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Somewhere, probably in Pakistan's tribal province of Waziristan, Osama bin Laden knows that a US election is going on. The last time this happened, bin Laden injected himself into the campaign at the penultimate moment, releasing a nearly 15-minute videotape just four days before America went to the polls. This year, both campaigns are wondering whether he'll try something again, delivering the "October surprise" that could scramble the electoral equation. Bin Laden's awareness of American politics was evident in his 2004 videotape, a rant that is far more interesting when decoded as a political document than as a national-security threat....

Some conservative activists, despairing (prematurely) about the chances for victory on November 4th, argue that an Obama win could be a blessing in disguise. According to this logic, The One would occupy the White House for only One term and whatever big government, liberal programs he managed to enact could be swiftly repealed by some future "true conservative" champion. Yes, it’s true that some changes by liberal presidents can be erased by future conservatives – for instance, George W. Bush cut the top marginal tax rate to 35%, after it had risen to 39.6% under Clinton (it’s sure to go...

John McCain's campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks. In an appearance on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio program, Davis said that circumstances had changed since John McCain initially and unilaterally took Obama's former pastor off the table. The Arizona Republican, Davis argued, had been jilted by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, who compared recent GOP crowds to segregationist George Wallace's rallies. And, as such, the campaign was going to "rethink" what was in and out of political bounds. "Look, John McCain has told...

Clinton campaign alleges "voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign." It's not just about ACORN any more. When Hillary Clinton conceded the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama--possibly under duress from Obama's cohorts and party leaders--she was probably supposed to have removed from the Internet all damning statements that she and her campaign had made about Barack Obama. Unfortunately for Barry, a letter from her campaign counsel, which is still online at http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2008/images/01/23/nv.state.letter.1.23.08.pdf, is about to become the dreaded October Surprise. (A backup copy is now at http://www.stentorian.com/Obama/clinton_complaint.pdf). This extremely damning letter not only reinforces what...

Monday, October 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was interviewed this weekend by CBNews correspondent David Brody, answering a variety of questions on matters ranging from her Christian faith to her position on a federal constitutional marriage amendment that would define marriage as being between one man and one woman. When questioned about the shots the mainstream media has been taking at her for her religious beliefs, Palin told Brody that her faith has “always been pretty personal and that was kind of a surprise in the last couple of months that people would misconstrue and spin anything...

McCain Camp Re-Thinking Decision to Not Use Rev. Wright as ‘Wedge’ in Attacks on Obama October 20, 2008 3:17 PM In an interview with Republican talk radio host Hugh Hewitt last Thursday, Rick Davis, campaign chair of McCain-Palin ’08, said the campaign is re-thinking Sen. John McCain's earlier decision to not attack Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on the subject of his controversial former preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "There is a report in the media, a couple actually, that your campaign is divided over whether or not Jeremiah Wright ought to be an issue in the last three weeks," Hewitt said....

Two decades ago, Douglas Wilder watched as a 9% lead in the polls going into Virginia's gubernatorial election slipped to just one-tenth of 1% when the ballots were counted.He still won the election - becoming the first African-American to be elected a US state governor - but the narrowness of his victory led analysts to speculate that he had been a victim of a white hesitancy to vote for a black man. The theory goes that some white voters tell opinion pollsters they will vote for a black candidate - but then, in the privacy of the polling booth, put...

Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, has put him at odds with his own son, former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell. Michael Powell, who served as a policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, is a surrogate for John McCain and represents the GOP nominee on the campaign trail. He endorsed McCain early in the Republican primary in January, and said the Arizona senator was the best candidate to “calm the turbulent economic waters and to steer the new economy in a direction that will bring growth, opportunity and prosperity to all Americans.” Powell contributed...

The Roswell Daily Record has endorsed Republican John McCain for president, citing his leadership ability, experience and character as traits that are needed during a difficult time for the United States. The endorsement was published Sunday, the same day GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin campaigned in Roswell. The newspaper said there’s no denying America is in “a state of turmoil on many fronts.” It said Democrat Barack Obama “has capitalized on the growing realization that this great nation is heading in the wrong direction.” Yet while Obama has promised a new direction, the Daily Record said McCain can deliver...

The legal brief filed by Philip J. Berg, Esq. against Barack Hussein Obama et al. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Civil Action NO: 08-cv-04o83) on the point of Obama's citizenship is available for reading or downloading as a PDF file at the P.U.M.A. blog at this link: http://www.puma08.com/2008/10/07/on-barack-obamas-us-citizenship/

Liberals pretend that only President Bush is preventing the U.S. from adopting some global warming "solution." But occasionally their mask slips. As Barack Obama's energy adviser has now made clear, the would-be President intends to blackmail -- or rather, greenmail -- Congress into falling in line with his climate agenda. [Review & Outlook] AP Jason Grumet is currently executive director of an outfit called the National Commission on Energy Policy and one of Mr. Obama's key policy aides. In an interview last week with Bloomberg, Mr. Grumet said that come January the Environmental Protection Agency "would initiate those rulemakings" that...

When Sen. Barack Obama isn't reading from a teleprompter or a script prepared by his handlers, the truth starts coming out...in small doses. That's what happened with Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher. Joe asked Obama about his plans for raising taxes on small business, and the great one replied,B> "Its not that I want to punish your success; when you spread the wealth around it is good for everyone." Spreading wealth around is right out of Sen. Obama's socialist playbook, and is central to his extremist, radical, left wing, liberal, socialist agenda. No, Sen. Obama, spreading wealth is not good for...

"A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war...A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play." - Saul Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals; p. 133 Rules? What rules? Laws? What laws? Clearly, Alinsky's acolytes take him at his word. When one is fighting a war "against social evils," one is above the law. Rules and laws are for the other people. I'm stunned by the irony here. For the past eight years, Americans have been bombarded nearly nonstop by cries of "Bush stole the White House," without a...

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ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AFP) — John McCain took his campaign to the battleground state of Missouri Monday after the Republican embraced his underdog position in the race for the White House, but warned that rival Barack Obama was a job-killing, free-spending socialist. "Senator Obama is more interested in controlling who gets your piece of the pie than he is in growing the pie," McCain told a rally in Toledo, Ohio, Sunday. McCain said Obama's assertions that he planned to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans was a blind to hide plans to "redistribute wealth" to the "more than 40...

WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- Barack Obama may have Colin Powell in his corner, but John McCain still has Joe the Plumber. As he barnstormed the Buckeye State on Sunday, McCain hailed Joe Wurzelbacher, the 34-year-old tradesman from Holland, Ohio, who has become famous since McCain repeatedly pointed to him in the debate last Wednesday as an example of someone he says would be harmed by Obama's tax policies. Wurzelbacher is not a licensed plumber or small-business owner, and there's considerable evidence that his taxes would not go up under Obama. Nonetheless, at a rally in this small Ohio town near Columbus,...

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John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obama’s statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Democrats think their candidate is right, but 78% of Republicans disagree. While Obama was campaigning recently, a plumber’s assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher asked the Democratic presidential nominee a critical question about his tax policy. Obama defended the policy, saying in part, "When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” McCain brought the incident up...

Fifteen days before the election, serious gaps remain in the public’s knowledge about the health of the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. The limited information provided by the candidates is a striking departure from recent campaigns, in which many candidates and their doctors were more forthcoming.

General Colin Powell is a former Secretary of State for whom I have great respect. But today he erred by endorsing Senator Obama for President. One of General Powell's stated reasons is that he "would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court." I would too. But the written opinions of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito have not been politically "conservative" at all. Rather they have been honest applications of the law as written, without adopting any political ideology, including their own. That is in stark contrast to the kinds of judges who would be appointed...