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Back in 2009, Brian Williams literally bowed to Barack Obama. Today, he's telling like it is from the Obama campaign trail: the size of the crowds is way down from last time around, and the candidate is not the same man he was in '08. This is a stunning admission from a man seen as deeply in the Obama tank. Williams made his admission to Chuck Todd on today's Daily Rundown. Takeaway line: "palpably obvious to you: this is not '08. These are not the crowds, this is not the candidate." View the shocking video here.

Change in thinking would be bad sign Sunday, May 30, 2010 02:59 AM Why has there been no reporting on what has to be one of the bigger organized theft operations in recent memory? I would estimate that hundreds of homeowners have been victimized in Upper Arlington, where I live, as well as in the surrounding suburbs and the city of Columbus. I believe the thefts began sometime shortly after the presidential election in 2008. It was then that I noticed that all those houses whose owners proudly had displayed signs reading “Support the Troops; End the War” were suddenly...

President-elect Barack Obama brought in nearly $750 million for his presidential campaign, a record amount that exceeds what all of the candidates combined collected in private donations in the previous race for the White House, according to a report filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission. Underscoring the success of his fund-raising, Obama reported that he had nearly $30 million in the bank as of Nov. 24, despite spending furiously at the end of his campaign.

----------------------------------------------------DEMOCRATS NOT TO BLAME?  NONSENSE ! About Nancy Pelosi.  She says the Democrats share absolutely none of the blame for the current financial goings-on.  She's wrong.  In fact, she's lying because she knows her statement to be untrue ... here's your primer:    1.  Almost all of the financial problems we see today are based on bad mortgage lending.  That would be lending money to people to buy homes who didn't qualify for a loan.    2.  The Democrats, under Clinton, strengthened a government-created monster called the "Community Reinvestment Act."  This law was then used by "activists" and "community organizers" (like Obama?)...

Obama prides himself as being a community organizer. This may sound benign but it isn't when done according to Shaul Alinksy's playbook. Alinsky preached seizing power by any means. We see those means in the work of ACORN. We see them in Obama refusing to discuss the past truthfully or allow any one else to do so. Everyone who knew him is mum. For Obama, no lie is too big. Deny, deny, deny. Here is the latest outrage. Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded. This fits in totally with the Alinsky playbook. Now we learn of another success by...

Americans Are About To Make a Mistake As someone born in Ecuador with friends and relatives in Latin America, I’m terrified watching how people in the United States are being manipulated just like people in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador to put a Marxist in power. The similarities between Rafael Correa’s campaign for president of Ecuador and that of Obama for U.S. president are amazing. Correa had no experience but was young, charismatic and had good speaking skills. Correa’s slogans were the same as Obama’s: CHANGE, YES WE CAN, etc. Informed Ecuadorians were not able to convince their clueless...

WASHINGTON -- How is it that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has been damaged badly by this financial crisis while the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, is presenting himself successfully as a financial genius capable of working Christ's miracle of the loaves and fishes on our economy? The financial markets froze up because the Democrats prevailed on mortgage lenders -- mainly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac -- to relax standards against thitherto unqualified property buyers. They did it out of an ideological commitment to their thesis that poor people living in private homes would be better citizens. It...

The American people have lost faith in their government. You can tell this by looking at Wall Street. The approval ratings for Congress swings between 9-13 percent. Congress passed a 850-billion dollar "rescue" package and the stock market fell another 800 points. We have "nationalized" the home mortgage business. Uncle Sam now controls this industry, for better or worse, and I’m betting it’s for the worse. When Congress nationalizes the health care industry, expect to get the same results. No wonder Americans don’t trust big government. ----- Snip Capitalism did not cause the problems we are facing today. Had the...

Fox just interviewed Stanley Kurtz. Kurtz claimed a documented, direct link between Obama's training ACORN criminals and the mortgage disaster as ACORN was the largest gang in forcing the banks to make the bad loans. Obama was ACORN's principal trainer in Illinois. My question: where is McCain? He could run ads proving this link and destroy Obama's candidacy. He isn't.

Former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes commented Sept. 23 on the federal government's bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The former Assistant Secretary of State, currently running for president as an independent, said the bailout plan as proposed by the Bush administration would effectively transform our nation into "a socialist society." The following is the text of Keyes' statement: What I have to say about the bailout is that, with a concrete proposal on the table, it becomes much more obvious what is actually going on right now, and I think that we have to confront it. And...

Meet Obama's new Bill Ayers associate Ex-communist leader tied to terrorist eliminated from campaign website Posted: September 14, 2008 8:20 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2008 WorldNetDaily Mike Klonsky JERUSALEM – The official campaign website of Sen. Barack Obama has completely scrubbed a series of user-generated blog postings on the candidate's site by a former top communist activist who is an associate of former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers. The move has raised questions regarding Obama's relationship with the deleted blogger, Mike Klonsky, who runs an education organization that was founded by Ayers and that received a substantial grant...

Republican presidential running mates John McCain and Sarah Palin roared into Virginia yesterday in their first appearance together in this vital battleground state. Sans their opponent’s usual big-name band opening act to pull in crowds, the McCain-Palin rally drew an estimated 23,000 or more from across Virginia. Crowds packed into a hot and humid Van Dyke Park in Fairfax City to cheer for their candidates. According to the campaign press office, this was the largest McCain-Palin rally to date. Sen. Fred Thompson fired up the crowd as the lead-in to the main event with red meat jabs at the media,...

Posted at MommyLife this morning - a forwarded letter from Sarah Palin's hometown: Sarah Palin is the US's answer to Margaret Thatcher! Anyone who thinks she cannot handle the job or deal briskly and efficiently with ANY issue, including foreign governments ... well, they haven't met our Sarah . As an Alaskan resident as well as a resident of Wasilla, AK, where Sarah Palin was at one time Mayor ... I can speak with confidence. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is exactly what she portrayed during her introduction this morning and exactly what our US Government needs. She is ethical...

Barack Obama: The first metrosexual candidate for President of the United States Feet and shoes take center place in Andy Martin's web-footed analysis of the left's effort to demonize Senator John McCain "Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct" AMERICA'S #1 POLITICAL BLOG ON THE 2008 CAMPAIGN ------------------------------------------------------------- We're not always first because we're #1; We're #1 because we are always first. ------------------------------------------------------------- BARACK OBAMA SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN'S FEET, OR HE RISKS GETTING THE BOOT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COMMENTS BY KEITH OLBERMANN DO GET THE BOOT FROM ANDY MARTIN METROSEXUAL DEMOCRAT OBAMA SHOULD TREAD LIGHTLY ON MCCAIN'S...

David Petraeus was diplomatic in his choice of words, and careful to honor the primacy of civilian authority over the military. But the commanding general of multi-lateral forces in Iraq has left little doubt that if a new president wanted to withdraw from Iraq faster than would reflect Petraeus's considered military opinion, he'd be happy to go home to his family. ABC's Bill Weir interviewed the Gen. Petraeus as part of a Good Morning America special today marking the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. The opening segment focused almost exclusively on the costs of the war. Some producer...

Every campaign cycle, you hear complaints that this is the dirtiest campaign ever. Modern campaigns, disgusting as they sometimes get, would have a long way to go to beat some elections in the early days of the Republic. But this one has featured a number of flat-out dishonest tricks. John McCain has always been ethically challenged. In Florida, McCain's campaign was making calls to voters accusing Mitt Romney of supporting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, even though Romney had said on national television that if such a timetable came to him, he would veto it. When talk radio played...

It appears that Senator Clinton's war machine wants her to be tough down the strectch. She continued to invoke Senater Barack Obama's name when she was asked questions about her vote to authorize the war in Iraq. When she was asked questions about personal mistakes she accused the Bush Administration of lying to the American people. In this situation the buck stops on the laps of all of her political enemies. She also blamed Obama's camp for the comment she made about Martin Luther King.

Black Leaders Question Remark - Clinton Defends Obama Comment WASHINGTON (Jan. 12) - The Clinton campaign moved Friday to try to quell a potentially damaging reaction to recent comments by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton that have drawn criticism from African-Americans just as the presidential primary campaign reached Southern states with significant numbers of black voters. In a call on Friday to Al Sharpton’s nationally syndicated talk radio show, Mr. Clinton said that his "fairy tale" comment on Monday about Senator Barack Obama’s position on the Iraq war was being misconstrued, and that he was talking only about the...

The news media in the Granite State of New Hampshire have been covering the New Hampshire Primary from stump speech to stump speech. There is no doubt that this is one of the most thrilling elections in recent memory on both the Republican and Democratic side. eNews References: Amherst Citizen Bedford Bulletin Bedford Journal Neighbourhood News Berlin Reporter Bow Times Eagle Times Weekly Flea Colebrook Chronicle News and Sentinel Northern New Hampshire Magazine Concord Mirror Concord Monitor Conway Daily Sun Mountain Ear Derry News Dover Community News Foster's Daily Democrat MSNBC Foster's Daily Democrat New Hampshire Exeter News Letter MSNBC...

Senator Hillary Clinton has hit the ground on the attack, but her problem is 40% percent of New Hampshire voters are independent and nonaligned. The have been packing into everyone of Obama’s events at this point. And if this movement continues, Clinton loses big in this state.