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Double-barreled action here on the meta-argument that The One’s policies, whether foreign or domestic, are simply too risky to gamble on. The Iran ad, curiously, makes no mention of Sarkozy’s comments even though the McCain camp’s e-mail does. The fact that France is worried about Obama going soft on Iranian nukes might be worth flagging for rural undecideds, n’est-ce pas? Alternately, you could just cut video of Joe the Plumber on the stump for McCain today, agreeing with a questioner who asked whether a vote for Obama isn’t a vote for the death of Israel. Wow. video at link

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) - "Joe the Plumber," the small business aspirant and overnight media sensation, endorsed John McCain's presidential campaign Tuesday and said Barack Obama would make America a socialist nation. The Ohio plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, also agreed with a McCain supporter who asked him if he believed "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel." "I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher told the man, retired Florida lawyer Stan Chapman who was visiting Ohio

Barack Obama opened a can of worms with Joe the Plumber and his remarks on government “spreading the wealth”. Over the weekend, an NPR interview from 2001 surfaced in which Obama noted that the failure to achieve redistributive change through the civil-rights movement was “one of [its] tragedies”. Today, a reader sends me this recap from a spring 1996 meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has a 34-year-old Obama talking redistribution at the beginning of his political career

ARLINGTON, Va., October 28 /Standard Newswire/ -- Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released its latest television ad, entitled "Compare." The ad highlights the clear choice Americans have at the polls this year. For higher taxes, policies that spread the wealth around, increased government spending and pain for small business, Barack Obama is the clear choice in this election. For policies that promote economic growth, help working Americans, lower taxes and eliminates government waste, the choice is John McCain. The ad will be televised in key states. VIEW THE AD HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kft4l9nw4zc Script For "Compare" (TV :30) ANNCR: Your choice... For higher taxes...

Ohio's Head of Job and Family Services Approved a Child-Support Search on Joe Wurzelbacher Immediately After Third Debate; Her Excuse? "Oh, We Always Do That" Confirmed: Max Donor to Obama Helen Jones-Kelley (two e's in Kelley) just happens to be a maximum $2300 contributor to Barack Obama.

Republican strategist Bill Greener writes at Salon that "if history is any guide, Barack Obama, as an African-American candidate for political office, needs to be polling consistently above 50 percent to win. And in crucial battleground states, he isn't." At FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver writes that he's cherry-picking his poll numbers and ignoring that 2006 was just a lousy year for Republicans, white or black. Greener notes that in Tennessee, Democrat Harold Ford Jr. was able to pick up one out of every five undecided voters. In Massaschusetts, undecideds split 2:1 for Republican Kerry Healey over Democrat Deval Patrick, even though...

ABC News' Bret Hovell reports: Joe Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” will campaign tomorrow in Ohio for Senator John McCain. Wurzelbacher, the Toledo-area native, will go on a bus tour with former Rep. Rob Portman, a close McCain supporter, and a number of small business people. It will be the first time Wurzelbacher has been out to campaign for the McCain ticket since he approached Barack Obama some weeks back to ask about Obama’s tax policy, and became a part of McCain’s stump speech. McCain, and his running mate Sarah Palin, have made “Joe the Plumber” a central part of...

Campaign Calendar "I'm going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me." - John McCain Use this calendar to find the latest events for McCain-Palin 2008. 10/28/2008 7:00:00 AM - Hershey , PA Road to Victory Rally in Hershey, PA Please join...

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Robin Hood is a legitimate hero, not because he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, but rather because he returned to the poor what lawfully belonged to them. This distinction is what separates the just goals of Robin and his band of “Merry Men” from the dehumanizing economic theory of “redistribution of wealth”—a hallmark of socialism—as explained and supported by Senator Barack Obama in his 2001 interview with Chicago Public Radio, just recently rediscovered by the media. While the famed green archer risked his life in defense of the natural right to retain private property (from thieves...

A 7-year-old radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the failure of the Supreme Court to rule on redistributing wealth in its civil rights rulings has given fresh ammunition to critics who say the Democratic presidential candidate has a socialist agenda. The interview -- conducted by Chicago Public Radio in 2001, while Obama was an Illinois state senator and a law professor at the University of Chicago -- delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further than it did, so that when "dispossessed peoples" appealed to the high court on the right to sit at the lunch...

"We have witnessed John McCain become a leader - not only of a delegation from a fast-growing Southwestern state, but into a national leader with a reassuring habit of stepping to the front when things seemed most difficult. Nobody in the country knows the Republican presidential candidate better than we do. And no one is better placed to judge whether he would serve honorably and admirably as president of the United States." -- The Arizona Republic "McCain: A Leader For These Times" Editorial The Arizona Republic October 25, 2008 Nowhere else in the country do voters know John McCain like...

Campaign Calendar "I'm going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me." - John McCain Use this calendar to find the latest events for McCain-Palin 2008. 10/27/2008 7:00:00 AM - Leesburg, VA Road to Victory Rally in Loudoun County, VA Please join...

We are just about a week from the presidential election and after two years of covering the candidates, Sean makes his final case, laying out all the reasons why, in his opinion, Barack Obama is not ready to be president of the United States Sundays 9 p.m. ET and 12 a.m. ET

The impact of the financial crisis on the American presidential election has somewhat obscured the most important reason why the prospect of an Obama presidency is giving so many people nightmares. This is the fear that, if he wins, US defences will be emasculated at a time of unprecedented international peril and the enemies of America and the free world will seize their opportunity to destroy the west. Personally, I don’t give any credence to the ‘support’ for one candidate over the other that has been expressed by the enemies of civilisation (Iran and Hamas ‘support’ Obama, while an al...

REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH: Theory vs. practice. And if you split the tip among two homeless guys, they can outvote the waiter every time!

A Catholic Cannot Vote For Obama / The Catholic Vote Video / The Freedom Of Choice Act From rosaryfilms of Secret of the Rosary Video at link

Campaign Calendar "I'm going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me." - John McCain Use this calendar to find the latest events for McCain-Palin 2008. 10/26/2008 9:00:00 AM - Tampa , FL Road to Victory Rally in Tampa, FL Please join...

The Barack Obama campaign called Barbara West's interview with Sen. Joe Biden unprofessional and combative. The veteran WFTV-Channel 9 anchor-reporter says she asked pointed questions and respects Sen. Biden, who is Sen. Obama's running mate. In a call to me Friday evening, West (pictured) said of Biden: "I have a great deal of respect for him. I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Obama. We are given four minutes of a satellite window for these interviews. Four precious minutes. I got right down to it and, yes, I think I asked him some pointed questions. These are questions...

WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says it's some of the best entertainment he's seen recently. What do you think? West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment. "Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said. West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying...