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PULL THE HAIR PLUG ON THIS GUY October 8, 2008 If Sarah Palin had made just one of the wildly inaccurate statements smugly uttered by Sen. Joe Biden in last week's vice presidential debate, there would have been 3-inch headlines in newspapers across America. (I can almost hear Katie Couric asking me, "Which newspapers?") These weren't insignificant errors, such as when Biden said, "Look, all you have to do is go down Union Street with me in Wilmington or go to Katie's restaurant or walk into Home Depot with me where I spend a lot of time, and you ask...

The President welcomed President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana to White House which included meeting in the Oval Office, remarks on the South Lawn, and this evening a dinner at the White House. The President was briefed on the damage and on going relief work involving the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended a luncheon for Ghana's President John Kufuor Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks to reporters in the briefing room of the White House . Pray for President Bush - Day - 2924 & McCain/Palin - Day - 18 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island...

The President in addition to his normal radio address participated in a video teleconference briefing on Hurricane Ike and then made a statement to the press concerning Hurricane Ike. He has also declared a major disaster exists in the State of Louisiana and Texas allowing them to get additional Federal funding. Click here for the text of the radio message. Pray for President Bush - Day - 2922 & McCain/Palin - Day - 16 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

The President and Vice President attended remembrance service at the Whtie House and the Pentagon today. At the Pentagon a permanent memorial was dedicated Sarah Palin got a hero's welcome in Fairbanks Alaska lst night and today an interview she had with Charles Gibson was aired.. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079983/posts Enjoy Sanity Island

The President on the South Lawn spoke on volunteerism and Christian singer Michael Smith performed at the same event. Click here for Fact Sheet: USA Freedom Corps: Strengthening Service to Meet Community Needs Pray for President Bush - Day - 2917 & McCain/Palin - Day - 11 Well I presumed wrongly yesterday that the Vice President was on his way back to the States because he was in Rome today meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano he also said he supports Sarah Palin, in her bid to become the Republican party's first female vice president and said her convention speech...

The President returned from Camp David on Saturday and hosted a Tee Ball game on Sunday. The Vice President concluded his overseas trip with meetings in Italy on Saturday and Sunday and has now boarded AF2 for what I presume is the flight back to the US. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Sunday a three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Pray for President Bush - Day - 2916 & McCain/Palin - Day - 10 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Of course Sarah Palin is much cuter than Dick Cheney. As the must-have Republican political button from St. Paul put it: "Hottest VP from Coldest State." And it sounds like she's better with a gun than the vice president, who accidentally shot a friend while on a hunting trip in South Texas. But lots of folks are beginning to draw a parallel between Cheney, with his secret meetings on energy policy, and Palin, the pistol-packing soccer Mom who took on -- and beat -- the political establishment in Alaska. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in an interview today with ABC's...

The President departed from the White House today for a 3 day stay at Camp David. The Vice President visited Georgia and later in the day arrived in Kiev, Ukraine. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2913 Enjoy Sanity Island

The President did not have any public appearances today. He has issued official memos and letters today in subjects as varied as an export to China and declaring national days of prayer and Remembrance. Click here for further details. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2906

The President is still in Crawford Texas and today his Assistant Press Secreatary Tony Fratto briefed reporters on President Bush's activities at his nearby ranch. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2800 It was announced today that Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia and the Ukraine next week. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Tele Aviv today. Enjoy Sanity Island

The President is spending a few days at his ranch in Texas and Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, updated reporters in Crawford today on international events that President Bush in monitoring from his nearby ranch. Vice President Dick Cheney visited the Georgian Embasssy in Washington. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2896

The old Cold War propaganda machine is ramping up in Russia: Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barak Obama being elected president of the United States. The line came on the main news of Vesti FM, a state radio station that — like the Government and much of Russia's media — has reverted to the old habits of Soviet years, in which a sinister American hand was held to lie behind every conflict, especially those embarrassing to Moscow....

Well, the Associated Press is certainly living up to its new rules of being opinion editorialists instead of reporters if the following headline is any indication: "Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney." This was unleashed on the world by the AP on August 5. So, I ask you, does "unpopular Cheney" sound more like opinion than it does simple news reporting? In fact, the Cheney comment was not even the crux of Obama's comments, but a throw away line meant to give red meat to the far left. Obama did not center his energy discussion on Cheney. Yet here...

It seems like the DUmmies are completely unaware of their astounding level of hypocrisy. As we saw YESTERDAY, KOmmie (also DUmmie) heads were exploding in outrage over the New Yorker cover featuring Barack Obama and his wife. Fast forward just a few hours later and the DUmmies are expressing admiration for a New Yorker cover that made Vice President Dick Cheney look like an evil pumpkin as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Do you remember this New Yorker cover from 2007? I still have it!" No sense of irony in DUmmieland over their hypocritical reactions to these...

On Saturday the Vice President had his annual checkup. He also taped a tribute to Tony Snow which was aired on FNS the following day.Click here for the transcript.Click here for video of the interview On Saturday the President and First Lady returned to White House where the President spoke about Tony Snow.Click here for transcript and link to audio and video Today the President made a statement on the 10th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act and discusses Outer Continental Shelf Exploration.Pray for President Bush -- Day 2861 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Jordan's Foreign Minister...

Today the President signed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 in the rose garden. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili met today in Tbilisi Georgia. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with British Defense Secretary Desmond Browne at the Pentagon. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2857

Reading a Seymour Hersh article is a bit like panning for gold: You have to dig through a lot of dirt to find any nuggets of possible value. Relying almost exclusively on vaguely described anonymous sources, he makes sweeping claims about top-secret operations that can only be known to a small number of people inside the government with access to the relevant “sensitive compartmented information” and “special access programs,” and they aren’t allowed to comment one way or the other. And his “reporting” is always colored by a sixties-leftist, anti-American, conspiratorial worldview. In his latest New Yorker article, “Preparing the...

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), one of the most vocal opponents of the Bush administration on Capitol Hill, said Scott McClellan's book and testimony justify the beginning of impeachment hearings against Vice President Dick Cheney. During questioning of McClellan, Wexler asked the former White House press secretary if he believed Bush authorized the leaking of Valerie Plame Wilson's name. When McClellan said no, Wexler said this meant that Cheney must have been the source of the leak, meaning Cheney was seeking to retaliate against the wife of an administration critic. In Wexler's view, this would be enough to support the initation...

There are thousands of authors that would sell their souls for a positive 500-word New York Times review of their book. No doubt that many of these authors have groundbreaking books on important issues. Putting those aside, last Sunday the Times featured a children’s book that blatantly copies the classic Goodnight Moon. Its purpose is bashing the Bush Administration, natch. The Times’ Joanne Kaufman writes: The cover of Goodnight Bush looks almost exactly like Goodnight Moon — green and orange, with an image of a window and fireplace — and uses a similar rhyme scheme. But there the thematic similarities...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba's behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Cheney said on Wednesday that waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, long off limits to oil companies, should be opened to drilling because China is already there pumping oil. ''Oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida,'' the vice president said. ''We're not doing it, the Chinese are, in cooperation...

Today the Presiden took part in a ceremonial groundbreaking of the United States Institute of Peace at Navy Hill. The President welcomed the 2007 Major League Soccer Cup winners, the Houston Dynamo to the White House today. The President also met with Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende at the White House. The President and the Vice President attended the Congressnal Picnic at the White House today. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2822 Today Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen at the State Department. The Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attended a News...

The President spent the weekend in Washington on the Saturday gave the commencement address at Furman University in South Carolina. On Sunday attended church in the morning and in the evening Ford's Theatre Gala at the held at National Theatre in Washington as the Ford's Theater is currently closed for renovations. Today the President spoke at a ceremony at the White House before awarding the Medal of Honor posthumously to the parents of U.S. Army PFC Ross McGinnis, of Knox, Pennsylvania, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. Later the President participated in a meeting on the Economy and Tax...

Today at about the time this thread is posted the President will be walking his daughter Jenna down the aisle in Crawford Texas as she marries Henry Hager. The White House has promised to release a couple of photos of this very private event tomorrow. On Friday evening the President attended a wedding rehearsal dinner near his ranch and the previous evening the Vice President spoke at an event in Washington celebrating the 60th year of the nation of Israel. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2795 . Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Today the President travelled to his ranch in Crawford for the weekend where his daughter Jenna's wedding will take place on Saturday. The local shops in Crawford have banners congratulating the couple and also many of them are selling unofficial souvenirs of the wedding. I heard Katie Couric on CBS news tonight say that the White House will release a couple of photos of the wedding on Sunday. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2793 Today the Vice President made remarks at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. Today Defense Secretary Robert...

Today the President travelled to New Orleans to take part in the North American leaders summit where he attended various events including a dinner this evening. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2776 The First Lady participated in a First Bloom event at Battery Park in New York. The Vice President said goodbye to the Pope yesterday and today spoke at the Manhatten Institute. Secretary of State Condeleza Rice was in Bahrain today and then travelled for private talks in Kuwait. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

By tradition, the guest of honor pokes a little fun at himself before the audience of media members and guests. The vice president worked in a reference to Democrat Barack Obama's controversial comments about "bitter" voters and his own hunting mishap. He thanked the attendees for the kind welcome, saying, "You're not the kind to look down on a bitter man who clings to his guns."

DENVER - A judge denied a request to subpoena Dick Cheney in a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was wrongfully arrested for comments he made to the vice president about the Iraq war. Steve Howards' attorney, David Lane, had argued that Secret Service agents involved in Howards' arrest in Beaver Creek in June 2006 told different versions of the incident and that only Cheney could clear up what happened. In denying Lane's motion Tuesday to have U.S. marshals serve Cheney with a subpoena, U.S. Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer said Lane had "not made a sufficient showing to...

Vice President Cheney went on right-wing talk radio yesterday with a dramatic new argument for preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, casting the Iranian leadership as apocalyptic zealots who yearn for a nuclear conflagration. Cheney also notably refused to comment about any recent conversations he may have had with Israeli leaders about the possibility of their bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. Some observers suspect Cheney of encouraging Israel to attack Iran as a proxy. Conventional wisdom in Washington has it that Cheney and other supporters of military action against Iran were sidelined after a National Intelligence Estimate last November reported that...

** EXCERPT ** WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women. Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney with a caption that said he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho. The photo is a tight shot of Cheney's face sporting dark sunglasses and his trademark grin. What's stirring all the buzz is the reflection in the vice president's dark glasses. Some thought that the reflection looked like a naked woman and, this being Cheney and this...

JERUSALEM - Old joke: Did you hear the one about the parents who had two sons? One went off to sea. The other became vice president, and neither was ever heard from again. Modern joke: When Dick Cheney is in the hospital, George W. Bush is just a heartbeat away from the presidency. The way people poke fun at the vice president today says a lot about how Cheney has retooled the job. Some argue that Cheney is too powerful, but the very fact that people are debating the issue is evidence of how much has changed from the days...

Back in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s worst days when he was grappling with the Vietnam quagmire and raucous anti-war protests at home, he said that in the big decisions about war and peace, “The people should be in on the takeoffs as well as the landings.” Tell that to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who apparently could care less what Americans think -- except every four years at election time. Cheney made that clear in an intriguing interview with ABC News on his recent Middle East trip. Despite the difficulties surrounding the unprovoked U.S. invasion of...

The President and First Lady spent the weekend at Camp David returning to the White House on Sunday. . Today the President took part in the Easter Egg Roll at the White House, met with India ' s Foreign Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, attended a National Security Council meeting and made a statement at the State Department.Pray for President Bush -- Day 2748 The Vice President continued his overseas trip today with meetings in Israel and Turkey. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee at the State Department Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, starting a visit on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Washington would never pressure Israel to take steps that threaten its security. Palestinians accuse Israel of undermining the U.S.-sponsored peace talks by expanding Jewish settlements, refusing to remove West Bank roadblocks and mounting offensives against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip who fire cross-border rockets into the Jewish state. "America's commitment to Israel's security is enduring and unshakable, as is Israel's right to protect itself always against terrorism, rocket attacks and other attacks from forces dedicated to Israel's destruction,"...

The President today spoke about the National President's Challenge. The President also met with Bahamas' Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, Barbados' Prime Minister David Thompson, and Belize's Prime Minister Dean Barrow along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He then departed from the White House to spend the Easter weekend at Camp David.Pray for President Bush -- Day 2744 The Vice President visited Afganistan today. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashviliand Thailand Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama today. Today Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

A few months ago, a day before one of the occasional marches the Capital sees demanding an end to the Iraq War, I began the descent into the Metro stop near my office, looked up, and saw a number of representatives of Code Pink standing at the railing overlooking the escalator. Or rather, I heard them first. They were screaming at the parade of commuters, at the top of their lungs and in a tone somewhere between simple frustration and righteous anger, "End the war!!!" Well, I thought, that ought to take care of things. Good work, hippies! I kid...

The President today met with Ireland Prime Minister Bernie Ahem and took place in St Patrick's Day celebrations. He also spoke about he economy and met with Children's Miracle Network Champion Children. The Vice President made a surprise visti to Iraq today. Secretary Rice and Secretary Gates are in Russia. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2741 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Preparing to hear oral arguments Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the Constitution's Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney opposing the Bush administration's stance. Even more remarkably, Cheney is faithfully reflecting the views of President George W. Bush. The government position filed with the Supreme Court by U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement stunned gun advocates by opposing the breadth of an appellate court affirmation of individual ownership rights. The Justice Department, not the vice president, is out of order. But if Bush agrees with Cheney, why did...

WASHINGTON - Borrowing a theme from the presidential contest, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the possibility of a 3 a.m. emergency call to the White House is all the more reason for the next commander in chief to follow through on President Bush's plans for a national missile defense. "It's plain to see that the world around us gives ample reason to continue working on missile defense," Cheney told the conservative Heritage Foundation at a dinner recognizing the 25th anniversary of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposed network of rockets capable of shooting down incoming intercontinental ballistic...

The President spent the weekend at his ranch where he met with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark. Today his returned to the White House and participated in the meeting of National Association of Attorneys General in the Eisenhower Executive Office building. He also mt with the former commanding general of the Multinational Corps in Iraq, Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno in the Oval Office. The President also presented the Medal of Honor posthumously to family members of Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble in the East Room. Pray for President Bush - Day - 2727 Enjoy your visit to...

For the benefit of our country, I hope and pray respect for the office of the president returns with the new president in 2009. The abuse the presidency of George Bush was forced to tolerate has been nothing short of obscene. Just last week, someone referred to the president as "that bastard Bush." The former first lady, senator and presidential candidate gently nodded her head in approval and answered the foul mouth with, "Well, there is a lot of truth in that." For years now Mr. Bush has been called a liar, betrayer, dummy, bastard, fear monger, murderer … just...

I ask the question because it isn't out of the question. They are good friends with a history. It would be a smart move on the Maverick's part to stilt up his lacking on conservative credentials. Could Thompson serve as the conservative concience? The ideological gravitas? Even...power behind the throne? How would the conservative base/blogosphere react? Serious thought from Scott Ott: Bring Fred Thompson on as vice president to serve as the Constitutional conscience of the administration -- an ideological gravitas behemoth -- who can do for President McCain what Dick Cheney has done for President Bush on foreign policy....

CNN has fired producer Chez Pazienza after the network brass realized he had been blogging at his own left-wing site and several others over a period of years: In a phone interview this morning, Mr. Pazienza, 38, said he joined CNN as a senior producer in January 2004 and has consistently received positive performance evaluations of his work. He spent his first year at CNN at the network’s headquarters in Atlanta, then moved to New York to work on “CNN Daybreak,” which has since been canceled, then “American Morning,” which is shown Monday through Friday, from 6 to 9 a.m....

The President and the first lady attended the National Prayer breakfast in Washington this morning. Later they listened to the . Veronica's Youth Steel Orchestra from Baltimore perform at the White House after the President signs an Executive Order Creating Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs. The President also addressed an East Room audience on pending President nominations. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2702 The Vice President addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference today. Click here for transcript.. Tomorrow the President will address the conference. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband make a visit...

Today the President travelled to Las Vegas, Nevad and delivered a speech on the Global War on Terror and national security and then travelled to Colorado to attend a fundraising event for the Republican candidate running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Wayne Allard. Click here for transcript of speech in Las Vegas. The Vice President spoke at the Charlotte Chamber in Charlotte, N.C. Click here for the transcript Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with French Defense Minister Herve Morin at the State Department. Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with French Defense Minister Harve Morin at the...

Brattleboro Town Officials Harassed Over Bush-Cheney Arrest Petition BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- Town officials in Brattleboro are being inundated with complaints from across the country about a decision to let voters decide whether arrest warrants should be issued for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Town Clerk Annette Cappy said the "nastiness" of the calls prompted the town office to stop answering its phones Monday. One message from a Minnesota man said he'd like to see terrorists cut off the heads of some Brattleboro officials. Brattleboro police said they will prosecute anyone whose messages cross the line and...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich says he will introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush for deceiving the American nation. The Democrat said Wednesday that he would introduce the articles on January 28, the day US President George W. Bush is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union speech. "We already know the State of the Union," Kucinich said. "It's a lie!" "[The] Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," the 61-year-old congressman quoted the Center for Public Integrity's...

When it comes to fund-raising, Democrats have outpaced Republicans almost across the board. The lone exception is the Republican National Committee, which reported yesterday that it had raised $83 million for the year, easily topping the Democratic National Committee, which had raised $50.5 million in the first 11 months of 2007. Republicans say that this cash pile — the Republican committee has $17.2 million on hand, compared to the $2.8 million the Democratic committee reported — should help the Republican presidential nominee in the fall. “Our significant fund-raising advantage over the D.N.C.,” said Alex Conant, a spokesman for the Republican...

The following photos may not necessarily be the best photos or the most important but they are chosen because they appeal to me and hopefully to you as well. It maybe because of the content, the expression on the face(s) or just an unusual photo. As there are so many photos I have split this thread into 2 the first one was January - June and this one, the second one July - December 2007 As with the normal Day in the Life Thread I would request that photos are not posted until the all clear so that we have...

The following photos may not necessarily be the best photos or the most important but they are chosen because they appeal to me and hopefully to you as well. It maybe because of the content, the expression on the face(s) or just an unusual photo. As there are so many photos I have split this thread into 2 the first one will be January - June and second one July - December 2007 As with the normal Day in the Life Thread I would request that photos are not posted until the all clear so that we have a chronology...

Today the President signed into law S. 2271, the "Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007 Click here for further details Today, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced the appointment of Representative Roger Wicker to serve as United State Senator for the State of Mississippi, succeeding Senator Trent Lott. Click here for the President's comments The President also issued his New Year message see Quote of the Day for the contents. At the end of the year it is often a time reflect on the previous year or maybe to look forward to something special or life changing that you know...