Archive of ‘Election 2008’

Back from Asheville

Well I’m back from Asheville not too much worse for the wear. Had a little run-in with an infection in my leg but the antibiotics seem to have everything under control. Just wanted to leave you with this video I saw over at IMAO.

 

More Obama Ads Pop Up on Drudge Report

Well it seems that more Obama Ads have popped up on the Drudge Report with this being the latest one:

 

Obama ads on drudge - october

 

This is the second time I have seen one in just the past couple of weeks ago.

List of a ‘few’ mistakes that Biden made

Now I know that these debates are always riddled with mistakes on both sides, but here are just a few that Biden made:

 

Michelle Malkin’s Overall List of Gaffes

 

Role of Vice President Gaffe

 

Barack Obama never said he would meet with Ahmadinejad Unconditionally Gaffe

 

Hezbollah in Lebanon Gaffe

 

Gaza vs. West Bank Gaffe

 

Obama not supporting Hamas Election Gaffe

 

Those are just a few I could find but I’m sure that there are a lot more out there.

St. Louis has a lot of Palin Supporters

According to Gateway Pundit, close to 11,000 McCain/Palin supporters will be attending a rally being held in St. Louis University’s new arena. This rally will include a live showing of the debate along with a rumored appearance of Sarah Palin after its over. Oh, if only had decided to attend school in St. Louis.

Palin hasn’t drunk the Kool-Aid…yet

In some somewhat reassuring news, it seems that Sarah Palin has not drunk the “anthropological global warming is real” Kool-Aid just yet. This is good news considering that the GOP platform basically gives in to the environmentalist and admits that it’s real.

Poll: Who is Biden going to insult in the VP debate?

Now, I’m sure you have all heard that Joe Biden and Sarah Palin are going to be facing off in a VP debate on October 2nd. What you might not have heard about is that Biden sometimes has a hard time watching he says. In one situation he made an unarguably racial slur against Indians and in another he clumsily made a comment about Obama being ‘clean’.

 

Anyways, Biden doesn’t seem to have that very important filter most people have that determines how one should act or what one should say in public. Therefore, I have a very strong feeling something will come up in the VP debate with Palin so today’s question is who do you think Biden is going to insult in the VP debate? If you pick other, leave who you think it will be in the comment section.

 

Who is Biden going to insult in the VP Debate?
Indians
Inuits
Mexicans
African Americans
Jews
Other

pollcode.com free polls

Interesting Anti-Obama opinion pieces in The Daily Gamecock

The past two days have been quite a shock for me. In my school’s daily newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, there have been two opinion pieces bashing Obama. Both of them are fairly well written and bring up some less than conventional points. To be quite honest, I’m actually shocked to actually have seen them make their way into the paper.

 

The first opinion piece came out yesterday, and actually compared Obama’s oratory skills to Hilter.

That said, I’ve seen Obama live twice, and what I saw scared me a little. A charismatic speaker about to take power on the heels of nearly a decade of economic and national security disasters, seducing an audience – and an electorate, for that matter – that is so desperate for something to hope for that they’ll cling to anything.

 

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 If you can, find a video of Hitler speaking. If you can put out of your mind for one moment the unbelievable evil he did and just watch and listen, his public speaking manner is absolutely hypnotic. In 1938, when Hitler’s ugly side was starting to show, Princeton University freshmen voted British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the “greatest living person.” He beat Hitler by one vote.

 

Obama and Hitler both represented vehicles of change (though of obviously different kinds) and have enjoyed meteoric rises to national and international superstardom by being, probably, the two best political orators of the past 100 years.

 

That, of course, is more or less where the similarities end, but the lesson remains: be extremely careful of being seduced by political rhetoric. Hitler was seen as a great man by many Americans as late as one year before the start of World War II. Within seven years, he would start and lose the second-bloodiest war in world history, systematically arrange the murder of 11 million innocent people and change the course of world politics forever.

Interesting to say the least, wouldn’t you agree?

 

Now the second article questions African Americans on whether they are voting for Obama because of his policy or because of his race.

After examining the polling data done by many news organizations during the current election cycle, I began to see a pattern developing among voting demographics. Above 90 percent of blacks plan to vote for Barrack Obama, while the white vote was much more diverse, with an almost even split. Which leads to the million-dollar question, why doesn’t the black community have more diversity in their vote and when is someone going to give them a lecture? Today, when political correctness reins supreme, white people can be openly criticized. But if you do the same for the black community, you know what’s going to follow – someone chasing you down telling you that you need to take a cultural awareness or racial sensitivity class.

 

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Now lets say you’re a student who wants to own a home one day and are troubled by the recent financial woes of government-backed mortgage lenders Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae. If you look at the money senators between 1998 and 2008 have taken, most of it comes from the two companies. Sen. Obama ranks second among elected officials on that list. I am not sure I would really trust Sen. Obama to properly manage this housing problem when he has been taking money from two companies that just created a huge taxpayer burden via the government bailout.

 

Lastly, if I am a student with a car and I am worried about the cost of commuting to work or school and I realize that the oil off the coast of California could be tapped in less than two years, I would wonder which candidate wants to tap it. Well, Sen. McCain supports offshore drilling while Obama and the Democrats are more concerned about protecting the walrus than the blue collared workers and students.

 

Black students have a right to be proud of how far our country has come from the days of sitting on the back of the bus to having someone from their community possibly being our next president. It says volumes about how far this country has come. But I would urge these same students to examine the men not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Like I said, interesting articles that I was shocked to see make it past the editor (not because of their content but because it actually went against the Pro-Obama campus movement)

Obama Ads on Drudge Report

Well this has to be a first. It seems that the Obama campaign has put ads on the Drudge Report, an often thought of right-leaning website. Take a look:

 

Obama ads on Drudge Report

 

Weird isn’t it?

Powerful Ad

This ad has to be one of the most powerful ads I have seen in this campaign. Born Alive Truth, whose website won Right Wing News’ “Website of the Day” award, should definitely be visited by anyone looking for more information on the whole BAIPA issue.

 

Anyways, here is the ad:

 

Interesting November Election Forecasts

So I stumbled upon Analytic News’ website today and found this interesting prediction:

 

AnalyticNews 10-14

 

Yep you are reading that correctly, it’s predicting that in November, McCain has a 79.8% chance of winning. However, I don’t know how much faith you should put into this because I wasn’t able to find out how they came up with this number.

 

Anyways, just thought that was interesting so please don’t think I’m vouching for its accuracy.