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Keep denying it. Keep spinning it. Palin is going to help change this election. Obama claims to represent change and for his first and most important choice chose a 35 year serving, 65 year old white man who, while nice has the sorts of slips and quips that reflect the thinking that goes on behind the PC platitudes. Obama chose the past. McCain chose the future. He chose the new and the different. Those who claim to want different showed with their scorn and disdain that they want the same old thing and they used the same old sexist, misogynistic...

It turns out that Joseph Biden is the poorest member of the Senate, is 65 years old and likely has a huge negative net-worth. His net-worth is listed as From $-302,980 to $277,997 by OpenSecrets.org. He keeps dozens of lines of credit, a new one opened every couple of years and together they add up to huge sums for a guy who has had a better paying job than most for basically his entire adult life.

In the introduction, Mr. Obama acknowledged his use of pseudonyms, composite characters, approximated dialogue and events out of chronological order. He was writing at a time well before a recent series of publishing scandals involving fabrication in memoirs. “He was trying to be careful of people’s feelings,” said Deborah Baker, the editor on the first paperback edition of the book. “The fact is, it all had a sort of larger truth going on that you couldn’t make up.” Finally there is this last bit and it shows why the Corsi book is a game changer even if it ends up...

Some of us are not puzzled by this at all because many of us Republicans watched a few of the Democratic debates and noted how each time Obama was engaged, he lost a big state to Hillary Clinton. A smile, and a speech off a teleprompter won't save you when you have to engage and argue your ideas with someone else. Every supposed strength of Obama, as you noted, is played up by these interactions and also, as you noted it could and should break the campaign wide open by putting that distance between him and McCain, or putting him...

The media keep calling Obama a rising star, a rock star, and other phrases to try to build him up. They keep trying to give him momentum and build support for him due to their own biases. When Republicans are smart enough to note the process, the media goes nuts trying to cover their own rear. They don't even realize that one of the reasons McCain has gone negative is because it will finally yield some coverage that they have been refusing to give him. They won't cover him in front of a podium speaking about his energy plan. However...

Something I have to ask about some of these figures is does anyone remember what racist is anymore? It seems we have defined the bar for racism down to a mere difference in perception of offense among different groups. This is almost as bad as those reports out of the UK whereby toddlers were being labeled racist if they didn't respond favorably to ethnic food selections. The John McCain Celebrity Ad shows Obama amidst two celebrities who appear to have questionable talent and have proven to be more famous for being famous than anything else. How does linking Obama to...

Barack Obama has a serious problem coming up in the fall election schedule. People are going to ask him to define what HOPE™ and CHANGE™ mean and so far when he has done this, it drops him lower in the polls and always comes off sounding like a gaffe. The reality is that it isnt a gaffe, this nonsense, the substance without style is what he happens to believe folks. He will fly around in Barack One while chastizing you to ensure your tires are properly filled to solve our energy crisis.

Obama is, of course, a hypocrite. His campaign is anything but post-racial. On the contrary, Obama has created at atmosphere of guilt-based voting. You see, one must vote for Obama if he's not racist and if he's interested in a post-racial America. And be careful...don't be fooled! McCain and his cohorts will do everything possible to tell you Obama is BLACK! Now, who is running a post-racial candidacy, exactly?

From House Speaker Pelosi, we learn that any proposal that is conservatie is not worthy of serious debate and is of course a hoax or lie. The Democratic Congress promised an end to expensive $3 gas when they took office and now we have $4 because of their serious debate and non-hoax solutions. Obama insists that if we changed our spark plugs and inflated our tires, we need not drill. So I wanted to see some serious, non-hoax solutions and so I go to BarackObama.com to read of how Presumptive President Elect Obama plans to get more energy. His first...

Programming Note: Fresh off his uncontrollable lurch into the insight that Clinton and McCain would win their respective New Hampshire primaries, Proft will again be on the one hour televised version of Bruce DuMont's "Beyond the Beltway" Sunday night at 10:30pm on WYCC, Channel 20. For the radio version of BTB from 6-8pm Sunday evening on WLS-AM 890, DuMont will be broadcasting live from Grand Rapids, Michigan. ________________________________________ I do not pretend to understand the mind, to the extent there is such evidence, of the befuddled iteration of Homo sapiens known as the Democrat primary voter. Thus, in order to...

U.S. voters open minds By Paul Jackson Calgary Sun, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 PHOENIX -- The Arizona sun scorches down as I realize the past 10 elected U.S. presidents have all been white males and with the exception of John F. Kennedy, have all been Protestants. Even the one president since Democrat Harry Truman who remains the only president never to be elected, Gerald Ford, was a white male and Protestant. Until now, with the advent of Barack Obama, no black American has even come close to being elected president, and neither has a woman, until today with Hillary...

Article is from June, but quite relevant with the specualtion now turning to possibilities for 2008. Thoroughly enjoyed this one. COLUMBIA, S.C. — For someone who battles big government all day long, Mark Sanford is incredibly relaxed. After locking horns with lawmakers, the Palmetto State's Republican governor spent a recent evening sipping a Bud Light and chatting in a Polo shirt and khakis. As befits this 44-year-old who runs and swims daily, the Dave Matthews Band plays quietly on his sound system. "We've saved 50 percent on headcount at the Governor's Mansion and 45 percent on operating expenses," Sanford says....

Prediction....      Condi v. Hillary 2008Source: (My Brain)Why? Hot on the heels of a DNC/Clinton/Panetta/Davis/Jackson v. Florida 2000 /LA Times department of information now recall then but recall now debacle, and in the middle of a General Clark meltdown, Condi Rice gets a full 25 minutes or so of air time on Fox News Channel. Talking about the war on terror. Brilliant performance as usual.....Enough to give Al Franken a splitting migraine for sure... Especially since we all know that the President has in place a direct phone line to Roger Ailes.But seriously though, the feed was offered as breaking news...