While Colin Powell announced his choice for Obama on Meet the Press, Joe the Plumber continued to question Obama's policies on Fox News. The Christian Science Monitor has this to say about the competing endorsements:
If Joe the Plumber’s 15 minutes of fame are over, then someone didn’t let him know about it. He doesn’t appear to be going away.
In fact, many Republicans are saying - straight faced - that they would rather have Joe the Plumber’s endorsement than Colin Powell’s backing.
They say that Wurzelbacher (Joe’s actual last name) resonates more with “real Americans” and is therefore a stronger ally heading down the final stretch of the campaign.
There is word that "Ed the Diary Man" supports the McCain-Palin ticket also:
Singling out a supporter who was holding an “Ed the Dairy Man” sign at a rally in a Roswell, N.M., yesterday, Sarah Palin said Obama’s plan is a Socialist solution according to Joe and their new friend Ed.
“Senator Obama said he wants to quote ’spread the wealth.’ What that means is he wants government to take your money and dole it out however a politician sees fit,” Palin said.
“But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairy Man … think that it sounds more like socialism,” she said. “Now is no time to experiment with socialism. To me, our opponent’s plans sound more like big government, which is the problem. Bigger government is not the solution.”
Forget Colin the General, Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairy Man. I want to know who Bob the Builder supports. Has Obama been as successful in wooing Bob as he was with Colin?
Obama's outright pandering for Bob the Builder's vote is shameful, what with Obama's "Yes we can!" slogan -- which Bidenizes Bob's slogan of "Can we build it? Yes we can!"
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Monday, October 20, 2008
Hide Your Daughters -- Bubba's Back
Former President Bill Clinton will come to Kentucky this Friday to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford and Congressional candidate David Boswell. Clinton will campaign in Bowling Green and Paducah, according to Pol Watchers.
Boswell has tried to triangulate himself into a conservative in his bid to take Rep. Ron Lewis's seat, who is retiring.
Bruce Lunsford is the bon vivant bachelor who spends millions of dollars of his own money running for assorted political offices. I hope Hillary has micro chipped Slick Willie for his TGIF tour of the Bluegrass.
Boswell has tried to triangulate himself into a conservative in his bid to take Rep. Ron Lewis's seat, who is retiring.
Bruce Lunsford is the bon vivant bachelor who spends millions of dollars of his own money running for assorted political offices. I hope Hillary has micro chipped Slick Willie for his TGIF tour of the Bluegrass.
Biden Is "Ready To Be President From Day One": Colin Powell, What Are You Thinking?
One of the more curious statements made by retired General Colin Powell during his "Meet the Press" interview yesterday, in which he endorsed the Obama-Biden ticket, was that Senator Joe Biden "is ready to be president on Day One." Well, maybe in comparison to Obama, Biden is, but that's not saying much.
Has Powell forgotten from his days of service in Vietnam how Biden voted to cut off all funding for the troops, effectively leading to the Communist victory?
Has Powell forgotten from his days of service as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan how Biden opposed all of Reagan's major foreign policy decisions that led to the end of the Cold War?
Has Powell forgotten from his days of service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush how Biden opposed the liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein?
Perhaps Powell thinks Biden is competent because he, along with most of the Senate and Powell (and unlike Obama), supported President George W. Bush's liberation of Iraq from Saddam. Perhaps Powell thinks that this decision makes up for three decades of poor foreign policy judgment from Biden.
Who knows?
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Has Powell forgotten from his days of service in Vietnam how Biden voted to cut off all funding for the troops, effectively leading to the Communist victory?
Has Powell forgotten from his days of service as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan how Biden opposed all of Reagan's major foreign policy decisions that led to the end of the Cold War?
Has Powell forgotten from his days of service as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush how Biden opposed the liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein?
Perhaps Powell thinks Biden is competent because he, along with most of the Senate and Powell (and unlike Obama), supported President George W. Bush's liberation of Iraq from Saddam. Perhaps Powell thinks that this decision makes up for three decades of poor foreign policy judgment from Biden.
Who knows?
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Biden Does His Homework: World Testing To Occur During Obama's Freshman Year
Children and Senator Joe Biden can say the darnedest things. Sometimes they are profound. Here's the latest from Joe, courtesy of ABC News:
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Uh, Joe, I think I would rather vote for the guy who won't provoke an international crisis. And when it comes to world testing, no copying answers from Neal Kinnock will be allowed.
Update: Hotair posts on Biden's "world testing" comment with the following definition of his chief attribute (and perhaps the reason Powell endorsed him):
Gaffe (n): The accidental act of a politician telling the truth.
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"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Uh, Joe, I think I would rather vote for the guy who won't provoke an international crisis. And when it comes to world testing, no copying answers from Neal Kinnock will be allowed.
Update: Hotair posts on Biden's "world testing" comment with the following definition of his chief attribute (and perhaps the reason Powell endorsed him):
Gaffe (n): The accidental act of a politician telling the truth.
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Happy Birthday, EITB!
Seventy-five percent of all blogs don't last past the third post. So we're pleased to be on post 789 as we start our second year. We appreciate all of our contributors and readers, even the ones who post the snarky comments.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Demo-blog On Boswell
The latest SUSA poll shows Republican Brett Guthrie is beating David Boswell by nine points to replace Rep. Ron Lewis. Or as BluegrassRoots put it, Guthrie is "trouncing" Boswell in Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District.
That's altogether fitting, because if you went to Central Casting to recruit a Republican to run for the district that encompasses Fort Knox, you'd get Brett Guthrie -- West Point grad, 101st Airborne with a masters from Yale (we'll overlook that last credential). His district is fortunate he's willing to serve his country yet again, this time in Congress.
BluegrassRoots doesn't much like the candidate it's stuck with. The Demo-blog called Boswell "a racist, misogynistic punk." That's way worse than anything Guthrie has ever said about Boswell. But then again, the Demo-blog is in a position to know, because Boswell is their guy.
That's altogether fitting, because if you went to Central Casting to recruit a Republican to run for the district that encompasses Fort Knox, you'd get Brett Guthrie -- West Point grad, 101st Airborne with a masters from Yale (we'll overlook that last credential). His district is fortunate he's willing to serve his country yet again, this time in Congress.
BluegrassRoots doesn't much like the candidate it's stuck with. The Demo-blog called Boswell "a racist, misogynistic punk." That's way worse than anything Guthrie has ever said about Boswell. But then again, the Demo-blog is in a position to know, because Boswell is their guy.
Yarmuth Wants "Federal Infrastructure Bank"
Congressman John Yarmuth yesterday sent a letter to a constituent who had written him about the two proposed bridges in Louisville. That constituent forwarded Yarmuth's reply. Yarmuth responded with a forceful argument on why Louisville needs two bridges; he's right about that.
Money, however, is a problem, Yarmuth wrote -- so much so, that Kentucky may be on the hook for 98 percent of the cost:
While I am pleased that our state leaders are working hard to identify funding sources for this project, I am saddened that our community was mislead into believing that much of the funding for this project would come from the federal government. That was never the case. In fact, over the last 11 years, only 2 percent of the funding needed for Kentucky to complete this project has been secured through the federal appropriations process.
Yarmuth proposes this solution:
I recently sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives urging her to create a national infrastructure bank to accelerate billions of dollars in long-overdue transportation projects. This bank would help communities like ours finance mega-projects with price tags that have quickly outpaced the financing capability of their communities.
The federal government has a long history of overcoming challenges with the establishment of innovative public-private partnerships. Just as previous generations led the development of the National Interstate Highway System and the creation of the Erie Canal, we have the opportunity to transform the way our country meets its infrastructure needs. A federal infrastructure bank, modeled after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, would combine the guarantee of the federal government with the resources and innovation of private investors. This bank would implement a new system to identify, evaluate, and help finance infrastructure projects. It would leverage public and private capital to create government-backed financing packages that could include a variation of direct subsidies, low-interest loans, tax credits, and infrastructure bonds.
Six months ago, this sort of "public-private partnership" would have sounded like a good idea. Indeed, using the private sector to achieve efficiencies for the government almost sounds conservative. Then we met Fannie and Freddie. "Public-private partnership" became a code word for the waste, corruption and mismanagement that necessitated the bailout. The public-private partnerships" of Fannie and Freddie reveal that we cannot take the private motive of the private sector and remove the risk of failure by guaranteeing that taxpayers' will come to the rescue.
Unlike a bank, if a bridge fails, people die. I will not drive over any bridge that is built with a "public-private partnership" that removes risk rather than simply rewarding it. More is at stake than just the spectre of another bailout.
Money, however, is a problem, Yarmuth wrote -- so much so, that Kentucky may be on the hook for 98 percent of the cost:
While I am pleased that our state leaders are working hard to identify funding sources for this project, I am saddened that our community was mislead into believing that much of the funding for this project would come from the federal government. That was never the case. In fact, over the last 11 years, only 2 percent of the funding needed for Kentucky to complete this project has been secured through the federal appropriations process.
Yarmuth proposes this solution:
I recently sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives urging her to create a national infrastructure bank to accelerate billions of dollars in long-overdue transportation projects. This bank would help communities like ours finance mega-projects with price tags that have quickly outpaced the financing capability of their communities.
The federal government has a long history of overcoming challenges with the establishment of innovative public-private partnerships. Just as previous generations led the development of the National Interstate Highway System and the creation of the Erie Canal, we have the opportunity to transform the way our country meets its infrastructure needs. A federal infrastructure bank, modeled after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, would combine the guarantee of the federal government with the resources and innovation of private investors. This bank would implement a new system to identify, evaluate, and help finance infrastructure projects. It would leverage public and private capital to create government-backed financing packages that could include a variation of direct subsidies, low-interest loans, tax credits, and infrastructure bonds.
Six months ago, this sort of "public-private partnership" would have sounded like a good idea. Indeed, using the private sector to achieve efficiencies for the government almost sounds conservative. Then we met Fannie and Freddie. "Public-private partnership" became a code word for the waste, corruption and mismanagement that necessitated the bailout. The public-private partnerships" of Fannie and Freddie reveal that we cannot take the private motive of the private sector and remove the risk of failure by guaranteeing that taxpayers' will come to the rescue.
Unlike a bank, if a bridge fails, people die. I will not drive over any bridge that is built with a "public-private partnership" that removes risk rather than simply rewarding it. More is at stake than just the spectre of another bailout.
Friday, October 17, 2008
McCain Eloquently Defends Joe The Plumber Against Obama Campaign's Smears
Courtesy of the Drudge Report, here is what McCain had to say today in response to the Obama campaign's kill-the-messenger attack on Joe the Plumber:
It's great to be here in Miami. Florida is a must-win state on November 4th, and with your help, we're going to win Florida, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week.
You may have noticed-- there was a lot of talk about Senator Obama's tax increases and Joe the Plumber. Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe's driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I'm glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions.
The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn't recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.
The question Joe asked about our economy is important, because Senator Obama's plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million Americans. Senator Obama's plan will kill those jobs at just the time when we need to be creating more jobs. My plan will create jobs, and that's what America needs.Senator Obama says that he wanted to spread your wealth around.
When politicians talk about taking your money and spreading it around, you'd better hold onto your wallet. Senator Obama claims that wants to give a tax break to the middle class, but not only did he vote for higher taxes on the middle class in the Senate, his plan gives away your tax dollars to those who don't pay taxes. That's not a tax cut, that's welfare. America didn't become the greatest nation on earth by redistributing wealth; we became the greatest nation by creating new wealth.
The Obama campaign's smears of Joe the Plumber are playing as well with the American public as Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig attack on Sarah Palin. Notice the pattern in how Obama and his supporters respond to anyone who questions "that One."
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It's great to be here in Miami. Florida is a must-win state on November 4th, and with your help, we're going to win Florida, and bring change to Washington, DC. We had a good debate this week.
You may have noticed-- there was a lot of talk about Senator Obama's tax increases and Joe the Plumber. Last weekend, Senator Obama showed up in Joe's driveway to ask for his vote, and Joe asked Senator Obama a tough question. I'm glad he did; I think Senator Obama could use a few more tough questions.
The response from Senator Obama and his campaign yesterday was to attack Joe. People are digging through his personal life and he has TV crews camped out in front of his house. He didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house. He wasn't recruited or prompted by our campaign. He just asked a question. And Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.
The question Joe asked about our economy is important, because Senator Obama's plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ 16 million Americans. Senator Obama's plan will kill those jobs at just the time when we need to be creating more jobs. My plan will create jobs, and that's what America needs.Senator Obama says that he wanted to spread your wealth around.
When politicians talk about taking your money and spreading it around, you'd better hold onto your wallet. Senator Obama claims that wants to give a tax break to the middle class, but not only did he vote for higher taxes on the middle class in the Senate, his plan gives away your tax dollars to those who don't pay taxes. That's not a tax cut, that's welfare. America didn't become the greatest nation on earth by redistributing wealth; we became the greatest nation by creating new wealth.
The Obama campaign's smears of Joe the Plumber are playing as well with the American public as Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig attack on Sarah Palin. Notice the pattern in how Obama and his supporters respond to anyone who questions "that One."
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Obama's Incredible Shrinking Lead (Part V)
From today's Drudge Report:
GALLUP POLL LIKELY VOTERS STAY 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN FOR SECOND DAY...
AP/YAHOO Poll of 873 Democrats; 650 Republicans shows OBAMA 44%, MCCAIN 42%...
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GALLUP POLL LIKELY VOTERS STAY 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN FOR SECOND DAY...
AP/YAHOO Poll of 873 Democrats; 650 Republicans shows OBAMA 44%, MCCAIN 42%...
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Another "Joe The Plumber" For McCain
Knoxnews.com reports on another Joe the Plumber -- this one in Knoxville, Tennessee -- who's for McCain. This beats another trial lawyer's endorsement any day:
Joe the Plumber, of Knoxville, that is, says he's less concerned about whether he gets a tax break if his customers still can't afford to hire him.
Still, Joe Shanks, a licensed master plumber and owner of Joe's Plumbing Service in the Cedar Bluff area, has followed the presidential campaigns the same as his much-quoted counterpart in Toledo, Ohio, who questioned Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over his proposed tax hike for those who make more than $250,000 a year.
. . . .
Shanks, an independent voter, said he's supporting Republican Sen. John McCain, citing the official's career experience in office as the deciding factor for him.
"I'd just feel more comfortable, confident and safe with McCain," the plumber said. "McCain's been there. Obama's just not that experienced."
Shanks likened the decision to a homeowner in need of a plumber - would you hire the guy who just got his trade license, he asked, or a seasoned professional?
Joe the Plumber, of Knoxville, that is, says he's less concerned about whether he gets a tax break if his customers still can't afford to hire him.
Still, Joe Shanks, a licensed master plumber and owner of Joe's Plumbing Service in the Cedar Bluff area, has followed the presidential campaigns the same as his much-quoted counterpart in Toledo, Ohio, who questioned Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over his proposed tax hike for those who make more than $250,000 a year.
. . . .
Shanks, an independent voter, said he's supporting Republican Sen. John McCain, citing the official's career experience in office as the deciding factor for him.
"I'd just feel more comfortable, confident and safe with McCain," the plumber said. "McCain's been there. Obama's just not that experienced."
Shanks likened the decision to a homeowner in need of a plumber - would you hire the guy who just got his trade license, he asked, or a seasoned professional?
Boswell Called Out on DCCC Ad
The Bowling Green Daily News took Democratic Congressional candidate David Boswell to task for an ad -- the second such one -- by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The ad accuses Brett Guthrie of "shipping jobs to Mexico."
That is not so, according to the paper, and by failing to disavow it, Boswell condones the lie:
At this stage of the game we have to assume that 2nd Congressional candidate David Boswell condones a second set of television advertisements that say his opponent, 2nd Congressional candidate, Brett Guthrie’s company sent jobs to Mexico.
As you might recall several weeks ago the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a television advertisement saying that Guthrie’s company, Trace Die Cast, was shipping work to Mexico that should have stayed in Kentucky.
We took issue with Boswell at the time and now we take issue with him and the DCCC again for running a more recent advertisement saying that Trace Die Cast shipped work to Mexico. In the advertisement, Guthrie is heard speaking and a caption said that he sent jobs to Mexico.Mr. Boswell, this ad is simply not true and you have had plenty of opportunity’s to condemn these ads and tell the DCCC to stop running them, and instead you have sat idle while they continue.
That is a real shame.
During debates with Guthrie, Boswell has said he didn’t know the context of the advertisement, but he himself continues to appear in the ads.
This could suggest that he is working in lockstep with the DCCC.
The truth of the matter is that Trace had a contract to make a part and ship it to Mexico. All of the work was done at Trace Die Cast by employees of the company and shipped to Mexico and the part didn’t come back to Trace Die Cast.
Mr. Boswell, who has been in politics for a long time, should know better than this. He is allowing the DCCC, which knows nothing about the 2nd Congressional District in Kentucky, to run these ads that distort an American success story embodied in the Guthrie family.
Why doesn’t Boswell contact the DCCC and tell them to stop these inaccurate, distorted ads?
One can only speculate that Boswell condones the advertisements and is willing to ignore these distortions if they aid his campaign.
It is past time for David Boswell to admit that this advertisement was wrong and inaccurate and be a stand up guy and tell the DCCC to pull it immediately.
The residents of Bowling Green don't know how lucky they are to have an alternative to the lockstep liberalism of the Courier-Journal. Can you imagine the C-J condemning the DSCC, for example, for its smear of Mitch McConnell?
That is not so, according to the paper, and by failing to disavow it, Boswell condones the lie:
At this stage of the game we have to assume that 2nd Congressional candidate David Boswell condones a second set of television advertisements that say his opponent, 2nd Congressional candidate, Brett Guthrie’s company sent jobs to Mexico.
As you might recall several weeks ago the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a television advertisement saying that Guthrie’s company, Trace Die Cast, was shipping work to Mexico that should have stayed in Kentucky.
We took issue with Boswell at the time and now we take issue with him and the DCCC again for running a more recent advertisement saying that Trace Die Cast shipped work to Mexico. In the advertisement, Guthrie is heard speaking and a caption said that he sent jobs to Mexico.Mr. Boswell, this ad is simply not true and you have had plenty of opportunity’s to condemn these ads and tell the DCCC to stop running them, and instead you have sat idle while they continue.
That is a real shame.
During debates with Guthrie, Boswell has said he didn’t know the context of the advertisement, but he himself continues to appear in the ads.
This could suggest that he is working in lockstep with the DCCC.
The truth of the matter is that Trace had a contract to make a part and ship it to Mexico. All of the work was done at Trace Die Cast by employees of the company and shipped to Mexico and the part didn’t come back to Trace Die Cast.
Mr. Boswell, who has been in politics for a long time, should know better than this. He is allowing the DCCC, which knows nothing about the 2nd Congressional District in Kentucky, to run these ads that distort an American success story embodied in the Guthrie family.
Why doesn’t Boswell contact the DCCC and tell them to stop these inaccurate, distorted ads?
One can only speculate that Boswell condones the advertisements and is willing to ignore these distortions if they aid his campaign.
It is past time for David Boswell to admit that this advertisement was wrong and inaccurate and be a stand up guy and tell the DCCC to pull it immediately.
The residents of Bowling Green don't know how lucky they are to have an alternative to the lockstep liberalism of the Courier-Journal. Can you imagine the C-J condemning the DSCC, for example, for its smear of Mitch McConnell?
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Obama's Incredible Shrinking Lead (Part IV)
Drudge reports: "GALLUP's 'traditional' likely voter model shows Obama with a two-point advantage over McCain on Thursday, 49% to 47%, this is within poll's margin of error... Developing..."
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Senator Government Happily Plans To Spend Joe The Plumber's Money
Hugh Hewitt comments on, among other things, "Joe the Plumber" and "Senator Government" during last night's debate:McCain scored big with the Joe the plumber exchanges, and with the campaign tactics exchange. Obama looked angry and stumbled repeatedly as he tried to cope with what he really told Joe the plumber --guaranteeing the replay of the clip again and again and underscoring Senator Obama's flexibility when it comes to facts-- and with what John Lewis said. Obama's answer on ACORN was a jaw dropper and opens the door to the MSM, as does the Ayers exchange. McCain drove this home without going overboard. Repeatedly returning to Joe the Plumber was key for McCain, and by the last half hour Obama was petulantly telling Joe what the "right thing to do by his employees" was. John McCain then spoke directly to Joe and put a bright line around Obama's "spread the wealth" line, and the "fundamental difference" between the campaigns. When Senator McCain slipped and called Senator Obama "Senator Government," he scored when he didn't even intend to. That's the sort of thing that marks a great debate for McCain, when even his verbal flub advances the key message.
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Good Grief: Biden Claims "Jobs" Is "A Three Letter Word"
Obama smoothly defended his choice of running mate during yesterday's debate. For rebuttal, McCain should simply run soundbites of Biden on the stump. Biden's latest episode, which rivals Dan Quayle's "potatoe" moment, is on video here.
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Greetings to Kenya!
For the last two days at least one person from Kenya has been reading this blog extensively. Yesterday, a Kenyan spent over nine minutes on the blog. That Elephants in the Bluegrass has attracted an international audience is not surprising, as our readership includes many visitors from outside the United States every day. But given Obama's connections to Kenya, we are particularly interested in what sparked the interest of the visitor from Kenya. We recently posted on Obama and Kenya, and would be interested in a Kenyan perspective in response.
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McCain and Palin Cause "Terror Of The Heart" In Trial Lawyer
We knew that trial lawyers, unlike plumbers, just love Obama, but one member of the bar has literally tried to make a federal case of her passion. A blog of the Kansas City Star reports:
A Kansas City lawyer and supporter of Barack Obama for president has filed suit in federal court, alleging that the Republican ticket has incited violence against the Democratic nominee.
In her suit against Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and campaign manager Rick Davis, Mary Kay Green said she has been injured by their campaign tactics and suffers “terror of the heart, anxiety and grave fear” for Obama’s life.
Green, an occasional contributor of letters to the editor for The Kansas City Star on legal and political issues, said the GOP campaign has used false hate speech to work their supporters into a frenzy, leading to death threats against Obama.
In an interview, Green said she worked as a young woman in the presidential campaigns of both John and Robert Kennedy in Nebraska. Though she has asked for $6 million in damages, Green said the money is not important. The suit is a moral plea to the Republicans to temper their language, she said.
“I will not tolerate another assassination,” Green said. “I have an obligation as an attorney to speak out and use my voice to say to John McCain and Sarah Palin that you must stop this behavior. You are participating in these death threats and have lost all protection from the First Amendment.”
I wonder if this Kansas City lawyer is the type of judicial nominee Obama envisions he wants to appoint to the bench? Perhaps this plaintiff is the kind of woman "being treated unfairly" that Obama had in mind at the debate last night:
"I think that it’s important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that’s the kind of judge that I want."
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
A Kansas City lawyer and supporter of Barack Obama for president has filed suit in federal court, alleging that the Republican ticket has incited violence against the Democratic nominee.
In her suit against Sen. John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and campaign manager Rick Davis, Mary Kay Green said she has been injured by their campaign tactics and suffers “terror of the heart, anxiety and grave fear” for Obama’s life.
Green, an occasional contributor of letters to the editor for The Kansas City Star on legal and political issues, said the GOP campaign has used false hate speech to work their supporters into a frenzy, leading to death threats against Obama.
In an interview, Green said she worked as a young woman in the presidential campaigns of both John and Robert Kennedy in Nebraska. Though she has asked for $6 million in damages, Green said the money is not important. The suit is a moral plea to the Republicans to temper their language, she said.
“I will not tolerate another assassination,” Green said. “I have an obligation as an attorney to speak out and use my voice to say to John McCain and Sarah Palin that you must stop this behavior. You are participating in these death threats and have lost all protection from the First Amendment.”
I wonder if this Kansas City lawyer is the type of judicial nominee Obama envisions he wants to appoint to the bench? Perhaps this plaintiff is the kind of woman "being treated unfairly" that Obama had in mind at the debate last night:
"I think that it’s important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that’s the kind of judge that I want."
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
Debate Post Mortem
What a pity that Sen. John McCain didn't take this approach during the first two debates. He was much firmer than we've seen previously and yet did not display the "erratic" temper that Team Obama keeps referencing.
If anyone showed a temper, it was Sen. Barack Obama -- though his was thinly disguised with an incessant smirk, made more noticeable with his capped teeth. What came across, on the split screen, is that Barry has a mean side.
McCain finally hit on issues that he has not addressed in the previous debates: judges, small businesses and Obama's record on infanticide. McCain finally cut the ties that bind him to George Bush with the best line of the debate -- that McCain is not Bush, and if Obama wants to run against Bush he should have done so four years ago.
It was not enough to change the race, but there are other factors at play.
Yesterday I received an email that is circulating the internet. It's a prayer for McCain and the country. Turns out that ordinary, non-political people are fed up with the media's drumbeat to the tune of Boz Scaggs: "Why can't you just get it through your head? It's over, it's over now."
As the email notes, if faith can move mountains, then it can certainly move voters to wake up from their Obama-induced stupor. After all, McCain's campaign was supposed to fold 18 months ago. According to the "conventional wisdom," he was not supposed to last through the primaries.
McCain's survival -- not just his political survival but the fact that he is still alive -- is extraordinary, miraculous even. He should have died in the fire that killed his comrades. He should have died in the Prisoner of War camp. He did not.
I will submit that McCain's life was spared for a reason. This race is not over.
If anyone showed a temper, it was Sen. Barack Obama -- though his was thinly disguised with an incessant smirk, made more noticeable with his capped teeth. What came across, on the split screen, is that Barry has a mean side.
McCain finally hit on issues that he has not addressed in the previous debates: judges, small businesses and Obama's record on infanticide. McCain finally cut the ties that bind him to George Bush with the best line of the debate -- that McCain is not Bush, and if Obama wants to run against Bush he should have done so four years ago.
It was not enough to change the race, but there are other factors at play.
Yesterday I received an email that is circulating the internet. It's a prayer for McCain and the country. Turns out that ordinary, non-political people are fed up with the media's drumbeat to the tune of Boz Scaggs: "Why can't you just get it through your head? It's over, it's over now."
As the email notes, if faith can move mountains, then it can certainly move voters to wake up from their Obama-induced stupor. After all, McCain's campaign was supposed to fold 18 months ago. According to the "conventional wisdom," he was not supposed to last through the primaries.
McCain's survival -- not just his political survival but the fact that he is still alive -- is extraordinary, miraculous even. He should have died in the fire that killed his comrades. He should have died in the Prisoner of War camp. He did not.
I will submit that McCain's life was spared for a reason. This race is not over.
Secret Service Agent Contradicts Obama
One of the charges Barack Obama leveled during last night's debate was that someone at a recent McCain-Palin campaign rally in Pennsylvania yelled that he wanted to "kill" Obama. Of course, if that had really happened, the Secret Service would be all over it. So this is what the Secret Service found, according to timesleader.com:
The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him."
News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.
Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.
“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.
Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”
“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him."
News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.
Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.
“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.
Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”
“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
Meet Joe (The Plumber) Wurzelbacher: The Man Whose "Wealth" Obama Wants To Tax To "Spread Around"
For those wondering who John McCain's "Joe the Plumber" is from last night's debate, here is the video of Barack Obama when he met Joe Wurzelbacher on the campaign trail. Watch Obama try to explain why it's okay to raise taxes on Joe -- effectively penalizing him for his hard work in building his plumbing business -- in order to "spread the wealth around."
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
Please note: The postings of "G. Morris", written by John K. Bush and which end in 2016, stated his views as of the dates of posting and should not be understood as current assertions of his views. The postings, which have not been altered since they came to an end, remain on this blog to preserve the historical record. In 2017, Mr. Bush took a position that precludes further public political comments or endorsements. He will no longer be contributing to this blog.
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