The media is like a love-struck teenager, in love with the aloof older boy, Obama. No matter how he disses them he can do no wrong. Will there come a day the jilted lovers will have had enough?  I wonder what the odds are….

H/T HotAir, Weekly Standard

Obama plans to use ‘executive orders for immediate impact’. Forget about drilling for oil here at home. For the full story click here.

For more analysis, click here.

Greta Van Susteren received a call today from Steve Schmidt, from the McCain campaign, to tell her the rumor about Palin answering the door in a towel is an out right lie. Carl Cameron may want to tamp down his gleeful reporting of these unfounded rumors by anonymous cowards.

The Obama transition team is wasting no time in bringing change to Washington. For the first time ever a presidential transition team has set up a secretive 501(c)4 tax exempt organization. They call it the “Obama/Biden Transition Project.” According to The American Specator: Read the rest of this entry »

Three newspapers that have endorsed Senator John McCain have had their reporters kicked off the Obamaplane.

Fox News spoke to the Washington Times executive editor. The Times has been travelling with the Obama campaign since 2007.

“I can only hope that the candidate who describes himself as wanting to unite the nation doesn’t have some sort of litmus test for who he decides gets to cover the campaign,” Solomon said, noting that the Obama campaign’s decision came just two days after the paper endorsed McCain.

The New York Post and Dallas Morning News also have been kicked off Obama’s plane, according to the Web site The Drudge Report. It said the three reporters were told to find alternative transportation by Sunday so that the plane could accommodate “network bigwigs” and reporters from two black magazines, Essence and Jet. Read full story.

What will an Obama administration do to members of the press who ask tough questions or don’t cheerlead for the Dear Leader?

For weeks we’ve been hearing that there could be riots on election night, no matter who wins the election. I’ve heard about people getting their cars keyed for sporting McCain stickers and those of you who read comments made by Obama supporters can tell they’re a bit, shall I say, unstable.

It seems now, they’ve gone from unstable to stark raving mad. This morning I read about a man whose home was shot full of holes because he had McCain signs in his yard. Will Barack Obama chastise the shooters, as John McCain chastised a supporter who was afraid of Barack Obama? Doubtful. Read the rest of this entry »

A head fake in basketball is a good thing, in politics is should raise a red flag. When Obama pledged to take public financing and then reneged it was more than a head fake, it was an indication of things to come. Will Barack see the difference between broken promises on campaign financing and broken promises on raising taxes? To find out you would first have to elect him.

If you wanted to plan a presidential campaign and you had some issues regarding experience, past associations, ideology, and legislative mediocrity how would you proceed? You might first form a foundation based on current events. You might capitalize on an unpopular presidency due to a war and the economy. You might promise a better tomorrow, change and hope. This would be a good tactic because you don’t have to actually define the details as specific solutions to problems. You can simply say, “I can make the world a better place to live.”

With the platform of “Hope” and the policy of “Change” and David Axelrod to help you sell them you can get on the ticket, but you can’t win the primaries. In the primaries everybody is against the same foe - the other party. No, to win the primaries you have to have an edge and in Barack’s case his edge was race. The problem for Obama was that none of his opponents even remotely touched on this hot button. Not a problem for Barack because he didn’t actually have to be attacked. He only had to say he was attacked. That he did, over and over. Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy of Diversity Lane

(Obama begins speaking at about 2:00 into the video)

Barack Obama tells the crowd that community organizers from around the country will be a part of his transition team and his administration. He will call them in to “help shape the agenda.” Will any middle class advocates be called in to help shape the agenda? Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t help but wonder if the large Wall Street sell off is a reaction, at least in part, to the polls. Every day we hear Barack Obama and Democrats in general are up in the polls stocks take a nose dive.

Speaking of Barack Obama, he’s buying a half hour of prime time air time on CBS. We’ll be treated to a half hour lecture from the Pope of Hope on October 29. He’s negotiating with the other networks. Read the rest of this entry »

The folks who post these videos of children worshiping Barack Obama have no knowledge of history.

American Spectator is reporting that the Dem’s didn’t want the bail out bill to be a Democrat bill, they wanted it all pinned on Republicans. That’s the reason they didn’t have the votes to pass the bill. And Nancy Pelosi has indicated she won’t allow a “witch hunt” in the role of Fannie and Freddie in the current crisis. That’s code for “We can never let anyone find out we caused this mess.”

After doing nothing about the bailout…oh sorry…now it’s a rescue…Obama is now pressuring his fellow Democrats to vote for the bill. He picks and chooses when to lead and when to phone it in. How presidential.

A video explaining the bailout crisis to some very relevant music has been taken down by YouTube 3 times. There’s a new video with different music but the same graphics. Watch it before it’s taken down. The new video isn’t as good as the original but it’s still had over 1/4 million hits as of this writing. The original had well over a million. If the media won’t get the truth out, the blogs can!

The Financial Post opines that Karl Marx would be delighted with the state of things today if he were to rise from the dead. They have a point.

The Palace Theater in Syracuse NY will be simulcasting the Democratic National Convention tonight beginning at 8:00 PM. But Obama doesn’t want you to think he’s a celebrity.

I thought, if the Palace is doing it, who else is? So I did a 250 mile radius search for events on Obama’s website. There’s a movie theater in Ithaca, the Main Street Armory in Rochester, The Montrose (PA) Theater, The Masie Center in Saratago Springs and the Riviera Theater in Tonawanda. I didn’t even make it an eighth of the way down the page. There is also a “Yes We Can!” party somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Obama says he doesn’t want to be portrayed as a celebrity, then he goes and does all he can to portray himself as a super star. We just aren’t supposed to point out the obvious. That’s all he’s got. He doesn’t have the experience or judgment, so he portrays himself as a rock star, hoping that will be enough for our celebrity obsessed culture.

Not only did Obama fail to get a bounce out of his selection of Senator Joe Biden as his running mate, according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from August 23 to August 25, John McCain now enjoys a slight lead at 46% to 44%. Unfortunately, the August 25 poll doesn’t tell us whether Obama got any bounce out of the first night of the convention, because most of the polling was done before the prime time speeches.

The August 20 Battleground Poll may provide some insight into why there was no bounce from the Biden announcement. Bruce Walker at American Thinker wrote an interesting piece earlier in the week, The Biggest Missing Story in Politics. Walker follows the non-partisan Battleground Poll. For some reason, Question D3 is widely ignored. Read the rest of this entry »

As the campaign wears on and Obama’s charm wears thin he’s starting to appear a little desperate.  McCain can’t criticize anything Obama says without Obama screaming “attack”. Barack Obama was a stammering idiot at the Saddleback forum so the Obama camp cries “cheater”. This morning he was snivelling about “Carl Rove tactics” to Harry Smith on the Early Show. That’s just so 2004!

Obama and his surrogates yammering about “negative campaigning” falls flat because nothing John McCain has said is untrue. Obama, with his own words, is making his own bed. Lorie Byrd summed up his various gaffes and idiotic statements nicely.

It would be hard to make a better case against a Barack Obama presidency than the one Obama has made in his own words.  The most memorable thing about Obama’s speeches is not generally what he says, but rather how large and enthusiastic the audiences are.  If voters pay attention only to the symbolism and get caught up in the excitement of the Obamessiah and his throngs of fainting disciples, he stands a good chance of winning in November.  If voters pay attention instead to the things Obama is saying, the case against an Obama presidency will be clear. 

If he’s not reading a slick script, Obama ’s just another Chicago huckster.

As a side note, when I looked up synonyms for the word “whine” on Thesaurus.com the following, computer generated ad popped up:

With a straight face Barack Obama promised to create millions of union jobs. He sure is ambitious, that one.

Of course, these millions of jobs will be in alternative energy. He’s worked out a plan with T. Boone Pickens and Nancy Pelosi. He’ll pay for all of these fake jobs by “ending tax breaks for companies that move overseas.”  He’s said that before, I’m sure of it. I just don’t know if anyone has ever asked him to explain what that actually means. If a company moves overseas, won’t they be paying taxes to the government…..where they’ve moved?

Obama then reiterated that Republicans would try to scare people by telling them ”He’s young, he’s got a funny name, he’s not patriotic.” For some strange reason, Obama never denies that any of that is true. So what he’s really saying is “I’m young, I’ve got a funny name and I’m not patriotic.”

From there it just gets more and more ridiculous. He said we should be using Iraq war money to “rebuild Virginia.” What?! What happened to Virginia? Was there a disaster I didn’t hear about?

He capped it all off with the biggest lie of the week. He told the people of Martinsville, VA that he would wake up every day in the White House thinking about them.

Soon he’ll be telling us he can turn water into wine.