this as other than the height of journalistic hubris. 

… David Shuster is apparently a proud graduate of the same mindreading school Fineman attended. He just told senior McCain advisor Nancy Pfotenhauer: “I know that you guys don’t really believe that Barack Obama was calling Sarah Palin a pig.  So why not just acknowledge that this is a wise or shrewd political strategy to knock Obama off his game and put him on a territory where he’s not comfortable?”

Nancy was having none of it: “David, you have so been drinking the Kool-aid here.”  (Awesome! :lol: – Ed.)

View video here.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

September 11, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama, Palin | Leave a Comment

Obama stiffs Girls Scouts

That Obamessiah campaign money machine?  It’s bringing in so much money that…they can’t even afford to send the Girl Scouts some campaign trinkets.  From Chicago’s fishwrap:

Michelle Walsh wanted to teach her 2nd-grade Girl Scout troop about the presidential election.

What the Naperville mother got was a lesson about the rough-and-tumble world of political finances.

Walsh said she called both campaigns and asked for free trinkets she could give the 7-year-olds to help them learn. If they did well, she explained, each Scout would earn her “Ms. President” patch. The tchotchkes would provide added incentive.

A representative for John McCain responded immediately, sending Walsh a box filled with stickers and signs.

The Barack Obama camp wasn’t quite so generous, Walsh said.

The troop leader said she called Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters and explained why she needed the curios. Walsh said she was directed to Obama’s Web site—where she could buy all the buttons and posters she wanted.

On the Web, a packet of 50 stickers that say “Obama ’08″ goes for $5; a yard sign is $8. “Got Hope?” bumper stickers are $3 each, or two for $5.

Walsh found the prices a bit exorbitant her small group.

She said she asked Obama’s campaign worker again if she could get a few items for free. She pointed out that McCain’s camp had agreed to send a box and, well, her 12-member Scout troop runs on a very small budget.

Walsh said the woman at Obama’s headquarters put her on hold. After a few minutes, she returned with the same answer. The woman told her that she sympathized, but the Obama campaign needs every penny it can get, Walsh said.

“She said, ‘We’re up against the machine and we just can’t hand anything out for free,’ ” Walsh said. “She was very nice . . . but I wasn’t getting anything.”

The woman then directed Walsh to another spot on Obama’s Web site where she could print out pages for the girls to color on, she said. …

Only after the fishwrap’s “What’s Your Problem?” team got involved did the Obambi team get on the ball.  Nice.

Sorry, “sweeties”, but unless you need a third-trimester abortion, Sen. Hopenchange doesn’t have a dime to spare you.

September 10, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, shameful | 4 Comments

Obama: MSM is attacking me

After being followed across the world by His disciples the MSM, The One of Supremely Thin Skin decided to lash out at His followers reporters today for having the temerity to question Him on His “pig” analogy.  From Politico:

Speaking at a high school in Norfolk, Obama took a few moments to address what he calls “the made-up controversy” of the day, Amie Parnes reports.

Obama said the McCain campaign moved to “seize an innocent remark and take it out of context because they knew it’s catnip for the news media.”

“See, it would be funny, but the news media decided that would be the lead story yesterday.  (I guess they ran out of more newsworthy stories, like Gov. Palin’s pregnant teenager or her Down’s syndrome child, huh? – Ed.)  This happens every election cycle. Every four years, this is what we do. This is what they want to spend two of the last 55 days talking about…Enough!” he said.

Obama called the attacks “lies, outrage and swift boat politics.”

“These are serious times and they call for a serious debate…spare me all the phony outrage. Spare me all the phony talk about change,” he said.

“Spare me all the phony talk about change”?  For a year or more, I’ve been begging you to do just that, pal.

Exit prediction: The MSM, exhibiting signs of “battered spouse syndrome”, will take this beating from the Obamessiah yet immediately circle the wagons around him, defending his abusive behavior.

Exit question: Is this sign of touchiness really the indicator that The One wants the nation to see that he is tough enough to combat terrorism?  What a pansy!

September 10, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama, Palin | 4 Comments

Randi Rhodes: McCain wasn’t really tortured

Moonbats…what else can you really say?  From Moonbattery:

Via The Radio Equalizer, here’s how Air America klaxon and avid Obama supporter Randi Rhodes describes the years of torture John McCain endured at the hands of Vietnamese communists because he wouldn’t accept release before others who had been incarcerated longer:

Of course he (McCain) became very friendly with the Vietnamese. They called him the Prince. He was well treated actually.

If, by “treated like a prince”, you mean “been stabbed, clubbed, had his arms broken, teeth pulled out, broken bones poorly set to where he’s never fully recovered, etc.”, then yeah…”treated like a prince”!

But hey…don’t go questioning the left’s patriotism, m’kay?

September 10, 2008 Posted by | Air America, McCain, moonbats, shameful | 7 Comments

Obama’s sexist streak continues

Relax, “Sweetie“, and you just might like it.  Quoth The One:

Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

Pig?  Stinky fish?  OK, so maybe he was talking about McCain and not Palin, right?  Well, the crowd didn’t take it that way, did they?

Reporters were a bit skeptical that Obama intended to do that; from the sketchy reports we have, he seemed to be talking about how John McCain can claim to represent change but isn’t really an agent of change.  But [Mass. Gov. Jane] Swift said, “it’s pretty clear the crowd thought that that was the insult he was leveling.”  And Swift made the (hopefully) undeniable observation that Palin is the only one of the four national candidates who wears lipstick.

Maybe the Hildebeast, Ferraro, and other women were onto something with this “O as sexist” meme.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | feminism, McCain, Obama, Palin, shameful | 15 Comments

Biden: Republicans don’t care about special needs kids

Presumably, the “Sweetie” running on the other side of the ticket doesn’t love or care for her Down’s syndrome child.  This is sleazy for even Greasy Joe’s standards:

Was Joe Biden referring to Sarah Palin, a mother of a child with Down syndrome, when he made this comment?

“I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?”

Biden received a thunderous ovation when he made the remark at a town hall style meeting this morning in Columbia.

Good to see that Greasy Joe is listening to his #1′s suggestion that “kids are off limits” in the campaign.

I’m thinking that Sen. Infanticide doesn’t really want this “who cares about babies?” / “embryonic stem cell research” issue coming up right about now.  If the cretin who opposed the Infants Born Alive Protection bill (for those of you on the left, that was Sen. Obabykiller) was content to let a Down’s syndrome baby die a slow death in a soiled utility closet, it’s safe to say he would have no qualms about killing such a baby in order to harvest his/her stem cells.  Only in Liberal La-la-land does killing a baby to use its stem cells equate to caring for children.

Team McCain-Palin responds:

Barack Obama’s running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children. Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign.

For the love of God, McCain, run with this sound bite…and run with it far and wide!

Exit question: Can Biden save himself by “confessing” that he’s a serial plagiarist and therefore stole the sickeningly offensive line from someone else?

September 9, 2008 Posted by | abortion, Biden, McCain, Palin, shameful | 1 Comment

Obama: Against 527′s before he was for them

Change (of mind) you can believe in, ladies and germs.  The latest in a long line of lies nuanced policy revisions, from Ed Morrissey:

Marc Ambinder has the latest reversal from the Chicago distributor of New Politics. Barack Obama has spent the past two years railing against the influence of 527 groups in election cycles, and has insisted that he will not tolerate their presence on his behalf in the general-election campaign. Just like his pledge not to bail out of the public-financing system and his promise not to raise soft money from lobbyists, though, it appears this commitment has expired, thanks to his sinking fortunes:

There’s been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject.

That’s because, after of year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not to form them and of suggesting that outside messaging efforts would not be welcome in Obama’s Democratic Party, Obama’s strategists have changed their approach.

An Obama adviser privy to the campaign’s internal thinking on the matter says that,with less than two months before the election and with the realization that Republicans have achieved financial parity with Democrats, they hope that Democratic allies — what another campaign aide termed “the cavalry” — with come to Obama’s aid.

Sidebar: Right about now, Barry O may be second-guessing that decision to forego public financing…although his in-kind contributions from the MSM are a type of “general public” financing, no?

Anywho, the left’s “agent of change” is nothing more than a garden variety pandering politician who’s not above lying through his teeth and betraying principles if it suits his needs.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | 1 Comment

Poll: Liberals wants Supreme Court to rule on “fairness”, not Constitution

A scary, yet unsurprising, look in to the gourds of liberals.  From Rasmussen:

While 82% of voters who support McCain believe the justices should rule on what is in the Constitution, just 29% of Barack Obama’s supporters agree. Just 11% of McCain supporters say judges should rule based on the judge’s sense of fairness, while nearly half (49%) of Obama supporters agree.

Remember this whenever you hear some brain-dead leftard rant about Bush supposedly “trashing the Constitution”, OK?  The left cares about the Constitution only when it serves their interest.  The rest of the time, it’s just a cocktail napkin that the Founding Fathers scribbled some words on the back of.

September 9, 2008 Posted by | Constitution, McCain, moonbats, Obama, polls, Supreme Court | 4 Comments

UPDATED: Zogby and Gallup: McCain up

UPDATES BELOW.

I don’t know how many different ways I can express my “polls with grain of salt” disclaimer, especially when one of them is the once-respected Zogby.  But here you go anyway:

Zogby:  50% – 46%, outside the margin of error of 2.1% and with a large sample (roughly 2,300).

Gallup:  48% – 45%, outside the margin of error of 2% and with a large sample (nearly 2,800).

Zogby’s poll was taken Friday and Saturday (9/5 – 9/6).  Gallup’s was taken entirely after Palin’s speech, but a third of the respondants were polled before McCain’s well-received speech.

Prediction #1: Barring some Dukakis-like screw-up by either candidate henceforth, look for this election to be a carbon copy of the last two elections…close, comes down to a state or two, and maybe not known for certain until the wee hours of the morn.  Only time will tell.

Prediction #2: The tabloidal sharks running the MSM will kick up the smear machine into overdrive in the coming weeks, making what we’ve seen thus far look like a walk in the park.

UPDATE (09/08/2008 – 09:55 AM EST):  USA Today is reporting that McCain is up 10% among likely voters.  Even in my most optimistic scenarios, I don’t see that happening.  At any rate, there it is.

September 8, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, polls | 5 Comments

Quote of the day, McCain edition

From Juanny Mac’s speech last night:

I’m not running for president because I think I’m blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

Amen.

September 5, 2008 Posted by | McCain, quote of the day | 11 Comments

MSM defensive over their bias

Call a wahhhhhhhhmbulance, because the MSM is crying a river that they’ve been caught red-handed.  From the LA Times:

News executives Thursday tried to shake off the excoriations of the media emanating from the Republican National Convention, defending their coverage of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as responsible and evenhanded.

While top television network officials and newspaper editors largely dismissed the critiques as partisan rhetoric, some fretted that charges of media bias had reached a new and disturbing level.

“I really do take exception to it,” NBC News President Steve Capus said. “These terms get thrown around in an awfully cavalier way, and they’re incredibly damaging. We’re in the business where words matter, and those are awfully, awfully strong accusations.”  (If the shoe fits, pal, then wear it. – Ed.)
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At nearly every turn, McCain’s campaign challenged the reporting on Palin, particularly questions raised about her 17-year-old pregnant daughter, Bristol. Senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt said the media were displaying “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness,” and Cindy McCain called the coverage “insulting.”
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Some in the media said the reporting went overboard. On MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, said he was “stunned” by the focus on Bristol Palin “when there’s been an unwritten code that kids are off-limits.”

I’ve noticed something going on here: ever notice that when a teenager commits a violent crime like murder or rape, that teenager’s name is never mentioned?  But by gosh, when you’re a teenager who has commited the far worse crime of getting knocked up while being a Republican governor’s daughter, your name is plastered on the front page of the NYT.

Anywho, back to the whinefest:

Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, argued that the campaign first put the spotlight on Palin’s family.

“I believe you tread lightly when it comes to children, and our coverage of Gov. Palin’s children has been in response, I would say, to an invitation from the campaign,” he said. “They have thrust her children onto the stage: her son who is serving in the military, her daughter who is pregnant and about to be married.” 

The NYFT is bellyaching about their perceived bias?  The same rag that ran a hit piece on McCain having an affair with a lobbyist, with no evidence, no named sources, all innuendo, and prompting their own ombudsman to admit that the shoddy pap should have never been printed…is Keller freakin’ serious?  That smear job was the impetus to get people like me in the old man’s corner!

Besides, I just killed the basis of that whole “she brought her kids to the convention, ergo they’re fair game” attack in the prior post.  But here’s quite the laugher:

Attacking the coverage “rouses the base,” Keller added, and is an effort by the campaign to “sort of brush us back, maybe set narrower limits on what we write about.”

Newsroom leaders said the tactic would not be effective. 

Not effective, huh?  Dream on, ostriches!

Look, I wouldn’t have a problem with the MSM looking into Gov. Palin’s record (and not her family), if only they would have shown a similar interest in The One’s background: domestic terrorist pals and business associates, criminal associates (Rezko), failure as a community organizer, close relationships with nutbar “ministers”, etc.  But they’ve shown no such interest whatsoever.  Until they do, they are cordially invited to can the “righteous indignation over media bias” act.

Nope Yep…no clear liberal media bias!

September 5, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Palin | 10 Comments

Schumer: American side is “the other side”

Joe Lieberman gave a great speech at the RNC last night.  Naturally, the Dems were fuming.  From WCBS:

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said America needs a president that can be counted on in a time of war. For him, the candidate is Republican McCain. 

Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent who was the blue side’s candidate for vice president in 2000, said that while Sen. Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for troops in Iraq, McCain took the unpopular position to support a surge in troops.

“Because of that, today, our troops are at last beginning to come home, not in failure, but in honor,” Lieberman said.

Lieberman said that in times like these, country matters more than political parties.
“I’m here tonight because John McCain is the best choice to bring our country together and lead our country forward. I’m here because John McCain’s whole life testifies to a great truth: being a Democrat or a Republican is important. But it is not more important than being an American,” Lieberman said.

Charles Schumer, the senior Senator from New York, begs to differ. In fact, most Democrats are furious with Lieberman.

“I like Joe Lieberman, but that’s a big mistake for him,” Schumer said. “To be pro-war and to have his views on the issues, everyone respects that. But you don’t go over to the other side.”

Got that?  Chuch the Schmuck thinks that being a Democrat is more important than being an American.  But hey, don’t you go and question the left’s patriotism or anything.  Maybe Liebs wouldn’t have to “go over to the other side” if his own side wasn’t so shamefully invested in defeat.

Wasn’t Schmuckie thrilled when Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords had a “moment of clarity” and opportunistically switched party affiliation in order to get a Senate committee chair?  Jeffords did not have a “change of heart”…he wanted more power, influence, and media adulation (and boy, did he get it).  Liebs isn’t doing what he’s doing for any of those reasons, since the Dems are all but certain to pick up new Senate seats (thus diminishing Liebs’ influence).  I disagree with Joe on nearly everything, but I salute the man’s love of country above his love of party.

September 3, 2008 Posted by | Chuck Schumer, defeatism, Lieberman, McCain, shameful | 1 Comment

History ain’t this lady’s forté

From Kiddie P0rn Senator territory, aka Virginia, we have this letter to the editor in the Washington comPost from a Rosanne Desmone:

What was John McCain thinking of in naming an inexperienced woman to be his vice presidential candidate? To paraphrase Ohio Sen. Mark Hanna’s remark about William McKinley’s choice of running mate in 1900: Doesn’t Mr. McCain know there’s only one heartbeat between that woman and the presidency of the United States?

I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, Toots, but McKinley’s vice-president was Theodore Roosevelt!  You know, that war hero guy that ascended to the presidency upon McKinley’s assassination?  From my vantage point, the republic does not appear to have been harmed by TR’s presidency.

Idiot.

September 2, 2008 Posted by | McCain, moonbats, Palin | 3 Comments

McCain surprised by media bias?

This is one area where I don’t have any sympathy for McAmnesty.  From Bloomberg:

The longtime love affair between John McCain and what he once called his “base” — the national news media — is on the rocks.

McCain’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, yesterday lashed out at what he deemed “offensive” and “demeaning” coverage and questions from reporters after McCain’s running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, confirmed her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant.

“It used to be that a lot of those smears and the crap on the Internet stayed out of the newsrooms of serious journalists,” Schmidt said at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schmidt’s criticism is the latest example in the unraveling of what was once a fond relationship between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the media. Starting in the 2000 Republican primaries, the Arizona senator became a media sensation by chatting up the press in the back of his “Straight Talk Express” campaign bus. The national press corps freely mingled with McCain for hours on the bus, with no topic off limits.

More recently, though, McCain, 72, has accused news organizations such as the New York Times, Time magazine and the NBC network of being unfair to him. The campaign even considered pulling out of one of the three presidential debates because it would be moderated by Tom Brokaw, a former NBC News anchorman. …

Don’t get me wrong: the MSM’s bias has been one reason that many of us on the right who have been underwhelmed by McLame have rallied around him.  The NYT‘s Page One smear job based on innuendos with no proof and tons of “anonymous sources” (not a single named source) have made people like me resolved to vote for McCain just to flip off the MSM.

Having said that, McCain should have learned a lesson from this: when you’re trashing fellow Republicans, the MSM loves you; but when you poormouth the Obamessiah or threaten his “birthright” of the Oval Office, you’re the MSM’s Public Enemy #1.

September 2, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias | Leave a Comment

Biden: Today not a day for politics…well, for McCain, anyway

What a scumbag.  From MSNBC:

This morning, Joe Biden said today was not a day for national politics. He said it again during a roundtable discussion outside his childhood home here this afternoon. But before long, he couldn’t help himself, criticizing McCain for his views on offshore drilling and questioning his foreign policy judgment.

“The only guy in America in a position of some authority who is out of sync with the whole rest of the world is John McCain,” he told a small group of relatives and old family friends. “This Administration, the Iraqis, NATO, the Europeans, our friends around the world, the vast majority of the American people, the Democratic-controlled Congress, Republicans in Congress — they all agree. Barack Obama was right, and John McCain was wrong.”

Good enough for me, but not for…um, me.

September 2, 2008 Posted by | Biden, hypocrisy, McCain | 3 Comments

“McSame”? Hardly!

The left refers to Juanny Mac as “McSame”, and The One frequently references “McCain has voted with George Bush 9x% of the time” (the “x” seems to change all the time…go figure) in his ads.  Neal Boortz has done the research and, not surprisingly, it’s yet another Obama lie:

The theme that emerged out of the Democrat convention and will likely continue until the election in November is … “eight is enough.”  The Obama campaign sees its best chance at defeating McCain by continuing to link McCain to George Bush.  So far, this doesn’t seem to be sticking.  On Friday, we also put to rest the notion that John McCain has not voted with George Bush “90% of the time” on the issues that matter.  I’m not talking about votes honoring the local Little League for their recent victory; I’m talking about issues that have the potential to affect us as a nation.

If you will recall … we took a list of 31 crucial votes since the 109th congress.  We eliminated from that list all unanimous Senate votes … and figured out that McCain actually votes “with Bush,” (That means with the Republicans), about 45% of the time when the vote is (1) meaningful and, (2) not unanimous.  Again .. only a Democrat with Bush Derangement Syndrome could get his boxers in a wad over McCain voting “with Bush” on a resolution commending a basketball team.

September 2, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | Leave a Comment

Notes on Gov. Sarah Palin

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve only recently heard of her.  Considering she’s governor of our 56th state (just ask that Magellan guy running for prez on the Dem side), Barry O’s probably not that familiar with her, either.  Anywho, I listened on the radio to her bio, as well as to her speech in Ohio.  Quick notes from around the blogosphere:

  • Ed Morrissey has an excellent must-read post about the differences in experience between Obama and Palin.  Read it, but here’s a great excerpt:  “However, the nature of the experience couldn’t be more different.  Palin spent her entire political career crusading against the political machine that rules Alaska — which exists in her own Republican party.  She blew the whistle on the state GOP chair, who had abused his power on the same commission to conduct party business.  Obama, in contrast, talked a great deal about reform in Chicago but never challenged the party machine, preferring to take an easy ride as a protegé of Richard Daley instead.”
  • You knew this was coming, didn’t you?  The One is criticizing Palin for…I really couldn’t make this up if I tried…having too little experience!  Especially foreign policy experience.  Because as you know, taking a rock star tour of Europe, having a brother he never visits or talks to living in squalor in Kenya, going to elementary school in Indonesia for a little while, and visiting Pakistan once while in college are all awesome nuggets of foreign policy experience!  For those of you on the left, the prior sentence was sarcasm.
  • McCain’s camp retorts: “Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results — whether it’s taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the ‘bridge to nowhere.’ Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for President.”
  • Palin credits Geraldine Ferraro and the Hildebeast for “cracking the glass ceiling” for her. Heh.  Well played!  Even Ferraro’s giving McCain mad props for the pick.
  • Big O’s speech from the Acropolis-thingy yesterday just had some of its media thunder stolen.  Double “heh”!
  • Hillary’s campaign head Howard Wolfson thinks that O picking Greasy Joe will, in light of McCain’s pick of Palin, make women supporters of Hillary even madder than they already are.  If Her Former Highness were so supportive of Obama-Biden, then why is she allowing (instructing?) her staff to go out there and foment dissention like this?  Answer: because she’s not supportive, but she has to pretend like she is!  Hill needs Obama to lose in November, so she can try again in 2012.  Whether she can make that happen remains to be seen.
  • O’s team belittles her experience in a ”town of 9,000″, which pretty much keeps pace with their previously stated view of “bitter, clingy” small town America.  Ace observes thusly:

    Just curious: Before Obama was a junior senator for sixteen months before he decided he knew enough to be President, he was a state legislator.

    How many people did he represent? What was the size of his district?

    And note, once again, that Palin’s experience was as the executive of that small town, the leader, the top dog, the decider, the chief law enforcement officer, whereas Obama was… a backbenching nobody in a body of hundreds, none of whom had ultimate responsibility for anything they did.

    She governed that town; Obama merely represented his district in committee.

    Oh, and he was corrupt. She wasn’t.

    I do admit he has more experience dealing with terrorists first hand… but we don’t need to talk about William Ayers and his Manson-enthusiast wife Bernadette Dohrn right now.

    Ouch!

August 29, 2008 Posted by | Hillary, hypocrisy, McCain, Obama, Palin | 12 Comments

UPDATED: Taking informal bets on McCain’s VP today

UPDATES WILL BE THROUGHOUT THE DAY, AND THIS POST WILL BE BUMPED TO THE TOP OF THE PECKING ORDER.

Juanny Mac announces his VP today.  Here are my top three predicted picks, with the odds of being picked beside their names:

1.  MN governor Tim Pawlenty: 50%

2.  AK governor Sarah Palin:  45%

3.  Mitt Romney:  3%

Pawlenty would be a great pick for a couple of reasons: more conservative than McAmnesty; younger and easier on the eyes (so the ladies tell me!); and puts MN into serious play, as most polls show O with around a 2 – 5% lead right now in MN.

Palin would also be a great pick: a female on the ticket, which could attract more women voters (especially Hilldawg supporters still chapping over her defeat and subsequent VP snub); plus, being a hottie doesn’t hurt the ticket!  Hey, I am a red-blooded American male, OK?  :D

I like Romney, and it wouldn’t bother me if he were chosen.  But I do fear that putting a Mormon on the ticket would bother (whether fair or not, rational or not) many in the Christian community.  After his great performance at Saddleback, McCain can’t jeopardize those gains.

As for the other 2%, that would be left under “Someone else who is likely to underwhelm me.”  Please, God: do NOT let it be Lieberman, Rudy, or Ridge!

What say you?

UPDATE #1 (08/29/2008 – 08:20 A.M. EST): No sooner had I finished typing this post when NBC reports that it will not be Pawlenty.  Palin, Romney, or someone else?

UPDATE #2 (08/29/2008 – 10:15 A.M. EST): FNC is reporting that Romney is supposedly out, and that a McCain supporter’s charter plane from Alaska arrived at Mac’s campaign stop in Ohio.  Read into that what you will.

UPDATE #3 (08/29/2008 – 10:26 A.M. EST): Now CNBC is reporting that a “Republican strategist” is saying that the pick is definitely Palin.  Nothing official yet, but the trend is leaning that way for now.  I do get a kick out of CNBC’s characterization of Palin as “a self-styled ‘hockey mom’ who has only been governor for a little over a year“.  Technically, it’s almost two years, but why quibble over three months? In other words, the VP candidate has been an executive for only a slightly less amount of time than a certain achievementless presidential candidate has been a federal legislator.  Presumably that extra 6 – 9 months or so makes all the difference in the world to the MSM.

UPDATE #4 (08/29/2008 – 10:36 A.M. EST): Now the Chicago fishwrap is reporting that the pick is definitely Palin.  Again, nothing official yet.

UPDATE #5 (08/29/2008 – 01:06 P.M. EST): Back from lunch, so you already know by now: it’s Gov. Palin.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Palin | 6 Comments

Another Dem talking point destroyed: Bush McCain

Excellent piece by Dick Morris:

That’s what the Democratic convention has been doing in Denver. They are so anxious to run against Bush, their animosity is so pent up, that they persist in running against a man who is not seeking a third term. In speech after speech, the Democrats knock the Bush record and then add, lamely, that GOP candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is the same as Bush. Or they call the McCain candidacy Bush’s third term. It was no accident — or Freudian slip — when vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.) spoke of John Bush instead of George in his litany of attacks.
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The truth is, of course, that McCain is the most unlike Bush of any of the Republican senators. (When Obama’s people claim that Bush and McCain voted the same 94 percent of the time, they forget that most of the votes in the Senate are unanimous.) The fact that McCain backs commending a basketball team on its victory doesn’t mean that he is in lockstep ideologically with the president.

The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:

• McCain fought for campaign finance reform — McCain-Feingold — that Bush fought and ultimately signed because he had no choice.

• McCain led the battle to restrict interrogation techniques of terror suspects and to ban torture.

• McCain went with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a tough measure to curb climate change, something Bush denies is going on.

• McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts when they passed.

• McCain urged the Iraq surge, a posture Bush rejected for years before conceding its wisdom.

• McCain favors FDA regulation of tobacco and sponsored legislation to that effect, a position all but a handful of Republican Senators oppose.

• McCain’s energy bill, also with Lieberman, is a virtual blueprint for energy independence and development of alternate sources.

• After the Enron scandal, McCain introduced sweeping reforms in corporate governance and legislation to guarantee pensions and prohibit golden parachutes for executives. Bush opposed McCain’s changes and the watered-down Sarbanes-Oxley bill eventuated.

• McCain has been harshly critical of congressional overspending, particularly of budgetary earmarks, a position Bush only lately adopted (after the Democrats took over Congress).

So much for that “McSame” meme.

August 29, 2008 Posted by | McCain | 4 Comments

Quote of the day, “Hope” and “change” and “unity” edition

From the Obamination’s spokesdude:

Obama campaign chief of staff Jim Messina slams McCain in a meeting with Iowa Democrats.

Speaking of McCain’s home state of Arizona, says: “If Senator McCain continues to be the schmuck he’s being, we’re going to play there, you know, and go tell some truth.”

Not very Messiah-like, is it?  Or am I racist for pointing out that Sen. Hopenchange’s resorting to name-calling is not exactly what you would call a diplomatic way to campaign?

Maybe by using the word “schmuck”, Barry O’s trying to display his Jewish street cred AND appeal to the moonbat base that makes up the bulk of his party, all at the same time.  Friggin’ brilliant, O.

August 27, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, quote of the day, shameful | Leave a Comment

Obama asks DOJ to stop anti-Obama ad

Remember how the left has been petrified for nearly a decade that the Bu$hitler McCheneyburton DOJ would be called upon to stifle free speech?  Well, as luck would have it, the left was right…just not in the manner they expected.  From Politico:

Sen. Barack Obama has launched an all-out effort to block a Republican billionaire’s efforts to tie him to domestic and foreign terrorists in a wave of negative television ads.

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the “American Issues Project,” the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.

Wait…I thought Fox News was a tool of the right?  Anywho, continuing:

Bauer’s letter called on the Justice Department to open “an investigation of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.”
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The Obama campaign plans to punish the stations that air the ad financially, an Obama aide said, organizing his supporters to target the stations that air it and their advertisers. 

If that’s not a stunning example of fascism by a presidential candidate who doesn’t give a wet fart on a dry January Monday about the First Amendment, I really don’t know what is.

What’s so objectionable about the ad?

The ad focuses on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a Hyde Park acquaintance at whose home Obama attended a gathering early in his political career. Ayers is a complicated figure: professor and adviser to the mayor of Chicago despite not having repented his past as a domestic terrorist with the Weather Underground.

If, by “Ayers is a complicated figure”, they mean “an unrepentant domestic terrorist”, then yeah…”complicated”!

Anemic retort from The One:

Obama has launched a response ad, which addresses McCain directly, and will air in Ohio, Tracey said. “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the ’60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?” says Obama’s ad. “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old.” 

Response from the McCain campaign:

“The fact that [Obama] is launching his own convention by defending his long association with a man who says he didn’t bomb enough U.S. targets tells us more about Barack Obama than any of tonight’s speeches will,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. 

Darn right.

The Obamination’s assertion that he should be absolved of his poor judgment (associating with Bill Ayers) because O was only eight when Ayers was happily bombing America is patently absurd.  Let’s say that I’m pals with Charles Manson.  Before you call me a sicko for being friends with Manson, let me remind you that I wasn’t even born when Manson and his minions went on their rampage, m’kay?  So step off!

Anywho, as you can see, it’s not the right that works to stifle free speech in the country…it’s the thin-skinned reality-averse left.

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The Obamination looks down his nose on the First Amendment

August 26, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, shameful | 8 Comments

Liberals lie about McCain’s support for a draft

From Marc Ambinder:

Liberals are having a conniption over Sen. John McCain’s purported endorsement of a draft today.

In Las Crucas, New Mexico, a woman asked McCain about the “horrible conditions” that veterans often see when return from combat. Here’s the last few sentences:

My son is an officer in the Air Force, I’m a vet., and I was raised in a military family. And I think it’s a sorry state of affairs. When we have illegal aliens; having a medic-aid card that can access specialists, top physicians, the best of medical, and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. And these are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don’t re-enact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of Hell.

His critics focus on the first sentence:

SEN JOHN MCCAIN: Ma’am let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you have said, and thank you.

So he agrees that unless there’s a draft, the war on terror can’t be won?

Not exactly. I’ve heard McCain tell numerous audiences that he opposes a new draft. As the context makes clear, McCain is focusing on the meat of the question and not the woman’s exclamation at the end. Unless you think McCain privately favors the draft and let the cat out of the bag, you’re going to have reach to conclude that he’s radically changed his mind here. …

The video clip is here, so you can make up your own mind.

Besides, what is the left getting their Birkenstocks in a bunch for?  One of their own, Charlie “Rent Control” Rangel is the guy who tried to bring back the draft.  Of all the bellyaching the left does about the right trying to reinstitute a draft, it seems they would be quite vocal about their own moonbat leaders who try to do it.

August 21, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, moonbats | Leave a Comment

Obama’s “rich” hypocrisy

Barry O: Hey, McCain is a rich snob with too many houses, so he’s an elitist.

McCain campaign retort:

Does a guy who made more than $4 million last year, just got back from vacation on a private beach in Hawaii and bought his own million-dollar mansion with the help of a convicted felon really want to get into a debate about houses? Does a guy who worries about the price of arugula and thinks regular people “cling” to guns and religion in the face of economic hardship really want to have a debate about who’s in touch with regular Americans?

Zing!

August 21, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama | 3 Comments

al-Reuters/Zogby poll: McCain by 5

You guys know how I treat polls with a grain of salt, even if it’s a poll with numbers that I want to believe.  Since this is a Zogby poll, I’m even more skeptical.  In the mid-to-late 1990′s, Zogs had arguably the most reliable poll in the business.  But ever since Bush was elected, Zogby (who is Arab) has released wildly pro-left “poll results” that greatly differ from reality.

For example, in 2004, his “polls” showed TN to be a toss-up between Bush and Kerry.  No one in his right mind believed that a state that rejected its own (Al Gore) was going to vote for a Boston blue-blood liberal, and the final result was Bush by about 15%.  Zogs also had Kerry by 1% in FL, which Bush won by 5%.  There are other examples, but I think you get the point.

All that said, I find it telling that even Zogs has to report this bit of bad news for the Obamessiah.  Excerpt:

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

 

The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama’s experience, criticized his opposition to most new offshore oil drilling and mocked his overseas trip.

 

The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia’s invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views.

 

“There is no doubt the campaign to discredit Obama is paying off for McCain right now,” pollster John Zogby said. “This is a significant ebb for Obama.”

 

McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy — an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election. … 

Again, let me jump through hoops to stress that this is ONE poll and is merely a snapshot in time.  We are about three months away from the election, and that is a political lifetime. However, times are not that rosy for The Chosen One right now, so he’ll need some more of that MSM fawning and adulation that followed him to Europe in order to further boost his chances.

August 20, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama, polls | 1 Comment

McCain crushed Obama at Saddleback

We all know it, but IBD does a great job explaining how.  Read the whole thing (it’s not long).  Here’s an excerpt:

…”It’s one of those situations where the devil is in the details,” Obama said at one point. He could have been referring to his own oratorical shortcomings when a teleprompter is unavailable. We learned a lot more about the real Obama at Saddleback than we will next week as he delivers his acceptance speech in Denver before a massive stadium crowd.

The stark differences between the two came through the most on the question of whether there is evil in the world. Obama spoke of evil within America, “in parents who have viciously abused their children.” According to the Democrat, we can’t really erase evil in the world because “that is God’s task.” And we have to “have some humility in how we approach the issue of confronting evil.”  (WTF? – Ed.)

For McCain, with a global war on terror raging, there was no equivocating: We must “defeat” evil. If al-Qaida’s placing of suicide vests on mentally-disabled women and then blowing them up by remote control in a Baghdad market isn’t evil, he asked: “You have to tell me what is.” …

How telling that the first thing popping into Hussein’s head when he hears the word “evil” isn’t Islamic terrorism, but is instead his own country that he aspires to lead!

When you see the Obama camp accusing McCain of “cheating” because his answers were “too good”, it’s clear that even they know they were trounced.  It’s Megan’s Fourth Law of Politics: “The party that starts looking for implausible and unprovable conspiracy theories about the opposition candidate is in trouble.”

August 19, 2008 Posted by | McCain, Obama | 9 Comments

Washington comPost ombudsman: Oops…we cover Obama WAY more than McCain!

Ya think?  From the comPost:

Democrat Barack Obama has had about a 3 to 1 advantage over Republican John McCain in Post Page 1 stories since Obama became his party’s presumptive nominee June 4. Obama has generated a lot of news by being the first African American nominee, and he is less well known than McCain — and therefore there’s more to report on. But the disparity is so wide that it doesn’t look good.

In overall political stories from June 4 to Friday, Obama dominated by 142 to 96. Obama has been featured in 35 stories on Page 1; McCain has been featured in 13, with three Page 1 references with photos to stories on inside pages. Fifteen stories featured both candidates and were about polls or issues such as terrorism, Social Security and the candidates’ agreement on what should be done in Afghanistan.
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Numbers aren’t everything in political coverage, but readers deserve comparable coverage of the candidates.

Naturally, her colleagues see it a tad bit differently:

Bill Hamilton, assistant managing editor for politics, thinks that I’m wrong to put weight on numbers. “We make our own decisions about what we consider newsworthy. We are not garment workers measuring our product every day to fulfill somebody’s quota. That means as editors we decide what we think is important, because that’s what our readers look for us to do — not to adhere to some arbitrary standard.

Ah, yes…the “grand deciders” of newsworthiness! We readers look to them to decide that UFO invasions are more “newsworthy” than a presidential campaign.

I’m sure it’s just a great big ol’ coinkidink, and in no way reflective of any MSM desire to see The One win this November.  I mean, it’s not like the MSM is sending its Big Three network news anchors overseas to follow the Obamessiah while they refuse to follow McCain over there.  Actually, it’s a lot like that.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

August 18, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias, Obama | 1 Comment

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