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American troops fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, while America's relations with its allies falter. The economic suffering in the U.S. spreads. The challenges facing the next U.S. president are enormous. A strong, steady, experienced leader must steer us through these turbulent times. Republican John McCain is that leader. Tested, McCain has demonstrated personal and political courage. Voters should elect him our next president. In 2000, this newspaper proudly endorsed McCain when he challenged George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination. Like today, McCain was the most experienced and knowledgeable candidate, with the political courage to stand up to partisan...

Buried in that 8,000 (!) word NYT magazine article about Obama’s economic plan that I mentioned yesterday, is this bit flagged by Geraghty at Campaign Spot: “If you talk to Warren [Buffet], he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said. “That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” He continued by saying that he thought there was some merit...

The owner of a blog titled DC Radio & Television (a leftist-leaning blog) posted the following blurb today: "Rant - 10/19 - Pardon me for delving into the political arena, but it's that time of the year and my concern is media-related. Agree or disagree with Sarah Palin, the reality is that if McCain, 72 and a cancer survivor, wins, there's a real chance that she could be required to take over the presidential duties in some form in the next four years. And, yet, during the campaign she had not appeared on any of the four major Sunday morning...

Barack Obama has had close ties to Marxists, including unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Obama’s relative Kenya’s Odinga, “Your Agent for Change,” the violent anti-American thug who made a pact with the Muslims to institute Sharia (Islamic law). Those ties, added to his plans to “redistribute the wealth,” concern many Americans.There’s the hope, however, that even if Obama were elected, the checks and balances in the U.S. will make it impossible for Obama to impose Marxism in the U.S. and deliver the U.S. to its enemies.But are those checks and balances in place? With Senate Majority...

Both William Ayers and his brother, John Ayers, ran organizations that received grants from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge run by Barack Obama, and both also contributed to at least one of Obama’s political campaigns. William Ayers is a one-time leader of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group that in the 1970s took credit for bombing the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. “I don’t regret setting bombs,” Ayers told the New York Times in 2001 about his experience with the Weathermen. “I feel we didn’t do enough.” In 1995, Obama, then a Chicago lawyer, received an early boost in his initial...

In a surprise announcement designed to have maximum media effect, former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, endorsed Senator Barack Obama. While early media reports have trumpeted the announcement as a coup for Obama, the endorsement is likely to shock many longtime anti-war, anti-Bush Democrats who will feel betrayed and uncomfortable with the notion of Obama receiving support from one of the leading figures of the Iraq War strategy. Indeed, given Obama’s strategy of opposing all things Bush, the Democrat is likely to find the support of George W. Bush’s former secretary of state a dubious blessing. While the media will...

NEW YORK – "Joe the Plumber" is lashing out at the media for analyzing his personal life since he suddenly became a focal point of the presidential race last week.

October 19, 2008 A Harvard Trial Lawyer for McCain By William A. Jacobson I would seem to fit the profile of a Barack Obama supporter. For over 20 years I represented investors against brokerage firms. Now I teach at an Ivy League law school. And I went to Harvard Law School. Yet I wholeheartedly support John McCain. Why would a Harvard-educated, Ivy League-teaching, plaintiff-representing trial lawyer support John McCain? What follows will not make me popular at my upcoming 25th law school reunion, but some things need to be said. Electing a President is a hiring decision, where the stakes...

<p>For a clue about what kind of people Barack Obama would appoint, his current campaign staff is a good place to start. They are experienced, smart, and most noteworthy, his policy people are mostly moderates.</p> <p>Austan Goolsbee, the University of Chicago economist who is expected to head up the Council of Economic Advisors in an Obama White House, is a centrist who supports free trade. Another campaign advisor, Jason Furman - who will likely head the National Economic Council - previously ran a centrist, pro-trade policy research group founded by former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin.</p>

We believed that in 1994 we had seized the moment by electing leaders we felt could turn the tide of the direction of this nation. In 2000 and 2004, we put our faith in President Bush only to see our leaders cave to intimidation and bullying by a more vocal opposition. Opportunities were squandered while billions of our dollars were spent on AIDS packages to Africa and domestic programs emblematic of LBJ's Great Society. We are now at a point where we could lose not only the Presidency, but witness staggering numbers by the opposition in both Houses. You didn't...

Colin Powell said one of his key reasons for supporting Barack Obama over John McCain was a difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, which he added is “what we'd be looking at in a McCain administration." Code for no Alito’s or Scalia’s. Powell went on to say that his decision had nothing to do with race, reinforcing that Obama was a “transformational” candidate. Interesting to see what the left will think of an endorsement from a man they ridiculed just a few short years ago on the war in Iraq. Powell also took issue to the...

McCain Compares Obama's Redistribution of Wealth to Socialism Republican presidential nominee John McCain is claiming Barack Obama's plan to redistribute wealth represents socialism. McCain made the charge about his Democratic rival on "Fox News Sunday." McCain was referring to a recent comment Obama made to a prospective voter in northern Ohio who has been dubbed "Joe the Plumber." The man had asked Obama if his taxes would go up if his plumbing business made more than $250,000 in annual income. McCain said his economic plan focuses on job creation to, "get our country's economy out of the ditch." The Arizona...

John McCain suggested Sunday that Barack Obama’s record-breaking fund raising was a gateway to corruption. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” the Republican nominee expressed concern over the amount of money his Democratic opponent was raising — and spending. Obama brought in a jaw-dropping $150 million in September, eclipsing his past record of $66 million. In talking about the news, McCain repeatedly referred to the Watergate scandal that resulted in the impeachment of former President Richard Nixon. McCain pointed to that incident, which included Republicans breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices, as an example of the kind of...

Message from The National Republican Trust PAC From Scott Wheeler Executive Director Dear Supporter: There he goes again! I appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto Friday discussing our new TV ad exposing Obama's radical plan to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens -- and Neil said the Obama campaign refused to come on the show. No surprise here. They are deathly afraid of this issue. But Cavuto did say that Obama campaign now claims that he does not support driver's licenses for illegals. Cavuto mentioned that Fox's own research showed Obama's claim was simply not true. Of course, it's...

I also heard an interview this morning: If ANYONE ELSE CAN GET IT Powell basically said that Obama will surround himself with experience people due to obamas Inexperience... Than he goes on to trash Palins Inexperience for President...

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: As Election Day looms just over two weeks away, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Saturday that with Republicans firing "vicious" and "dangerous" attacks at Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., voters are "having a difficult time" opting for the man who would become the nation's first African American president. "Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African American president in the history of the United States of America," the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said at a San Francisco fundraiser Saturday evening. "So we need to respond. We...

Barack Obama once expressed a fear that his opponent would first attack his lack of experience and then "mention he's black." Of course, that was before he fully appreciated the inpenetratable political suit of armor his black skin represents.

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   NRA And Brady Campaign AGREE: Barack Obama Is Anti-Gun   Friday, October 17, 2008   In a rare occurrence, NRA and the Brady Campaign (formerly Handgun Control, Incorporated) agree on something.    Four years ago, the Brady Campaign endorsed an anti-gun senator by the name of John Kerry for President, and NRA thought that decision made sense—for an anti-gun group.  This week, in a testament to his anti-gun record, Barack Obama also received a presidential endorsement from the Brady Campaign. So, once again, the Brady Campaign and NRA are in total agreement—Barack Obama is, by...

From Barack Obama's official website: “I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and...

Senior advisers think John McCain should attack Barack Obama's ties to his former pastor. He won't. McCain has refused to do it. The main reason, according to two aides who did not want to be named discussing private conversations with the candidate: any attack could be viewed as racially insensitive—or stir up racist sentiments—and that gets personal for McCain. He has not forgotten the racial smear directed at his own family during the South Carolina primary in 2000, when he ran against George W. Bush. Back then, supporters of Bush (their precise identities were never known) papered cars outside churches...