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Republicans are consoling themselves by telling anyone who will listen that we still live in a "center-right country." They're right. That's the good news. The bad news is that they've lost the center. According to exit polls, Barack Obama won moderates by a whopping 21 points on Tuesday, 60-39 percent. That more than doubled John Kerry's nine-point margin over George W. Bush among moderates in 2004. The ideological composition of the electorate was remarkably unchanged from 2004. The percentage of self-identified conservatives and moderates -- the center-right -- held steady. Conservatives were 34 percent of voters and moderates 44 percent,...

Environment: From California to Missouri, four of five environmental initiatives lost at the ballot box. Voters are clearly still not ready for exorbitant costs and excessive regulation without clear benefits.President-elect Obama may have felt "a righteous wind" at his back during the campaign, but it did not translate into environmental victories at the ballot box, where one green initiative after another failed for a variety of reasons. California voters shot down both clean-energy propositions on the ballot. Proposition 7 would have required utilities to generate 40% of their power from renewable energy by 2020 and 50% by 2025. It lost...

Rahm Emanuel was picked by Obama to be his new Chief of Staff. Emanuel is another thug from Chicago, and has a vast record of liberalism. He is know for being a real ass, and has been quoted as saying "F--- the Republicans." Yep, that's real change, and bipartisinship. Anway, I thought I'd list some of his political record and political views here. Thanks to ontheissues.org. Rahm Emanuel on Abortion Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007) Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005) Voted NO on restricting interstate transport...

In my previous life, I witnessed far more difficult postmortems. This one is easy: The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 — caught in the rubble when the roof fell in (at Lehman Bros., according to the police report) — although he did linger until his final, rather quiet demise on Nov. 4.

Unity: n. the state of being one; oneness -- especially when your chosen political party happens to win an election. Barack Obama is now my president. Though I wonder whether irascible Democrats who rode around with those snazzy bumper stickers reading "He's not my president" for the past eight years realize the irony of their call for national harmony. Let's hope there's none. Winning elections is one thing; governing is quite another. It is impossible to deny that Obama ran one of the sharpest, most diligent and exhilarating campaigns in modern American history or, for that matter, that the liberal...

John McCain on Sen. Obama's dormant remarks on the coal industry: “We found out yesterday what Senator Obama really thinks about coal. In a new video talking about his policies on coal, he told the San Francisco Chronicle, “if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them.” “Now, I believe we need to control emissions,” added McCain, “but I’m not going to let our coal industry go bankrupt. I’m not going to let coal workers lose their jobs and I’m not going to let energy prices increase even more for our families.”...

Obama himself at various times in his memoirs—never have presidential autobiographies sold so many copies, and yet have been so little read by the press—talked about people seeing in him what they wished. And now on the eve of the election, I confess I have no idea about who he is or what he stands for. If he is elected, I can only hope for the best, and pray a few sober old Clintonites like Paul Volcker or Robert Rubin will step forward. What is a “Huge Sum”? Does Obama really, as Joe Biden promised, wish to shut down coal-generated...

10) No elected official in American life has contributed more to the security of the nation than John McCain. Latterly, McCain was the most senior and most forceful advocate of the strategy that has saved the day in Iraq. For that reason alone, he deserves your vote. 9) Over a quarter-century in public life, John McCain has defended the interests of the taxpayer, not only speaking for lower taxes (that’s easy) but fighting for the essential precondition of lower taxes, less government spending.

Obama wants to reshape the agriculture industryIf he is willing to "bankrupt" the coal industry over global warming, what's he going to do to the agriculture sector which "actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector"? Don't forget about biden's EVIL corn syrup...evil corn syrup

Still undecided? Know someone who is? Please read and give to others: "...this piece is intended to serve as a quick reference for comparing the views of Sens Obama and McCain on key issues, and to do so from a conservative perspective."

Change we can freeze to death by: Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that...

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Obama Audio File on Coal Plants: “Just … Bankrupt Them.” When someone on the verge of the United States presidency plans to bankrupt the workplaces one of the largest industries in the USA, it should be front page news. Obama: Bankrupt the Coal Plants, Industry Biden: No Coal Plants in America! Makes this Environmentalist Happy. Palin Blasts Biden. Democrats Unite: We cannot make coal clean. However, the media refuses to report pure facts unless it gains grassroots momentum. So call your local TV stations and forward this page and the videos to your friends. We have also switched our endorsement...

The next president will wrestle with volatile markets, faltering consumer confidence, spreading unemployment – the worst economic climate since Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933. He'll also have to cope with two wars, a strained military, frayed alliances and an emboldened Russia. Even after surviving two years on the stump and shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars on consultants, attack ads and charter flights, who would want this job? There's no president in recent history that's had so many crises to deal with. ... This president's going to have his hands full," said Leon Panetta, chief of staff to...

Important Conference Call That Will Detail the Crucial Reasons Why Seniors Business Leaders Those Who Care for National Security Catholic Americans Jewish Americans All Who Care for America’s Judeo Christian Values Should vote John McCain for President Two Conference Calls Will be Held: Tonight – Sun. Nov. 2 at 7:30 pm EST (remember that Standard Time started this morning) & Tomorrow night – Mon. Nov. 3 at 7:30 pm EST RSVP by emailing ypostelnik@insidersreview.org Topics to be Discussed Will Include: How Obama’s Capital Gains Tax Plan Would Hurt Seniors First and Foremost Why Obama’s Past Ties Can Influence Him, Why...

U.S. President Home mortgage relief Barack Obama Ninety-day foreclosure moratorium for homeowners living in their homes making good-faith efforts to pay mortgages. John McCain $300 billion to take bad mortgages off banks’ books and negotiate better mortgage rates for homeowners Taxes Barack Obama Businesses receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time worker hired. John McCain Increase the tax write-off for stock losses to $15,000 from $3,000 for tax years 2008, 2009; reduce maximum tax rate on long-term capital gains to 7.5 percent in 2009, 2010. 401(k), IRA retirement plans Barack Obama Supports suspending 401(k), IRA tax rules...

Did Obama make a huge mistake by insulting Americans who want to hold on to the hard-earned money they have earned? According to Obama, if you don’t want to pay higher taxes, perhaps it’s because you are “selfish?” ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper took aim yesterday at Obama’s “attack” on those who want to keep their hard-earned tax dollars as "selfish." Obama said in Sarasota, Fla., Thursday in defense of his so-called “spread the wealth” tax policies: John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they...

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches. The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal...

Barack Obama, speaking with the San Francisco Chronicle, January 2008: So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. and So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them. Left unsaid: 1)Would he also bankrupt those who already operate coal-fired plants, which produce about 40% of the nation’s electricity? Presumably, yes, although he might give them a few years’ grace period. 2)Would he also charge...