Tomorrow John McCain will have his third and final debate with Barack Obama. This is his last chance to talk to the American people about his opponent and what he stands for.

Barack Obama gave John McCain a gift when he told the plumber he doesn’t want to punish his success, he just wants to spread the wealth. Joe Wurzelbacher, aka The Plumber, may just turn out to be America’s hero. I can’t wait to hear how Obama will spin that one. Read the rest of this entry »

In these times, do we really want a man who needs on the job training? All we hear is that Sarah Palin is inexperienced. What about Obama?

Tonight’s debate was boring. It lacked the vitality of the Palin/Biden debate. Who knows if anyone stayed up for it. Read the rest of this entry »

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

Unfortunately, a lot has changed since John Adams uttered those words in 1770. The media doesn’t want to report the facts and it seems that nearly half the electorate don’t care to know the facts. 

My local newspaper, the Syracuse Post Standard, has failed to report on the role in our current economic situation of the Community Reinvestment Act or the corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that Democrats in Congress enabled. They have no problem, however, reporting Democrats’ charges that it all stems from eight years of Republican policies of de-regulation.

Thinking I may have missed it in the newspaper I read every day, I searched their website and the only time the facts are mentioned is in the readers’ comments section.

Katie Couric took no issue with Joe Biden’s fact mangling whatsoever. She either does not know that FDR was not president in 1929 or she does not mind allowing a democrat to tell a lie to the American people without question. Just Joe being Joe.

Thomas Sowell asks if facts matter? If you haven’t heard about who is really complicit in the whole financial crisits read the article. It’s no secret that facts don’t matter to the main stream media. It’s sad that facts don’t matter to many Americans.

I hope John McCain takes the opportunity of Tuesday’s presidential debate with Barack Obama to come out and talk about the facts. His populist turn isn’t helping him. He needs to speak the truth to the American people without the filter of the media. The time to be politically correct has passed.

People seem to be much more concerned about Sarah Palin’s accent than about the constant stream of lies being fed to us by the media and the democrats. Apparently, honesty and integrity have no place in American politics anymore.

I received an email from none other than Barack Obama shortly before last night’s vice presidential debate. He told me the votes cast in Ohio this weekend could decide the election, ACORN must be hard at work in Ohio because there are now only three days left for registration and same day early voting. I wonder how many dead people cast a ballot.

Obama also told me that real change comes from the bottom up,  not the top down and he asked me for five bucks.

After the vice-presidential debate Barack Obama’s running mate Joe Biden sent me an email. He wrote that Sarah Palin gave a “spriited defense of the same disastrous policies that have failed us for the past eight years.” He mentioned President Bush twice in the email which is odd, since President Bush is going home to Texas in a few months.

Biden expanded on Barack’s earlier “bottom up” message, telling me “The change we need is fixing the broken economy from the bottom up - not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship jobs overseas.” Then he asked me for five bucks.

Obama, Biden and their supporters just don’t seem to understand who hires people in America. It isn’t those at the bottom. In fact, those at the bottom are hurt most when successful people are punished for their success.

How is taking $1000 and turning around and giving it to someone else (less the cost of doing government business) going to create jobs? Couldn’t that corporation or wealthy person have helped a poor person better by hiring them and using the full $1000 for wages and benefits?

It just doesn’t make sense, no matter what spin (or should I say nuance?) they put on it.

There’s nothing more annyoing than a person who is asking you for something, in the case of Joe Biden-my vote, while blatantly lying. I wasn’t counting, but during the debate last night I kept saying “He’s lying!”

John McCain’s campaign was counting and put together a list of Joe Biden’s biggest lies. Read the rest of this entry »

Just like Shane Victorino hitting a grand slam home run in the Phillies win over the brewers, Sarah Palin hit it out of the park in tonight’s debate. If there was any doubt about the winner of the McCain/Obama debate, there is no doubt who the clear winner is in the Palin/Biden debate. Sarah Palin won this debate hands down. It was Sarah being Sarah.

Palin turned Biden’s own words against him while he sneered. He came off as a rude buffoon at times while she was positive and upbeat. She was neither inarticulate nor uninformed as her critics, as her critics so hoped she would be.

Not only was she right on the issues, she also connected with the American people. Biden was long winded as usual and nothing he said really stood out. He also told a few lies. By contrast, Palin again highlighted American exceptionalism and talked about personal responsibility. She correctly pointed out that energy is the key to our future.

Palin also scored points on foreign policy. We’ve been told for so long that Biden’s the foreign policy expert, but when Governor Palin said he was waving the “white flag of surrender” she really put him in his place. What good is experience if you’re always wrong?

We had a few friends here to watch the debate, and one of my friends said “She is just so much more believable than Obama or Biden.” My friend was right. Sarah Palin is believable because she is one of us. It’s amazing how impressive Sarah Palin is when her answers are not edited.

Republicans aren’t doing a very good job at replying to Democrats attacks blaming them for the current economic crisis. There is so much evidence against the Democrats, but the Replublicans just won’t go there. I have no idea why. Maybe they figure the media refuses to report the truth, so why bother. Read the rest of this entry »

Obama’s plan to make McCain angry and lose his cool back-fired. Not fatally, but Obama was flustered and it was obvious. Read the rest of this entry »

The multi-tasking campaign isn’t doing a very good job of keeping their e-mails out of the hands of the opposition. I received another one tonight telling me that Obama has every intention to show up at Friday’s debate. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure what kind of questions will be posed to Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin at their October 2 Vice Presidential debate, but I sure hope Sarah will mention Biden’s record and his own words.

Recently Doug Patton pointed out Joe Biden’s long record of being wrong.  On everything from helping the communists win in Vietnam, voting against the Strategic Defense Initiative and the surge in Iraq, Biden has been on the wrong side every time. So much for “experience.” Read the rest of this entry »

Why is no one talking about the fact that, if Barack Obama’s elected president, Joe Biden will be only one heart beat away from being Commander in Chief? Even the Democrats didn’t want him in the Oval Office.

Just the other day he told us that paying higher taxes is patriotic. That’s like saying “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what your country can take from you.” Not a winning message. Read the rest of this entry »

Biden told Meet the Press that he isn’t afraid to debate Sarah Palin, he just has no idea where she stands on the issues.

Biden said she delivered a great speech to the Republican National Convention last week in St. Paul, Minn., but “her silence on the issues was deafening.

“She didn’t mention a word about health care, a word about the environment, a word about the middle class. They never parted her lips … so I don’t know where she is on those things.”

These guys just don’t get it. Not all Americans are looking for a hand out from our government. We understand that the government doesn’t generate income, they confiscate it. The government confiscates captial. That capital shrinks as it passes through the bureaucracy and a smaller portion of what they took in gets re-distributed. We need less of that, not more.

Here’s a newsflash, most of us have had enough of pandering politicians. Shut up already!