I have no idea who this guy is.
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Questions I would like to see tonight
October 7, 2008“Mr. Obama, please comment on the following quote from the philosopher Spinoza, ‘there can be no hope without fear.’ As you are running a campaign of hopemongering, would you consider yourself a fearmongerer.”
“Mr. McCain, please read these four pages aloud from David Foster Wallace’s Up, Simba, where the recently deceased journalist who rode the straight talk express in 2000 details your excruciating time at the Hanoi Hilton. As a follow up, tell us what a great guy he was.”
“Mr. Obama, the US has not been attacked since Sept 11, 2001 and the Democrats did not come to power in Congress till January 2007. Please detail each and every element of the Bush and Republican Congress agenda that kept us safe.”
“Mr. McCain, you are better than Huckabee.”
“Mr. Obama, it is noted that in countries with the highest marginal tax rates, unemployment numbers are extremely high as well. How do you intend to soak the producers of the world and at the same time make sure the little guy doesn’t get hurt.”
“Mr. McCain, what is your favourite type of beer?”
“Last question, Mr. Obama, if you win this year, you will have kept two women from reaching the White House in one year. Do you feel good about yourself, sexist?”
Kaite Couric: Objective Journalist
October 7, 2008I read a lot of [magazines and newspapers], luckily I am not running for Vice President.
Sarah-Cuda Manhandles Heckler With Charm and Grace
October 7, 2008It’s near the end, but awesome. “Bless your heart sir, but my son is over in Iraq fighting for your right to protest.”
Or for his right to be a douche
Great Video Detailing Obama’s Friends
October 6, 2008From Hotair.
Obama would have to be pretty damn ignorant to not know who they were friends with
Los Angeles National Organization of Women President Endorses Palin
October 5, 2008Shelly Mandell, President of NOW LA endorses Palin!
“America, this is what a FEMINIST looks like!”
“There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.”
UPDATE:
Just Shelly Mandell, not LA’s NOW
UPDATE 2:
Hillaryorbust and Gretawire report that this may cause a domino effect:
I am hearing rumblings…apparently the endorsement of Governor Palin (and Senator McCain) by LA’s President of NOW Shelly Mandel is making it ’safe’ for other high profile feminists to endorse McCain/Palin. The thinking is twofold – one; that it is time for a woman and two; that Governor Palin wants to work across party lines… This is a giant change in politics…
What do you think about this?This is so important. I have spoken to quite a few Democratic women who are upset about Obama and don’t like him, but feel guilty voting Republican. With women like Mandell supporting Palin, it gives permission and a reason for many disaffected female Democrats to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket.
This is important for women seeking equal opportunity in the workplace and so many other aspects that women have been fighting for for so long. Remember, abolition of Roe v. Wade does NOT make abortion illegal as so many liberals would like you to believe. Abolition of Roe makes abortion a state issue as it was before Roe. No state in the union will illegalize abortion inasmuch as it applies to a mother’s health and rape.
Can We Come Back? Si Se Puede!!!!!
October 4, 2008A lot of us have been depressed from the recent polls and especially the swing against Ohio and Florida. Here’s Bill Kristol saying that McCain and the ‘Cuda can come back:
The odds are against John McCain and Sarah Palin winning this election. It’s not easy to make up a 6-point deficit in the last four weeks. But it can be done.
Look at history. The Gore-Lieberman ticket gained about 6 points in the final two weeks of the 2000 campaign. Ford-Dole came back more than 20 points in less than two months in the fall of 1976. Both tickets were from the party holding the White House, and both were running against inexperienced, and arguably risky, opponents.
What’s more, this year’s race has already–twice–moved by more than 6 points over a span of only a few weeks. The race went from McCain up 2 (these are the Real Clear Politics averages) on September 14 to Obama plus 6 on October 2, less than three weeks later. In the four weeks before that, the race had moved from Obama plus 5 on August 12 to McCain plus 2 on September 12.
So while there’s reason for McCain-Palin supporters to worry, there’s no reason to despair.
Despair is what the Obama campaign is hoping and working for. If a campaign can convince supporters of the other candidate that the race is effectively over, the enthusiasm and volunteer efforts drop off–as does, ultimately, their turnout on Election Day. Just as important, undecided and loosely affiliated voters become persuaded there’s no real contest and lose any incentive to look closely at the candidates. This explains the efforts of the Obama campaign–aided by a colluding media–to sell the notion that the race is over, that McCain supporters should give up, and undecided voters should tune out.That’s why the events at the end of last week were so important.
On Thursday night, Sarah Palin more than held her own in the vice-presidential debate against Joe Biden. She may well have stopped the McCain campaign’s slide and, with her assaults on Obama’s tax-and-spend liberalism and his willingness to lose in Iraq, set up McCain for a strong performance in Tuesday night’s debate.
CNN: Palin Spoke at a 10th Grade Level, Biden at Junior High Level
October 4, 2008CNN’s own article:
Thursday night’s debate between the vice presidential candidates “was more collegial, thinking out loud as opposed to just hammering points,” Payack said in trying to explain the difference. “It was a much calmer style.”
His analysis ranked the candidates’ speech on several other levels, too. Here’s the breakdown:
Grade level: Biden, 7.8; Palin, 9.5 (Newspapers are typically written to a sixth-grade reading level.)
Sentences per paragraph: statistically tied at 2.7 for Biden and 2.6 for Palin.
Letters per word: tied at 4.4.
Ease of reading: Biden, 66.7 (with 100 being the easiest to read or hear), versus 62.4 for Palin.
The analysis said Abraham Lincoln spoke at an 11th-grade level during his seven debates in 1858 against incumbent Stephen A. Douglas in their race for a Senate seat from Illinois.
But higher grade level doesn’t necessarily mean better sentence, Payack said. He pointed to Palin’s second-to-last sentence in the debate, which the formula put at a grade level of 18.3:
There is someone in America counting the words in a ninety minute debate. I hope tax payer dollars aren’t funding this
Palin Makes Less Money, But Donates More To Charity Than Biden
October 4, 2008From Sam Youngman on The Hill
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made considerably less money than rival Sen. Joe Biden, but the Palin family gave more to charity in the last two years than Biden has in the last eight combined, according to Palin’s tax records released Friday afternoon.
Palin, the running mate of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and her husband Todd reported meager earnings from 2006 and 2007, at least by presidential-politics standards.
In 2006, the Palins paid $11,944 in taxes on $127,869 in income. In 2007, they paid $24,738 on $166,080.
But in 2006, they donated $4,880 to charity, and in 2007, they donated $3,325.
By contrast, Biden (D-Del.), Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s running mate, has donated a total of $3,690 since 1998 despite his higher Senate salary, according to an analysis posted by National Review.
The timing of the release of the Palins tax records has become something of a tradition. Campaigns wait until Friday afternoon, when the news cycle slows to a grind and reporters are focused elsewhere — in this case, Congress’s passage and the president’s signing of the financial rescue package.
To begin, let me say that it is amazing that an extra 40,000 dollars in income would cause a difference in taxes of 13,000 dollars. Trig wasn’t born until 2008 so he could not have counted towards a tax deduction in that year. It is shameful that someone like Biden who claims “Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most” would give such meager donations by his income standards.
