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  • McCain on Israel, Iran and the Holocaust--Obama on Zionism and Hamas

    06/01/2008 8:12:58 AM PDT · by SJackson · 18 replies · 180+ views
    The Atlancic ^ | 6-1-08 | Jeffrey Goldberg
    McCain on Israel, Iran and the HolocaustTwo weeks ago, I spoke with Barack Obama about the Middle East, Zionism, and his favorite Jewish writers. Since my blog is both fair and balanced, I had a lengthy conversation with Senator John McCain earlier this week about many of the same subjects. The two candidates, who are scheduled to address the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C. early next week, have well-developed thoughts on the Middle East, and their differences are stark. Obama sees the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as one of America’s central challenges in the Middle East; McCain names Islamic extremism as...
  • Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. promises amnesty to illegal aliens

    06/01/2008 7:09:11 AM PDT · by TLI · 17 replies · 88+ views
    YouTube ^ | May 30, 2008 | Kitty Pilgrim
    In a one hour interview with UNIVISION, Obama GUARANTEED "comprehensive immigration reform" in the first year of his presidency. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=d94L6v2mBD4 Clip is only 2:36.
  • The #1 Winning Economic Issue for the GOP (if they're smart)

    05/31/2008 10:41:48 AM PDT · by paul in cape · 8 replies · 97+ views
    Gasprices.com ^ | 5-30-2008
    If the GOP wants to win the election and maybe even the House and Senate this year, here's one sure fire issue which would guarantee it. Let's see if they're smart enough to use it!
  • GOP is indeed stupid for its timidity

    05/31/2008 10:53:25 AM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 87 replies · 191+ views
    Herald Mail ^ | 5/31/08 | JAMES H. WARNER
    I cannot remember who first called the Republican Party the "stupid party," but recent events show that our party has earned this name. The very issues with which the Democrats are attacking the Republicans in the current campaign are issues on which Democrats are especially vulnerable. However, the stupid party seems not to have noticed. First, look at Social Security. Obviously, Social Security must be reformed, the sooner the better. But when President Bush asked Congress to reform it, and permit private accounts to be included in Social Security, Congress (which was controlled by the stupid party at the time)...
  • McCain Trusted More Than Obama on Economy, Iraq, National Security

    05/30/2008 7:29:11 AM PDT · by Kleebo151 · 28 replies · 63+ views
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 30, 2008 | Rasmussen Reports
    When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even larger edge—53% to 31%--on the broader topic of National Security. These results are little changed from a month ago.
  • John Fund: The Obama Gaffe Machine

    05/30/2008 3:35:44 PM PDT · by neverdem · 24 replies · 86+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | May 30, 2008 | JOHN FUND
    For months, Barack Obama has had the image of an incandescent, golden-tongued Wundercandidate. That image may be fraying now. As smart and credentialed as he is, Sen. Obama is often an indifferent speaker without a teleprompter. He has large gaps in his knowledge base, and is just as likely to dig in and embrace a policy misstatement as abandon it. ABC reporter Jake Tapper calls him "a one-man gaffe machine." Take the Auschwitz flub, where Mr. Obama erroneously claimed last weekend in New Mexico that his uncle helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp. Reporters noted Mr. Obama's revised claim, that...
  • Different Americas

    05/30/2008 3:08:07 PM PDT · by DIM1 · 4 replies · 87+ views
    Red State Blue ^ | 29th of May 2008 | David Aronin
    A matrix delineating and examining issues on which Senators McCain and Obama differ significantly - an informational resource Introduction Much of this piece was originally published this past April under the title "On McCain." In addition to the matrix mentioned above, that article included an amount of additional commentary which this version does not. But, where that piece was an editorial, this one is intended basically as an informational resource - one largely aimed at those who already support Sen McCain and are seeking to convince wavering conservatives to support him as well. It is therefore naturally inclined towards a...
  • Top Ten Great Things About John McCain

    05/27/2008 9:48:59 AM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 146 replies · 224+ views
    IMAO ^ | 5/27/08 | Frank J
    Conservatives don't seem so enthused with John McCain and kind of feel on the sidelines this election cycle. Still, things could be worse, so I thought I'd make a list of positive things about the Republican candidate: TOP TEN GREAT THINGS ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN 10. Independents love him, so they must know something we don't with how smart they think they are. 9. Since he has military combat experience, instead of getting the tiresome chickenhawk argument from liberals, we'll get the newer, more interesting "being in the military made him crazy!" argument. 8. Reportedly, he's very conservative on social issues......
  • Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less.

    05/29/2008 2:39:09 PM PDT · by Signalman · 67 replies · 231+ views
    American Solutions ^ | May, 2008 | Newt Gingrich
    Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less
  • The Candidates’ Communist Connections

    05/26/2008 6:54:39 AM PDT · by vietvet67 · 19 replies · 154+ views
    Accuracy in Media ^ | May 25, 2008 | Cliff Kincaid
    Senator McCain’s communist connections consist of bombing the communists during the Vietnam War and then being shot down, badly injured, captured, and tortured by them. On the other hand, Senator Barack Obama was mentored by an identified Communist Party member in Hawaii who had functioned as a Stalinist agent. That was before Obama developed cordial relationships with communist terrorists who openly supported the communist regime that tortured McCain and killed 58,000 of our fellow Americans. Can we have some coverage of the contrast between the two candidates on Memorial Day? It’s not just a matter of McCain serving in the...
  • Obama And McCain Divided On Reform For Social Security

    05/25/2008 5:57:00 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 11 replies · 114+ views
    Investors Business Daily ^ | 23 May 2008 | JED GRAHAM
    The Social Security fixes touted by John McCain and Barack Obama couldn’t be any further apart — unless Obama was offering a true fix. McCain would close looming Social Security shortfalls by curbing benefit promises. Obama would leave benefits untouched and rely just on tax hikes — though not nearly enough to erase the funding gap. But their plans do share one common feature: Both would likely be dead on arrival in Congress, say Social Security reform advocates. "They’re both very politically attractive options if you’re running in a primary,” said Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise...
  • 'Nothing but Misogynists' (Hillary Blames Sexism)

    05/24/2008 3:50:31 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 29 replies · 38+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 24 May 2008 | DONALD J. BOUDREAUX
    Hillary Clinton is now complaining that her candidacy has been harmed by sexism. Interviewed earlier this week by the Washington Post, Sen. Clinton said the polls show that "more people would be reluctant to vote for a woman [than] to vote for an African American." This gender bias, she grumbled, "rarely gets reported on." So a woman who holds degrees from Wellesley and Yale – who has earned millions in the private sector, won two terms in the U.S. Senate, and gathered many more votes than John Edwards, Bill Richardson and several other middle-aged white guys in their respective bids...
  • Lock and load, and wedlock

    05/24/2008 1:06:12 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 22 replies · 87+ views
    Washington Times ^ | May 24, 2008 | By Jacob Sullum
    In a recent speech to the National Rifle Association, Sen. John McCain presented himself as an advocate of judicial restraint. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee decried "activist judges" who override the will of the people as expressed by their legislative representatives, in the process "shrugging off generations of legal wisdom and precedent." Yet that is exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court will be doing if, as the Arizona senator urges, it overturns the District of Columbia's gun ban. Evidently some kinds of judicial activism are better than others. Perhaps activism vs. restraint is not the best measure of what makes...
  • McCain appears cancer-free, healthy

    05/23/2008 9:01:35 AM PDT · by frankjr · 20 replies · 99+ views
    AP ^ | 5/23/08 | LAURAN NEERGAARD and LIZ SIDOTI
    Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press. "I do not see any worrisome lesions," Dr. Suzanne Connolly concluded after McCain's most recent exam, on May 12. His likely Democratic rival, Barack Obama, will be 47 in August. Obama, lean and agile and a frequent basketball player, says he has quit smoking. Neither he nor Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton has released health records. The details of McCain's health are contained in 1,173 pages of medical documents spanning...
  • McCain on 'DeGeneres Show': Marriage Between Man, Woman

    05/22/2008 6:13:14 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 66 replies · 190+ views
    Newsmax ^ | May 22, 2008 | Rick Pedraza
    Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, long opposed to gay marriage and even civil unions, appeared on Thursday’s "The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” saying that he disagrees with the California decision, but wishes her all the best as she makes plans to walk down the aisle with girlfriend, actress Portia de Rossi. DeGeneres tried to sway McCain’s opinion by explaining to the senator that she views the issue in the same way as when blacks and women didn’t have the right to vote. “Women just got the right to vote in 1920, and blacks didn’t have the right to vote until 1870,”...
  • Dem Senators Divided on Obama's Call for Repealing Defense of Marriage Act

    05/22/2008 2:19:42 PM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 31 replies · 139+ views
    Cybercast News Network ^ | 5/21/08 | Josiah Ryan
    The Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, protects states from having to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states. Ordinarily, under the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" of the Constitution, states are required to recognize "the public Acts, Records and judicial Proceedings of every other State." "Obama also believes we need to fully repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally recognized unions,"...
  • Back same-sex marriage without apology [Progressives top electoral issue]

    05/21/2008 6:39:41 PM PDT · by SJackson · 18 replies · 53+ views
    Capital Times ^ | 5/21/2008
    Same-sex marriage just made a major comeback as a campaign issue. Last Thursday's ruling by the California Supreme Court that a reasonable reading of the state constitution prevents the denial of marriage protections to same-sex couples means that both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain -- as well as congressional candidates -- will be debating the most contentious of social issues this fall. California first established domestic partnerships in 1999 and expanded them in 2005 to include broad family recognition. In 2005 and 2007, the California Legislature passed measures that would have ended the exclusion of same-sex couples from...
  • Barack Carter Obama

    05/20/2008 5:30:29 PM PDT · by Dawnsblood · 14 replies · 90+ views
    IBD ^ | 5/20/08
    Obama wants to talk with Iran. But the question he refuses to answer is what he'd tell Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Obama dislikes being called an appeaser. But would he say to Iran: No deal unless you disown and disarm Hezbollah? We doubt it. More likely he'd sacrifice a country such as Lebanon to Tehran's ambitions in a modern-day Munich. In his book, "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons," Obama adviser Joseph Cirincione, director of nuclear policy at the center for American Progress, says he favors Israel giving up its nuclear weapons to ensure Iran doesn't obtain nukes. That's...
  • Kind of Blue - Gay-marriage ruling can help McCain.

    05/20/2008 8:04:32 AM PDT · by neverdem · 7 replies · 84+ views
    National Review Online ^ | May 20, 2008 | Mark Stricherz
    May 20, 2008, 5:00 a.m. Kind of BlueGay-marriage ruling can help McCain. By Mark Stricherz On the day the California supreme court redefined the state’s definition of marriage, a gay activist from New Jersey made the following prediction. “What happens in California does not stay in California,” Steven Goldstein, chairman of Garden State Equality, told the Newark Star Ledger. “And that is a great thing for equality.” Yet it would not be a great thing for Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton, for that matter). In fact, it might well cost him the election. Suppose the California ruling moves forward...
  • Michelle Obama IS a Campaign Issue, and a Big One

    05/20/2008 10:54:48 AM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 48 replies · 33+ views
    IsraPundit ^ | 05/20/08 | Bill Levinson
    General Sun Tzu wrote 2500 years ago that if an opponent is oversensitive (e.g. to personal insults) you can goad and enrage him into doing something stupid. The Art of War cites a case in which a general sent his opponent a full chamber pot instead of the customary gift. The opponent let his temper get the better of him, and allowed his rage instead of his judgment to guide his decisions. The results were predictable. It seems like the way to stop Obama is to focus more attacks on Michelle Obama, as shown by the following. If they [Republicans]...